[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] The Old Wolf US One more thing before I head to work. I think that Maddie is probably the main AI for New Mombasa, and she is taken out by the blast (either physically, or the EMP has disabled her systems temporarily or permanently). The Superintendent is then left to try to do the best he can to fix the city and alert the authorities, but he can't do that in the normal way, either because he doesn't have higher-level communications routines (i.e. he's a low-level AI that reports to Maddie, and then she compiles reports and sends them to human administrators) or he had those functions and has been damaged (as previously suggested by Jumper I believe). Now the SI is looking for Maddie because he needs help in reorganising the city, and he's trying to communicate with UNSC Fleet using his low-level communication protocols (such as Keep It Clean and Obey Posted Limits, I think all he can say is whatever he can post on electronic billboards throughout New Mombasa, and this has a very limited vocabulary of road signs, warning signs etc). [/quote] Anybody think that there is a possibility that Maddie is a Spartan we have not yet heard of?