Question Cyberkitty

I think Circuit Breaker/Merry/Petra/Whatever Cyberkitty hasn't gotten a Thread yet, right?

So, did we see her breach an air gap when she hacked into the MCO? Or is that not possible for her unless she's basically physically at the location?

Malady wrote: I think Circuit Breaker/Merry/Petra/Whatever hasn't gotten a Thread yet, right?

So, did we see her breach an air gap when she hacked into the MCO? Or is that not possible for her unless she's basically physically at the location?

Her new code-name is Cyberkitty, and no, she didn't bridge an air-gap. She just penetrated a very, very sophisticated firewall and then found someone did something stupid with a computer config - left a password in clear text in memory, so she cracked many of their systems. Whether or not she could bridge an air-gap of a remote (distant) system has yet to be explored, but probably not.

I'd highly doubt Cyberkitty of being able to beat a system secured by an air gap, but that's where a fully-realised Whisper would come into the picture.

As for Cyberkitty, her name is Paige. Petra is her other half, off dealing with angels and demons.

Ametros wrote: I'd highly doubt Cyberkitty of being able to beat a system secured by an air gap, but that's where a fully-realised Whisper would come into the picture.

As for Cyberkitty, her name is Paige. Petra is her other half, off dealing with angels and demons.

Currently Whisper has to touch a computer to take control of it, and loses control of her nanites when she loses contact with them. OK the last bit is from further into the fanfic. So she can't break the airgap without a change to her character.

She can't control a computer without touching, but she can observe it from at least the other side of a room.

It possible with maturing of her powers she'll be able to cross a minimal airgap and control too.

Perhaps I should have elaborated further.

What I meant was that beyond Whisper's limited-range cybermancy, is the fact that her powers and very nature seems well-suited for infiltration and thievery. A digital connection can't bridge the physical divide, but Whisper could bypass the security and then interface with the "secure" network in person - theoretically.

On the note of thievery, the wonders I hope are planned for Whisper and Imp...

Remember that Whisper was a hardware guy before, so until she gets the hacking training from Cyberkitty, Blue, and Ms. Hartford, she may be able to get through security stuff, but it would be blunt force.

Give Whisper a powerful enough wireless set-up and allow for Cyberkitty to work through her and it could make for a heck of a team...

Now I want to see Hartford in a wheelchair directing the Hax-Men er, women... people.

So, I know she's met Satan , but has she met God/Nodens? I think she has, but I'm not sure...

Technically, Paige only remembers meeting Satan. As a separate person from Petra, Paige has never met Satan. Neither of them have met Satan's counterpart. One of Petra's laments while healing from death is that she doesn't get to visit heaven.

Although didn't Merry do some healing at ARC before they split? So Paige should remember at least one visit down below, although Petra has taken on most of the burden since then.

I recall them saying that the standard price for a healing is a few seconds below and a few seconds above, but that Petra skips the second bit. No mention about whether the knights taking the full tour get to speak to the man in charge or not.

Yes, Merry went. But we don't know how Merry's memories apply to Paige. You could read Sara's explanation saying they are things "she knows" but not things "she feels like she experienced" them. I always assumed Paige has an emotional distance from Merry's memories, which is why the stories focus on Petra, who has the emotional stake in her past.

Doesn't Paige have Merry and Mai, while Petra has Chad and Chaddy? Why would Paige be emotionally distant from Merry's memories? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

jmhyp wrote: Yes, Merry went. But we don't know how Merry's memories apply to Paige. You could read Sara's explanation saying they are things "she knows" but not things "she feels like she experienced" them. I always assumed Paige has an emotional distance from Merry's memories, which is why the stories focus on Petra, who has the emotional stake in her past.

Petra's story wasn't in place of the firther Paige stories... IIRC the intention was to pick back up with Merry after that story had been told along with perhaps further Petra stories but Renae stopped writing before finishing Petra's story. There were quite a bit more stories she had alluded to having at least a rough sketch for.

Paige and Petra share most all of the same memories with Paige getting those that were Merry's and some of Chad's and Chaddy's as well as a few from a female telepath that had been given to her by NEXT while I think Petra's were Chad's and Chaddy's along with Merry's but not the one's from the female telepath. Mai had access to all of them, as well, I think. Sara wasn't really clear on which memories weren't shared so I think it's safe to assume each have most everything except those that may go against their personalities. As fragile as their minds are Sara would have wanted to leave them as free of conflict as she could.

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: She can't control a computer without touching, but she can observe it from at least the other side of a room.

It possible with maturing of her powers she'll be able to cross a minimal airgap and control too.

Actually she can control anything with a microchip within a meter of herself, not necessarily touching, everything past that has to be networked to whatever she enters cyberspace through. However considering that even when she had a microprocessor at ARC she couldn't access the net, (after they put her in the special cell) basically equating to being airgapped I doubt she can access stuff that's airgapped. However things like MCO records need to be accessed by people throughout the country so airgap doesn't make sense, now Goodkind Research reports would be airgapped, so Cyber Kitty isn't the solution to that travesty

Valentine wrote:

Ametros wrote: I'd highly doubt Cyberkitty of being able to beat a system secured by an air gap, but that's where a fully-realised Whisper would come into the picture.

As for Cyberkitty, her name is Paige. Petra is her other half, off dealing with angels and demons.

Currently Whisper has to touch a computer to take control of it, and loses control of her nanites when she loses contact with them. OK the last bit is from further into the fanfic. So she can't break the airgap without a change to her character.

I do get the feeling that at some point Whisper and the "Breaker twins" will end up as the ones tasked with countering other technopaths whom aren't as good natured as well as training the ones that end up at Whateley, seeing how it was established (somewhere in the Merry story line) that whenever a new/unique mutant power/powerset emerges, a lot of newly emergent mutants with that power set tend to crop up, exceptions being the rare variants of a separate power set, that in of itself isn't rare, such as Phase (and Tinsnip's) extra dimensional density changing warping but that may be attributed to rare cause rather than the power itself being rare. I mean if you think about it, the Breaker twins and Whisper may already be demonstrating different "causes" for the technopath trait, Whisper's might be more related to her nanites + ambient magic with an esper trait to form an interface, where as the Breaker twins don't have the nanites and just need a nearby computer, however it also may be the same at different power levels, on the 3 scale, Whisper might be a 1 or 2 (depending on how much the nanites are involved), Ringo/Blue a psuedo 1 (Devise neural interface to create same effect but minimal effect beyond what conventional means can accomplish and no unusual senses when not hooked up such as Breakers' em vision and hearing and Whisper's translated vision/hearing for radio, microwave (cell phones), and extended spectrum vision, admittedly a lot of that could be the nanites, save for her interface with the nanites themselves and what can be attributed to her Sidhe nature), and the breaker twins a definite 3.

Somehow I get the feeling that there will be a few students with the ability in Gen 2