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Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?
Posted By: Simpsons RuleDate: 5/10/03 8:15 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s? (Samurai Pizza Cat)

: I prefer the 'organic technology' theory myself, compare the T&R and the PoA
: in the last two levels of the game, on the Covenant ship the Flood have
: created a 'pilot' organism out of Keyes and at least one other (probably
: an Elite). On the Pillar of Autumn there is no such construct, suggesting
: that the Covenant ship requires some form of dedicated controller, linked
: up to the ships systems, while we know the PoA has manual controls (and
: maybe a tractable 'dumb' AI) cos Keyes landed it on his own.

: Why do you need ship AIs anyway? Because human reaction times are too slow?
: If you could attach a specially bred organism directly to the ships
: systems, you wouldn't need one to pilot a ship, and the Covenant *are*
: vastly superior at organic technology.

: At a guess Prophets are the Covenant's version of Mentats (from Dune), as
: well as leaders (or maybe they have dedicated organic computers) able to
: process data like a computer, so maybe the Covenant have no need for AIs.

Well don't read this if you haven't read HTF but in the book it says a shipmaster monitors everything by himself and doesn't surround himself with other non-essential machines and the people needed to run them. We need A.I.'s for point defense from single fighter aircrafts and for calculations like jumping into slipspace.

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Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Simpsons Rule 5/8/03 9:17 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Geary 5/8/03 9:51 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Brannon Boren 5/8/03 11:38 p.m.
           Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?telemachus 5/9/03 5:14 a.m.
                 Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Ryan Omark 5/11/03 7:00 p.m.
                       Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Geary 5/11/03 7:03 p.m.
           Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?AOClaus 5/9/03 11:19 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Wado SG 5/9/03 5:42 p.m.
           Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s? *NM*Hair 5/9/03 8:17 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?myrad_dragon 5/9/03 9:16 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Onyx Talons 5/9/03 10:17 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?g4v 5/9/03 10:35 p.m.
           Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Reiginko 5/10/03 1:02 a.m.
                 Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Reiginko 5/10/03 8:02 a.m.
                       Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?EmeraldElite 5/10/03 8:51 p.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Satan 5/10/03 1:34 a.m.
     Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Samurai Pizza Cat 5/10/03 6:10 p.m.
           Re: Where are the Covenant A.I.'s?Simpsons Rule 5/10/03 8:15 p.m.
           is there pilot in covy shipsvshields ash 5/11/03 2:27 a.m.
                 Re: is there pilot in covy shipsmanic 5/11/03 5:55 a.m.
                       Re: is there pilot in covy shipsvshields ash 5/11/03 6:23 a.m.
                             Bad experiencesArthur Wellesly 5/11/03 4:25 p.m.
                             Re: is there pilot in covy shipsmanic 5/11/03 7:07 p.m.



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