Lee Strauss

## Lee Strauss, Ph.D.

> *"Let's be honest; who cares?"*
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## Notable Events

**Age 0:** Born in Verdis, Emeros.

**Age 13:** Graduated from secondary school and enrolled at the Astra Institute of Technology (AIT), double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

**Age 15:** Began graduate work focusing on AI.

**Age 19:** Earned a doctorate for her dissertation written about pre-war computer systems and AI.  Recruited as a researcher for ECO’s R&D division.

**Age 24:** Transferred to ECO’s Pandora facility to begin analyzing and researching technologies acquired from Eras.  Strauss accidentally activated a stasis pod which resulted in her body being copied to a synthetic chassis in the pod. Mind-sync nanites from the pod infiltrated and covered her brain.

**Age 26:** Began and successfully completed ECO Field Operative training to allow her to personally test her creations in the field.  Became the head researcher of the Advanced Systems division after her predecessor retired.

**Age 27:** Got shot in the helmet by a sniper during an operation, resulting in a concussion.  While Strauss's cognitive functions were ultimately found to be undamaged, some of the blood vessel walls in her brain weakened, eventually resulting in her getting an aneurysm and dying in her lab a few months later. Immediately after, her synthetic body activated within the Pandora facility, loaded with the original Strauss’s mind and memories up until the moment of her death.  Her death and replacement is kept a secret to all but a few people and her corpse is cremated.

**Age 30:** Left ECO to pursue a career in politics.

**Age 32:** Defeated the incumbent Prime Minister in the election after rapidly gaining popularity and supporters over the previous two years to become the Prime Minister.

## Leadership Traits

* Computers: 15
* ECO Field Operative Training: 9
* Brilliant: 9
* Perceptive: 3
* Synthetic body: 0
* Young/inexperienced: -2
* Devious: -4
* Ruthless: -5

## Trivia

* Despite her intellect and numerous efforts, Strauss is abysmally bad at chess and other similar games.  She sometimes jokes about this being the reason why she began her work with AI, although this does have some truth to it, as her first AI-related project was a chess bot.
* Despite not needing to eat or drink, Strauss sometimes does these to remind herself of her former life or to indulge herself.
* Strauss’s favorite food is *peppara*, an Emera dish consisting of seared fish, chili paste and oil, and fried garlic served over hot wheat noodles.  She dislikes venison and radishes.
* Strauss owns a flat located in the luxury apartment complex built into the wall of the north side of the Undercity Abyss.
* Strauss is particularly fond of the color purple.
* While the true nature of her existence is still a closely-guarded secret, there is a conspiracy theory circulating on the internet which claims that Strauss is a robot, citing, among other things, her youthful appearance, which remains unchanged from when she activated the stasis pod decades ago because her synthetic body is unable to simulate the aging process.
* Strauss is known to occasionally visit the red light district in Verdis.
* Despite being an Emera, Strauss is a particularly skilled ice skater.
* Strauss was originally supposed to be a normal Emera, but was made a Synthetic when Wyzecat decided that he didn't want to be bothered with making a new leader when she would inevitable die of old age or accounting for her increasing age as the RP progresses.