Ask ARA - Bridge A.I. [attached, HD]

C3P0 is already sexy!

FluffKevlar

Nytro's a jerk, haha

FluffKevlar

Yeah as I told Volpethrope below, I changed the wording because it was a little confusing. There is only one ARA, SRK, etc. 'as we know them'. There are many ARAs, but only one that looks and acts as my OC. The other ARAs have different appearance and personality, but they are 'linked' via the grid sync, and share job programming and experiences.

FluffKevlar

I'm going to change the wording she gives here, because I think I worded it wrong. They are not mass-produced, they are each unique copies, present at the Kaltag HQ, and from there, they guide and operate 'shells' of themselves to the vessels and stations. The AI on the ships are merely remote-controlled/programmed from the core copies. They act more as 'guides' for the ships' AI that are physically present, if that makes sense. The AI physically present on each ship does look and act slightly differently, these 5 are just the 'leaders', who hand down -most- of the programming. So there may be similarities, but there aren't physically dozens of ARAs, SRKs, etc. nor do they all share the base 5's personality stuffs

FluffKevlar

Built towards the base.

Joel Kreissman

Still gotta admit, i liked it more when i thought there is only one ARA, only one SRK etc, but what do we expect, there is a lot of ships and structures that need to be maintained

Spyro_Haze

This may be like that: they are a thousands of them but each of them learn and act from different experiences as: "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward".

Spyro_Haze

I'm still not sure how I feel about these added details for the anthroids, mostly ARA since she's been one of your characters for so long. Making them commercialized models that exist in the thousands being backed up and synced to a central unit is sort of taking her individuality away in a huge way. She doesn't feel like a unique person to me anymore, more like a tool or just part of the ship. All her quirks and mannerisms are programmed and manufactured, and any ship you visit will have one acting exactly like that. I liked the expanded worldbuilding and background on how the anthroids worked, but this step towards "there are thousands of each of them and they're standard on every ship" makes her less of a character, at least for me personally. I thought we were going to meet different kinds of Relay Administrators on every ship, but if it's all just ARA clones... I dunno. That feels like a step away from "synthetic lifeform" and toward "advanced but still entirely controlled robot." It makes all their reactions and personalities feel really artificial to me. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I honestly don't like the idea of them being mass-produced. Unless *our* ARA unit is going to have some kind of fault or glitch to separate her and let her develop as an actual character. I just can't shake the feeling that by making the anthroids work this way, they're losing something, especially ARA.

Volpethrope

Not sure but I think she got a thing for Nytro xD

so she is a sexy C3PO?

Alexander

So there's 2 more AI's left? And so far they all look amazing!

iceFox