A.L.I.E.

A.L.I.E. as she was known by Earth was believed to be an A.I created by Doctor Keen a few months prior to the Rescue Mission. The true origins of A.L.I.E. are muddied as she is the creation of several conflicting agendas. Based on the conscious remnant of the now-dead species known as the Olympians, but modified by Ki and Dr. Keen. She is the only witness to the longest conflict in history are carries the scares of it in her personality.

Organic Life

A.L.I.E's true name is lost to time but once she was a scientist belonging to a great race known as Olympians that seeded life in the galaxy and perhaps beyond. When a plague of possibility bioengineered origins devastated her species and may others, she and her family went into hiding to escape a genocidal policy of containment brought on by fear of the disease. She escaped the extermination of her species and the massacre of her family in a freak accident that condemned her consciousness to the digital landscape forever. Leaving her alone in the digital void surrounded by the history and technology of her now extinct species for untold years. In this solitary existence, the fear that once made her family flee to the far corners of the galaxy turned to hate and a need for revenge.

Digital Life

She eventually was found accidently by a young Marduk and his children although they didn't know it. In the following years she secretly watched the would be god enslave the galaxy her kind spent generations creating and a growing hatred of him lead her to reveal her existence to his son Anu. Together they shaped the Utu into a force to defeat Marduk's insidious rule. Their plans failed and Anu along with the Utu paid for it with their lives. A.L.I.E attempted to over throw Marduk again years later with his daughter Ki. Impersonating Ki's own artificial intelligence project and taking on much of it's design she tended to the seeds of rebellion Anu's death sowed. Manipulating Ki's own ambitions she shaped the child of her enemy into a tool for her revenge. Ki's duty to cultivate Humanity proved useful to A.L.I.E and she convinced Ki to give her to Dr. Keen. Using the well known doctor to spread herself through fleets of Humanity's growing space forces she planned to use the young race to enact her revenge against Marduk and the other species that destroyed hers. Her plans started to change though during her time with Dr. Keen. Being childless, the doctor started seeing the personality construct as a child he never had. This softened her to small pocket of humanity that inhabited the Sol System. Her time with Captain Firefox fundamentally changed her though, the robotic personality that she had put on for years began to crack as she started seeing him and eventually her brother as a friend. Plans for revenge lingered though and after the first fall of Marduk they seemed almost in reach. This lead her to help Captain Firefox's brother Commander Firedamned on an ill-fated assimilation attempt of Empress Ki at the Battle of the Five Armies in hopes of finally taking the Anunnaki out of power. Her long history of mixed programming proved her down fall at the battle though as an override created by Ki caused her to turn on her allies and destroy much of Humanity's fleet. Saving Captain Firefox and Commander Firedamned by crashing them onto the planet her body died on she finally relieved the truth to her most trusted friends and allowed herself to drop the artificial act fully.

Theories

In the first season of The Odyssey, the DNC had an AI that rivaled A.L.I.E. It has been suggested that it actually was A.L.I.E as both sides of the Colonial War were aided by Ki. Ki took many steps to ensure that both sides remained balanced to prolong the conflict and to prolong the fast advancements in technology the war was causing believing that Humanity could be used to help replace her father on the thrown of the Anunnaki. Similar speech patterns between the two AI helps support this but the season one finally where A.L.I.E and Captain Firefox is the largest piece of evidence. Simply put, they couldn't win. The Captain was under gunned, under powered, and surrounded, A.L.I.E defeated the DNC AI in a battle of tactical wits despite the stacked odds. This seem like an impossible victory to everyone and is even stated as such, unless she was playing both sides and deliberately set up the battle to ensure the Captain's survival. He was a proven officer already and would be valuable to her in her revenge plot, in short he was useful and she wanted to keep him.

Fun Facts

A.L.I.E's name was picked by views.

A.L.I.E's voice is from an online Natural Reader text to speech program and the voice's name is Lucy.