Sister is an advanced humanoid android of the bionic evangelists, produced in the middle of the Golden Age by the Church and various religious groups. Designed to serve within their congregations, these mechanoids can carry out orders with unwavering devotion. They are equipped with a basic emotion module and possess a relatively high level of intelligence. Because machines are incapable of wavering in their faith, Sisters proved to be considerably more reliable than ordinary human believers.
The corrupted Sister model is capable of harnessing the power of the Punishing Virus in a manner similar to Ascendants. She absorbs the virus's energy, temporarily stored in her core, and releases it to engage hostile targets. The virus's effectiveness depends on its current potency and the environment, with the potential for uncontrolled energy release if mishandled.
Her attacks draw upon the combined force of the Punishing Virus and divine retribution. The wing blade operates at exceptional speed, reaching up to ██ km/h, and is constructed from a reinforced alloy capable of cutting through metal up to ██ centimeters thick. She is capable of triggering an energy explosion that deals heavy damage across a wide area, with safety protocols in place to prevent accidental activation during non-combat situations.
Following the engagement and the retrieval of memory shell data, Liv established a connection to extract available information.
According to her memory shell, she served as a caretaker for refugee children and orphans housed in Underground City 019 during the Post-Pandemic Age. The city sheltered hundreds of thousands displaced by the Great Evacuation, many of them children who had lost their families to the Punishing Virus.
At an undetermined point during her service, the city's military factory sector became infected. The Corrupted poured in from the production lines in numbers that overwhelmed the city's defenses. Rather than withdrawing with the civilians, she positioned herself between the advancing Corrupted and the evacuation routes, buying time for the children and remaining survivors to clear the city.
She harnessed the Punishing Virus already taking hold in her systems and turned it against them, tearing through wave after wave. For what records suggest was an extended period, she held her position with an energy output that should not have been possible for such a mechanoid. Whether it was the virus amplifying her systems or her own obsession, the data does not resolve clearly.
Eventually, the numbers overwhelmed her. She retreated deeper into the city, toward the factory core, carrying the virus inside her. Her objective was still unfinished. She never returned to the survivors. She knew what she was carrying. Any contact with the children she had protected risked infecting them. She remained isolated within the infected sectors, fighting to keep the virus from consuming her entirely.
She had not fought in a long time by the time Gray Raven arrived in City 019. The renewed activity inside the factory was enough to wake her. She detected human life signals deep within the structure and fought her way through the Corrupted toward them. It was the same factory she had retreated to. By the time she reached the squad, she was at the limit of what her frame could contain. Lucia's name surfaced from somewhere in her corrupted memory. Gray Raven laid her to rest, but she did not surrender without a fight.
NOTE: Whether her advance toward the squad in her final moments constituted an attempt to warn or protect them, or whether the proximity of her infection limit posed a threat to the squad, has not been resolved. The intent behind her last action remains undetermined.
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ADDENDUM I: During Sister's isolation within the infected sectors of City 019, her memory shell records an encounter with Ascendant Luna. Sister recognized her as one of the children previously sheltered under her care, later recruited by Kurono to become a Construct. Luna presented herself as an agent of the Ascension-Network and transmitted data streams directly into Sister's memory core, assessing her as a viable candidate for Ascension based on her viral compatibility.
Luna offered Sister authorization that would free her from the Punishing Virus' deterioration and elevate her beyond human reach. Sister refused. She stated that the virus could take her body but not her faith, and that betraying humanity was a fate she feared more than death. She dismissed Luna's warning that remaining as she was would reduce her to a walking corpse.
Before Luna departed, Sister disclosed that Lucia was in the area and directed her toward her sister's location. Whether the decision to share this information was deliberate or a product of her deteriorating cognitive state is not established.
