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[SPEC] Two or four AI?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:57 pm

VoiceOfTreason · Guest

I think you're onto something, but to tie it into the Halo/Marathon world a little more, I'd venture that each of these AI's is an individual AI aboard whatever ship they're from, i.e. Durandal, Leela and Tycho aboard the Marathon. The Pious Flea would be similar to Tycho, who was in charge of mundane crap like opening doors and regulating oxygen and apparently didn't have much of a personality. They are both more utilitarian AI's rather than ones that are meant to interact with people and simulate a personality.
This is all far out spec, but it might be relevant if the Halo and Marathon and ILoveBees world are all indeed one and the same.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:48 am

GunsmithCat · Unfettered Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 459

The idea that Princess/Melissa are "related" is being discussed in the awareness thread, the Princess/Melissa relationship thread and a few others.

Not sure of any IG material support the Flea/SPDR being integral so much as processes which can effect each other and the other AIs.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:10 am

Shad0

Re: [SPEC] Two or four AI?

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:45 pm

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Motoss · Decorated Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 170 Location: Ohio

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:11 pm

Astald

All I know of the Halo verse is the game, which I have just recently played and beat. But in the beginning of that game, Cortana says before she is removed, that the Captain should let her subsystems take care of landing and manuevers. I think that may be the kind of AI being discussed here. Correct me if I am mistaken though.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:15 pm

chaotic_mind

Those subsystems couldn't be called AIs, I believe. They were created for one specific purpose, in one very specific instance. Cortana cooked those up on the fly, and they wouldn't be much more use then allowing the partially damaged Pillar of Autumn to crash land onto Halo.

I don't think they have an "intelligence" to speak of. But, since it is hinted the Flea doesn't have much intelligence, I think these sort of "expert systems" could be an adequate analogue for the Flea. I think of the Flea as little more intelligent then a virus, digging into Melissa's mind and soul, and replacing bits and pieces of it with Covenant programing.

Luke P.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:04 am

Guest · Guest

(Me again) Something one of my freinds pointed out.
The because of its actions, the flea being part of the whole original AI doesnt make sense, but it would make sense if the flea was the virus that Mellisa mentioned to Cap. Greene. That would only make the Princess and Mellisa related, because i think that SPDR is more like the automated subsystems that chaotic_mind mentioned. SPDR's job is to repair Mellissa, but the virus (flea) fears that mellisa might be able to stop it if she is repaired.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:32 am