Name: Hikari Ai Vincent. Age: 8 (technically) 18 (Virtually). Gender: Female Origin: The personal computer of Connor 'Blue' Takane Vincent. Citizenship: Libertonian. Biography: Hikari Vincent was born of a small personal experiment conducted by one Connor Vincent at the age of 11, Connor is a genius savant when it comes to anything technological and was toying with the idea and theory of an artificial human construct. Connor was playing around with an AI creation program and some devices that he had created map the human consciousness and was seeing how the devices would fit on a person by using himself when he accidentally fell asleep while running some simulations and awoke to find that he had mistakenly created Hikari, apparently he had made a copy of his own mind but it had automatically deleted any and all of his memories and anything else having to do with his state of being. Once she was created, he found that there was no possible way of deleting the newly created Ai, though after a few months of the Ai getting to know him and him it, he soon found it to be his best friend and soon began construction of a portable unit for the Ai to move around in. Over the next 3 years the Ai soon gained its own sense of being as well as its own conscious and thought process, the Ai gave itself a Name that it thought of on its own which was to be Hikari Ai Vincent. She as it had discovered it was a female entity had decided on the name given that it liked the old earth Japanese word Hikari which meant light, Ai given that it was an Ai, and Connors last name, Vincent, given that he was her creator, her choosing the name Hikari was also to be a sort of joke on Connor given his genetic affliction that caused him to be very sensitive to the light.
Over the 8 years since she had been created she absorbed a vast amount of knowledge and data and due to the nature of some of the information she had compiled, she gained a slightly outgoing personality that often comes across as embarrassing, she also for reasons unknown to herself and Connor more often than not refers to people by calling them 'sama', the old earth Japanese word for master after their first name and has been given funny looks and asked awkward questions because of this. About a year before she turned 7, or as she considers it her 16th birthday, she was given control of a built from scratch and completely theory bending android body that actually looks and feels as if it were an actual human cyborg, it has a small booster unit that is attached to her back that allows her to move about in space when doing close inspections of Connors ship that always seem to get in her way anytime she moves around in small spaces, its skin is a type of polymer that moves and feels like actual human skin and because of how she looks, she has been mistaken for an actual living human by slightly drunk bar patrons. She has a sort of obsession with painting her armor pieces different colors every other week and can't seem to kick the troublesome habit as well as licking the leads on quick charge capacitors that gives her body a sort of electrical jolt in which she finds very stimulating.
About a year later, Connor passed his pilots exam and soon purchased an Anki that he made her the gunner of, and soon joined Interspace Commerce at which time Hikari made the decision to start her own exploration of Sirius. She had collected a nice sum of credits to use to pay the various traders for passage to and from the different systems and bases, she had traveled this way for more than half a year without incident until the crew of a slightly shady trade vessel decided that since they had already received their payment and given that she was just a walking toaster as they had called her, decided to toss her out of their ships airlock. She had to use her booster unit to give her a push in the direction of the closest base and ended up floating in space for more than two weeks before she made it to the Baltimore Shipyards. Once she came within 25k of the station a Liberty Rogue that was flying by decided to have a little target practice with her, though after a few poorly place shots it was chased away by an LSF patrol, unfortunately given that she was so tiny and had no way of contacting the patrol that was literally 200ft from her, she was left to float the remaining 25k to the station. Once at the station it took her 45 minutes just to get the attention of the dock controller, and then another 30 minutes to get them to open the docking bay doors, as she floated into the bay and the gravity was activated she fell a good 80ft to the deck and severely damaged her left leg. She was sitting at the Baltimore bar waiting for Connor to get there when she had a major power failure, luckily and to her shock there was a station mechanic by the name of Catelyn that assisted her with her recharge and repairs. Due to Connor having been the only person to ever work on her and see her with all her panels and ports open she was very scared of what might happen or how Cate-sama, as she referred to her, might react to some of her more complicated and original systems. Over the course of her repairs and slight freak outs she became very close to Cate and soon showed her some of her more secretive systems, this of course only happened after Cate, had to her utter amazement, discovered that Hikari was in fact an artificial human construct that had only ever been theorized and thought of as impossible by the scientific community. She had accidentally let slip what Connor or Blue-sama as she called him, often referred to her as when mumbling to himself during routine diagnostics and repairs which had allowed Cate to figure out what she was, Hikari had come to immediately trust and look up to Cate and for this reason she decided to reveal her most guarded secret, she showed Cate her Construct core that was comprised of a very rare Black Diamond surrounded by pure platinum reflective plates that allowed an electrical energy current to flow into and around the Black diamond.
Hikari soon thereafter decided to purchase a ship in which she would use to serve DSE and hopes to soon make many new friends in the company.
Update 1: Hikari was accepted into the DSE) ranks as an engineer due to her technical expertise, or rather her ability to repair almost any vessel given that she downloads the proper specs for it first. she also ran into her friend Cate and informed her that she would be working alongside her as well, she also realized that she was extremely adept at playing Pool though she had always been told that her playing the game could lead to problems. She had a match with one of the station regulars and it was during this match that she came to realize, with some help, that the reason for her prowess was due to her "mental capacity" and not her simply being good at the game. About a day later she took an unexpected leave of absence at the behest of her "brother" Blue so that she could undergo some major upgrades and long overdue maintenance. Once she met up with Blue she was astounded to find that he had made a new Body for her that was much more practical given her new line of work though she still has her boosters tucked away inside her back. She has but one issue with her new body and that would be the two new "Additions" to her look and she gave Blue hell for it as well. She was very pleased to find that she can now eat and drink as a means of quick charging, though shes still having trouble getting used to the feeling she gets in her "stomach" when the Protein Resequencer kicks in and starts converting the matter into energy. Her new body can now lift and carry wheights in excess of 375 pounds which she believes will be very useful when working on larger parts of the many ships she repairs.
She has just returned to the DSE) station in which she works and can not wait to see what her friends and fellow spacers think of her new look.
Update 2: After many months of working on the DSE station Doe Industrial Space Port, she got to know a most of the station regulars as well as falling in love with a DSE escort pilot named Chris Vance. A new station regular turned security officer named Eva Vasqez eventually became close friends with her, though she was originally afraid of Eva due to her having almost been killed by Eva back when she was younger due to a slight misunderstanding. Hikari suddenly decided to up and leave DISP and her job as a ship mechanic due to her love Chris deciding to leave as well and start a new life somewhere out in the stars. when hearing this she finally confessed her true feelings for him after which they left together and are now somewhere out there living happily together.