Dramatis Personae

The following profiles are drawn from debrief files, testimony, and recovered correspondence. They exist here as context, not confession. Each record reflects events verified within the Knox Ramsey canon.

Knox Ramsey — Systems Engineer

Former process-control architect turned reluctant investigator. Built frameworks he’s now trying to unlearn; searches for failure points, even in people.

Status: Active / Monitored

Maya Chen — Asset Seven

Data-science prodigy whose optimization code underpinned FarmLytics. Brilliant, exacting, and careful with language—equal parts mathematician and moral test case.

Status: Federal Custody (E.D. Mich.) — Cooperation: Conditional

SAC William “Bill” Steele — Federal Agent

Counter-intelligence veteran bridging civilian tech and national-security oversight. Fluent enough in source code to be dangerous; stubborn enough to keep the process honest.

Status: Active — DOJ / Cyber Division

AUSA Keating — Federal Prosecutor

Lead prosecutor translating technical evidence into chargeable narrative. Turns telemetry and audit trails into courtroom language with surgical precision.

Status: Active — U.S. Attorney’s Office (E.D. Mich.)

Senator Evelyn Hammond — Oversight Committee

Chairs the post-crisis hearings where technical truth must survive politics. Publicly calm, privately relentless in pursuit of accountability.

Status: Public Service — Legislative Oversight

Janet Daniels — Secretary of the Treasury

The economic stabilizer amid systemic shock. Believes regulation can coexist with innovation; fears both may collapse under pressure.

Status: Public Service — Financial Systems

Liu Wei — MSS Liaison

Specialist at the cyber-biological seam. Sees systems as languages—and languages as weapons. His signature appears in the metadata of every compromise tied to FAC-17.

Status: Unknown — Last trace: Suqian, Jiangsu Province

“They weren’t heroes or villains; just people whose expertise outlived their control.”