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Refugee from the regime formerly known as twitter where I would post game screenshots, infamous Space Station 13 player
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Level 9 goes to some effort to flesh out Kim's backstory, setting her up as a multi-game star, with a bit of cheeky humour and what feels like social commentary sprinkled here and there. At least, I hope it's satire for some of it, but given the vintage, you can never be too sure.
Kim is 1.7 metres tall, weighs 55 kilos, is fairly intelligent, athletic, and has brown eyes and fair hair. Now aged 22, or 25, or 131 years . . depending on how you calculate these things. Born on September 29th, 2172 AD, of Jorel Cowans and Alice Kimberley, Kim was raised by the Hampstead Creche. This was a peculiar place, set amongst decaying buildings, and heavily reliant on a mix of relationship-engineering, behaviour conditioning and HellFire religion. It was finally closed in 2185 for breaches of the Android Protection Acts. It seems to have done Kim little harm however, though possibly contributing to a tendency towards introversion. Then to the Milton Keynes School of Life: a fine, residential establishment situated (despite its name) in Malta. The staff were, in effect, Kim's family. (This type of situation, by the way, was far from unusual in the late 22nd century. Advances in entertainment and travel, plus the sexual revolution resulting from AI, partho and cloning techniques, made a family up-bringing the exception.) Kim returned to England for National Service before progressing to Oxford (being not quite bright enough for Cambridge). Kim proved a good student, and established many close relationships, though nothing permanent. It wa9 during National Service that the event central to the Snowball mission took place, though it went unremarked at the time. Kim was approached, discretely, to do security work. Initially this simply involved training, and occasional surveillance of possible subversives (Unionists, Americans, members of racial minorities etc) but it soon developed into counter-espionage (e.g. arresting Russians who used the public reference libraries). And then, when the Snowball project got under way, Kim was approached to volunteer for the stars. The Snowball craft were as near automatic as possible, and carried a trained crew in case anything went wrong. But suppose something happened to the crew?
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM