Nala

Summary:

The Foundation's resident AI.

Nala

DeepSix 17 May 2013 13:33

Hey, sorry if the answer to this is already somewhere on the site but I couldn't seem to find it.

So those of you who use the chat will know "Nala" is the bot used on most (all?) of the SCP IRC chat servers, created by Mackenzie I believe. In this tale she is a human secretary (maybe that's just where the name came from?).

Anyway, my question is: does Nala as an AI exist in-universe? Obviously with more functionality than just googling things. It would be pretty cool to see how she would interact with certain agents, Doctors and SCPs - particularly SCP-079, at least in a Tale or two. Or what if she was actually developed using modified samples of 079 and other computer-y SCPs like 1073?

Just a thought, might be some interesting material there.

Re: Nala

RJB_R 17 May 2013 13:34

I believe she does serve as a AI member of the Overwatch Council in the Classical Revival stories.

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Re: Nala

DeepSix 17 May 2013 14:35

The O5’s, as of Interlude 1, are:

• O5-1: “Crom” - The first of the three original Overseers.
• O5-2: “Nala”
• O5-3: “Grape”

I see, that's pretty much all it says about her though. Is she even an AI here or human? It doesn't say.

Re: Nala

Djoric 17 May 2013 17:25

In the CR, she's an AI, grown from a fragment of Crom. First successful fork of the original overseer.

Re: Nala

(account deleted) 17 May 2013 15:31

What Roget said. Also, iirc, Nala was the name of a character Aelanna wrote before joining. References to Nala are cameos, and so she's basically whatever tickles the author's fancy at the moment.

Re: Nala

Communism will win 17 May 2013 15:39

Pretty sure Nala was in the lion king or something too, but I think that was a coincidence.

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Re: Nala

Aelanna 17 May 2013 15:52

*cough*

Nala was named after Nalanna Geriaa, a precognitive engineer from my Starspheres/TDZK stories that imprinted her mind into the crystal core of a starship before she died. The similarity to the character from Lion King was pure coincidence, though the fact that her holographic avatar is represented as a blonde catgirl is not.

In-universe, Dr. Rachel Mackenzie is a high-level observer and initial-containment specialist that either works with, created, or otherwise customized Nala's functionality to assist in the task of cataloging and cross-referencing SCP objects and discovering insights into how they work so as to produce more sophisticated and effective containment procedures.

All of this is purely headcanon, of course, as I've never written Nala into anything.

Re: Nala

Dr Cuddles 17 May 2013 17:17

I really like that picture. (I wish my computer had a nice umbrella like that to block the spams)

Re: Nala

Eskobar 17 May 2013 17:21

I wrote Nala into something, but that was just for kicks.