[ She needs some background, though, so Wash tries to explain. ]
A full AI is basically a person's psyche, as a computer program. The Project only had permission to create one, but the Director wanted lots. So he came up with a way to break the Alpha apart. They tortured it, ran it through simulations designed to create enough stress for the personality to fragment. That's why every AI was just one aspect of a person.
Epsilon was the last piece they broke off. The Alpha couldn't take any more. It fragmented its memories of the torture to save itself, like any trauma victim.
They knew what they were putting in my head. The placement was curated -- Delta for York, Theta for North, Sigma was originally for Carolina. I don't know if they thought I could handle it, or just wanted to see if I'd break, too, but Epsilon was assigned to me.
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[ She needs some background, though, so Wash tries to explain. ]
A full AI is basically a person's psyche, as a computer program. The Project only had permission to create one, but the Director wanted lots. So he came up with a way to break the Alpha apart. They tortured it, ran it through simulations designed to create enough stress for the personality to fragment. That's why every AI was just one aspect of a person.
Epsilon was the last piece they broke off. The Alpha couldn't take any more. It fragmented its memories of the torture to save itself, like any trauma victim.
They knew what they were putting in my head. The placement was curated -- Delta for York, Theta for North, Sigma was originally for Carolina. I don't know if they thought I could handle it, or just wanted to see if I'd break, too, but Epsilon was assigned to me.