Hana Gitelman

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #11 Feb 2018 04:15

Summary

Name Hana Gitelman Aliases Wireless, Nambiza Kiran Apila (K.Apila) Status Registered Expressive (Class C Mental) (MIL, INST) Ability Technopathy Gender Female Birthdate June 19, 1979 Age 39 Height 5' 9" Build Athletic Eyes Brown Hair Brown Residence Wolfhound Command, Rochester, NY Employment Wolfhound Parents Zahava Gitelman Joshua Gitelman Siblings David Rooijker (maternal uncle) Marital Status (not) in a relationship Children Noa Gitelman (posthumously, in another timeline) T.Amas (after a fashion) First Scene A Strange Set of Circumstances Last Scene Profile Former founder of the Ferrymen and nominal war hero, Hana is now commander of the Wolfhound private military company, a hunter of fugitives from law and justice, and also the wearer of a number of technopath hats (so to speak).

portrayed by Stana Katic

Background

Psych Profile

Evolved Ability

Wireless Communication

Hana is a technopath with specific affinity for radio communications. Her perception spans from High Frequency up through Extremely High Frequency radio bands, thus including the vast majority of radio, cellular, and satellite communications. With regard to digital communications in particular, her reception range is global and extends into orbit; Hana continually receives all wireless communications transmitted around the world, including emails, IMs, cellphone calls, text messages, and packets of Internet data — if information hits global airwaves, she probably hears it. She may not consciously notice it, but her ability picks it up. Hana is herself able to transmit over the same range, although she most often simply leverages the ability of networks to route signals; in other words, she specifies her target and lets the existing network do the heavy lifting. Still, Hana has the capacity for two-way communication even with satellites tens of thousands of miles above the Earth's surface — or with systems ten thousand miles away on the far side of the world.

That said, Hana's sensitivity is adversely affected by distance and by the density of wireless traffic around her. Any kind of data transmission or retrieval — any engagement with computer systems beyond the simple sending/receipt of messages — generally requires a high-quality signal (e.g. being in the same building), or else that she access it through a networked intermediary with good connection. If Hana is somewhere with few competing wireless signals, then the need for proximity is significantly reduced. In that respect, the post-war degradation of US infrastructure is a great boon to her ability, and Wolfhound's base in particular was sited with an eye to the (deficit in) local wireless noise. However, to actively engage with systems at the limits of her range, she needs to be somewhere even quieter — such as in the desolate Arctic or out on the ocean.

Hana is able to directly interface with any computer that has wireless communications capacity; even just a wireless keyboard or mouse can be enough to allow her into a system, although given the short range of those peripherals, she needs to be quite close to take advantage of that exploit. For systems connected to the Internet, or to a local network, she needs only have access to one networked computer to reach them all. In this way, she can access even a computer connected by dial-up modem, because the Internet in its entirety is just as much her playground as cellular communications. Conversely, systems that have no connection whatsoever to the greater world are completely proof against her ability.

Digital Entity

In addition to communicating with networked systems, Hana is able to project herself into cyberspace as a digital entity. In this situation, she exists as just as much a construct of code as the network supporting her. She also interacts directly with code at a fundamental level, bypassing niceties such as programming language and getting straight to the heart of what it does and how. This understanding is born partly of her ability, partly from years of experience poking around systems including those of the government and the Company, and partly due to more recent self-education on the underpinnings of computer science. As with most cases of projection, Hana's awareness of her body is minimal to nonexistent; depending on the degree of effort she's putting forth, Hana may hear things addressed to her, may be startled by sudden and striking events, or may be completely unaware of what's going on in the physical realm. Notably, Hana is able to 'dissolve' her digital projection and revert to her body almost immediately, albeit not painlessly; this also occurs if the system hosting her is abruptly powered down. However, if the system she's infiltrated has its network access severed, she becomes trapped in it until some connection is reinstated.

Digital Security

Hana's ability allows her to interact with computer systems, and it helps with her discernment of the purpose of a given piece of code, but it does not provide her any inherent ability to break encryption, firewalls, or other digital security measures. She has some other advantages, ranging from the simple fact of direct and intimate interaction to past experience dealing with a variety of such systems, but still must work through whatever obstacle is in her way.

Similarly, given that she exists with one figurative foot in the biological realm and the other in cyberspace, Hana is vulnerable to certain kinds of viruses and other antagonistic programs. The vast majority are simple things not intended to go against a living computer, and so have the same negligible effect on her as plant viruses do on a human host. What poses a threat to Hana are systems explicitly intended and designed to counter technopaths. Even those she has some capacity to recognize, weaken, and counter — but a technopathic virus designed with lethal intent could be exactly that, fatal. The precise consequences of exposure to any given virus depend on IC circumstances.

Radio Communication

Hana is sensitive to radio bands from the High Frequency range on up. Among other things, this includes most shortwave, CB, FM, marine radio, aircraft communications, many (but not all) amateur radio frequencies, two-way radio (e.g. walkie-talkies), satellite radio, and even microwave radio relays. Notably, AM frequencies (LF, MF) and the very low frequencies used for submarine communication are outside her range.

Digitally modulated radio behaves for Hana much the same as do cyber communications. Broadcast signals, Hana perceives from around the world just as she does cellular communications; this category primarily includes digital television signals, satellite radio, and a subset of land-based broadcasting stations. For lower-powered digital radio transmitters — which includes some cordless phones, newer portable radios, and combat net radios used by US and allied militaries — Hana's effective range depends upon the power of the system in question and the frequencies used. These systems generally rely on FM (VHF) frequencies, which have a range limit of about 100 miles by atmospheric refraction. For digital radio systems intended to reach ground-to-air or otherwise transmit respectable distances (on the order of 50 watts in power), that 100 miles marks the absolute outer limit of Hana's range. For person-to-person systems, which do not project their signals anywhere near as strongly, her effective range is from 3 to 25 miles depending on terrain, transmitter power, and even relative altitude. Just as with cellular communications, her range is also negatively affected by the amount of wireless/radio background noise. Notably, because Hana is constantly receiving across the entire spectrum of her ability, frequency-hopping is useless as a security tactic against her.

Older portable radios are usually analog systems, may use HF, VHF, or (most commonly) UHF frequencies, and are typically limited to 2 watts or less in power. Their maximum theoretical range is about 40 miles given a mountaintop and a clear line to the horizon; in practice, the outside limit is more like 5 miles. Due to the less-robust nature of analog signals and the fact that they are handled less readily by Hana's ability, her practical limit is about 75% that of the system's theoretical maximum — so 30 miles in the best-case scenario, about 3.5 miles in more typical circumstances. As above, that range is further constrained by local terrain, transmitter power, and background noise.

Other analog radio applications within Hana's scope include many FM radio stations, analog TV broadcasts, and most amateur radio. For broadcasts of this sort, she is similarly limited to 75% of the normal receiving range of the signal.

In all cases, Hana is able to transmit to a given radio over the same distance for which she can perceive a signal from it — potentially globally for digital signals, and much more locally for analog signals. She is further able to either broadcast or target her transmissions by direction. In the context of radio, she is solely able to send/receive transmissions; there is no radio equivalent of cyberspace, and other practical applications of radiowaves such as radar are outside her expertise. Such applications may or may not be beyond her capability, but she has yet to develop them.

prior page: Hana

Appendices

Trivia and Notes

• As of mid-2014, Hana has dual citizenship: native Israel, naturalized U.S.

Notoriety

Having testified for the war crimes tribunal, Hana is to her great dismay known as one of the founders of the Ferry. Given that the vast majority of Ferrymen only knew her as 'Wireless,' subsequent interviews and publications have firmly entrenched that identity in the public consciousness rather than her legal name. In the years since, Hana has done her best to keep her face and name out of the Ferry-associated limelight, helping reduce the associations between herself and 'Wireless', reinforcing the Ferry's technopath as a distant, faceless entity that almost nobody ever met. Also, while Wireless is known as a technopath, she has not made public the particulars of her ability, and again this is something the vast majority of the Ferry did not know. On the other hand, that guardedness has left the subject wide open for the general public to speculate and invent.

Identities

• Wireless: Publicly known as Ferry founder and technopath. Hana does not routinely use this name anymore, although former Ferry contacts and some others still refer to her by it. Wireless can be considered a legacy resistance identity, and is distinct from her role with Wolfhound.
  
• Nambiza: Wolfhound codename. This handle is not used outside of the Wolfhound operational context and as such is not well-known.
  Note: As of Apr 3, 2019, 'Nambiza' no longer functions as a digital address; no phone or system recognizes it as an acceptable recipient to connect to.
  
• Kiran Apila (K.Apila): Kiran Apila is a digital presence established from 2014 forward, and is a neutral identity through which Hana interacts remotely and otherwise anonymously with the greater part of cyberspace and radio communications.

Physical Marks

• "Tattoo" of two parallel black lines on the left side of her neck, behind shoulder
• Scar (bullet graze) angling up left side of forehead; may at times be concealed

Skills

Note: Some relatively incidental competencies, such as driving and mentoring, were left out for sake of not making this longer.

Martial

Although firearms are the more practical in most situations, Hana has a fondness for the very physical and personal nature of martial arts; they have been a cornerstone of her skillset for twenty years now. Her formal training is in Krav Maga and Aikido, but she has had a great deal of opportunity to pick up stray techniques along the way — particularly as Hana relates best to others in the context of physical action and challenge. She also has a distinct preference for knives, as close-quarters weapons that are readily obtainable, easily concealed, and don't run out of ammunition. Finally, as the need's increased for Hana to make business and social appearances — to deal with circles where guns and knives are frowned upon — she has been practicing more with improvised weapons, just in case.

Firearms

Hana is expert with firearms (>90% accuracy across a variety of scenarios) ranging from pistols through carbines to rifles and at both close and medium ranges as befits the weapon in question. She is capable with submachine guns and can handle machine guns or shoulder-launched missiles when necessary, but rates lower in all those categories. She pursued sniper training with the Mossad as part of (futilely) attempting to prove her aptitude for field assignment, and continues to practice that skill because it is eminently useful. As a sniper, Hana is accustomed to working alone rather than with a spotter.

Expedient Aid

Due to her military background, Hana has the equivalent skill of an EMT plus training in battlefield medicine. She let those certifications lapse between her departure from the Company and the civil war, but as of 2014 has recertified and since kept up with refresher courses, including training to the US Tactical Combat Casualty Care standard.

Survival

Canonically, Hana can survive in the desert with a half ration of water and a full pack; during her time with the Company, she was similarly dumped in the Alaskan snow in the hopes of forcing her manifestation. Many principles concerning shelter, water, and food in those environments also apply to the more temperate climes of the continental US, and the chaos of the civil war in particular gave her some opportunities to dust off this skillset. She also periodically drags the Wolfhound teams out on multi-day excursions into the wilds of upstate New York — or sends them on an excursion while playing shadow — because it's good practice.

Intel Gathering

Hana had some cursory training in infiltration and human intelligence with Mossad as background to her analyst role, but no field experience. Rather, this expertise she acquired from her brief time with the Company, further training with Noah, and her own interests and endeavors in years since. In particular, Hana has doubled down on disguise and subterfuge since 2014 and the consequent general interest in a Ferry founder and war hero. This encompasses constructing, dressing, and acting according to a persona and making use of hairstyle, makeup, adopting a different mien, and other details such that she no longer looks like Hana Gitelman is expected to.

Hana is also capable at surveillance, both of the stakeout and active following varieties, and has a pretty good ability to discern when she's being surveilled in turn.

Of course, direct personal action is the least of Hana's intelligence aptitudes. Courtesy of her ability, she can easily access the contents of any filesystem associated with a computer that has some manner of wireless interface or is networked with another system that does (including via Internet). Once in, she may freely read and manipulate any data on the system, including making system edits to cover her own tracks. Encrypted or otherwise secured data, she cannot innately crack but has to take time to decipher; see ability section.

Finally, again via her ability, Hana technically 'hears' all communications worldwide that are passed wirelessly at some point during their transit, including all cellphone- and satphone-mediated exchanges. This is a pretty significant advantage in terms of intel gathering, yet because of the sheer magnitude of information flying around out there, much of it passes beneath her conscious note. Certain keywords, known idiosyncratic patterns of word usage, and familiar voiceprints will draw her attention. In particular, if one end of such an exchange is in geographic proximity (say a couple dozen miles), it's highly unlikely she'll miss it. Hana can also turn deliberate attention to a distant area and subject its wireless traffic to dedicated scrutiny, but that's only effective if a communication of interest happens during that period.

Intel Analysis

Canonically, Hana was a brilliant analyst for Mossad who at her best could determine an enemy's moves "almost before they did". Her role included identifying weaknesses, plotting strategies, and planning attacks. Notably, she largely avoids the major cognitive traps of analysis — expecting the enemy to think like she does, becoming fixated on pet hypotheses, and continuing to rely on analogies that have outlived their usefulness. She is good at stepping back and looking impartially at the data, teasing out trends, disregarding deceptive elements, and realigning her preconceptions as initially fragmentary information becomes more filled-out. Of course, no analyst is better than the information they have, thus intel gathering is always a limiting step.

Company Training

Due to her past history with the Company, and particularly her long association with Noah Bennet, Hana possesses some information and expertise that had been routinely taught to their agents. This includes the capabilities and limits of the (defunct) isotope tracking system, rubrics for evaluating and estimating the potential capabilities of other unknown Evolved, strategic planning for confronting and containing/countering Evolved abilities, and methods for resisting telepathic interrogation. In terms of factual knowledge, much of this expertise is long since irrelevant, but the foundation and techniques remain part of Hana's skillset.

Flying

With the civil war theatre being so very extensive, and ground travel particularly fraught during the interim, Hana took up flying in 2012 in the interest of getting herself and her squad wherever she felt most necessary. In the years since, she has significantly expanded this skillset in support of Wolfhound's ongoing activities. She currently holds private pilot certificates with instrument ratings in single-engine airplanes and helicoptors, and has upgraded to a commercial pilot certificate for multi-engine airplanes. Specific to the X-52 Rook, she also holds an experimental aircraft authorization, pursued advanced and tactical flight training, and has recently become certified as an instructor. Since completing tactical training in 2015, Hana has kept her skill up by occasionally contracting through the service she trained with to fly an adversary role in military training scenarios.

Computer Science

Despite her ability, Hana did not take much interest in the science of computers until she was required to deconstruct Rebel in November 2010. In the wake of that event, she began to make a serious study of electronics, computer architecture, and how information and programs are managed by computer systems. As her initial goal was to rebuild Rebel, Hana has focused on esoteric aspects such as the relationship between programs and the underlying machine-language system, information theory, digital representations of complex and interdependent information, and ultimately the interactions and relationships of technopaths with computer systems. These days, she also has a vested interest in understanding herself, deciphering the arcane details of certain aspects of her ability. This self-education has had the bonus effect of improving her ability to comprehend and manipulate computer programs and systems at the machine-language level. The main takeaway, though, is that Hana has very extensive practical understanding of technopaths, their digital representations, and how they interface with systems and software.

Digital Tools

Over the years since her manifestation and subsequent trawling through cyberspace, Hana has acquired many potentially useful pieces of code. These range from governmental and often clandestine utilities, like the NSA's voiceprint analysis software, through security measures cribbed from the Company to parts of the technopath virus that nearly killed her and catalyzed Rebel's amalgamation. From her crusade to rebuild Rebel, Hana also has intimate familiarity with the digital representations of 3.5 technopaths — herself, D.Crypt, the Picasso fragments of Rebel, and another peculiar curiosity. Not really being a programmer or system administrator herself, Hana doesn't make use of these things on a routine basis, but she has them as references to draw upon when she does need to crib something together — such as the constructs used to dismantle Rebel, or digital security measures for Wolfhound.

Business

Hana has become a businessperson essentially by default — first running Wolfhound as a squad during the civil war, which came naturally enough, but then going on to formally incorporate it and run it as a private military company. This necessitated a whole new level of familiarity with and management of revenue flow, logistics, bureaucracy, taxes, laws, and even aspects of politics — for a country not the one of her raising, at that. While she assigned Epstein point on much of the logistics and paperwork, Hana is capable of handling all the associated duties herself — and has in fact done so since that idiot went and got himself imprisoned.

Languages

Hana is fully fluent in Hebrew and English, and furthermore is able to control the degree of accent she presents in either language. She is also fluent in Arabic and Farsi from her time as a Mossad analyst, but speaks those with definite accent. Hana has made a hobby of Sanskrit in recent years for purely personal reasons; she is conversant at about the level of a middle-schooler, albeit one with a distinctly philosophical bent.

Calligraphy

The requisite incidental skill. Hana has taken up calligraphy as of around 2014. Her hand is more serviceable than artistic, but writing in straight lines across unmarked paper poses no issue.

Relationships

Pending reconstruction.

Timeline

continued from Book One

Prologue
01/28/12	Orpheus II	Hana continues her effort to reconstruct something lost.	Hana
07/17/12	Breakout	A Loyalist prison convoy finds itself with an unexpected complication.	Colette, Hana, Scott
08/24/12	Values	Alister and Hana disagree on points of value and appropriate conduct.	Alister, Colette, Hana
2014-2017	Swords and Plowshares	Wireless still isn't talking to Bennet, but in the years after the war, Hana and Noah nonetheless correspond.	Hana, Noah
06/17/17	Operation High Road, Part I	Wolfhound assaults a facility belonging to the former Institute in pursuit of Howard LeMay. In the command center, Hana discovers unexpected company.	Colin, Dearing, Hana, LeMay, Rue
06/19/17	One of the Pack	Two days after the successful execution of Operation High Road, Wolfhound celebrates their victory.	Adel, Avi, Berlin, Claire, Colette, Curtis, Dearing, Devon, Francois, Hana, Huruma, Logan, Lucille, Noa, Rue, Scott
07/06/17	Nachala	Reflections upon loss, love, fate, and the legacies left behind for the living to fulfill.	Colette, Hana, Noa
11/08/17	If There Is An After	Colette's reckless actions meet the first of their consequences.	Avi, Colette, Hana
11/09/17	Damage Control	The Secretary of Homeland Security pays a visit regarding the debacle of the day before.	Hana, Vincent
01/16/18	Ground Rules	Hana informs the teams of their new associate — and how to behave around her.	Adel, Berlin, Curtis, Devon, Hana, Noa, Rue, and all Wolfhound except Colette
	Impeccable	Rue and Hana have a personal conversation about personal issues with the incoming observer.	Hana, Rue
01/17/18	Further Consequences	Epstein makes a confession and complicates Hana's life even more.	Avi, Hana
01/20/18	Different Stories	Hana seeks what confirmation she can get; it isn't much.	Gillian, Hana
01/22/18	Observe. Report. Coordinate.	Agent Quinn is picked up at the airport and brought into Wolfhound's home.	Hana, Robyn
Volume I: The Way Back
02/23/18	A Strange Set of Circumstances	Berlin brings a fortuitous find to Wolfhound's analyst.	Berlin, Hana
	Skycastle, Part I	Two pieces of intel are reunited and a next destination identified.	Avi, Hana, Rue
03/15/18	A Little Side Business	Claire and Devon are sent to lay groundwork for a possible lead.	Claire, Devon, Hana
03/28/18	Intentions and Assurances	Hana confronts Eve about her knowledge of and interest in Looking Glass.	Eve, Hana
03/29/18	Ghosts in Print	A need to investigate dead men walking is brought to Hana's attention.	Claire, Hana
03/30/18	Windows and Doors	Hana learns about Mateo's ability and receives another breadcrumb concerning Looking Glass.	Hana, Lynette, Mateo
04/06/18	What Are You Wearing?	A little chat in advance of social event.	Hana, Logan
04/07/18	A Celebration of History - Entrance	Hana makes an appearance at a charity gala and collides with Alister, figuratively speaking.	many
	A Celebration of History - Water Garden	Hana speaks with SESA's local directors; also with Logan.	many
	A Celebration of History - The Bar	There is wine, an agreement to meet, and a disaster narrowly averted.	many
	Leviathan	Hana makes an unexpected acquaintance. So does Jiba.	Hana, Jiba, T.Amas
04/11/18	Ongoing Concerns	Hana and Richard finally compare notes on… basically everything.	Hana, Richard
04/13/18	Levels of Hell	Hana and Director Kenner do the same.	Hana, Kenner
	Suspicion, Shared	Hana also brings an entirely different concern to Vincent's attention.	Hana, Vincent
04/23/18	Regarding A Curious Cat	Hana tracks down Otomo to talk about his pet.	Hana, Otomo
04/24/18	New, But Not New	Felix is welcomed to the Bunker.	Colette, Curtis, Felix, Hana, Lucille
04/28/18	Genesis	Hana is enlightened as to the identity and purpose of Jiba; Otomo is introduced to Tenzin.	Hana, Jiba, Otomo, T.Amas
04/29/18	Cross Purposes	Lynette is impossible.	Hana, Lynette, Vincent
05/24/18	Ozymandias, Part II	Hana disables a bomb and enables an interrogation.	Hana, Pierce, Vincent
05/31/18	Operation Geopoint, Part III	Strike Team Amarok moves on the Geopoint facility.	Avi, Curtis, Claire, Devon, Francois, Hana, Lucille, Robyn
06/03/18	The After	Colette declares intent and asks for aid.	Colette, Hana
06/06/18	Keeping Secrets	A shady meeting ends abruptly.	Avi, Eileen, Finn, Hana, Iago, Nick
06/16/18	The Value of a Name	Alister has a very personal problem. Hana strikes a deal.	Alister, Hana
06/19/18	Mi Shebeirach	Hana pays a visit to the comatose Otomo…	Hana
	Selah	…and on her way out, is waylaid to talk shop.	Hana, Leroy, Marlowe
	Shehecheyanu	A quiet birthday evening takes a turn for social disaster.	Berlin, Colette, Felix, Hana, Huruma, Lucille, Noa, Robyn
	Kavanah	Colette tries to apologize; Hana fails to accept.	Colette, Hana
06/20/18	The Subject of Impartiality	Agent Quinn conversely finds more equanimity than she expected.	Hana, Robyn
06/28/18	Three Part Harmony	Radio messages cross dimensional barriers.	Adel, Alia, Gillian, Hana, Kaylee, Luther, Noa, Richard, and Warren
07/05/18	Extrajudicial		Hana, Vincent
	Professional, Personal, Existential	Vincent and Hana visit a dive bar. Work only tags along partway.	Hana, Vincent
07/15/18	Insinuating	Colette and Hana talk about past, plans, and future.	Colette, Hana
07/22/18	Humanis Falls - Operation Ziptie		Adel, Berlin, Colette, Hana, Huruma, Noa, Vincent
07/24/18	The Court of Opinion	A memento of the past resurfaces and prompts discussion of reputation and justice.	Hana, Lance
10/04/18	Après Moi, Le Déluge		Avi, Berlin, Hana
	Obelisk		Avi, Hana
	What Do We Call You?		Avi, Berlin, Hana
10/28/18	Hypocupremia, Part I		Avi, Hana, Lucille, Ryans
12/08/18	Out of Hades		Asi, Hana, Jiba, Marlowe, Monica, Otomo, Richard
Volume I Coda
01/25/19			Hana, Lucille
02/05/19	Town Can Wait	Hana takes a vacation. With company.	Hana, Logan
02/07/19	Fear of Heights or Missing Out	Hana makes the most of her vacation. Logan supervises.	Hana, Logan
04/09/19	Chalal I	Hana wakes up somewhere unexpected.	Hana
	Chalal III	Retracing her steps, Hana finds more than she bargained for.	Hana and T.Amas
04/10/19	Chalal IV	A break is made with the old — or with the new.	Hana and T.Amas