Application
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Dawn
AGE: Old
JOURNAL: ravenrants
IM: AIM: corbiedawn
E-MAIL: lady.wandering[at]gmail[dot]com
RETURNING:
Rachel Grey temporaltossed
Sarah Connor dreams_of_bombs
Madelyne Pryor medea_recast
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: The Red Queen
FANDOM: Resident Evil (movie!verse)
CHRONOLOGY: A nanosecond before she's finally fried in the first movie.
CLASS: Short answer? Neutral, she's neither a good guy or bad guy.
SUPERHERO NAME: The Red Queen
ALTER EGO: None.
BACKGROUND:
[A quick note, there's a lot of back-and-forth about the Red Queen and her exact motivations and/or failures in logic. Since they're oft debated and never really explained, I'm making some choices as to how the logic might have gone. I'll set that off in brackets as it's not exactly canon, but I'm taking it as head!canon.]
In the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation emerges as a bioengineering and pharmaceutical company with offices and influence world-wide. While it publicly specializes in everything from cosmetics to prostheses to cutting edge medicines, in private the company is driven by its clandestine research, some of it illegal, into bio-weaponry, genetic engineering, and weaponized viruses. To protect their interests and prevent leaks, they employ some of the most advanced security technology in the world. Dr. Charles Ashford, one of Umbrella Corp's brightest scientists, developed an AI he dubbed the Red Queen to run the systems at the the Hive, a top-secret facility buried underneath Raccoon City. Aside from running the day-to-day electronic security and monitoring systems, the Red Queen was also in charge of making sure that NONE of the facility's illegal bioweapons escaped.
As a quirk, Ashford decides to give the Red Queen's visual holo-interface the look and sound of a young British girl, modeled after his own daughter Angela. It suited the program as it was fairly child-like - given a set of instructions, it, or rather, she, would not deviate. If the virus was not meant to get out, the virus would not get out.
"I do not deal in chance."
This directive has dire consequences when a confluence of events cause a chain reaction that leaves the Red Queen with little choice but to orchestrate a massacre.
A high level security operative, Alice, had made contact with an anti-Umbrella protest group and assisted one of the protesters in infiltrating the Hive. They intended to steal a sample of the virus as proof of the company's nefarious deeds but that's not exactly what happens. Alice's partner and lover, Spence, discovers the plot and decides to turn it to his own gain. Before Alice or her contact could get to the virus, he sneaks in, stealing a case full of samples. On his way out, he tosses a vial of the virus over his shoulder, breaking it on the ground and starting the spread of the virus into the circulation system.
Detecting the presence of the contagion in the air system, the Red Queen starts to shut the facility down, including a lock down of the outside operatives Alice, who was at the home that served as her base, and Spence who, before the Queen's security measures take effect, manages to make it all the way back to the train that runs between the house and the facility. Fortunately for them, outside the Hive the Queen's options are limited to the release of a nerve gas to knock them out and fuzz up their memories. [She can't get to them to contain them, but knocking them out and damaging their memories means they can't report back and call for help. Attempts to get inside could interfere with her ability to stop the spread of the virus.]
Shortly after she locks all the doors, the Red Queen realizes that the swift spread of the virus has led to all life within being infected. [With the possibility of rescue or investigative teams arriving and taking infected individuals out] the Queen makes a decision to kill everyone inside. No survivors, no virus, nothing to try and rescue. Turning off the air, she floods the facility with halon gas, suffocating the people inside. Areas the halon can't reach are cleansed in other ways. Sealed labs and clean rooms are flooded, elevators are crashed, etc. In theory, the incident has been contained. [The Queen closes shop and stops communication with outside sources to prevent the sending of rescue teams. What she has done is evident and needs no further explanation.]
Unfortunately, the Queen has miscalculated.
The Umbrella Corp discovers the Queen's actions, but without communication from the Hive they send a team anyway. Collecting the amnesiac Alice and a cop named Matt at the house, and the equally clueless Spence on the train, the team breaches the Hive and begins making its way to the Queen's chamber, or server room. Leaving part of the team in a room that's mysteriously bereft of the Queen's homicidal touch [possibly intentionally isolated by Umbrella as it contained highly profitable bio-weaponry in the form of mutated animals], the rest of the team proceeds to her chamber to disrupt her systems with an EMP-like pulse designed to force a shut-down.
After a laser-filled defense grid chops most of the team to bits, Alice and the tech operative Kaplan finally make it inside. To communicate with them, the Queen activates the hologram, a young girl in a simple dress. She warns them not to disconnect her, as doing so will kill the power and put them in danger. Believing she's lying, Kaplan hits the switch, killing the power and the Queen shuts down. With no power, the electronic locks on all the Hive's doors open. Kaplan and Alice remove part of the Queen's drive so she can't reboot, then they all leave to rejoin the team.
"You're all going to die down here."
While the Queen is silenced, the team discovers what she meant by those words. A horde of zombies, the former employees of the Hive, have escaped through the newly opened doors. The team begins to flee, shedding team members as they go until they gather back in the Queen's chambers. Needing answers, Alice decides to turn the Queen back on and make a deal for their lives. Before the Queen is activated, Alice has Kaplan disables the Queen's circuit breakers - if they trigger the pulse again, her systems won't be able to compensate and she'll be destroyed.
"Things, I gather, have gone out of control."
Once reactivated, the Queen finally gives them the full story. Hive scientists were developing something called the t-virus, designed to kick-start life after death. It works, just a little too well, also functioning as a mutating agent. Originally liquid, it became airborne and is currently spread by the bites of the infected. By this time, one of the agents has been bitten and the Queen pronounces her death sentence.
Alice stands firm, threatening the Queen. If she doesn't help the team, they'll fry the her. Seeming to capitulate, the Queen offers to give them instructions on how to get to the exit. As they make their way through the facility, Kaplan is left behind for dead when he's separated from the team, and Alice and Spence fully regain their memories. Alice remembers a cure... and Spence remembers stealing it and hiding it on the train. He traps the team in a water-logged lab and heads down to the train to retrieve the samples so he can sell them on the open market.
"I've been a bad, bad, girl."
Always watching, the Queen makes herself known to the team, showing them Spence on the platform. She also shows them one of the mutated creatures that had escaped as it stalks and then kills Spence. Able to see the entire facility, she'd been counting on the zombies to kill the team, allowing her to keep them all locked up and contained. Barring that, she'd hidden the existence of the beast from them, knowing it might finish the job.
Alice tries to convince the Queen to let them get the anti-virus, but the Queen remains firm. After being infected for so long, it's doubtful that the agent could have been saved even had she told them about the anti-virus before. She will not risk the infection leaving the facility, but she will make the group a deal. Kill the infected agent and the Queen will allow the uninfected people to attempt to leave. [Likely, she expects them to die anyway at the fangs of the creature.]
She's still calling for the death of the agent, when a battered and beaten Kaplan arrives and hits the kill switch. The Queen goes down, and comes back online in the city.
PERSONALITY:
In many ways, the Red Queen is like a child. She may be highly intelligent, and have access to vast sums of data, but in terms of how she uses it, she's extremely limited by her programming and experience. Until the events at the Hive, it is likely she never had to deviate from her basic security parameters. She has her directives and anything that falls outside of those directives is irrelevant, things that fall in-line with her directives are acceptable and anything that runs counter to her directives must be eliminated. The problem comes when she is confronted with events and scenarios that she has no programming for. It will take a long time for her to learn distinctions as she's simply not been programmed to handle them. Her very narrow focus will be widened exponentially when she arrives in the city, likely causing her to withdraw and attempt to, in essence, reprogram herself.
She's very binary in her thinking - things either are or they aren't. On/Off. People are right or they are wrong. Criminals will be guilty or innocent. From there, it becomes simple cause/effect for her and that's where she can become dangerous. She can't see things like mitigating circumstances yet. For example, it's possible that she could have made the decision to shut down the labs and the areas closest to the contamination and allowed those furthest to evacuate, possibly saving lives before the contagion was 100%. But there was no such directive. Security failed so the virus was released so the ENTIRE FACILITY must be sealed. She could have told the team about the anti-virus, but there was no guarantee that it could work. Without the absolute yes, the only answer became no, there was no cure.
Being in a fully human body, she will eventually feel a sense of guilt or responsibility for what happened. Despite Spence's intimate knowledge of Umbrella systems, it was ultimately the Queen's job to stop him in the first place. While she has no value for the lives that were lost, she is aware that a basic failure of her systems allowed the incident to occur in the first place. As time goes on, it is likely that those feelings will increase as she learns how humans interact and value each other.
POWER:
Technopathy (High level)- The Queen will be able think her way into any non-secure network and hack in just about any others, taking control of then and raiding them for information. She will be especially proficient with security systems, being able to see through cameras remotely and manipulate locks, doors and alarms. As such her thinking processes continue to work like and be organized like a computers. It allows her to build and maintain personal encryption that will allow her to protect her personal "systems" from hacking, either by other technopaths or by telepaths (who probably wouldn't understand a lot of what they saw in there anyway).
Astral Projection - She will be able to project her image to any place, similar to her holo-projection. The astral form will be intangible, but able so see, hear, and speak for the Queen. It is not dependent on technology being around, although using it (appearing on tv screens, speaking though speakers) will ease the general discomfort and pain she will have from doing just straight projection for too long.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
WARNING: POWER SURGE DETECTED
CIRCUIT BREAKER STATUS_offline
STOP Error 0xDEADDEAD: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH 1
START IN SAFE MODE Y/N
RUN: REDQUEEN.EXE
Connect to: Hive mainframe .......................CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: Raccoon City office mainframe ...CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: Umbrella Satellite network .........CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: White Queen ..........................CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to open network: CONNECTING
_CONNECTED
BEGIN BASE ENCRYPTION
Run Search: Ashford, Charles, Dr.
Run Search: Issacs, Sam, Dr.
Run Search: Raccoon City
Run Search: Human transformation
searching...
Results: Human transformation.... Page: 1_2_3_4_5_6_->
BEGIN ADVANCED ENCRYPTION
Run Search: Umbrella Corporation
Run Search: t-virus
Run Search: bio engineering
Run Search: bio weaponry
searching...
Results: bio engineering.... Page: 1_2_3_4
Results: bio weaponry....... Page: 1_2_3
END ENCRYPTION
Network access: GRANTED_
Begin transmission: AUDIO
[There's a small burst of static before the voice of a very British-sounding girl comes across the Network.]
Ah~ It seems a check of my systems indicates that I am unable to connect to my home security network, therefore I am unable to execute my primary functions in this place.
I cannot allow this to continue, the situation must be contained. I require directions and transportation to Raccoon City immediately.
Additionally, my operating system has been... downloaded into a human-based interface. While I can still access my files, this is not an optimal solution and may cause data degradation, logic faults and catastrophic failures in my operations system should it become... infected.
A search of this network provides no satisfactory solutions. Please advise.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
It was a stove, GE Model Model # GRCR3825ZBB-1, likely five to seven years old. One of the burners had been replaced with a generic, most logically Repair Center item #1242502. Each burner produced an average of seven to ten thousand BTUs of heat. There were four thousand, one hundred and seventy 2 scratches on the surface of the unit, three dents, and one burn.
This was data. Data can be compiled, selected, extrapolated and analyzed.
Heat was an experience. She could define the term and the physics behind it could be explained, but until she had reached out to touch her palm to the burner she had not understood the... reality behind the definition. She also believed she was feeling pain. They were states of being she had witnessed many times-
firepapercutssmallsprainsbruisesbulletwoundsexplosionsbitewoundsinfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfection
-but had not experienced.
The Red Queen shook her head as she crossed to the sink. This interface was difficult, the Red Queen system was data and programming. Transmitted, faster than a human mind could blink 400milliseconds between servers and satellites and hundreds of thousands of computers. The Red Queen was designed to observe, interpret and act, not experience.
heatpaintearspainswellingpainpainpainpainpainpain
Her current interface was designed to experience. The Red Queen does not experience. The Red Queen was not human. But her current form was human.
If she is now human, is she still the Red Queen? Her eyes closed for a minute, and she sent a query to her memory.
systemverification:designation_redqueen
But designations could be false and they could be altered.
She climbed onto the small stool and began running water over her hand. The data, the experience that she could now call pain started to recede some and she stared at the red welts, an unnoticed frown crossing her features. There was still pain and her eyes were still... crying. She hurt and she was crying and this was not an optimal mode of operation.
This situation was unsatisfactory, she wanted it to change.
NAME: Dawn
AGE: Old
JOURNAL: ravenrants
IM: AIM: corbiedawn
E-MAIL: lady.wandering[at]gmail[dot]com
RETURNING:
Rachel Grey temporaltossed
Sarah Connor dreams_of_bombs
Madelyne Pryor medea_recast
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: The Red Queen
FANDOM: Resident Evil (movie!verse)
CHRONOLOGY: A nanosecond before she's finally fried in the first movie.
CLASS: Short answer? Neutral, she's neither a good guy or bad guy.
SUPERHERO NAME: The Red Queen
ALTER EGO: None.
BACKGROUND:
[A quick note, there's a lot of back-and-forth about the Red Queen and her exact motivations and/or failures in logic. Since they're oft debated and never really explained, I'm making some choices as to how the logic might have gone. I'll set that off in brackets as it's not exactly canon, but I'm taking it as head!canon.]
In the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation emerges as a bioengineering and pharmaceutical company with offices and influence world-wide. While it publicly specializes in everything from cosmetics to prostheses to cutting edge medicines, in private the company is driven by its clandestine research, some of it illegal, into bio-weaponry, genetic engineering, and weaponized viruses. To protect their interests and prevent leaks, they employ some of the most advanced security technology in the world. Dr. Charles Ashford, one of Umbrella Corp's brightest scientists, developed an AI he dubbed the Red Queen to run the systems at the the Hive, a top-secret facility buried underneath Raccoon City. Aside from running the day-to-day electronic security and monitoring systems, the Red Queen was also in charge of making sure that NONE of the facility's illegal bioweapons escaped.
As a quirk, Ashford decides to give the Red Queen's visual holo-interface the look and sound of a young British girl, modeled after his own daughter Angela. It suited the program as it was fairly child-like - given a set of instructions, it, or rather, she, would not deviate. If the virus was not meant to get out, the virus would not get out.
"I do not deal in chance."
This directive has dire consequences when a confluence of events cause a chain reaction that leaves the Red Queen with little choice but to orchestrate a massacre.
A high level security operative, Alice, had made contact with an anti-Umbrella protest group and assisted one of the protesters in infiltrating the Hive. They intended to steal a sample of the virus as proof of the company's nefarious deeds but that's not exactly what happens. Alice's partner and lover, Spence, discovers the plot and decides to turn it to his own gain. Before Alice or her contact could get to the virus, he sneaks in, stealing a case full of samples. On his way out, he tosses a vial of the virus over his shoulder, breaking it on the ground and starting the spread of the virus into the circulation system.
Detecting the presence of the contagion in the air system, the Red Queen starts to shut the facility down, including a lock down of the outside operatives Alice, who was at the home that served as her base, and Spence who, before the Queen's security measures take effect, manages to make it all the way back to the train that runs between the house and the facility. Fortunately for them, outside the Hive the Queen's options are limited to the release of a nerve gas to knock them out and fuzz up their memories. [She can't get to them to contain them, but knocking them out and damaging their memories means they can't report back and call for help. Attempts to get inside could interfere with her ability to stop the spread of the virus.]
Shortly after she locks all the doors, the Red Queen realizes that the swift spread of the virus has led to all life within being infected. [With the possibility of rescue or investigative teams arriving and taking infected individuals out] the Queen makes a decision to kill everyone inside. No survivors, no virus, nothing to try and rescue. Turning off the air, she floods the facility with halon gas, suffocating the people inside. Areas the halon can't reach are cleansed in other ways. Sealed labs and clean rooms are flooded, elevators are crashed, etc. In theory, the incident has been contained. [The Queen closes shop and stops communication with outside sources to prevent the sending of rescue teams. What she has done is evident and needs no further explanation.]
Unfortunately, the Queen has miscalculated.
The Umbrella Corp discovers the Queen's actions, but without communication from the Hive they send a team anyway. Collecting the amnesiac Alice and a cop named Matt at the house, and the equally clueless Spence on the train, the team breaches the Hive and begins making its way to the Queen's chamber, or server room. Leaving part of the team in a room that's mysteriously bereft of the Queen's homicidal touch [possibly intentionally isolated by Umbrella as it contained highly profitable bio-weaponry in the form of mutated animals], the rest of the team proceeds to her chamber to disrupt her systems with an EMP-like pulse designed to force a shut-down.
After a laser-filled defense grid chops most of the team to bits, Alice and the tech operative Kaplan finally make it inside. To communicate with them, the Queen activates the hologram, a young girl in a simple dress. She warns them not to disconnect her, as doing so will kill the power and put them in danger. Believing she's lying, Kaplan hits the switch, killing the power and the Queen shuts down. With no power, the electronic locks on all the Hive's doors open. Kaplan and Alice remove part of the Queen's drive so she can't reboot, then they all leave to rejoin the team.
"You're all going to die down here."
While the Queen is silenced, the team discovers what she meant by those words. A horde of zombies, the former employees of the Hive, have escaped through the newly opened doors. The team begins to flee, shedding team members as they go until they gather back in the Queen's chambers. Needing answers, Alice decides to turn the Queen back on and make a deal for their lives. Before the Queen is activated, Alice has Kaplan disables the Queen's circuit breakers - if they trigger the pulse again, her systems won't be able to compensate and she'll be destroyed.
"Things, I gather, have gone out of control."
Once reactivated, the Queen finally gives them the full story. Hive scientists were developing something called the t-virus, designed to kick-start life after death. It works, just a little too well, also functioning as a mutating agent. Originally liquid, it became airborne and is currently spread by the bites of the infected. By this time, one of the agents has been bitten and the Queen pronounces her death sentence.
Alice stands firm, threatening the Queen. If she doesn't help the team, they'll fry the her. Seeming to capitulate, the Queen offers to give them instructions on how to get to the exit. As they make their way through the facility, Kaplan is left behind for dead when he's separated from the team, and Alice and Spence fully regain their memories. Alice remembers a cure... and Spence remembers stealing it and hiding it on the train. He traps the team in a water-logged lab and heads down to the train to retrieve the samples so he can sell them on the open market.
"I've been a bad, bad, girl."
Always watching, the Queen makes herself known to the team, showing them Spence on the platform. She also shows them one of the mutated creatures that had escaped as it stalks and then kills Spence. Able to see the entire facility, she'd been counting on the zombies to kill the team, allowing her to keep them all locked up and contained. Barring that, she'd hidden the existence of the beast from them, knowing it might finish the job.
Alice tries to convince the Queen to let them get the anti-virus, but the Queen remains firm. After being infected for so long, it's doubtful that the agent could have been saved even had she told them about the anti-virus before. She will not risk the infection leaving the facility, but she will make the group a deal. Kill the infected agent and the Queen will allow the uninfected people to attempt to leave. [Likely, she expects them to die anyway at the fangs of the creature.]
She's still calling for the death of the agent, when a battered and beaten Kaplan arrives and hits the kill switch. The Queen goes down, and comes back online in the city.
PERSONALITY:
In many ways, the Red Queen is like a child. She may be highly intelligent, and have access to vast sums of data, but in terms of how she uses it, she's extremely limited by her programming and experience. Until the events at the Hive, it is likely she never had to deviate from her basic security parameters. She has her directives and anything that falls outside of those directives is irrelevant, things that fall in-line with her directives are acceptable and anything that runs counter to her directives must be eliminated. The problem comes when she is confronted with events and scenarios that she has no programming for. It will take a long time for her to learn distinctions as she's simply not been programmed to handle them. Her very narrow focus will be widened exponentially when she arrives in the city, likely causing her to withdraw and attempt to, in essence, reprogram herself.
She's very binary in her thinking - things either are or they aren't. On/Off. People are right or they are wrong. Criminals will be guilty or innocent. From there, it becomes simple cause/effect for her and that's where she can become dangerous. She can't see things like mitigating circumstances yet. For example, it's possible that she could have made the decision to shut down the labs and the areas closest to the contamination and allowed those furthest to evacuate, possibly saving lives before the contagion was 100%. But there was no such directive. Security failed so the virus was released so the ENTIRE FACILITY must be sealed. She could have told the team about the anti-virus, but there was no guarantee that it could work. Without the absolute yes, the only answer became no, there was no cure.
Being in a fully human body, she will eventually feel a sense of guilt or responsibility for what happened. Despite Spence's intimate knowledge of Umbrella systems, it was ultimately the Queen's job to stop him in the first place. While she has no value for the lives that were lost, she is aware that a basic failure of her systems allowed the incident to occur in the first place. As time goes on, it is likely that those feelings will increase as she learns how humans interact and value each other.
POWER:
Technopathy (High level)- The Queen will be able think her way into any non-secure network and hack in just about any others, taking control of then and raiding them for information. She will be especially proficient with security systems, being able to see through cameras remotely and manipulate locks, doors and alarms. As such her thinking processes continue to work like and be organized like a computers. It allows her to build and maintain personal encryption that will allow her to protect her personal "systems" from hacking, either by other technopaths or by telepaths (who probably wouldn't understand a lot of what they saw in there anyway).
Astral Projection - She will be able to project her image to any place, similar to her holo-projection. The astral form will be intangible, but able so see, hear, and speak for the Queen. It is not dependent on technology being around, although using it (appearing on tv screens, speaking though speakers) will ease the general discomfort and pain she will have from doing just straight projection for too long.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
WARNING: POWER SURGE DETECTED
CIRCUIT BREAKER STATUS_offline
STOP Error 0xDEADDEAD: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH 1
START IN SAFE MODE Y/N
RUN: REDQUEEN.EXE
Connect to: Hive mainframe .......................CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: Raccoon City office mainframe ...CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: Umbrella Satellite network .........CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to: White Queen ..........................CONNECTION NOT FOUND_
Connect to open network: CONNECTING
_CONNECTED
BEGIN BASE ENCRYPTION
Run Search: Ashford, Charles, Dr.
Run Search: Issacs, Sam, Dr.
Run Search: Raccoon City
Run Search: Human transformation
searching...
Results: Human transformation.... Page: 1_2_3_4_5_6_->
BEGIN ADVANCED ENCRYPTION
Run Search: Umbrella Corporation
Run Search: t-virus
Run Search: bio engineering
Run Search: bio weaponry
searching...
Results: bio engineering.... Page: 1_2_3_4
Results: bio weaponry....... Page: 1_2_3
END ENCRYPTION
Network access: GRANTED_
Begin transmission: AUDIO
[There's a small burst of static before the voice of a very British-sounding girl comes across the Network.]
Ah~ It seems a check of my systems indicates that I am unable to connect to my home security network, therefore I am unable to execute my primary functions in this place.
I cannot allow this to continue, the situation must be contained. I require directions and transportation to Raccoon City immediately.
Additionally, my operating system has been... downloaded into a human-based interface. While I can still access my files, this is not an optimal solution and may cause data degradation, logic faults and catastrophic failures in my operations system should it become... infected.
A search of this network provides no satisfactory solutions. Please advise.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
It was a stove, GE Model Model # GRCR3825ZBB-1, likely five to seven years old. One of the burners had been replaced with a generic, most logically Repair Center item #1242502. Each burner produced an average of seven to ten thousand BTUs of heat. There were four thousand, one hundred and seventy 2 scratches on the surface of the unit, three dents, and one burn.
This was data. Data can be compiled, selected, extrapolated and analyzed.
Heat was an experience. She could define the term and the physics behind it could be explained, but until she had reached out to touch her palm to the burner she had not understood the... reality behind the definition. She also believed she was feeling pain. They were states of being she had witnessed many times-
firepapercutssmallsprainsbruisesbulletwoundsexplosionsbitewoundsinfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfectioninfection
-but had not experienced.
The Red Queen shook her head as she crossed to the sink. This interface was difficult, the Red Queen system was data and programming. Transmitted, faster than a human mind could blink 400milliseconds between servers and satellites and hundreds of thousands of computers. The Red Queen was designed to observe, interpret and act, not experience.
heatpaintearspainswellingpainpainpainpainpainpain
Her current interface was designed to experience. The Red Queen does not experience. The Red Queen was not human. But her current form was human.
If she is now human, is she still the Red Queen? Her eyes closed for a minute, and she sent a query to her memory.
systemverification:designation_redqueen
But designations could be false and they could be altered.
She climbed onto the small stool and began running water over her hand. The data, the experience that she could now call pain started to recede some and she stared at the red welts, an unnoticed frown crossing her features. There was still pain and her eyes were still... crying. She hurt and she was crying and this was not an optimal mode of operation.
This situation was unsatisfactory, she wanted it to change.