Cyberia Collectors’ Card #12 Keith

#12 Keith (also known as Comrade Keith)
A non-playable character who Keith works alongside in a nuclear bunker. His nickname is–would you believe it–Comuradical Kev.
Logo for the Cyberian Underground Insurgent Network Terrorists.
Some political stencil-style graffiti found in Keith’s file.

The CUINT elite team of hackers have some of the best Ubercomputers in what’s left of the world. These Ubercomputers are continuously tasked with keeping their organisation off the radar of the Cyberpigs and Council ghouls while trying to gain as much intel on thesse organisations. This is easier said than it sounds for a tiny hub of Ubercomputer nerds who, collectively, are as thick as pigshit.

Keith from the video game Neon Nights in Cyberia.

“Ever since I’ve read the Tao Te Ching, I feel at one with Mother Nature.” –Keith

District: Little Amsterdam

Occupation:  Data General for the Cyberian Underground Insurgent Network Terrorists (CUINT).

With so much social decay in Cyberia, Keith spends his days rallying against injustice. However, injustice in Cyberia is generally believed to be the corrupt and useless Cyberpigs, tech and data corporations, and the shadowy Cyberia Council which sits at the top of the food chain and which we have very little information

The CUINT is a clandestine guerrilla organisation which operates out of an underground nuclear bunker which was built during the Second Cold War. It can be found in operation somewhere in the Little Amsterdam district, tucked away inside an industrial site that no junkie ever bothers to visit. Of note: back whenever that cold period was, Little Amsterdam wasn’t the no-go district that it is today. Before society collapsed under the weight of corporate rule, it was actually the idyllic dream community where everyone said hello with a convincing  smile and crime was non-exist. Like the 1950s which some people still swoon over as if it was really that.

The CUINT Manifesto states that if these revolutionaries can somehow bring down the Cyberia Council, the rest of the rot will follow and then they can rapidly install a real democratic system like the one they used to have in the Anal-World whereby people had the privilege to turn up to tick a box every four or five years. In Cyberia they still get two choices: either live or die

For CUINT, however, this was a mammoth task. Even if they were to miraculously topple the powers that be, Cyberians have become one of the most apathetic and hostile civilisations in all of Sap history. The average Cyberian spends every waking minute hustling and bustling, and exploiting their neighbour so that they can get enough candy to eat a narrowing selection of insects. If afterwards they can pay for brushing their teeth it is considered a great day. But that all vanishes the moment they wakeup from nightmares knowing that it all begins again and again and again and then eventually they mess up and die an agonising death.

The CUINT hopes to turn this sorry state around and return to a more humane society. Everyone else believes it’s all just wishful thinking. If they were ever to have even a modicum of power, history teaches us that it’s just a matter of time before things get even worse than what they were before.

All of this is fluff anyway because life is finally going to get interesting for him.

Keith doesn’t know Scotch Mike, but Scotch Mike is aware of Keith. It appears that there’s a possibility for a broad alliance, but the self-appointed CUINT supreme leader Comrade Nasty and his thick twat sidekick Gibbo believe that until the Cyberia Council is liquidated everything else is just a waste of time. Put simply: they don’t want to risk prodding the caged animals known as megacorps too early.

With all this in mind, Keith is a zen master who isn’t afraid of doing what he thinks is right even if it makes him unpopular among his comrades. In fact he’s not happy with most of the other members who are beginning to show their true colours.

Scotch Mike and his soon-to-be mercenaries might be able to sway Keith and the CUINT to sign up to the main event. Or perhaps Comrade Nasty will accuse Keith of counterrevolutionary activities and arrest him for espionage. But a kick arse ally such as Scotch Mike will have his back every step of the way.

Biodata: 83

Preferred Weapon: Ego Death XII. A militarily grade rifle with exploding bullets.

Star sign: I’m a typical Aquarius who loves to meet new people. Especially in the swimming pool.


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