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===Covenant AI copying program=== | ===Covenant AI copying program=== | ||
Despite their inferior understanding of AI technology and strict laws against use of sentient constructs, the Covenant possessed what appeared to be reconstructed, damaged, brainwashed copies of UNSC AIs. A post-mortem analysis of the [[Ascendant Justice's AI|''Ascendant Justice's'' AI]] revealed UNSC core architecture, albeit distorted by seemingly random damage. Further investigation revealed a kind of copying software that allowed the duplication of AIs, which was unprecedented to human science. The replicated construct could be a partial or complete copy, though had tiny, subtle errors and imperfections randomly introduced into it. The original Cortana was twice able to mostly correct the damage to partial copies of herself, but given the enemy AI's erratic | Despite their inferior understanding of AI technology and strict laws against use of sentient constructs, the Covenant possessed what appeared to be reconstructed, damaged, brainwashed copies of UNSC AIs. A post-mortem analysis of the [[Ascendant Justice's AI|''Ascendant Justice's'' AI]] revealed UNSC core architecture, albeit distorted by seemingly random damage. Further investigation revealed a kind of copying software that allowed the duplication of AIs, which was unprecedented to human science. The replicated construct could be a partial or complete copy, though had tiny, subtle errors and imperfections randomly introduced into it. The original Cortana was twice able to mostly correct the damage to partial copies of herself, but given the enemy AI's erratic behavior, corruption and broken dialogue she was unwilling to attempt any further experiments. | ||
Cortana first used the duplicator to replicate her translation systems and was able to run them in parallel with her main self, increasing her capabilities. Later, a stripped-down copy of Cortana, designed solely as a cyber-infiltrator, proved to be at least adequately stable when functioning independent of the "real" Cortana and traveled with [[Blue Team]] and was critical to the success of their mission. This copy of Cortana copied herself into the systems of the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' during [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] with the copy then copying itself exponentially when they became overwhelmed the station's security systems. | Cortana first used the duplicator to replicate her translation systems and was able to run them in parallel with her main self, increasing her capabilities. Later, a stripped-down copy of Cortana, designed solely as a cyber-infiltrator, proved to be at least adequately stable when functioning independent of the "real" Cortana and traveled with [[Blue Team]] and was critical to the success of their mission. This copy of Cortana copied herself into the systems of the ''[[Unyielding Hierophant]]'' during [[Operation: FIRST STRIKE]] with the copy then copying itself exponentially when they became overwhelmed the station's security systems. | ||
The copying software force-installed itself into every copied AI and became an integral and unremovable part of all copies, meaning copied AIs had the built-in capacity to self-replicate. Repeated self-replication would result in further damage, making the AI increasingly erratic and unstable, eventually rendering later-generational duplicates non-functional. The AI copying program was extremely large, complex and convoluted, taking up a full third of the processing-memory matrix of the original Covenant AI it was salvaged from. Cortana was unable to comprehend how it functioned based upon a cursory analysis, noting it was highly convoluted and suspected it could contain booby-traps or other malware, but was forced to use it to increase her available processing and thinking power, overloaded with data from [[Installation 04|Halo]], information lifted from the Covenant ship, single-handedly piloting an unfamiliar vessel and numerous other ongoing tasks. She was also able to use it to duplicate her translation system and run | The copying software force-installed itself into every copied AI and became an integral and unremovable part of all copies, meaning copied AIs had the built-in capacity to self-replicate. Repeated self-replication would result in further damage, making the AI increasingly erratic and unstable, eventually rendering later-generational duplicates non-functional. The AI copying program was extremely large, complex and convoluted, taking up a full third of the processing-memory matrix of the original Covenant AI it was salvaged from. Cortana was unable to comprehend how it functioned based upon a cursory analysis, noting it was highly convoluted and suspected it could contain booby-traps or other malware, but was forced to use it to increase her available processing and thinking power, overloaded with data from [[Installation 04|Halo]], information lifted from the Covenant ship, single-handedly piloting an unfamiliar vessel and numerous other ongoing tasks. She was also able to use it to duplicate her translation system and run two instances of the system in parallel and increase its effectiveness.{{Ref/Novel|FS}} | ||
===Known Covenant AIs=== | ===Known Covenant AIs=== | ||