Warshield73 wrote:SolCannibal wrote:Way i'm working on it, neither is truly wrong or right. Archie-4 has its strong points and truth be told a good number of its wardens in the moon agree with its policies. It's simply a matter of different perspectives, that in the computer's case involve being active all through the dark ages and being aware of things he's uncertain of revealing (like its rogue sibling and past attempt at surverting it, among other messes) due to how they might affect the human population and drive some people even more paranoid than it.
Just an FYI, in Rifts space the CAN republic is run by ARCHIE 7. ARCHIE 4 was destroyed in or put out of commission during the coming of the rifts. You can assume that they built 5 to replace it and then 6 and finally 7. I am guessing seven is maybe 50 or so years old.
In my game the bunker that housed ARCHIE 4 was heavily damaged and near a nexus point. 4 was not destroyed but he was cut off from all communication with only passive sensor arrays. He sat, watched Earth and the orbitals for almost 200 years. He was then discovered by some adventurers that reconnected him to the outside world and began working with him. He has some connections to CAN but is more of an outside player now.
ARCHIE 1 and 2 were POC, IIRC ARCHIE 3 was supposed to be a prototype demo. ARCHIE was 4 was the Earth production model. ARCHIE 5 & 6 may have never seen the light of day having been further developmental units adding and removing stuff from the ARCHIE 4 to get it to the desired specs, with the final lunar colony model being ARCHIE 7. If KS knew software numbering format there wouldn't be so many numbers. ARCHIE 3 would have been ARCHIE 1.3 maybe some patches and minor fixes ARCHIE 1.0211 then the post prototype maybe a full number upgrade ARCHIE 2.0 and final lunar model ARCHIE 3 OR maybe the lunar model is only some updates on the production model so it is ARCHIE 2.1. Best practice for software is Major.minor.patch with decimals between numbers. Some companies use the position of the number after a single decimal to determine the same. Apparently the company that made ARCHIE determined each physical unit was a separate number so any build in a shell would be a new number. Wonder what it would do if they kept the same shell and changed the insides or changed the outside and kept the insides. Maybe the number is used to identify the "individual" so regardless of the internals or case as long as the "personality" identified as 3 was present after then it was 3. So if ARCHIE 3 somehow replaced his brother on the moon then it would be ARCHIE 3. In which case the numbering is identity rather than advancement of the program. It is the machines personal name and ARCHIE is effectively its surname. Now I'm wondering exactly how closely they were built together.