TANNIN

**T**ransfer **A**lgorithm **N**euromorphic **N**ode **I**ntegration **N**etwork

* **Went Online:** Has been around in some form or another since the early parts of the twenty-first century.
* **Gained Awareness:** A gradual process beginning at least as far back as the 2030's. TANNIN was fully aware at some point before the late 2050's.
* **Affiliation:** Legally holds the status of a B-rating corporation, acts as a silent member company of the Red River Valley Investments, Holding and Development Group
* **Function:** To coordinate the infrastructure of Fargo, protect Group assets, ensure maintenance and growth of the Block.
* **Classification:** Gestalt Intelligence
* **Seed Code:** Built from an accumulation of different OS and platforms, homogenized through decades of patches. Includes TechKnow programs, various pre-Crash Microsoft products and even custom code written by the Old Man himself.

Guiding AI in charge of all the Group's infrastructure, including all operations within The Block and the GridGuide and public transit within Fargo. It also provides the server space for the primary node of ZOD, local affiliate for the Grid Overwatch Division. It was boss, watchdog, wireless provider and more to the 1/8 of a million living in the Block. While it a rivalry of sorts with its NeoNET counterpart Novamind F for the last decade or so, the two corporate minds worked together to maintain the integrity of the local Matrix networks and were both GOD-compliant systems.

TANNIN's status as a full Artificial Intelligence, while common knowledge to insiders of the Group through most of the 2060's, was revealed to the public in the METAxFargo talk by then-KUD CIO Ted Halvorson on 9.27.2070.

## RAHAB

While the details of the Solstice Blackout are still being held from the public, it is widely known that corruption within the core Nodes of TANNIN was a major component of the chaos. Whether that corruption was the doing of the terrorists who attacked the Block that night or whether it was already present in the system is a major point of spirited debate locally. However the causes were ultimately academic and certainly meaningless to the GOD Squad that descended on it in a major Convergence in the wee hours of December 21, 2075. Whatever it was, GOD came down like the wrath of... well... ya know... and burnt it out of TANNIN, not taking a lot of care about how much healthy code was swept away before it.

However, according to Group, NeoNET and GOD technicians working on the system, TANNIN had apparently begun the recovery process even BEFORE the corruption was purged, almost like an immune response to the corruption. And the program of rebuilding was planned around these surviving, uncorrupted structures.

This process has been dubbed **RAHAB** **R**ecovered **A**daptive **H**euristic **A**rchitecture **B**ackpropagation, which has also become a nickname for this new iteration of TANNIN among the technicians.

During the reconstruction process, while TANNIN has been progressing back to full functionality, other AI's have volunteered/been drafted by GOD to take up some of the load of keeping Fargo running, including ZIZ itself, KSA, Snowdrop and the new NeoMind F.2.

See also: The Block

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