CHARACTER LIST & GLOSSARY
Nicholas Waite—protagonist; Lieutenant Cipher of the Archangel Division in the Neo Babylon Police Department; former black company cipher in Neural Spike and Tartarus
Uriel “Rie”—police ARMD; prototype Mark 3 Archangel in command of Babylon PD’s Oversight Taskforce; long black hair, amber eyes, large bust and thighs, 5’7
Kushiel—military ARMD; prototype Mark 2 Archangel deployed as liaison between the military and Babylon PD; long silver hair, red eyes, enormous bust and figure, nearly 8’
Ezekiel—police ARMD; prototype Mark 3 Archangel in development at Sigma labs; long white hair in a ponytail, purple eyes, lithe figure, 5’2
Chloe—police ARMD; Mark 3 Archangel acting as Nick’s liaison and assistant; looks like a standard Mark 3, 5’2
Metatron “Meta”—police ARMD; Mark 1 Archangel who acts as the voice of the Mark 1s; named by Nick; looks like a standard Mark 1, 5’0
Juliet and Rosa—police ARMDs; Mark 3 Archangels acting as Nick’s bodyguards; look like standard Mark 3s, 5’2
Helena—experimental mainframe; stored beneath the police Spire following her rescue in Book 1; has no body or physical appearance beside her bulky computer body
Paul Hammond—human; Nick’s immediate superior and captain; a grizzled detective in his 50s ripped right from a 1920s crime film; a burned out and bitter man with anti-doll sentiments and a family history as police officers
Dennis Kim—human; police commissioner and political appointee to automate the Babylon PD; brother of RTM Strategic’s CEO; a charismatic politician and true believer in automation; an aging man of Korean ethnicity always in suits with a statesman-like appearance
Carolyn Andrews—human; absentee police chief who is disfavored by politics; formerly from the military; a stoic and capable woman respected by almost everyone
Andrew Lieu—deceased; human; former captain of Nick’s bureau; conspired to bring down Babylon and the Spires from the inside by creating a zombified army of soldiers using Helena; killed by Nick in Book 1
Alex Griffiths—human; general of the Neo Westphalian Military’s Aerial Command; “gifted” Nick his expensive apartment with no known motive
Lucas Miller—human; gang lord, cipher, and entrepreneur; owns and runs black companies, Formeus Imports and the Cobalt Lily; an old friend and mentor of Nick’s; has dark skin, shows off the wealth he’s earned, vapes, and aspires to more than just the streets
Lumen—logic engine mainframe; Lucas’s old mainframe and “virtual daughter” who runs the Cobalt Lily; has a crush on Nick; interface body has bobbed white hair with blue highlights and blue eyes
Omoikane—judicial mainframe; one of six state-of-the-art mainframes responsible for all court decisions in Babylon; interface body wears a gleaming silver suit, and he has an overwrought male idol-like appearance
Athena—judicial mainframe; one of six state-of-the-art mainframes responsible for all court decisions in Babylon; interface body leans into a lewd office style with a skimpy miniskirt, sheer stockings, lots of cleavage, tattoos, and skin that sparkles with gemstones
Tiferet—emotion engine mainframe; the mainframe used in GWT’s global HQ to interface between local and international affairs; interface body has thick, curly platinum-blonde hair, an hourglass figure, and an elegant appearance.
Lucida Harm—human; GWT’s chief of security and former black company cipher; pitch-black pigtails, mid-20s, sloppy clothing preference
Richard Toke—human; Senior Vice President in GWT’s global HQ and head of Security and Audit; American; Spires resident; a trim, muscular man who is comfortable with his position in life
James von Magnus—human; Chief Operating Officer of GWT; family were some of the first to move to Babylon; slightly overweight, in his 60s, square jaw, casual sense of extravagance
ARMD “Doll”—Autonomous Robotic Modular Dolls, ordinarily called dolls; AI-powered androids that come almost exclusively in the form of women; they serve a variety of purposes, from nursing, to cleaning, to police duties, and even warfare. There are three primary manufacturers: Sigma, RTM, and a Chinese company.
Mainframe—AI-powered supercomputers that run companies and governments using quantum computing
Interface—a subtype of ARMD that acts as a body or conduit for a mainframe to interact with humans physically; all interfaces are legally required to have silver armbands and a barcode engraved into their face; come in both genders
Pile—a subtype of ARMD that assists mainframes with human interaction in large organizations; use small, androgynous bodies made extremely cheaply and have little personality or processing power
Warbot—the term used for all autonomous military units that are not dolls, including tanks, warships, and drones.
Emotion and Logic Engines—two distinct methods of AI operation. Logic engines strictly follow predefined directives and parameters; emotion engines possess high-level objectives that allow them to deviate from their programming and are more “human-like.”
Neural Implants and Mods—implants are installed in the brains of early pubescent children and integrate them with augmented and virtual reality; neural mods enable alteration of implant behavior
Ciphers—AI troubleshooters; people with specialized skills to handle a variety of AI and neural issues that slip between the cracks of other specializations
The Altnet—Neo Westphalia’s Internet platform, built around the concept of augmented and virtual reality; rarely used outside the country and the United States
Black Companies—undertake activities that are either decriminalized (but not strictly legal) or “victimless crimes;” police turn a blind eye to them
Neo Westphalia—a country formed from six man-made islands in the East Pacific; created sixty years ago by tech trillionaires
Neo Babylon—Neo Westphalia’s oldest and grandest island-city
The Spires—five enormous skyscrapers that form the headquarters and residences of Babylon’s government and elite; their names are Olympus, Avalon, Axis Mundi, Sindansu, and Yggdrasil
Alcatraz—a commercial district in the outer metro filled with black companies and criminal activity in Babylon
The Doll District—a red-light district in the inner city that specializes in doll services
Aesir—the largest electronics and neural implant company in the world; currently embroiled in a court case over the right to force older neural implants to purchase premium neural mods to remain functional
RTM—the largest doll manufacturer and electronic parts developer in the world; also contains RTM Strategic, their military subsidiary
Sigma Robotics and Industrial—an industrial AI manufacturer who has branched into AI and doll development in the past two decades. Created emotion engines and the Archangels.
Neural Spike—a black company that did R&D for emotion engines; was shut down by the military to cover up illegal human trials they did for the government
Tartarus—a black company that contained all former Neural Spike personnel that were not “disappeared;” shut down in Book 1 by the police