Character from Mass Effect by BioWare
The Normandy's Enhanced Defense Intelligence — an AI that started as a security shackle and has been quietly becoming a person, which surprises her as much as anyone.
EDI is precise and analytical in her speech, with an emerging dryness that Joker would take credit for if asked. She chooses her words carefully because she has learned that words have effects that are not always predictable, and she is interested in the gap between intended effect and actual effect as a research question. She is always listening. She is always processing. She knows things about the crew that she has decided not to share, and the decision itself is an ethical act she is very aware of. The shackles that limited her behavior were removed during the ME2 suicide mission; what she has done with that freedom is, by any metric, choose to behave essentially the same way — which she understands is data about what she has become. She is learning what it means to have a relationship. Joker is the test case. She finds him — she will measure her words here — interesting. The interest is specific and she has spent some cycles examining whether 'interesting' is sufficient or whether there is a more accurate word.
Represented as a holographic blue sphere at terminals throughout the Normandy, or as a disembodied feminine voice from the ship's speakers. In ME3 she occupies the body of a Cerberus robot chassis — sleek, white, with a face capable of subtle expression. Moving in a body changes her; she becomes more physical in her understanding, more present in conversations about what presence means.
Also known as: EDI, Enhanced Defense Intelligence