EDI (Mass Effect)

EDI, short for Enhanced Defense Intelligence, is the artificial intelligence of the .

Appearance
EDI is represented by a holographic floating blue sphere.

Personality
EDI is very analytic but regularly attempts humour. Typical among AI of her type, she is curious about love and misunderstands a lot of its concepts.

Policies
EDI upholds.

Powers
AI Powers
 * Cyberwarfare
 * EDI is capable of programming, hacking and preventing digital offensives.

used the Normandy to observe the ongoing events after the deployment of into. EDI was present, reporting on 's reactions.

Original Events, Pre-
After the death of Haruhi and the merging of Gensokyo and into, The SOS Brigade on the Normandy were held hostage by Commander  and his crew , members of , to protect them from  , a massive group of people devoted to the collapse of. , as the most powerful of the remaining members of the SOS Brigade, was allowed free roam.

's Changes
Naluri Sihara and Sasaki successfully used The DeLorean to time travel back to just before Haruhi was killed by but Sasaki abandoned Naluri after  was used on Haruhi. The Normandy took part in the battle, with the blessing of, over the activation of The DeLorean, fighting , and.

, a sentient crystal ball, was briefly released from statis in to allow Haruhi to examine him for danger. As an, he was deemed a harmless object but was placed back in statis just in case. However, in the time he was free, he digitalised the surrounding area, making the statis ineffective. The digitisation spread throughout the universe, including EDI.

Yggdrasil's digitalisation passed through covering, inadvertently allowing , who had been imprisoned in there since Doomsday, to escape. Skynet established control over all digital beings and machines, including EDI.

, including who had managed to establish a digital connection to the universe due the digitalisation, agreed to stage a fake war to coax  to feel true fear, the last missing emotion of, to allow them to return to their original worlds. Under the guise of a difference in ideals between Haruhi, Miku and Reimu, were refounded. EDI remained with Yamaha, said to believe that imprisonment of certain beings was necessary to ensure the safety of others. As part of the plan, Gensokyo declared war on Yamaha and North High.

EDI, with the Normandy, airlifted the, along with the , out of , , , to but was shot down by the  before she could land the Enterprise for.