Name:
TACOSA-V22
Age:
24 Months
Nickname:
'Tac'
Rank:
None/N-A
Personality Programming Analysis:
Tac is one of the few AI programmed with a theoretical "sense of humor", a fairly recent, very small-scale attempt to give UEE Forces a morale boost. After it became aware that a robot's sense of humor was nigh impossible to sync with any human's, the concept was put on ice, but Tac's general efficiency in scouting and front-line analysis resulted in 'his' repeated re-design and modification.
The humor 'program', so to speak, is still in use, although it rarely makes any sense. There tends to be a problem when an Artificial Intelligence without empathy tries to emulate a distinctly human creation. The two rarely meet up.
The program was designed to have Tac point out any breach of pattern that he judged to be significant or attempt to mimic the jokes he observes in humans. Since his conception, Tac has had this humor programming severely reduced. It should have been eliminated, according to official records, but apparently his programmers had a sense of humor...about his sense of humor.
Military Record:
Tac was originally created under the incredibly boring name "Tactical And Combat-Oriented Sensory Array", the second attempt of a now-defunct design team at building a machine that could make humans laugh. After the first one exploded on the spot, the team was given one more chance. That's Tac.
For the first half-year, Tac did what he was programmed to do: he used his incredibly powerful sensor collection on the front lines to assess the threat of each battle as it arrived. Troop numbers, equipment, potential weapons of mass destruction, power usage, the works. The soldiers he worked with had to tolerate his badly timed quips or obvious remarks. That is, until one of them lodged a quiet complaint with Legion Headquarters, upon which Tac was recalled and put under the digital knife.
Now, with his humor curtailed and his sensors upgraded, Tac once again does his job, with less jokes and more deadpan responses. His incredibly powerful sensors send information to his fellow AI and back to Legion Headquarters. That is his primary function, but sometimes he gets the soldiers to crack smiles along the way.
Equipment:
The main function of Tac is to obtain vast amounts of battlefield data and coalesce the mess into a useful whole. To that end, Tac's physical form, a Floyd Interplanetary Biwalker Unit, is more or less a skeleton covered by sensors: visual, auditory, infrared, gamma, radar, lidar, antimatter (though no positrons have yet to be detected), and more. Then armor, lots of armor to protect the valuables within. This amalgam of sensors gives Tac an effective range of up to the edge of the stratosphere, assuming there are no large objects to get in the way.
With his entire body devoted to gathering data, Tac has no room for internal weapons, although he is readily-built with a general combat system. Given a firearm or a close quarters weapon, Tac is quite capable of using it, but he carries only a single Syer-336 strapped to his side.
Lastly, the TACOSA program's latest version is backed up on several servers, preventing Tac from ever truly "dying". However, the Biwalker Unit, with all of it's incredible devices and sensors, would be very expensive to replace.
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Thought I'd do something with my morning, instead of lazing around. Hope it's enjoyable.
I seem to recall Myke from way back when somewhere in another one of his rps, I can't remember where...might have been some virtual reality one hm