Emi Yuen, esq.

The New Bablyon-based law firm Zhong, Peng, and Yuen lists a page in memorium for two employees, Emi Yuen and Abdiqadir Qadira. It details the harrowing experience of an immigration advocate and their assistant in the field. The two of them died trying to emigrate religious minorities, to avoid persecution by the Chinese government and the state-sanctioned Christianity sect, the Three Self Church.

If you ask around the Chinese expatriot community, they'll tell you that the memorium exists for Emi's protection. She is alive and doing what she needs to. They still insist on calling their church a house church, and Emi still shows up once every couple of months, when she is in town. She's near the back, but she's singing and praying and thinking as you'd expect a nice Christian girl to do.

Plot Hooks: My two dads - Anyone within either covenant would know that Emi represents an intentional cross-faction initiative between Director Roberts and Bishop Li. The goal seems to be finding the areas where religious authority and mortal power intersect. Given her background in immigration law, the conversations have bent in that direction. Rumor has it that Director Roberts was involved in Emi's development before she was sired, which would be extremely unorthodox.

The Uyghur - As you might expect, Abdiqadir Qadira is also still moving. He served as an international troubleshooter for Emi's law firm. In his normal operations, Asian immigrants filter through Canadian ports such as Victoria or Vancouver, before being brought fully into the US. Both he and Emi have spent some time in Canada as part of this work.

The problem at hand - Because immigration proceedings are recorded, a great deal of Emi's professional positions can be recovered. Her work in court often takes a surprisingly theosophical bent. She spends a great deal of time talking about personal destiny and the nation's soul. It seems likely that her skillset will be used to investigate aspects of the God Machine, when the time comes. That is, if anyone wants to talk about it at all.