K8T

CONNECTION: Direct Neural Implant + AR Suite

AI ASSISTANT: Weak AI “Daedalus”

DIGITAL APPEARANCE: Avatars selected for tactical reasons Kevin Hensmith was orphaned as a child when his parents were killed by rival powers within the city government. From the age of six he walked the dirty streets, living under the protection of homeless elders. In his teens he did bad things for money and sold his body for favors. At sixteen Kevin disappeared for a year and emerged as K8T. No explanation has been given for that year; all public records have been changed, and K8T deflects any inquiry. Whoever changed Kevin to Katie isn’t talking, but her entire body was restructured on the genetic level from a male to a female.

K8T is a techno-savant. Give her any computer and she can make it work. She rolls with a notorious street gang called the Tube Rats. These homeless vagrants create “nests” in the spaces between vactubes, in unused facilities and buildings all throughout the tube system. Tube Rats are proficient at riding the tubes and using their service access. Every so often K8T gets a coded message from a Whisperer to perform some seemingly random action that triggers a larger series of events. She receives good money for her computer work.

K8T is tall and lanky with a punk-rock aesthetic, a free-thinking rebel to the core. She is considered Queen of the Tube Rats, a transient mercenary with ninja-like talents.

Book 1: “Rat Queen to Black King” (S L Koch)