Ryder Sandstorm
Black Hearts Employee Dossier No: 013-13-1313
name: Ryder Reanna Sandstorm A.K.A Ferret
age: 25
gender: Female
occupational specialty: blending into her surroundings, ferreting out even the most difficult of information, computer hacking.
any bionics or cybernetics?: none
how long have you been with Bleak Hearts?: around a year
marital or familial status: Orphan
specialized weaponry: hand-to-hand fighting, knife use,
prior occupation: NSA, Fort Gordon, Georgia
mirror, mirror on the wall: Standing at 5’ 6” and about 132 lbs. otherwise, see pic.
in my heart of hearts: Ryder is a bit of a loner, something she showed signs of on the streets, but has manifested more so since her journey with the NSA and Counter Espionage. While she can blend in with those around her and make everyone think she’s open and fun, in truth she plays her cards close to her chest, never letting anyone in to know the real Ryder. The psychologist was aware of this demeanor, but Ryder even managed to keep him off balanced enough not to be certain. She is a child of Native American and Welsh decent with a southern belle accent most times, unless really riled, and then Chicago seems to surface in her voice as well as her street influences.
my dark past: Ryder grew up on the mean streets of Chicago since the age of 12. A local gang tried to jump her and she fought like a wild thing, lost, but in the end, they knew they’d tangled with her. Impressed, they took her in. Once able to move again without much pain, she started to try to be useful to her new “friends”. She soon found she could make herself “unnoticeable” when out and about. People over looked children generally, and spoke freely. She soon learned that other people liked to know what some people had to say, or did. By the time she was 14 she was the one everyone on the streets came to for information, and she made a good living, by street standards.
When she hit 15, she was a regular in the local library. She used the free computers just as much as roaming the streets to ferret out information. Unknown to her, she had become flagged by the NSA. They nab her one afternoon leaving the library, but she kneed one in the crotch, and broke the nose of the other and rabbited out of there. She headed home via rooftops, subways, sewer tunnels and back alleys, very nearly covering one quarter of Chicago and taking several hours to reach the gang’s home. Apparently, it hadn’t helped matters, since they knew where she lived and stormed the place within 15 minutes of her arrival.
Whisked into a dark, windowless room with one tiny light, she is told, join them, her “family” goes free, or she will be killed, [i]after[/i] she watches her “family” die horribly. Not much of a choice, or a hard one to make. She agreed and was taken to Fort Gordon, Georgia, one of the facilities of NSA and was trained in the responsibilities of collecting and analyzing foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography.
Within a year of being there, she learned of some huge plot against the US that involved stealing planes and crashing them into various American buildings that was thought would destroy the country, and all of this she'd put together from many unrelated communications. Brought to the Lieutenant General’s attention that oversaw the place, he was impressed with her ability to find information. She was immediately assigned to the DHS counter espionage unit as both a Scout and Code Breaker. Now she has been recruited to the Black Hearts. She is to be their computer hacker and on site info gatherer.
age: 25
gender: Female
occupational specialty: blending into her surroundings, ferreting out even the most difficult of information, computer hacking.
any bionics or cybernetics?: none
how long have you been with Bleak Hearts?: around a year
marital or familial status: Orphan
specialized weaponry: hand-to-hand fighting, knife use,
prior occupation: NSA, Fort Gordon, Georgia
mirror, mirror on the wall: Standing at 5’ 6” and about 132 lbs. otherwise, see pic.
in my heart of hearts: Ryder is a bit of a loner, something she showed signs of on the streets, but has manifested more so since her journey with the NSA and Counter Espionage. While she can blend in with those around her and make everyone think she’s open and fun, in truth she plays her cards close to her chest, never letting anyone in to know the real Ryder. The psychologist was aware of this demeanor, but Ryder even managed to keep him off balanced enough not to be certain. She is a child of Native American and Welsh decent with a southern belle accent most times, unless really riled, and then Chicago seems to surface in her voice as well as her street influences.
my dark past: Ryder grew up on the mean streets of Chicago since the age of 12. A local gang tried to jump her and she fought like a wild thing, lost, but in the end, they knew they’d tangled with her. Impressed, they took her in. Once able to move again without much pain, she started to try to be useful to her new “friends”. She soon found she could make herself “unnoticeable” when out and about. People over looked children generally, and spoke freely. She soon learned that other people liked to know what some people had to say, or did. By the time she was 14 she was the one everyone on the streets came to for information, and she made a good living, by street standards.
When she hit 15, she was a regular in the local library. She used the free computers just as much as roaming the streets to ferret out information. Unknown to her, she had become flagged by the NSA. They nab her one afternoon leaving the library, but she kneed one in the crotch, and broke the nose of the other and rabbited out of there. She headed home via rooftops, subways, sewer tunnels and back alleys, very nearly covering one quarter of Chicago and taking several hours to reach the gang’s home. Apparently, it hadn’t helped matters, since they knew where she lived and stormed the place within 15 minutes of her arrival.
Whisked into a dark, windowless room with one tiny light, she is told, join them, her “family” goes free, or she will be killed, [i]after[/i] she watches her “family” die horribly. Not much of a choice, or a hard one to make. She agreed and was taken to Fort Gordon, Georgia, one of the facilities of NSA and was trained in the responsibilities of collecting and analyzing foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography.
Within a year of being there, she learned of some huge plot against the US that involved stealing planes and crashing them into various American buildings that was thought would destroy the country, and all of this she'd put together from many unrelated communications. Brought to the Lieutenant General’s attention that oversaw the place, he was impressed with her ability to find information. She was immediately assigned to the DHS counter espionage unit as both a Scout and Code Breaker. Now she has been recruited to the Black Hearts. She is to be their computer hacker and on site info gatherer.