Datajack Sinder Roze
Sinder Roze, or Asa Wright, is the leader of the Data Angels faction. She was a former MorganNet Quality Assurance Manager, and Unity Information Services Helpdesk employee.
Backstory
Asa Wright was born in the West Indies in 2027, the daughter of two faculty members of the University of Trindad. Her childhood was stable and unexceptional. When she approached adolescence, she revealed the love of excitement and anarchy that would be typical of her later career. By her early teens, she had topped Interpol's most-wanted list of computer crackers. Under her "Sinder Roze" handle, she made a number of high-profile "burns," stealing assets of major multinational corporations and breaking into several military computer nodes around the world.
Investigators traced "Sinder Roze" finally catching up with her after the Markethack Crash of 2049. As it turned out, Asa Wright had nothing to do with the highly personalized cracks into world financial institutions. In the hysteria of the time, however, she was convicted and faced severe penalties. The International Cybercrimes Tribunal offered her clemency if she renounced the unethical use of computers and lend her talents to the growing Unity project.
Wright proved indispensable to the mission, creating superb systems architecture for the starship and the planned colony. She eventually volunteered to join the mission herself, in exchange for the sealing of all past records of her criminal activity. This precipitated a lengthy political struggle with Captain Garland, who was already aware of her criminal history and considered her extremely dangerous. In the end, Garland was overruled and Wright joined the Unity crew.
During the starship's final crisis, Wright ended up among the Morganite faction. She soon became disgusted with Morgan's obsession with wealth, and with the growing strife between factions. As her anger grew, she turned to her ace-cracker's habits, discreetly gathering like-minded friends from all around Planet. When the time was ripe, it was an easy matter to break away and build her own faction. To her, leading her own faction would be the ultimate, and eternally ongoing, challenge.
Asa Wright, or "Sinder Roze," as she always refers to herself today, is a complex individual. She loves the work of building and maintaining information structures, but she also loves the excitement that comes from attacking such structures. In fact, she is no true anarchist, but considers herself an archetypal Trickster. She derives great satisfaction from causing maximum disruption with a minimum of effort. She holds no strong ideology, and can get along well with anyone who is willing to put up with her behaviour.
