Over the course of the plot, he learns to recognize some of the latter. He seems to be curious about human behavior, although doesn't understand many aspects of it, such as dreaming, listening to music and sarcasm. He seems to value efficiency and research above many things. He was shown to be a good leader, given that his network trusted him with leading the mission to 4546B. Al-An worries about what happened to his species, and feels guilty, as he could be indirectly responsible for what happened to them. Robin accompanies him to the Architect world.Īl-An understands that being in Robin's head is uncomfortable for her, so he helps her build his new body. He says that he must return to the Architect world to repair the damage he's done. He says that it was his mistake that Kharaa was released onto 4546B. That resulted in the mother of the eggs destroying the laboratory in which its eggs and Kharaa was experimented on, thus setting the Kharaa loose.

It is revealed there that he disobeyed the directive from his network when collecting the Sea Dragon eggs. Once Robin has all the blueprints and materials, she can construct a body for Al-An at the Fabricator Base. Even between the transfer to Robin's head and getting transferred into a new body, Al-an speaks with Robin a lot. As a result, Al-An gets downloaded into Robin's head/cerebral cortex.įollowing the transfer, Robin will have to find and scan parts of Al-An's Storage Medium throughout the story, including an Architect skeleton, Architect tissues and Architect organs, which can be found at the various Architect Caches laying around Sector Zero. Al-An misunderstands and thinks Robin's equipment is part of her body and accepts her help. When Robin Ayou enters his Data Hub, she offers to download Al-An into her PDA. He sent a distress signal to the Alterra employees as well, but as soon as Alterra found him, he hid himself, claiming that Alterra's motivations didn't align with his. At some point in time, he sent a distress signal to Marguerit Maida, but she didn't answer the distress call. This might be explained by the fact that Al-An was the project leader of the Kharaa's research team, giving him access to a better storage technology. His physical body was likely disposed of afterwards, although for an unexplained reason, Al-An's mind remained intact, capable of thought and speech, unlike the other Architects encountered in The Crater.

Al-An, like the rest of his species, had his consciousness uploaded to a Data Hub.

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