First Appearance: 2099 Unlimited#5/2 (July, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: A computer expert specializing in software, she is an expert netglider, able to access even the most secure locations in cyberspace, with encryption and evasion skills rivaling if not surpassing the legendary Duke Stratosphere.

    She co-created the basis of every cyberspace interface used circa 2099 A.D.

    She wears glasses, although her specific vision deficit(s) is/are unrevealed.

History:
(2099 Unlimited#5/2 fb) - BTS) <Circa the 2090s> - Computer hardware ace Cyd was did freelance work for Alchemax, who wanted the research of the unidentified man who would become Duke Stratosphere, at the time a software programmer for Trans-National Technologies.

    Alchemax decided to put Cyd on the inside rather than take out the programmer.

(2099 Unlimited#5/2 fb)) - Cyd was brought in as "a hardware ace from the coast" to work with the not-yet-Duke Stratosphere programmer. Brilliant though he was, the administration knew this programmer needed a partner to focus his work.

    The programmer's supervisor introduced him to Cyd, advising him that she was going to work with him on the neurotech interface project.

    Cyd's functional design sense complemented and realized his theoretical programming. In a frenzy of inspiration, they spent every waking hour in the lab, unaware their passion for work was becoming a passion for each other.

    Together they created the basis of every cyberspace interface used at least as far in the future of 2099 A.D., notably a chip that translated the electronic pulse of cyberspace into direct cerebral stimulation.

    Playing in a cyberspace made more sensuously resolved thanks to their breakthrough technology, they fell in love.

    As of August 5^th of an unspecified year, they were young, successful and hopelessly smitten.

(2099 Unlimited#5/2 fb) - BTS) - However, on November 10^th of presumably that same year, Cyd was missing without any explanation when the future Duke returned home.

    The future Duke's superior told him that Cyd had been grabbed by a competitor in a head hunting raid.

    Devastated, the future Duke found no solace in the lab, which was a constant reminder of Cyd's absence. He doggedly searched the net, finding no clue to her whereabouts.

    Plunging into a deep depression, the future Duke believed that the Trans-National Technologies administration didn't want him to find Cyd, and so he faked his own death to escape his lifetime contract with Trans-Nash, obliterating all physical and electronic records of his corporate existence.

    After years of fruitlessly crisscrossing the globe in search of Cyd, the future Duke reluctantly abandoned his quest. Resigned to a life alone, he threw himself back into his neurotech research, eventually going beyond the work he and Cyd had begun at Trans-Nash. Developing the means to simultaneously operate and exist in both the real world and Cyberspace, he adopted the identity of Duke Stratosphere.

(2099 Unlimited#5/2 fb) - BTS) - Cyd figured that her former lover was the enigmatic Duke Stratosphere.