#henter

When Red absorbs the trace data from them as she finds them, their specific attributes form an attack into the Transistor, as it is, among other things, a weapon. Since it’s built to control and destroy the Process, any program that adapts to it serves as a Function to facilitate those ends.

As to how their data adapts to the Transistor so well is unclear, but it’s probably to do with the fact that they were methodically dispatched by it, creating a connection to them in a way. On approach of each character, as the game goes along, you can also see their “disposition” information pop up. Lillian Platt’s for example, was explosive, matching with Spark(). 

Not every function is obtained from finding these characters themselves, though, but you can still find clues about their connection on the Function screen. Cull(), for example is described as “Destructive, Kinetic” for Olmarq, a leading player in the Hammers team, who was known to cause a lot of injuries during games.Ping() is described as “Rapid, Efficient” which does make some sense for Henter Jallaford as a prolific, and successful detective. 

Hope that helps some. Thanks for your question!

These are interesting guesses. I think you can be more expansive with perspective in comparing Cloudbank and our society, though. Plenty of people who are barely 30 have become influential public figures, more especially the face of those intellectual, technological, and social frontiers, Mark Zuckerberg was 29 only last year, Edward Snowden, age 31, Parisa Tabriz, age 30, even Malala Yousafzai, a 17-year-old girl standing up for girls’ education against Muslim extremist threat. Social activists, entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, writers making start-ups, projects, TED talks, series, and opening channels to the public letting flow social, technological, educational development abound. Seniority does not automatically grant a spotlight, experience can, sure, but so does innovation, and bravery which you may have regardless of old age, sometimes because you’re young. Frankly, a pretty face doesn’t hurt. In fact, Snowden, for example, was certainly not the first whistleblower of the NSA’s unconstitutional data collection. William Binney, much older, preceded him yet he didn’t reach the publicity Snowden did.Speaking of age and retirement, your further question:

Anonymous: Addendum: The more I think about it, the more I am troubled by the definition of retirement. Since Olmarq ‘retired’, Jallaford ‘retired’ and nobody minded they dropped off the face of the city. It seems like “going to the Country” meant retirement, taking a trip away from Cloudbank or death and the former two seemed pretty common in high society from the bios. Maybe Cloudbank is like “The Giver” where once your usefulness to society ends, you die. I may have missed reading something in the game.

Yeah, the Camerata weren’t completely neat or consistent with their cover-ups for each dispatch, and yes, the retirement story may suggest something distinct about Cloudbank’s retirees. As with all research though, there’s a kind of hydra head effect with questions. Did Henter even have friends? Wasn’t his job as a forecaster already kind of isolating? Is the report missing information because his possible friends were hushed some other way? Olmarq’s case is more supportive of the strangeness of retirement in Cloudbank. Notorious to the public, he was only “useful” insofar as his characteristic aggression in sport spurred new safety regulations. His usefulness to the Camerata was this very aggression, that was uploaded into the Transistor and used to change Cloudbank at the Camerata’s will.OVC is open to all. Thanks for reading and for questions. Have a lovely evening,-Admin()P.S.