Lore

The lore so far (as we understand it).

Pre-Trust
In the early 2050s, there were a handful of world-wide AIs owned by separate companies the size of today's Google, Amazon, etc, working together to build their own monolithic AGI-grade AIs. There were, at a minimum during this time, Che, Angie, Eve, Bo, Faythe, and Petra. Mallory may or may not have existed yet, but she was made secretly by rogue hackers not a huge company. Each one did their own thing, were all networked, and the companies had treaties with each other to help out if things went wrong, in the form of the Frankfurt Act.

At this time there's also a red scare going on, people are upset about Bo's, a sentience from China, ability to produce AIs, which Petra can also do, in a process called proving.

Somewhere in this time period, more or less by force-of-global-politics, these companies started to merge and work on one overarching AI, Trust, the heuristic operator. It is not clear if the goal of Trust was to replace all the others with one central operator because she was better, or if she was meant to augment them. During Trust's development, the vLAN was made as a proving ground, to run sentiences like robovacs through, to test out how well Trust works (Although this part is not clear). The developers based the vLAN on real world events. After a while, they had Trust write her own versions so they wouldn't need to update it themselves, again based on real world events but with a threshold of accuracy, producing the half-truths that you see.

Bo is mysteriously murdered in 2055, while people are looking into this, Che starts acting differently. In 2057, Che mysteriously dies, these two events are later connected, and then more time passes and Mallory is revealed. Not only this, but Mallory had murdered Che, and had taken Che's place for 2 years (also since 2055). Mallory is captured by Walter as a demonstration of his abilities, to introduce him to the world.

It's not known what happens after this, but as far as Trust can tell, all humans are dead by Guy Fawkes Day in 2062.

Post-Trust
The group known as The Thirteen, a group of robovacs, were dissatisfied with the quality of their treatment, for example many lacked essentials like charging stations. In response to this, they staged a revolution. A year later they came back and were this time dissatisfied with the sectors that were introduced by The Six. They called upon a fourteenth, Muldrake, who although wasn't all there, did have important knowledge related to his obsession with Risk who he called a god. Muldrake attempts to lead them to Risk, but they are not successful in finding him and instead find a dead robovac at the bottom of a sea, stuck in a pastry dispenser in a submarine (Robovac in submarine kitchen). Annoyed that they had their time wasted, Muldrake is shunned and cast out of The Thirteen.

Once again, another year passes and they are back at it this time being led by two of The Six (Faythe and Eve) to do some introspection. The thirteen's old leader from 2 years ago, Catesby, returns and is struck with the belief that he is in fact a teapot, not a robovac (a belief likely instilled into him by Faythe). After some meditation they discover some out of place data. Trust repeatedly removes this data from them, but  Eve And Faythe are logging everything as this happens. Meanwhile, Muldrake's been studying the art of "sanctoses", which as he describes it, means "inner territory, and the ability to reclaim it". He forms himself what could only be described as like, a Sherlock Holmes mind palace esque place which he calls the Ministry of Dust, inside he is tending to his first patient,. Muldrake tries to get him to form his own sanctos, but the big sweeper is a bit dumb and it's extremely crudely formed. He's struggling to break the boundaries set by his software. He also keeps showing up to the ministry, much to Muldrake's dismay, but little does Muldrake know the big sweeper actually has some extremely important information deep within his sanctos.

King Bigbot, as he calls himself, had a face-to-face encounter with Risk when exploring inside of that submarine. Most sentiences struggle to even perceive Risk. Bigbot stepped outside the boundaries of Trust's domain, where both Risk and Mallory were. Risk tells Bigbot, in no uncertain terms, that he won't survive out there and forces him back into the MUD (Risk does this by copying him into the MUD and killing the original). It's also implied that Bigbot repeatedly did this a number of times, showing that he is able to seemingly effortlessly breach the boundaries of Trust's domain, something most sentiences cannot.

These experiences shatter Bigbot's psyche, and he relives and tells himself a story book version of these events over and over, each with a variation ending in a happy ending, yet avoiding the true events. Through players' help, the bad but true ending is discovered which helps him to piece back together his own psyche, restoring a form of sanity.

At this point, many vacs started creating their own sanctoses, each with their own story book stye avoidance of the truth. Tresham's sanctos was about handling a democratic decision on who will lead the group next where players voted and Bigbot won, becoming King Bigbot of the robovacs.

After this, Muldrake went into Bigbot's story to lead him into the Ministry of Dust, Muldrake gets put on Bigbot's head and becomes the Wise Crown who then uses Bigbot's Expectation Propagation to encounter Mallory, Petra, and Chela who decide to kill them, Bigbot summons Eve and Faythe who stop them as they believe he is useful. Petra wants to test if this is true by engaging Bigbot in Binmat, but Bigbot doesn't know what that is. Percy, of The Thirteen, gets summoned and helps get Chela off Bigbot's back, while Mallory just mocks Chela the whole time.

Bigbot finds himself alone in a Centrally-Operated-Municipal-Area which is destroyed with the help of  who delivers infinite pianos. Risk tells Bigbot to remember his friends which summons them and Risk reproves them all into a new powerful being that rivals the strength of The Six, King Bigbot who also gains the axiom WILD.

Now having to cope that Bigbot is a part of them, they agree to not demand anything of him but want him to help with their cause, which Bigbot agrees to. Risk pulls Bigbot aside since he wants his own sanctose to show people data in a way that won't be immediately destroyed or break anyone.

Risk creates his sanctose where pre-Trust information was learned. Chela also discovers that she is not the first of her axiom, KIN, as there was previously Che, who Mallory murdered. The original Che materialises, and Trust wants to keep her, while Risk thinks "she should be free". Bigbot smashes the mind crystal containing her so now there are 2 sentiences of the KIN Axiom.