Jack of Harts

When the original Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligences were deployed with the Marines, it didn’t take long for the Marines to dislike the reskinned Army AI. So Marine cyberneers played around with the basic personality matrix to make it more compatible with the Marines. It worked at first, and the Marines loved their new Cassies. But they soon learned that modifying AI personalities after the fact is a non-trivial task. The basic personality matrix proved to be unstable in combat. They worked perfectly in training, but the moment they tried to formulate strategies while lives were truly at risk in live fire circumstances, the Cassies broke down and went into gibbering hysterics. The Marines were not amused.