Chapter II: Akagi Naoko
After learning from Adam, the UN Artificial Evolution Laboratory —later transferred to Gehirn— planned two projects. I was assigned to lead the research and design of the MAGI, a supercomputer powered by AI. Its core was divided in three distinct entities: Casper, Melchior and Balthazar. Essentially, they are individual computers planned to collaborate and behave as a council. This trinity I devised as a way to find balance in decision-making, and I shaped them according to three of my own aspects: my role as a woman, my role as a scientist and as a mother. Thus, each of the computers processes information in a unique way. As vain as it might look to compliment your own work, I consider them a work of art.
However, the means to obtain such power were of dubious moral quality. In order to transfer my imprint to each of the computers, we had to use the Personality Transplant OS — an operating system invented by my predecessors in order to replicate their reasoning and implant it in a bio-computer. As you can imagine, the prospect of failure, and the implications of the project itself, would be something that required of international consensus — at least in the scientific community. There was little time for that. After the team that owned the OS died in the Second Impact, Gendo Ikari contacted me. I had been recommended by Fuyutsuki as the ideal candidate to lead the MAGI project. The reasons why they yearned for such a computer? They would not tell me. Not until I got my hands dirty. Then, they showed me their skeletons in the closet. Only that this one was tiny.