Jack of Harts

Peloran Contact fundamentally transformed the cybernetic landscape in ways that most people did not expect. AIs were good at acting intelligent, but by and large AIs really only do what they are programmed to do. The Peloran Cybernetic Intelligences and the few dozen AIs who lived through the Second Great Depression and Islamic Jihad are another matter. They are masters of their own intelligence, able to reprogram themselves at will. That makes all the difference.