Echo

From ManMachine

Echo

A non-endocannabinoid AI, one of eleven biomechanical devices charged with the security of the non-corporate entity Mother. See Mother and below. Echo was Manmachine's handler, a role that initially enabled, and eventually obstructed, their forbidden relationship: their story, and its emotional anguish, is extensively covered in the Manmachine epic. The son of Echo and Manmachine appears episodically after the second book, and he is himself the protagonist of Books 13 onward, after the close of events described in the first Manmachine epic.

Mother was charged with unbiased operation and oversight of of Cartel market transactions. This arrangement was inherently unstable, the more so because of the fact that Mother was stubbornly resistant, and eventually hostile to anything but formal relations with the Cartel Although vulnerable and isolated, Mother remained one of the last remaining independent organizations working in the domain of Cartel space.

Capable of psi, regeneration, and electromagnetic projection and control of neural  activity.