![]() The Deck 5 shopping area will be closed until further notice. An extra work cycle just twice a week will give you the spending money you need to make this holiday a very special one." Tri-Optimum reminds you that there are only one-hundred-sixty-three shopping days until Christmas. "Why do you persist in your loneliness?"."The Glory of The Many demands your capture or destruction.".SHODAN seems to have a low opinion of XERXES describing him as "insipid" (said while impersonating its creator, an early hint that something is amiss about your contact) and "obsolete". This could be an oversight or evidence that The Many uploaded him on to the Rickenbacker. Also, when you hack a turret or Replicator on the UNN Rickenbacker XERXES will be heard reporting your action. Dialogue from the The Many suggests that they are protecting him. It is unclear what exactly happened to XERXES when SHODAN took control of the Primary Data Loop. XERXES was finally taken control of by SHODAN through the cooperation of Soldier G65434-2, whom allowed her to gain access to the Primary Data Loop. The AI began compromising all security turrets, cameras and taunting crew members who were not infected.ĭuring the course of the game, XERXES taunts SOLDIER G65434-2 for helping the "machine mother" and alerts security in an attempt to eliminate the player. 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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