Still More about Aster
her ride is nicknamed Pat, short for PatternRecognizer
it is not a Recognizer. She cannot steal or build or pilot a Recognizer. It’s a lightcycle modded to look like a Recognizer and most of it is just a fake projection, the actual rideable area of it is no bigger than any other lightcycle. she just enjoys freaking everyone out with it
she has a pet 8-bit cluster named Byson that can sorta communicate in ISO-8859-1. he is sassy.
(everyone misinterprets his name as a pun on Dyson or maybe B"ISO"n for a while until they notice that each of his component Bits is named “Gebysson” and then they go “usersdammit Aster it was all just a bit/byte pun, kevin-h-flynn where did you even LEARN German” and she’s like DUH. PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM. i got trained on datasets in like ELEVEN languages before getting set free from that hellhole marketing corporation)
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(YES i am gonna draw all this. eventually.)
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you know what, revise that. Byson actually communicates in ISO-8859-731 …which is what happened after Aster made her own hundreds of tiny useless upgrades to ISO-8859
which she did JUST to get to that number
because 8859-731=8128 –which is the fourth perfect number, and YES it’s a pun/political statement (“fuck the New-Grid, ISOs are Perfect”)
#ISOs had also started coming out of the ENCOM game sea by the time Aster got there and she will kill & die to protect them
#she helped steal some from NewGrid too to keep them safe during the purge