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| {{AI infobox | | {{AI infobox |
| |name=Kalmiya | | |name=Kalmiya |
| |image=[[File:Enc22_Kalmiya.jpg|300px]] | | |image= |
| |began=[[2537#March|March 19, 2537]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22P108|Enc22|Page=108}} | | |began=Before [[2537|May 25, 2537]]<ref name="journal">'''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'''</ref> |
| |ended=[[2552#August|August 30, 2552]]{{Ref/Novel|Id=FSP135|FS|Page=135}} | | |ended=2552<ref group="note">Kalmiya was in operation for 15 years and did not show any signs of [[rampancy]], a condition for which Smart AIs would experience after seven years of operation.</ref> |
| |gender=Female personality{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | | |gender= Female Programming |
| |description=Slender woman in a futuristic bodysuit{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | | |description= |
| |color=Green{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | | |color= |
| |affiliation=*[[United Nations Space Command]] | | |affiliation=[[United Nations Space Command]]; [[Catherine Halsey]] |
| *[[Catherine Halsey]]
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| |function=Data analysis, cyberwarfare{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | |
| |battles= | | |battles= |
| |number=KMA 0991-X{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}}
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| }} | | }} |
| '''Kalmiya''' ([[AI Serial Number]]: '''KMA 0991-X''') was a prototype third-generation [["Smart" AI|"smart"]] [[artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence construct]] created by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]. Although she was initially created as a platform for experimental software, Halsey decompiled, edited, and reconstructed Kalmiya numerous times over the years, effectively extending her lifespan far past the normal limit for "smart" AI.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | | '''Kalmiya''' was a [["Smart" AI|"smart"]] [[artificial intelligence|artificial intelligence construct]] created by [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]]. She assisted the Dr. Halsey |
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| ==Biography== | | == Background == |
| ===Creation===
| | Kalmiya served as a host for prototype routines to test the software intrusion routines and software that would later be integrated into the specialized AI, [[Cortana]]. In a sense, Kalmiya was Cortana's older "sister." <ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 126'' (''"Kalmiya was Cortana's "older sister." Dr. Halsey had designed and tested the software intrusion routines on her. Once the process had been debugged and streamlined, she'd incorporated the routines into Cortana."'')</ref> |
| Kalmiya was created on [[2537#March|March 19, 2537]] to serve as a host for prototype intrusion routines and software that would later be refined and integrated into the specialized AI, [[Cortana]].{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} In a sense, Kalmiya was Cortana's "older sister."{{Ref/Novel|Id=FSP126|FS|Page=126}}{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} By [[2537#May|May 25, 2537]], Halsey had worked with Kalmiya to decipher a root diction within the [[Covenant]] [[Sangheili (language)|language system]].<ref name="journal">'''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'''</ref> As part of the research into techniques and algorithms that would be incorporated into Cortana, Dr. Halsey decompiled, selectively edited, and reconstructed Kalmiya many times, effectively prolonging her lifespan well past the seven-year limit of most "smart" AI. Each iteration was slightly different, and only Halsey could discern the subtle differences in each revision of Kalmiya.{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} | |
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| UNSC protocol demands that prototypes such as Kalmiya must be destroyed promptly after their material goes into general use. Dr. Halsey intentionally disobeyed this order, however. She kept Kalmiya around, likely because her previous AIs, [[Déjà]] and Cortana, had been reassigned—to an unknown position in Déjà's case; and as [[John-117]]'s attaché and the shipboard AI of the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} in Cortana's.{{Ref/Reuse|FSP126}} | | UNSC protocol demands that prototypes such as Kalmiya must be destroyed promptly after their material goes into general use. Dr. Halsey promptly disobeyed this order. She kept Kalmiya around, likely because her previous AIs, [[Déjà]] and Cortana, had been reassigned (to an unknown position and as [[John-117]]'s attaché, respectively.)<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 126'' (''"The brass at ONI Section Three had been quite explicit in their instructions to destroy any prototype routines--an order that Dr. Halsey had promptly disobeyed."'')</ref> |
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| ===Fall of Reach and destruction===
| | Kalmiya resided in Halsey's office in [[ONI]]'s [[CASTLE Base]]. She was left there with Dr. Halsey during the [[Fall of Reach]] and proved very useful in helping Halsey and her [[Spartans]] escape the facility. |
| Kalmiya resided in Halsey's office in [[ONI]]'s [[CASTLE Base]]. She was left there with Dr. Halsey during the [[Fall of Reach]], and proved very useful in helping Halsey and her [[SPARTAN-II Program|Spartans]] escape the facility. Kalmiya was a potential alternative vessel for the Forerunner data found at the [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex]]. However, Halsey wasn't confident trusting humanity's only hope for salvation to an obsolete AI, and instead opted to split Cortana for the task.{{Ref/Reuse|journal}} | |
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| Kalmiya was somewhat disturbed when Dr. Halsey used a hidden fail-safe to destroy [[Colonel]] [[James Ackerson]]'s personal AI, [[Araqiel]], and asked if such a fail-safe was included in her own code. Dr. Halsey carefully told her—as Kalmiya would possibly stress-analyze her voice to verify that she wasn't lying—that not every AI had the fail-safe, which was the truth, just not the whole truth. Kalmiya had to be destroyed as part of [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]] to prevent the Covenant from collecting any information in the base. Dr. Halsey activated the fail-safe in her [[Riemann matrix]], revealing to her that not every AI has such a fail-safe: It is a protocol implemented only in the ones that matter. Before ending service, she told Halsey it was an honor to work with her.{{Ref/Reuse|FSP135}} Despite her destruction, some of Kalmiya's subroutines and independent processes remained active in CASTLE Base's surviving data cores for years to come,{{Ref/Reuse|Enc22P108}} in particular a subroutine that the AI had left behind to maintain the cryo-vault in Halsey's lab.{{Ref/Reuse|Chapter 21}}
| | She was somewhat disturbed, though, when Dr. Halsey used a hidden fail-safe to destroy Colonel Ackerson's personal AI, [[Araquiel]], and asked if such a fail-safe was included in her own code. Dr. Halsey carefully told her (Kalmiya would possibly stress-analyze her voice to verify that she wasn't lying) that not every A.I. had the fail-safe, which was the truth, just not the whole truth. Kalmiya had to be destroyed as part of [[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]] to prevent the [[Covenant]] from collecting any information in the base. Dr. Halsey activated the fail-safe in her [[Riemann Matrix]], revealing to her that not every A.I. has such a fail-safe, only the ones that matter.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 135''</ref> |
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| ===Operation: WOLFE===
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| In [[2559#October|October 2559]], Kalmiya reappeared during [[Operation: WOLFE]] after [[Kelly-087]] used Halsey's handprints to open the door to the cryo-vault in CASTLE Base, surprising Kelly as Kalmiya had been destroyed years earlier. John-117 remembered that Kalmiya was Cortana's "older sister" and found the likeness between the two AIs to be painfully striking. Kalmiya called herself "Kalmiya but not Kalmiya" and started repeating that as Kelly attempted to convince her that Halsey wanted the AI to give her access. Seeing that the concept of giving someone else your handprints was confusing Kalmiya in a way that it never would a true AI, John realized that the real Kalmiya had been destroyed, but had left behind a subroutine, in effect a ghost of herself, to maintain the vault. John ordered Kelly to bypass it and guessed that Halsey hadn't expected them to encounter Kalmiya but a security program of some sort, since she gave them an override code. The override caused Kalmiya to recognize Kelly as Halsey and grant her access to the vault. As they left, John spotted Kalmiya watching them and gave the AI a wave before she disappeared again.{{Ref/Novel|Id=Chapter 21|HSoR|Chapter=21}}
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| "Whateverittakes" (''Whatever it takes'') was the nullification code for Kalmiya's ethics subroutines.{{Ref/Reuse|FSP126}} | | *"Whateverittakes" (''Whatever it takes'') was the nullification code for Kalmiya's ethics subroutines.<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page 126'' (''"Entering those files without proper clearance is a treasonable offense, Doctor." "They can come and arrest me, then. Do as I have instructed, Kalmiya," Dr. Halsey said. "Override your ethics center subroutine four-alpha. Nullification code: 'Whateverittakes.' "'')</ref> |
| | | *Kalmiya was a potential alternative vessel for the Forerunner data found at the [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex]], however Halsey wasn't confident trusting humanity's only hope for salvation to an obsolete AI, and instead opted to split Cortana for the task.<ref name="journal"/> |
| ==Gallery==
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| File:HINF Concept GreenAI.jpg|Concept art for ''[[Halo Infinite]]'' of an AI character with distinct resemblance to Kalmiya.
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| ==List of appearances== | | ==List of appearances== |
| *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} | | *''[[Halo: First Strike]]'' {{1st}} |
| *''[[Halo: Reach]]''
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| **''[[Dr. Halsey's personal journal]]'' {{Mo}}
| | == Notes == |
| *''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
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