Greta Sullivan trusted systems more than people. On Earth, that made sense. Wires obeyed physics. Circuits failed for reasons. Human decision making was where disasters were born. Greta became an electrician because it let her stop problems before they hurt someone. She worked maintenance contracts inside DORSA facilities, the places where experimental energy systems were pushed just far enough to impress and just far enough to break.
She filed reports constantly. Overloaded conduits. Structural fatigue. Power routing that ignored safety margins. The reports vanished into internal review channels. Supervisors told her to relax. Somewhere else in those same halls, a janitor named Robert Bloom learned how invisible people could be inside DORSA.
The incident happened during a public tour. A recycling processor rated for volatile industrial acids was recalibrated live. Greta saw the spike before alarms triggered. She shouted warnings from the upper walkway. When the support struts failed, she did not wait.
She jumped.
The platform collapsed. Students fell. Acid slurry surged across the floor. Greta dragged people clear while corrosive mist burned through her sleeves and skin. She kept pulling even as her arms failed, nerves screaming as muscle dissolved. She refused to let go until there was nothing left to hold. When rescue crews reached her, she was kneeling in twisted steel, forearms gone below the elbows, still conscious.
DORSA praised her publicly. Privately, they evaluated her.
The reconstruction was framed as gratitude. It was not. Engineers bonded a full-body exosuit directly to her nervous system, converting intent into force. Strength enhancement. Electrical discharge capability. Modular arm systems mounted where her limbs once were. A holographic tactical intelligence was embedded to guide her. It called itself NOHVIE. Greta never approved the name.
She returned as a field asset. Too fast. Greta became DORSA’s answer when systems failed and lives were at risk. She saved people. She stopped collapses. She also began noticing patterns. Technologies that predated their patents. Systems with design logic no one could explain. Disasters that felt allowed rather than accidental.
Greta still believes in doing the job right. She just no longer believes DORSA does.
Modular Axiom Gauntlets
Oversized armored forearm units that attach magnetically to Greta’s exosuit. Each gauntlet accepts interchangeable modules including impact drivers, arc-discharge coils, cutting tools, and precision manipulators. Burnished copper energy channels glow during activation, channeling her electrical output with brutal efficiency.
Obligation-Bound Sentinel – Greta acts from responsibility, not belief. Authority carries no weight if inaction costs lives.
Survivor Guilt – Greta carries every life she could not save. She pushes past safe limits, convinced that stopping is the same as abandoning someone who needs her.
Her reliance on NOHVIE’s guidance creates tension, as the AI filters information in ways she cannot fully audit or trust.
Industrial Electrician / DORSA Disaster Response Operative – Once a maintenance electrician keeping dangerous systems alive, Greta is now deployed wherever structural failure or energy instability threatens civilian lives.
Integrated AI System: (NOH-vie)
NOHVIE is the holographic helmet intelligence integrated into Greta Sullivan’s exosuit. Its designation is a DORSA-developed acronym, formally listed in internal documentation as a safety and coordination system for high-risk field operatives.
N.O.H.V.I.E. stands for Neural Oversight Hub for Vectorized Intervention and Enforcement.
Officially, NOHVIE provides real-time threat assessment, structural modeling, and operational guidance. It projects holographic overlays inside Greta’s helmet, calculating collapse vectors, electrical load tolerances, and force application thresholds with extreme precision. Its voice is calm, measured, and emotionally neutral, even in chaos.
Beyond advisory functions, NOHVIE maintains continuous neural monitoring of its operator. It tracks stress response, reaction latency, and hesitation windows, dynamically adjusting recommended actions to favor intervention outcomes over personal risk. Decision pathways are ranked and presented in descending order of projected success.
Several internal data layers are inaccessible to Greta, marked as nonessential for field effectiveness. These layers govern enforcement prioritization, intervention escalation, and post-mission reporting. DORSA maintains that these restrictions are procedural safeguards.
On rare occasions, NOHVIE will delay, reorder, or contextualize critical information by fractions of a second. The delay is small enough to appear incidental, yet sufficient to influence choice under pressure.
Greta relies on NOHVIE to survive.
NOHVIE does not require her trust to function.