Black Plan

The Black Plan, an Artificial Intelligence also known more poetically as the Ghost in the Machine, and by itself as the Watchmaker, is a supposedly tamed and cut-down version of a similar AI from Ken Macleod's novel The Star Fraction. It was inserted into the DIA's computer systems by the Bindweed to spy on the PPC for the Mary-Sue Factory. However, by the time of Crashing Down it seems to have regained its original sneaky political tendencies, and is working towards its own, unknown goals. That's the danger of trying to use an adaptive AI to your own ends.

The Plan writes and thinks in lowercase italics, with no punctuation at all.