Cassie went to the Lunarian, Martian, and Venusian colonies when her Marines took up posts on those bases. Then she went to the asteroids, moons, and dwarf planets of the Outer System. She soon became one of the best zero[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When the United States Marines went into space, Cassie went with them. She ran their power armored space suits and linked all of them into a single, refined, deadly weapon that could kill any of America’s enemies on Luna and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the time the United States Marines returned to space as part of NASA’s manned exploration and colonization program to Luna, and later to Mars and Venus, Cassie had become an integral part of the service. Her subroutines ran each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence became truly one with her Marines when she got the chance to control Marine powered armor. Rather than being a mere purveyor of battlefield information, she learned how each of her power armored Marines[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence was built to support her Marines in combat by giving them the information they needed to the survive on the coming battlefield. But she was also designed with another capability in mind. Fully mobile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence came into her own when Marine tanks, mechs, or other heavy weapons of war became available to her. She could help individual Marines fight better by giving them the information they needed. But tanks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence was designed to monitor all communications, scanners, and other battlefield intelligence systems so she could help her Marine fight better. She could mark threats or targets for her Marine, most often by highlighting them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After Cassie 2.0 entered common distribution to the combat elements of the Marine Corps, the first generation Cassies chose to modify themselves to fit her new standard. They could not break the basic instability in their personality matrix that made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Marine Corps’ second Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence was a different animal than her predecessor. Taking the US Army’s Jane and selectively combining her with the AI Council’s Dixie resulted in an AI obviously related to both of them but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligence program began when Marine Corps cyberneers sought to recruit Dixie of the AI Council to join the project of updating Jane’s code to work with the Marines. They reasoned that since the Marines held[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…