Undiscovered Digital Prodigy

The Undiscovered Digital Prodigy is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

If someone had found you early in life, you might have been a prodigy. The harsh struggles of living below the level turned your prodigious talent into using your tech skills as a survival mechanism.

+1 Strength, +2 Reaction, +2 Will and +5 Tech

Source

This Hacker can be recruited after the conclusion of the Sibling Breakout Mission. The name is randomly generated.

NOTE: this recruit can generate as either male or female.

Starting Attributes

These Attributes come from the character Backstory and may be modified by the Starting Traits during the recruitment process.

• Reaction: 2
• Strength: 1
• Will: 2
• Tech: 5

Starting Traits

The Hacker will start with the following Traits:

• Hardstop 1: When hacking gain +1 Turn jamming for Security Devices from Matrix

In addition, Hacker will start with one of the following Traits, generated randomly:

• Sleuth 1: +1 Will and +3% Legwork Success
• Twitchy 1: +1 Reaction, Constant 1 Recoil penalty and +1 Initiative
• Tremors 1: Constant 1 Recoil penalty, +1 Initiative and +1m Move Detection Radius

Recruitment Dialog has no options for choosing further Traits.

Tags

The Hacker will start with the following Tags:

• Faction of Origin: Faction of Origin is Los Zagales
• Raised on the Streets: Faction: Raised on the Streets
• Los Zagales: Faction: Los Zagales
• Street Tech: Scrappy patch-it-together style of tech work.
• Sibling: Has a <brother/sister>, <member of squad>.
• Parent: Has a <mother/father>, <random Contact>. <Contact> is living in a habstack just inside the wall.
• Faction Barred: Due to bad blood and history, you are incapable of executing Legwork inside KEMCO Salvage territory without drawing the wrong kind of attention.
• Faction Deserter: Deserted KEMCO Salvage.

Recruitment Dialog has no options for choosing further Tags.

Starting Cybernetic

The Hacker will start with the following Cybernetic:

• Matrix Link: grants Hacker class, -5% Wound Res

Starting Appearance

To return Undiscovered Prodigy to his/her default appearance, copy this text to the clipboard and select "import" from his/her appearance tab:

Female:

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Male:

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Recruitment Dialog

Bulkhead: Oni, I need to talk to you, Oni. I have a family problem, you've got to help me.

Oni: What is suddenly so urgent, Bulkhead?

Bulkhead: It's about my sister, Kristina. That idiot signed up to die for KEMCO Salvage Co.

Blur: Not on one of their salvage barges?

Bulkhead: Exactly that.

Oni: Why didn't your sister just ask you for some money?

Bulkhead: We don't talk much.

Oni: Signing up with KEMCO... they don't just let you quit.

Blur: KEMCO is infamous for sweeping up the desperate below street level. You sign up, you work the barge and you die. Then somebody in your family gets a little life insurance cash.

Bulkhead: I've got to take care of this, otherwise my sister is dead.

Blur: Family aren't friends, you don't get to pick them. You know? But why is Kristina suddenly signing up?

Bulkhead: I guess my father needs some medi-op, always had bad lungs. So Kristina signed up.

Oni: You two really don't talk, do you?

Bulkhead: I know, I know. Neither of them told me about it. But I need your help, Oni.

Make your choice and continue:

• Going on one of those barges is a death sentence.
• We don't talk much, but this sure as hell doesn't have to be the price to save my father.
• KEMCO may only be B-tier corp, but they still don't let their citizens desert.

Oni: Has your sister asked you for help?

Bulkhead: Once that salvage barge takes off for Chicago, there isn't any coming back. My kid sister is young and dumb and going to get killed for nothing - that's all I could see. No, Kristina never asked but that didn't slow me down.

Bulkhead: I shouldn't have but ahh...

Blur: Oh Bulkhead, what did you do?

Bulkhead: I tried to boost her, real easy like -

Oni: You idiot -

Bulkhead: Kristina just walked right out of the gate, just that easy. I was waiting to pick her up.

Oni: B-tier or not, they don't do low security. Didn't get far, did she?

Bulkhead: Not far at all. And now she is locked up in a prison inside the training facility.

Oni: You're not leaving us a lot of good options, Bulkhead.

Make your choice and continue:

• Kristina has made a choice, why would we interfere?
• Are we going to have a problem if we can't spring Kristina?
• What would your Kristina do with another shot at freedom?

Oni: What would your Kristina do with another shot at freedom?

Bulkhead: Maybe sign on with us? Kristina got her jack at age 8 and she has been skating IC ever since. You know she is a skilled hacker because no corp put her in chains. Then she went all sacrificial and joined one. We could always use another trustworthy matrix cowboy, right?

Oni: That doesn't change that you're asking us all to take a risk on this.

Dynamite: I know firsthand what it is like to lose a sib. We need to do something while we still can and rescue Kristina.

Kristina's full recruit record can be see in the Roster so we can best consider our options if we Delay.