How does Angel have a brain the size of a planet?
I was walking through Sawtooth Cauldron, and got an ECHO recording with the following dialog:
Handsome Jack: So what's this Zero guy doing on Pandora in the first place?
Angel: I dunno.
Handsome Jack: Angel, you've got a brain the size of a planet. Don't give me 'I dunno.
Angel: From what footage we have of him, I can't even tell if Zero's human or not.
Handsome Jack: W-w-what do you mean, not human? Is he a robot? An alien? What?
Angel: I dunno.
(Copied from here)
I originally interpreted this as Angel's computer "brain", which could be huge for all we know.
At this point in the story though, we already know that Angel
is a siren, not an AI; and obviously Jack knew this all along.
As you can see from the image below:
Her head is clearly not the size of a planet, since this image is from when she's standing right in front of you.
What does Jack mean by this?
Best Answer
Angel has a neural interface that networks her with all the Hyperion computers on Pandora.
You can see this throughout the Borderlands games, when she speaks through and exerts direct control over computers.
So, although the statement is not literally true in regards to the organic brain in her skull, Angel effectively has a brain the size of a planet, because her neural network covers Pandora's surface (as well as satellites in orbit).
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