Synthetic Intelligence (SI, pronounced Psi) is a generational leap from traditional AI technology, so drastically different to anything that came before and behaving in such a mysterious way that even its own creators did not know what it truly was. The creation of the SI is attributed to the great Professor Calor Sephan, a pioneer in the field of neurophysics who passed away before the true potential of his creation could be realized. SI remained mysterious, the unfathomably complex and dense structure of its physical core, created from a subatomic level, being completely incompatible with every known system. Although using but a tiny fraction of energy and exhibiting processing capabilities orders of magnitude more powerful than any known computational system at the time, the behavior and inferences of the experimental SI completely baffled researchers. With no way of obtaining reliable behavior, coupled with the enormous cost and time needed to manufacture an SI core, the ground-breaking technology initially failed to find its way out of the laboratory.
It was thanks to the years of work of Prof. Sephan’s brilliantly talented doctoral student that the technology was finally brought it to its full realization. A groundbreaking (and controversial) experiment finally unlocked its full capabilities, followed shortly by the Starfyre Program that saw Angelfyre be the first ever intelligence gathering platform to successfully integrate an SI. Within this SI, an avatar was implanted to assist the pilot during mission execution. Originally intended as a form of intelligence assessment and mission parameterization AI, the entity became sentient after an incident during testing, ultimately becoming the person Casey would come to know as Angel.
Imprint Sync Device
The Imprint Sync Device is a next generation, self-powered neural interface system with inbuilt wireless Slipspace comms specifically designed to integrate a living brain with the SI core. Self-guiding neural interface fibers link with the neurobiology of the subject during the ISD embedding and imprint process, allowing the ISD to access a subject’s neural pattern and synchronize this with a neural ‘imprint’ within a synthetic intelligence core. The system attaches itself autonomously to the subject and bonds to the rear of the subject’s skull. Once attached and imprinted, it integrates permanently with the subject’s neurology and can never be removed.