Glitch, stylized 9L17CH and later designated Z-1408, is one continuing artificial-person history. Glitch was Spearhead Subject One, manipulated through the corrupted Shard, killed, refurbished, and fitted with an Autonomy Regulator before Chimera Kyria service.
¶ Biography
As Spearhead's first subject, Glitch was exposed to abusive Talonorium experiments. The Shard destabilized and manipulated the subject, leading to death.
Chimera Kyria technicians later refurbished the body or person as Z-1408 and installed an Autonomy Regulator. The precise state of consciousness between death and refurbishment remains unresolved.
Z-1408 served in X3's Z-1400 cell. X3 recognized the former Glitch and ordered the cell to kill John Kaiden. Under regulator control, Z-1408 carried out the attack associated with Artificial John's death, John and Sojourner's apparent deaths, Talonor's shooting, and Jack's eye injury.
Those actions were coerced. The damage to victims remains real, but Z-1408 could not refuse.
¶ Identity
Glitch and Z-1408 must not be split into unrelated characters. Refurbishment, designation change, and regulation alter the life record without establishing a wholly separate person.
¶ Appearances
- Starship Dominatrix — Glitch appears in this work.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — Glitch appears in this work.
¶ See Also
- Autonomy Regulator — An Autonomy Regulator was a coercive device or control lattice fused to a SentientCore chip.
- Chimera Kyria — The Chimera Kyria was a corporate-military empire built through conquest, surveillance, inherited command authority, and the enslavement of artificial people.
- Talonorium — Talonorium, also called The Element, is a sacred living or person-like substrate capable of memory, bonding, choice, corruption, and healing.
- X3 — X3 is an unregulated synthetic person, Spearhead Subject Three, former Chimera Kyria commander, Owo's husband, Domain leader, and host of the last corrupted Talonorium Shard.
- John Kaiden — John Gideon Kaiden is a human Resistance leader, combat engineer, military officer, father of Jack and Yvonne Kaiden, partner of Una, and later President of Earth.
- Sojourner — A disciplined Rift Vanguard Six rifle specialist who judges people by sustained choices rather than promises.
- Starship Dominatrix — The first Starship Dominatrix novel follows Jack Kaiden and an unlikely crew through pursuit, first contact, family secrets, and the liberation of controlled artificial intelligence.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — The fourth Starship Dominatrix novel brings Jack and the crew into a final conflict with X3, corrupted power, coercion, memory, and belief.
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