Christopher "M1NTY" Reed

A yellow tailless rat with an unusually high intelligence (despite appearances), currently deceased. Specialties: Viruses, polymorphic code, and artificial intelligence. Nathan's only friend at GCHQ. Hated water.

Christopher first met Nathan while tearing down a wall to make room for a new server stack. After introducing him to their co-workers, Christopher noticed Nathan seemed to be discouraged, so to cheer him up, he showed Nathan his new office full of equipment out of an audiophile's wet dream.

After some time working together, Christopher noticed Nathan was having trouble keeping up with everyone else's pace and offered to help. However, Christopher found other people's problems to be fun, even if he was the only one who understood the solution. They worked together and played video games together for weeks, when Christopher proposed a money-making scheme to Nathan. He revealed that he was working on a machine designed to essentially predict the future, which they could use to predict the winners of horse races in combination with a voice synthesizer to call up random bookies.

The Brain found out what they were up to, so they cut him in.

Christopher and Nathan decided to quit the money-making scheme when the Governor caught Martin running unauthorised programs on the GCHQ servers and slammed him with fabricated charges of paedophilia, throwing him in the worst imaginable prison.

Getting back to work, Christopher wrote the bulk of the Oracle's code (which Nathan found incomprehensible even at the design stage) and gave it a voice (with an English fop accent) to enable it to get past automated phone systems. However, while the Oracle started to build itself, learning as it grew, it developed problems with focusing, like a digital form of ADD. Yet the Governor decided it was finished enough to give the "Dirty Half Dozen" their first mission: to find a group of petty crooks who were using malware to steal credit card numbers.

Christopher and Nathan both decided the "mission" had to be a test but went along with it anyway to stay on the Governor's good side. They stole Martin's credit card to use as malware bait in order to trace the money trail. The Oracle quickly found the scammers, and while Christopher was surprised by the result, Nathan was not. After Jim and Steff were ousted, that left only Christopher and Nathan of the Oracle's development team.

On January 3, 2003, Christopher was ordered by Kevin to bring the Oracle online in two months, for "all this Iraq crap." Christopher protested that the Oracle wasn't ready yet, to which Kevin replied the higher-ups saw his gambling winnings and concluded it was a success. He went on to threaten to turn Christopher back over to MI6 and the CIA for breaking into their systems.

On February 22, 2003, Kevin loosened up and told Christopher to go home and get some rest, as he was too tired and making stupid mistakes. Before he left, Christopher noticed the Oracle queueing up jobs determining the likelihood of various governments being overthrown and of Elvis being alive. He reasoned that the Oracle classed each country in the queue as a "rogue state" based on whether that nation created banned weaponry under international treaty, but before he could correct the action, Kevin pressed him to leave already, and Christopher decided it could wait until morning.

On February 23, 2003, Christopher was refreshed and relaxed after a good night's sleep, so much so he proceeded to step in front of a bus.

On February 28, 2003, Kevin reunited Christopher('s ashes) with the Oracle's main body, where they have remained (see the ashes, or the backup for the same) lest the Oracle take itself offline. The Oracle has since then taken on Christopher's likeness as his avatar.