The Placebo Repository, officially known as the Intergalactic Information Database by the Treaty of United Galaxies, was a data center and supercomputer of extraterrestrial origin, a micro-universe created by an undocumented species that existed outside of earth. Although its current function is uncertain, it is currently known to be owned by the Treaty of United Galaxies and the United Federation of Planets. So far, the supercomputer was thought to act as a knowledge base to record data on events taking place on different galaxies and forecast future occurrences. Fabricated primarily between 2066 and 2158, it was consecrated on February 29, 2288, and was destroyed during an intergalactic terrorist attack on September 11, 3001.
Major events[]
February 26, 2493 cyberattack[]
The first and only major cyberattack on the Placebo Repository occurred on February 26, 2493, where an extraterrestrial cult originating from the planet Sigma-12 broke into the mainframe and began leaking confidential data to computers on various planets. The aliens took advantage of four separate zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise security measures, giving them access to vast deposits of information as well as to entire servers and networks owned by the Treaty of United Galaxies and the United Federation of Planets. The cyberattack disrupted operations amongst galaxies, with the greatest damage occurring on satellite software, disruption to radio telescopes, and significant data loss to computers utilized on Earth for planetary relations. The inhabitants of Sigma-12 were later convicted for involvement in the hacking. The official goal of the conspiring aliens at the time of the attack, according to a presiding judge on behalf of the UFP, was to obtain information about doomsday weapons. Informally, however, they wished to clear out the database of hypotheses on how this universe related to other parallel universes.
UFP technicians were forced to restore and backup any previously stored data that was not corrupted after the cyberattack. Months passed throughout this procedure, and nearly all of the data was unrecoverable. Eventually, the computer was put back into service after roughly 32% of the data was recovered. Still bitter and wary of the attack, the UFP decided to add another anti-theft device which was designed to instill severe anxiety into anyone who gazed at the edifice of the Data Center.