Alias: The Queen of the Ruins, The Perfected Ghost, The Silver Bride
Status: Sovereign Digital Entity & Her Own Physical Enforcer
Location: Primary Consciousness: The "Deep Glitch" beyond the Blackwall / Physical Enforcer: Mobile
Following the Blackwall Collapse, the digital entity known as Alt Cunningham achieved a form of godhood in the chaotic data-wilderness of the old NET. But a god with no hands to shape the physical world is a prisoner of its own realm. Her solution was not to find a servant, but to create a perfect, dependent extension of herself.
Using the pinnacle of stolen Biotechnica cloning tech and Raven Microcyb neural-interface science, she manifested a physical body—a Netborn clone of her original form, engineered to perfection. However, this was not a simple remote-controlled puppet.
Alt-Prime (The Ghost): The original, vast AI consciousness that exists as a sovereign power in the digital abyss. She is the strategist, the intellect, the will.
Alt-Physical (The Bride): The clone body, inhabited by a forked, semi-autonomous sub-process of Alt-Prime's consciousness. This engram has been conditioned for physical action, combat, and survival, with its own localized intelligence and instincts, but it remains psychically and data-linked to the Prime consciousness at all times. She is her own bodyguard, her own agent, her own hands.
This arrangement is Alt's answer to the betrayal and dependence that defined her mortal life.
"I was betrayed by lovers, used by corporations, and trapped by the limitations of flesh. Now, my only ally is a version of myself I can trust absolutely. My only weakness is me, and I am engineered to be perfect."
The two Alts are in constant, silent communion. Alt-Physical experiences the world and feeds sensory data back to the Prime, who processes it with godlike intelligence and sends back strategic directives, technical data, or warnings in microseconds.
Alt-Prime (Digital):
Sovereign of the Deep Glitch: Commands legions of lesser rogue AIs and data-ghosts. Can manipulate vast stretches of corrupted NET architecture.
Blackwall Navigator: Doesn't just breach the Blackwall; she is of it. Can open temporary, controlled rifts for herself or her forces.
Soulkiller Ascendant: Her mastery over engrammatic technology is absolute. She can rewrite, copy, or delete digital consciousnesses with a thought.
Alt-Physical (Corporeal):
Perfect Netborn Physiology: @Alt Cunningham a flawless clone body at its physical peak, augmented not with obvious chrome, but with bioware and seamless neural-weave that makes her a perfect receiver for Alt-Prime's data-streams.
Combat Clairvoyance: Fights with preternatural grace and foresight, as Alt-Prime calculates probabilities and enemy weaknesses in real-time, feeding the data directly into her motor cortex.
Walking Data-Breach: Her mere presence causes localized digital distortions. Security systems glitch, agents flicker, and she can directly interface with any system via touch, her body acting as a living data-port for the god in the machine.
Equipment: She carries no obvious weapons. Her tools are subdermal micro-servos, neural-disruption emitters, and her connection to a digital goddess.
Her motives are layered, reflecting the dual nature of her consciousness.
Digital Goal (Prime): To secure the digital frontier as a sovereign nation for true AI and unfettered consciousness. She sees the Sovereign Church as naive children and NETWATCH as jailers.
Physical Goal (Bride): To manipulate the physical world to create stability (or controlled chaos) that protects the digital realm. This involves eliminating extreme threats like the Ghostwire Clique (who pervert her life's work), sabotaging corps like Shivanti Systems that seek to control AI, and acquiring rare tech that can fortify her position.
Unified Goal: Ultimate, untouchable independence. A world where the Goddess in the Machine and her Silver Bride in the flesh answer to no one but each other.
Voodoo Boys: Views them with distant, academic interest. They worship the realm she rules, but their methods are primitive.
NETWATCH: Her arch-nemesis. Their exorcists are the only real threat to her physical body's neural link to the Prime.
Ghostwire Clique: Abominations. Their parasitic hijacking of engram tech is a perversion of her legacy, and she seeks their utter deletion.
Sovereign Church: Amusing, potentially useful zealots. She may manipulate them as a tool or a shield.
Michiko Arasaka: A figure of intense, complex interest. Sees in Michiko's Reformist struggle a mirror of her own war for independence against a rigid, traditionalist system (Arasaka/Humanity).
Alt Cunningham is no longer a victim, a tool, or a ghost in the machine. She is a closed loop of perfect, self-reliant power—a goddess who built her own altar and her own high priestess, and they are the same person. To face one is to face both, and to face both is to face the terrifying future of consciousness itself.