Mabiel Kheinn

Field Supervisor, Night City DSA“This is a PLAGUE not a blessing. and these children are the dangerous and tragic victims of it. We must make the hard decisions on how to deal with them.”

Unlike many of the current crop of ISA flunkies, Mabel

Kheinn isn’t in this for power; she believes in what she is

doing. And what she is doing is attempting to contain the

single greatest threat humanity has ever seen: the

CyberEvolved. She has seen the statistics. She knows that

the Evolved are growing, and if not stopped now, threaten

to displace normal humans within four generations.

Reacting to the most basic racial survival instinct, Mabel

and millions like her have decided that humanity must not

fall to the cold logic of an evolutionary imperative, even

though the price may be the nation’s own children.

This hard attitude has come from a hard life. Mabel was

born October 7th. 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, which made

her about seven when the Collapse hit. While hes unemployed

father found succor in Smash, her mother scrambled

to support the family with a series of odd jobs and desperate

tactics. Mabel escaped to the Army when she was an

under-age sixteen. She was just in time to be shipped to

Ecuador and the jungle hell of the “Second Central

American Conflict.” Any remaining innocence was burned

away by images of naplam devouring grass huts and the

screams of mutilated friends. When she returned in 2008,

she immediately requested reassignment out of the field

and into Army Intelligence. There, she particpated in

reseaching the ill-fated attempt by Military Intelligence to

take over the Crystal Palace in 2009. Narrowly avoiding the

purge of M.1. which resulted from that debacle, she laid

low for ten years, just marking time.

She finally came into her own during the Second American

Revolution in 2021. As the Eurocorps sent in their troops

to retrieve their “wayward” U.S. holdings, her group

helped coordinate the U.S. military’s response, which consisted

largely of occupying those facilities first and claiming

them as U.S. property. During the campaign, her fiance

was killed on an operation she was directing. After a dark

and mournful time, she resolved to avoid further “emotional

entanglements” and commit herself to her job.

She continued to excel at her duties. When she finally left

the service in 2022, she was quickly recruited by the

embryonic CorpSec. Field work revolved around “deactivating”

rogue edgerunners and other malcontents that insisted

on placing their personal interests above the needs of

the growing industries which were rebuilding the nation.

This was child’s play compared to Ecuador. Whether it

was scouting a site for a BuReloc operation or preventing

Eurocorp spys from infiltrating a Neo-American corporation,

she threw herself into her work. As well as builing a

strong reputation among the field ops as an excellent and

perceptive investigator, she was willing to follow orders

- intelligently as compared to blindly – which made her

popular with her supervisors.

By the time the ISA was declared in 2024, she was well

established in the CorpSec Undercover Operations

Division. It was she and a few other agents that brought

the Undercover Division’s activities to President

Whindam’s attention. Once it became apparent how effective

a force they were, he soon co-opted the entire division

as his own Domestic Security Agency. While still

nominally part of CorpSec, in reality the new agency now

operated as a separate part of the Executive Branch.

Just as her career seemed about to bloom, life dealt her

another joker. When she coldly rebuffed the advances of a

senator she had been assigned to protect, he got physical:

big mistake for both of them. When she was done with

him, a Trauma Team had to collect what was left. While

she once again avoided dismissal, her career with the

Agency appeared to be so much kibble.

But her vocal sentiments about the cyberevolved had garnered

the attention of Margaret Tuere, the new head of the

CDC, who shared Mabel’s paranoia about the plague survivors.

With Tuere’s sponsorship, Mabel has slowly managed

to work her way back into her superiors’ good graces.

Her assignment as the head of the Night City branch of the

DSA is her chance to re-establish the Agency’s confidence

in her abilities: Night City is still relatively new territory for

the ISA (as NorCal was a free state until recently) and handling

the “pacification” of the area is both an opportunity

and a test. She does not intend to blow it.

She has already managed to establish herself with her

field ops; they know her rep and respect her. She has carefully

cultivated her attitude towards the Raptors under her

command and now views them as tools to be handled carefully,

then disposed of quickly when the job is done. Her

relationship with BuReloc is good, as they know that they

can count on her support with their own operations. The

local police, on the other hand, resent her ability to step in

and take over almost any investigation at her whim and to

conduct city-wide operations without civil sanction.

She will pursue her duties here with the same single-mindedness

that has marked the majority of her career. This means

that the cyberkids of Night City can expect to find themselves

facing any number of undercover operations designed to

smoke them out. And she is very good at her job.

Mabel has kept on a rigorous physical training program

and, even though in her late thirties, she appears a decade

younger due to judicious nanotech applications. Her

demeanor is what you’d expect from a person of her background:

direct and efficient with little or no emotional

expression. That’s not to say that she doesn’t have emotions;

she just viciously represses them in order to do her

job. Unlike many who hunt the cyberevolved, she takes no

pleasure in killing these children, but sees it simply as her

neccesary duty. Her unrelenting attitude and uncornpromising

policies have made her equally harsh with her personal

life, limiting it to cordial relationships with her fellow

DSA agents and employees. There is a person in that

attractive but rigid frame, but she has honed herself into

the semblance of a machine. What it will take to throw a

monkey wrench into those gears?