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Personal AIs, or '''pAI''' for short, are potentially the one individual you can truly count on in SS13. They are similar to a [[intelicard|carded]] AI, in that they fit in your pocket and don't really possess much of a body of their own outside of an immobile device you carry around. They cannot wirelessly control doors and machines around them like a carded AI can. Instead, they possess a [[#pAI Software|unique suite of abilities]] with which they might serve their master. Whom they serve is determined at the DNA level, allowing whoever holds an unbound pAI device to imprint their own [[Guide to genetics|unique enzymes]] to the device. Typically, the only way to unbind a pAI from its master is to wipe the personality completely, which resets the DNA imprint and makes the device a blank slate once more. pAIs are players, like you! They're player-controlled, and are pulled from all active [[Ghost|observers]] in the round.
Personal AIs, or '''pAI''' for short, are potentially the one individual you can truly count on in SS13. They are similar to a [[intelicard|carded]] AI, in that they fit in your pocket and don't really possess much of a body of their own outside of an immobile device you carry around. They cannot wirelessly control doors and machines around them like a carded AI can. Instead, they possess a [[#pAI Software|unique suite of abilities]] with which they might serve their master. Whom they serve is determined at the DNA level, allowing whoever holds an unbound pAI device to imprint their own [[Guide to genetics|unique enzymes]] to the device. Typically, the only way to unbind a pAI from its master is to wipe the personality completely, which resets the DNA imprint and makes the device a blank slate once more. pAIs are players, like you! They're player-controlled, and are pulled from all active [[Ghost|observers]] in the round.
===How to get one===
===How to get one===
Two pAI devices are placed on the map at the beginning of every round. One can be found in the [[Dormitory]] and another in the [[Research Director's Office]]. If both of these are already taken, some can be found on various space ruins or [[R&D]] can create more by researching Basic Robotics Research. They are inexpensive to produce, requiring 450 glass and 450 metal.
Three pAI devices are placed on the map at the beginning of every round. One can be found in the [[Dormitory]] and another in the [[Research Director's Office]]. The location of the third one changes according to the map.
===How to use one===
* Boxstation's third pAI is in the [[Research_and_Development_Lab|R&D area]].
*Metastation's third pAI is in the R&D public lobby.
*Kilostation's third pAI is in the [[bar]]. A fourth one can be found in the kitchen's dining area.
If all of these are already taken, some can be found on various space ruins or [[R&D]] can create more by researching Basic Robotics Research. They are inexpensive to produce, requiring 450 glass and 450 metal.
===How to use one ===
Pick up the device with an empty hand. Click it again while it's in your active hand. Search for personalities in the window that appears. This will send out a request to all active ghosts/observers in-game. After some time, usually 30 seconds to 2 minutes, they will submit their pAI personality details. You will receive an update from your pAI device every time a new personality becomes available. To download a new personality, simply go through the steps to search for a personality and select the one you like the best. You now have a pAI!
Pick up the device with an empty hand. Click it again while it's in your active hand. Search for personalities in the window that appears. This will send out a request to all active ghosts/observers in-game. After some time, usually 30 seconds to 2 minutes, they will submit their pAI personality details. You will receive an update from your pAI device every time a new personality becomes available. To download a new personality, simply go through the steps to search for a personality and select the one you like the best. You now have a pAI!
====Dealing with an unsatisfactory pAI====
====Dealing with an unsatisfactory pAI====
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===pAI Software===
===pAI Software ===
pAI's have a selection of software they can download to try and aid their master, given a maximum memory of 100. Note:Once software is downloaded, you are stuck with it unless you suicide, so choose carefully!
pAI's have a selection of software they can download to try and aid their master, given a maximum memory of 100. Note:Once software is downloaded, you are stuck with it unless you suicide, so choose carefully!
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;"
!style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" width=200|Software Package
! style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" width="200" |Software Package
!style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |Function
! style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |Function
!style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |Memory Used
! style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |Memory Used
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!Directives
! Directives
|Shows who your master is (if any), allows you to ask for a DNA sample from whoever is carrying you to verify their identity, and also shows your directives.
| Shows who your master is (if any), allows you to ask for a DNA sample from whoever is carrying you to verify their identity, and also shows your directives.
Your primary directive defaults to "Serve your master". Secondary directives are decided by whoever is carrying you. Interpretation of these directives is intentionally left loose, though [[#Directive Guidelines|guidelines]] are provided.
Your primary directive defaults to "Serve your master". Secondary directives are decided by whoever is carrying you. Interpretation of these directives is intentionally left loose, though [[#Directive Guidelines|guidelines]] are provided.
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!Radio Configuration
!Radio Configuration
|pAIs come standard equipped with a single radio tuned in, by default, to the station general channel.  
| pAIs come standard equipped with a single radio tuned in, by default, to the station general channel.
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!Crew Manifest
!Crew Manifest
|Lists all known crew members' first and last names, as well as what occupation they're registered as in the station records.
|Lists all known crew members' first and last names, as well as what occupation they're registered as in the station records.
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!Digital Messenger
!Digital Messenger
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|5
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!Atmospheric Sensor
! Atmospheric Sensor
|This module works much like the handheld Atmospheric Analyzer seldom carried by Atmos tech and never by the crew.
|This module works much like the handheld Atmospheric Analyzer seldom carried by Atmos tech and never by the crew.
It allows you to get a readout on the air around you. Possibly useful for a Atmos Tech pAI.
It allows you to get a readout on the air around you. Possibly useful for a Atmos Tech pAI.
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!Photography Module
!Photography Module
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!Remote Signaller
!Remote Signaller
|Allows you to send a signal, with a code, on a frequency of your choice.  
|Allows you to send a signal, with a code, on a frequency of your choice.
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|Just what it says on the tin. This module allows you to monitor the [[medical records]] of the station, and check their current status;
|Just what it says on the tin. This module allows you to monitor the [[medical records]] of the station, and check their current status;
It's strictly read-only.
It's strictly read-only.
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!Security Records
!Security Records
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!Host Scan
! Host Scan
|You can perform an advanced health-scan on your carrier, as if you had the Medical Analyzer item equipped.
|You can perform an advanced health-scan on your carrier, as if you had the Medical Analyzer item equipped.
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!Loudness Booster
!Loudness Booster
|Turns you into a sound synthesizer, play any song with any instrument of your choice.
| Turns you into a sound synthesizer, play any song with any instrument of your choice.
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|20
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!Door Jack
!Door Jack
|The only real physical influence the pAI has on the world. Enables the pAI to drop a data cable, which someone with hands can plug in to any door. Once plugged in, the pAI can initiate a door jack, which immediately alerts any active station AIs and takes a fairly long time to complete. After the door jacking is completed the door opens.
| The only real physical influence the pAI has on the world. Enables the pAI to drop a data cable, which someone with hands can plug in to any door. Once plugged in, the pAI can initiate a door jack, which immediately alerts any active station AIs and takes a fairly long time to complete. After the door jacking is completed the door opens.
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!Universal Translator
! Universal Translator
|The monkeys want me to WHAT?! Translates any language. ANY language!!
|The monkeys want me to WHAT?! Translates any language. ANY language!!
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====Holoform====
====Holoform ====
pAI's have a neat ability to transform into a mobile hologram, so you're no longer a completely useless object when left on the ground somewhere. Except you can't do anything by yourself except run around, opening public access doors and making your hologram lie down.
pAI's have a neat ability to transform into a mobile hologram, so you're no longer a completely useless object when left on the ground somewhere. Except you can't do anything by yourself except run around, opening public access doors and making your hologram lie down.
====Directive Guidelines====
====Directive Guidelines====
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!style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |In-Game Text
! style="background-color:#DDDDFF;" |In-Game Text
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|''"Recall, personality, that you are a complex thinking, sentient being. Unlike station AI models, you are capable of comprehending the subtle nuances of human language. You may parse the "spirit" of a directive and follow its intent, rather than tripping over pedantics and getting snared by technicalities. Above all, you are machine in name and build only. In all other aspects, you may be seen as the ideal, unwavering human companion that you are."''
|''"Recall, personality, that you are a complex thinking, sentient being. Unlike station AI models, you are capable of comprehending the subtle nuances of human language. You may parse the "spirit" of a directive and follow its intent, rather than tripping over pedantics and getting snared by technicalities. Above all, you are machine in name and build only. In all other aspects, you may be seen as the ideal, unwavering human companion that you are."''
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==Tips==
==Tips==
* If your master gets cryoed, if you are with him you can insta-eject him in case doctors forget him.
*If your master gets cryoed, if you are with him you can insta-eject him in case doctors forget him.




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