Epsilon

**Freelancer Artificial Intelligence Program Epsilon** was an artificial intelligence program from Universe AC-1, *de facto* former simulation trooper, and a member of the Reds and Blues. Epsilon served as one of the main protagonists in *Retribution* and was posthumously mentioned in *A Soldier's Debt*. Rather than a full AI program, Epsilon was a fragment of the powerful Alpha AI, the main AI of Project Freelancer that was cloned from Dr. Leonard Church's brain. As one of several fragments harvested from the Alpha's emotions, Epsilon inherited the Alpha's memories, including his personality and skills, effectively making him an exact copy of his father. However due to him carrying both the Director's and the Alpha's memories, Epsilon felt the pain of Allison Church's death upon being implanted into Agent Washington's neural interface. Unable to take the pain, the AI tried to kill itself, but was stopped upon being removed. Afterwards, Epsilon was placed into a storage unit and shipped to Freelancer Command, with most personnel under the assumption that he was destroyed.

## Biographical Information

### Alias

* Church
* Epsilon-Church

### Place of Birth

UNSC *Mother of Invention*, in orbit of Sidewinder

### Place of Death

UNSC *Staff of Charon*, in orbit of Chorus

## Physical Description

### Gender

Masculine Programming (can take on many forms)

## General Information

### Relatives

* Dr. Leonard Church (creator)
* Alpha ("father")
* Epsilon-Tex (creation)
* Delta (sibling)
* Sigma (sibling)
* Omega (sibling)
* Eta (sibling)
* Iota (sibling)
* Theta (sibling)
* Gamma (sibling)
* Carolina ("sister")

### Affilations

* Reds and Blues (formerly)
* Project Freelancer (formerly)

## Other Information

### Appears In

* *Retribution*
* *A Soldier's Debt* (mentioned)

### AU Status

Deceased

Epsilon would remain deactivated in stasis for the remainder of the Great War before being recovered by the Agent Washington and the Reds and Blues in 2553 to keep him away from the Meta. After the public exposure of the Director's crimes and Project Freelancer's dissolution, the AI unit would come into the possession of Michael J. Caboose who spend the next year trying to reactivate Epsilon in an attempt to bring back the late Alpha. During this time, Epsilon was told stories about the Alpha's time in Blood Gulch by Caboose, allowing Epsilon to unlock lost memories of "his" friends. Later, Caboose would successful in reactivating Epsilon, being dubbed **Epsilon-Church**, before assisting the Reds and Blues, and Teams RWBY and JNPR in defeating CT.

Epsilon would later be haunted by the memories of Allison once more, this time taking on the appearance of the late Beta AI. Still struggling remembering his past, Epsilon enlisted the help of Caboose, RWBY, and JNPR in heading to an offsite Freelancer facility. He successfully removed his memories of Allison, creating a new Agent Texas. Wanting to understand more about their pasts, both ventured to the planet Sidewinder, where Tex attempted to lure Wash and the Meta in order to find the Director. Epsilon witnessed Tex be trapped in the Epsilon unit and would have been himself if not for Wash protecting him from the Meta, and the sudden arrival of the Reds and Blues. After the Meta's death, Epsilon would willingly return to his memory unit, reliving the Alpha's life in Blood Gulch in order to find Tex. He was successful and finally came to terms with both Tex and Allison's death, succeeding where both the Director and the Alpha could not. He was broken out of the the unit once more in 2555 by the Reds and Blues, who were working with Agent Carolina in hunting down the Director, her father. After several setbacks, during which Epsilon helped Carolina come to terms with her own past, they succeeded in finding him, but opted to let him take his life.

Following a crash landing onto the planet Chorus, Epsilon would break off from his friends and join Carolina in tracking stolen Freelancer equipment on the planet. During this time, they discover an ongoing civil war that was being manipulated by Malcolm Hargrove and Charon Industries. Both returned to the Reds and Blues, who had been employed by both the Federal Army and the New Republic, and exposed the true nature of the war to both sides. They later successful in exposing Hargrove to the UNSC, but were swiftly met by Hargrove personally going to Chorus to pacify the planet. Going with his friends, the Reds and Blues led one last stand against Hargrove on the *Staff of Charon*. Within the Meta's armor Epsilon sacrificed himself by destroying himself to power the suit. Before dying, Epsilon made one last video message for his friends, thanking them for making new memories before dematerializing.

## Personality

Having inherited nearly all of the Alpha's memories, Epsilon's personality was very similar to that of his father, even inheriting the Alpha's resemblance and skills. Epsilon was known to be somewhat serious about his duties and was completely bewildered by the crazy shenanigans going on during "his" time in Blood Gulch. He was also known to be easily agitated by many his friends, including Michael J. Caboose, especially after his several of his bodies were destroyed by him. He was also a great leader like the Alpha, rallying the Reds and Blues to stop CT, and later enlisted the help of RWBY and JNPR. Lavernius Tucker would later admit that "Church wasn't the best and he knew that, but he gave a damn and took responsibility".

Despite sharing memories, Epsilon has shown several traits that make him different from the Alpha. For one, Epsilon generally had a more calm and caring demeanor, he valued the relationships he had with his friends.