Raised by parents acting as United Nation’s French diplomats on Earth, she grew up aware of the unstable climate of the European Nations and the affects of bleed over tensions persisting in the Middle East. She eventually entered into the political scene, making great use of her family ties to stand out as a U.N. Investigator handling HyperCorp interests in the tumultuous Mediterranean regions.

Her final days on Earth found her and her father in Paris, France; onsite a joint HyperCorp facility dealing with Direct Action soldiers as they attempted to gain entrance for an investigation. When the official global evacuation orders were given, the panic broke out from the TITAN attacks. Even though getting swept up in an armed escort to an evac site, she witnessed her father’s death as a fire fight broke out between the soldiers and a crowd of people reported to have been infected by exsugents. It was only by the grace of a single Direct Action soldier that she was able to make it to an evacuation shuttle to get off planet.

Even after being one of the lucky few to get off of Earth, she was witness to the fact that the horror of the TITAN attack nearly paled in comparison to the monstrous acts transhumans inflicted on each other just in the chaos. Reports from secure U.N. feed reported repent extortion for salvation, acts of sabotage on evacuation sites, acts of war, habitats denying acceptance of refugees, and mass executions and forced uploading.

It’s unclear when her change had occurred or when she realized that her mind was no longer the same, but she had been forever changed by the ordeal being able to do things no person should not be able to do. The combination of gaining async abilities and all the chaos, death and suffering she experienced and surrounded her during the catastrophe has left irreparable traumatic stress. As a further result, it driven an Obsessive Compulsion to uncover and understand the traumatic events that led up to and were a by-product of The Fall.

It took great effort to regain her self and learn to control her new abilities, it was only thought syncing the thoughts in people’s minds and the actual spoken dialog was she able to orient herself in any way. She practiced by listening to peoples stories of survival, loss, bravery and sacrifice; she was able to collect tales from people from all over earth as she floated from habitat to habitat. After completely regaining herself, she had compiled a great deal of information mapping the events of the fall not yet accounted for, particularly in northern Europe. She had been able to make correlations and point out where certain evacuation effort failed and the amazing effort of a single individual that was responsible for a great deal of evacuees, a man she recognized as her own savior, Jacob Tullie. Releasing the compiled report garnered her public respect, but to her it was her first grasp as sanity.

One of her more evocative reports was an XP series, Teratoid Agenda, that documented her simultaneous involvement in three oppressed groups: criminals, anarchists, and the Jovian government. While playing each side as a triple agent while participating in schemes for survival hooked people in with a spy thrill appeal, the series resonated with people for the basic transhuman struggles of life and the fight for survival. A fulcrum in the series was unexpected love quad-angle that emerged between Colette and the three faction leaders. After the series release, she publicly distanced herself from all parties, but still has good ties with the three men privately.

After rocketing in popularity, she eventually signed to be represented by the Hypercorp: Experia for her future projects. The move shocked her followers and lead to some calls of hypocrisy and selling out. She shocked everyone when she released a damning exposé of highly confidential information on hypercorp activity throughout the system, including Experia’s involvement in the censorship of this intel from the public through backroom dealings. The signing had been a means for her to be able to use her async powers and gain inside access to the secure severs of confidential information. This release was quickly denounced by all Hypercorp parties involved as completely fabricated and slanderous, leading to her being blacklisting and blackmarked.

Colette was recently brought into firewall after uncovering and observing a cell of experienced sentinels for a period of time. She eventually made herself known to the cell, after working out detail of their operation and as they were about to execute an assault based off of bad intelligence.

Codenamed Verity, her exposure as a public figure, blatant disregard her actions, and her propensity for releasing highly sensitive information leave doubt in Firewall command of her reliability in operations and has lead to her being a largely untapped asset. Threats of exposing her exsurgent contamination have been considered as a mean of taming her; but as Proxy Zealot, an async himself, said quoting the old Earth saying; “Never corner an animal.”

Colette has no fixed home, but drifted from habitat to habitat depending on where a prime story awaits.

Verity

Eclipse Phase | AUSTIN, TEXAS | 2015-2019 A.D.

Colette Lemieur

Colette Lemieur