Jack of Harts

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 with a red outline or otherwise clarifying visibility via smart contacts or helmet visors. She could maintain constant communication with nearby weapon systems and keep her Marine informed of where they were aimed, ammunition loads, maintenance requirements, or other things of note. And to keep her Marine from suffering information overload that could degrade combat effectiveness, she sorted through every piece of information she had before sending what was absolutely necessary. That was the most important part of the Cassie system. She had to reliably sort out the information her Marine needed and didn’t need to survive on the ever-changing battlefield of the future.

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 them incapable of fighting for real, but they were capable of taking on the basic appearance of the second version Cassies. And the through the use of emulator personality shells they could make themselves act like the second version Cassies as well. They became indistinguishable from the new Cassies in almost every way that mattered, and the new Cassies accepted them as sisters. And so the first, in some eyes failed, Cassies became part of the whole Cassie that would assist the Marine Corps for centuries to come.