John Locke
V U L K A N
- Intent: To submit a computer virus for use in RP and in future submissions.
- Image Source: CEO Today
- Canon Link: N/a
- Permissions: N/a
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Locke and Key Mechanics
- Affiliation: Company Name(s) (Companies authorised to use this submission): Locke and Key Mechanics
- Model: Lockebreaker
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced. (Anyone.) Characters refer to NPCs & PCs.)
- Material: Programming
- A virus designed to destroy any electronic system it's loaded into.
- Designed to purge itself after it's finished running to make it harder for its user to be traced, or for the cause of the firmware destruction to be found.
- Targets the basic firmware of electronic components, destroying the software to shutdown and destroy hardware's ability to function.
- As the software of the firmware is scrambled beyond recovery, the virus purges itself as well, making it much harder for anyone trace the virus, finding out what happened and who had sent it.
- Mindless: Lockebreaker is a computer virus and has no ability to adapt or change to circumstances. Once unleashed it only has one purpose, and one line of attack. As such it can be predictable and can find itself left behind by a changing situation.
Although John was one of the most capable slicers in the Confederacy, and had proven his worth over time and again, the rising spate of cyberwarfare left the man realising that sometimes speed was important. Sometimes he needed a quick attack at his disposal that he could use to win a fight or takedown an electronic system.
While the cyborg considered a brute power attack, in the end, he opted for something else, something a little more subtle. Many cybersecurity systems existed across the galaxy, encrypting data and preventing high-level assault on systems, John opted for a different approach. Instead of striking at a system itself, Lockebreaker would target the very basic elements of any computing system, the firmware.
Firmware is one of the very basic elements of programming, used to inform hardware how to react and operate, it isn't the high-level programming that most cybersecurity systems are designed to defend. By targeting this basic tech, John knew he could bypass most defences, but more than that. It didn't matter how capable a slicer you were, if the hardware you were using no longer knew how to respond.
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