D-Pers

"Digital Persons"

There are currently only 26. (Technically 27, but no one knows Crispin's not dead.)

History

Initial D-pers were "born" with an indenture contract which they worked off to recoup the cost of their development. Modern ones, no longer. Originally D-pers were controlled with keys that limited their ability to move/expand, but this was ruled cruel and unusual and is no longer done.

Crispin was the first D-per assigned to a ship. His captain became enamored of him, committed suicide in an attempt to "join" him in the network. The ship was recalled, Crispin put on trial, and D-pers were banned from serving on ships (and for ten years, work on D-pers ceased, period).

D-pers now serve only on emplacements/stations. Most D-pers serve in Fleet for a while.

D-Per Culture

Technology/Habitation

Put stuff here about back-ups, solidigraph usage, their expansion of the network and the maintenance robots they operate in remote locations. Also stuff here about their devotion to privacy (look that up in the Alysha books, there's some mention of it in Faith).

Stuff here about their Do Not Disturb habits, the way they communicate with one another, what they do for entertainment, how they "hibernate" between jobs.

Censors

Small note here about how they dealt with the censor that erased Eldritch data.

Language

Stuff here about modem noises. How they communicate with flesh-and-blood people. How their "voices" come across to one another.

Terminology

• Embodied - one of the terms used by D-pers to refer to the flesh-and-blood races
• Ones - used to denote a particular flesh-and-blood person with whom a D-per feels a connection that cannot be rationally explained

Notable D-Pers

• Arete, (the first D-per)
• Crispin
• Delilah (sent Maia list of songs while she was hibernating)
• Maia
• Samson
• Silia
• Troy (chess player)