PRTS
| NPC | Enemy |
- Rhodes Island (until 1101)
- Priestess (since 1101)Deactivated
- Trevor Friston (inventor; "father")
- Mark Max (sharing common root; "brother")
- Uncredited (in-game)
- Kailene Danae Falls (Prelude to Dawn)
The Primitive Rhodes Island Terminal Service (PRTS) is an NPC in Arknights. It is a major character throughout the Main Theme before becoming one of the antagonists of Episode 15.
Background[edit]
PRTS is an artificial intelligence (A.I.) that assists the amnesiac Doctor with reacquainting themselves to Rhodes Island's facilities after their rescue from Chernobog. It rarely appears in cutscenes, instead speaking to the Doctor to explain the functions of certain facilities or battle functions, and aids Dobermann with the training of Operators and is seen in several tutorial operations.
The PRTS is implied to be the player's device, or perhaps the game itself; the Doctor is asked to speak to PRTS, and upon selecting the "speak" button that appears, PRTS states that it is "not sure why [the Doctor] did not speak, but the action of touching the interface [was] sufficient".[1]
PRTS has a rather peculiar origin: she is an artificial intelligence invented by Trevor Friston during the age of the "Predecessors". She shares a common origin with Mark Max, the machine who serves as the President of Columbia, who is able to analyze human strategies and accurately predict future events.[2][3] Nevertheless, unlike Max who is sentient and has an aggressive attitude, PRTS exhibits a more passive mindset and lacks higher sentience as Max, albeit having the ability to comprehend human emotion.
Story[edit]
Episode 15[edit]
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Gallery[edit]
A corrupted copy of a Reunion soldier created by the rogue PRTS
Ditto, but is a Nachzehrer soldier
Trivia[edit]
- PRTS is the announcer of various events in-game, from an operation's outcome to RIIC-related functionalities.
- Before the introduction of English CVs, PRTS was the only character to speak English instead of Japanese, aside from Team Rainbow Operators (Ash, Blitz, Frost, and Tachanka).
- The preview of an operation map is displayed through PRTS' surveillance footage, which is referred to as "EYESOFPRIESTESS".
- When the player switches the Arknights application to background or force-closes it in the middle of 0-0 and reenters later, the operation will end immediately and a secret story will be loaded: Amiya will ask what just happened because Doctor said nothing but it feels time had stopped, and a secret voice says "The record indicates that Dr. {nickname} has switched the active application." This voice may be PRTS that is monitoring the system.
- After the secret story, the operation will be restarted at Amiya's instigation.
- In The Journey Together part of the 3rd anniversary, if player has an Operator as the assistant for 1000 or more days, PRTS will figure out the Operator "had experienced one thousandth of the hard work of the system". Thus PRTS has already worked for at least a million days (~2739 years).