... I think SAGE saw potential in programs to be rare and valuable and chose from there. I... do not remember what I was, before-- er, pardon, VINCI was, before he was turned into a Crypto. All I know is that Joscelin was assigned to me as a guardian once we were both converted to Cryptos. PHLP came along a little later, but VINCI happily accepted PHLP as his own.

But once we were converted, we were each assigned such different tasks that there was hardly any overlap. Even once SAGE had disappeared and we modified our purposes to combat the Automata, none of us focused on the same thing. I was in charge of finding a vaccine for the corruption; another was in charge of curing it. Still another was in charge of finding some way to tame the feral Automata roaming the Grid, and so on.