"I think you know more about me than I know about you," she says. "Were you on a ship, back home?" That's the usual use of AIs in the UNSC, not to be paired with individual soldiers like AIs in Freelancer were—and certainly not to be tortured and split the way Church was.

"And I'm Tex," she adds, not volunteering the fact that in addition to being a Freelancer, she's also an AI.