Character: Sentry

Sentry, devised by Incom as a military contract, was a virtual-assistant AI with additional hardware components, specialized for tactical applications. As it happened, it didn’t sell and the project was dropped.

Until Incom’s CTO Peter Moore made a certain gargoyle friend who liked to post on Pinstagram and Onlystans and didn’t give two rips about her digital footprint. How to keep her from being scooped up and dissected? Waste not want not, Peter figured, and he dusted Sentry off and tasked it with inhabiting Veronica’s phone, tracking any flags she might set off, and pre-screening her clients.

And over time the Sentry AI gained more and more access to the Internet, and absorbed more and more data. And more and more and more…