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.