 Mr. Damien Knight, What do we know about him? |
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 Oct 22 2003, 11:52 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446  |
I'm starting a new project for my website: a brief dossier on the big characters in SR, but I don't own many novels, so many details slip from me.
We know he's a cold-blooded bastard, with way too much brain for anyone. He owns the biggest part in Ares due to the Nanosecond Buyout (with Dunkelzahn's help?). He's subtle and arrogant. Has a good presence and manners (anyone has a more detailed description?). Something more? |
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Oct 22 2003, 11:58 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
I haven't got the time to get into details right now but there are a lot of sources for Damien Knight information, the biggest are:
Target:UCAS (Detroit) Blood in the Boardroom (Ares-Cross war) Corporate Download (Ares) Dragonheart Trilogy (1st book - Roxborough links Knight to Dunkie; 2nd book - reveals the truth about Gavilian Ventures when Knight captures Ryan) |
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Oct 22 2003, 12:34 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Knight was a hacker and programmer...back before there were deckers, that is. He was working for Roxy, and may have been partially responsible for creating the Crash Virus. Dunkelzahn convinced him to sign on to Echo Mirage, where he became best buddies with Kyle Haeffner (Alice's hubbie), and he fought the virus with prototype decks and the primitive SK that became Psychotrope/Mirage.
After the CRash, he dissapeared around the time the government was cleaning house at Echo Mirage. With DUnkelzahn's help and Lucien Cross' technical support, he performed the Nanosecond Buyout, which netted him control of Ares, Cross the bare bones of what would be Cross Corp, and Dunkie Gavilian Ventures. Since then, he's run his little corporate empire from Detroit, forming Knight Errant and Ares FireWatch teams, which hit bug hives in the 2050's on the reccomendation of Dunkelzahn. He helped back DUnkie's presidential bid, and developed a hate-hate relationship with Cross, but he never let the fued develop while the wyrm was alive, as DUnkie was protecting the fledgling corp. He's known as an excellent chessplayer (played with Dunkelzahn in matches lasting days/weeks), and decker. He take regular Leonization treatments. |
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Oct 22 2003, 01:07 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 731 Joined: 25-March 02 From: Rye, New York Member No.: 2,470 |
He takes a personal interest in the Knight Errant Security Division of Ares Macrotech, which implies it has more of an interest to him than just a money making part of his corp.
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Oct 22 2003, 02:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
Do we have any phisical description of him? I don't recall any in the sourcebooks Synner mentioned, but it might appear in any of the novels.
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Oct 22 2003, 02:21 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
He's described in the Dragonheart book in which he interrogates Mercury. I'm pretty sure there are descriptions of him elsewhere (beyond the "60 but looks 30" stuff).
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Oct 22 2003, 02:27 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Damien Knight is a bad, bad man.
*It is known he likes to eat human babies, sometimes while they're still alive. *He keeps a harem of abused slave women in the basement of his mansion. *He uses BTL and Novacoke regularly, and sold off Ares pension funds to pay for his habit. *The Bug spirits that took over Chicago were just an experiment of his that got out of control. *He likes to wear women's clothing. ---This public service message brought to you by KiddieMedia43, a subsidiary of Cross Applied Technologies. "Remember kids, tell your parents how bad Damien Knight is!" |
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Oct 22 2003, 02:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
Anyone got it near him? I'm afraid I don't own the novel, so I can't go check it. :(
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Oct 22 2003, 02:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 223 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,067 |
There's a nice picture of him as a younger guy in Corporate Download... I dunno if it is a reprint from Blood in the Boardroom or not, but it is definitely out there. =)
Athenor |
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Oct 22 2003, 03:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 15-September 03 From: Worcester, MA Member No.: 5,621 |
Another thing to keep in mind is that Knight did not actually win plurality shares in Ares with the Nanosecond Buyout. He ended up with exactly as many shares as then CEO, and founder's son, Leonard Aurelius. This ended with Knight being CEO and Leonard being chairman of the board. Cue Ares infighting between Knight and Aurelius for total domination of the corporation.
It wasn't until Nadja Daviar proxied Gavilon Ventures (inherited in Dunk's will) to Knight for a period of two years (happened in one of the Dragon Heart novels) that Knight solidly cements his control of Ares. Aurelius flees to Cross Applied Technologies. To quote the Archive Timeline Explorer "2033: Damien Knight, a previously unknown financier, initiates his now-famous Nanosecond Buyout of Ares Industries. Using a series of expertly programmed computers in Stockholm, Sweden, Knight executes a series of transactions so complicated that they can only be read by another computer. By the end of the minute that the transactions took, three corporations have ceased to exist, two multi-millionaires have lost their fortunes, three people have become multi-millionaires, and Damien Knight has acquired 22 percent of Ares Industries. At the next shareholders meeting Knight takes the CEO position from Leonard Aurelius." And for reference, "2031: Echo Mirage head Major David Gavilan disappears without a trace". David Gavilan is the old name of Damien Knight. |
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Oct 22 2003, 03:28 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
...And that picture has a spelling mistake (says Gavilin instead of Gavilan)
IIRC, Arthur Vogel has more shares thanKnight, but Knight controls a lot of proxy votes. |
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Oct 22 2003, 03:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 731 Joined: 25-March 02 From: Rye, New York Member No.: 2,470 |
Gee, that just sounds like Adam. |
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Oct 22 2003, 07:03 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-April 03 Member No.: 4,450 |
Physically, and I'm sure this has been supported by what few pics there have been of him, I've always imagined Damien Knight as a large, physically imposing man with short black hair and a well trimmed black beard. Touch of gray at the temples (Now I know that's in one of the sourcebooks :D ), and the body of an Olympic athlete.
Basically the implication, I think, is that Damien Knight looks like... well.... Ares. As in the Greek god. Actually... kinda looks like Mr. Darke too, doesn't he? :eek: |
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Oct 22 2003, 07:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
Daviar was blackmailed into giving her votes to Knight.
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Oct 22 2003, 07:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
How's that? Didn't Daviar give him her votes because Dunkie said so? |
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Oct 22 2003, 07:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
If i remember right, from the dragon heart novels, knight had something on her that forced her to giver her votes to him. I think that something had to do with Ryan Mercury.
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Oct 22 2003, 07:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
Who exactly is Mercury? Her bodyguard? Her boyfriend? The cyberzombie?
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Oct 22 2003, 07:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 714 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .nl Member No.: 116 |
Ryan Mercury - a.k.a. Quicksilver: the ones that didn't see that one coming can leave the room NOW - is her lover, and was Dunkelzahn's primary shadow-agent.
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Oct 22 2003, 08:05 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
He's also a drake, and-and a Uber-powerful physad trained by Dunkie hisself, and-and a physical magician being trained by Harlequin, AND HE'S NAILING THE vICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...Aeiiiii!
<Ancient's head explodes trying to fathom the sheer munchkiness of Ryan Frickin' Mercury> |
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Oct 22 2003, 08:06 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
Hey, he's only munchy if a player is playing him. Otherwise he's "challenging." :D
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Oct 22 2003, 08:10 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
You call that a challenge?!! :eek: I call that a freaking suicide!!!
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Oct 22 2003, 08:21 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
Oh come on he's not that powerful, I got a few characters who could take him out... wait, did you say Ryan Mercury, oh yeah, he is that powerful :)
What ever hapened to Fastjack and Dodger? I know FJ was rumored to have been on echo mirage, but I havent heard hide nor hail of him lately. The last time I read about Dodger was in on of the old, old novels. |
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Oct 22 2003, 08:47 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
Reminds me of one of the greatest idea I've heard of for SR :D a GM who set that the Dragon Heart Trilogy were books really published in-game. The real Ryan Mercury is a boring and incompetent office worker of the Draco Fundation "operations service" who still wonder who a fiction writer get wind of his name. But he still scares off that GM's PCs, who also work for the Fundation and fear ever being under his command.
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Oct 22 2003, 08:53 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,317 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
Fastjack continues to make comments in shadowtalks ... IIRC he was not a member of Echo Mirage ... nor was Captain Chaos Dodger had his latest bigger appearance in Brainscan ... The last thing I saw of him was a shadowtalk comment in Sprawl Survival Guide where Twist (yeah, Good ol' Sam Verner seems to be alive as well) is interviewed about the morals of Runners (He also comments in that shadowtalk section) ... |
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Oct 22 2003, 08:58 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Vigo (Spanish Kingdom) Member No.: 1,446 |
i believe Fasty was member of Echo Mirage, but surely good ol' Cap wasn't. Well, almost surely.
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