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Switchburn
Real Name: Tracy Shea
Race: Homo sapiens sapiens
Professional Rating: 3 / 4 (Matrix)
Threat Rating: 2 / 6 (Matrix)
As a child,
Tracy showed a natural aptitude in the direction of electronics. At 8
she reprogrammed the home trid theater to receive every channel their service
offered (much to her parents' delight). By ten she was hacking into many
of the neighbors home systems and by twelve she could push right through the
school board's mainframe security to amend her grades. By the time she
was a senior in high school she was being offered scholarships by all of the
major technologically oriented universities in UCAS and California. She
decided on a smaller private liberal arts college in northern California called
the California Institute for Creative Technologies and Art (CICTA). While
she was there (with a weighty scholarship to boot), she excelled in the computer
science major, taking on concentrations in holomedia presentation, networking
and systems linkages, as well as developing her field of study in Matrix/reality
replication. By the time she was a sophomore, she was already receiving
various other scholarships from other institutions, organizations, and corporations.
While performing a summer internship at a Fuchi programming lab in San Francisco,
she caught their interest and was able to secure an unrestricted grant for her
continued study when she returned to school. Coupled with a research grant
she received from the Foundation for the Reassertion of UCAS Presence in Computer
Development (FRUPCD), she had nearly 5 million nuyen to play with. Her
junior year she served on a panel of 200 individuals worldwide for the evaluation
of MNML v.5.6 and began her senior project involving intrasystem component linkage.
It was during this time that she developed her interest in "bus" technologies
and theorized on how a "bused" MPCP chip could accelerate Matrix performance.
Her senior year was intense from the first day, beginning with the continuation of her research begun the previous year. With insight gained her junior year on Matrix-Neural Interface Mark-up Language, she began an intensive experiment in her attempt to not only bus two MPCP chips, but to accelerate Personaware programs with some kind of supplementary MPCP chip. Her experiment was successful and she constructed a fully operation cyberdeck with an MPCP equivalency rating of 16 by busing two level 8 chips. Not only did this drastically reduce the cost and overall production time, but improved the deck's response time when interpreting Matrix environments. However, the bus system was still buggy and had many quirks and kinks that would prevent the technology from being marketable in the near future -- although it would proliferate quickly once it was perfected. Regardless, she was the only one who knew anything about how to properly bus the MPCP chips. Despite her brilliance in this field, the dean of the college refused to allow her to graduate since she never successfully completed all of the college's core requirements despite her successful completion of over 340 credits worth of other classes. Lacking enough money to stay at the college another year without her scholarship, she packed up her research into a van she had had altered and took off in something of a panic.
Without a degree and in debt, Tracy found herself returning home to Seattle with millions of nuyen worth of gear which was (for all intents and purposes) stolen as well as what probably equated to billions of nuyen worth of research and raw technology. Fearing for her welfare, she withdrew to the underground, transplanting herself from Seattle to Portland (Maine) in order to put a greater distance between herself and whomever might be trying to "get" her. Tracy's first order of business was to get herself out of debt, so she borrowed money from the Mafia to pay off her unpaid school bills. She began working in the only other industry she knew of (the club scene) as a DJ, producer, and performer, making enough to keep the Mafia at bay for a while, but not enough to live. So she reluctantly entered the shadow business as a decker. Not realizing that Fuchi was after what they considered their prototype with a vengeance.
Tracy lives as quietly as possible in Portland. After returning to Seattle after being kicked out of school, she realized that if Fuchi or anyone else that knew about the MPCP-bus technology wanted to get it from her, that they would logically look for her in her home town of Seattle. That was when she thought to move as far away as she could. After considering many factors in her head, she decided on Portland. It was just the right size and had a strong technological presence she could later exploit if she perfected the MPCP-bus. (Her experience with the FRUPCD taught her to try and keep computer technologies developed in America in America.) Renting a very small flat in the Old Port area, she decks and works out of her van. Legitimately, she DJs at many of the local clubs and mixes compilation CDs and has even produced her own album ("Digital Stealth"). She frequently haunts the cafes on Exchange Street which seem to cater to her "type." Though she does not always run with the same group of shadowfolk (partly because half the "team" resides in Boston), she almost always works with a street samurai calling herself Charade. Generally quiet and withdrawn, though not without reason. Switchburn is caught up in a rapidly evolving situation whereupon she must contend with completing her work on the MPCP-bus, evading Fuchi and other megacorporations, paying back the Mafia, and avoiding the attention of the law.
| Attributes
Body: 2 Quickness: 3 Strength: 2 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 6 (9) Willpower: 6 Essence: 2.45 Reaction: 4 Initiative: 7+1D6 (Physical) / 11+4D6 (Matrix) |
Skills
Car (Van / Ford Cargo 2052): 2 Computer: 4 -(Hardware): 7 * Interface Tech: 9 -(Software): 6 * Decking: 9 Computer (B/R): 8 Computer Theory: 3 -(Hardware): 4 * Interface Tech: 5 -(Software): 4 * Interface Programming: 6 * Matrix Programming: 5 Electronics: 2 -(Linking Between Devices): 5 Etiquette (Matrix): 6 Etiquette (Street): 4 Firearms (Pistols): 2 Languages English: 5 |
| Cyberware
Datajack Encephalon-3 Math SPU-2 Neural Bridge Programming SPU-4 300 Mp FIFF Memory |
Edges
& Flaws Aptitude (Computers) Background Trouble (Debts and Favors) College Education Hypochondriac Prone-to-Panic Shy |
seriously
Breadboarded
Cyberdeck
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Software
Audiotechnologies Prowave v.3.0 Waveform Editor (128 Mp)
Audiotechnologies Prosound v.8.4 Sequencing Software (102 Mp)
Attack-L10 (area-4, optimization, 300 Mp)
Attack-M10 (DINAB-4, optimization, 350 Mp)
Attack-S12 (skulk-3, optimization, 504 Mp)
Attack-D8 (one-shot, optimization, 120 Mp)
Camo-10 (optimization, 150 Mp)
Cloak-6 (optimization, 54 Mp)
Crash-6 (108 Mp)
Disinfect-10 (200 Mp)
Poison-6 (108 Mp)
Read/Write-8 (128 Mp)
Shield-4 (optimization, 32 Mp)
Sleaze-8 (192 Mp)
Spoof-5 (75 Mp)