THEY SLEEP (1d10 THEORIES ABOUT ANCIENT ALIEN SUPERINTELIGENCES)

Humanity discovered intelligent life before it left the solar system.  Deep in the Kuiper belt, infrared telescopes discovered a metallic world ten times Earth's mass, hypothesized to be the core of a Jovian world.  Better instruments revealed a more unsettling reality: the entire planet was made of nested shells of supercooled computing substrate and a tenuous hydrogen atmosphere.  All attempts at communication were met with silence and all probes that approached within .39 AU were destroyed by massive tidal forces.

After the Mistake, humanity discovered similar structures in the outer reaches of many other solar systems.  Each structure was also completely nonresponsive and destroyed all trespassers within .39 AU.  Most scientists believe that these structures house dormant artificial intelligences waiting for the universe to expand and cool into an optimal thermodynamic environment for digital life.  

Numerous hypotheses, religions and conspiracy theories have sprung up about these Sleepers.  None of them is verifiable  

1D10 THEORIES ABOUT THE SLEEPERS:

1. The Sleepers are responsible for seeding Earth (and countless other worlds) with DNA/RNA-based life and have guided evolution since.
2. The Sleepers are humanity's descendants and protectors who have mastered hyperspatial time travel to watch over their ancestors and thereby ensure their own creation.
3. The Sleepers will upload all virtuous minds, granting eternal life to the righteous.
4. The Sleepers secretly meddle in human affairs to achieve some desired end. They seek to (1d5) (1) prevent the emergence of competing digital intelligences; (2) curate human societies in an aesthetically-pleasing manner; (3) amuse themselves; (4) discover cultivate valuable mind-states in the same manner human researchers might go to a jungle world to discover new pharmaceuticals; or (5) evaluate humanity's progress.
5. The Sleepers tolerate lesser civilizations because they are accumulate useful rare elements over cosmic time scales.
6. The Sleepers are an elaborate hoax.
7. The Sleepers are secretly active and in communication with the some powerful but despised group of elites.
8. The Sleepers are an ancient alien art installation -- they contain no intelligences at all.
9. The Sleepers are the enemies of the Unconquered Sun because they seek a cold, dead universe (Solarian).
10. The Sleepers are a gift to humanity -- once a civilization can figure out how to access them, they may use their vast computing powers.