ShadowChild

"There're only ten hackers in the world who can [reprogram this thing]. And I'm two of them."

- ShadowChild

ShadowChild is a hacker operating from Klímová Apartments in Prague in 2028. She assists and serves as the Rippers' handler while in the Breach.

Biography
Hacking since age six, the enigmatic ShadowChild is a world-class Ripper working to pull off the "hack of the century." By exposing The Palisade Bank Corporation's fortress-like Palisade Blade servers to hackers world-wide, ShadowChild intends not only to position herself as the world's foremost hacker, she also take vengeance against the man who put a bounty on all Rippers: Palisade CTO and mastermind of the Blades, Masaaki Oshiro.

In 2029, ShadowChild is operating from two adjacent units (3A and 3B) in the Klímová Apartments, an apartment building located in the Blade Plaza of Prague. She resides with Marta Romanowski, the registered tenant of both units. One of the units has been modified to accommodate a secret room that houses ShadowChild's Neural SubNet (NSN) terminal.

When Adam Jensen is sent by Francis Pritchard to infiltrate Palisade Blade-01 to retrieve data from the Blade, ShadowChild assists Jensen by reprogramming a Pass-Port needed to infiltrate the facility. Later, ShadowChild assists Jensen in rescuing Pritchard's avatar that becomes trapped in the Blade's mainframe. In order to bypass the Blade's AI virtual defenses guarding the mainframe, ShadowChild creates a hole in the Blade's outer defenses and invites some of her Ripper associates to attack the client servers of the Blade, thereby distracting the AI defenses from the mainframe. This process, however, causing the Breach. ShadowChild would go on to enlist Rippers worldwide in taking advantage of the Breach by helping them infiltrate the Blades' corporate servers and extract the Terabytes of private data within.

In the wake of the creation of the Breach, ShadowChild is forced to flee from her current residence. She tells Jensen that she and her partner (Marta) are moving to either California or Argentina.

While the Breach is open, ShadowChild also gives Rippers "Darknet Files," humanitarian cases where people go to the Darknet for help in uncovering and exposing the secrets of major corporations. ShadowChild has contacts with experience in the military, in medicine, and in analytics for assistance, who can assist Rippers in carrying out these investigations. These contacts include: Watchstan68, an ex-military personnel well versed in covert tactics, infiltration and fire teams; Fairbanks an analytics specialist who can unravel the red tape of corporations and governments; and Shorthand, described by ShadowChild as an impatient but brilliant doctor.

Quotes

 * "Can I reprogram it?! There are only ten hackers in the world who can. And I'm two of them." (to Jensen upon Jensen requesting ShadowChild to reprogram the Pass-Port)