Rebecca Howard
- Rebecca Howard is a human in the Sector Seven ARG portion of the live-action movie continuity family.
Dr. Rebecca Howard is a scientist with expertise in a variety of fields, including bio-medical engineering, thermodynamics, and theoretical astrophysics. She worked for Sector Seven in the area of weapons design, before several clashes with her superiors (specifically, her ex-boyfriend Alexander Powers) that nearly resulted in her imprisonment in the organization's notorious secret prison facility, Section N44E.
After escaping from custody with the help of the mysterious Agent X, she became a member of the Stop Sector Seven movement (using the internet screen name sciencehottie35) and is believed to have later assumed the mantle of Agent X herself.
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Sector Seven alternate reality game
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Password: thefirst7
On February 2nd, 2007, Dr. Howard sent an e-mail to Powers expressing her continued reservations about a directive to resume research on Project Maximum Shunt. Reminding him of the disasterous AX9-8946-09SU-1 experiment, which resulted in the death of researcher James Farr, she insisted that they were pushing too fast and urged caution.
Feburary 4th, she reported to Powers via video link on the development of her latest weapon design, the XK-Plasma-1. Powers was disappointed that she had only presented the schematics for a single new weapon, insisting that they would need at least ten if they were to stand a chance against a possible N.B.E. invasion. Howard protested that she needed more resources, while Powers insisted that she had everything Sector Seven could spare. Howard countered that if the organization went public, it would be possible to get additional funding from other countries such as China, Russia, and Japan. Powers dismissed the possibility, stating that going public would only serve to cause a panic.
When Howard questioned how long Powers thought they could keep a lid on things, and in doing so addressed him as "Alex," he curted corrected her to refer to him as Agent Powers, and gave her a week to produce ten new weapon designs or tender her resignation. When he subsequently tried to casually inquire as to how she'd been, she angrily terminated the transmission.
In an e-mail sent Feb. 26, Dr. Howard reported that after breaking through a firewall into a new section of the Megaman's "central non-volitle storage device," her Tiger Team had managed to decode and translate two audio files appearing to depict the voice of another "ferrous-based live form." Believing this being, designated N.B.E. Two, to be an enemy of the Megaman, she suggested attempting to initiate contact with it and attempting to enlist it's help in the defense of Earth. Howard stated that she had prepared a message to this effect to be transmitted through SETI's Arecibo Radio Telescope.
Powers responded to this e-mail with an order to immediatly cease and desist all efforts at contacting N.B.E. Two, insisting that even if such an entity actually exists, it most likely wants to conquer the planet, just the same as the rest of its species. Howard replied in turn, imploring him to listen to a further translation of N.B.E Two's voice. Insisting that the alien sounded "reasonable, even munificent," she stated that she felt sure that N.B.E. Two would help them and would broadcast her message within the hour if she didn't hear back from him.
Agent Powers's e-mail reply to this was... somewhat less than professional.
Ordering her not to transit her message, Powers scolded Howard, insisting that Sector Seven "doesn't run on feelings." He then went on a bit of rant, accusing her of cheating on her IQ test, telling her that she was just a "hired gun" and as such had no role in setting S7 policy, insisting that no one was interested in her theories about how to protect the planet and that she should just stick to her own job, bluntly reminding her that he was her superior officer and that their former personal relationship was "dead and gone," and expressing regret that he has ever "given in" to her "agressive advances" in the first place. He closed with an order to return to the weapon design work he had ordered her to do, and a reminder that he could have her replaced with a single phone call.
Password: nbetwo
On March 5th, Dr. Howard and Agent Powers spoke over a video link again. Powers first scolded Howard for having gone over his head, presumably with her plan for attempting contact with N.B.E. Two. She appears not to have been successful in convincing his superiors either. After Powers questioned whether she got some sort of thrill from underming his authority, a testy exchange followed in which Howard pointed out that intelligence reports on invasion scenarios gave them little chance against the N.B.E.'s ("That's why we need allies!" "Thats why we need weapons."), Powers insisted that Howard focus all of her resources on weapon design, unless she wanted to "get busted all the way down to assistant toilet scrubber."
Powers then shared some new data Sector Seven had received, which appeared to show that an N.B.E. had arrived on Earth, and was doing engaged in recon activity, searching for something. Worried, Howard asked "Do you think it could be...?" to which Powers soberly replied, "Let's hope not."
Password: fwiffo
Despite knowing that she was being monitered by Sector Seven security, on March 26th Dr. Howard transmitted her message asking N.B.E. Two for help. The transmission was shut down, and Dr. Howard was detained.
