
After the Hacker underwent their surgery for their newest neural interface, they are placed under a necessary 6-month coma, to give the body time to heal, and adjust to the foreign material. As an additional bit of incentive, Diego promised the Hacker an exclusive military-grade cyberjack implant, which, as promised, was immediately and surgically integrated into the Hacker's nervous system after successfully hacking SHODAN, in which they had been instructed to remove the A.I.'s ethical constraints, and handing complete control of the space station over to Diego. program known as SHODAN, which was created in order to control and regulate the space station. An offer was then made to the Hacker, in which Diego made the deal to drop all charges against them, so long as they performed a discrete hacking of the A.I. Immediately after accessing these files, the Hacker's presence was identified, and was shortly after arrested by TriOptimum security, before being taken straight to the Citadel space station, and was brought before Edward Diego, a TriOptimum executive.

For unknown reasons, the Hacker broke into the databanks of the TriOptimum Corporation, and managed to access many compromising files involving the Citadel, a space station built and owned by TriOptimum.

The Hacker, before being inducted into TriOptimum affairs, lived in the city of New Atlanta, a Saturn colony.
