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"Yes, I am Juliana, the goddess of the Rubble. Your experts may suspect me of rampancy, but a benevolent goddess may be exactly what you need right now. And this one happens to be very, very attached to the idea of saving the people of the Rubble."

— Juliana addressing Gray Team after they realized she was rampant^[1]

Juliana was an Insurrectionist "smart" AI operating on the Rubble. By 2535, she was going through stages of rampancy, yet did not seem to be showing it. As she said, she hung onto the edge of rampancy, trying to go back.^[1]

Biography

She was originally created to manage the operations of a mining corporation on the colony of Madrigal, helping guide asteroids to processing plants throughout the 23 Librae system. At some point, Juliana was transfered to the Rubble, an Insurrectionist-held asteroid colony. A year after Madrigal was glassed by the Covenant, she was unpacked from storage to help with keeping the course corrections of the Rubble's asteroids in order.^[1] At the Rubble, she was also used to help handle the entire structure's security defenses, along with the Rubble Security Council.^[2] At some point, a group of Kig-Yar led by Reth discovered the Rubble. Instead of attacking, the Kig-Yar began trading with the Rubble's citizens and some even settled on the Rubble.^[3] However, while many of the Rubble's citizens trusted the Kig-Yar, Juliana did not and began preparing for the Kig-Yar's inevitable betrayal.^[1]

By 2535, Juliana was began to suspect that the Kig-Yar were secretly trying to find the navigation data that would provide them Earth's coordinates. In order to prevent this, Juliana infiltrated the computer systems of the Petya, SPARTAN-II Gray Team's freighter that they used why spying on the Rubble.^[4] Although Gray Team attempted to remove her from the ship's systems, Juliana was able to convince the Spartans to hear her out. She told Gray Team that she would give them the Rubble's navigational data, if they helped protect the Rubble's citizens. The Spartans reluctantly agreed.^[1] After the UNSC Midsummer Night was captured by the Rubble's insurgents, Gray Team prepared to help. However, Juliana stopped them and promised that the crew of the frigate would be safe. She then sent the Spartans to go rescue the individual that held the Rubble's navigational data, Ignatio Delgado, after he was left to die aboard a freighter that was quickly losing oxygen. She later told the Security Council that she would stop aiding the Rubble if the frigate's crew was harmed.^[5]

After rescuing Delgado, Juliana and the Spartans discovered the Peter Bonifacio had betrayed the Rubble and was attempting to give the navigational data to Reth. Believing the Kig-Yar were preparing to attack, Juliana had Adriana-111 and Mike-120 chase down Bonifacio, while Jai-006 and Delgado hijacked a Kig-Yar raider to ensure that the Kig-Yar were about to attack.^[6] Juliana helped Jai free Lieutenant Jacob Keyes and his crew from the Rubble's prison so they could aid in boarding the Kig-Yar vessel. Meanwhile, the navigational data was retrieved from Bonifacio.^[7] Keyes and his crew commandeered the Mighty Sparrow and set forth to board the Infinite Spoils, with Juliana's aid. She cut loose one of the asteroids that was being mined and had to drift near the Kig-Yar ship to scare its crew, making the incident look like an industrial accident.^[8] Juliana reassured the Kig-Yar crew that the asteroid would miss and aimed a mass driver at the raider to take out its shields, in case the boarding party was killed.^[9] Using the asteroid's passing as a distraction, the Mighty Sparrow docked with the Infinite Spoils and ODSTs boarded the Kig-Yar ship. After securing the bridge, Juliana was plugged into the ship's systems where she discovered that Reth was preparing to attack the Rubble with an Unggoy army he had amassed on Hesiod's moon of Metisette.^[10]

After Juliana, Delgado, and the UNSC personnel returned to the Rubble's docks, they were attacked by Kig-Yar. Since everyone was vacuum ready, Jai had Delgado plug Juliana into a nearby console. The AI opened the airlocks in the dock and flushed out all the oxygen. Nearly all Kig-Yar in the docks died of asphyxiation, while the survivors that had vacuum suits were killed by the ODSTs and Spartans.^[11] With Reth's Kig-Yar and Unggoy preparing to attack, the remaining Council decided to evacuate the Rubble's citizens with Habitat Exodus.^[12] Knowing that her rampancy would eventually destroy her, Juliana offered to crash to Rubble into Reth's Unggoy breeding grounds on Metisette.^[13] After all Rubble residents and UNSC personnel were either aboard the Exodus or Midsummer Night, Juliana moved the Rubble into a position which would cause Metisette to collide with it. Then she bombarded the Redoubt with the Rubble's asteroids, destroyed the Unggoy army and herself.^[14]

Personality and traits

Despite having been rampant for some time, Juliana did not engage in aggressive or destructive behavior like some AIs. The reason for this being that, like she said, the Rubble meant so much to her that the necessity of keeping it running and thriving held her sanity together. Certain elements of her behavior strongly pointed to rampancy, however, such as a somewhat egotistical sense of greatness to the Rubble. This was not exaggerated, but her manner of thinking of herself as almost a god was unusual. Her taking a strong liking to Jai-006, the Spartan leader of Gray Team is somewhat strange as well.

Trivia

Her character's role is surprisingly similar to Sif's from the previous book, Halo: Contact Harvest. Both are AIs that are or eventually end up rampant and sacrifice themselves aboard space stations, the Tiara for Sif, and the Rubble for Juliana ultimately for the better of the UNSC forces nearby. Cortana also went rampant, but held onto enough control to defeat the Didact and protect Earth before being destroyed.
Juliana held the safety of the Rubble higher than any personal interest of the leading council. Despite the council's ruling to be given the navigation data, she helped Gray Team to retrieve the data and rescue the ODSTs from confinement, also another action against the ruling of the council.

List of appearances

Halo: The Cole Protocol (First appearance)

Sources

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 86
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 41
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 222
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 82
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 192
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 239-244
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 249
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 254
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 264
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 272
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 280
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 298
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 310
^ Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 327

[cp86-1] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 86

[2] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 41

[3] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 222

[4] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 82

[5] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 192

[6] Halo: The Cole Protocol, pages 239-244

[7] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 249

[8] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 254

[9] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 264

[10] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 272

[11] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 280

[12] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 298

[13] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 310

[14] Halo: The Cole Protocol, page 327

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 |began       = Before [[2528]]
 |ended       = [[2535]]
-|gender      = Female
+|gender      = Female programming
-|affiliation = [[Insurrectionist]]s
+|affiliation = [[Rubble Security Council]]
 |function    = To protect and operate [[the Rubble]]
 |battles     = [[Battle of the Rubble]]
 }}
+{{Quote|Yes, I am Juliana, the goddess of [[the Rubble]]. Your experts may suspect me of [[rampancy]], but a benevolent goddess may be exactly what [[Gray Team|you]] need right now. And this one happens to be very, very attached to the idea of saving the people of the Rubble.|Juliana addressing [[Gray Team]] after they realized she was rampant<ref name="cp86">'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''', ''page 86''</ref>}}
-'''Juliana''' was an [[Insurrectionist]] [[Smart AI|"smart"]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] operating on [[the Rubble]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]'''</ref> She was originally a commercial AI used by miners from the colony of [[Madrigal]]. Although her loyalties were to the Rubble, she consented to ally with the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] in order to save the Rubble and its citizens. When she met the [[Gray Team]], she was going through stages of [[rampancy]], yet did not seem to be showing it.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 86''</ref> As she said, she hung onto the edge of rampancy, trying to go back.
+'''Juliana''' was an [[Insurrectionist]] [[Smart AI|"smart"]] [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] operating on [[the Rubble]]. By [[2535]], she was going through stages of [[rampancy]], yet did not seem to be showing it. As she said, she hung onto the edge of rampancy, trying to go back.<ref name="cp86"/>
-==History==
+==Biography==
-The Rubble was coexisting with a group of [[Kig-Yar]] who were secretly trying to find the navigation data that would provide them [[Earth]]'s coordinates. In order to prevent this, Juliana helped members of [[Gray Team]] recover the navigation data, rescue Lieutenant [[Jacob Keyes]] and the ODSTs, and evacuate the citizens of the Rubble to the [[Exodus Project]]. Juliana who had already been rampant for some time, offered to drive the remains of the Rubble down onto the surface of [[Metisette]].
+She was originally created to manage the operations of a mining corporation on the colony of [[Madrigal]], helping guide asteroids to processing plants throughout the [[23 Librae]] system. At some point, Juliana was transfered to [[the Rubble]], an [[Insurrectionist]]-held [[asteroid]] colony. [[2529|A year after]] Madrigal was [[glassed]] by the [[Covenant]], she was unpacked from storage to help with keeping the course corrections of the Rubble's asteroids in order.<ref name="cp86"/> At the Rubble, she was also used to help handle the entire structure's security defenses, along with the [[Rubble Security Council]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 41''</ref> At some point, a group of [[Kig-Yar]] led by [[Reth]] discovered the Rubble. Instead of attacking, the Kig-Yar began trading with the Rubble's citizens and some even settled on the Rubble.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 222''</ref> However, while many of the Rubble's citizens trusted the Kig-Yar, Juliana did not and began preparing for the Kig-Yar's inevitable betrayal.<ref name="cp86"/>
-==Personality==
+By [[2535]], Juliana was began to suspect that the Kig-Yar were secretly trying to find the navigation data that would provide them [[Earth]]'s coordinates. In order to prevent this, Juliana infiltrated the computer systems of the ''[[Petya]]'', [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II]] [[Gray Team]]'s [[freighter]] that they used why spying on the Rubble.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 82''</ref> Although Gray Team attempted to remove her from the ship's systems, Juliana was able to convince the Spartans to hear her out. She told Gray Team that she would give them the Rubble's navigational data, if they helped protect the Rubble's citizens. The Spartans reluctantly agreed.<ref name="cp86"/> After the {{UNSCShip|Midsummer Night}} was captured by the Rubble's insurgents, Gray Team prepared to help. However, Juliana stopped them and promised that the crew of the [[frigate]] would be safe. She then sent the Spartans to go rescue the individual that held the Rubble's navigational data, [[Ignatio Delgado]], after he was left to die aboard a freighter that was quickly losing [[oxygen]]. She later told the Security Council that she would stop aiding the Rubble if the frigate's crew was harmed.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 192''</ref>
+After rescuing Delgado, Juliana and the Spartans discovered the [[Peter Bonifacio]] had betrayed the Rubble and was attempting to give the navigational data to Reth. Believing the Kig-Yar were preparing to attack, Juliana had [[Adriana-111]] and [[Mike-120]] chase down Bonifacio, while [[Jai-006]] and Delgado hijacked a [[Kig-Yar raider]] to ensure that the Kig-Yar were about to attack.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''pages 239-244''</ref> Juliana helped Jai free [[Jacob Keyes|Lieutenant Jacob Keyes]] and his crew from the Rubble's prison so they could aid in boarding the Kig-Yar vessel. Meanwhile, the navigational data was retrieved from Bonifacio.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 249''</ref> Keyes and his crew commandeered the ''[[Mighty Sparrow]]'' and set forth to board the ''[[Infinite Spoils]]'', with Juliana's aid. She cut loose one of the asteroids that was being mined and had to drift near the Kig-Yar ship to scare its crew, making the incident look like an industrial accident.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 254''</ref> Juliana reassured the Kig-Yar crew that the asteroid would miss and aimed a [[mass driver]] at the raider to take out its shields, in case the boarding party was killed.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 264''</ref> Using the asteroid's passing as a distraction, the ''Mighty Sparrow'' docked with the ''Infinite Spoils'' and ODSTs boarded the Kig-Yar ship. After securing the bridge, Juliana was plugged into the ship's systems where she discovered that Reth was preparing to attack the Rubble with an [[Unggoy]] army he had amassed on [[Hesiod]]'s [[moon]] of [[Metisette]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 272''</ref>
+After Juliana, Delgado, and the UNSC personnel returned to the Rubble's docks, they were attacked by Kig-Yar. Since everyone was vacuum ready, Jai had Delgado plug Juliana into a nearby console. The AI opened the airlocks in the dock and flushed out all the oxygen. Nearly all Kig-Yar in the docks died of asphyxiation, while the survivors that had vacuum suits were killed by the [[ODST]]s and Spartans.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 280''</ref> With Reth's Kig-Yar and Unggoy preparing to attack, the remaining Council decided to evacuate the Rubble's citizens with [[Habitat Exodus]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 298''</ref> Knowing that her rampancy would eventually destroy her, Juliana offered to crash to Rubble into Reth's [[the Redoubt|Unggoy breeding grounds]] on Metisette.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 310''</ref> After all Rubble residents and UNSC personnel were either aboard the Exodus or ''Midsummer Night'', Juliana moved the Rubble into a position which would cause Metisette to collide with it. Then she bombarded the Redoubt with the Rubble's asteroids, destroyed the Unggoy army and herself.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 327''</ref>
+==Personality and traits==
 Despite having been rampant for some time, Juliana did not engage in aggressive or destructive behavior like some AIs. The reason for this being that, like she said, the Rubble meant so much to her that the necessity of keeping it running and thriving held her sanity together. Certain elements of her behavior strongly pointed to rampancy, however, such as a somewhat egotistical sense of greatness to the Rubble. This was not exaggerated, but her manner of thinking of herself as almost a god was unusual. Her taking a strong liking to [[Jai-006]], the Spartan leader of Gray Team is somewhat strange as well.