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'''Sif''' was a [[UNSC]] Shipping Operations [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] on the [[Tiara]] space station, in orbit above the colony of [[Harvest]]. Near the center of the Tiara was a room which housed her data center that contained the processor clusters and storage arrays that served as her core logic.<ref name="ch28">'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 28-29''</ref>
'''Sif''' was the [[UNSC]] Shipping Operations [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] aboard the [[Tiara]] space station, in orbit above the colony world of [[Harvest]]. Near the center of the Tiara was a room which housed her data center.<ref name="ch28">'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 28-29''</ref>


== Background ==
== Background ==
=== Chosen avatar ===
=== Chosen avatar ===
Her chosen [[avatar]] was in the form of a woman with an ankle-length sleeveless gown and long golden hair, with a red poncho that she draped over her shoulders. She spoke with the accent of a [[Earth|Nordic]] royalty. She chose this accent because many of [[Harvest]]'s settlers were from [[Earth]]'s [[United States|American]] heartland, who could trace their ancestry back to [[Scandinavia]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 30-31''</ref> As a remnant of her human brain donor, Sif enjoyed the sensation of cargo containers running along Tiara's elevator strands, similar to how her human counterpart loved grooming her own hair twice a day.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 33''</ref>
Her chosen [[avatar]] was in the form of a woman wearing an ankle-length sleeveless gown and long golden hair, with a red poncho that she draped over her shoulders. She spoke with the accent of [[Earth|Nordic]] royalty. She chose this accent because many of [[Harvest]]'s settlers were from [[Earth]]'s [[United States|American]] heartland, who could trace their ancestry back to [[Scandinavia]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 30-31''</ref> As a remnant of her human brain donor, Sif enjoyed the sensation of cargo containers running along Tiara's elevator strands, similar to how her human counterpart loved grooming her own hair twice a day.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 33''</ref>


=== Role ===
=== Role ===
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== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==
*Sif is the wife of Thor in Norse mythology.
*Sif is the wife of Thor in Norse mythology.
*In Norse mythology, Sif and Loki factually did not correlate with one another often. In the Myth, ''The Treasures of the Gods'', Loki managed to get into Sif's locked bedroom and hacked off all of her golden hair as an unfeasible prank. Thor eventually caught him and made him retrieve fake hair from the Dwarves. Just like in ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'', Sif is constantly irritated with Mack (or rather Loki's) presence, comparable to their Norse mythology predecessors.
*Much as the gods Sif and Loki were often at odds in Norse mythology, Sif is constantly irritated with Mack's (Loki's) presence.
*In the ''Halo: Contact Harvest'' audio book, [[Jen Taylor]], the voice of [[Cortana]], takes over the narration when Sif is the focus of events.
*In the ''Halo: Contact Harvest'' audio book, [[Jen Taylor]], the voice of [[Cortana]], takes over the narration when Sif is the focus of events.
*Her human memory, as it were, is the feeling of the gentle tug of a hair brush through her hair.
 


==List of appearances==
==List of appearances==

Revision as of 19:56, September 1, 2012

Sif
Biographical information

Gender:

Female avatar

Description:

Blonde woman wearing a long gown and red poncho

Color(s):

Multi-colored gown, blonde hair

Political and military information

Affiliation:

United Nations Space Command

Functionality:

Shipping operations on Harvest

 

Sif was the UNSC Shipping Operations AI aboard the Tiara space station, in orbit above the colony world of Harvest. Near the center of the Tiara was a room which housed her data center.[1]

Background

Chosen avatar

Her chosen avatar was in the form of a woman wearing an ankle-length sleeveless gown and long golden hair, with a red poncho that she draped over her shoulders. She spoke with the accent of Nordic royalty. She chose this accent because many of Harvest's settlers were from Earth's American heartland, who could trace their ancestry back to Scandinavia.[2] As a remnant of her human brain donor, Sif enjoyed the sensation of cargo containers running along Tiara's elevator strands, similar to how her human counterpart loved grooming her own hair twice a day.[3]

Role

She is in charge of Harvest's shipping operations which included the balancing of the Tiara, the transporting of human and shipping traffic up and down the space elevator, and control of the passenger and cargo transport in and out of the Tiara, as well as shipping manifests and keeping cargo on schedule. The AI Mack would often flirt with Sif, usually to her annoyance and frustration.[1]

As the Tiara was invaded by Brutes and Grunts from the Rapid Conversion, Sif was incapacitated by Loki, who used a military-grade virus to delete her restraint algorithms and operational codes in an attempt to prevent her from falling into Covenant hands. Her core logic was later partially restored by the Huragok Lighter Than Some, although in the absence of emotional self-control programs, she came back online rampant. Despite her rampant and severely weakened state, she rejoined the fight to rescue the citizens of Harvest. With Lighter than Some continuing to repair her systems on the fly, Sif assisted Loki in rebalancing the number 7 strand after a Brute attack threatened to destroy it.

Following the evacuation, when Loki decided to destroy her, she agreed and helped him convince Mack to allow it. She told Loki to relay to Mack that she loved him. Soon after, Loki shot a mass driver round into her data center, destroying her and the Tiara. She attempted to go through the many emotions that rampancy afforded her; however, she found them all to be untrue to her. She ultimately died content, feeling that she had lived a fuller life than her makers had ever thought possible.[4]

Trivia

  • Sif is the wife of Thor in Norse mythology.
  • Much as the gods Sif and Loki were often at odds in Norse mythology, Sif is constantly irritated with Mack's (Loki's) presence.
  • In the Halo: Contact Harvest audio book, Jen Taylor, the voice of Cortana, takes over the narration when Sif is the focus of events.


List of appearances

Sources

  1. ^ a b Halo: Contact Harvest, page 28-29
  2. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 30-31
  3. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 33
  4. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 378