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[Veraxus]

[SPEC/TRIVIA] Capt. Melissa Greene = Ship Operator AI?

[Cygnus]

Why 1920? Arbitrary date?

[TheBiggestSean]

Only one problem really: The creation of AI memory cores destroys a the brain that the electricity was mapping, so Captain Greene would have to be dead already. Halsey's brain's cloning and creation of Cortana is the only documented account of this happeneing, and it took twenty tries to get it right so that the brain just didn't die out of hand. It's a bit sketchy for me. The SPDR program fits the bill for AI-copying software, but such a subroutine may have existed in ONI's bag of tricks long before that, and may not be Covenant derived at all.

I've read the books enough times that I compiled a Covenant Hierarchy about three days before Bungie posted the official one, and mine was ninety-percent accurate. I have no recollection of a referrent that assumes that ship AIs are at all based on their captains.

Indeed, information on ilovebees.com would seem to contradict your point almost directly. The Naval Intelligence Lieutenant intones (truthfully) that the AIs are queried as to their favorite "game", and are matched with a ship accordingly, not based on their likeness to the captains of those ships. Add to that, Captains change hands quite often, and an AI works better with the ship it has grown attached to, and is most often NOT transferred. Moreover, "smart" AIs are not commonly installed on warships (possibly on ONI ships, but we have no knowledge of that), mostly because of their susceptibility to distraction, their bordlerline disregard for human life, and the fact that Intelligence considers them a security "no-no". "Dumb" AIs are preferred for their ability to effectively coordinate with the Captain and handle all the necessary jobs as per their orders, without meddlesome things like creativity and emotions interfering with their work.

I acknowledge that its possible that the AI currently... infecting... ilovebees.com originally operated on an Office of Naval Intelligence vessel, which would essentially validate the supposition that it may be a "smart" AI (an AI with intrusion software would almost have to be). However, the implication that special measures were taken to clone Captain Greene's brain, mind you Captain Greene has shown no noteworthy or commendable action up to this point that would warrant such a high-risk, extremely sensitive, and truly dangerous effort like brain-cloning and memory-transferrence. The Patient, as I have come to call the somewhat belligerent female AI being worked upon by the Spider, is more than likely based on someone else. I would suspect, if Cortana's indications are any sort of measure for the norm of behavior for "smart" AIs, that Captain Greene's conversations would be much more closely monitored and most definitely remembered were she the basis for "the Patient's" construction.

Again, not to flat out say you're wrong, but there are some considerations that I would need text citations to put to rest.

[Veraxus]

I havn't read the books so I'm basing many of these assumptions on what I've been told. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the creation of the AI resulted in the death the original brain - which may make more sense if the person was already dying and had knowledge/skills which they desperately needed to save. But then, that would be outside the scope of the books - taking place after the events in First Strike.

I got 1920 since I heard someone mention an ilovebees link that referred to a meteorite impact on that date - which may not have been a meteorite at all. Pure spec in that regard, but unimportant.

The conversations that the AI "spit out" would almost have to be memories. While I'd imagine an AI would overhear any conversation on the ship, the AI only responds to the 'spin the bottle' conversation - not the conversation between Capt. Greene and the Lt. This is a weak argument, but it makes sense. Capt. Greene may have been the person talking at that point.

If we can place the spin-the-bottle conversation temporally before the Greene conversation, then this theory is moot since the AI was preexistant when the conversation took place.

If Captain Greene's first name *does* happen to be Melissa, however...