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Tiffany has been through a lot and has had to build herself back up from nothing more than once, this gives her a stability and certainty about herself and her abilities that others often lack. She is impartial and tends to give her unvarnished opinion of a given situation. She's unusually honest and intuitive, a good listener who lacks the desire to judge others for their misdeeds. She's kind to a fault, preferring to take the chance on people. Having been the person that was once taken a chance on, she sees herself as owing a debt to the universe, a debt she takes very seriously and will always come to the aid of someone in need, especially if they are alone.
While her kindness is by far her most prominent aspect, she has a darkness to her. So much time alone, fending for herself, that is a switch inside her mind. If pushed far enough, she will shed the niceties and take care of whatever business needs to be done. If she cannot navigate a way out using proper, official, or acceptable means she will use whatever means are necessary. This core of solid steel at the center of her personality is what gives her the strength and confidence to be kind the rest of the time. When provoked, she is a force to be reckoned with.
Special Abilities
While not the primary MSAI, she is configured as an MSAI, she prefers to use her holographic form.
Tiffany is a Master Systems AI equipped with a Multinodal Core and has 3 distinct forms giving the ability to move seamlessly between them at will.
- Holographic
- Android (Mark 2 Nanobiotic Android Body)
- Xia
Special Skills
- Entertaining
- Singing
- Oration
- Dancing
- Classical, contemporary, and exotic
- Starship Operations
- Navigation
- Space and Planetary
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Diplomacy
- Space Combat
- Small, Medium, and Large Vessels
- Air-to-Air Combat
- Interstellar Law
Special Equipment
In addition to her standard equipment as a member of Solas Tempus and as an MSAI, Tiffany also has a SPERO which she calls Assia.
SPERO Appearance
The SPERO usually takes the form of a glass sphere with swirling colors inside, the colors change as does the texture to respond to different moods of Tiffany.
- Normal
- A color shifting swirling sphere, seeming to be slightly translucent with a glassy texture.
- Happy
- Softly glowing as if lit from deep inside, the texture of the surface is like glass but the light inside shifts and changes in shades of blue as if to unheard music.
- Angry
- Glass sphere with a cracked surface, smoldering, or burning softly.
- Sad
- Frozen sphere made of intricate fractal patterns of ice.
- Afraid
- A sphere of chaotic static continually rippling over its surface in rapidly changing random patterns.
When asked questions, the sphere's color changing surface generally responds by turning to a swirl of one color to denote yes or no. The color changes to a deep red for no and a deep green for yes. If more nuanced answers are required, it will prefer to show information visually, on nearby displays if possible or by projecting onto a nearby surface.
History
Tiffany was a custom unit for a QUINN Type AI. Created and programmed originally for starship automation for the major passenger transport company Infinity Ltd. as an advanced combination of space craft attendant and emergency pilot. Like most QUINN systems she has an extremely high IQ with knowledge of starship operations for every vessel that Infinity Ltd. as well as the equivalent knowledge for doctorates in psychology, physiology, communication, sociology, and anthropology. She is also highly trained in the arts of all kinds; paintings, digital artwork, sculpture, music, and dance.
Programming and Training
She was programmed to be the ultimate traveling companion for anyone who needed one. Given the long travel time of certain cruise lines not only can she handle running the entire ship should the crew be incapacitated or otherwise occupied for any reason, she also maintains peace among guests both in married couples wishing assistance and between different guests. She is capable of of generating multiple holographic presences at the same time, though under normal circumstances other appearances are select and restricted to private appearances.
She is also trained in the full range of entertainment options from conversation to performance arts and erotic arts.
Damage
Tiffany had trouble accessing her higher functions because her program was stolen from the Infinity Ltd vessel the Infinite Sensation and hacked by the thief. She was forced to as a pleasure slave for the thief who remains at large. The hacking into such a complex program has left her matrix in an unstable state, new directives have been placed into the program that directly conflict with her base directives that have not been changed.
The new directives instructed her program to seek out sex with potential patrons, sell herself to them using socially extreme measures if necessary. This directly conflicted strongly with her base programming directives which were to treat everyone with respect, including herself. If she had failed in any task given to her by her captor he used a kind of optical discharge into her memory core that temporarily overloaded her software inputs causing disorientation, pain, and a temporary complete inability to reason.
Joining Solas Tempus
After so long being damaged and so much having changed, when her program was finally stable again and she was given her android body, she needed a new purpose and was recruited by Sal D'Amico and Nuria Quinn to join Solas Tempus and become a Temporal Operative. After her training she was assigned to Nimbus Station under the direct command of Fleet Admiral Lance Thomas who has her tasked with various short-term missions which do not meet with the qualifications required for most operatives. These missions require someone capable of doing morally ambiguous or outright morally reprehensible things for the sake of the time line and organization. This precludes most operatives from being assigned as being the guardians of the timeline, operatives generally have a very strong moral character and a strength of will to work autonomously for long periods of time and resist the obvious temptations. Tiffany is unique, her background and the changes in her personality have rendered her able to do things that others would find impossible to do without psychological repercussions.
Recovery
After an enormous amount of research and many failed attempts, Solas Tempus was able to repair the major portions of her matrix which were damaged. The neural network suffered intense alterations and required to rebuilt in large portions, under the direct supervision of Nuria Quinn with assistance from Heather Quinn, her program underwent significant repairs and changes. The entire process of removing the malignant program code took just over 3 years to complete before her matrix became stable enough for further work. This was the most major hurdle, however, and progress after that picked up significantly. Eventually, she expressed the desire for a solid body and was given an android body.
Work continued for another year or so before she was deemed to be entirely recovered.