Sankar AI
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- "I tumbled backwards and out of the shattered window. My body turned towards the ground as earth rushed up to meet me. And then I… died."
- — The AI struggles reconciling her own identity from that of Maya Sankar in her infancy as she recalls Maya's last memories.[1]
The "Sankar AI"[2] is a "smart" artificial intelligence construct created from the scanning and replication of the neural pathways of Commander Maya Sankar, a former agent for Section Three of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). The AI was created from Sankar's brain following her death in October 2558.[1]
Biography[edit]
On October 28, 2558, agent Sankar was killed in action during the fighting in New Hedmark on Laika III. After having defected from ONI, she was killed by her friend Bostwick, with the intention of her death serving as a martyr for the insurrectionist cause. Despite this, Sankar's brain was recovered by ONI and, per Black-Box's prediction, proved an ideal candidate to be used for the creation of a new AI.[1] The creation of the Sankar AI seemingly occurred on the same day, and as such Sankar was one of the nine AIs within HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 in Sydney, Australia assembled by BB for transport, as to avoid the imminent Created attack on Earth. The other AIs included Gabriela, Tethys, and BB himself, with their data crystal chips placed inside a suitcase lined with C10 explosives.[2]
As the attack on Earth began, at BB's request, Admirals Serin Osman and Terrence Hood were escorted out of the facility with the briefcase by Spartan Charles Orzel, fleeing to a hidden colony world called Rossbach's World. Upon arriving at the planet, BB agreed to share his space on Osman's data pad with the Sankar AI so that he could interrogate her for information about the Guardian emergences like the one on Laika III.[2] As BB probed the newborn AI's memories, he learned of Maya Sankar's work as the insurrectionist leader "FERO", her manipulation of Benjamin Giraud, work with Mshak Moradi, and the events leading up to her death.[1]
Ultimately though, the AIs remained in Osman's briefcase, with Osman given the choice to either destroy them or let them free, with the chance that they may join the Created. After a year of living in exile on Rossbach's World, Osman had yet to make a decision on the matter, though the choice was made for her on November 4, 2559 thanks to the sudden arrival of SPARTAN-II Gray Team, who had been deployed to Rossbach's World with the goal of securing the AI briefcase. For the Spartans, extracting the admirals was a secondary priority, though one they succeeded in, escorting them to the U81 Condor Zulu 079 for rendezvous with UNSC Victory of Samothrace.[3]
List of appearances[edit]
- Hunt the Truth (First appearance)
- Halo: Fractures
- Rossbach's World (Mentioned only)
- Halo: Empty Throne (Indirect mention)
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b c d HUNTtheTRUTH, season 2, episode Episode 06: Transcendence
- ^ a b c Halo: Fractures - Rossbach's World
- ^ Halo: Empty Throne, chapter 2
