Maiserv (メンサーブ, Mensābu), often written as Mensab, is the protector of Toha Heavy Industries and a major character in Blame!.
Personality[]
Maiserv is an artificial intelligence that defends Toha Heavy Industries' Cave 8. She is usually accompanied by her loyal companion, Seu. She has a rather close relationship to Seu and hates her superior, the Central AI, for forbidding her to regenerate his personality. She is also caring towards humans and hostile towards other entities such as the Safeguards and the Silicon Life. She tries to ensure the safety and security of humans and refuses to bow down and allow Silicon Life to take over and kill those who are remaining.
Appearance[]
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Biography[]
Maiserv first appears in LOG.23 when she and Seu intervene in a battle between Killy, Cibo and two Silicon Creatures. She introduces herself as 'Maiserv, the animus of Toha Heavy Industries and the representative of the Settlers' before stating that due to the pact with the Administration, safeguards like Killy are forbidden to interfere with Toha Heavy Industries. Maiserv orders Seu to eliminate the intruders. As Seu kills the Silicon Creatures, Killy and Cibo fall through holes produced by an explosion.[1]
Maiserv later tells Seu to stand down, however, as Seu protests, an explosion occurs. Cibo and Killy are saved by small winged humanoids (fairies) who request that the two do something about Maiserv since the AI has 'lost it'. According to the fairies, people existed in Toha Heavy Industries but Silicon Life came in and poisoned the humans with the disease. This resulted in the whole human population within the Eighth Cave of Toha Heavy Industries to die. As result of this loss, Maiserv has become incredibly protective of the Eighth Cave; sealing off all entrances and exists to and from the Eighth Cave. The fairies hope to contact the AI's of other cave systems, which are more stable than Maiserv, so that the Eighth Cave can become more stable.
Killy, Cibo and the fairies find a broken elevator that could be used to leave and go into the Seventh Cave. Once Cibo fixes the elevator, Maiserv intervenes and causes them to enter the Ninth Cave and crash.[2] The fairies, unable to operate outside of their cave system, begin to die in the Silicon Life ridden Ninth Cave. Killy and Cibo quickly decide to go back to the Eighth Cave and speak with Maiserv. Once back in the Eighth Cave, Killy and Cibo find out from a dying Silicon Creature that the Silicon Life are cornering Maiserv so that they may find and kill the hidden humans.
Killy and Cibo cross paths with Maiserv and Seu as they fight and kill multiple Silicon Life. Killy attempts to help but ends up being stuck within the Forwarding created by Maiserv: a form of teleportation that she uses in dire situations to save herself and Seu. Cibo, who chases after Killy, is also caught within the forwarding and the two are teleported into an alternate dimension.[3][4]
Killy and Cibo reappear to the moment when Seu and Maiserv fight the two Silicon Creatures. Both Seu and Maiserv get injured in the fight but are aided by Killy and his GBE which has been modified to work within Toha Heavy Industries. Maiserv caresses a badly injured Seu. Before Killy and Cibo can speak to Maiserv, she once again teleports with Seu in her arms.[5]
Maiserv takes Seu to get his wounds fixed however, once he regenerates, he seems more simpleminded than before. Before long, Cibo and Killy appear and clarify that they are not messengers of the net and wish to find the Net Terminal Gene. Killy asks where Maiserv has placed the residents of the Eighth Cave to which she responds that they have been relocated to the Thirteenth Cave in order to protect them from Silicon Life and the disease. The only remaining human within the Eighth Cave is Seu. Maiserv later tells Killy that the Electro-Fishers were also moved to the Thirteenth Cave.
Abilities[]
Maiserv is capable of Forwarding, a form of teleportation which she often uses to save Seu when he takes to much damage. In one occasion Killy gets caught up in the forwarding and is sent to another world line where he meets another version of Cibo.
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Trivia[]
- Her name probably comes from two words, "main" and "server", so the name should be written as Maiserv, although the author never explained that case.