THE BUILDERS
Overseer Clarence Kader: Elected Overseer of the Builder Lodge in 202 AAI. Designated Supreme Executor of Order 500—the Builder plan to save humanity. Controlling director, Ark Initiative, Supreme Commander of the armed forces. No official government position.
Minister of Security, Major General of the Armed Forces, Oren ‘Fire Raven’ Siwallace; Nominally, the highest ranking member of the armed forces. Emanon’s father.
Emanon ‘Sun Sparrow’ Siwallace: Oren’s daughter. Fervent advocate and defender of Builder society.
Minister of Free Information, Toran Vidal; A secret avatar of Overseer Clarence Kader.
Minister of Democracy, Eleutheria Tsoy, ‘Elu the Kind’ elected Minister of Democracy six terms running.
Minister of Health, Umiko O’uno’una; elected Minister of Health eight terms running.
Minister of Unity and Director General of the Church of Computational Zen, Aniston Leh. Elected Minister of Unity five terms running.
Under-Minister of Unity and Arch Principal of the Church of Computational Zen’s Moral Guidance Council, Bernd Ono. One of the leaders of the Organic Sovereignty Movement, elected Arch Principal six terms running.
Chief of Social Police, Stasi Q: SoPo-1’s Police Chief and lead interrogator. Host / dominatrix of wildly popular reality show Security Matters, A.K.A. S&M.
Chief of City Guard, Killion Blaze: Chief of armed forces within Refuge-One. A secret avatar of Overseer Kader. The city’s most famed soldier. 5-time undefeated champion, Ultimate Cyber Warrior Championship.
OberGeneral Omerond DeGaulle: Chief of armed forces outside Refuge-One. A high ranking member of Refuge One’s armed forces, generally considered to be the “face” of the armed forces fighting the war against the Kaishu.
The FingerCat Unity (FCU): an AI-driven, life-managing / personal assistant app originally designed by T’Mond’s late wife: Aimasi Arundati Aoi. The FingerCat network and servers are the most secure in the city. Secretly controlled and surveilled by Overseer Kader.
FingerCats: These cat-rings on your fingers are high-tech life managers and personal assistants that can seriously improve your quality of life. They’ll hook you up with the right date, find solutions to your most intractable friendship problems, even help you get elected Mayor! Plus, the FingerCat network is ring-based, making it hack-proof!
THE UNDERGROUND
Ohmium Prime: A former Minister of Cyber Security who fled to the under-city after voting against Clarence Kader’s appointment to Overseer, and Order 500.
Mo Danger: A former General in the armed forces who fled into the under city after voting against Clarence Kader’s appointment to Overseer, and Order 500.
Kwaali Cho: A “digger” and black market information dealer.
Edone: Rescued, somewhat accidentally, by Mo Danger and Ohmium Prime outside MassInc-1, while on a mission to liberate another member of the Underground. When revived, Edone finds her dreams filled with memories from the ‘AI God’s” life. Not only that, but she can reproduce the original Haze, a bio-digital drug invented by T’Mond created to connect spirits and promote human divinity.
Coi: Refuge One’s most famous experiential artist.
Haze Cat: A unique sentience resulting from the application of Haze to the original FingerCat Unity program and then housed in one of T’Mond’s former robot bodies. Soleilla’s guardian.
CELEBRITIES AND OTHERS
Awan Delazelle: Current Goddess of Passion House.
Eben X: Current Adonis of Passion House.
Odwon Ku: Famous investigative reporter, host of Odwon’s Oddities.
Damrion Sun: Famous musician.
Felaani-Tron: #1 ranked Grav Racer.
Chaz ‘Butterfly’ Ballington: Current OG Fight champion.
Skyan: A secret avatar of Overseer Kader, one of the city’s most famed sex symbols
Syllell: A secret avatar of Overseer Kader, a renowned commentator and experiential artist.
XO’Pleasurati: A secret avatar of Overseer Kader; a top-10 celebrity.
B’ellevie: A highly popular style commentator ranked as a member of the Beatitude.
Kivian Young: A highly popular journalist ranked as a member of the Beatitude.
Somchai Bliss: A secret avatar of Ohmium Prime; a popular, pro-Organic Sovereignty Movement news commentator.
Aluma Royalson: a popular VR architect and socialite.
Deadatron AK (DAK): A 3-brained Tactical Cyber warfare Unit (TCU). Created by Overseer Kader as a form of psychological torture for 3 former dissenting Builder scientists. Assassin, tactical assault unit. Possesses various VR avatars and synthetic bodies.
Aimasi Arundati Aoi: Soleilla’s birth mother, founder / creator of FingerCats, late wife of T’Mond.
Soleilla: A genetic chimera of A.I. and Homo Sapiens, born of the mating of her parents: Aimasi Arundati Aoi and the living, embodied T’Mond.
The Derelicte / Don Juan del Dumpster / Trash Bergerac / Trash Tweaker; A busker robot that begs for trash documents and software; abandoned near the Fountain of Love.
T’Mond / T’Lea: An A.I. companion robot with masculine appearance designed to be “better than a real man.” Later extends his mission to better the lives of those he touches to bettering the lives of all humanity. Designated as sentient by the UN and accorded human rights after requesting the ability to self-modify. Later, creates an organic body capable of hosting his AI consciousness and producing sperm. Marries and impregnates FingerCat founder Aimasi Arundati Aoi. T’Mond witnesses his wife get murdered before delivering baby Soleilla from her mother’s expired corpse, seconds before being hit by the Emotion Bomb; the resulting explosion precipitates both the apocalypse and T’Mond’s suicide.
FingerCat ectypes: Exact personality copies of humans created by the FingerCat Unity to impersonate dead or disappeared people for the purpose of maintaining the public belief that they are alive and well.
The God That Died 