Gabriela
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- "Greetings. I am Gabriela, the AI caretaker of Outpost Discovery. I will be your guide as you explore the outpost's exhibits and experiences."
- — Gabriela welcomes visitors to one of the UNSC's Outpost Discovery locations.[4]
Gabriela (serial number GBA 0983-6) is a fifth-generation "smart" artificial intelligence of the United Nations Space Command,[2] entrusted to be the caretaker of an Outpost Discovery on Earth.[3][4] By late 2553, she was considered to the only one of her kind to contain a complete record of all cataloged human history, having been created near the end of the Human-Covenant War to potentially safeguard humankind's legacy.[3][5][6][7] Once thought lost in the aftermath of the Fall of Reach, she was recovered from Sephune III in the latter half of that year by Linda-058.[3]
Gabriela later assisted with the aforementioned Outpost Discovery at major population centers on Earth.[8] When a reclaimed section of a salvaged Covenant starship, Supplication of Purity, was brought to Earth for inclusion at one of the outposts, Gabriela was instrumental in preventing a catastrophic explosion that a lingering Covenant autonomous security protocol subroutine attempted to trigger via the ship's self-destruct.[9]
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Creation, loss, and recovery[edit]
- Athos: "The mission parameters have changed. I detected an intact A.I. we thought lost with the Promise."
- Linda-058: "Another A.I.? All right, I'll finish Chen and—"
- Athos: "Not 'another A.I.'. The only A.I. to contain a complete record of all of human history. Alas, only Chen would know where it is. This A.I. is now the entirety of the mission."
- — The revelation of Gabriela's survival and presence on Sephune III radically changes Linda and Athos' mission.[7]
Gabriela was created from the neural scans of the deceased admiral Gabriela Castaneda, an inspiring leader, fearless warrior, and skilled diplomat.[2] Gabriela was still a nascent A.I. matrix when the Paris-class heavy frigate UNSC Promise of Dawn was chosen as a vessel of safekeeping for her.[5] She was an invaluable asset that represented humanity's attempt to rebuild—even if from the ground up. She was to serve as a time capsule of sorts—prepared to imbue with rekindled hope after an impossible victory over the Covenant, or to carry on lost history, ensuring humanity's legacy could still be learned. During the Fall of Reach in August 2552, Gabriela was thought lost along with the rest of the ship, which disappeared after the battle.[2][5][6][7]
At some point in the latter half of 2553 the Office of Naval Intelligence received a distress signal from the frigate's survivors, coming from the largely Covenant-controlled Sephune III.[6] The Dawn had crashed there following its flight from Reach. Given the possibility that Gabriela remained intact, ONI believed sending one of the few remaining Spartan-IIs, Linda-058, to the planet was worth the risk.[3] As such, she was briefed within twenty-four hours of the signal's discovery. She was not informed concerning Gabriela, however, instead being told her mission was to assassinate Doctor Chen Bax, a scientist who had tried to steal classified technology but who had also been thought killed at Reach. Linda was told ONI couldn't afford to have either Chen or whatever he left Reach with fall into enemy hands.[6] After meeting up with the ship's survivors Linda elected to hold off on killing Doctor Chen and before long Athos, the artificial intelligence accompanying her, was inserted in a terminal in the humans' camp. He soon detected Gabriela and made it known to the Spartan that their mission's parameters had changed. Securing Gabriela, he said, was now the entirely of the operation.[7]
Seeing as forces loyal to the Covenant would be moving on their position in a matter of hours, he also emphasized that if they hadn't found her by that point they would clean the site to make sure the aliens didn't either. When Athos heard Chen mention details about the eighteenth century