Post by Coconut on Jan 10, 2009 9:02:08 GMT -5
Setara
Head AI
Age: N/A; Artificial Intelligence.
Gender: Female programming.
Affiliation/Race: The UNSC
Appearance: Setara, as part of the same model as Cortana, the appearances are vaguely similar. As with all AI's, Setara has the ability to change her shape and form, and enter herself into a computer system, however, when in normal size, Setara appears as a human hologram, of a purple blue colour. In terms of appearance, she has shoulder length short hair, the colour being unable to see, the only colour apparent being her startling black eyes. She has high cheekbones and would be attractive were she human.
Weaponry: None, except for being able to turn computer or technology systems against people.
Biography: AI's aren't considered human; they are considered as technology, as tools or weapons, or as means of storing information , not as people with feelings, emotions or a mind. Is this true? In a strict sense, yes. Yet the AI's can feel, and they have alarming tendencies to develop emotions with time; even the Forerunners couldn't stop this. The same could be said for all AI's, including the legendary Cortana, the continuation of which Setara was. You could call her the 'sister', or even 'child' of Cortana, in some ways. After the creation and successful implementation of Cortana in the Ninth Age of Reclamation, a new series of AI's were created after her; Setara was just one of these.
During the Ninth Age of Reclamation, Setara was first used in the Battle of Installation 04, aboard the ship Requiem Vortex, as the organizing force and power behind the weaponry and troop deployment systems, but it had been months before that she had first been 'born'. Created upon the human colony world of Reach, Setara was tested and implemented on that very same planet, before being one of the few to escape in the Covenant attack that led to the planets fall. Transported to Earth, Setara continued her training there, in a specialist program with Dr. Catherine Halsey.
After this happened, Setara was moved to serve aboard a passenger ship, directing organizational areas and defensive areas, should the need arise. At one point, when ferrying equipment to Eridanus Secundus before the massacre there, a Covenant ship squadron attacked, with only the heroic actions of Setara saving the ship from complete destruction. After the loss of a key AI at Eridanus Secundus at the massacre there, Setara was drafted into Operation: FIRST STRIKE, and coordinated the efforts and successes of the SPARTANs to succeed, being placed inside Matt-081, leader of the mission.
The success in that mission allowed Setara to gain a high profile in the UNSC, and was promoted to the position of secondary AI, behind the legendary Cortana, and in charge of coordinating AI's and defensive AI movements whilst Cortana was away with John-117, in a high profile mission. After the war, the loss of Cortana meant that Setara was promoted to head AI for the UNSC, allowing her un-restricted access to the mainframe, and the partnership with SPARTAN Matt-081.