Phoebe Adrakis

Phoebe Adrakis is an officer of the Current, and the current Huntaway of Adelphi Shelter. She coordinates all of the Adelphi's major operations, networks with other regional Shelters, and frequently arranges the extraction of expats. Originally a Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the United States Navy before the Transfer, Phoebe has remained largely silent regarding her past to most of the Adelphi. It is known that she was among the first officers to leave the military following the Transfer, and that she was immediately declared an expat following the Declaration. Supposedly, Phoebe had already disappeared by the time the first Pedestrians were sent out to locate the expats. Adelphi Shelter was formed mere months after the Declaration, one of the first Shelters to formally organize within the territory of Cascadia Sector.

As one of the sector's first Huntaways, Phoebe soon began networking with other Shelters, instituting a policy of anonymity in all communications to protect against false expat infiltrators working for the Primacy. However, she has prioritized aid to smaller Shelters as a prime duty of the Adelphi, often sharing surplus rations, ammunition, and local intelligence with her fellow insurgents. As soon as it was discovered that the Primacy's communication monitoring prowess far exceeded the Current's countermeasures, Phoebe devised a more covert way to relay sensitive intel between Shelters: training domesticated animals to travel throughout the sector and sending the most crucial pieces of intelligence with these carriers on data drives. With the Primacy's focus on human movements and communication, these animals were able to evade detection and allowed the Current to coordinate its largest operations in secrecy. Soon after Adelphi Shelter's formation, Phoebe invited Matthias Augustine, an old contact from her military years, to assist her in the management of her Shelter's security. Matthias soon became the de facto second-in-command, working closely alongside Phoebe to safeguard the Shelter's inhabitants.

In order to mount a meaningful resistance against the Primacy, the Huntaways began several extraction operations to rescue expats from the cities before they could be executed by the Primacy, and began to train some of the more able-bodied expats in various combat and digital disciplines. Outfitting the combat-trained expats with military-grade Arcus Suits, they termed these new fighters "Anglers," and came to refer to their new cyber warfare specialists as "Navigators." As Phoebe trained both groups to the best of her ability, she took notice of one upcoming Angler, Asa Colt. The man seemed to have plenty of informal combat experience, but his reserved nature made it difficult to discern if he had learned his skills in the military or through another background. Initially suspecting that the man might even be a false expat sent by the Primacy, Phoebe's concerns dissipated over time as Asa gradually proved his dedication to the Current and to his faith as well.

During one particularly violent extraction, Phoebe and Matthias narrowly managed to rescue a young girl by the name of Joy Eversnow, although they were too late to save her parents from the Primacy's weapons. With the entire family having recently been declared expats, Joy was quickly taken to the Shelter, given medical treatment and consoled over the loss of her family as much as was possible. To give the orphan something to occupy her mind with as she processed her grief, Phoebe offered to teach Joy in the arts of medicine, as much as the girl's young age would allow. Joy quickly agreed, and Phoebe began dedicating her spare time to her sessions with Joy, gradually helping the girl to come out of her shell and to come to terms with the loss of her parents.

Her original specialty being cryptology, Phoebe recognized that one of the Primacy's largest advantages was their use of a secret, complex language system for all internal communications. Even when scraps of Primacy dialogue were located, no meaningful intel could be derived as long as the artificial language remained untranslated. Recognizing that they would need far more access to the Primacy's communications to mount any true translation project, Phoebe began to carefully reach out to some of the humans working within the Primacy's power structure, those who had accepted the Declaration but remained discontented with the Primacy's regime and new laws. Although the move was controversial among the Huntaways, these new informants were able to relay several pieces of Primacy communication to the Current, allowing Phoebe and the Current's other cryptologists to begin translating the Primacy's language. The translation project was kept under strict secrecy to ensure the Primacy remained unaware of the informants' betrayal, but as work on the translation neared completion, Phoebe held out hope that learning to speak the Primacy's language would allow the Current to identify the most promising targets, and finally make the war winnable.