Computerized Intelligence (CI)

Computerized Intelligences, or "CI's", are artificially created intelligent programs of Alintean origin, usually based on one or more living persons. Although truly alive, they lack a physical body and are instead kept confined within entire ships. Due to an extremely rigorous selection process, the personality imprints selected leave no room for a CI to overthrow its own programming and betray its users. Instead, the CI becomes an integral part of the crew of a ship, left to monitor the most vital functions.

Overrides, however, are kept in place in files that the CI does not have access to. These overrides can lock down the CI, put digital "shackles" on it, or even terminate it entirely. In the 235,000 years since CIs were introduced, however, there have only been four instances in which these overrides have been used. All told, CIs are a safe and efficient way to manage multiple tasks such as coordinating targets for a firing array while balancing interior pressures to compensate for a hull breach.