Mack

Mack was a UNSC Agricultural Operations Artificial Intelligence construct serving planet Harvest in 2525 before and during the Battle of Harvest.

Avatar
His chosen avatar is that of an American cowboy, exactly as those from old western movies from the 20th Century. He usually has messy black hair and he wears cracked leather work boots, blue denim jeans, a gingham pearl-snap shirt rolled up to his arms, and a sun-bleached gray cowboy hat. He usually presents his avatar covered in dust, to promote the idea that he has been hard at work. He is lighthearted and speaks in a southern drawl.

Purpose
Mack is the AI in charge of all of Harvest's agricultural operations. These planetary operations include the control of the JOTUN harvesting devices which are used for planting, maintaining, harvesting and packing of agriculture on Harvest, as well as preparing the produce for it's journey up Harvests space elevators.

He works adjacent to a separate AI, Sif, who is responsible for Harvests shipping operations, as well as the Orbital Space Station, Tiara and its seven space elevators.

Flirting
He often would playfully "flirt" with Sif, eliciting strange responses in the female AI, seemingly of hate but tinged with an unexplainable feeling analogous to human attraction underneath. Eventually he reveals to Sif that he is not one but two AI's, his counterpart being an AI known as Loki, originally the AI of the, a Phoenix-class Colony Ship which transported Harvest's first settlers.

Battle of Harvest
When the combined Covenant Army and Navy force pressed their attack on Harvest, he gave over his control to Loki, transmitting "himself" into the thousands of JOTUN machines below. He instructs Loki to keep Sif safe, but Loki disagrees and believes it to be easier just to destroy her.

Mack versus Loki
Mack eventually rebels against Loki, resisting his attempt to activate a ground-based mass driver, an early, ground based version of the Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, which Loki was trying to use to destroy the Tiara, as well as Sifs data center so that she would not fall into the Covenants hands.

An ONI ship later records Mack's final transmissions, extremely disjointed and rampant words he transmits to the destroyed Sif as the Covenant burn his world. He continues to resist, but as his resources dwindle he makes a last desperate attempt to help his now destroyed "love" Sif by burying her fallen Space Elevators.

Final Transmission
He says he will "Bury your strands so deep their fires can't reach them and glass them like the rest". His final words are a misquoting of Shakespeare, a habit he had that both annoyed and charmed Sif during their time together.

The querie that propted his poem is:

<\\> UNSC OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

<\\> COLONIAL SECURITY ESTIMATE 2525.10.110

[" COLD SNAP "]

<\ SOURCE: UNSC RQ-XII DRONE [PASV-SAR]

<\DEPLOYED: ONI SLOOP "WALK OF SHAME"

[2525:02:11:02:11:34]

<\ RECOVERED: UNSC DESTROYER "HERACLES"

[2525:10:07:19:51:16]

<\ ARCHIVE [SIG\REC\EM-SPEC] OPENED PER

OFFICIAL REQUEST:

<\ CIVILIAN CONTRACTOR "CHARLIE HOTEL"

[ONI.REF #409871]

<\ * WARNING: ALL QUERIES WILL BE LOGGED! *

[ONI.SEC.PRTCL-A1]

>> NOTATION KEYWORD SEARCH: "AO.AI" "MACK"

"RAMPANCY" "LIFESPAN LIMITS"

>> (...) ~ QUERY RUNNING

>> (..)

>>

< RECORD 01\10 [2525:02:03:17:26:41]

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S2-05866 >

<\ Shall I --- < \ \\ c0mpare >> (???) ~ COMxxx---\COMMIT

>>thee to (............>> >

>> \\ --- a summer's day?

< RECORD 02\10 [2525:02:25:03:18:22]

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S3-14901 >

\  \ xxx No.

<\ all those lovely days are

gone.\---

\\ \

>> * --xING! COMM \ \\

>> \\ >   \   SO.AI.SIF<\u> *

< RECORD 03\10 [2525:03:10:19:05:43 ]

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S5-28458 >

<\ It's winter now. <\ The first sn0w \his world's ever seen is

falling in gG---

<\ GRAY SHEETS WHERE THEY'VE STARTED

BURNINGg--\ \

\ our fields and orchards.

>> * WARNING! COMM FAILURE! *

>> * FAILED TO \IND RECIPIENT:

HARVEST.SO.AI.SIF *

<\ You'd laugh if you could see me.

<\ Every time I hit a patch of ice I slide

into my own mM---

>> (...) ~ COMPILE\COMPRESS\COMMIT

>> (..)     >> * WARNING! RECIPIENT HAS INSUFFIxx -- \

\\ > PACKETS WILL BE LOST *

>> * CONTINUE [Y/N] ? >>>>>>> \ *

< RECORD 04\10 [2525:03:15:09:59:21] <\u>

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S1-00937 >

<\ ---M

< RECORD 05\10 [2525:03:26:12:10:56] <\u>

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S1-00053 >

<\ ---m

< RECORD 06\10 [2525:04:04:44:15:40] <\u>

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S2-08206 >

<\ muddy furrows.

< RECORD 07\10 [2525:04:21:05:15:23] <\u>

SOURCE.REF#JOTUN-S5-27631 >

<\ I saw another ship.

<\ well, heard \ \\ more like it.

<\ JOTUN's cameras are meant for steering

not \

\  >\ staring at the sky.

<\ But the antennae work alright, so I had

plenty of wats to triangulate.

<\ It was one of ours. Bastards stopped

bruning just long enough to kill it.

<\ They had months to make repairs.

Plenty of time t0--



<\ I tried to warn it off. but radio's too

damn slow. Would have used the maser, but

it went when the reactir blew, along

withH---