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This pretty much confirms that SIVA is not AI, just to get that out of the way. | This pretty much confirms that SIVA is not AI, just to get that out of the way. | ||
Further Theories | |||
This is where things get really speculative and I'm going off of bits and pieces and doing some more liberal dot-connecting. | |||
SIVA and the "Transmission incident" are directly related. | |||
It's no coincidence that Dr. Bray's teams were working on SIVA and attempting to find ways to enhance test subjects with nanotechnology at the same time. While the benefits of SIVA in its final form were obviously also huge (which is why that portion of the project continued after the failure of enhancing people with nanotech), I speculate that the original goal was to use this nanotechnology to both enhance and possibly integrate humanity with capabilities similar to what SIVA can do. Imagine a person infused with the additional storage and data processing capabilities of SIVA to enhance intelligence, and the structure-altering nature of the same material to modify bodies to improve strength (such as strengthening muscles, fortifying bone structure, etc). Something like that would be extremely useful for colonization efforts on foreign worlds, particularly where the climates/atmospheres may require physical adaptation. A body integrated with SIVA could do that very well. There's also the following correspondence to consider: | |||
Doctor Bray, I'm sure you've realized SIVA's applications extend beyond colonization. ~SIVA.MEM.CL011 | |||
I'm not sure what you mean, General. Is this still about the Exodus program? ~SIVA.MEM.WB012 | |||
The Exodus program would be interested in exploring SIVA's defensive applications. ~SIVA.MEM.CL013 | |||
General, my team did not intend for SIVA to have military applications. ~SIVA.MEM.WB014 | |||
Willa, some of history's greatest inventions began as unintended side effects. ~SIVA.MEM.CL015'' | |||
Dr. Bray may not have been in on it, but there was definitely a military interest in this as well. I imagine when the infusion of nanotech into human bodies failed, interest turned elsewhere. | |||
Exos are the direct result of the failure of integrating humans with nanotech | |||
We know that Dr. Bray developed Exo technology. I speculate that this was done after the failure of integrating nanotech directly into humans and possibly after SIVA was developed as well. The Warminds were involved in their creation, though the possible reasons could vary - it's possible that an extremely advanced AI was needed in the development of such a complicated project, that the Warminds were explicitly creating a tool for war, or some combination of both of those. The Exos are cited in lore as being developed as machines of war, but with their original purposes forgotten and Cayde-6's lore implying he was once human, I'm willing to bet that the Exos were part of an experiment with SIVA to infuse human consciousness into a machine body with the assistance of the Warminds (the body created with SIVA to host said consciousness). At that point, the military benefits of the Exo program may have either been a direct part of the project or a not-so-subtle re-purposing after the fact, but the end result is the same: Exos (that can eventually become Guardians) that were used in a forgotten war by the Warminds. | |||