Alpha

Intelligence program Alpha was the original artificial construct approved for the Special Operations program Freelancer. It was later copied (split into different fragments of emotions) illegally in order to supply multiple agents with an AI. History

Agent Washington has stated that Alpha is/was a "smart" AI, which would make it similar to Cortana[1]. Now however, it's current state is that of Church, in which many of the personality traits (including but not limited to rage, deception, logic, shooting ability, and creativity) have been seperated into alternate AI's for field use. Personality traits of individual AIs may or may not have been copied from Alpha, as they could either be side-effects of being copied or of rampancy. After several Freelancers attempted to steal Alpha, it was sealed away in an undisclosed location. After Church entered in Caboose's mind and received Delta's message of "Memory is the key", Washington quickly formulated a plan to stop the Meta. He informed the Reds and Blues that they were going to Command to steal the Alpha, as its memories were the only thing that could stop the Meta. However, he later revealed to Church that it was the memories of Epsilon that they were seeking.

Washington revealed that all the AIs were created by reverse-engineering a multiple-personality disorder. The Director of Project Freelancer (Dr. Leonard Church) tortured the Alpha to the point where it isolated certain aspects of its personality to preserve its sanity. These fractured traits were then harvested and refined into "purified, compartmentalized emotion", creating additional AIs. Washington explained that no AI was a complete personality, that each was an aspect of Alpha that it attempted to preserve or a negative emotion from the result of its treatment. Delta represented Alpha's logic, Omega represented its rage, Gamma its deceit, and Sigma its creativity. Eventually, the Alpha had to abandon its memories to remain sane, and thus Epsilon was created. In order to keep AIs and Freelancers from finding the Alpha, it was hidden in a place that no one would think to look; a soldier in a backwater canyon in the middle of nowhere. Reunion It would appear that The Meta's actions are driven by its numerous implants. The AIs seem to have a tendency not unlike the JENOVA Reunion Theory[2] of Final Fantasy VII, in that all fragments of the original entity; no matter how small; have an inherent tendency to reunite with the original. It would appear that the reunion of all the AIs to either complete or restore Alpha is the Meta's ultimate goal. This is reinforced by the fact that the Meta seems unable to communicate directly, as is the fact that the sheer amount of AIs that the Meta is using would drive a person insane or even totally obliterate their mind, leaving the AIs themselves to use Maine's body as their medium of interaction with the physical world. Creation

Copied off the the mind of Dr. Leonard Church the Alpha was split into presumably 23 constructs, including Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Theta, Sigma and Omega.

Trivia If Alpha had not chosen to take the actual name of its creator, it is possible it may have created a different name similar to O'Malley. If so, it could possibly have chosen the name "Allen", a portmanteau of Alpha and Leonard.