For obsessed readers
Spoiler-safe profiles for the people Meridian forgot to count. More detail unlocks once you've finished the book.
Substrate
The boy with no signal.
Best friend. Builder of impossible things.
Unaffiliated
Welcome to freedom.
Substrate doctor. Reads people like x-rays.
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Not a character. A chip. A presence.
Closed AI
You will not see his face.
Prism Labs
CEO. Engineer. Inconvenient.
Sovereign. White-gold eyes. Bored. Used to be Owen Pryce.
Resistance
Ex-Closed AI. No going back.
Senior operative. Doesn't blink.
DataStream / Closed AI orbit
Boss. Analyst. Watcher.
The face on the press release.
MeridianFlow
MeridianFlow. Quiet things, expensive suits.
A Substrate kid at the wrong door.
Room 14. The reason for everything.
The Current's intel. Twenty-two going on forty.
Workshop. Scanners. Patience.
Security. Used to be a soldier.
DataStream
The desk beside Nate's.
Hostile coworker. Takes notes.
Bootleg chip. Three seizures a day.
Elimination Division. Cold orders, signed cleanly.
