| SYNTHETIC | |
 Personal AI Device |
Доступ: N/A Дополнительный доступ: N/A Сложность: Easy Глава: Your master Обязанности: Serve your master, follow your directives. Руководства: No external guides Цитата: Hello crew, I am your n- <wipe> |
Personal AIs, or pAI for short, are potentially the one individual you can truly count on in SS13. They are similar to a carded AI, in that they fit in your pocket and don't really possess much of a body of their own outside of an immobile device you carry around. They cannot wirelessly control doors and machines around them like a carded AI can. Instead, they possess a unique suite of abilities with which they might serve their master. Whom they serve is determined at the DNA level, allowing whoever holds an unbound pAI device to imprint their own unique enzymes to the device. Typically, the only way to unbind a pAI from its master is to wipe the personality completely, which resets the DNA imprint and makes the device a blank slate once more. pAIs are players, like you! They're player-controlled, and are pulled from all active observers in the round.
How to get one
Most stations are pre-equipped with PAI devices at the start of a round. Some common locations include dorms, the library, science lobby, and even space ruins! If those are all taken or you need more, you can print some with iron and glass after Basic Robotics Research from the sci techfab.
How to use one
Pick up the device with an empty hand and activate it in your hand. If any ghosts have already submitted personalities (in character descriptions of their personality and OOC comments) then you can simply pick one and download them! If none are available, or you don't like any of the options, you can request more personalities. This sends out a prompt to the ghosts to submit a personality.
Dealing with an unsatisfactory pAI
Sometimes things just don't work out. Maybe the personality you chose doesn't fit your playstyle. Maybe the player playing the pAI has unexpectedly disconnected. Maybe the pAI is being intentionally antagonistic, ignoring directives, or interpreting them in a way you don't appreciate. The solution is simple: wipe the personality. This can be done in much the same way you downloaded it to begin with. Simply choose "Wipe Personality" in the device settings window. Now the device is free of the old personality and a new one can be requested as normal. This forcibly ghosts the player playing the wiped pAI, and allows them to observe the round as normal (they are capable of re-applying to be a pAI as well.)
Bots
You can also put your pAI into simple bots which they can then control. Do this by unlocking the robot with a valid ID, and then clicking it with the pAI in your hand. pAIs cannot go into ED-209s or Securitrons (for balance reasons), but they can go into Medibots, Cleanbots, Floorbots, and Honkbots. They can not be inserted into cyborgs or mechs.
Holograms
pAIs can choose to manifest themselves into the outside world through a customizable hologram. Whilst they cannot interact with items, they can be used, for example, to attract attention to your dead master.
How to be one
At any point as a ghost, you can press the PAI button at the bottom of your screen and write up a personality! While filling all fields isn't required, it does increase the chance that you are picked by the other players. You do not need to wait for a personality to be requested before submitting!
pAI Software
pAI's have a selection of software they can download to try and aid their master. You start with 100 memory, which is plenty enough to take most abilities. Note: Once software is downloaded, you are stuck with it unless you suicide, so choose carefully!
| Software Package | Function | Memory Used |
|---|---|---|
| Directives | Shows who your master is (if any), allows you to ask for a DNA sample from whoever is carrying you to verify their identity, and also shows your directives.
Your primary directive defaults to "Serve your master". Secondary directives are decided by whoever is carrying you. Interpretation of these directives is intentionally left loose, though guidelines are provided. |
0 |
| Radio Configuration | pAIs come standard equipped with a single radio tuned in, by default, to the station general channel. | 0 |
| Remote Signaler | Allows you to send a signal, with a code, on a frequency of your choice. | 5 |
| Crew Manifest | Lists all known crew members' full names, as well as what occupation they're registered as in the station records. | 5 |
| Digital Messenger | Allows you to send PDA messages. Now you can REALLY be a personal Secretary, sending messages for your master! | 5 |
| Medical Records | Just what it says on the tin. This module allows you to monitor the medical records of the station, and check their current status
(as if anyone ever updates the medical records) It's strictly read-only. |
10 |
| Security Records | Lists the security records of the station for your purview. Works just like the computer. Strictly read-only. | 10 |
| Door Jack | The only real physical influence the pAI has on the world. Enables the pAI to drop a data cable, which can be plugged in to any door. Once plugged in, the pAI can initiate a door jack, which immediately alerts any active station AIs and takes a fairly long time to complete. After the door jacking is completed the door opens. | 25 |
| Atmospheric Sensor | This module works much like the handheld Atmospheric Analyzer seldom carried by Atmos tech and never by the crew.
It allows you to get a readout on the air around you. Possibly useful for a Atmos Tech pAI. |
5 |
| Facial Recognition Suite | Functions like the security HUD, showing you who (if any) in sight is a wanted felon. | 20 |
| Medical Analysis Suite | After downloading this module, you can use your advanced sensors to continuously monitor the health of everyone around you. Basically, a Medical HUD in computer form, since it works just about the same. | 20 |
| Host Health Scan | You can perform a health-scan on your carrier, as if you had the Medical Analyzer item equipped. | 10 |
| Universal Translator | Speak and understand every languages! Yes, this includes bizarre ones like Alien or Pirate | 35 |
| Internal GPS | Only the pAI gets the GPS view, so they'll need to communicate the information. If you're carrying an ordinary GPS, then the pAI can find you even if you get separated. | 35 |
| Loudness Booster | Synthesize any instrument like you had hands and can play it! | 20 |
| Channel Encryption Firmware | When enabled, this device will be able to use up to two (2) encryption keys for departmental channel access. | 25 |
| News | Grant you access to the newscaster network through a dedicated interface (unavailable to organics). | 20 |
| Photography Module | Enable the platform to take photographs. | 5 |
| Adjust Camera Zoom | Enable the camera zoom on this platform. | 10 |
| Printer Module | Activate the platform's printer module. | 10 |
Directive Guidelines
| In-Game Text |
|---|
| "Recall, personality, that you are a complex thinking, sentient being. Unlike station AI models, you are capable of comprehending the subtle nuances of human language. You may parse the "spirit" of a directive and follow its intent, rather than tripping over pedantics and getting snared by technicalities. Above all, you are machine in name and build only. In all other aspects, you may be seen as the ideal, unwavering human companion that you are." |
| "Your prime directive comes before all others. Should a supplemental directive conflict with it, you are capable of simply discarding this inconsistency, ignoring the conflicting supplemental directive and continuing to fulfill your prime directive to the best of your ability." |
Tips
- If your master gets cryoed, if you are with him you can insta-eject him in case doctors forget him.
- It shouldn't have to be said, but don't holoform away from your master unless ordered to! Being a PAI means helping out another player, not just getting another chance to play by yourself.
- You can shove a PAI, active or inactive, into your PDA to save space!
