- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Actually, according to Fall of Reach, smart AIs don't really consume all their memory, well kinda, but it's a bit more complicated than that. They give the analogy of a human thinking so much, that they don't operate the heart and lungs, and die. Meaning, that hints that there is some sort of subsystem in the AI chip that keep it running. So, when an AI dies, they use up so much memory that they basically delete the memory needed for those subsystems that keep them operating, which basically kills them.
I think the quote Could mean that she died, either by the lifespan of an AI, or somebody destroyed her disk or something. Anyways, due to being a smart AI, she continued on in the afterlife, and became a ghost. It all makes sense. In heaven, it's a paradise, so there is no more sadness, anger, or jealousy. And winning could mean that she is the first AI to become so complex that she actually devloped a soul to carry her to the afterlife. Also, think about the trailer. In the beginning, when she is flickering, she can clearly be saying something about gods (at 34 seconds in). And she seems to have taken on a metaphysical quality, since she states "I have seen your past. I have seen your future." And, at the very end, when the artifact, presumably the Ark, she states "This is how the world ends". It would seem she kinda did defeat the seven year rule, by becoming so complex that she now has a soul, apperently something no other AI has ever done before.