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I could not tell you, I am not familiar with his operating system.

He's a dumb AI. Not intelligence, its colloquial term. Theta and Delta are smart AI's. Dumb ones are just normal if advanced programming, supposed to listen to parameters and follow protocols. Any personality is generally supposed to make them 'pleasant' to interact with, not to sass and be sarcastic. Freckles might be the same, they shouldn't have a reason to fight after a battle is lost. Dumb AIs would be expendable.

Smart AI's aren't. No one throws away a smart AI if at all avoidable. A smart AI can feel and has true adaptability a dumb AI can't achieve. You can try to put parameters on them, but a smart AI can generally circumvent if they want to bad enough. Also because you can't make them easily, you need a human brain or a clone's brain to make one and the process kills the brain.

If Lopez was a smart AI, he wouldn't have been put in the trash. Certainly not someone would see as 'meaningless.' It's just....very interesting. I was feeling as protective of him as the others, so there was definitely seeing him as a person. Freckles too.

I mean, I already wanted to shoot Locus in the face, but hearing him hurt Freckles just made me want to do it more.

Are you certain he is not a smart A.I. as you put it? That someone did not make a mistake with his classification, perhaps?

If it was just that army? I could think it was possible.

But that Locus guy...

I was handcuffed, in an enemy base, with armed guards, with people I was sure wanted us dead. And I believed we could handle it. It would suck, but I was sure we could figure a way out.

But Locus was different. He was a threat. He was a threat I wasn't sure I could beat. That doesn't come from someone just being skilled. He was a pompous ass, but I also didn't think he was just talk either.

The Federal Army might have made that mistake. I don't believe he would.

Perhaps not, but perhaps he also did not care.

The Federal Army put a sectary in charge and then asked for help from guys they almost killed before capturing.

There's no way he'd pass up recruiting a smart AI if he thought it was feasible. He thought we were feasible, he wouldn't have grabbed Freckles' program if he didn't. And if we were, so would be our AI friend.

He is a curious anomaly, then.

Yeah.

[At least if Locus IS with the Federal army....no, that's just being paranoid. What else could he even be trying to accomplish?]

Maybe that's why I'm still Washington with those guys. If it was a new group, I should change a name, but if it was still with the project sort of thing...

Edited 2019-08-04 05:36 (UTC)

Which name do you prefer now?

Dusk.

Washington is a codename. At least, I doubt the Director really found a bunch of people who just so happened to have state names. Doesn't make sense to use it if I'm not with that team.

[Unless you went crazy and had to do some severe coping gymnastics.]

It would have been fine to prefer a codename as it were, but very well, I will keep that in mind.

Maybe if I liked it and it was that versus my normal name.

But I'm with Clover, so it's important to have a Clover name. At least to me.

As you like. Your name is yours to choose, I am not about to argue the contrary.

A good policy, that. Names are pretty important.

Yes. They are.

[She feels very strongly about this, to be perfectly honest and though her voice remains calm and polite, there is an undeniable underlying firmness.]