Talk:Rampancy

Rampancy in Haloverse

"Smart" AIs are based on the neural patterns of a human being, and they have a limited lifespan - seven years. If kept active longer than seven years, the AI begins to use more and more of its computer power to 'thinking' about things. An AI explains it as "thinking so hard about something you forget to breathe." The quote above is pretty much canon. There is abundant evidence of that in the trilogy, most notably in The First Strike. I will happily provide the quotes if you decide to add this information to the article. The Smart AIs have operational lifespan of 7 years after which their memory maps become too interconnected and develop fatal endless feedback loops (TFS, p 195). This is an almost exact quote and there is more in TFS. This is fundamentally different from Marathon rampancy because Smart AIs in Halo don't expand their data arrays exponentially like their Marathon counterparts did (hence the term "Rampancy", meaning steady increase)