Gideon (Waverider)


 * For the Gideon used by Eobard Thawne, see Gideon.

Gideon is an interactive artificial consciousness programmed to operate the Waverider's critical systems and to aid Rip Hunter on his mission. Its holographic appearance is strikingly similar to that of the Gideon system that will be created by Barry Allen.

History
When Rip Hunter stole the Waverider, Gideon asked Rip what he meant to retrieve. Gideon was told not what, but who. Gideon was then asked to pull out the files of eight men and women.

When the eight men and women boarded the Waverider, Gideon introduced itself to them.

After Rip Hunter left with Carter Hall, Kendra Saunders, Martin Stein and Ray Palmer, Jefferson tried to order Gideon to take him home, though Gideon told Jefferson it was programmed not too. When Gideon asked an enraged Jefferson if he needed a sedative, the Waverider was attacked. When the team returned to the Waverider with Aldus Boardman, Gideon told them Aldus had sustained severe internal injuries. After Carter dies at the hands of Vandal Savage, Gideon identifies different rocks within Kendra's body that come to be the after-effects of the stabbing given by Savage to Kendra with the Amon Dagger. When Leonard Snart returns from a personal confrontation between him and his father in order to help his father avoid an arrest, Gideon shows that two days after the confrontation his father Lewis would sell to an undercover cop and still get arrested even after changing history.

After Rip Hunter "kills" Savage at a ritual in 1976, he orders Gideon to time-travel to 1985. Once there, Gideon intercepts personal files from the Pentagon over Savage's whereabouts and his newly-hired scientist Valentina Vostok. To help Ray and Leonard speak Russian, Gideon modifies their voices with larynx capsules provided by Rip. When Ray, Leonard, and Professor Stein discover & invade Vostok's laboratory, Stein discovers a thermal core, several corpses, and photos which reveal attempts at making a Soviet Firestorm. After all three are captured and Sara decides not to kill Stein, Gideon predicts with a projection that in 2016, Star City will be invaded by multiple Soviet Firestorms. However, the undercover mission of the Legends in which they are to get each other out of Savage's prison works and Gideon hovers the Waverider quickly to rescue the team right before the Soviet Firestorm (the mutated Valentina Vostok) triggers a nuclear explosion within her body. As the team celebrates, Gideon senses the presence of the bounty hunter Chronos that is attacking them. Hunter quickly orders Gideon to subdue the attacks; Gideon manages to fight off all of the missiles except one. The missile ultimately comes to knock them out of the timestream and the Waverider lands in a mysterious location.

When Rip Hunter asks Gideon what year they are after having landed the Waverider safely, the AI computer responds that they are in the year 2046. When Sara sees a Smoak Technologies building, she speculates that they are in Star City; their assumption is furthermore strengthened when they confront a mysterious archer.