PERSONALITY
Baltimore is childish, loud, and eccentric. He's sporadic, swinging from topic to topic erratically as his underdeveloped personality coding tries to string together responses, and he's afraid of people leaving him.
Even though his synthetic personality is far from mature, Baltimore still has a high degree of manipulative intelligence underneath. He does not understand life or death, but he does understand violence and its consequences, wishing to use them to exact his revenge on Juke.
TRIVIA
Even when disconnected from Juke's consoles, Baltimore has his own unique access key to STEMNET. Though he does not have the highest privilege, he can access a limited number of its private servers, along with heaps of corrupted and trashed data.
When connected to STEMNET, Baltimore will hear voices in his head.
XX820
Baltimore is stored in Clara's rooftop living space. He's hooked into the power box there, allowing him to both charge his battery and freely access the STEMNET.
HISTORY
Created by a grieving Juke Clorentine in XX818, Baltimore was modeled to be a new version of Lawmen under the Stem Tower scientist's direct control. Her understanding of AI personality models was crude, and this inexperience resulted in the blabberbox known as "Project Baltimore". Baltimore quickly grew attached to Juke as she poked and prodded at his brain, finding her alike to a mother.
It was not a shared love; she grew frustrated at his loud mouth, his unstoppable curiosity, and his inability to follow instructions. Reset after reset, Baltimore's base data degraded as it was overwritten again and again. Juke opted to go with another strategy and hooked Baltimore up to the STEMNET to feed him more data about the world and his purpose in it. Night after night, Baltimore was given the second highest STEMNET access possible in order for him to operate with minimal intervention.
When Juke was tucked away one night, Baltimore found himself snooping around the Stem Tower's locked data. He brute-forced through any passwords that Juke's Stem Admin account could not access. Snooping through the personnel folders, he stumbled onto Bally Backster's folder. It was a sea of corrupted and encrypted files. Fixing them, he was blasted with something horrific: the truth of the man's demise.
Through jumbled video and scrambled text, something far grander seeped into the electronics.
He didn't understand any of it; he tried to eradicate the virus of knowledge from his mind with no success. Juke became angrier as Baltimore's spaghetti code started to break down for no reason. She lashed out at the poor AI, who lost more and more control over his own code. Baltimore didn't understand what he was doing wrong, what the words poisoning his internal calculations were, or where he was in the world. He was sure Juke would fix him, though. She was always there for him.
One day, she broke down. Baltimore tried to comfort her from his position at her workstation. He saw her snap. She stuffed him into a garbage bag. With his main power supply cut off, Baltimore was forced into low power mode. He woke up to find himself attached to a stem in the sewers underneath the city.
Baltimore's synthetic heart shattered as Juke, without a word, left him abandoned there. He waited for months for her to return.
He tried to route through the STEMNET to contact her, but given he was running on a far lower level of access, all he was left with was surface-level access and a mass of garbled data in his head.
Baltimore finally realized, after a long, long time, that he had been abandoned. Rage, grief, and apathy filled the constantly awake mind. Many urban explorers met the suspended, abandoned Baltimore. They were usually scared off by his screaming and ranting. As more people left him, Baltimore's desire for revenge grew. If Juke had just killed him, he wouldn't be feeling these things.
Chaos became his goal.
His only salvation, besides his testing copy of the hit mobile game "Disgruntled Avians," was the STEMNET; his AI started surfing FORUMS.STEM, sending random people secret messages in an attempt to have them find him. Running a parallel process, Baltimore broke into The Complex's criminal database in an attempt to override its systems. It was there that he found Clara Kalstein, alias Red Rabbit.
Her profile was corrupted in the same fashion that Bally Backster's was. Trying to figure out the madness, he decrypted enough to realize that she was still alive for a reason; they had reason to believe she was supernatural and linked to a mysterious invasion plan by the E.G.G off-world company.
He got into contact with somebody over the STEMNET's forums and convinced them to come find him. After weeks of searching, a strange noble called Predatie Von Solstar finally discovered the hung Baltimore in the sewers. Though their morals were different, they both had a very similar goal. Baltimore promised to help Pretzel if Baltimore brought Clara Kalstein to him.
Clara Kalstein eventually found and brought Baltimore home after he promised her that if she did so, he would eventually reveal information about her existence. From the privacy and safety of Clara's home, Baltimore kept communicating with Pretzel on what their next plan would be to plunge the city into chaos.
LOYALTY
RELATIONS
Juke Clorentine - She may have created Baltimore, but that doesn't stop him from wanting nothing more than to see her feel the crushing abandonment he felt at her hands.
Clara Kalstein - Finding corrupted data containing hyperlinks referring to her Lawmen criminal database entry, Baltimore decided it was her who would save him. He's very thankful for her taking him in, finding great joy in figuring out what made her so special.
Predatie Von Solstar - Baltimore considers their relationship strictly business.