@spacequeerz420 Rutan didn't start the internet god phenomena :) Other zrai rarely engage with the AI gods since most zrai either live on their homeworld or in space colonies alongside (usually) the nedal. Rutan is a rare case with access to the AI god servers.
The AI gods were first built by masakas centuries ago to help manage manufacturing, agriculture, trade, diplomacy and other functions of civilization. As they became more reliant on their increasingly more advanced AI servers, their animistic cultures synchronized the AI into their spiritualities as provider deities. The masaka space age started with their AI gods leading them to mine space bodies for more resources.
These AI gods tend to prioritize resource acquisition and distribution, and often bud new AI to help carry out this agenda. Zonnark is a rare budded AI that deviated from its parent AI. Instead of doing what it was made to do, it instead chooses to scour the intragalactic internet to haunt users by glitching their programs, distorting UI and corrupting files in spooky ways.
So the masaka do have a handle on the nitty gritty of science but eventually ended up worshiping the fruits of their science anyway. Meanwhile zrai like Rutan who were raised in a rural village without most space alien technology is more inclined to anthropomorphize (xenopomorphieze) it :v