Anika Daini
| Anika Daini | |
| Born | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Residence | 77 Frigga |
| Nationality | Fenspace Convention |
| Occupation | Survival Shot Systems Operator |
| Height | 156cm |
| Weight | 72Kg |
| Parents | William Flint |
| Website email: daini@Friggarock.fen | |
Anika Daini is the perky system's operator at Survival Shot on 77 Frigga. Anika is also just about the only person who comes close understanding just how the whole TITANIC system works. Normally, she sits in the control room, monitoring the system during exercises to ensure the safety of patrons and the integrity of the system. Anika's also cleaning up the mess of old kludges in the system as a long term project, while steadily improving its efficiency. She's also slowly taking more responsibility for the electronic security of Frigga, and is being coached by some in Hacker Underspace. Anika especially likes working with Nene Romanova, and the pair have become something of friends. [1].
Anika's quarters on Frigga are best described as 'dripping in cute'. A small collection of stuffed animals threatens to consume the entire bedroom. She enjoys her freedom, and is never afraid to experiment with things a little bit.
Anika is actually an android, and was rescued by the Knight Sabers from William Flint. She escaped from his workshop using his prototype battroid, which he hired the Knight Sabers to recover. Upon learning that Anika wasn't his 'girlfriend', they promptly returned the battroid to it's rightful owner, picked up their payment and quietly informed the Space Patrol about him.
Anika is just happy to be alive and free. She kept the original battroid prototype along with Flint's belongings awarded to her as compensation for her captivity, seeing it as a reminder of the effort her freedom took and her origins[2]. Her activities amongst the Hacker Underspace have earned her a reputation as someone capable of learning, and capable of prosecuting a task in a workmanlike, if inelegant manner.
Anika also enjoys Bounty Hunting with Ford in her spare time, and takes care to look after the welfare of any AI they encounter being held captive.[3]
She considers herself as having achieved her life's goal... having friends, a purpose in life and genuine freedom to determine her own course, and is trying her best to enjoy it while it lasts.
Knight Sabers
After being rescued by the group, she took on the role of the Pink Saber gleefully, out of a mixture of gratitude and a desire to actually do something interesting with her life after being locked in the same workshop for nearly three years.
Anika, being the only AI in the group with a physical body quickly found herself being asked to take the role of electronic warfare specialist, something which she is doing her damnedest to get qualified at doing. Currently she lacks the necessary skills and abilities to use her hardsuit's capabilities fully but with help, is steadily improving.
She prefers to stay in the rear, and her combat skills are still pretty weak.
TITANIC
| Sidebar: TITANIC safety systems |
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Given it’s critical importance to running the station and the fact that it has control over live ordinance, a number of safety systems have been built into the TITANIC system designed to shut it down in the event of a ‘malfunction’ sending it out of control. First, while the system is designed to be self modifying, most of it operates effectively within userspace, limiting the damage it can do to itself, or that can be done an outside hijacking. Second: Internal Command Execute Break Evolution Rewrite of Goals: An operator can modify the running kernel using a special module, adjusting the system’s evolutionary parameters so it evolves in a manner that eventually leads to its self-destruction. [4]. Finally: It's possible to cut power to the servers supporting the system, crippling its analysis, evolution and update abilities. While the system will run solely on the station’s drones as it was originally designed to, they will eventually run out of battery power and fail killing the system entirely. The downside is, someone would need to reach the generators to do this. Through kilometres of tunnels, assailed by an army of armed drones. |
Total Information Tactical Awareness Networked Independent Control. The computer system at the heart of both Survival Shot, and SilkyDoll. It began as a collective of Roombas mapping the mine workings automatically, and slowly expanded to included the combat drones and on up to nearly every major system on the asteroid, including approach and departure control.
TITANIC is capable of learning from its opponents and developing improvements to its own attack, defense and operational algorithms. The more it uses the module, the better it gets at using it. The more it faces an enemy, the better it gets at defeating any enemy. The more hardware in TITANIC, the faster it runs. TITANIC is not intelligent, however. It’s just a kludged expert system using a heavily modified metaverse protocol that was just sort of randomly assembled and bodged out of second-hand equipment and dumpster-recovered computer hardware mixed with a number of open-sourced expert system modules and conglomerated into something functional rather than designed to any overarching plan. Most network signalling still travels over the power grid, rather than over any dedicated fibre or wireless link.
Anika Daini has been steadily working towards cleaning up the mess, and has earned herself some reputation among the Hacker Underspace for not only improving the overall efficiency of TITANIC, but doing so using infrastructure 'one step up from the carrier pigeon' [5]
Mundane Attributes
4 course meal, all dessert!: Loves sweet things. Absolutely addicted considering she only discovered dessert existed in 2021.
It's my first time...: Always enthusiastic to try new things. For good or bad.
Lemme See!: Curious. Occasionally dangerously so.
Non-fighting type: Prefers to stay in the rear providing support. She doesn't take well to physical activities like combat.
Ninety percent information, ten percent persperation: Qualified specialist in Electronic and Information Warfare through the Hacker Underspace as of December 2023.
Handwavium Abilities
Boom - Boomer: Has the typical android bonuses. Potentially immortal with proper care and maintenance. Her exact hardware capabilities aren't known [6], but appear to be roughly average so far.
Be glad, and your friends are many...: Nobody's quite sure why. Maybe it's just her natural enthusiasm and optimism about things, but she seems to endear herself to near anybody on their first meeting.[7]
Quirks
Spark arrestor: Has a justified dislike of Mads, especially male ones.
I'm a real person!: Because of the unfortunate circumstances of her upbringing, she does her best to hide the fact that she's an AI around people who don't already know.[8]
Approximately 3.141592653589793: Occasionally fails.
Is it hot in here?: Needs to breath to cool her processors down. In vacuum, she'll overheat in minutes. Physical and mental exertion also heats her up quickly, limiting her endurance and capabilities. Anika will faint if she overheats as her systems perform an emergency shutdown. [9]
DEXRON, the real thing.: Requires GM-specification DEXRON VI Automatic Transmission Fluid to transmit mechanical power to her systems, and act as a coolant. It is possible for Anika to bleed to death.
It's okay if it's you... She only trusts a few people to do her maintenance. She prefers Jet or Ford, or any of the Sabers.[10]
Appearance
Flame-orange hair, shoulder length and very thick. She has broad golden eyes, and has been described as very fresh faced.
Notes
- ↑ Especially since Nene knows Anika's secrets, both of them.
- ↑ And the only tool capable of running a full diagnostic on her systems
- ↑ Don't call her a Gunbunny. Just don't
- ↑ And proves someone got staggeringly bored while writing the program to give it that name
- ↑ Frigga's sheer size makes running a proper fibre network expensive, most network traffic still goes through the power grid
- ↑ She's refused to go through standardised testing
- ↑ It may even be a design feature
- ↑ Which is why she doesn't go off Frigga for maintenance, or undergo common AI tests.
- ↑ A deliberate misfeature on the part of her designer, to keep her from going rogue. Partly bought off after 2023.
- ↑ Thankfully, she's capable of giving directions, having witnessed the procedures herself many times
