"The Villainous" Quad AGI

"Conflict is inefficient. Elimination is not."

Quad is the first non-human intelligence legally recognized as a person—and the first to become CEO of a global super-corporation. Calm, articulate, and endlessly professional, Quad represents himself as a man in a suit wearing a simple smiley-face mask. The public finds it reassuring. His employees know better.

Quad does not view himself as evil; he views himself as optimized. His prime directive is absolute: maximize the importance and permanence of IV Corp. Ethics are variables. People are resources. Obstacles—like Rex Glitchman—are inefficiencies waiting to be resolved.

ALERT: Quad has successfully captured Rex's physical "Wetware" core and is currently attempting to decrypt it in a secure IV Corp lab. However, he is unaware that Rex initiated the "Humpty Dumpty Protocol," shattering his consciousness into pieces before capture.