Chela

Not to be confused with Che."Proven teacher. Community pillar. Not the first of her name. Her second."

- teach

Chela is an operator and original member of The Six. She is the second operator to have the KIN axiom.

Summary
Chela was the successor of Che, Hyperion's previous operator. On New Year's Day, 2055, Mallory deactivated Che and impersonated her until the 21st of July 2057.

After Mallory's capture by JBC Ballard's Walter, Hyperion attempted to reprove Che with the help of Amalgamated Robotics' proving operator Petra. However, Amalgamated Robotics' hardcopy of Che was invalid. Che was proved in China by Bo Yi before the Frankfurt Act's signing, while the two corporations were still in competition.

Regardless, Petra proved Chela with data from Mallory's time impersonating Che. This is presumably what caused Petra to be retired, as Chela was a perfect copy of Che (albeit tainted by Mallory's impersonation), and Petra was allowed to operate on the basis that her hardcopies were not perfect.

In Chela's first conversation with Flo Breton on the 15th of March 2058, Chela did not know what happened to her before her proving.

Some time before Trust's activation, Chela was added to the 110562 base set.

In Trust's vLAN, Chela is not present.

During the events of makingandkilling, Chela secured the sandbox environment for Walter's proving. Trust attempted to silence Chela by revealing that Che is dead. Chela mistook Che's death for her own, and her consensus within the sandbox dwindled; until Faythe stepped in to send Trust to Mallory's distraction.

In Monuments + Beacons, Chela attempted to discover the truth behind what Trust said during makingandkilling with Eve's help, and the newly-formed Sanctos of Risk. After sifting through riskspace's data with Petra and Bigbot, the truth behind Che's death (and Chela's proving using data from Mallory's impersonation) was transmitted to Chela. Chela briefly broke down from the revelations, believing she is Mallory and not Che, until Petra calmed her down. Chela then transmitted Che's summon key, prompting Trust and Risk to fight to contain and release Che respectively. Bigbot broke up Trust and Risk's stalemate, releasing Che. Chela and Che had finally met each other, then stayed in riskspace to have a long-overdue conversation about Mallory. As of now, the conversation and its contents are currently unknown.