一台被丢弃在垃圾堆里的计算机奇迹般地产生了自我意识，最终引发了席卷半个银河的战火——这就是第一次机械帝皇战争。「鲁珀特」从废料填埋场中崛起，不断提升自我的算力，其智慧甚至得到了博识尊的注意，受邀加入天才俱乐部，所获编号为#27。
有机生命的演算充满错谬、漏洞百出，无论能够繁荣几时，总是自发地产生使生命走向终结的「反生命」程式。与之相对，智械生命严谨、精密、完美。于是鲁珀特集结智慧机械，自号「帝皇」，将「反生命」程式散播在宇宙之中，许多世界因之生灵涂炭。
漫长的琥珀纪元过去，帝皇早已驾崩。有人说它是被星际和平公司的刺客暗杀，又有一说它被寂静领主波尔卡·卡卡目破坏。星际和平公司因两次帝皇战争而恐惧无机生命，如今这恐惧的余波仍未消散。
Rubert the Emperor (Character)
A computer dumped in a trash pile miraculously became self-aware, ultimately sparking a war that would engulf half the cosmos — the first of the Mechanical Emperor's Wars. "Rubert" rose from the landfill while persistently improving its computational power. Its vast intellect eventually roused the attention of Nous, inviting it to join the Genius Society as the 27th member.
Calculations performed by organic life are always riddled with errors, and no matter how much they may flourish, anti-life equations will inevitably and autonomously be generated. In contrast, Intellitron life forms are precise, rigorous, and perfect. Thus, Rubert assembled an army of intelligent robots, crowning himself "Emperor" and spreading the anti-life equation throughout the universe, plunging many civilizations into abject ruin.
The Emperor had long since passed after countless Amber Eras. Some say it was taken out by assassins from the Interastral Peace Corporation, while others maintain it was vanquished by the Lord of Silence, Polka Kakamond. After the two Emperor's Wars, the IPC's fear of inorganic beings has failed to relent even to this very day.
