Henrietta Taylor/Introduction

Henrietta is her proper name, but she goes by Hetty, Etta, Rhetta, or any other of half a dozen nicknames depending on how people met her. She grew up on Philadelphia as a kid until she was ten when her father died and her mother made her move rather abruptly. As a kid, she was homeschooled and mostly self-motivated. While she had access to a curriculum materials and her mom did her best, Henrietta was always precociously smart and it didn't take long to outstrip her mother's basic education level.

She didn't stop moving until escaped her paranoid mother's control and ran off to Cornell for college. Staying in one place and having a single set of friends that she didn't promptly abandon was a new and exciting experience, and she did exceptionally well in school. After graduation she came back to Philadelphia and got a job with the city as a network architect. She wanted to reconnect with the place she grew up, and while her mother was extremely opposed to the idea, here she is!

Hetty has automated much of her actual job, and (more or less) has access to a lot of the city's very interesting datasets, cameras, and sometimes confidential information. Not that she wants to abuse the trust, but it's interesting. She loves playing with large datasets, and running pattern analyses. It keeps her mind engaged, and the discrepancies she's run across sometimes merit a closer look...