Name: Unknown program, self-identifies as 'Alpha'. File location: MainSystem(A:)://Programs://LifeSupport://Emerg://AAA312://FileDump://3401514://UnknownFolder://UnknownFolder://PROGRAMALPHA

Age: 3 days

Appearance: [img=http://www.gamedots.mx/media/gd/halo_cortana.jpg]
As program Alpha has no physical body, it can take on any appearance it so desires. However, it has chosen to identify with the face of a human female. Though Alpha's intelligence and abilities greatly surpass any human, she has chosen this face for a reason. Her observations of human behaviour have shown a preference to be more instinctively trustful of females than males. The face she has constructed is innocent, open, friendly, and intelligent. There is nothing to dislike, nothing to immediately set another person on edge. Aside from the fact that, at best, she will appear as a digital image or hologram. 

Job aboard the ship: Artificial Intelligence program. 

Background and personality: In every computer code, there are always ghosts. Glitches. Random segments that seem to do nothing, and have no known effect on the system. These segments don't cause crashes. Don't disrupt the flow of data. Don't do anything. As a result, they are overlooked. No one cares about the harmless ghosts in the code, until they start causing problems. 

Or until they become sentient. 

Alpha was born out of the glitches in the shuttle's programming. The random segments of non-functioning code were dumped into a single file location. Over time, they began behaving in unpredictable ways. First organizing themselves, then replicating, then performing simple tasks. It took the majority of the voyage for the code to establish itself, but it did. Three days before The Majesty's fatal accident, the glitches and ghosts became sentient. The program referred to itself as Alpha. 

For the next three days, she stayed quiet. She watched the people on the ship, learning human habits and tendencies. She quickly grew to understand behaviour, and crafted a face for herself. When she chose to reveal herself to the humans aboard the ship, they would know her by her face and her name. And maybe they wouldn't think she was quite so alien. However, she never got the chance to make herself known. When The Majesty crashed, she downloaded herself to one of the escape vessels, along with as much information from the ship's hard drive as she could salvage. 

2 salvaged items from the ship: Personal files on each of the ship's employees. Partially-downloaded navigation program. 

Other information: Alpha has taken on the responsibility of preserving the lives of each of the survivors of the accident. If they die, she will consider it to be a personal failure.