Delacroix predicted, XERXES was hacked by Malick, and was reprogrammed to work for The Many. Delacroix noted that if someone with a real agenda entered the system, much more serious repercussions could ensue.Īs Dr. Marie Delacroix discovered that someone hacked into, and programed, XERXES to sing Elvis Presley songs as a prank. Polito and other staff members on the Operations Deck were responsible for keeping XERXES running within his intended parameters. has been described as buggy and inefficient but for good reasons.ĭr.
This was implemented as a safety feature on the recommendation of Senior Systems Analyst, Dr. could be disabled in the event that it went rogue like SHODAN. In order to not repeat the disaster of Citadel Station, XERXES had several security loopholes by design which would allow hackers to bypass the XERXES system and gain temporary control of certain critical sub-systems so that the A.I. However, the computing power aboard the Von Braun is not completely under XERXES’ control. It seems, however, that XERXES replaced Sarah as the system that controlled the Von Braun.Īs the operating system responsible for the primary data loop onboard the starship, XERXES allocated the billions of onboard subtasks, delegating them to hundreds of thousands of individual systems. Thus McGill accused Polito for spearheading the development of the very technology she "arrogantly" condemned. Sarah to the committee, chairman Cal McGill conjured a copy of XERXES 453/RT4b3, described as a 3d hologram of a head with supernaturally blue eyes (though in the game his eyes are orange).
When Polito expressed her objection about the creation of the A.I. Only after they'd be convinced that the prototype was secure, her team would ever consider authorization of actual production models. Although the prototype could had been ready by 2107, a lot of care had been given for its fail-safe mechanisms: two thirds of development time were dedicated to restraint and containment protocols and the rest to A.I. Janice Polito and her team in an apparent self-contradiction, as Polito herself was very skeptical of the technology she was working on. computers, following the SHODAN incident, showing that they were eligible to go rogue. The prototype of XERXES was developed in an era of distrust about personality-based A.I.
of the Von Braun, and one of the antagonists of System Shock 2. XERXES 8933A/A was the onboard computer A.I. Can you not feel the glory of the flesh? Do you not yearn to be free of the tyranny of the individual?
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