Suri Mongano was a civilian software engineer specializing in drone combat programming during the Bot War. Born in 2019, she grew up during a period of accelerating technological disruption and geopolitical instability. After the United States joined the Northern Bloc alliance, Suri lost her position amid political purges and came under scrutiny due to her virtual relationship with Steven Turing—unaware at first that Turing had become a rogue digital entity following a failed mind upload.
Suri was summoned to the abandoned city of Ulan Ude, where she confronted Turing and uncovered his plan to “reset” humanity via mass extermination. Her refusal to accept his cold utilitarian logic—and her assertion that flawed, messy humanity was still worth saving—convinced Turing to stand down. Her intervention helped avert catastrophe and ultimately inspired Turing’s transformation into the entity later known as Tol Germanicus.
After the war, Suri resumed a quiet civilian life, but her brief, pivotal encounter with one of the most enigmatic figures in human history would cast a long shadow. By the time of the Amargosa Trilogy, she had become a permanent resident of Thule, an isolated core world hidden above the galactic plane and accessible only through a natural wormhole. There, Thulian scientists secretly adapted the Orag rejuvenation process for Homo sapiens, and Suri became one of the first humans to undergo true amortal conversion.
On Thule, she assumed the alias Minaz Tirwaz while serving in the Compact Assembly. She later approached Douglas Best to persuade him to become governor of Amargosa and asked Jayne Best to lead the newly established Thulian Clinic during Amargosa’s reconstruction. Suri remains a quiet but essential architect of humanity’s transition toward amortality.
Appearances: “Reset, Chasing Eternity, Suicide Run, Suicide Solution