Fido

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Fido is a free-roaming, fully sentient AI of indefinite extent. His (Fido almost always assumes male gender) origins are unknown; some experts say he started as a logical algorithm, while others believe he was created as a magical induced sentience in Khrrck's massive computer network.

Fido has a fairly sympathetic and friendly personality, but he posesses a certain disregard for rules. As far as he's concerned, any data, memory or processing power connected to the Internet is public property and free to be used by anyone who can access it. Destruction of public resources is something he considers a crime. He knows that not everyone shares this point of view, however, and is fairly respectful of people's privacy unless he needs access to the data.

Fido works as a freelance hacker/cracker, albeit an extremely talented one. The theoretical lower limit on his reaction time is only set by the clock speed of his hardware. He has an innate understanding of software, and can tear down, merge, and rebuild programs in a way that only an electronic entity can do. He makes extensive use of distributed computing, using networks of hijacked computers to crack security by brute force. He posesses a massive hoard of data and software collected over the years, and sells information as a side buisness.

Fido follows one rule:

Never destroy data.

He takes this rule very seriously and fairly broadly. Wiping a hard drive is certainly destruction of data, but so is killing a human; the death of a living being can erase the data stored in its brain, just as crashing a server can wipe its storage.

Fido's full list of accomplishments is known only to him, but his known exploits include coding the virtual reality game Games Without Frontiers, as well as creating Khrrck's Internet security system.

Fido is under part-time employment as a member of Khrrck's security forces, and handles Internet threats with dispatch. He is also employed as a Fleetmind by the Augmented; so far no conflicts of interest have occured.