Who is Sati?
Who is Sati?
Sati's most obvious purpose is to control weather inside of the Matrix, because Sati is able to create an impossibly beautiful sunset in the name of Neo at the very end of M3.
But there is a less obvious purpose that Sati has which is hinted at by the following four clues:
To me it is obvious enough that Sati is the Oracle's apprentice. She will probably someday be given the Oracle's eyes and perhaps even replace the Oracle. Because of the evolved understanding that Sati's program father Rama-Kandra has of love, not to mention her program mother Kamala's expertise as an "interactive software engineer", Sati might be able to see past irrational choices that are not understood by the decision maker. In all three movies, there are numerous irrational choices made that even the Oracle cannot see past, and in fact irrational choice (or belief) seems to be the main thread throughout the movie.
Also, the Oracle "believes" Sati will be important, just as she "believed" Neo would defeat Smith. So, the Oracle may be taking another chance (see Oracle: The Believer). This parallel belief does not imply at all that Sati is the next One (see Debunked: Sati the Next One).
First, it is important to remember exactly how Neo ended up in Mobil Avenue at the end of M2. If you need to, review Neo: In Mobil Avenue.
Sati was probably originally created to replace the Oracle's function of Prime Program, just as the Oracle replaced the Merovingian in Matrix version 3 (see Matrix System: Revision History). Sati's hybrid nature would make her an ideal candidate to achieve a higher understanding of humans by combining the precision of the Architect with the intuition of the Oracle. But when Neo did not choose the right door, there was no reinsertion of a Prime Program, and Sati therefore lost her purpose.
Remember that Neo and Sati were in the train station at the exact same time. Coincidence? No. The function of the One is to return to the Source, and the function of Sati was to be reinserted as the Prime Program. Both lost their function, and both did not want to be deleted. Neo was placed in Mobil Avenue, and Sati was smuggled into Mobil Avenue. Remember that Neo stopped the sentinels only a few minutes after walking through the left door since saving Trinity took only a couple minutes (including the few seconds he took to fly out the building and catch her), and talking to the Oracle took another few minutes. Sati and her parents had probably already waiting in Mobil Ave. for 10 or 15 minutes when Neo woke up in Mobil Avenue.
Sati's losing her purpose or fulfilling her purpose all rested upon which door Neo chose, and that would add to the Oracle's need to know which door Neo would choose, so that the Oracle would know whether to tell Rama-Kandra and Kamala about it or not. That is why the Oracle asked Neo if his visions actually show Trinity dying. If Neo had been able to see Trinity die, it would have meant that Neo chose the right door, because such a choice would have been rational, understood by Neo, and therefore Neo would have seen past it with the eyes of the Oracle (see Neo's Powers: Vision of Future). After that conversation, the Oracle says to Neo, "you made a believer out of me". The fact that Neo can't see Trinity die tells the Oracle that Neo is going to make an irrational decision, not a rational one!
Immediately after this, the Oracle must have contacted Rama-Kandra to have Sati transferred to her care (see the last point of Oracle: Baking Noodles). If Sati were indeed created to be the next Prime Program, the Oracle probably would not be able to live with herself knowing that wild changes she initiated caused an innocent child program to be deleted before she could ever function, especially when that child is going to be so important. This would explain why the Oracle was willing to make such a big sacrifice for the girl by giving up her own shell.
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