Misconceptions on what Cybi is and knows

[boballab]

I believe that there is a misconception about what Cybi's role was on Karis at the time of the attack and what she had in her databanks. Cybi was built for one purpose only, disaster recovery.

This is the Disaster Recovery Center, Jason. This compound exists to deal with a disaster. The Karinnes planned for disaster, but I do not think they could plan for what happened to Karis.

Now there is some things we can assume with some accuracy and very little hard information of what is in Cybi's databanks. The only hard information is that the CBIM at the Academy on Karis copied it's database into Cybi's

“I must ask. Was the data of the Academy lost?”
“Everything that the CBIM of the Academy retained exists within my memory, your Majesty. We have lost no data. It was transferred to me at the onset of the attack, intact. The knowledge of the Karinnes is preserved.”

Now remember besides the CBIM at the Acdemy and Cybi there was 4 other CBIM's on Karis and we have no Idea what was in those Databases and no knowledge if the information contained in those databases is completely duplicated in Cybi's However there is a hint that not all the information those other CBIM's had was duplicated in Cybi. That hint deals with Myleena's ancestor.

[The short answer, Myleena Merrane, is yes. House Karinne saw admirable genetic qualities in a Merrane female, and wished to introduce her genetic qualities into the line. Zuy Karinne died after impregnating Sera Merrane, and so that offspring remained within House Merrane. Plans were made to return the child to Karinne, but the house was destroyed before those plans were executed.]
[They were going to kidnap the child?]
[I do not have that information. It is possible,] Cybi answered honestly.

As seen here there was plans to return that child to Karis which Cybi knows but Cybi doesn't know the exact plan, its not in her database. It could have been in one of the other databases.

See Cybi was built for the express purpose of coordinating disaster relief so she might not have all the secrets of the Karinnes only what was at the Academy.

[I’d rather not dwell on things like that. And you can forget trying to foist off running Karga on some other CBIM. I wouldn’t feel happy with anyone other than you.]
[I am not as adept at the task as a CBIM you build specifically for the task will be. My function is emergency response, not operations.]

There is another part to consider, Kosigi had a Biogenic Mainframe not a CBIM and as we know Kosigi is where the Karinnes built their ships and many other large projects. So we can assume that the computer there contained alot of classified information. Now if someone before the 3rd civil war downloaded info out of that computer Cybi might not know about it, because it wasn't Cybi's job to know about it. That Computer might have reported to one of those other 4 CBIM's that got destroyed so access information might be spotty.

So Bottom line Cybi was not party all Karinne secrets. She didn't run the scientific labs, the ship yards or the day to day operations of House Karinne like she does now. So there is 4 CBIM's databanks that Cybi might not have updated information from at the time of the attack because the only data dumped mentioned is the one from the Academy.

[dellstart]

Is it possible that there might be some data stored there , just shes not the right program to open that file or information?
Hence she might not have knowledge of that data at all, despite the fact it might be stored there.

[boballab]

Think of it this way: The computer on Kosigi logs who accesses what each time it happens. Now this computer has been there for a very long time so it can't keep the records itself forever so it downloads that piece of information to a CBIM that is in charge of the operations on Kosigi on a periodic basis. This would be completely logical and in keeping with Karinne security. Now as Cybi herself stated she was in charge of disaster relief not operations so that record would not have gone to her, it would have gone to another CBIM. Now once that log has been transmitted to the CBIM the computer on kosigi would erase that log from its memory to free up space for the next set of logs. Now with the comming destruction of Karis the CBIM at the Academy foresaw its own destruction and dumped its database to Cybi, which was the most surviable of CBIMs due to its job function. Now Cybi stated that after the attack one other CBIM survived but self destructed to keep the Merranes from accessing her info. However Cybi never mentions if that CBIM download its database to her. The way Fel wrote Subjugation it appears it was not normal for any of the CBIM's to data dump to Cybi, the Academy CBIM only did it because it was going to be destroyed. We can only guess if the Dreana CBIM data dumped to Cybi, because Fel hasn't given us that info and we have nothing about the other 3 CBIM's. Now Cybi, once Jason and Myleena fixed the Comm system, can query the computer on Kosigi but its computer would have only the access logs from the time of the last dump not all of them. So depending on when that dump occured she might not know what was in the Scimitar's database at that time and when the crew abandoned her they would erase the database to keep Karinne secrets. What would have been in that database they could have downloaded into dropships, portables and such and taken with them. The dropships were captured by the Consortium and the portables still working probably as well leaving behind only the books that the Exiled still have.

So there you have 3 completely unknown CBIM's and 1 that we only know where it was located. In a emergency situation like that even if they did a data dump would they include even something insignifact as an access log while trying to save the total knowledge of the Karinnes? From what Fel ihas written it seems that the information in the Academy CBIM was the most important to the Generations and the CBIM's and got priority, but would even that CBIM have in its database the day to day functions of the entire House Karinne. I would think not.

This part is a little off the beaten path but it was something Zaa stated. She said that she liked Cybi and that Cybi was the height of courtesy unlike the Academy CBIM which was arrogant. This shows us something; no two CBIM's are identical they have their own personalities. Could those personalities affect their operation? What if that arrogant CBIM at the Academy tied up the circuits to Cybi and the other CBIM's got blocked out?