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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.

===How to get 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!

====Dealing with an unsatisfactory pAI====

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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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

|0

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!Crew Manifest

|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

|5

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|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.

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!Photography Module

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!Remote Signaller

|10

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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;

It's strictly read-only.

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!Security Records

|10

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|You can perform an advanced health-scan on your carrier, as if you had the Medical Analyzer item equipped.

|10

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!Loudness Booster

|20

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!Door Jack

|25

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|25

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|The monkeys want me to WHAT?! Translates any language. ANY language!!

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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====

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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."''

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==Tips==