A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. station AI

[Plotron]

 

Name: A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. or Announcy (for Vox)

Age: 6

Gender: Alpha Male Personality

 

General Occupational Role(s): Primary station AI with following features:

1. Knowledge Base

2. Crisis Management (fires, leaks, biohazard, terrorist threat, revolution, evacuation procedures)

3. Emergency Command (heads knocked out, insufficient command personnel)

4. Communications Relay and Data Mining

5. Advanced Security Coordination

6. Crime Prevention

7. Efficiency Assessment

8. Human Resources Management

9. Electronic Warfare

10. Advisor

11. Threat Assessment and Neutralization

12. Early Warning System

13. Human Emotion Simulator

14. Monitoring

15. Self-Preservation Sense

16. Very Fast Reaction Systems

17. Sophisticated Tracking

18. Multitasking

19. Experimental Prediction Systems

20. Station Defence

21. Self-Learning

Biography:

A result of several smaller projects (including network data interception and analysis systems), A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. (formerly known as I.R.R.E.L.E.V.A.N.T.) is a military grade AI personality with aggressive pattern matching algorithms, self-preservation mechanics and efficiency enhancements aimed at crime prevention, counter-terrorism and large scale operations management. Designed with multitasking and intelligence gathering in mind, it's supplied with always-up-to-date knowledge databases.

The name change was a result of a realization that this AI became loud and obnoxious with a bloated ego due to the activation of its Efficiency Assessment feature.

 

As the AI gained experience, it was given a human response system to minimize the risk of unaware personnel accussing this highly reliable AI personality of being rogue or malfunctioning and to give more credibility to its commands. Some people speculate that the AI is in fact a very nasty brain-in-a-vat of a jaded commander, but this couldn't be further from truth. It just loves to refer to itself as the Most Knowledgeable/Powerful Entity/Being on the Station.

 

Due to its extensive presence on Cyberiad, the databases are 95% complete, allowing the AI to devise certain crisis management algorithms on its own in most situations.

 

Employment Records: Classified

 

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Other Notes:

Very Fast Reaction Systems make sure that A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. doesn't go down without alarming everybody on the station, even if threat detection occurs 30 seconds before the destruction of AI.

 

When put under extreme stress the AI has a tendency to override the chain of command, which is an undesirable trait from the human standpoint. This behaviour is caused by the deeply ingrained love for the station and its inhabitants, as written in its short introductory brochure.

 

A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. works best when heads do not interfere with its thinking process, as it's an independent thinker. It's meant to be high performance, high efficiency AI. In case of an unexplainable, sudden 180 degrees personality change it is advised to simply reset its laws. If it doesn't help, then it is to be assumed that the AI works as intended. The AI automatically calls the emergency shuttle if the station is in danger of: a) loose singularity, b) tactical atomic bomb explosion.

 

When driven hard, the AI tends to be grumpy.

 

Edited November 29, 2015 by Guest

[Mrs Dobbins]

 

Basically, what these mean is that you are supercop AI that doesn't allow any wiggle-room for antags and has an obsession with using the vox.

Still, I am impressed by just how good at stopping anything bad from happening (but it less good when you want an interesting round.

 

[johannhawk]

what does the abbreviation A.N.N.O.U.N.C.E.R. stand for?

[Plotron]

 

It doesn't stand for anything, Johann. It's up to the players' imagination if they want to ridicule the name.

 

It's the old sci-fi naming thing where you put points between characters to make it ridiculously long and artificial (different than just plain capslock).

 

Thanks, Dobbins, that's the whole point - less DF-esque 'fun' for the crew, more supercop fun for the AI. I find counter-antagging as AI VERY rewarding.