Jane

Jane
Biographical information
Born	Unknown
Died	Unknown
Known relatives	No Relatives
Physical information
Height	No Height
Eye color	No Eyes
Hair color	No Hair
Skin color	No Skin
Unusual features	Lives inside the Philotic Web
Affiliation
Canon Appearances
Ender's Game (in mind game) Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Investment Counselor Shadow of the Giant (as Investment Counselor)

Jane is an artificial intelligence living in the Ansible network and is a major character in the Ender Saga.

History

SPOILER WARNING: plot details follow.

Ender's Game

Initially, Jane was an Aiua called upon by the Buggers to serve as a link between them and Ender Wiggin, in hopes of trying to understand his brain. What they did get out of him was the image of the Mind Game, which they used to tell Ender Wiggin a message at the end of Ender's Game. At the time, this Aiua existed on a single Philotic Ray through space. Eventually, Colonel Graff commissioned for the Mind Game to be reprogrammed to invest for the long term Ender Wiggin's pension. It is in this form that Ender and Jane first meet.

Investment Counselor

In Investment Counselor, Jane appears to Ender, who is working on a computer trying to figure out his financial situation, while just after he has disembarked from flight to Sorelledolce. Initially, he dismisses Jane, but on her second appearance, finally accepts her presence. Meanwhile, Benedetto, a tax man, finds out the true identity of this "Andrew Wiggin" to be the "Andrew Wiggin", Ender the Xenocide. Benedetto proceeds to try to blackmail Ender, but Jane appears, admonishing him against doing it. So instead, Benedetto sends a previously typed essay proving that Ender is in fact, Ender the Xenocide, to which Jane attaches another essay detailing all of his blackmailing schemes, which leads to his imprisonment. Eventually he is killed while in prison, and Ender Wiggin offers to speak at Benedetto's funeral. Later, Ender and Valentine leave Sorelledolce with knowledge of Jane after 10 weeks.

Speaker for the Dead

Jane is first introduced to audiences in the 1986 novel Speaker for the Dead as an Artificial Intelligence that has accompanied now 36 years old Ender Wiggin through out his galactic travels. (To be Continued)

Notes

• No special notes.

Trivia

• Jane appeared in the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival as part a Kanye West performance there, which was delayed partially due to elaborate state set-up.

Quotes

• "I'm the friend and financial adviser you've been wishing for, but I don't work for money, I work for you." First Meetings, Investment Counselor

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References

• Ender's Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the Mind
• Shadow of the Giant

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