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[AngriBuddhist]

[SPEC]Durga/Jersey/Sleeping Princess

[usernameguy]

Yeah, but the Sleeping Princess doesn't chant "survive evade resist escape". She says stuff like "The Queen is very serious and I am not; She makes me giggle!"

She's also very talented, but isn't very tactically minded like Durga. She just sorta fakes her way through most situations.

[AngriBuddhist]

True. That, ofcouse, feels like a bursted bubble.

The only thing that could save me, in this, is if something drastic happens
to Durga between meeting Jersey and ILB.

[AngriBuddhist]

And by the way, how many A.I.s with amnesia are running around this
fictional universe?
As it is, I count one around every corner. They just have to start designing
these things better.

[Ceantari]

How can those AIs have amnesia? If their memory crystal breaks or surgecially erased, it's all over. And supposedly AI last for about 7 years, cuz by then, they've absorbed so much information, they go rampant thinking themselves to death. The other option was introduced in 'First Strike' when Cortana disassembled the Covenant AI and discovered its duplicating software. She dupped herself and that copy dupped itself as well. But there were errors found as well with each dupping. So each copy degrated by each copy. Random information missing and/or lost per copy.

[Astald]

Possibly the AIs are being transferred from their "memory crystals" into either Jersey's, or Dana's harddrives. Durga remarks that whatever she is in feels much smaller, and could be a reason for her forgetting some things, but that is further into the future and his drive is probably much larger than present day systems. And Dana probably has a very small harddrive, which is why Melissa has probably lost so much being crammed on there.

[enkryption]

[TwistedEar]

[SPEC](Yes, I know this is redundant, but allow me to finish)

The idea of a seven year life-span on rampant (intelligent) AI's is a definite HALO universe device. Having been a spin from the Marathon Universe, there is somethng that is floating around here, sparked off by an earlier comment about erasing AI memory. In Marathon, the protagonist in Rampancy, Durandal, had been rampant for a while on Mars, and then pretty much erased so he could be reinserted in the Marathon's ship systems.

Is it not possible then for a Rampant AI to start deleting parts of itself to prolong it's lifespan. By eliminating information it's absorbed, it should be slightly dumbed down about certain things, but it's capacity to learn is still there, thus it's lifespan could theoretically be increased in this manner.
This having been said, the SP wasn't imprisoned willingly, it was forceful, so maybe the Operator knew how to splice down intelligent AI's.

This would also explain why the SP is very un-tactically minded, as if her tactical memories had been fully purged, or even mostly purged and overwritten by new stimuli, then she would be a very different character. (Also, that would help explain hwy she can wing it so successfully when time-honoured tradition demands she fail occasionally... her remnants of tactical processes are moulding what she does without her realising it...)

Ok, this is pure spec, so bring on the rebuttals!

[Platonix]

Quick rebuttal: You're confusing terms. Rampancy and a seven-year life span are not found in the same AI. AIs with seven-year life spans don't go rampant; over the course of seven years they think so much that they strangle themselves with data. Rampancy is a form of insanity for AIs; if an AI is rampant it should be deleted for its own sake and the good of every human involved.

[Ranger D]

Ture

[aliendial]

/me watches in horror as this thread morphs into a HALO discussion from an ILB discussion....

[sherpa]