The
MAGI Supercomputers is the group of three supercomputers that
control NERV headquarters. Although Balthasar, Melchor and Caspar
may look the same, they differ in programming. This difference
makes a good Artificial Intelligence possible and sometimes
the MAGI would also deliberate on a problem.
The
MAGI Supercomputers used the personality transplant OS,
where the personality of a person is transferred to a
seventh generation system (same with an Evangelion). Since
Ritsuko 's mother (Dr. Naoko Akagi) worked with the development
of the MAGI system, her brain was placed inside the MAGI
system.
MELCHIOR-1 has the transplanted thought pattern of Naoko
as a scientist, BALTHASAR-2 as a mother and CASPER-3 as
a woman.
The
name MAGI comes from the three wise men from the east who
prophesied the birth of Jesus in the New Testament. MELCHIOR,
BALTHASAR and CASPER are also taken from the names of these
wise men. At the beginning of episode 25 ' "Air",
five MAGI-type computers in Matsushiro (MAGI-2), Germany,
the US and China tried to hack into the original MAGI located
in NERV HQ.
The
system was finished in the year 2010 AD, the same year when
Ritsuko 's mother committed suicide.