Name: Edith Rendel

Alias: Chronos

Age: 87

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Ability: Localized time manipulation.


Skills:

• A natural leader.
• Proficient with firearms.
• Self taught electrical engineer.
• Decent with hand to hand.
• can speak three languages (English, French, and German).
• Has a lifetime's worth of experience.

Flaws:

• Edith is not the most empathetic person.
• Not the strongest given her regression to teenage years.
• While she has had the chance to read and watch the news, Edith has been out of touch with the outside world for many years.
• Can be extremely hot headed. While her years in prison has helped mute some of that, her new found youth has her itching for action again.
• Has to reconcile with her past actions.

Background: In her prime she was the leader of a radical group that originated on Earth. They believed that use of AI would bring about the end of humanity. To be sure they were way out on the edge and would do anything to end use of such things. At first they were tolerated as nothing more than another conspiracy group filled with the paranoid. And for the most part they were right until Edith started riling them up. Just 29 at the time she had plenty of issues. Not the least of which was the mental damage done through use of drugs. Unhinged and unopposed she managed to get a small number to declare war on companies that created AIs.

Several factories were destroyed, some with people still in them. Edith and her group became public enemy number one and a manhunt began which forced them underground. One by one her followers either broke off or were captured. With the authorities getting closer she opted to go off world to Mars. Smuggled in she tried her best to fit in. But even with those breathing down her neck she attempted to destroy another facility. Her attack was thwarted however and she was captured. At 34 she was tried and convicted of multiple accounts of murder, property damage, illegal possession of explosives, and numerous other infractions. It was an open and shut case and it her sentence was life in prison.

When you're already crazy having 43 years mostly to yourself doesn't help. Even at 87 she was looking at 20 to 30 more years in the hole. That's the wonders of modern medicine for you. Even still she didn't have the spunk she once did and the facility was more than enough to keep her contained. On the occasion when a human guard would be by she could either be very friendly or shouting obscenities. Senility had had its way and it looked like she would just wither away in her cell. After the many years it had been and so far away from Earth most of the public didn't even know she was still alive.

And then the unexplainable happened. Up late one night (not that it was easy to tell the time) she drifted off into a stupor. A mutation manifesting her biological clock began to tick backward. Hours past and she went from a 87 year old woman to a youthful 17. How far back she would have gone no one knows because the process was interrupted by alarms and yelling. Abruptly ending the first action of her powers she passed out. When she awoke she was somewhere else. It was still a cell but not one she remembered. Being somewhere else wasn't nearly as alarming as finding herself a teenager again. On top of that she could think clearly again, having reversed the mental scarring of those many years ago. The only visible remnant of her former self was her white hair. Wisdom apparently did mean gray hairs.

Sample Post: Today was the day. As the minutes ticked by Edith sat anxiously, checking the clock over and over again. Despite the stress looming over her, outwardly she appeared quite cool. She'd been planning for the last year for this and she wasn't going to undermine it by showing what might be second thoughts. Lightly brushing her brunette hair out of her face she took her earpiece off the counter before her and set it in her ear. There was chatter going on, her group getting everything in place.

At 1500 hours the worlds would know that their movement would not be deterred. It would come at a high cost, but the cost didn't matter in her mind. The consequences of allowing AI to continue advancing far outweighed what would occur in the next few minutes. "Continue with the plan. They'll put the place in lockdown if they're tipped off." Why did everyone need to be kept on task? They knew their part and that deviation would only muck things up.

Facing the laptops they had set up, several streams were open. Some were cameras that they'd hijacked to watch what was going on. But others were watching various news channels. When this went down she wanted to see the world thought. Almost time. The teams were scrambling out but one got spotted and held up. They began yelling to Edith to delay or abort. It didn't take long before she simply took the earpiece off and looked to her two accomplices that were with her. "We're clear. Do it." Four AI manufacturing plants down.