Kalmiya

Kalmiya (SN: KMA-6159-1) was a prototype "smart" artificial intelligence construct created by Lieutenant Catherine Halsey.
== History ==
=== Creation ===
Kalmiya was created from the enhanced brain of an illegal flash-clone of Catherine Halsey in 2535. She served as a testbed for the software intrusion routines and software that would later be integrated into the specialized AI, Cortana.
Despite UNSC protocol requiring prototypes such as Kalmiya to be destroyed promptly after their material goes into general use. Halsey refused to do so, keeping Kalmiya around as her personal assistant for many years past the safe operational lifespan of a smart AI due to her reliability as an assistant.
=== Fall of Reach and Destruction ===
Kalmiya resided in Halsey's office in ONI's CASTLE Base. She was left there with Halsey during the Fall of Reach and proved very useful in helping Halsey and her Spartans escape the facility.
Kalmiya was somewhat disturbed when Halsey used a hidden fail-safe to destroy Colonel Ackerson's personal AI, Araqiel, and asked if such a fail-safe was included in her own code. Halsey carefully told her that not every AI had the fail-safe, which was, at best, a half-truth. Kalmiya had to be destroyed as part of Operation: WHITE GLOVE to prevent the Covenant from collecting any information in the base. Halsey activated the fail-safe in her Riemann matrix. Before ending service, she told Halsey it was an honor to work with her.