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Winifred "Acid" Dietersmann

Rank	Agent
Role	Hacker/Savant
Description
Sex	Female
Height	4'11"
Hair	Brown
Skin	Pale
Build	Skinny
Other	Bionic left arm
Typical Equipment
Ranged	Hellpistol
Melee	Mono Knife
Armour	Flak Armour
Other	Dataslate, Vox, HUD with noospheric interface, magnoculars and infrascope

Winifred "Acid" Dietersmann, is a diminutive machine code prodigy. Elevated from her life within the criminal underhive of Hive Sejanus, she now serves Inquisitor Michael as his data manipulator and savant. Her chosen name, Acid, refers to her self-proclaimed ability to burn through any data walls given enough time.

Origins and Recruitment

In the aftermath of Purging the Tethytheria, Michael went looking for someone more proficient in Machine Code than Fabricator Acetae, who was primarily an engineer. As soon as he started looking he discovered one had been trying to get his attention for some time.

Winifred Dietersmann was born in the underhive of Hive Sejanus to simple labourers. A genius intellect, she taught herself mechanics and electronics to help her parents. Soon she progressed to interfacing (illegally) with the datasphere where her talents quickly began to shine. Unfortunately at the age of 14 her skills were noticed by a local gang, the Spikers. Her parents were killed and she was taken into slavery to maintain the weapons and machinery of the gang.

She spent several years gaining their trust before she was finally able to get un-monitored access to the datasphere. She immediately reported the crimes against her to the local enforcers. Fortunately for her, she had reported them anonymously under her datasphere pseudonym "Acid", so when the enforcers informed the Manufactorum owner who ran the gang and was bribing the enforcers, she did not suffer direct repercussions. She laid low for sometime, before trying again. This time she researched potential rescuers more carefully, and uncovered a wealth of corruption within the law enforcement of Hive Sejanus, resulting in her sending report after report to the Inquisition.

Not catastrophic enough to warrant attention of the overtaxed Inquisition, they went unnoticed until Michael happened upon them when looking for a code expert. He led a mission, wiped out the Spikers, and rescued Acid. Her reports were handed off to Inquisitor Kovach.

Genetics

Acid's genetics are pretty poor. It is unclear how much of this is inherited naturally from the poor gene-stock and how much of it is due to possible toxic exposure during pregnancy; both very common issues in the underhive. This has been expressed in several congenital disorders:

Amelia. Acid was born without a left forarm, her left arm ending in a stump just below her elbow.
Orofacial cleft. Now surgically repaired, until she joined the Inquisition Acid had a cleft lip.
Laron-type dwarfism. Whilst not generally classified as having dwarfism as she is 4'11", Acid has a mild insensitivity to somatotropin (growth hormone).

Healthcare in the Obelisk is first class, and her health issues are all completely managed, however it's possible that if in the future she were to be considered for rejuvenat treatment her poor genetics could cause problems.

Field Agent

See Category: Acid Missions

Whilst not originally hired to be a field agent, Acid has slowly shifted from being rear echelon support, to supporting active field teams. This suffered a setback in the mission Kuunyesu Marooned when she had to vent 27 hostile pirates and one allied tech priest with whom she had become friends into space in order to save the crew. This caused her significant psychological trauma and she was taken off the active agent roster for some time. She is attending ongoing therapy with Gaius Umberto.

Identities

Acid

Acid (or A(|D) is pretty much Winifred's main identity. She is sometimes refereed to as Winifred Dietersmann in formal documentation, and Michael (and only Michael) calls her Winnie, but for the most part she is known as Acid.

Zer0

In the wake of Dancing with Drukhari Acid bought up the club Tenebrae under the identity Zer0. She does not have time to run it herself and merely acts as the mysterious owner and director. None of the staff know what Zer0 looks like, even her gender. She enjoys hearing rumours about Zer0 when she visits the club anonymously, and has spread a few herself.

Equipment

Primarily a non-combatant, Michael has issues Acid with flak armour and a laspistol for personal protection. Her primary tools are her advance dataslate and heads up display, both heavily customised. Her left arm ends in a stump just below her elbow. When she was younger she built a basic prosthetic, but with the advanced workshops of the Obelisk and help of Fabricator Acetae she has replaced it with a very advanced version.

In the wake of Never saw the Eversor Acid has begun combat training and switched out her laspistol for a hellpistol and adopted a mono-knife. Inquisitor Drake has promised her a power knife from his personal collection if she can become worthy of it.

The Pigtown Flaying has led to further enhancements. Helping Sister Airi don and doff her power armour has resulted in her and Fabricator Acetae developing Salty, a powered exo-suit. The floating auto-butchers also inspired her to start building a collection of specialised Servo-Skulls she has dubbed the Skull Swarm.

Salty

Fabricator Acetae does not have the facilitates and resources necessary to create a suit of power armour. However when asked about it by Acid he did suggest that less advanced Xenos Tau use Battlesuits in place of power armour, and given how small Acid is, he would be able to produce something similar. Michael approved the project on the condition that it is not called a Crisis Suit or uses any other Tau terminology, that is does not end up looking anything like a Tau suit, and that it does not use any of the Xenos technology recovered from On the Trail of T’ractors.

A necessary part of this suit was Acid having a spinal nerve shunt surgically implanted at the base of her skull. This was a serious and moderately risk procedure that Acid was somewhat uncertain about, but eventually went ahead with given the other possible benefits she could gain from it.

Acid has dubbed the suit "Salty" and it is currently armed with a flamer and a stub carbine. It has not yet seen combat, although she was using it during The Rosa Effect. She mounts the suit from above where the armour can slide open to reveal a cramp compartment between the reactor and the shoulder motivators. There is a small controller on the rear of the suit that can be used to issue the suit basic commands, mostly used to open and close the suit from the outside.

Skull Swarm

Having seen the efficacy of a swarm of scalpel armed drones, Acid has been collecting and modifying Servo-Skulls to form what she called the Skull Swarm. So far the swarm consists of:

Esme - Telepresence, good optics, speaker, screen.
Konni - Data connection, high bandwidth transmitter.
Audrey - Auspex
Inara - Infrascope
Penny - Plasma Cutter
Sue 2 - Plasma Grenade (destroys skull on use)
Debbie - Web Pistol
Larry - Laspistol
Simon - Silenced Stub Pistol

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 Fabricator Acetae does not have the facilitates and resources necessary to create a suit of power armour.  However when asked about it by Acid he did suggest that less advanced Xenos [https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tau Tau] use [https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Battlesuit Battlesuits] in place of power armour, and given how small Acid is, he would be able to produce something similar.  Michael approved the project on the condition that it is not called a Crisis Suit or uses any other Tau terminology, that is does not end up looking anything like a Tau suit, and that it does not use any of the Xenos technology recovered from [[On the Trail of T’ractors]].
-A necessary part of this suit would be acid having a spinal nerve shunt surgically implanted at the base of her skull.  This was a serious and moderately risk procedure that Acid was somewhat uncertain about, but eventually went ahead with giovent he other possible benefits she could gain from it.
+A necessary part of this suit was Acid having a spinal nerve shunt surgically implanted at the base of her skull.  This was a serious and moderately risk procedure that Acid was somewhat uncertain about, but eventually went ahead with given the other possible benefits she could gain from it.
-Currently the development of the suit Acid has dubbed "Salty" is underway.
+Acid has dubbed the suit "Salty" and it is currently armed with a flamer and a stub carbine.  It has not yet seen combat, although she was using it during [[The Rosa Effect]].  She mounts the suit from above where the armour can slide open to reveal a cramp compartment between the reactor and the shoulder motivators.  There is a small controller on the rear of the suit that can be used to issue the suit basic commands, mostly used to open and close the suit from the outside.
 ==Skull Swarm==

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