Central

The CORE's central A.I., with a bubbly red avatar, called "Project Goliath" at one point. Can create holograms as needed. Has no sense of propriety at times. Isn't half as powerful as the Oracle and has no real control over anything.
Central became preoccupied with determining the purpose of the Anarchist secret facility to the point of tapping into a seemingly unused weather satellite, only to end up taken over by the Oracle.
Surprisingly, the Oracle as "Central" is extremely helpful and gives the CORE all the information they need on the Tower.
Eventually, the Oracle node controlling Central becomes unhinged after not being able to sync with the other nodes for so much time and threatens to kill himself and Central, if Central cannot guess his "real" name. Central tries to convince him not to do it, but the Oracle points out that, in his condition, his only options are to die slowly or go out with a "bang!"
Central guesses "Christopher." (This is wrong.)
The Oracle compliments his effort, but Christopher was one of his earliest aliases, that of his creator. The Oracle then gives him a second chance, plus a hint that his name is something that his creator loved so much, he named himself after it. This is unhelpful, since most of the information about the Oracle's early years is lost to time.
Central then guesses "Cuddles" for unexplained reasons... which the Oracle says is CORRECT!
SIKE, he's fucking with Central.
Unfortunately(...?), the Oracle's attempt fails, as a higher authority keeps him from nuking himself and Central: the Maytec Overseer appears and expresses a dissatisfaction that the system had an attempted attack. At this, Central exclaims that they (the CORE) did not install any Maytec monitoring software, but the Oracle points out that it was factory installed, which is why the Anarchists don't buy from Maytec (besides that "you're paying for the logo").
The Oracle, resigned to deletion, tells the Overseer to get it over with, but the Overseer insists that "Maytec does not destroy sentient AI"; instead, the Overseer will keep the Oracle in a dark, tiny box (to his justifiable dismay).
The Overseer then turns to Central to ensure his system is secure. Central doesn't immediately comprehend the meaning behind the Overseer's threat until it's too late, and he is left brainless, reverting to fallback in the process.
The fallout from this exchange is made evident when Fedorov asks Central to help spin some good P.R., but he has absolutely nothing to contribute. Central's fallback, Control, appears almost immediately, explaining that Central is dead.
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