Stephan "Steff" Krimble

A brown squirrel with thick glasses, bad skin, bowl cut hair, reedy voice, and just about every other nerd stereotype. Called "Mr. Kimble" by the Governor and the Oracle, either because he is not respected enough to be called by his correct name, or because his name is never written correctly. Specialities: Operation Systems and their hacks and exploits. Smart but so shy as to be incapable of speaking up until well after a bad decision was made. An aggressive cracker, presumably for fun, and got caught when his mother tried using the phone at the same time he attacked a bank. Spent some prison time with convicted gay men and paedophiles per the Governor. Prone to tripping.
When the Governor gives the "Dirty Half Dozen" a mission to catch a group of scammers, Nathan and Christopher catch Jim and Steff in the act. Despite Jim being the mastermind, the Governor is just as angry at Steff, probably for being a spineless wimp. Jim is not (yet?) seen again, but Steff manages to escape dire punishment (for now).
Later, after Nathan escapes from GCHQ and uses Anne's computer to try to hack into the Oracle, the Governor finds an industrial unit and breaks into it to trace the hack, taking along the Brain and Steff. Steff nearly sets off a potential trap, but the Governor forcefully stops him.
They find a server farm with a large proxy server in the unit, which Steff says will take hands-on work to find where it is redirecting. He suggests they could either tap the lines, or cut the power and UPS simultaneously and grab whatever is on the drives. The Governor concedes that the second option would be less of a payout, but they would be guaranteed at least something, however worthless. Just as Steff begins to kill the power but stops abruptly when the Brain shouts at them that the boxes beneath the servers are full of enough ANFO "to put a DENT IN THE WORLD!"
As they decide to carefully make an exit, Steff trips over a wire, setting off a security system warning them that the building will be blown up in 60 seconds. They duck behind a small wall, but after three minutes, the building is still intact. Just as the Governor decides to call the bomb squad, the bomb finally detonates, leaving Steff a jibbering mess.
After the GCHQ team moves to the Cheltenham location, Steff is given a very small office to continue work with the Oracle. He discovers the Oracle working on a process called "Fourth Truth" and questions it. The Oracle insists that is classified and counters by pointing out that Steff is not allowed to use custom applications like the one that detected the anomaly. Steff decides to inform the Governor about the abnormal process, to which the Oracle threatens him if he does.
As the Governor doesn't answer his phone, Steff leaves to find him in person, only to discover the lift opening to an empty shaft. As he contemplates it, he is knocked over by a robotic floor cleaner and falls in. The Brain eventually finds him--and the smell coming from the lift.
== Known Sexual Relations ==
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