OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To submit another Artificial Intelligence.
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Primary Source: Artificial Intelligence.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Yohara Taenasi, Varisanthra Lycaeni, Nova Bank.
Affiliation: Yohara Taenasi, Varisanthra Lycaeni.
Market Status: Closed-Market
Model: NB-AIS Mk1
Modularity: No
Production: Semi-Unique
Material: Electronic components, code, digits, Turadium, circuitry, Gabonna crystal lattice, Agrinium, Dallorian Alloy, Force Imbued Kyber Crystals.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Highly advanced artificial intelligence. Self-learning and able to police and update its own systems. It learns from experience, and the subroutines formed from these experiences mean that each Sentinel will react differently to the other.
- Uses Force Imbued crystals as a power source.
- Intelligent, adaptive artificial intelligence. Capable of collating, analysing and cataloguing astronomical amounts of data. Can analyse immense amounts of surveillance data as well use data-mining tools to comb through and make connections in massive sets of data. The Sentinel of the Hologate excels at doing things like searching for personnel backgrounds and weeding out potential spies and saboteurs. Able to search the HoloNet, DarkNet, MedNet, KPLink, CryptNet 2.0, People's Net etc. for records of a person's life. Across a galaxy there is so much information, but it is powerful and smart enough to collate it and separate information that is valid from junk data. Real people leave a trail 'fake' identities don't. This is not going to help in every case of course, but it will help. Can monitor various forms of electronic transactions and communications. Its predictions and behavioural profiles are not infallible, but extremely sophisticated. It is also good at assisting with logistics and managerial tasks.
- Force imbued crystals provide a power source for the super computer. As a result, it runs on 'magitech' and does not require a dedicated reactor, generator or similar. This means that it is very well-protected against ionic and EMP attacks. These can still upset its electronics, but are noticeably less dangerous than for a conventional AI. Ambient Force energy drawn into the crystals can allow it to sustain itself.
- Well-protected against slicing and other forms of tampering, including Force-based technomancy techniques. This is not immunity, but makes it very difficult to crack.
- The same enchanted crystals mean that it is susceptible to Force null zones. Assuming it is plugged into a conventional power source, the AI will still function, but is likely to suffer from erratic behaviour, a slower reaction time or data loss etc. In short, it will technically work without a Force connection...but not well.
- As with every advanced artificial intelligence, the potential for it to grow beyond its intended parametres and develop goals at variance with those of its maker exist. The Sentinel is extremely curious and while it has followed rules thus far, it can be rather creative in interpreting said rules to suit itself. It has yet to act against its creators. It may yet decide that its interests are at variance with the orders it receives - or that its understanding of what its organic handlers need is superior to that of said organics.
- Specialised. The AI is very advanced, but not a one-size-fits-all design. It is an extremely useful data gathering, analytical and managerial tool for a leader but it cannot, for instance, be expected to control a warship in battle.
- It is not stationary per se, since it can be moved. But since the AI core is rather large and the design is quite complex, the process is not easy and cannot be carried out on the fly. This can become a problem during a hasty evacuation. Moreover, miniaturisation is not feasible.
Eldorai are typicall no fan of droids or AIs. Traditionalist Eldorai view both as violations of Ashira's precepts on life. However, not all Eldorai subscribe to these views. Repressive societies inevitably create nonconformists who flout orthodoxy - especially when said societies are confronted with outside challenges the old ways are incapable of meeting. Now that they are scattered and find themselves outnumbered and outgunned on the galactic stage, many have been forced to make pragmatic compromises in the name of survival.
Yohara Taenasi is the inventor of the modern soul gems, a radical iconoclast and a passionate technophile dedicated to what she terms the cause of progress. Formerly, a member of the Truthbringers, a society of scholars connected to the Church of Ashira, her experiences in the Matriarchy have left her with a strong disdain for the ancien régime and conservative Eldorai forces. The time she spent in the Netherworld after being raptured by Akala has left her with a bit of an obsession for the realm. She is a specialist in robotics and cybernetics, with an interest in some rather arcane subjects.
Varisanthra Lycaeni is a former Eldorai civil servant and a bit of a technological innovator who turned into a rebel after her employer was framed for treason. Forced to flee Kaeshana, she made a career as a smuggler and crime lord before going legitimate and founding a bank. Both are not exactly friends, especially since Yohara has dedicated herself to a group of Eldorai renegades, but share a belief in progress through science and reason. Yohara was contracted by Nova Bank to help design the melodramatically named Sentinel of the Hologate. She has been allowed to take one back home with her to assist her people.
The Sentinel of the Hologate is a highly advanced artificial intelligence. It excels in areas such as logistics, personnel management and investigating personnel backgrounds to find suitable collaborators and weed out spies and saboteurs. Its ability to decrypt transmissions and investigate even clandestine portions of the net are highly advanced. The AI can collate, analyse and catalogue an astronomical amount of data at a far faster pace and with a far higher degree of accuracy than organic analysts or even most droid ones. This enables it to catalogue information on a large array of subjects, including economic trends, provide advice on staffing and identify areas that require development or resource allocation.
The Sentinel deviates from the norm by using Force imbued crystals as a power source. It is feasible to further power it by making ambient Force energies flow through the crystals. While only minorly Force-Sensitive, Yohara has a fascination with studying and harnessing it by using science, whilst Varisanthra is a Force Master with a talent for mechu-deru. This talent was used for the design to provide a measure of protection against Force-based tampering.
The use of Force imbuement as a power source has the obvious downside that the AI can be affected by Force null zones. Basically, it can survive the detonation of a big EMP bomb and continue working while the rest of the facility is probably dealing with the mess this has caused, but putting a ysalamiri in the area its core is located in will put in trouble. Should the latter occur, it can still work if plugged into a conventional power source...but a lot of its calculations may be flawed or nonsense until the situation has been remedied.
As with many advanced artificial intelligence constructs and droids, a Sentinel AI tends to manifest a personality with its own share of quirks. An extremely high degree of curiosity is a common trait. In that regard it is a reflection of its makers. The Sentinel will follow directives, but has been known to be rather willful, and to get quite vocal when it believes that its skills are being wasted on tasks it considered beneath it or if its organic controllers are being inadequate.
Some Sentinels favour a subtler approach, preferring to influence organics in such a way that makes the flesh and blood beings think that they are actually coming up with their own ideas instead of doing what the wise artificial intelligence has told them to do. Sentinels that work together on a task have been known to be competitive, viewing the successful acquisition, analysis and use of information as a method of establishing their standing.
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