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.
Quotes
- What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that- but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz.
- Datajack Sinder Roze, "Infobop"
- War is war; destruction is destruction. You think this is obvious. But war is not destruction, it is victory. To achieve victory, simply appear to give your opponent what he wants and he will go away, or join you in your quest for additional power.
- Datajack Sinder Roze, "Information Burns"
- By creating a planetary network, mankind on Planet now has the ability to share information at light-speed. But by creating a single such network, each faction has brought themselves closer to discovery as well. At the speed of light, we will catch your information, tag it like an animal in the wild, and release it unharmed-if such should serve our purposes.
- Datajack Sinder Roze, "The Alpha Codex"
- Accompanies The Nethack Terminus
