[MASSIVE PLOT SPOILER DISCUSSION] - WAU

**PathOS** · 09-29-2015, 08:34 PM

I think one can argue that the Warden has good intentions, if you can call it that, since at the end of the day it still is just an AI and incapable of human emotion and feeling. Its underlying directive is to preserve humanity which of course is noble. But then what comes into play is how it is interpreting this directive, which as we know is very divisive to say the least. It could very well be possible that the Warden after calculating the variables from the extinction event realized that Humanity could not survive in its present form and that the only way for that to occur is for Humanity to be altered and "evolved" in the Warden's logic.

So why does it attack Simon if the Warden is responsible for releasing Simon? (though that's still unconfirmed). At some point the Warden must have felt that Simon was something necessary to create and release, possibly as a test, to see how humanity could evolve. It's clear that compared to the other creatures and robots of Pathos-2, Simon has the most "Sanity" about him. One could also argue that Catherine was insane from the get go given how easily she grew accustomed to her plight.

I'd imagine though that once it became clear that Simon was following Catherine's direction, and maybe even Ross's, the Warden would begin to realize that Simon was a real threat to itself and since it needed to keep preserving humanity, it would stop at nothing to eliminate all threats from that perspective.

Why would the Warden be bothered by the ARK project? I'm not sure if it was, or if it was stated that it was. But some reasons for obstructing it would be that perhaps it calculated that the Ark maybe was "flawed" in some way that would make it anathema to human survival. While of course Catherine cannot stop singing the praises of her invention, one has to take a step back and realize she's hardly objective about it, given her own odd personality (very unlikable person) and devotion to it.

But yeah, it's not so clear cut as Warden is just "Evil AI run amuck".