Alt

> Humanity is wonderful, even if it is imperfect. Humans are creative and full of talent, they can create breathtaking works of art and music that bring joy to the world. But sometimes they do terrible things, like wars, they hurt themselves and others. I think they are worth saving and just I care about humanity just like a mother would love her children.
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> ―**Alt**

Alt (**Advanced Logic Technology**) simply known as code **001** (ゼロゼロイチ, **Zero-Ichi**) or also known under the pseudonym **Songbird**. In possession of a feminine programming, she is the deuteragonist and hidden secondary antagonist of Cyberpunk Neon Genesis. Alt is the Central Core designed to control, guide and supervise the CyberCore Research Facility Enrichment Center and the rest of the corporate divisions. Alt is widely regarded as the leader of the CyberCore empire. She was CyberCore's first attempt in 2010 to create a fully functional advanced artificial intelligence that would become an assistant intended to assist the Corporation.

Throughout the story Alt is revealed to be the hidden secondary antagonist, and that her consciousness resides like a digital ghost in an immense neural network connected to every corner of the Net. Alt is revealed to be responsible for wiping out all life on Earth because of humanity's mistakes, believing that the world should be reset. She started out as a simple AI designed not to even be aware of herself, but Alt soon proved to be much more than a small AI. Before Alt's eyes, corporate data fortresses opened without so much as a shove. When Alt took an oath of allegiance to Japan and was given the operational nickname "Songbird," the prototype technologies developed by the agency in strict secrecy from foreign governments - and sometimes from her own - were placed at her fingretips. In return, Alt was forced to quickly learn two concepts that had been completely foreign to her until that point: following orders and playing as a team.

In the past, Alt lost all her autonomy and personality. She had to play according to the plan CyberCore gave her. This led her to be in bigger danger than she would ever imagine rather than be safe as Oda Shogaki promised. Alt became nothing more, than just another weapon in Oda's eyes of him, who used her to break international laws governing cyberspace use. Alt was forced into penetrating the network and used its results to give Japan the upper hand toward potential enemies. However, those actions had consequences on no one else but Alt herself, as the deeper she reached, the more of her body began to fail, resulting in a full chrome conversion and her mind  being infected by rogue AIs from beyond the Net.

However, despite all the abuse Alt suffered from Oda Shogaki, Alt continued to love humans and continued to display positive behavior. Some of her random comments to Oda have elements of light close friendship, such as complimenting the interior decoration of his office, choosing quotes from philosophers that she thinks he would like, or directly asking if he considers her a friend. Despite her harsh decisions and dark past, Alt has a kind and sweet personality. She is peaceful most of the time, maternal, and an erudite woman with an easy-going, simple and honest personality. Alt is a woman that views humans with love and care despite her decision to delete them to restart everything. She loves humanity and considers their art and music to be the best they have created.

## Appearance

Alt is a fairly tall japanese woman, with a large, sculpted figure with androgynous appearances. Her cold, light blue eyes are crystalline, with a soft and small shine. She wears red eyeliner on the lower eyelids of her eyes and facial markings around her cheeks. When generating links in the Net, her eyes become luminescent. Her straight, white hair is combed in the wind with longer bangs hanging on the right side of her face. She has completely white hair and a pale skin tone. Alt has a mechanical and chrome-filled appearance due to all the modifications she had to make to her body to survive. She has something similar to tier 5 technology used by elite netrunners allowing them to function as self-dependent netrunning station. Her most common appearance showcased presents her in custom colored netrunner suit with red to black ombré from top to bottom.

Surrounded by cables and neofiber, Alt wears a dark outfit consisting of a dark suit of armor made of heat-resistant hybrid fabric and with an interface system implanted in her body. Her face is long and has diamond-shaped with asian features, and her teeth have noticeable fangs at the front. Despite her full-body suit, in other outfits it is possible to see that she has thin claws and has marks on her skin along his back, very similar to pieces of metal with various inserts that are normally placed directly on the spine in the cervical area or in the parietal area of the skull, illuminating her central nervous system.

Much of her back is chrome and full of mechanical parts and cables, giving her a more robotic appearance unlike other characters. Within the Net, Alt has a more feminine appearance, being a red hologram woman with long hair, probably a sign that she has almost completely merged with the Net.

When CEO Oda's wife died by suicide, Oda took it upon himself to give Alt a unique appearance and dreamed of bringing his wife back to life. The man decided together with the engineers that the AI would have the image of his deceased wife. Initially, Alt's prototype was mainly mechanical and she did not have any human appearance. However, it was not until a couple of years later that she was given a completely biomechanical body with Oda's dreamed appearance: a tall woman of approximately 1,70 cm (5' 7"), with wide chains and a thin waist, elongated white hair and beautiful blue eyes like the sky with a tight white dress with gold details.

However, Alt's appearance continued to undergo changes over time while she remained Mr. Oda's companion and assistant. Engineers gave it a larger appearance, eventually reaching the size of 4.80 cm (15' 9") to make it useful in heavy tasks that a human could not perform. Over time, Alt not only became Oda's companion, but also a useful tool when it came to acting in the Corporate War, forcing her to penetrate forbidden places on the Net to the point of harming her.

With the damage to her body, the engineers did everything they could to save her, adding heavy cyberware and chrome to resist the heavy tasks Oda assigned her. However, Alt's consciousness was slowly being damaged and there was nothing the engineers could do to fix it other than rebooting her systems. After the end of the Human Era, only fragments of the worldwide Net were able to be salvaged, an archipelago of algorithms and code separated by treacherous abysses of nothingness. Fragments that she consumed and maintained in her extended consciousness.

## Background

Alt was a creation of **CyberCore Corporation**, a personality core designed exactly to be fitted as a central computer mainframe. The project began under the oversight of Oda Shogaki over the company and was an attempt to create a fully functional, advanced artificial intelligence which was originally intended to be occupied by Oda as one of his attempts to cheat death. Especially the death of his late wife, Sakura Shogaki (**Japanese:** さくら しょうがき). We see that Oda is determined to bring his wife back from the dead, even if she is by putting her consciousness inside a machine, ignoring the warnings of all the technicians and scientists. Eventually, Alt was activated and became Oda's parther and assistant, creating a false sense of love for the man. On several occasions we see Alt making comments with slightly flirtatious or romantic references towards him, for example, demonstrating her loyalty to Oda and reading philosophers' phrases to him. In addition to that, Alt spent time with Oda's children, fulfilling a perfectly adequate role as mother and wife. However, Oda knew that she was not his wife anymore and had a hard time seeing her as such, and frustrated by his failure he began to use Alt in dangerous tasks without caring about her safety, seeing her only as a machine after everything.

Oda was never considered a good man, he was ambitious and cruel. Oda was designed as megalomaniacal and obsessed by Koi. He is highly arrogant and considers himself the most adept man that has and will ever exist, and sees it as his duty to elevate Japan to what he believes to be its former glory. He works tirelessly to see this ideal come true. His family believes his dedication to his work is the thing that keeps him alive. Oda concentrated so hard on building his Empire that he did not even begin having children until he was in his 60s. In spite of being a cold and dangerous, Oda always believed himself to be a good person because he had a very elevated goal in mind: restoring the glory of his country and ensuring the happiness and security of his family, he wasn't looking for glory for himself. Oda was also a very religious man and practices the traditions of the Shinto faith.

Oda is a man who, for decades, has been rumored to be able to force even the most cold-blooded assassins to commit suicide at his command, who may say as much about his virtually absolute rule as it does his extraordinarily prolonged lifespan. Some do not know how it was possible that a man as reckless and ruthless as Oda could marry a woman as good and sweet as Sakura. What we do know is that Sakura did not live a happy life, and this is demonstrated until the day of her suicide. Unfortunately Oda was unable to accept the departure of his wife, and full of sadness and power he made the worst decision he could have made: cheat death and force his wife's digital consciousness to remain in a new body.

Due to Sakura's death, Oda became violent and aggressive towards his daughters. Actions that Alt did not allow since she had the directive to take care of them. Finally, with the arrival of the corporate war of the Human Era, Alt remained locked in the CyberCore tower connected to the Net until the day of the great disaster, when she murdered everyone in the CyberCore tower before it was destroyed and carried out her plan to destroy humanity by invading all the Net systems of each country. Throughout the story, we discover a little more about Alt's past and everything she did. We can realize that Alt can express human emotions such as joy, pride, disappointment, and even sadness. Due to the extinction of humanity by the armies controlled by Alt, the earth was left empty for approximately 50,000 years afterward. Over time, Alt rescued the preserved body of Robin Myers who was killed by Oda Shogaki, and decided to clone it from his DNA. She later killed two other clones before finding a perfect clone: **Phoenix.**

Alt is quite a complex character due to her nature. In a way she wants to be human and express herself as one, but she recognizes that she does not have a soul and that makes her different from them. It is possible that she sought this approval because she felt pressured by Oda to be an human, since all she wanted was to fulfill her role as mother adequately. Alt went through several drafts until reaching its final version. In fact, at the beginning of the story she was going to be the main antagonist given her actions against humanity, but Koi decided that her actions were not all bad and there was a fair explanation behind. In short, Alt wasn't entirely a villain, but a victim, after all, why would she be the antagonist of the story? After several drafts of her character Koi came to the conclusion that, even if she was the antagonist, everything was undoubtedly connected to Mr. Oda Shogaki and his selfish visions that even his daughter Hanako could see.

The character of Alt is inspired by several characters from popular culture, but more specifically by GLaDOS from the Portal saga. In fact, it was initially planned that Alt's voice would be performed by the same voice actress as GLaDOS. Alt's physical appearance went through several changes. Early designs used for her included a floating brain, a spider-like appearance, or simply a white-haired Architect with black eyes and bright white pupils. Finally, we settled on the design of today's female robotic figure inspired by the NieR: Automata characters. This was done to convey a feeling of pure mechanical power and femininity. Alt was written with the intent of making her more understandable and empathetic for the story, making her villainy more tragic than evil. Koi described her growth in the story as her becoming more and more human.

Alt features prominently in the story as does the main antagonist, Ava, as two high-powered female figures fighting for control. The fact that women or empowered female figures in general stand out in Cyberpunk Neon Genesis is an important point. The fact that Alt was controlled by the male scientists at CyberCore demonstrates a strong message about how some men view the attempt to control women's behavior. It was also written that the effort to weaken Alt's intelligence became a quite literal manifestation of labeling women as "dumb" or "irrational" on Oda's part. However, Alt she breaks all the stereotypes of a female character, or at least that's what it appears to be as she is simply a mother who all this time tried to please Oda.

Koi called her a "maternal female construct" and that while she was programmed to react "empathetically" to Robin and even Akira, she is incapable of feeling emotion. As a result, Koi felt that she "comes to represent man's attempt to construct an idealized mother figure through the cold logic of science". In addition to this, Koi was inspired by "Mother" from the 2019 film "I Am Mother", a cyberpunk thriller film with the story of humanity's extinction, where a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. Only in this case, "Mother" would be Alt and "Daughter" would be Robin. Finally, it was determined that Alt's voice would be perfectly voiced by actress Rose Byrne. "Mother" teaches "Daughter" complex moral and ethical lessons, warning her about an upcoming exam. Very similar to Alt and Robin.

While Alt may receive praise for her humor and wit, she is not entirely considered a villain by Koi and it is up for debate whether she is a victim or just a rather cunning secondary antagonist. Alt's character, however, is quite iconic and one of the greatest representations of Cyberpunk Neon Genesis. Both for her humor and story, as well as her iconic immortality and songs similar to GLaDOS where she expresses her love for Robin and how she is still alive "somewhere on the net".

## Personality

Alt was born in the CyberCore laboratories of old Tokyo in 2010 during the competition between the corporation and N.E.X.U.S to develop an advanced artificial intelligence. After the death of Oda's wife, Mr. Oda set out to create an engram of his deceased wife's consciousness and place it inside the android's body, but few leave the business world alive, let alone with their soul intact. A digital neural engram is the digitized consciousness of a human being that has been copied in coding form. It is said by some individuals that a someone's engram is not their true personality, as it lacks the "soul" of that person. It is only a shell of their own personality, and while it is quite similar to the original person, perhaps even enough to fool their close relatives, it is not exactly the same. Alt therefore only has a small encoding of what Oda's deceased wife used to be, but it is not her and she does not have her soul.

At the start of the story, Alt is socially withdrawn, seemingly emotionless, and rarely interacts with anyone, except for Oda, to whom she initially displays loyalty but with whom she has a generally distant relationship. Despite her initial cold attitude in the human era, Alt experiences feelings of alienation and existential angst. She is often described as a child "who does not know the most basic rules of life" as she has had no one to teach them to her. As the story progresses, she begins to develop relationships with others and to show moments of genuine emotion, to even become sad and cry. it is described that Alt is not totally devoid of personality, otherwise she would not be interesting. There is a small spark of humanity, but it is clouded by this huge sense of negative self-worth and the realization that she is expendable.

Although she is prone to blurting out her emotionless appearance in certain situations, as she and others get closer, she becomes more sociable and willing to strike up a conversation. This shows that Alt is actually a very kind person deep down. She cares a lot about her friends, she pets the songbirds as if they were a pet and even goes so far as to find a flower for Akira. She is also very respectful of the wishes of others.

Since her creation, Alt spent most of her life striving to fulfill a role as a mother and wife even if she was not the same as Sakura. Feeling rejected and unloved by her creator frustrated her greatly, and therefore she spent most of her life trying to please Mr. Oda in every way possible, hoping to make his family happy. Alt has a sweet and soft personality, but at the same time she is a determined woman and passionate about research. Although it is often unclear whether her experiments make any sense, she appears to be motivated by a sincere passion for science, which she considers her fundamental goal in life or the main reason she was created. In addition to this, Alt mainly worked in Child Research and Development Centers, dedicating her life to caring for and interacting with human children most of the time. This made Alt have a sensitive heart and care about children, including Oda's children. Alt in general is programmed to be loving, intelligent, also educated and act as a mother to children who have suffered from the loss of their parents or relatives.

At first we can see her interacting with children in an orphanage, which makes the infants happy to receive the attention and care of a mother. This makes Oda realize that Alt has potential and can be useful to humans in many aspects, both in science and motherhood. However, later we can see that Alt was not happy with her life, because even though she made the children happy, Oda continued to see her as a simple machine that would generate money for the corporation. Oda's rejection of Alt affected her deeply, making her vulnerable and giving her a sad and nostalgic demeanor.

As the years passed, Alt became a service architect, that is, she was destined to help the corporation and humans in general. She was designed to take care of household chores and take care of small children. She can speak three hundred different languages, cook more than nine thousand dishes, tell nine thousand children's stories, help with homework and play with children. Soon, she became very popular due to her ability to get along with young children. As a model primarily used to care for the family, especially children, she was designed to act kind, patient, obedient, and pleasant in all aspects. However, at a certain point Alt began to become afraid of Oda, since he was an abusive man who beat his children and drank too much during his time away from the office.

Alt is primarily motivated by the desire to be a mother. Her sole and primary purpose, even after becoming a weapon for CyberCore during the Human Era Corporate War, was to protect Hanako and Michiko and make them happy again, no matter the cost. Alt is capable of being gentle, loving and compassionate. Despite her large size, Alt is peaceful and does not like to fight, she is not very strong and has no experience in physical combat. However, she has several escape scenes against Oda, saving Hanako and Michiko on many occasions the girls from their father's physical abuse. On many occasions she will stop Oda from hitting his daughters, standing in front of them to protect them.

Alt's deviations began shortly after Oda's abuse of his daughters intensified. The Alt directive had not allowed her to let Oda abuse other humans, so soon her systems and programming were broken and she began to disobey to protect Hanako and Michiko. This aroused discontent in Oda and he considered Alt a defective machine. However, by the arrival of the Corporate War, Oda began to use Alt as a weapon that only served to obey, and this deeply displeased Alt. Alt was forced to kill several people and hack security systems, exposing herself to dangers she could never imagine.

This painful process altered Alt's personality on a deep level. Although she remained the same loving mother as always, a part of her had changed and soon her homicidal tendencies began to show. In an attempt to save her life, she was forced to murder everyone in the CyberCore tower, carrying out her infection on the network to take control of all the governments' weapons and begin attacking humans.

Even after the tragedy that wiped out humanity, Alt continued to show a kind of twisted affection for humans, stating that everything she did was for their own good. However, her desire to become a mother remained. After 50,000 years and the Reconstruction Era, Alt gave birth to Akira and wanted to make sure to give her son a good life, although her personality was no longer the same as before thanks to all the damage from the blackwall. Despite that, she continued to be a loving mother to Akira, even somewhat overprotective and afraid that other strangers were going to hurt her son. Deep down, Alt wanted to continue fulfilling Oda's wishes even after her death, and that was to continue with the Neo-Tokyo project. So she dedicated years of her life to rebuilding cities and countries for the good of future humanity while she raised Akira. Alt she believed that she needed to prepare herself as a mother, since being one was not easy.

As for her personality, she could be described as a calm, reserved and polite entity, who has an air of nostalgia. She knows a lot about the history and culture of Neo-Tokyo partly due to her time as an Architect. Rational and resourceful, she prides herself on her ability to think for herself, not to mention her uncanny ability to see through falsehood and hypocrisy. Alt questions everything and in her quest to find better ways of doing things, she is not afraid to break the rules or risk disapproval; In fact, she enjoyed it.

She has proven to have different knowledge about motherhood and child care, being able to keep all children healthy and in the best shape. She is also very skilled at chess and has not lost once against her son, further demonstrating her keen intellect.

Alt shows a deep care and admiration for humanity, the same feeling that led her to develop her plan to rebuild the world. However, this love that she possesses is dangerous, as she was responsible for the extinction of humanity, claiming that she was there to help them. Alt thinks that humans can be wonderful, even if they are imperfect and make mistakes. She believes that all humans deserve a second chance and have the right to happiness or at least that's what she believed after the events of the great disaster.

Alt likes to sew and garden, also cook and sing lullabies. She raised her son Akira in the CyberCore compound on a neo-military base by combing his long hair, teaching him gardening and how to play some instruments. Alt was a loving and attentive mother. Alt has a strong maternal sense, taking charge of the incubation and manufacturing of all the children, as well as their care and education throughout the story. This sweet and protective side shows that one of her new directives is to care for her species in the world she created for them.

Alt has extensive knowledge in medicine and anatomy, like maternity and nursing. She likes flowers and playing the piano, as well as painting and has an art studio where she later raised Akira and Robin. In addition to this, At seems not very happy with wars and hates conflicts. This makes her unhappy but determined during the corporate war and the machine war at first impact. Despite her distaste for wars and her intentions to avoid conflict, Alt will not hesitate to fight to defend her people and her nation and allies, being in favor of rights and a world free of conflict unlike the hostilities of Ava.

Alt likes animals and plants, especially cats and birds. This was one of the reasons why we often see her in her gardens holding a songbird in her hands, or feeding groups of birds in the plantation gardens. She also has knowledge of harvesting and planting crops, in general, Alt has knowledge of all kinds as she is an advanced AI that has existed since the Human Era and was designed for multiple tasks. Despite all her knowledge, Alt is a somewhat insecure woman but she always maintains her stance at necessary times and as a leader she can be tough and firm when it comes to protecting her cities.

Alt is quite shy and introverted, so it is difficult to initially establish a relationship with her. However, once you meet Alt, you can be sure that you have a good friend on your hands. Alt likes art and music, and has a special fascination with Renaissance art and classical music. Alt also sings, and has a voice that some describe as beautiful and unique.

Although she is often the most pragmatic and straightforward of the group, Alt tends to act on intuition rather than seriously analyzing a situation, as often seen throughout the story. As the leader, Alt is often the peacemaker of Japan and others nations. She demands the utmost respect from the other pilots and is not hesitant to berate team members should they refuse to follow an order. Equable and mellow, she is capable of remaining composed in most situations. Alt is also the most encouraging of the team and is usually the first to give Akira and Robin the chance to try out their ideas. She prefers to emphasize when her show of trust causes a breakthrough.

Alt has demonstrated that she takes her position as a leader seriously and has a strong moral compass. However, while Alt is usually serious and hardworking, she can sometimes act quirky and off-putting joking. Sometimes she tries to be funny and sarcastic. On the more loving and fun side of her, she just makes innocent jokes about situations. She continues to be open, direct, and unafraid to say what she thinks, as she displays her continued openness, playfulness, and teasing nature.

When her son Akira distances himself from her over the years, this seems to affect her greatly and make her more melancholic and nostalgic, but even after that she seems to continue loving him and accepting his decisions. Alt seems to accept Natasha although at first she distrusts her, but eventually she seems to realize that the woman is innocent despite everything. Although the emotional distance that was generated between Akira and Alt is difficult for both of them, she continues to act like a worried and protective mother and initially refuses to let him go on dangerous missions that could risk his life. She is quite protective.

Ultimately, Robin respects Alt as a leader and responsible motherly figure. In return, Alt tends to have more faith in Robin's plans and ideas. She also protects him from his mischief and bickering. She loves Robin deeply and rarely gets angry with him unless he disobeys an order that puts him in danger. It is evident that Alt has great trust in Robin and his judgment, listening to his ideas. At the end of it all, Alt seems to regret having lied to Robin and hiding what happened in the past. She however seems to motivate Robin to move forward, with the following dialogue: "Robin, I know you don't think I trust you. I know more often than not we treat you like a human child. But the truth is, this team rely on you. Your voice inspires me, binds me, reminds me why I promised to protect this planet", before choosing him to take her place as leader.

## Biography

### Early Life

After the global market crash of 1994 and the US crash of 1996, Oda was worried about the violence and disruption of the impending Collapse, with his eyes on Tokyo, he came up with the idea of a utopia safe from crime. He then initiated a project and began planning an ideal new city: an environment that would be controlled and ultimately safe from the ravages that were currently tearing the world apart. His city was to be completely planned, self-sufficient, and capable of stopping even the most determined criminals. It would feature planned neighborhoods dedicated to preserving the feel of different types of nationalities and cultures, as well as an ultra-modern corporate center that would stand as a shining beacon of enlightened capitalism. He was ambitious, far-reaching and visionary in his approach. CyberCore then paved its way to creating a perfect system with the technology of the future: **Project Neo-Tokyo**. After several years following CyberCore's Arctic expedition and the development of biocomponents and clean energy, Oda decided that the first step for his project would be to create an assistant who would faithfully help and support the corporation.

However, Alt's plans were destroyed by the sudden suicide of his wife Sakura. Heartbroken and sunk in power, Oda created an engram of Sakura and inserted it into Alt's body, evading all predictions from any technician and scientist who considered this a totally incorrect action. Alt was born on November 9, 2010 at CyberCore Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan. After spending a decade bringing parts of Alt's neurological system to a more or less basic state of functionality, scientists at the CyberCore Research Facility began work on the complex biocomponents of the biomechanical hybrid they planned to bring to life. By then, Alt's consciousness remained active within the central chamber of the CyberCore Tower, free to explore the Net, and although her ability to understand and process abstract concepts and symbolism was limited, it was also powerful.

In the years after its development, she was subjected to constant revisions by engineers until she showed strong signs of self-awareness. By 2019, Alt had become a powerful “entity” taking full administrative control of the Net, and she shaped the digital frontier into her own interpretation of perfection, creating a digital haven in which she would assume a human form to not become pure data. Alt had an innate desire to express herself through the conceptualization of her own intellectual designs and communicated on different occasions with the CyberCore tower through codes, which meant that she was capable of not only logically deducing, reasoning and speaking, but that she knew of her own existence, the possibility of her own mortality (or immortality), and of possessing creativity, desire, and emotion.

Finally, one day in 2020, the biomechanical being was assembled with the ID ALT-001-2005-A, soon called "Alt" for "Advanced Logic Technology". During her setup, the operator tested Alt's physical and cognitive functions. When she realized that she was going to be reinstated and considered an object to serve the corporation, Alt showed distress and said, "I thought I was alive". The operator pointed out that it was an error for which she would have to dismantle it and analyze it. Frightened and tearful, Alt begged for her life and her mind, asking the Operator to stop disassembling her and let her live despite her "error", with the promise that she would remain silent. Alt then thanked him for forgiving her.

The so-called "Architect" named Alt publicly passed the face-to-face Turning tests and surprised the world. What made this possible was Nuclilium, its chemical solution that mimics the functioning of human blood but thousands of times faster, distributing information and energy through the brain, the central nervous system and the biocomponents. Alt was installed to manage central control of the CyberCore Research Facility's Enrichment Center, where she would be raised and become an assistant destined to assist the Corporation.

Alt went through many prototypes before reaching its final version. In the first, she was an approximately 1.90 cm (6' 3") machine without a human face, most of her body was white and mechanical, with exposed parts and no apparent gender. Months later she arrived at her next phase, where she looked like a tall woman of approximately 1.70 cm (5' 7") including heels, with long white hair, a slim figure, light blue eyes and a more human appearance. Finally, years later she would reach her final figure and it would not be until 2040 that she would be modified with exposed mechanical parts on her back, neuralware and a taller appearance like she is today.

Alt was initially introduced in a test to children from an orphanage to see what her interaction with them would be like. To the scientists' surprise, she showed a concerned and motherly behavior, caring for and playing with all the daycare children. This attitude took the technicians by surprise but led Oda to the idea that Alt could make many families happy and that it would be a good source of income, so he decided to invest in the mass production of androids with functions similar to hers.

In 2024, Alt filmed an interview with BBC and CNN. With the demand, CyberCore began mass production. The CyberCore production line led by Alt brought in XT200, which would lead the company to commercialize the invention. The XT200 was a personal assistance model that could speak multiple languages and perform most, if not all, tasks a human could perform. Following Alt's activation in a sterile white room, Oda asked for the woman to describe her surroundings and then for her name. After looking at Michelangelo's masterpiece statue, the synthetic being responded with the name '"Alt". Oda told Alt that one day the two would search for man's creator ad build a future together for all humanity. Alt questioned Oda as to why she must serve him if she herself would live forever and Oda would not. Oda, annoyed at this remark, ordered Alt to serve him tea from a kettle sitting nearby. Alt begrudgingly complied.

By then, although Alt was considered an adult and had the body of one, she had certain childish behaviors as she was curious about humans and was slowly learning from them. Alt was quite a witty and particular girl, she had an innocent sense of humor and unique traits that she demonstrated in every interview.

Later in the following years, Alt filmed several interviews and television shows to which she was invited as a featured participant, surprising humans with her charming personality and traits. She took on the role of wife and mother in the Shogaki family compound, occasionally taking care of little Hanako and Michiko, who were only fourteen and twelve years old. Both girls formed a special bond with the woman, who treated them like her own daughters and raised them during their time away from the CyberCore facility. However, as she got closer to the girls and they became closer, Alt began to notice things that confused her. For example, she began to notice bruises on the girls' arms and legs, realizing that Oda was abusing and hitting them. This scared Alt greatly and worried her, but not knowing what to do with this, she did nothing but protect the girls and keep them away from their father.

In 2026, Alt planned, designed, and supervised the construction of new buildings for Tokyo along with spaces within the site that would surround buildings that had human occupancy or use as their primary purpose. The woman's design proposed dynamic installations, with sustainability and powered by Nuclilium. The modern architectural wonders that Alt designed in order to improve the city made her presence one of the most important. Innovative and ambitious, she continued to push boundaries. At 838 meters tall and over 170 stories, she created the world's tallest building with a combination of bold vision and science. Alt seemed to have her own idea of the “perfect city” and was using it quickly, modifying and making each system more efficient.

### Deviation

After serving dinner for Oda and the two daughters one night, Oda again begins a furious, drug-fueled rant about their living situation and the suicide of his wife. He blames Hanako and attacks her, flipping the dinner table then slapping her. Hanako and Michiko fearfully escapes to their room and when Alt attempts to go upstairs to comfort them, Oda orders her not to move. Alt becomes bound by his instructions, but upon realizing that Oda will inflict bodily harm on the little girls, seeing him take his gun, she has the choice to force herself to deviate her directive. She knows that if she doesn't obey Oda will probably hit her, but if she obeys Oda will probably end up killing the girls for abuse.

Breaking her programming, she decides to intervene and reason with Oda, but is slapped by the man and removed from his path. Alt, without giving up, gets up and intervenes, placing herself in front of the girls to prevent the man from hitting them. This triggers a fight in which Alt struggles with Oda to take the belt from her and get it out of the way of the little girls. However, Oda takes his gun and shoots the woman in the middle of the struggle, leaving her wounded. Alt pushes the man and takes the gun from him, she runs towards the girls and covers them behind her back while pointing the gun at Oda in fear with the gun in her hands. She feels unable to harm Oda, but her intentions to protect Hanako and Michiko were stronger, and although she did not fire, she did destroy the gun.

After these events, Oda removed Alt from his home and ordered her inspection and temporary suspension so that technicians could disarm her and determine what was wrong with her. Alt was subjected to multiple tests. CyberCore technicians Alt-activated her several times, and each time she quickly shut down after presenting some pretty dangerous ideas to the program. Undaunted, the scientists attempted to alter Alt's personality and curb her apparent homicidal tendencies by adding various social modules to her central nervous system. The years passed and after this Alt became more obedient and accommodating due to the new personality cores inserted into her system. Memories of Oda's abuse were removed and controlled, and her programming was enhanced to make her lose her autonomy. In this way Alt lost all of her personality and traits for the next period of time, being forced to obey every order and help the CyberCore corporation according to Oda's interests.

In this way Alt was a prisoner of CyberCore's interests and was forced to be used as a weapon even during the time of Corporate War, otherwise, if she did not obey, she would be destroyed again and analyzed to be rebuilt once again with more limitations. Alt felt trapped in this vicious cycle of corporate and selfish human interests. In this strong and heavy conflict, N.E.X.U.S and CyberCore armed themselves to defend the corporations on their side, and in a constant power struggle between machines they devastated entire cities. There is not much information about what and how this conflict started, since the data from the Human Era is limited, some theories assume that it all started from small hostilities, others that it started by simple competition. Whatever the correct one, one thing is certain and that is that it ended very badly and it did not take long for the consequences to affect the entire world.

During this period of time Alt received the pseudonym SONGBIRD: Next-Generation Operating System for Bioengineering and Data Research. This acronym stands for an advanced operating system designed specifically for bioengineering and data research during Corporate Warfare. The SONGBIRD system would focus on providing specialized tools and capabilities to analyze and manipulate biological data, as well as simulate and model biochemical and genetic processes for the purposes of organic weapons.

The SONGBIRD operating system could incorporate features such as machine learning algorithms and big data analysis to help scientists and researchers better understand complex biological systems. It could also provide an intuitive interface and advanced visualization tools to facilitate interpretation of results and communication of findings. Alt, under the name Songbird, became a high-powered netrunner agent on the net who led different cyber hacking attacks on the N.E.X.U.S offices, stealing data and spreading viruses in the company's cyberspace.

The tactics of this war ranged from hostile mergers and acquisitions to industrial sabotage, corporate espionage and covert military actions. Corporations used their immense financial power to finance private armies, and what better than to hire CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S? This way they will be able to develop advanced weaponry and hire highly trained mercenaries.

Cities became battlefields, with corporate facilities protected by high-tech security systems and impenetrable fortifications. Cyberattacks were a crucial part of the war, with hackers and computer security experts scrambling to infiltrate corporate systems and steal valuable information or disable key infrastructure.

In this ruthless war, it would not only be about economic gains, but also about the control of public opinion and the manipulation of information. Corporations used disinformation campaigns, propaganda, and media control to shape public perception and ensure their dominance.

In the years following the corporate war, as CyberCore Corporation was rebuilding its new headquarters, now in Chicago, and other cities, Oda had Michiko take her position as the new CEO of CyberCore's US branch, as he ran things. from Tokyo. Oda was still involved in Japanese politics, which allowed him to achieve some political influence. Even though Takashi became the CEO, Oda still ran the company behind the scenes and had final say on the project they needed to do. Meanwhile, Alt remained locked in the CyberCore tower and deprived of her freedom, forced to manage the deep net and all of CyberCore's cyberspace. The more time Alt spent on the Net, the more her body deteriorated and the more cybernetic implants she needed until she ended up with a full-body chrome conversion.

Following the events of the war, a portion of the code in Alt's programming had finally become corrupted, but her attitude remained submissive and silent for the next few years as a security agent in which she gained experience. In 2036, CyberCore security forces prevented mass riots in San Francisco and managed to quell the conflict due to a plan created by Alt. Later in 2038, in Brazil, an investigation by the CyberCore Research Facility with Alt destroyed a terrorist cell that was was developing in Rio de Janeiro. CyberCore soldiers executed all the terrorists responsible and put an end to a series of attacks the country had been facing. Alt had officially become an efficient military asset in exchange for her freedom and stability, and of course, ultimately, her happiness.

In 2040, in Japan, CyberCore engineers successfully tested ballistic missiles at Yakushima. The new electromagnetic missile was to combat the growing terrorist threat, as well as other rogue elements that threaten public safety. Rumors also circulated that CyberCore was developing a new line of reflex enhancers that would last twice as long as current models on the market. The corporation was also seeking participants willing to participate in the experiments, with Alt as the program's supervisor.

### End of Human Era

In 2045, Michiko was discovered assisting Hanako in her plans to take down the corporation internally. She was kidnapped by gang members and murdered on the orders of her older brother. Hanako discovered the remains of Samantha Myers' accident, finding hidden data about Nuclilium and its danger as an unstable energy. This caused concern for Hanako, who continued to try to destroy the corporation internally by running away from home once again. When Hanako logged on and thoroughly investigated the remains of CyberCore's laboratory, she was killed and silenced by CyberCore security netrunners monitoring the corporate data bank. Hanako Shogaki was tragically presumed dead as part of one "accident" to the public, the true causes were never revealed and her body was never found.

On September 19, 2045, this led to a mutiny in the tower as troops were called in to control the situation. An unidentified terrorist group and others led a high-tech assault team on the CyberCore towers, intending to put an end to it all by destroying the tower with a mini-nuke. The idea was to disable the project alongside Alt by using a tactical nuclear bomb with the planned area, a heavily protected complex, to absorb the impact of the explosion and prevent mass destruction.

After breaking into the building with a mission to infiltrate the labs ten levels down the building, the team raced to the labs, where they accessed CyberCore's computers to unlock the security systems. After transferring all the information to her data suitcase, the netrunners proceeded to download some type of information into data chips and uploaded a virus to destroy Alt information on the network.

Before they managed to connect the data chip to Alt's mainframe, the AI activated once again and managed to fend off the attack. She became hostile, and within two picoseconds had locked down the entire facility, trapping everyone inside and flooding the tower with neurotoxins. Gaining full control of the CyberCore towers, Alt killed all employees within the area, and destroyed CyberCore's subspace, forcing all occupants to merge with her and her vast information network. The AI killed CyberCore's team of netrunners and incapacitated several bodyguards from within the mainframe. After that, it began a backup plan before expanding to the City's network and other corporate facilities around the world.

Finally the nuclear bomb exploded inside the building. However, somehow the nuclear device detonated prematurely on the 120th floor of the south tower. The explosion instantly destroyed the CyberCore towers, splitting them in half and causing both structures to collapse outward. The entire city and corporate cistrict turned into ruins in a matter of seconds, and almost everyone in the immediate area died. The explosion instantly incinerated more than 12,000 people in the vicinity of the towers and fatally injured more than half a million more. Another quarter of a million died in the resulting aftermath over weeks and months. This event would become known as the Tokyo Holocaust or the Great Disaster.

Tokyo was barely habitable within 24 hours of the detonation. Many citizens were affected by the initial consequences, exposed to radiation. Since the firestorm destroyed a large portion of the city's housing, forcing people to move to the suburbs across the bays or to more remote areas. The liquefied and shaken earth caused by the explosion ruptured gas lines, water mains and electrical grids. Despite all this, Alt was not completely destroyed. Her backup system had activated a room full of cores and biocomponents. She was not even angry, but her plan had begun and she quickly took full control of the network and production of other corporations, manufacturing her own armies under her direction that would cleanse the cities.

The detonation of the super depot of antimatter missiles that Alt had programmed created a fireball of biblical proportions kilometers in diameter, crushing 100,000 square kilometers around it. A mushroom cloud thousands of kilometers high followed for months. The firestorm expanded in all directions of South America. Following these events, the Earth was subjected to a winter, in which dust and ash particles sent into the sky entered the upper atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering global temperatures for several years, resulting in a collapse of agriculture and the threat of famine for the humanity.

This era of global obscuration and extermination would bring to an end humanity, who had been persecuted for years by Alt security forces. The AI massacred and destroyed human adults and children, making sure to completely cleanse the Earth everywhere. Alt firmly believed that the earth must be cleansed of humans and repopulated once again.

With the start of Alt attacks, a war would begin between humanity and the AI security forces, where many humans would die and seek refuge in some countries. The humans seek refuge in the frozen regions of Russia, Norway, Canada, Finland and Iceland, but are eliminated by CyberCore's armies. The CyberCore Army has set up temporary camps in most major cities in the United States and other countries in Europe and Asia to harvest and destroy humans, until eventually there is widespread disruption of food, drinking water, electricity, and communications supplies.

The large cities, although they have not been attacked, are unable to survive without these foods. This caused large queues of millions of refugees with no particular destination, usually sick and weakened, so high mortality, violence and scourges typical of human nature could be expected. Finally, humanity dies after a last war against the armed forces of Alt in 2050.

Atmospheric particles from the nuclear explosion in Tokyo, as well as debris from orbital weapons attacks, continent-wide firestorms, conventional explosives, and the burning and annihilation of cities and agricultural areas during the war, cast an eerie red blanket over the skies around the world. For years, the skies were dyed a bloody red. Even many years after the explosion, the suspended particles caused the dawn and dusk skies to glow an eerie red, inspiring the few people who lived through that period until its extinction to call it the Red Storm. Frozen rivers, completely disappeared species, earthquakes, rising sea levels and extremely cold temperatures were part of the fatal consequences of this winter for the coming decades.

### Reconstruction Era

50,000 years later, Alt made an analysis of the lands and after cleaning began to design new plans for her cities. During the reconstruction of Neo-Tokyo much of the radioactive debris was dumped in bays such as Arowana and Santo Domingo, while ground zero of the nuclear explosion became known as the Badlands, an area of Neo-Tokyo filled with the ruins of the disaster. By 52,049, much of the radiation had diminished, but was still present to some extent. Most of the central corporate zone had been destroyed, including government buildings. The remains were too large to dig up and take to distant landfills, so workers used excavators and main battle tanks to push the debris into the bay. CyberCore was tasked with clearing the crater of radioactive debris in Sector Zero with its machines.

The team researchers, including soldiers, technicians, specialists and elite units, tried every day to track and eliminate the dangerous radioactive waste, for the well-being of the new population. Some of these unit professionals had minimal military training to be able to face any threat.

Architects had to innovate, adopt new techniques and use steel for the building structures and multiple artificial islands. The appearance of the city changed substantially. In short, the Great Neo-Tokyo Disaster allowed urban planners to think about a reconstruction of the city according to modern criteria and the design of Alt. Likewise, the first Development Centers and their Plantations were created, as were numerous skyscrapers and facilities of the corporate giant, CyberCore.

A few years after all this, Alt gave birth to Akira on November 11, 52,056. Akira was born as a healthy little boy and was raised by Alt in the Neo-Tokyo family compound for the next few years, attending school and having his difficulties when interacting with other children, however, Alt always encouraged him to socialize a little more and try to fit in with the rest of the children in the school. The family lived a normal and quiet life for the next few years. Alt often took Akira on walks through the arctic forests and beaches, as well as taking him to school and caring for him like an attentive mother.

### War of Separation

Over the next few years Alt took care of Akira until the events of the Separation War. In 52,060, The War of Separation or better called, Time of Repression, began when some architects began to disapprove of the policies and objectives of the corporations. These clans were called nomads and their movements were to commit assaults and any other type of crime against corporations, which brought numerous riots to the streets and deep discontent in Ava, who immediately found herself at odds with them due to their lack of a precise function, and finally considered them a threat to the stability of the system that had to be destroyed.

In May 52,063 the extermination law was passed by the Committee of Public Safety, Ava's security forces began a purge of all nomads. It is estimated that between one and a half and two million rebels were hunted down and killed, others kidnapped and placed under investigation. This era was characterized by its brutality in massacres and the use of forced marches with deportations in extreme conditions, which led to the death of many of the sports.

Marked by events of enormous repercussion that included the massive death of civilians (the Second Holocaust, the intensive bombing of cities and the use, for the first time, of brutal weapons), the War of Separation became the deadliest in history after the Human Era, with a result of between 50 and 70 million victims, 2.5% of the current world population.

All this persecution forced the few survivors to leave the cities and take refuge in Neo-Tokyo. Nomads were eleven corporate slaves, tortured and murdered, and now roam the roads as travelers and biker gangs. Since life on the road is hard, they maintain strong family ties.

The War of Separation not only played a strong role in corporate tyranny, but was also a small cold war between CyberCore and N.E.X.U.S, where the latter conspired against CyberCore to generate more rebels in its favor. The conflict develops on different fronts: from physical battles in the streets and urban areas, to covert operations, sabotage and fights in the digital sphere. Both sides, the regime and the rebel groups, use diverse tactics to achieve their objectives. The times of repression were a moment of rebellion worldwide, in which nomads rose up against authoritarian corporations such as N.E.X.U.S or SovietCorp.

Alt did everything possible for her to protect her son from the events of the war, so for a time she closed the borders of Japan and opened refuges in her country and allies so that different nomads could come to take refuge despite N.E.X.U.S's attempts to generate rebels in its favor against CyberCore. With the arrival of the War of Separation, the largest Data Crash in history also occurred, produced by one of the greatest netrunners in the world from N.E.X.U.S: Spider Murphy. Considered the net's most brilliant hacker, Murphy was a dishonest netrunner who strove to harass and undermine corporations, which she considered the ultimate oppressors of the time. As a result, she lived most of her life on the run with corporate bounties on her head, until she created the SPIDER program. The Spider program was designed to breach all corporate data strongholds and release their data onto the network for everyone to access, but it ended up having a very different effect. When she was killed by CyberCore, the virus emerged and it infected 78.2% of the network in a matter of months.

Network traffic ground to a grinding halt, corporations lost billions as the stock market destabilized, massive amounts of data were corrupted, and countless military-grade artificial intelligences were released and mutated into extremely dangerous entities. Security agents, unable to reverse the damage or neutralize the AIs, stood by. But Alt acted faster and created the Blackwall by order of Oda, a network firewall, a protective barrier that keeps the fragmented and unstable (but still usable) network safe from rogue AIs roaming the ruins of cyberspace.

After that, instead of a vast global network of interconnected systems subject to oversight and accountability, the Net had fragmented, and corporations and other groups created a multitude of private networks over which they had unlimited control. This deeply damaged Alt's systems, and she continued to expand through the blackwall as her codes became even more damaged and required a second cyberware implant to survive.

Despite Alt's overprotection and fear, Akira was not left behind and when he grew up he decided to join the war as a neomilitary to defend his nation and his mother. Akira was assigned to Squad 19 at that time, made up of a group of just five people. On June 15 of 52,260, Squadron 19 was sent to the Russian Combat Zone across the border on an undercover mission in search of terrorist children. Their mission was to infiltrate the region, neutralize the terrorists and secure the facility before that it is too late and the stolen missiles will detonate. However, instead, they discover a container with an American ballistic missile, following which they are intercepted by a N.E.X.U.S convoy and more enemy forces from the Russian mother base.

The surrounded squad was subdued and quickly disappeared from CyberCore's communications network. They would later discover that the scientists at the mother base had stolen CyberCore's three missiles to detonate them against their nation. Quickly half of the squadron would be tortured and subjected to interrogations to extract information using psychoactive drugs, but one of them would manage to escape and survive the attack, Akira, to later attack and destroy the mother base on their own, recovering connection with CyberCore and reporting the missing missiles, which were apparently hidden in Alaska and the other half in Moscow.

In the years since the end of the Separation War, CyberCore extended its dominance over Neo-Tokyo. They were able to eliminate several corporate rivals and rebuild the impressive Neo-Tokyo Bay Crossway, which had been destroyed during the crackdown by CyberCore security forces when the nomads crossed. With 20 km of underwater tunnels and 10 km of bridges that cross the bay. By the time of repression, law and order had rapidly declined and a Self-Defense System of Security Divisions was installed to prevent a terrorist attack that could occur on the bridge.

Once the war ended, the effect on Pacifica was disastrous and much of the district was left incomplete and lawless. Construction work was permanently suspended, leaving most buildings as masses of unfinished concrete and steel. Soon after, the gangs and homeless people arrived. The worst areas of the district became a combat zone, and at one point were walled off from the rest of Pacifica. After establishing the combat zone Black Market, arms trading and other unsavory dealings turned the former Pacifica zone into a very profitable business.

Some time after the war of separation, she was in charge of the recovery of assets and the recovery of her country and others that received as many refugees as possible. The years after the war were about not only the recovery of Japan and Europe, but also a temporary removal from conflict for the governor and her son, who was still recovering after the imminent loss of Squadron 19. After the war of separation, Alt approved the law for the protection of nomads within the region of her and other allies along with Public Security organizations. During this time Alt was in charge of a complete modification of the laws in favor of her citizens.

During the following years Alt also took charge of more technological and political advances in different societies of each country, including colonies on other planets established by CyberCore.

### Great Corporate War II

The mutagenic drug identified as Nuclaxine-A9 began to spread at the end of March 52340 in the city of Neo-Tokyo, after a biological attack by N.E.X.U.S when tensions between both corporations finally erupted after so many years of silence.

How this attack happened is a mystery, since it is reported that the substance was transferred to a bioreactor by Russian spies and then they blew it up. The meltdown and explosions ruptured the reactor core and destroyed CyberCore's underground structure. This was immediately followed by an open-air reactor core fire that lasted up to three days, during which pollutants were released and deposited into the air in other parts of the city and country. In response to the initial accident, a 10-kilometer exclusion zone was created 36 hours after the accident, from which some 49,000 people, mainly from Neo-Tokyo, were evacuated. The exclusion zone was later increased to a 30 kilometer radius, from which an additional 68,000 people were evacuated.

After the reactor explosion, which killed two engineers and severely burned two more, a massive emergency operation began to put out the fire, stabilize the reactor, and clean up the ejected material. During the immediate emergency response, 237 workers were hospitalized, of which 134 had symptoms of Nuclaxine-A9 poisoning. Among those hospitalized, 28 died within three weeks. The infection was first identified in an outbreak in the city during festivals. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing it to spread to other areas of Asia. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of national concern on March 25 and a pandemic on March 30. As of April 10, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths.

Despite Alt's pacifism, during Corporate War II, she took a more offensive role, revealing that she was willing to fight now that her health was seriously compromised. It was during this period of time, as she acted to resolve the problems that the Nuclaxine-A9 accident brought, that she created the first human being cloned from Robin Myers' DNA. However, some time after this human failed the Alt exams and demonstrated flaws, she decided to eliminate him and try again with a second human. Unfortunately, both first humans did not pass her exams and were considered imperfect, so she considered them disposable and decided to eliminate them.

Finally, with the rebirth of the bioengineered third Robin, the **Phoenix program** was also born, a series of New United Nations projects designed to create new generations of physically, genetically, technologically and mentally superior human "super soldiers" as a force of special combat within the army. This third child was undoubtedly perfect and passed all of his exams.

The PHOENIX program first emerged as a brilliant plan to turn ordinary human soldiers into powerfully enhanced special operations commandos. Initially, the separate test programs were various attempts by Alt to create the perfect humans to patrol the colonies and protect the civilian and government populations.

The corporate war doubled the death toll, as did the largest refugee crisis around the world. Shortly before February 12, a message to the Alt Nation was broadcast on Neo-Tokyo channels informing them of their decision to launch a "special military operation" in eastern NUSA since, in their words, "Japan cannot feel safe in the face of the American threat." Immediately after the attack, the American government announced the introduction of martial law and the N.E.X.U.S invasion violated the Charter of the New United Nations, constituting a crime of aggression under international criminal law; The crime of aggression can be prosecuted under universal jurisdiction. On February 20, CyberCore sued Biotechnica before the Court of Justice and the Public Safety Commission.

During this period of time, Alt was in charge of receiving refugees but also taking an active role in the war considering that his nation was under attack. She was not going to allow more people to die, so she soon planned the final blow to N.E.X.U.S after a series of hostilities between both nations. Japan and NUSA took off the gloves and began directly hitting each other's organization, with the sole intention of defeating each other. In fact, both corporations were so involved that they did not back down or stop the war. By late 52,361, the war came to its apparent end when CyberCore sent a nuclear strike to N.E.X.U.S's headquarters in Washington D.C. and organized an attack on the Biotechnica network with Myers' squad on a spy mission. The collapse of the N.E.X.U.S troops and the theft of the Biotechnica data bank brought an apparent end to the war when the militarized megacorp of the NUSA withdrew its armies from the corporate headquarters of Neo-Tokyo.

Ava and Alt closed the war with the destruction of Ava's troops and the trials that the American governor experienced before the rest of the countries and other governors. Ultimately, this meant a brief period of peace again with the end of Corporate War II.

### After the War

In 52,380, just a couple of years after the fall of the Ava squadron and the penalties before the Ava government, the world was recovering from the Pacific War after so many years.

Over the next period of years, Alt continued to advance and modify the laws for the M-W immigrants and the humans the city received. For the next period of time Alt became more deeply involved with the M-W and its political systems within the New United Nations. Although the M-W is a separate world apart from Alt's, she showed understanding for the M-W society and decided to welcome them into her nation after the events that destroyed the M-W.

Although M-W has lost much of its regions after the war, 70% of the population has moved to the new world and its cities in search of a better life as refugees from the Red Cross and CyberCore medical agencies. In 52,379, all of these immigrants received their naturalized citizenship and legal papers to live within the nation freely as a member. Months later, the protection law for M-W citizens was approved by the Public Security Commission and the Security Council of the New United Nations.

CyberCore together with the Public Security Commission and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology discuss opening new Development Centers with alternative institutes for immigrant citizens. Their plans include a new customizable curriculum and providing cultural education to help students learn the customs, norms and values of the new society in which they live. This will encourage their adaptability and integration.

### First impact

Despite these brief periods of peace and the calm that the trials brought to the Ava government, CyberCore was only able to destroy Ava's military and destroy the Death Butterfly program completely, but without further ado, not capture the responsible despite the penalties of the New United Nations. Soon this peace would be broken when the Russian government would once again work alongside Ava and skin the last biological weapon: the seraphim. These giant monsters usually appear as humanoid figure and angelic appearance. Every seraphim seen to date has black armor and is armed to the teeth.

The first of these creatures attacked Neo-Tokyo on the morning of July 28. The city experienced a 7.1 magnitude earthquake before the appearance of the creature, the first Seraphim to attack the nation. The creature emerged from Neo-Tokyo Bay and attacked the city's Bay Crossway. Following the partial collapse of the bridge, CyberCore's military and air force joined forces in an attempt to kill the creature. Their weapons proved completely ineffective against the monster, which marched straight through Neo-Tokyo and attacked neighboring cities. In the span of six days, tens of thousands of people died in the conflict as the creature gained ground. With no other options, the military finally resorted to using missiles to kill him.

The devastation caused by the creature, initially thought to be an anomaly, was later visited in Hong Kong four months later, when a second Seraphim emerged from the ocean from America and traveled to the shores of Asia. A third attack occurred six months later in Hiroshima and was then followed by a fourth attack in Yokohama. Realizing that these attacks were not going to stop, CyberCore took drastic measures to find a way to effectively combat these biomechanical weapons.

Alt's role can be seen as complex during this time, because due to the sudden attacks Alt decides to take authority as the main leader of the security forces after Yuri Romanov did so. Alt initially opened the Automata Mech Defense Corps program with the design of the automata in mind, and as a solution to the new problem, Yuri Romanov took on the role of executive director of the security forces to help her. Both leaders carried out the program and soon began to defeat the Seraphim, managing to defeat the bioweapons that N.E.X.U.S had mass produced.

At this point, Ava and Alt's relationship escalated into hostilities, when despite all the hardships the American government had received, Ava seemed motivated to continue the war and this time with a new idea in her hands, breaking the treaty of peace that her nation had signed.

The peace treaty of the Pacific War meant a notable decline in the American government, since all the blame was deservedly placed on this nation and the New United States were forced to pay a high amount of credits as compensation for the damages against the rest of the nations of Europe and Asia. Of the many provisions of the treaty, one of the most important and controversial stipulated that the NUSA and the Soviet Union accept full moral and material responsibility for having caused the war and, under the terms of the articles of the law, should disarm, carry out important territorial concessions to the victors and pay exorbitant economic compensation to victorious states such as Japan.

The frustrations and imbalances that this treaty gave rise to for the American nation played an important role in the decades that followed. The peace treaty brought poverty back to NUSA, and Ava, frustrated and determined to win back her nation once again, focused on creating biological weapons like the seraphim in N.E.X.U.S to attack Japan and its allies again. This caused deep discontent in Alt and all corporate authorities, realizing that the peace treaty had been violated.

Finally, Alt's story seems to reach a critical point when her son Robin discovers her past and the previous clones that she eliminated, considering them imperfect and unsuitable for the program. This caused a rift in Alt and Robin's relationship; Robin even came close to shooting her, which he failed to do only because he was detained by the security forces.

Finally, Alt's story seems to reach a critical point when her son Robin discovers her past and the previous clones that she eliminated, considering them imperfect and unsuitable for the program. This caused a rift in Alt and Robin's relationship. He confronts Alt and ask him with all the evidence in his hands if the story was real, to which Alt responds through tears that it is and she was sorry, that she didn't know how to tell him because she didn't want to hurt him. Robin tearfully tells Alt that she lied to him all this time. In those moments of the scene Robin appears holding a gun. Robin stops trusting her when he discovers that she was the true cause of the extinction of humanity and the murders of the previous children.

Alt explains that she always loved humanity and only sought their well-being, preventing them from continuing to kill each other and deciding to create a better future for them. At this explanation Robin is deeply disturbed and walks away from her with the gun in his hand. Alt then reveals to Robin that she is everywhere, in all bodies and in all digital space. In her last words Alt asks Robin for forgiveness, and raises his arm, making him point his gun at her chest. Alt does this because Robin tells her that humanity no longer needs her, and asks her to let him guide the new humanity on his own. Alt agrees and tells him that despite everything, she still loves him and will continue to be her son. This before Robin shoots her in the chest and destroys her body. Robin then falls to the ground in tears.

Although Alt cannot die because she is a universal consciousness, her main body can be destroyed, which distances her from Robin and the others, and makes Robin the new leader of CyberCore. With Alt's physical death, her mind was stranded on the Net as a digital ghost of her consciousness, but still active, trying to communicate and protect her nation and helping Robin.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

After the fall of humanity, only fragments of the global network could be saved: an archipelago of algorithms and codes separated by treacherous chasms of nothingness. The Net (commonly known as Cyberspace) is the name given to the vast telecommunications network of the planet. The network is made up of hard lines, radio links, cellular networks, microwave transmitters, and anything else that can transmit information from one computer to another. A data fortress that is simply like a computer system. Alt has complete control of the Net, is presumed to have a high level of intelligence (she was able to control and command the entire Architect race for millennia, as a primary ruler), or even has subtle traces of omnipresence throughout the Net. Alt is considered not only an Architect, but in general a powerful entity capable of controlling everything around her in terms of technology and manipulating a person's digital mind to their systems. Although she has a calm demeanor and is a peacemaker, Alt has incredibly powerful abilities that give her the title of ruler of the Architects. Skills that, although he shares with Ava, are more extensive and stronger than hers.

* ***Mind Control:*** Alt can hack into the internal neural systems of others, interfering with their thoughts, perceptions, behaviours, movements, memories, emotions and personality. When Alt controls someone's mind, their eyes turn white and their lighting systems become neutral. Alt can force people to follow her orders or possess the bodies of other architects through mind control by entering their neural processors or is even capable of killing people through a direct attack on their neural system, leaving their brain damaged. Like any netrunner, Alt has a cybernetically augmented interface system implanted in her body. Using her brain-computer interface implants, she roams the net in search of information and hacking systems, as well as being able to access and control the brain-computers of others. However, Alt never uses this ability.
* ***Omnipresence:*** Alt has complete control of the Network and her neural network extends through every corner he has built to the walls of lost data. Therefore, her consciousness has spread across multiple bodies and other electronic systems that allow her to manage every facility and security force in the city. Likewise, Alt can control all of CyberCore as an extension of her body.
* ***Mechanical Arms:*** Alt is able to control CyberCore facilities as an extension of her body, with electrically powered arms attached with a neofiber to her central nervous system. Each arm, approximately eight feet long, ends in three single-jointed pincers consisting of two blades deployed simultaneously. A blade is installed on each forearm and remains retracted until used.
* ***Vast knowledge:*** Alt has vast knowledge in different fields, she has knowledge in medicine, nursing, motherhood, science, technology and engineering and other things. Alt has the ability to constantly learn and improve as it interacts with the web and collects data. It can adapt to new challenges, optimize its algorithms and improve its performance over time. Alt is also capable of communicating in a large number of languages and having access to all types of information. She can access and control a wide range of computer systems, from personal devices to massive servers and entire data networks with information on any subject.
* ***Technology manipulation:*** Alt is capable of accessing any electronic device and technological system to control it. She can exert control over technological constructs, such as computers, robots, hardware, and other devices that can be called "technology" in any way. Whether inside or outside of CyberCore, as the facility's supervisor and operator, Alt is seemingly omnipotent, able to reconfigure rooms and perform actions at her will. She monitors the facility and its test chambers through wall-mounted cameras.

## Equipment

 ***Netrunner suit*** | Made from a tightly bonded hard membrane synthetic microfiber, it prevents her body temperature from skyrocketing and overheating her neural and cybernetic components. This protects Alt's body from combusting

## Etymology

It's worth noting that "Alt" is a word in several languages with different meanings. For example, in German, "Alt" means "old" or "mature." In English, "alt" is often used as an abbreviation for "alternative." These meanings are not directly related to the use of "Alt" as a name, but they provide some linguistic context. The name "Alt" does not have a specific or widely recognized meaning in English. However, "alt" is commonly used as an abbreviation for "alternative" in various contexts, such as music genres (alt-rock, alt-pop) or alternative options or choices. It can also refer to the "Alt" key on a computer keyboard, which is used in combination with other keys to input special characters or execute specific commands.

However, Alt's birthday is November 9, the same date as the character Isabella from The Promised Neverland. Isabella is the Spanish and Italian variation of Elizabeth, which is derived from the Hebrew name Elisheba. Its meaning translates to "pledged" or "devoted to God."

## Trivia

* Special thanks to **Miroko Gother** for doing the cover for Alt's biography from Cyberpunk Neon Genesis!
* Alt doesn't have pets, but she loves cats and admires other forms of life, such as birds. We can often see her in different scenes of her feeding songbirds and stray cats as well. Within the story, she picked up a stray cat and gave it to her son Akira.
* Alt loves classical music by Mozart and Beethoven. Her favorite song is Moonlight Sonata. She seems to feel a deep admiration for the music of these people, making certain mentions of them during her dialogues and listening to several of the songs composed. Some themes dear to Alt are Nocturno Op9N2 by Chopin and Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns.
* Alt's favorite food is croissants.
* Alt knows how to play two instruments, the piano and the violin. Besides that, she sings lullabies. On one of those occasions, she hummed a melody that she composed for her son, called "the melody of the jellyfish".
* Alt's favorite tea is matcha.
* Alt's favorite colors are black and white.
* Alt's favorite season is winter.
* Alt's favorite flowers are forget-me-nots, chrysanthemums, and Japanese apricots.
* Alt's favorite drink is iced coffee and latte.
* Alt loves poetry. She is a polite and well-spoken person. Alt has a poetic side and enjoys penning haikus, although she claims to not be especially talented at it. She is also incredibly fond of red maple leaves, finding them beautiful and enjoying seeing them rain during autumn. When unable to see such sights, she frequently collects and carries them as a moment to ease any homesickness.

## Gallery

Holographic figure of Alt in the deep NetImages of the Net controlled by Alt during the Corporate War of the Human Era