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== Character Description ==

Desmond Ailes was once a fairly ordinary hacker, committing cybercrimes for fun and profit, skipping college because the life of a data cowboy was so much more glamorous.  He was talented, creative, and smart - though he was largely self-taught, there were few hackers his age who could outmatch him.  The Secret Service and FBI could never track him down; private contractors fared no better.

Eventually, however, Desmond met his match, when he attempted to hack the Project Utopia secured files.  In a marathon programming and hacking session, Desmond found himself slipping into a kind of hallucination, where the world itself turned into numbers that he could touch, manipulate, and corrupt.

Desmond Ailes has seen the shape of the Universe, and it is data.

Now he uses that knowledge to change the way the world itself functions.  He can corrupt the function of machines and even people by adding faulty "code" into the fabric of existence.  He can sense and interact with machines from some distance away.  And wherever he goes, he sees the twinkle of flickering code glittering behind the facade of ordinary reality...