Happy birthday to Kalmiya!
Today is her -513th birthday!
Kalmiya was a "smart" AI created by Dr. Catherine Halsey. Her primary purpose was to test prototypes of cyberwarfare and infiltration technology. Once tested and refined, the software and subroutines would then be incorporated into Cortana, giving her capabilities far beyond the rest of her kind. In this way, Kalmiya can be considered Cortana's predecessor.
Halsey extended Kalmiya's functionality by making subtle--and illegal--changes to her over time, which were so small that only Halsey noticed. UNSC protocol dictated that Kalmiya was to be decommissioned once her testing was complete, which Halsey outright disobeyed. Halsey kept Kalmiya until the fall of Reach, where she would have to either be sent away with the Forerunner data she was researching under CASTLE base, or destroyed to keep her out of the Covenant's hands. Ultimately, Halsey choose to let Cortana be the custodian of the data, believing that Kalmiya was the more unstable choice due to her longevity.
Halsey activated a fail-safe destruction protocol in Kalmiya, having previously lied to her about the existence of such a subroutine in her code. Despite this, Kalmiya was understanding and seemingly accepted her termination.
Seven years later, Blue Team returned to Reach to access Halsey's lab. Her lab contained a cryo-vault with additional clones she'd made of herself to extract their brains and use to make artificial intelligence like Cortana. The hope was that the brains could be used to make an artificial intelligence that would functionally be a clone of Cortana, which they could use to stop her after she began subjugating the galaxy. One of these clones would be used to create the Weapon.
When John and Kelly arrived at the lab, they were surprised to find a damaged Kalmiya keeping watch over the vault. They surmised that Kalmiya created a fragment of herself before her destruction to ensure the survival of the samples. After bypassing her with a security code, they left as the ghostly fragment watched them.
Does that count as alive?? I guess she was never "alive". I don't know man I just throw birthday parties here.
In canon (~2560), she is turning 23!
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Don't talk to me, or my son, or my son's boyfriend, or my cousins girlfriend, or blue-eyes shining moron ever again.
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had a dream that the 2023 theme was Communist VS Capitalist and the discourse was insane the whole month
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Oh my god I finally got around to is. The misakou fic of a lifetime
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all these choices you seem to make and then resent us for dont make us respect you, only pity you
well damnnn
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so ive been under general anesthesia recently and it was through a needle in my left wrist and then i was washing dishes and there was a knife and that spot on my wrist is puffed and purple and the vein is so well defined that i thought how nice it would have been to just cut it slit it tear it up and i actually moaned out loud at that
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There is a child here (maybe 13) who saved up (according to his teachings to a younger child that not spending his £5 on Valentine's things would be better) and got the Millenium Falcon Lego Set.
Disbelief_Blink dot gif
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In today's episode of "Questions I Should Probably Ask A Therapist, But Most Likely Never Will":
Why is it that whenever I start to catch feelings, it always coincides with a huge spike in my depression?
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