Annika Kasperov

* **Name:** Annika Petrovna Kasperov
* **Position:** Alpha-Level Operative of the Grid Overwatch Division - Western Bureau, Supervisor of the Non-Aligned Grids Team; holds the rank of Junior Vice President in the Information Management Section in the EVO Corporation
* **Metatype:** *Domania* (*Homo sapiens nobilis*)
* **Education:** Masters of Matrix Management from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Doctorate of Information Sciences from Tadamako Shibanokuji Academy of Technical Specialties.
* **DOB:** [classified] St. Petersberg, Russian Republic

As an Alpha-level GOD Operative, much of Annika Kasperov's past is classified by the Corporate Court. What is known is that she was already a respected, high-level IT troubleshooter for Yamatetsu at the time of the Second Crash and her work in helping to rebuild Yamatetsu's grid into the EVO grid after the crash made her a rising star in the corporate Matrix sections. A technical doyenne, Kasperov carefully distanced herself from the internal factions that defined the corporation's rocky transition from Yamatetsu into EVO. This limited her rise in the company, but also limited her risk.

All of which, her combination of demonstrated technical skill and political neutrality, made her a perfect choice for EVO to send as one of their contributions to the Grid Overwatch Division's Artificial Resource Management department when it opened in 2070. She was given supervision over the small but elite Non-Aligned Grids team of GOD's Western Hemisphere bureau, handing the often-tiny, but complex problems of areas like the FRFZ and RRDMZ that lie between jurisdictions or shared jurisdictions. She was paired with the orbital-based Corporate Court AI ZIZ. Their partnership has been a profitable one, as ZIZ and Kasperov have similar outlooks and dispositions, strict, legalistic, with a keen knowledge of what is expected on them and driven as much by the pride in a job well done as it is to any specific loyalties.

At 0453 GMT on 12/21/2075 (2353 on 12/20/2075 CST) on Zurich-Orbital, ZIZ and Annika received confirmation for a Convergence against the Region 3 grid in the Red River Disputed Military Zone, signed by Auditor Huang Hui Yin. Huang presented evidence of corruption of the guiding AI of the Fargo Grid, TANNIN. By 0559 her team, including ZIZ and the Special Agents who held the RRDMZ in their portfolios (Hemish Vishwakarma and Magda Baader). ZIZ spearheaded the Convergence, shutting down the Fargo Grid temporarily and beginning the process of purging the corrupted parts of the system and isolating the functional pieces.

They were pleased to find that the uncorrupted code was already in the process of recovering even before their arrival. It was decided that the program of rebuilding would be built around these surviving, uncorrupted structures. This process has been dubbed **RAHAB** **R**ecovered **A**daptive **H**euristic **A**rchitecture **B**ackpropagation, which has also become a nickname for this new iteration of TANNIN among the technicians.

During the reconstruction process, while TANNIN has been progressing back to full functionality, other AI's have volunteered/been drafted by GOD to take up some of the load of keeping Fargo running, including ZIZ itself, KSA, Snowdrop and the new NeoMind F.2.

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