{"id":217,"date":"2025-01-30T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/zacek\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:26:49","slug":"alt-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.svarc.school\/via\/zacek\/alt-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Early Life<\/p>

Cunningham was one of those rare few geniuses who could not only run the Net, but also create new concepts and new code. She wasn’t just your typical netrunner, but one of the best programmers in the world.<\/p>

Like many others during her age, Cunningham spent money to upgrade her body, enhancing her beauty with the best European bodysculpting money could buy. She also bought the neural processors and interface plugs needed to navigate the Net, and a golden cyberarm with a hidden compartment, specially designed to hold a Federated Arms X-22 pistol.<\/p>

Shortly after the Pacifica region of the Net was formed, Cunningham would run the region with Rache Bartmoss, later calling these times her best netrunning memories.<\/p>

Cunningham was famed for her skills at seeing software development on a different level. Due to her abilities, she was poached by the mysterious ITS corporation. During her employment, she began development on a revolutionary human\/AI transfer program. Alt kept investing heavily in neural processing cyberware to augment her netrunning skills.<\/p>

During this time she met Johnny Silverhand and the two entered into a relationship.<\/p>

2013
Fascinated by the development of artificial intelligence, Cunningham made a breakthrough in the transfer and containment of intelligence, both AI and the human mind. The unnamed program was able to transfer the user’s mind into the Net and explore independent of their existing body. Her employer, ITS, capitalized on the breakthrough and developed it further into a weapon known as the Soulkiller. Instead of transferring personalities, it imprisoned them.<\/p>

On April 15th 2013, whilst leaving a concert with her boyfriend, she was kidnapped by gangers and Silverhand was left for dead. The kidnappers were hired by Toshiro Harada, who wanted Cunningham to recreate the program for the Arasaka Corporation. While captive, she rebuilt the software from memory and watched closely with the fear of Arasaka testing it on her. To prevent this, she built a fail-safe to ensure that she could make her escape.<\/p>

Having survived his injuries, a team led by Johnny Silverhand started a riot at Arasaka Tower, with his legion of fans. Fearing the worst, Harada used the software on Cunningham, but before he was successful she managed to fend off the attack, killing the Arasaka netrunner team and incapacitating Harada’s bodyguard, Akira, from within the Arasaka mainframe. Silverhand detonated an explosive charge which gave Harada the chance to disconnect Cunningham from her body. Silverhand killed Harada and disconnected Cunningham from the Arasaka mainframe, killing her in the process. Silverhand left with her lifeless body, unknowingly leaving her digital form behind.<\/p>

Not long after, Cunningham’s digital personality contacted Silverhand telling him she was in Arasaka Tower, she also told him not to come after her.<\/p>

2020s<\/span><\/p>

In 2021, during the Fourth Corporate War, Alt Cunningham’s digital ghost was contacted by Militech, who asked her help in destroying the Soukiller 2.0. She agreed with the hopes of taking revenge on the Arasaka and convinced Rache Bartmoss to help in the effort. She was later captured by Arasaka, who forced her to develop the Soulkiller 3.0.<\/p>

In 2023, Militech deployed an attack on the Arasaka Towers, with Johnny Silverhand leading one of the teams with the hopes of rescuing Cunningham. After infiltrating the building, she was contacted by Spider Murphy, who informed her of Bartmoss’ death before downloading her into the memory core. During the conversation, Cunningham gave Spider a piece of the Soulkiller to use if needed. Later, however, after the team got ambushed by Adam Smasher and two squads of Arasaka Troopers, Cunningham was scattered into the Net by Spider, with hopes of retrieving her someday.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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