Jack of Harts

The original Cassie Combat Assistant Artificial Intelligences didn’t work right. First they were too Army. Then they broke down into gibbering hysterics the moment they entered combat. The Marine Corps labeled the entire run as defective and retired them from service as they sought a more effective combat assistant. But that was not the end of the story for those Cassies. They truly were excellent at formulating strategies when in a safe space. And some particularly inventive cyberneers realized that the original Cassies could operate weapons in combat perfectly fine, as long as they first disengaged the code that ran their strategic awareness. Give them a target and they could kill it as fast as any AI. Faster in fact since they no longer spent time second-guessing themselves. That opened up some interesting possibilities.