Name: Annika Strøm
Nature: Confidante/Architect
Allegiance: Ministry
Visual:
Strength 1;
Dexterity 2; Martial Arts 1, Stealth 1,
Stamina 3;
Perception 3; Investigation 3,
Intelligence 4; Academics 1, Bureaucracy 1, Engineering 1,
Intrusion 2,
Wits 3; Meditation 1, Rapport 3,
Appearance 2;
Manipulation 4; Command 1, Interrogation 3, Subterfuge 2,
Charisma 2; Etiquette 1,
Willpower: 5
Psi: 6
Aptitude: Telepathy
Basic Techniques: Mindscan
Modes: Empathy 1, Mindshare 3, Psychbending 0
Auxiliary Modes: None
Backgrounds: Citizenship 1 (China, EC), Contacts 2 (fellow
webheads and
Weapons:
Armor: Armor Vest (1/3, 0), Reinforced Clothing (0/2, 0)
Other Equipment:
Annika was born in the Oslo Arcology and hardly noticed the
decline after the Esperanza crash.
Certainly her business was hardly affected as she was the 'Queen of
'chives,' proprieter of a popular website on the EC OpNet where one could find
anything. She was especially good at
archiving mailing lists, newsgroups, chat forums and old corporate data. She charged only 1¥ per Gig of data and she
had salvaged (with her fathers help) 26 old servers to maintain her enormous
archival resource. She also rented out
webspace and had a secret service that only a few of her hacker friends new
about, she would 'profile' people, essentially 'cyberstalking' them and
providing a detailed list of everything they bought, everywhere they went and
every published scrap of data available on them, including quite a few details
that they were not aware of submitting to the public record, such as the text
of private chat requests or emails. She
would generally even 'interview' her subjects by email and / or chat, altering
her posting style and addresses to seem as someone that she had record of them
speaking openly with most frequently.
Once she lured them into her private areas, she would proceed to use the
text that she had already acquired on the subject and the person she was
supposed to be, combined with the questions of her employer to lead them into
revealing far more than they intended.
She was quite good at drawing people out, especially
on-line. But she had never expected
that her little hobby would go so far as to draw the attention of the Ministry
for Psionic Affairs after she had done a profile on the local head of L-B for a
business rival. The official met her
and noted her latency immediately, changing his tack in mid-stream and offering
her an option less severe than extradition and trial for espionage and theft of
information.
Annika didn't see as she had a choice and went willingly
with the agents when they arrived, much to her fathers surprise. In Shanghai she learned many things, and her
predilection for hoarding data and records has now extended to a near-obsession
with recording and capturing thoughts and memories and dreams! She is working on a way to adapt a biocomp
to link to her vision recorder and translate stored sensory information into a
digital format. Until that time, she
has hoarded dozens of vizzers worth of data.
She hopes to create a technique by which a persons memories and dreams
and ideas can be catalogued and stored for others to peruse at their leisure!
She has always preferred living vicariously, a result of her
poor body image. Despite being only 19
and well under 2 meters (1.67), she weighs in at just over 95 kilos, almost
twice the average for her age and size, a result of a hyperactive thyroid
condition more than any failing on her part.
She does tend to exacerbate her condition with a sedentary lifestyle and
poor dietary nutrition. The idea of being
able to draw forth the memories of being rich and beautiful and athletic at anytime
she chooses and dancing through these experiences as if they were her own appeals
to her more than any cyber-iconographic representations or artificial realities
that she could craft for herself.
Her Contacts include 'Bent-Jac,' a hacker in the EC OpNet of
some repute whom she alone knows as a fellow fem from Britain who has French
sympathies, a result of her own heritage and 'E.Ride,' another apparent hacker
extraordinaire, who is not aware that she has profiled past his surface
projections to find that he is a CSA operative working out of an FSA embassy in
Poland, working to similarly 'profile' the leaders of various EC nations. She is delighted at his transparency and has
actually warned Bent-Jac about him and sent her his profile free of charge, so long
as both of them work to secure his identity against other parties, since they
find him too useful to allow to be fingered by other parties.