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[[File:Char-Arete.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Arete in the network]]

The first successfully coded [[D-pers|D-per]].

==Appearance and Personality==
Codeform is a brown feline woman (some say she's a throwback, genetically, to the original, undifferentiated people of the Exodus). Her eyes change color, and her hair is an unrealistic sheet when she manifests to other D-pers. When manifesting to flesh-and-blood people, she is usual a woman who looks "normal," with hair severely pulled back, but with eyes that change color.<ref name="tdap-md">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) | To Discover and Preserve]]'', "The Mayer Directive"</ref>

In personality: reserved and a loner. Busy with her own thoughts, which are constant. Most D-pers take her presence for granted as a sort of 'lighthouse' they can see flickering all the time, like the northern lights.

==Biography==
Development of Arete began in 317 BA, and took much trial and error before Arete's successful launch in 350 BA.
[[File:Scene-Arete.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Cecil and Arete]]

She met [[Cecil Mayer]] in 414 BA, (when she is 64 years post-launch) during the Crispin/Acron affair, which began their lifelong (for Mayer) association.

Arete now works with the Pelted engineers on the D-per coding project, with [[Delilah]] as her assistant. Arete's the one who's decided to limit the number of D-pers (with the approval of fellow D-pers, and mostly based on their perception of their ability to police one another, and their use of Alliance resources).

==Quotes==
* "[...]either I have a soul, attached to me by a creator at my inception, and the manner of that inception is moot… or I don’t, and am myself merely an extremely sophisticated simulacrum. Either way, I must conduct myself as a responsible citizen of the Alliance, albeit one with a very different life experience than the norm." <ref name="tdap-md" />
* "Our home is with one another. We are few, and I doubt there will ever be many of us. The network is vast, but not infinite, and we are resource-intensive luxuries, even for the Alliance. But we are home when we are in touch with one another."<ref name="tdap-md" />
* "Cecil Mayer was my friend. He and I wrote the directive together."<ref name="igc-19">''[[In Good Company (Fiction) | In Good Company]]'', Chapter 19</ref>

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