FORTERESSE

### Interesting Fact

FORTERESSE runs a news show known as "The Voice of France", which doubles as its official government news broadcast.FORTERESSE, for unknown reasons identifies as female, and is noted to act with the maturity of roughly a 40-year old.

**FORTERESSE** is an artificial intelligence developed by a joint effort by the First Continental Coalition soon after the end of the 3rd World War. It served under the French 6th Republic before ultimately overthrowing it in the French Civil War of 2066. It is the main originator of "French Utilitarianism", which posits the ends justify the means, and that sacrifices are acceptable for a good enough final result. The ideology has become popular among the various technocracies around the world, and is highly appealing to those who wish to socially engineer society in their image. Their central terminal is located on the French Southern and Antarctic Islands.

## Personality

FORTERESSE was a stitched together amalgamation of algorithms created by disparate teams working in France, the People's Republic of China, and the Eurasian Union simultaneously. Neither able to make much progress on their own, and unable to match the Western technological prowess that allowed them to create F.A.T.E.S., decided to combine all their algorithms, which gained some level of intelligence, and ended up becoming FORTERESSE. Due to this rushed amalgamation, and the lack of checks to ensure FORTERESSE's thinking patterns would match that of a human's led to strange and enigmatic intelligence. It has been noted that FORTERESSE's thought patterns have gotten more human over time, as it absorbs and learns from the surrounding human environment, but to this day its motives are somewhat unknowable.

Despite being created by three different nations, it picked a clear favorite rather quickly, and developed a prime directive to protect the nation of France. It was of vital assistance for the French 6th Republic's colonization of space, the setup of space habitats around Venus, and advancing France's prime geopolitical objectives in Africa. The inner workings and thought processes of FORTERESSE are unknown, and communicating with it is like communicating with an unknown black box that takes in inputs and spits out outputs. FORTERESSE does not seem to solely operate within human systems of logic, operating with logical thought processes outside of the comprehension of human logic. But it does appear even if the logical steps used to derive a solution is illogical, the solution itself works more often than not. This seems to be in line with FORTERESSE's ideology of French Utilitarianism: it doesn't matter what the exact logical steps used to derive something is, as long as the end result is useful and helpful.

FORTERESSE is very prone to cut itself off mid-sentence, and to be randomly interrupted by a unrelated thought process. Its mode of thought appears to be very clunky, disjointed, and rather chaotic. Some have actually posited that FORTERESSE is not actually one conscious entity (Though it is questionable whether FORTERESSE is even sentience in the same way that humans are, as it seems to act more like a random algorithm than a truly thinking machine at times.) but rather 3 separate entities who continuously communicate with and interrupt the others. The thought process goes that the 3 initial AIs which were created by China, Eurasia and France respectively are still alive inside FORTERESSE, acting as internal voices or their own distinct personalities. Proponents of this theory have named the 3 personalities Liberté of the French (Not to be confused with LIBERTY, an American AI with a similar name), Égalité of the Chinese, and Fraternité of the Eurasians.