209. Niamh Griffin

Niamh Griffin is much older than she seems. She was one of the first generation to be born and raised in space, aboard the O'Neill cylinder Verdigris. Born into wealth, Niamh managed her money well, and although she never met with any substantial professional successes, she grew only more wealthy over the years. At the age of 50, she migrated to Luna and added plasticity treatments to her slowly cultivated suite of mental augmentations. The plasticity treatments have destroyed her ability to maintain memories past a decade, leaving her disconnected from her past. Without a sense of continuity or history, she remakes herself periodically, throwing herself into newly discovered passions. 

Currently Niamh is occupied with pursuing info-brokering, although as a hobby more than a career. She loves learning secrets, especially the secret histories of transhumanity and its organizations, an interest that has made her a concern of both Firewall and OZMA.

Mechanic

Morph: Neotenic

Motivations: +Individualism, +Thrill Seeking, +Secrets

COG 25 COO 15 INT 25 REF 15 SAV 25 SOM 10 WIL 15
MOX - INIT 8 SPD 1 LUC 30 TT 6 IR 60 DUR 30 WT 6 DR 45

Active Skills: Deception 55, Hardware: Electronics 40, Infosec 70, Interfacing 55, Intimidation 45, Kinesics 68, Kinetic Weapons 35, Medicine: Psychiatry 55, Networking: Criminals 45, Networking: Hypercorps 63, Perception 45, Persuasion 78, Programming 65, Protocol 78, Psychosurgery 65, Research 55

Knowledge Skills: Academics: Cryptography 65, Academics: Psychology 80, Art: Poetry 65, Interest: Rumors 65, Interest; Conspiracies 65, Profession: Info Brokerage 55, Profession: Mesh Security Operations 70

Reputation: c-rep 100

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack, Enhanced Pheremones, Endocrine Control, Plasticity Treatments

158. Darwin Nosek

Darwin Nosek is a hyperelite scion, bio-artist, small player in Lunar politics, large player on Mercury, Extropian consultant, anarchist firebrand, Buddhist monk, and more. He can be all of these things because he is also the originator of choice forking.

Everyone is faced with important choices, choices that determine the path of their lives. Nosek hated making difficult choices; he couldn't stand not knowing where each will lead. Instead of simply accepting the way of things, the resources and mindset of a hyperelite scion found him a way to have his cake and eat it too. Instead of limiting himself to one option or another, he forks himself, and follows both options.

One of the earliest and most significant decisions Nosek forked was whether or not to leave Earth for Mars as his family began to acquire assets off-world. His Martian fork lost much of its fortune and began to be influenced by voices hyperelite society normally drowned out. He forked and one traveled to Extropia, where he became a true proponent of anarchism.

The fork left on Earth retained a typical hyperelite lifestyle, forking several choices. The details are largely lost however, as only two offshoots of that fork survived the fall. Those forks went to Luna and Mercury. The Lunar fork is perhaps the most unchanged from the original Darwin Nosek, maintaining a vapid hyperelite lifestyle. The Mercurial fork buckled down and found himself rapidly gaining political influence, and is working his way towards a position in the Planetary Consortium proper.

Relations between inner and outer system forks mirror the politics of the system as a whole. Both inner and out forks wonder what choice could possibly have allowed for such naive idealism, both groups are ostensibly peaceable but exploring their options, and both groups tend to mediate their interactions through the extropian, who has become quite wealthy exploiting his disparate connections.

Mechanics

By the nature of their creation, every fork of Nosek is notably different, and each will have different stats. A fork is best created using the character creation packages from Transhuman: each fork has the 3pp Hyperelite: Scion background package, and can be plausibly built in almost any direction from there.

87. Gloria de la Poer

Gloria de la Poer was born in the then-new Nytrondheim dome of Valles New-Shanghai. Her mother was one of the scientists in charge of early terraforming efforts, her father a security contractor who died before she was born. Her education was informal, run by educational software, with occasional ad-hoc lessons from her mother. She eventually became impatient with software, and began learning from her own experiments and research. By the time she had become an adult she was ready to work on terraforming with her mother, but she instead chose a long trip to Earth.

Pre-Fall Earth was not yet dead, but it was dying. Those sections of humanity not wracked by drought, famine and war were engaged in hundreds of projects hoped to buy the biosphere time. Gloria de la Poer began freelance work for these projects, spreading her talents and reputation widely across scientific networks. It was here that she created the first manna tree. Whether Earth could have been saved will forever be a mystery, as the TITANs brought a sudden conclusion to the struggles of the planet. When the evacuation of Earth began, she was considered a priority, and on one of the first ships out.

Evacuated to Luna, she made a fortune by selling biological samples and genetic material she brought with her from Earth, as well as by helping to design ecological systems for the new habitats and expansions necessitated by the diaspora. She was able to purchase a private habitat in Lunar orbit, complete with some of the best biological labs in the system. She now spends her time on her own research, emerging only to sell some of her results when necessary.

Gloria de la Poer is interested in immortality. Her personal immortality is assured: she has backups, medichines and a cortical stack like everyone else. She is interested in creations that will live beyond her, and has a fixation on children, literally and figuratively. Her progeny include her son, enhanced for speed and loyalty, who serves as her bodyguard, her two daughters, both enhanced for intelligence, and both now independent and working on their own projects, and a variety of smart animals spliced with sections of her DNA. She is currently attempting to create a morph that will periodically metamorphose, resetting its biological clock as well as altering itself as necessary.

Mechanics

Morph: Menton

Motivations: +Science, +Career, +Immortality

COG 30 COO 15 INT 20 REF 15 SAV 20 SOM 15 WIL 20
MOX - INIT 8 SPD 1 LUC 40 TT 8 IR 80 DUR 35 WT 7 DR 53

Active Skills: Animal Handling 60, Interfacing 80, Investigation 50, Medicine: Biosculpting 75, Medicine: Gene Therapy 70, Medicine: Nanomedicine 70, Networking: Ecologists 50, Networking: Hypercorps 78, Networking: Media 40, Networking: Scientists 68, Perception 50, Persuasion 60, Protocol 80

Knowledge Skills: Academics: Biology 85, Academics: Economics 75, Academics: Genetics 75, Interest: Smart Animals, Language: French (native) 80, Profession: Biodesign 85, Profession: Lab Technician 75

Reputation: c-rep 150, r-rep 90

Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack, Eidetic Memory, Hyper Linguist, Math Boost, Enhanced Hearing, Enhanced Vision, Medichines, T-Ray Emitter, Clean Metabolism, Enhanced Pheromones, Endocrine Control

Notes

Inspired by the character Sri Hong-Owen from Paul McAuley's The Quiet War.