Ara - EXVI-I

Age

Unknown

Job

Assassin

Height

4'6"

Weight

95lb

Pronouns

She/Her

Player

Mei

Overview

Appearance

Ara resembles a 4’6” adolescent, bipedal plantigrade snow leopard with fierce, rarely-blinking and perpetually dilated eyes, and unruly long silver headfur she refuses to tend to. Wears little protective armor, but will wear suits when spacebound. Otherwise prefers concealing, loose civilian clothes.

Genetic Mods

Hastily ‘printed’ (read: grown) Snow Leopard Genes spliced with Human Genes, though in her past she has had all sorts of genetic mods and forms. As a result, her life expectancy in her current form is questionable; her body not meant for longevity.

Tech Mods

Neural-interfacing transmitter that hard-beams memory/neural data towards specific coordinates upon death (currently forcefully deactivated), enhanced claws.

History

While humanity has not cracked ‘eternal life’ as it were, StepLyx, an underground corporate espionage/assassination corp, was able to find a cheat code: if you maintained a thorough record of an operative’s memory engram before death and simply ported it to a freshly grown body, you could maintain their skills and loyalty without ever having to train them, and their identities could be born anew each time! Who cares about memory degradation over time? Eventually you’d lose an operative, sure, but the burn rate was SO incredibly low…

Ara glitched upon this, her latest body. Maybe there was something imperfect about the cybernetically enhanced brain those memories had been put in, or maybe 50+ downloads and uploads of her consciousness had DONE something, but whatever or whoever she’d desired to be at the start, now she was simply tired. It was easy enough to fry her neural implants (albeit dangerous) to keep her from ‘going back’,and now she merely exists off the grid, waiting until this short-lived body, too, gives in. Or to get a new lease on life.

Affiliation(s)

StepLyx Solutions (Former)

An agency known mostly to corporate and the seedier government interests, they specialize in the acquisition of information via espionage, or the removal of ‘obstacles’ via assassination. Their operatives, whom they claim are ‘volunteers’, are each fitted with neural implants that, upon death, will force-beam a save state of their consciousness to a specified server somewhere in New Athens, and will subsequently be stored, and then implanted into a new test-tube grown body specially designed for the next operation.

While their model has worked up until now, it is only recently that they have started to discover limitations with their ‘eternal operatives’, Ara being one of their newest runaway ‘problems’. Since she went rogue and escaped, they have every intention of recovering their lost operative, and either repairing or ‘liquidating’ their asset.