Editing Keiko and Nanny (section)

== Backstory ==

Keiko’s parents, Kenji and Rei Matsumoto, ran their own start up company, Symbiosis Enterprise, intending to develop environmental restoration technology with the investments of venture capitalists. Their philosophy, captured in the name of their company, was that humanity could only restore the Earth’s ecosystems when we adopt an approach of symbiosis, not seeing ourselves as the masters of creation, but learning to work within and enhance the existing ecosystems as partners with other living beings. Their main goal was building the Symbiote II (the Symbiote I being humanity, at least potentially), a mecha that could engage in the analysis of environmental hazards and develop the tools to address them through a built-in lab. One of the investors, Ishtar Enterprises, urged the Matsumotos to armor and install stun weapons on the Symbiote II, since it might be operating in regions controlled by wasteland gangs or in war zones.<br>

As the Matsumoto’s were preparing to sell the results of their work to Ishtar Enterprises, they discovered to their horror that the reason Ishtar has asked for combat mods was that they intended to modify the basic model to use to wage biochemical warfare. When they tried to back out of the agreement, Ishtar threatened their lives. They installed a rudimentary AI in their Symbiote II prototype, charging it with protecting Keiko and staying dedicated to its original mission of environmental restoration. As they were in the process of destroying their records, agents of Ishtar burst in and gunned down Kenji and Rei. The Symbiote II swung into action, rescuing the eight year-old Keiko and fleeing the scene with her.<br>

Keiko was essentially raised by the Symbiote II—which she took to calling her Nanny—for the next ten years. She enrolled in school through the Veil, focusing on her parents’ lifelong passion, the environmental sciences and engineering. When she reached sixteen, the funds her parents had set up began to run out and she started up her own one-person environmental restoration business, K&N Symbiosis. She operates out of an old warehouse, that doubles as her home and a science lab for projects too big for Nanny to handle. She continues to sleep in her Nanny’s cockpit, even as she has grown into an adult.<br>

Her parents’ murder has left with her with a strong distrust in the system and her politics are quite radical and anti-athoritarian.