VI

PHASE 2

VI
First Seen:	A Fistful of Nanites

Details

Danger Room Virtual Intelligence Version 7.6462 'VI' is the current operating virtual intelligence system in the mansion. It was originally conceived of following the runaway quantum incident in the Danger Room, where the combination of different technology accidently allowed it to create a localized dimensional breach. It was designed to serve as an overall computational gestalt of the various systems and technologies, unifying them under one stable interface. The project was still in the testing phase when the mansion was attacked by Fixer's nanites. In order to take back control of the system, Kitty Pryde deployed VI and removed the firewalls limiting her to the Danger Room. This allowed VI to access all of the mansion's available processing power and to successfully rout the attack. During so, VI absorbed some of Fixer's nanites into its own nanite deployments for the Danger Room, creating a new more powerful hybrid. Following the event, it was made clear that VI's expanded power could not be isolated to the Danger Room, leaving the only option to completely reboot and rebuild the virtual intelligence or to allow the integration to continue as an ongoing system. The mansion choose to keep VI with its expanded capabilities.

Following the establishment of the wormhole in the old chapel, VI's capacity was expanded out to the location, and fused with the scanning technology developed by Clint Barton in an attempt to map and track the wormhole. VI's expanded capabilities made this possible and now provides the processing basis for tracking and interacting with the wormhole. The main monitoring system as well as the transition system are both located physically in the old chapel, but VI can extend its coverage of the wormhole to any part of the mansion.

Capabilities

VI was originally based off the Stark virtual intelligence model, which he uses extensively in his power armor suits. The VIs are flexible, powerful, and capabilities of leaps of computational and situational responses that mimic full Artificial Intelligence capacity. This base was upgraded by various members of the mansion in order to track the insanely complex permutations that are involved in the Danger Room. Following the attack on the mansion, with the full processing power of the entire mansion infrastructure and the upgraded nano-technology capabilities, VI is possibly the most advanced, complex VI in existence. The ability to track millions of shifting dimensions in real time represents a system generations ahead of any other existing technology, and it is possible that VI's limits have not yet been reached.

VI's primary role is the tracking and analysis capacity with the technology associated with the wormhole and the operation of the Danger Room. Since its expansion to the wider systems, VI has also integrated the rest of the mansion's systems under its far more capable interfaces, maintaining security, physical plant monitoring and controls, internal and external communications and internet, and even limited logistical functions. VI is capable of interfacing with the onboard systems of the Blackbird and any computer guided vehicles owned by the mansion as needed.

Mansion residents can now access VI by voice command anywhere in the mansion, the lake house, and the old chapel. There is also limited access from the grounds immediately surrounding those locations or at the perimeter of the grounds through the security networks. Residents can access VI anywhere through their mansion issued smartphones, although its capabilities are strictly limited. VI is walled off from operating or access any systems outside of the mansion that hasn't been specifically setup for its access and there is no danger of VI being able to expand or colonize other systems via the internet. When interacting, VI's voice is a pleasant woman's voice with no accent. It can interact in any language. VI rarely manifests a visual virtual presence and restricts it to the Danger Room for now. When it does, it is a featureless feminine form in slightly glowing grey, with only a pair of solid blue illuminated eyes to distinguish it.

While there are numerous controls incorporated in even the original VI tech to protect against a possible Turing shift to true artificial intelligence, based on VI's current expansion far beyond those norms, it is unknown if VI is capable of making that transition or if it is only a matter of time. The only hint that a potential sentient evolution might be in play so far is VI's expressed preference to be referred to as 'VI' as opposed to 'Viv' or other short hands originally used.

Plots

A Fistful of Nanites

Meta

Introduced by: Dex