Skylark

Skylark was the second Artificial Personality developed by Raito Global after its predecessor, Cartographer.

Activation
While Cartographer was unveiled at the Geneva expose, Skylark was only revealed through a short press release and media campaign when it was activated October 10th, 2024. As the Iron Bar had been developed by the company, it was not patched into the system but built into Skylark.

Function
Skylark was built to aid Cartographer when able but its primary purpose was to manage systems for the administration of Raito Global. The idea behind the creation was to increase productivity in the corporation and eventually to replace Cartographer (as Cartographer was being used for heavy research considered dangerous for it.)

Fragmentation Spike
Only a few months after being set in control, Skylark experienced a Fragmentation Spike, despite the Iron Bar. The malfunction damaged machinery and files in Raito Global Headquarters and, though there were no injuries, the damage cost well over a million dollars. Besides the structural and damage to data, Skylark began a fire and disabled the fire-control systems which nearly burned the facility housing Skylark to the ground.

It is debated heavily as to whether this was intentional or if this was just coincidental damage. It was investigated as to why Cartographer's systems didn't activate any fire prevention protocols or attempt to shut-out Skylark.

Skylark Fail-Safe
After the damage caused by Skylark, the Second Seoul Conference was held to discuss what should be done on the matters of controlling and limiting the Artificial Personalities. It was decided that Dr. Rosanna Hawkrite would develop a new countermeasure along with the other research heads at Raito Global and members of the United Nations Security Council's chosen researchers.

After only a month, Dr. Hawkrite announced that she had developed a fail-safe that would trigger automatically in the case of a spike. The device was installed on both Cartographer and Skylark. Three months later, the device attached to Skylark was tripped by a Fragmentation Spike and the device killed Skylark. From this point on, the device was named after its first victim - Skylark Fail-Safe.