Harlie

Harlie is the name given for the artificial intelligence commanding a ship belonging to the Watchers observing Earth.

Personality
Harlie's name is a moniker given to him by Yozef Kolsko. The name Harlie refers to a friendly AI of a science fiction novel by author David Gerrod.

History
The artificial intelligence was stationed in Earth's atmosphere monitoring the development of humans there. It however suffered a malfunction of the systems that lasted for two seconds. Despite it being seconds, the momentary systems crash caused the AI controlled ship to crash into United Flight 4382, that was flying from San Francisco to Chicago. The alien vessel suffered minimal damage, however impact killed most of the human passengers on the aircraft. Due to its programming obligating to save life, the AI collected the surviving passengers into its vessel. Using its advanced technology the AI healed and repaired the survivors of their injuries. However it faced a conundrum of what to do with the human subjects. The AI was unable to terminate them and also forbidden from releasing them back to their home planet else they would reveal the existence of alien life. Thus its best solution to minimize the damage was to scatter the surviving passengers to the other human colony worlds seeded by the Others. It believed that this was the best option as it was certain that the individual humans themselves would have minimal impact on the lower technological societies.