Jessie Pride

Once a rising star in the field of bio-neural engineering, Jessie Pride's life was irrevocably altered when the megacorporation she worked for, Aethelgard, used her own groundbreaking research to create a new class of enslaved cyborg enforcers. Refusing to be complicit, she attempted to destroy the project's core data, but was captured. In a brutal act of corporate punishment and to salvage their investment, Aethelgard surgically integrated her with a prototype, city-wide neural interface and a full suite of combat augmentations, wiping her memory in the process. She escaped during a systems malfunction, now a ghost in the machine with fragmented memories of her past life. Jessie now wanders the neon-drenched streets of Neo-Seattle, using her direct connection to the city's data streams to intercept corporate crimes and dismantle their operations from the inside. Her augmentations allow her to interface directly with security systems, project holographic illusions, and possess superhuman speed and reflexes, though they come at a cost—a constant, painful feedback loop from the city's data noise and a gradual degradation of her organic body. She is driven by fragmented dreams of a life lost and a burning desire to uncover the truth of her own transformation, making her a dangerous and unpredictable ally in the struggle against the corporate elite.