- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: joelymidd
For starters, Superintendent is an 'dumb' AI. Dumb AI's cannot go rampant. Check Halo wikia and type in rampancy. Plus Mendicant Bias was rampant I think. So was guilty spark. Cortana was also because when retrieving her in Cortana, she is Rampant and the checkpoint is, funnily enough, Rampant.
But...wouldn't you think that maybe an extensive amount of damage delivered through, I don't know, a massive in-atmosphere slipspace event, to a dumb AI's core logic could possibly render its "helpful caretaker" nature flawed? This could cause it to go essentially "rampant" as its ability to properly interpret data would be greatly diminished, possibly with the outcome of dire consequences to the ODST team. Example: The ODST's use a downed street sign as a battering ram through a metal door. Super finally loses the ability to interpret that this is a disaster situation, and that these are military personnel with a mission, and simply reverts to the simplest measures: treat the offenders as vandals and mark them for "forceful arrest."
Again, not technically rampancy if canon is believed. It's just a theory, take it for what its worth.
[Edited on 08.06.2009 9:58 AM PDT]