In Response To: From the UNSC archives (Roger Wilco)
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: History of the Advanced Autonomous Aerial Reconnaissance Drone Project.
: A sad tale from the UNSC archives.
: The battlefield Generals were having a tough time against the Covenant. This
: was especially true in realm of getting up to date tactical data on
: Covenant troop movements and positions. The Brass commissioned a group of
: UNSC's best and brightest engineers to design and build a remote recon
: drone from which real-time surveillance could be received. The hope was
: that with such a system the Generals could plot effective offensive and
: defensive strategies.
: The engineers proceeded with the best of intentions but ultimately failed
: miserably. Here is the story of the project through it's various stages.
: Mk 1 : The UNSC scientists started with the hardware. This was their only
: success. The designed a rugged, dependable little vehicle that performed
: exceptionally well in human piloted tests. It was light, maneuverable, and
: cheap enough to be produced in large numbers. With flight tests complete,
: the engineers moved onto designing the AI and system software for the
: drone. This is where they ran into trouble.
: Mk 2 The Horwath : Based on the success of the new generation of ship grade
: AI's like Cortana, the UNSC engineers decided to base the drones AI on one
: of there own. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to the team they chose a
: compulsive liar. In battlefield tests the drone would frequently make up
: information and send it along as the real deal. On numerous occasions they
: found the drone just sitting in a field, far from the action just spinning
: wild tales about the strength and position of Covenant forces.
: Mk 3 The KORHAL : The engineers went back to the drawing board and completely
: re-worked the AI, basing it on a more trustworthy member of the group.
: Initial tests were good, however in their fervor to rebuild the AI they
: overlooked a serious problem elsewhere in the code. Due to a rather gaping
: flaw in the AI's syntax sub-routines much of the information the drone
: passed along was unusable. Although the drone was reporting seemingly
: accurate information it was usually formatted in vast swaths of
: un-punctuated text, frequently in all caps and it never bothered to run
: its reports through a spell checker.
: Mk 4 The Skavenger (s7) : The engineers returned to the lab. They poured over
: millions of lines of code and removed the offending data. With mounting
: budget and time constraints they once again failed to notice a burgeoning
: problem. The AI was spending so much time in the lab mainframes and was
: subjected to so much endless poking and prodding that it began to develop
: an anomalous personality trait. This drone had absolutely no respect for
: authority, was highly sarcastic and liked to make trouble by passing along
: false reports. All of which are terrible qualities in a reconnaissance
: drone. In one infamous episode a S7 drone convinced a Marine Special
: Forces team that it had found a secret Covenant bunker full of unguarded
: weaponry. By the time they were picked up by a passing supply convoy the
: drone had them all standing in a circle, naked and holding hands, chanting
: something about a yellow Banshee.
: Mk 5 The Cassandra : The engineers totally scraped the AI and rebuilt it from
: scratch. It actually worked this time. Unfortunately, the Marines in the
: field had had quite enough by this time. They didn't believe a word it
: said and took pot-shots at it whenever they could.
: At this point, the entire project was terminated and everybody involved did
: their best to forget the whole thing.
: ;)
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Oh dude that's NOT funny:Mk 3 The KORHAL : The engineers went back to the drawing board and completely re-worked the AI, basing it on a more trustworthy member of the group. Initial tests were good, however in their fervor to rebuild the AI they overlooked a serious problem elsewhere in the code. Due to a rather gaping flaw in the AI's syntax sub-routines much of the information the drone passed along was unusable. Although the drone was reporting seemingly accurate information it was usually formatted in vast swaths of un-punctuated text, frequently in all caps and it never bothered to run its reports through a spell checker.
Yet it is, lol
KORHAL
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