User:Fletcherz/Dr. James Cox

Doctor James Keane Cox was a scientist linked to the Office of Naval Intelligence, and designer of many technologies, such as the ACA-43 CTR and the Cox Drone. He was responsible for saving the lives of 200 million people on the human colony worlds of Inverness and Askarvic in May 2547, along with his trusted dumb AI, Majo.

Career
Cox was born on Harvest in July 2518, but his family relocated to Askarvic just weeks before the Covenant arrived at the planet. From an early age James realised that he was increadibly lucky to be alive, and that life was a gift worth saving- at any cost. He wanted to save as many people as he could from the Covenant and he knew his best chance of suceeding was to develop new technologies for the war effort. In 2537 he began studying under Dr. Catherine Halsey, but after a year he quit her tuition, believing her ideas out-dated, and that he could forge his own path in the scientifiic circles. In 2543 he was employed by the ACO(Akarvic Colonial Office) to develop a new weapon system for the Ascarvic Colonial Armoury, who needed cheap and readily available munitions in their plight against the local Insurrection. The result was the ACA-43 Rifle, eventually adopted as a training rifle. He created the advanced dumb AI, Majo, as a memory unit in 2540. Majo used the basic formation of a smart AI for its unlimited memory matrix, but its neural linkages were managed, controlled and if needed severed by two dumb AIs. Majo was the first (and only) Fusion AI, or 'Super' Dumb AI.

"Majo is my little AI with a big memory, by which I mean, an almost unlimited memory capacity."

-James Cox

Deep under the surface of Inverness, in 'Chamber 9' was a Forerunner AI unit. It could no longer communicate or operate, but Majo was capable of accesing and downloading its files: Forerunner theories, blueprints, formulae and technology for weapons far beyond normal human capacity. Extraction of files began in 2545, but in May 2547 the Covenant arrived on Inverness, so Cox, Majo and a team of ODSTs sent to assist him escaped in a 'Slipspace Bubble' Majo was able to create with the formulae he now owned. Another file pointed to co-ordinates on one of Ascarvic's moons, and a so called 'Pandora's Box'. With it being their only hope of saving the people of Ascarvic, the team headed to the co-ordinates in the file. The 'Pandora's Box' was in fact a Forerunner superbomb, designed to trick the flood into opening it. Majo cleverly sealed Ascarvic itself into a Slipspace bubble, and Talon, one of the ODSTs, detonated the bomb. The Covenant Battle Group was decimated. Ascarvic's bubble was de-activated afterwards, leaving its people unscathed, and with time to evacuate before Covenant reinforcements arrived. Cox escaped and helped develop new technologies for the rest of the war, before he and Majo were both destroyed when he self-destructed his ONI Prowler during.

"Dear the Covenant; Goodbye."

-James Cox's last words, transmiting to a Covenant cruiser moments before a nuclear minefield tore it apart.