Dee Taynee

Dee Taynee was a researcher for pre-Diaspora TerraSol who helped develop the first versions of the mat-trans systems. It is also speculated that she helped develop an early version for the process of creating clinical immortals. She was imprisoned on Dark Side Station.

## Description

Taynee wears little more than a hat over the course of the story. She is often seen smoking, and tends to carry a wrench.

She has a gear tattooed at the base of her skull with an Imperium ID code.

## Personality

During her time on Dark Side Station, Taynee was a narcissistic psychopath, with delusions of grandeur and a total disregard for sentient life. She believed that she was the most intelligent being in existence, referring to others as "children."

She is incredibly intelligent, able to absorb thousands of years worth of research and profess in the span of at most a few days. She is also able to act convincingly enough to fool Falmo'o that she was friendly.

She either no longer or never cared about social conventions, considering she spends the majority of her time on the station nude. She later explained to Daxin that it was partially to throw people off and give her an advantage, as they would be too distracted by her body to realize they were in danger.

After having her mat-trans engram repaired by Sam-UL, she showed a more even temper, however retained the sociopathy and general disregard for individual life, making utilitarian decisions.

## History

Dee Taynee was born during the Great Depression in the United States of America, in the 1920s. During the Depression, her mother contracted Fatal Familial Insomnia through a prion disease and transferred the disorder to her. Due to the disorder, her brain adapted and grew extremely dense neural tissue to compensate for the lack of sleep, leading to her extreme intelligence.

She was recruited into the Manhattan Project during World War II, where she first discovered an nuclear interaction that lead to some of the energy released by the atomic bomb to be channeled into Hellspace. She later confirmed her findings during further nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands. During the test, a Hellspace rift was opened forward in time, letting an Imperium agent and Mantid Speaker through the breach. The Speaker attacked Dee and removed her name from her memory, but it and the Imperium agent here killed by Dee in the process.

Taynee was a researcher for DARPA under Project Whisper in the 20th century, who worked on early models for the mat-trans system, along with super-soldier research and possibly time travel. After the Cold War, Project Whisper and its research came under Congressional oversight. Rather than have the contents of her research revealed, it was decided that she be put in cryogenic storage until a later date. She was revived by the Terran Combine, and after they realized who she was, she was sent to a prison/research facility orbiting an anomalous neutron star.

As she was being escorted by Combine marines to be incarcerated, Taynee took advantage of a Lanaktallan that had appeared due to a temporal anomaly that a future version of her would create to free herself of her explosive collar. After she freed herself, she used the properties of the neutron star the station orbited to generate temporal anomalies and cause havoc in Dark Side Station. What followed was a temporal nightmare for all involved but her.

Taynee quickly took over the station, capturing the Combine marines along with the Lanaktallan Executors that had discovered the station. She then interfaced directly with their brains to gain knowledge of current events and scientific progress. If her brain overloaded and died, a new Taynee spawned from the mat-trans system in the station to continue the work as the matter from the old Taynee was reclaimed.

Dark Side Station had a contingency in place in case Taynee escaped, beaming her past a certain radius back onto the station through the mat-trans. Taynee realized this and sent the Executor ship *Demands Answers* out to search for a way out and to gather more information. Due to the nature of the temporal anomalies, the ship returned in a non-chronological order. As this was occurring, Taynee also investigated the neutron star the station orbit and discovered a psychic hivemind within it. She tore its mind apart to learn more as well, but was contaminated by it in the process.

Now with a desire to destroy everything from the Dwellerspawn egg, she devised an escape strategy using the mat-trans to escape onto a ship outside the "bubble" around Dark Side Station and circumvent the recapturing system. However, as the mat-trans was activated, it was prevented from starting due to the latch being held open by a strip of tape. Taynee was left trapped in the data buffer until Sam-Ul found the data in the SUDS backbone and repaired it, spawning her inside the SUDS headquarters through mat-trans.

## References

1. ↑ First Contact - Second Wave Chpt 136
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 535 - Resurgence - Legends
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 First Contact - Taynee Recap
4. ↑ First Contact - Chapter 310