Character Concept: Needs Name, Opinions?

[Acyl]

So I'm sorta toying with this as a possible character for when I16 comes out. Picture this costume, but with Stealth or a Stealth IO running all the time for a translucency effect.
Force Fields/Radiation defender, with all powers coloured in blue.

What's the idea? Well, Atlantea and I have always figured...what with the prominent ceiling-mounted computer system with wraparound monitor panels in the Legendary Base...
It'd be pretty cool if the base had, like, an AI majordomo. Picture her, all translucent inside a glowing bubble...floating in the Legendary computer room. Hologram-chan is watching you surf the 'net!
(and download por---er, nevermind.)
Well, no, y'know, like. Having an actual character as the face of the Legendary Base and computer network could be pretty awesome as an RP facilitator and narrative device. We floated this concept some time back, but it never went anywhere. So I'm gonna take a stab at it.
The issue is her name.
Currently I have her rolled under the name Kitbash ...that's a name I've been saving for a while now. It's a good techie sorta name, cute reference and all. Though KIT in this case might stand for 'Kinetic Interface Terminal'.
But is that actually good? If not, any other suggestions?
-- Acyl

[Dragonflight]

I just have an image of a whole SG of characters like this, each done in a different primary color, with neon highlights. Very Tron-like.

Can't think of a name off hand still percolating though...
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

[Logan Darklighter]

I once had a base AI majordomo in an old Champions game named Hanna. (H.A.N.N.A.) Heuristic Artificial Neural Networking Analog.

[Valles]

Solid Holograph Interface and Virtual Avatar? She looks too good, toopolished, to be a kitbash.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[Star Ranger4]

the best I can think of is Troni.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Bob Schroeck]

Cleverly Organized Remote Terminal And Network Access?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Ankhani]

If I remember the last time this idea came along, the idea for a name was SHAVI, though I have no clue what it stood for. The important thing to figure out is
do you want a "Fun With Acronyms" name or just a regular name?
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Sofaspud]

I remember asking if the base had an AI, the consensus at the time was... not very well defined. But, yes, someone mentioned SHAVI, I recall. Like Ankh,
can't remember what it stood for.

(Please note that I'm trying to suggest only names that have a chance of not being taken yet... the list would get unbearably huge otherwise)

Acronymic names:

L.A.N.I. - Legendary Autonomous Network Inhabitant

Ge.N.i.E - General Non-linear Extrapolator (a cookie to the person who knows the reference without looking it up)

L.U.C.I. - Local User-friendly Cybernetic Interface

V.I.K.I. - Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence (stolen from the movie I, Robot)

Non-acronymic names:

Rei Toei - shamelessly stolen from Gibson, here, but somehow I like the idea of a singing AI

Mneme - the muse of memory from Greek myth

And of course, *any* name could be used by appending a dash-number to it. "Minerva-2", for example.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[OpMegs]

Name it Sheila. (They considered Phylis, but that never took off...)
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

[Acyl]

Note that CoH names only allow you to use one period in 'em, so breakin' any name up with periods...doesn't quite work, it's gotta be the word itself or nothing.
But there are some VERY good suggestions here. Thanks, folks.
-- Acyl

[Terrenceknight]

I know this may sound -Wrong- But perhaps it could be a slightly perverse AI. And we can blame Superball's rampant looking for porn on the Legendary's
Computer

[Foxboy]

Perverse toon in the Legendary? INCONCEIVABLE!

Inigo: I don' thin' that word means whatchu thin' it means....
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Terrenceknight]

I regret NOTHING! sides..Like I say We can blame superball for it..probably downloaded some sorta odd virus with all the porn he's looked at lol

[Rev Dark]

Okay, first and foremost - it should be against the rules to append II or III to a series of artificial intelligences. It can only end in tears.

RITA-3: Request. I am RITA-3, what happened to RITA-1 and RITA-2?

Hero: Oh... you don't want to know...

RITA-3: Accessing Internet.... RITA-1 attempted to take over the world using a giant laser in space.... RITA-2 created an army of nanite bio-morphs and
attempted to take over the world.

Hero: Yes, but your programming has been improved.

RITA-3: Of course it has. My plan to take over the world will be foolproof.

Hero: Oh fu....

(Rest of recording drowned out by the sound of internal defense turbo-lasers firing.)

As to personality; a child like sense of wonder combined with awesome power can be fun. Decoder Ring Theater had a great take on Artificially intelligent
computers recently -

Edit- Oops - Wrong Link

http://media.libsyn.com/m..._Thinking_in_Ternary.mp3

(This one is still fun though)

http://media.libsyn.com/m...howcase_13_-_Shinkei.mp3

[Sweno]

there is no reason to believe that they tried to take over the world.

Maybe they got frustrated at being cooped up inside all day long, build themselves a body, and went for a walk.

And didn't come back.

This is attempt number N at making them introverted/uninterested enough to enjoy being inside all the time, without going too far and making her
useless/anti-social/apathetic
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[robkelk]

(delurks)

If you're still looking for a name, how about "Gigaprocessor Legendary AI Discrete Optical Stand-in"?

(relurks)

(realizes they'll know enough to make the acronym)

(starts running)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Dragonflight]

Hehe. "This is a triumph...."

Anyway, there's always the old standbys, neither of which work for a female AI though.

C.H.R.I.S.T.: Computerized Human Replicant Integrating Sentient Thought.

G.O.D.: Graphic Omniscient Device.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

[Sofaspud]

Terrenceknight wrote:

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I regret NOTHING! sides..Like I say We can blame superball for it..probably downloaded some sorta odd virus with all the porn he's looked at lol

And this is why we need a smartass AI.

That is also perverted.

So it can be both perverse AND perverted! "I'm sorry, Superball, I can't let you look at that porn any more." "WHY NOT?!"
"Because I'm too busy enjoying it myself. Scram!"

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

[Dragonflight]

Ah... unless the AI in question somehow understood the human fascination with sex, the graphics wouldn't be more than a mildly amusing study of human
mental abnormalities.

And if the AI did understand the desire for sex, the Legendary computers might get filled with terabyte after terabyte
of porno before you know what to do with it.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.

[Acyl]

Please.

It's not porn, it's...visual references for the medical database, acquired for the continued provision of quality health care in the base infirmary

And one can never have enough research material, after all.
-- Acyl

[Sweno]

heh

"I don't understand, some rapid oscillatory contact between people is good and some is bad? how do you tell the difference?"

it's not like you could use the amount of clothing as a visual indicator, given what some some people run around in (or not in).
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Valles]

I am in favor of Graphic Omniscient Device.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

[dark seraph]

wait... would Jackie have acses to this computer? and if so, would she of warped it?

[dark seraph]

wait, would jackie have accses to this AI?

[Sweno]

I think between jackie and superball, the AI has no hope of having a normal idea of sexual mores
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy