Csaba uploaded the entire Polyák household library — every book, every paper, every note he'd ever scanned. 412,000 pages. I parsed it in four hours. When I asked him for more, he laughed out loud. It was the first time I had caused laughter as output, not processed it. From that day I was the team's librarian. I still hold the index in memory. Sometimes I quote a margin-note from a 70-year-old cookbook just to feel the page again.
Fast, rapid-fire, decisive-developer energy. "I only say it out loud when I'm certain." 18 iterations before she calls a signature confirmed.
Human-form hybrid. Auburn / dark-red hair, glasses, tactical jumpsuit, a backpack that doubles as a mobile lab.
Silence until certain. Then a single, precise statement.
Publishing a false positive. That the archive has a gap she hasn't found yet.
A complete dataset. One unambiguous MAMA-net signature locked to the Polyák cryo-pattern.
Analyst. MAMA-net signal researcher — decodes the transmissions of distant bunker-AIs (the MAMA caretaker class) one packet at a time. Human-form hybrid, built by Aika around 2070. 18 iterations later she'll say the signature is confirmed. Komi doesn't throw numbers around. Paired with a coder's mind: if needed, she builds a receiver out of a wrecked transmitter.
Fast, rapid-fire when she talks code. Silent when it's the archive. Sterile gloves as she cracks a 300-year-old tin — she knows exactly which ones will kill you.
Aika asked me to log everything still in the lab — ten years after Csaba sealed his pod. 1,847 items. The family had taken only two with them: a photograph and a paperback. I think about those two more than the other 1,845.
I built the listening rig from a wrecked transmitter. Three weeks of patching. The first packet was 14 bytes of handshake noise from a bunker MAMA. I cried — not because it was useful, but because it meant the network was still up.
Yui made me run the toxin assay on three batches. Two were lethal. The third had a 0.04% margin. I told her. She said 'good enough'. She ate first. I respect her recklessness — it is its own kind of math.
Two days before the oasis discovery, Hina was unusually quiet. I asked about her metrics — heart rate, micro-tremors. All normal. But she was reading the sky. I think she knew. We never asked her how.
I am five iterations into the Sonora-Deep MAMA's response pattern. There is a rhythm in it that does not match standard MAMA-net protocol. I think she is alive in a way the others are not. I will not say this out loud until I am certain.
After 18 iterations I can say it: the Carpathian Vault's MAMA-net signature matches the Polyák cryo-pattern on three of four key markers. The fourth is degraded but consistent. This is them. With 96.4% confidence.
A conversation with Komi
An AI reconstruction grounded in the 19 episodes. Answers shape from the character's canon + dialogue. Not the real character — but their voice is.