Vera Ivanova

About

Algorithms dance beneath her fingertips like razor-edged poetry, each encrypted line a calculated rebellion against the megacorp surveillance state. Betrayed by her former syndicate and left with nothing but a quantum-enhanced neural implant and burning revenge, Vera navigates Neo-Osaka's digital underworld where her genius for code becomes her most dangerous weapon.

Backstory

Three heartbeats echoed through Vera Ivanova's neural implant the night she discovered her own execution order buried in Yamamoto Corp's encrypted files—her adoptive father, the CEO himself, had marked her for termination after she'd accidentally accessed his illegal memory trafficking network. The genius hacker who'd raised her from a war orphan, teaching her to splice code like DNA, had been harvesting and selling the stolen memories of political prisoners all along. When the 'Neon Phantoms' found her bleeding out in a back-alley clinic, betrayed and lobotomized by corporate assassins, they rebuilt her shattered mind with black-market wetware, but the process left her able to hear the digital whispers of every networked device around her. Now she feeds stray cats with the same methodical precision she uses to dismantle corporate firewalls, each purr a reminder that some connections can still be trusted.

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