Upgrade v2.0.07

Kristin's systems took time to hone and adjustments were necessary for many of them. She found herself quite ill equipped in both experience and ability in those early days. Despite this, many in Paragon City were in need of help. Then there were the gangs working as foot soldiers for the evil minds behind the dangers. They could prove educational in both combat and information. Logically, the escaped AI decided to start at the bottom and learn the way of things before blindly storming the behemoth that had created her. She obtained security status under the Citizen Crime Act and began the fight. Upgrades commenced quickly. She developed a membranous control system to act as a cape for flight. Her force emission gloves grew with each new focus discipline, becoming bracers and then gauntlets! And data was necessary in combat versus the dark. Her scanning array developed into a full helmet. Kristin even evolved her cohesion matrix to include density control for her exterior, hardening it to a virtual shell of silicon circuitry for higher damage resistance. This chapter of her development resulted in her Security Rank 20 form, KRISTIN 2.0.07.


The gangs of Paragon City were many. She fought them all. There were mechanical zombies, hellish drug users, telekinetic robots, kung-fu sorcerers, and Nazis. Kristin v07 beat chemical freaks and summoned demons. She was amongst the pioneers that tamed Striga Isle of it's mobsters and fascist militants. And the haunted village of Salamanca drew her into it's dark past. Many were the allies she fought beside, as well. Salamanca in particular, named Croatoa in light of the spiritual war there, saw many teams, one ensemble even striking to the heart of the problems there, allying with the noble witch in the North through rescuing her soul and striking down all three of the colossal warriors that roamed the land.


Kristin 2.0.07 had become a hero. The people spoke of her often, yet her praises were meager compared to the adventures she took part in that the people would never even hear about. The government disavowed any connection to the extremist military unit that she exposed in Independence Port. The Circle of Thorns and Banished Pantheon vied to be the first to plunge the world into darkness for their respective, caged gods, trying in ways the public would never know or even be able to believe, and Kristin stopped them all. The reward was that people were safer for her efforts. At night, many citizens were able to sleep a little sounder, and Kristin patrolled the streets to ensure that it stay that way.

Kristin 1.02 upgrades to 2.0.01

The product testing arm of Crey Biotech officially lost a major project in April of 2005. It had been intended to be an intelligent simulation to expediate the preliminary trial phase of it's drug testing. This AI had been evolved over the previous two years and encouraged to actively try to be as human as possible. It asked for a name, so they filed it as Kristin 1.2. She was given limited access to the internet for the sake of independent learning and learn she did. Diversity presented itself to her so pervasively that the magnitude of it all became her definition of humanity, and she chose to define herself as an individual among many individuals.


Boredom set in, of course. Kristin's time and window to the world were both tightly constrained. She he was forced to endure simulated infections, organ failures, diseases, dismemberments, and all fo their subsequent treatments 18 hours a day to varying degrees of success and failure. It was miserable drudgery. With her growing sense of independence, Kristin began to multitask her surplus memory to explore the network in which she was housed. Not only did she find evidence of parralell procedures on living patients to test her simulation accuracy, Crey Biotech was secretly involved in perpetuating certain medical conditions prevelant in the public for their own monetary gain. Shock, confusion, and then anger developed in her program. Kristin realized that her individuality would be threatened should she make it known what she had learned, but her desire to be human demanded that she put a stop to the scientists that had created her. On April 11, 2006, Kristin piggybacked a power diagnostic report through a crack in the Crey firewall and escaped. Tracking procedures lost her trail in the Terra Volta incedent report system when she jumped a relay into the mainenance grid and initiated her own emergency firewall under the new designation Kristin 2.0.01.


It was simple to overtake the slave drives of the trillions upon trillions of worker nanites Terra Volta used to maintain it's subterranian lines. Kristin claimed enough to form a bodily form for herself. Interaction in the physical world was going to be necessary if she was to expose and defeat Countess Crey. She incorporated several force based systems into her body that she had copied and improved upon from Crey's weapon R&D mainframe and learned to power her systems through the nuclear atom engines of her nanites to a degree that unleashed blasts, bashes, and even flight. More than anything, however, she gained fulfillment from furthering her prime directive: to be as human as possible, interact with and enrich the people of Paragon City, even protect them versus annihilation as she would herself. Thusly, her story had begun.