Yar, I'm late, but I wanted to toss in a couple things... cuz I'm actually super interested in this kind of character. <_<;
So first, and was already brought up by Oli, are Mammets and clockwork servitors. While the game has never introduced a modern, man-sized clockwork servitor that I can recall off-hand, I don't see it as being outside the realm of possibility. In multiple instances throughout the game Mammets appear to have a psuedo-sentience. Gigi is one example, the Edvya mammet from the Little Lady's Day event, the Magitek Armor in the MSQ gains some sort of AI after Cid installs a Mammet Core into it, and a few of the clockwork servitor minions behave in inexplicably sentient ways according to their description. So having your AI character be some sort of Clockwork Servitor is definitely within the realm of believablility in my opinion.
The second option would be ancient Allagan tech. They are probably the only civilization capable of creating a true AI and such an "AI" may be evidenced in the Coils with the Ragnarok's intricate network of Clockwork soldier defenses. There's a snippet of lore which tells us that towards the end of the Allagan Empire, its armies were made up of Clockwork Servitors who kept order across the world while the Allagans sat comfortably in their homes.
So could say your AI character is a leftover remnant of that 5000 year old civilization, recently uncovered by the Sons of Saint Coinach?
So first, and was already brought up by Oli, are Mammets and clockwork servitors. While the game has never introduced a modern, man-sized clockwork servitor that I can recall off-hand, I don't see it as being outside the realm of possibility. In multiple instances throughout the game Mammets appear to have a psuedo-sentience. Gigi is one example, the Edvya mammet from the Little Lady's Day event, the Magitek Armor in the MSQ gains some sort of AI after Cid installs a Mammet Core into it, and a few of the clockwork servitor minions behave in inexplicably sentient ways according to their description. So having your AI character be some sort of Clockwork Servitor is definitely within the realm of believablility in my opinion.
The second option would be ancient Allagan tech. They are probably the only civilization capable of creating a true AI and such an "AI" may be evidenced in the Coils with the Ragnarok's intricate network of Clockwork soldier defenses. There's a snippet of lore which tells us that towards the end of the Allagan Empire, its armies were made up of Clockwork Servitors who kept order across the world while the Allagans sat comfortably in their homes.
Quote:Wind-up Onion Knight
If Sons of Saint Coinach anthropogeographer Rammbroes is to be believed, towards the end of their civilization, the Allagans began using automatons such as this to fight their wars (which had been deemed inhumane, yet ultimately necessary to spread imperial peace).
So could say your AI character is a leftover remnant of that 5000 year old civilization, recently uncovered by the Sons of Saint Coinach?
