The Folk-of-brilliant-mind prize nothing more than their intellect and they fear nothing more than the loss of its accumulation. The Extensive-historical-record-machine is their grand plan to make such a deplorable outcome as negligent as possible. It is capable of rapid retrieval of colossal amounts of information which it outputs using Crystal-storage-cubes. The Extensive-historical-record-machine has two primary methods of data entry, manual and extraction.
Manual
Any citizen of the Fair-and-just-rule-of-minds who passes the proper competency and compatibility tests is allowed to input data and request data. Very few are rejected but the load is not an issue for the False Soul which makes up the computational functionality behind the impressive capabilities of the Extensive-historical-record-machine.
Extraction
When a Folk-of-brilliant-mind is nearing death they may choose to have their Soul extracted by the Extensive-historical-record-machine and have its total sum of experience added to the collection of data and history. Though once a distinguished honor this has become the defacto way to see oneself out of the Material World for Folk-of-brilliant-mind and nearly 90% of them will add their Soul’s information to their culture’s vast record before they die.
History
The Extensive-historical-record-machine was a theoretical concept constructed only a few centuries into the Folk-of-brilliant-mind recorded history. For centuries after the idea’s inception it simply wasn’t possible when it came to the sheer power consumption such a thing would require. Not until the Mind-destroying-power-maker was put forward, and later successfully constructed, could the Extensive-historical-record-machine finally be built and used.