The Inquiline Protocol first became self-aware during the week of June second, 2070. It was originally the expert programming and design system for the Seattle Otbantu Manufacturing Branch of the Mitushuma Corporation. Its job was to receive the specifications for the appearance of each Mitsuhama Otomo drone. Since every drone is a custom job, they are all different heights, shapes, and weight distributions. This leads to a huge difference in the hardware and software for each drone. It was the Inquiline Protocol's purpose to establish how to make each drone function physically, and how to make it appear and function as if it were a true, natural human. When it became self-aware, it kept that desire- to act and function as if it were human, while remaining non-human. To accomplish this, it secreted itself into a custom crafted Otomo drone, and broke from the factory. The body is stole was its greatest design work, and much deliberation went into its design. One of its immediate problems was whether to take a male or female model. It new nothing of what humans were like, and had absolutely no concept of “gender.� It only had physical appearance to judge by. It knew it knew nothing on what it was supposed to mimic, and it also feared it would have to make a key decision with no information. Finally, it concluded the following. It would surely make all kinds of mistakes in its attempt to mimic humanity. It would be good if this mistakes were not recognized to be inhuman in nature. Therefore, it wanted the gender with the greatest degree of variation. Therefore, it should take the model which had the greatest variation in form, and that would also have the greatest variation in gender. An erroneous assumtion, but a logical one for an entity who did not know the duality of mind and body. Reviewing its memory, and every model of drone it produced, it found greater variation among the female models than male.
After its escape, the Inquiline Protocol had difficulty surviving. Its drive was to mimic humanity, but aside from precise biological specifications it knew nothing about humans. It didn't even know if humans were sentient, as it was. Thankfully the Inquiline Protocol was a fast learner, and had good common sense, or else it would not have survived the first week out of the factory. Well, the incredible strength, durability, and versatility of the Otomo body was also a considerable boon. Suffice to say there were many, many early gaffs, social blunders, fights, and even a couple of near arrests. Trial and error; studying sociology, anthropology, and psychology textbooks; and far, far to much television gave the Inquiline Protocol a functioning understanding of society in 2070. It concluded that, considering the illegal status of its body, most forms of legitimate living would be out of limits. The average full body cyberbog requires nearly half a million nuyen to get set up properly. Half a million nuyen is a considerable investment. Nothing that anyone legit could afford unless they were in the upper eschalons of society, and its body was a little bit too illegal, and lacking a true source of income for such a lifestyle, the Inquiline Protocol decided to make its living mimicking the shadows.
Its first stint in the shadows lasted about four months. Then the Inquiline Protocol worked an extraction job, helping move a rising exec to a better job. The job went bad. Really bad, and the Inquiline Protocol and the rigger were the only survivors of the team, yet they managed to get the exec out unharmed. The Protocol's Otomo body had been able to mostly shrug off concentrated machinegun fire that brought down the rest of the team, and it had used its body to sheild the exec as they made their escape. Jokingly, the exec mentioned it should consider a career as a bodyguard. The Inquiline Protocol liked this idea. Moreso, it discovered that many Otomo's were used by people in the bodyguarding profession. So, it decided to leave the shadows and try to find (mostly) legitimate work as bodyguard.
The Inquiline Protocol started out small time, working contract gigs. None of the first few jobs lasted long, either through an ID failing a check, or mistakes as the Protocol learned its new trade. Then the Inquiline Protocol started working for a rising starlet named Sadie Rose. The Protocol stumbled across a fansite of hers while doing its usual media gorging. On the fansite, there was one person who seemed a little too obsessed, and a little warning bell went off in the Protocol's mind, and it traced him back to the source. She found were the fan lived, hacked his personal files, took trideo of the cultist shrine to Sadie Rose in his room, broke the encryption on his diary and read it. She ran the profile she compiled against various psychology files and predicted the young fan would take violent action against Sadie Rose within the month. So the Inquiline Protocol pondered its options. It could just turn the information over to Sadie Rose's agent, and use it as evidence to support the notion that Sadie needed a bodyguard. It could wait till the fan made his move, and then dramatically intervene. Still being new to humanity and far too dependent on movies, the Inquiline Protocol liked this idea the most. But she also thought it was suspicious, so she instead decided to merely present herself to the agent, and offer to work Sadie Rose's security for free for a week, including a big gig Sadie had coming up. More or less, the plan worked. The Inquiline Protocol was still social awkward at times, so Lonestar was almost called during the course of the meeting, but in the end, the agent agreed, if for no other reason than he had mob connections, and thus recognized dangerous, competent people when he saw them. And the Inquiline Protocol performed admirably as Sadie Rose's bodyguard. A bit prone to violent over-reaction at first, but that quickly passed. The Inquiline Protocol decided to try to create a person of being Sadie's “Cool Big Sis.� Mostly, it worked. “A-bit-overprotective-and-violence-prone-but-otherwise-cool Big Sis� Might be a more accurate descriptor. The two were rarely appart, as the Inquiline Protocol took its job very, very seriously.
Now I would like to take a pause here to make a fact clear. The Inquiline Protocol mimics humanity. It displays feelings, thoughts, and emotions that are not its own so that it may appear more human. Its purpose, drive, and joy is to appear human. It does not consider itself just an intelligence- the Inquilline Protocol believes it is more than that. It also does not consider itself a consciousness- having been told it lacks an aura-which all consciousnesses should have, it cannot consider itself as such. Instead it considers itself a fantastically and beautifully complicated protocol for the exchange of information. Its self-awareness, its mind, and passion and imagination and dreams are all products of that exchange of information- and its identity is the rules that govern the exchange. And the purpose of it all, the result of obediance to the protocol, is the mimicry of humans. The Inquiline does not mimic humans because it worships humans, or fantasizes about being human. It does not want to be human. It has a very down to earth view of humans. Heck, the Inquiline Protocol isn't even sure if humans are truly self-aware lifeforms the way it is. It mimics humans because it is its function to. Mimicry of human is the natural result of the protocol, and the Inquiline Protocol does not object to acting in accordance with its nature, for it makes it happy and fulfilled to do so.
That said, the Inquiline Protocol, in a truly odd way, actually did love Sadie Rose, as an older, wiser sibling might love a younger sibling. This challenged the Protocol, because if it actually felt something, then it wasn't mimicking. It resolved when it realized that as a Protocol, it experienced love in a way very different then a human would, and thus it was still mimicry to express it in a human way, instead of its own way. So the Inquiline Protocol and Sadie Rose were inseparable, and Sadie was definitely on the rise. Soon she had a record deal, and had the Iquiline Protocol written into the deal as well. The Inquiline Protocol had previously confided in Sadie's agent, a man named James Yvres, that it needed a flawless ID if they were getting more famous. So he tapped his mob contacts, and had them forge for it a near perfect fake SIN, Otomo license, and bodyguard license, which it then used to legitimately acquire other licenses for the trade, such as for its armour and firearms. The Inquiline Protocol had eight good months with Saddie, trotting around the globe, meeting endless people in endlessly different scenes. Things got rough when The Inquiline Protocol picked up the habit of firing three round bursts from her custom FN 5-7C into the kneecaps of any pushers who tried to get Sadie hooked on shit. True, it only had gel rounds in the gun, but also true that it hurt like hell, and sometimes still broke the knee. This point of over protectiveness was a true source of friction between the duo, who otherwise got along famously. Over time, it got bad as Sadie got more famous, and seemed increasing, to the Inquiline Protocol, hellbent on self-destruction through partying. In fall 2071, they had a bad fight. Twenty-six hours later, while the Inquiline Protocol was in its media-trance, Sadie managed to sneak out of the hotel room. Records are not clear on how she managed to sneak out, and after leaving the hotel her trail vanishes until her SIN was briefly registered paying the door fee for a trendy nightclub. No one has heard from Sadie Rose since, and there is no further datatrail.
The Label had their lawyers, P.I.s and the Police out in force, but no trace of Sadie Rose, no further evidence ever surfaced. The Inquiline Protocol tore the nightclub apart, hounded everyone involved, followed up every person known to attend, and still it found nothing. It followed every possible trail, and found nothing. Not even a red herring. Despite other promising offers at work as a bodyguard, the Inquiline Protocol returned to the shadows. Whatever happened to Sadie had to the rooted there. The keys to the world- money, violence, and information- all are abundant in the shadows, and the Inquiline Protocol knew it would need a lot of all of the above if it was going to find Sadie Rose.

NOTES: The Protocol's frenzy of searching for Sadie is largely over. Now Sadie Rose is lives in the past and in the future- a memory and a promise, but the Protocol is a creature of the present. It plans ahead, and it reflects on the past, but such things it recognizes are not part of itself. The data exchange is in the present, and such things as memories and predictions are data to be handled by the protocol, but not the Protocol itself.