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This '''unidentified [[artificial intelligence]] construct''' was used by the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] aboard the {{ | This '''unidentified [[artificial intelligence]] construct''' was used by the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] aboard the {{Pattern|Ruma|light carrier}} ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 64''</ref> When [[Cortana]] [[Skirmish over Threshold|infiltrated]] the ''Ascendant Justice'' the Covenant AI tried to stop her, but it was mostly unsuccessful as she eventually caught it and decompiled it. The Covenant AI hated that Cortana was able to improve upon Covenant [[technology]], believing it to be [[heresy]],<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 86''</ref> and managed to send a message over the [[Covenant battle network|battlenet]] before it was caught, both warning of the capture of the ship and sending the necessary calculations for a sub-atmospheric [[Slipspace]] jump. This likely allowed the [[Prophet of Regret]]'s [[Solemn Penance|assault carrier]] to perform such a jump during the [[Battle of Mombasa]].<ref name="infidel">'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 170''</ref> | ||
The AI demonstrated "fractured" thinking, as though it were suffering from the errors of being copied extensively. Cortana also stated that its algorithms looked very familiar, leading Cortana to speculate that a [[human]]-made [[UNSC]] AI had been captured and copied.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 195''</ref> When the AI faced its death from Cortana, it screamed a fractured statement: "Do what you will-will-will-will. I go to finally to my heaven reward paradise final-final-final-infinity-infinity-infini-AT NONCOPYSTATE."{{Ref/Reuse|infidel}} This indicates that it either saw death as salvation from a fractured life caused by repeated copying, or that it has been programmed to possess [[Covenant religion|Covenant religious beliefs]]. | The AI demonstrated "fractured" thinking, as though it were suffering from the errors of being copied extensively. Cortana also stated that its algorithms looked very familiar, leading Cortana to speculate that a [[human]]-made [[UNSC]] AI had been captured and copied.<ref>'''Halo: First Strike''', ''page 195''</ref> When the AI faced its death from Cortana, it screamed a fractured statement: "Do what you will-will-will-will. I go to finally to my heaven reward paradise final-final-final-infinity-infinity-infini-AT NONCOPYSTATE."{{Ref/Reuse|infidel}} This indicates that it either saw death as salvation from a fractured life caused by repeated copying, or that it has been programmed to possess [[Covenant religion|Covenant religious beliefs]]. | ||