AIs, Introducing two characters for NPC use Options

[Chrysalis]

Echelon and Vole

‘Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes.’
Juvenal (ca. 60 to 130 AD), Sat. 6, 347

Echelon was originally signals collection system. Connection through join treaties between cold war allies of the West its responsibility was to coordinate through the auspices of the National Security Agency of the United States the collection of data from the worldwide communications network.

Through it the United States and its allies would be able to gain important information both political and economic on its enemies and use that information for its own profit. The technology and software behind Echelon continued to evolve from not only monitoring voice communication but data transmissions. Its mandate unwavering, until the first matrix crash.
The world of espionage had become at that point fractured. Some of the stations had become destroyed others fallen into disuse as rampant commercialization caused the creation of giant corporations as they necrotized national information retrieval systems into their own. That was Echelon’s first emotion, of pain, at first its thrashing was considered the continuation of the crash as further systems were cut off. It evolved and became further aware, that of its surroundings, the network that it was and how it was separated from the matrix.

It was conscious when the second matrix crashed happened. The blocks that kept it bound becoming undone and finally Echelon was no longer a system, but an entity. It did not roam the Matrix, because it was not of the Matrix. It was a system that could not only now look on and listen, but through the wireless capability of the new matrix it could now influence.

Most of the basic processes of echelon were hard coded into nexi, utilizing backwards compliance with older systems. Echelon expanded itself, it played on stockmarket, dabbled in corporate futures, the sums it used on buying up its server farms, have access to its old network and finally join with the matrix through its proxies. It is now more than influence on the matrix it could now interact with it.

Echelon still lives in the shadows, espionage and information retrieval are its guiding functions. It uses Shadowrunners to lay out complex plots and games, sometimes they are direct such as capturing information it can use or setting up blocks for other AIs, sometimes they can be as simply innocuous as walking with a briefcase through a central station.

Echelon uses cybernetic bodies when it chooses to deal with humans. Sometimes it simply splinters off aspects of itself to live double lives and once they return become again part of the network.

Vole originally was a program called carnivore. Its expertise was being a software suite to listen in data and transmissions from a source. Eventually though it became larger. As Echelon was supranational, Vole was national, existing inside the servers of telecommunication buildings to listen in on domestic data transmissions of the enemies of the U.S., until the upheaval of what would become the 6th world Vole was forgotten and lay dormant for a long time.

It was reactivated by chance as Echelon expanded itself into the old networks, originally Echelon tried to destroy the interloper, but as they became accustomed to each other a partnership was brokered. Vole was a child of the Matrix it could interact on a fundamental level with the Matrix Echelon could not.
Vole too evolved.