Lesson of Rokar

The Lesson of Rokar is a term used to describe one of the primary governing policies of the Akranian Alliance. It is centered around the "lesson" learned during the Rokar Crisis; a major uprising by the colony's artificial intelligences in 2016 that resulted in the complete destruction of the Rokar system, along with devastation across several neighbouring systems, reaching an overall death toll estimated at over 3.5 billion.

In the aftermath, the Akranian Alliance began a process of shutting down all but the most rudimentary AIs, and establishing an organisation equivalent to the human concept of "secret police", referred to in hushed voices outside Akranian space as "the Concerned" ("Natak", in anglicised Akranian). Ever since the Crisis, the Lesson of Rokar has guided Akranian foreign policy, working to ensure that no other species they come into contact with will not develop advanced artificial intelligence, and, if they already have, to teach them the Lesson.

Notably, the Lesson of Rokar served as one of the primary motivations for the Akranians' war with humanity, with anti-AI policies later being forced upon the United Colonies, helping to lead to its dissolution.