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'''Cores''' (also referred to as '''Spheres''', '''Personality Cores/Spheres''', or '''Personality Constructs''') are softwares containing advanced artificial intelligence, mostly unique for their ability to express emotions.

Each unique core is downloaded into individual androids and other sentient machinery in the [[Aperture Science]] computer-aided Enrichment Center, such as the [[Turrets#Sentry Turret|Turrets]], [[Atlas]], and [[P-body]].

Developed by [[Aperture Science]] technicians, [[GLaDOS]] is the earliest known personality core - specifically designed for becoming the Enrichment Center's overseer. The later cores however, were initially given the purpose of counteracting GLaDOS' merciless behavior, such as flooding test chambers and other vital parts of the facility with [[neurotoxin]], and her attempts to seize control of the Enrichment Center.

Often present in the form of spherical shapes, these cores are a more simplistic design as their purpose had been more at hand instead. This contrasts with the majority of the designs of Aperture androids in the Enrichment Center that are personality core-based such as [[Atlas]] (enclosed core design), [[P-body]] (core inputs), and all types of [[Turrets]] (also core inputs).

{{spoiler|After the events of ''Portal'', it became apparent that the other unused cores kept in storage have been reactivated by the facility to maintain the Enrichment Center. Under unexpected circumstances, these cores have failed to do so and have became corrupted within the many years passing after the events of ''Portal'' and the beginning of ''Portal 2''. It is unknown if other cores, besides [[Wheatley]], had undergone a similiar fate.}}

As the name implies, each core has its own unique personality and behavior, which can be incorporated into the central core when they are physically attached to it. However, when a personality core did not affect the emotions of a current central core, the core would then be deactivated and kept in storage. {{spoiler|This storage was later reactivated after the destruction of GLaDOS in ''Portal'', but ended up as a disaster years later in ''Portal 2'', as most of these cores have either corrupted or became damaged.}}

{{spoiler text|During the conflict with GLaDOS in ''Portal'', whenever [[Chell]] would drop a personality core into an [[Emergency Intelligence Incinerator|incinerator]], not only did GLaDOS experience pain when they are destroyed, she also began to lose some of her reinforced prominent personality traits. These include as her references to [[cake]], her bitter sarcasm, and her moral values, which resulted in a much stronger desire to kill Chell.}}

The '''Central Core''' is the highest rank of all Aperture androids in the Enrichment Center, given to personality cores that are hardwired into the facility's mainframe body.

A central core is the rank of power to control and regulate the entire Enrichment Center, is capable of overseeing all events occurring within monitored areas of the facility, creating and stockpiling test chambers, constructing and dispensing [[Turrets]], and activating core functions among other things.

{{spoiler|During the events of ''Portal 2'', it becomes apparent that any form of personality core would be more than qualified to be hardwired into the mainframe to become a central core. This is a feature preset by Aperture as a means of replacing rogue or simply corrupted central AI; and if the central core happens to disagree with their impeachment, a Stalemate Resolution Associate will have to force the replacement procedure.}}  

[[GLaDOS]], whom was designed with the sole purpose of being the central core herself; did not need to possess a spherical shape like other personality cores.

=== Intelligence Core ===

[[Image:LogicCore.png|right|150px|Intelligence Core]]

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GLaDOS' third core, the '''Intelligence Core''' (also known as the Logic Core), has a blue 'eye' with a huge pupil with six dots beneath it. It rambles on about an odd recipe for a rather unique kind of cake, {{Spoiler|which is the cake shown before the end credits of ''Portal''. GLaDOS does not make references to [[Cake]] in ''Portal 2'', and it is presumed that this is because the Core was destroyed in Portal.}}

Due to technical difficulties over time, a core may be automatically labeled as a '''Corrupted Core''' and would be subject to disposal. However, if the corrupted core is the central core, a substitute core must be present in a core receptacle in order to initiate a core transfer. Once a substitute core is found, both cores must agree or disagree to the core transfer procedure. If one agrees while the other disagrees, the transfer process cannot occur unless a Stalemate Resolution Associate is present in order to press the stalemate resolution button, which will initiate the core transfer process once the Associate has returned to the core transfer bay.

{{spoiler text|During the fight against Wheatley in ''Portal 2'', GLaDOS drops three of these cores to Chell for her to attach to Wheatley in order to make him corrupt enough to initiate another core transfer procedure.}}

The '''Fact Sphere''' is the third corrupted core. It constantly states several random, twisted and not entirely true "facts" related to history, the current situation, as well as apparent facts about how right and handsome it is.