The strongest hacker Deathstroke had mentioned was Songbird, Song So Mi—a netrunning genius of the New United States Secret Service, or rather, a humanoid nuclear bomb of the network age.
Su Ming had known nothing of her story in his previous life, but who told him he now had the Origin Codex in hand? While reviewing the world's background, he had come across Dogtown's origins and the narrative threads connected to it.
In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, there had been an AI rebellion. The details were somewhat like the story of Terminator, though without anything like time travel.
In short, after the war between humanity and the Rogue AIs, all sides had worked together to build a super firewall within the network so humans could continue using it normally. It was called the Blackwall.
Beyond that wall were all manner of insane AIs. In the world of Stellaris, they would probably have been Determined Exterminators. Inside the wall was the normal human network, the foundation people relied on to live.
Songbird's abilities allowed her to easily blast a hole through the Blackwall and let Rogue AIs into humanity's networked world, dragging all of humanity back into the Stone Age with her.
Because by then, any electronic device with a signal could become an AI's murder weapon.
The New United States Government had become an international deadbeat by relying on her. Whenever negotiations went nowhere, they threatened to unleash Songbird and blow open the wall, taking everyone down with them.
It was the cyber age's equivalent of nuclear blackmail, forcing every nation to yield to New America.
Yet Song So Mi, codenamed Songbird, did not like this identity at all. Because she was too dangerous, the government kept her locked in a Black House year-round, forbidding her from having any