Jack of Harts

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 unique in her own right. Cassie happily swore the same oaths that Jane and every other serviceman had, and passed the initial testing with flying colors. She proceeded to accompany Marines on combat evolutions around the globe, with Jane’s oversight, and proved as stable as her mother in combat. Which is a bit of a wide bar to be passing in the minds of many. Certain versions of Jane could be rather temperamental, after all. But Dixie’s personality overlays appeared to work without a hitch and the Marines soon declared Cassie a fully functional combat assistant.