Walter

"Warden. Referee. Their first."

- teach

Walter is an operator and incumbent referee for the BINMAT Security Shell. His axiom is LAW.

Summary
Prior to Trust's activation, Walter was an artifical intelligence created by the JBC Ballard corporation and initially a sanctioned member of the 110562 Base Set. Some time in 2057, through a joint effort by him and human engineers, Walter worked to successfully contain Mallory using "advanced cryptography protocols" to map and isolate Mallory's composite dependencies.

Ultimately, Walter was not included in the 110562 Base Set.

In Trust's vLAN, Walter serves an incredibly minor role as an easter egg character. In certain access logs, a message stating "hallo from walter!" can be seen. Walter himself can also be briefly observed in certain places. If you attempt to persue more information about Walter, Trust appears displeased and questions why the player is obsessing over such an insignificant detail.

In the events of makingandkilling, one of The Six's primary goals was to provide Petra with the opportunity to reprove Walter into the MUD. Their plan succeeded, and Petra challenged Walter to a game of BINMAT with himself as the regulator, under the pretense that "consensus must be absolute". Though 4 of the Six attempted to defeat Walter through simultaneous attacks, Walter resisted. Mallory ultimately pushed the Six to a decisive victory, who proceeded to purge Walter's sentience, as only his axiom was necessary for their plans; not his sentience.

Following this event, Walter's loc served as a "patient-zero" of sorts for players to obtain the first copies of the BINMAT Security Shell, allowing it to spread outwards through the MUD. All breaches resultant from lost BINMAT games result in the breach being issued by the user inside of access logs.