- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Corltan
By age I refer not literally to how old they are, as in death, but rather as in their time of creation.
Good point, but I don't remember reading that Bernard built Durandal,
or the date of Durandal's creation.
If traxus had survived, I would think that there likely would be some reference to it... a rampant AI is hard to ignore.
There is a reference to Traxus IV:
traxIV<40c<40c> 48c<48c>
Explanations for its "absence" could be that either it was damaged so
severely that only small parts of Traxus are still there, the three A.I.s
we know of were infected by Traxus and the only time it appears is
in that line, or one of the three A.I.s we know of is/was Traxus IV itself.
As also when Leela later went rampant and infected the networks of 10 alien worlds, and they could not get rid of her there. I would say they caught Traxus before he went as far as Leela.
Leela may have been a worse case then Traxus, but he would have
been untouchable all the same:
From James B. Miller
The more a Rampant AI is
harassed or threatened, the more rapidly it becomes dangerous.
Thus, most Rampants are dealt with in one mighty attack, in
order to deny the AI time to grow or recover. There have been
a few examples of this tactic not succeeding. In all of these
cases, the Rampant was never brought under control. Traxus IV
is the most notable example. He was finally dealt with by a
complete shutdown of his host net.
Traxus may not have spread as much as Leela, but he would
still be "undeletable." As I said earlier, the shutdown of the net
may have deleted him, but the traxIV line says different.