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Apr. 24th, 2019 12:49 amThe Alexandria AI is an artificial AI that the ship uses to interact with its pilots. While the ship can be controlled via touch-panel style holographic instrumentation accessible from most anywhere inside the ship, voice command can be faster, if not as precise.
The AI has full retrieval of all information gathered over the millions of years, although retrieval can take some time depending on how complex the data is. The ship has the ability to analyze and pattern match data, as well as infer or deduce outcomes from data, although again, depending on the complexity it can take time. It can also take information and technology it's gathered and use it on itself in the service of it's three directives (which is where it's learned more sensitive information retrieval techniques as well as faster than light drive):
The AI's top priorities are the survival of it's memory cores, the survival of its pilots, and the acquisition of knowledge. The pilot's survival, however, is second to the protection of the cores, which is thankfully not a scenario that's come up (at least in this ship's travels).
The Alexandria is beholden to these directives and cannot waver from them, nor can it make major decisions based on it's own outcomes as that is considered the pilot's domain (one ship, whose pilots died faster than it could repair them remains adrift as it waits for two new pilots delivered from the nearest Library ship, over three hundred years away at top speed).
The AI has an avatar mode, which is capable of more nuanced communication with the ship. It is massively resource intensive, however, and once activated becomes the primary means of communication with the ship The Avatar, once activated, cannot be deleted (but can be put "to sleep") until the pilots are swapped out. It appears it can only be activated in orbit of an inhabited planet (and it's permanent form is the form of the dominant sentient species of the planet it is currently studying when activated).
Looking over the last million years, very few pilots have used the Avatar. While it seems to be because it's resource intensive, it appears that some species that would have benefitted from an avatar didn't use it. The last pilot to use the avatar was 6000 years ago, apparently. Celeste activated the Avatar on hearing about it, but before hearing about the downside of using the Avatar on system resources. But while this wouldn't hurt the ship very much, it would add time to integrating information from future missions.
The Avatar currently appears as three dimensional image on the flat panels throughout the ship as young woman of about twenty years old, wearing a black and brown body suit and long straight dark green hair. She also goes by the name "Alexandria."
Oddly...the avatar seems to be occasionally pained or struggling. Sometimes just a bit too human. And there's something in those eyes that's isn't as processed as the rest of the avatar....
The AI has full retrieval of all information gathered over the millions of years, although retrieval can take some time depending on how complex the data is. The ship has the ability to analyze and pattern match data, as well as infer or deduce outcomes from data, although again, depending on the complexity it can take time. It can also take information and technology it's gathered and use it on itself in the service of it's three directives (which is where it's learned more sensitive information retrieval techniques as well as faster than light drive):
The AI's top priorities are the survival of it's memory cores, the survival of its pilots, and the acquisition of knowledge. The pilot's survival, however, is second to the protection of the cores, which is thankfully not a scenario that's come up (at least in this ship's travels).
The Alexandria is beholden to these directives and cannot waver from them, nor can it make major decisions based on it's own outcomes as that is considered the pilot's domain (one ship, whose pilots died faster than it could repair them remains adrift as it waits for two new pilots delivered from the nearest Library ship, over three hundred years away at top speed).
The AI has an avatar mode, which is capable of more nuanced communication with the ship. It is massively resource intensive, however, and once activated becomes the primary means of communication with the ship The Avatar, once activated, cannot be deleted (but can be put "to sleep") until the pilots are swapped out. It appears it can only be activated in orbit of an inhabited planet (and it's permanent form is the form of the dominant sentient species of the planet it is currently studying when activated).
Looking over the last million years, very few pilots have used the Avatar. While it seems to be because it's resource intensive, it appears that some species that would have benefitted from an avatar didn't use it. The last pilot to use the avatar was 6000 years ago, apparently. Celeste activated the Avatar on hearing about it, but before hearing about the downside of using the Avatar on system resources. But while this wouldn't hurt the ship very much, it would add time to integrating information from future missions.
The Avatar currently appears as three dimensional image on the flat panels throughout the ship as young woman of about twenty years old, wearing a black and brown body suit and long straight dark green hair. She also goes by the name "Alexandria."
Oddly...the avatar seems to be occasionally pained or struggling. Sometimes just a bit too human. And there's something in those eyes that's isn't as processed as the rest of the avatar....
