With Nous' cognition process as its foundation, Rubert II cloned countless vast inorganic neuron clusters. From micro-particle fluctuations to massive large-scale matter annihilation, the Scepters were scattered across the empire's segmenta, faithfully performing observational, computational, and interference commands. Under specific circumstances, these celestial-level computational interference devices could even temporarily disrupt physical laws within an area.

Compared to Rubert I, the second emperor's cruelty only exceeded his predecessor despite his organic body. Indescribable gargantuan mechanical monoliths, self-iterating difference machines, cold merciless metal that executed the Anti-Organic Equation with a pure intent of slaughter, replaced the once-formidable Intellitron legions. Those inorganic lifeforms instigated by the Equation were nothing more than expendable tools to him.

Using the Scepter system, he united the domain of his conquered lands all into his thoughts. From the flow of every signal to the actions of every individual, the entire dynamics of an empire all came under the control of a single being's mind — the Emperor was the empire's sole executor, judge, and thinker. Some opinions believe that the essence of the Scepter system was the second emperor's way of overcoming organic limitations, an external cognition organ that converted the Empire into his own brain.

Perhaps influenced by such a desired for control, in the waning days of the Second Emperor's War, Rubert II finally decided to expand his own cognition with the Scepter system to create a certain unknown Knowledge Singularity. Returning to the role of a seeker of knowledge, he prepared an experiment know as the “Self-Coronation.”

Rubert II died before he could complete the Self-Coronation — some opine that he abandoned the idea halfway through, and others say a scalpel^[1] stopped his cognition. The Scepter system was also completely disabled during the Scholars' Strife, and to this day, they quietly drift through the darkness, reduced to no more than some war ruins that travelers visit, or piles of space trash awaiting clean-up.