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====Malfunction====
Currently, however, the Ancestor Cores have begun to develop quirks and deficiencies, due to their millennia of constant usage. Their creators did not design them with this in mind and even [[cogitator]]s of near-limitless power can eventually run out of memory. The sheer weight of data they have been forced to compute for so long, has now begun to slow the Ancestor Cores down. The constant interaction with Kin via [[Fane]]s has also influenced their artificial minds. Some have even developed idiosyncrasies – what might even be termed “personalities”. When once the Leagues would have received an answer to a tough question in a matter of moments, some Ancestor Cores can now take decades – or even centuries – to deliver the same solution. As time goes on, the Ancestor Cores are notably becoming more eccentric and mercurial.{{Fn|1}}
The Kin may be contributing to the decline of the Ancestor Cores. The Cores have long borne responsibility for regulating the genomic data required to breed each new generation of Kin, even as the race has grown exponentially. Most demanding of all, they have also accepted into themselves the accumulated and often duplicated data of endless generations of dead Kin and [[Ironkin]]. While originally an act of practicality, in recent millennia it has taken on a ritual element that has seen huge amounts of information overload the minds of even the most advanced Votann.{{Fn|2b}}
