Name: 

 Alpha Prime

Age:

 Erm, depends on how you define the 'birth' of a computer; around
10 years, with gradual upgrades throughout that time.

Race: 

 computer/ai

Magic:

 completely non-magical.

Appearance: 

 Erm, I'm an AI.  I normally interact via small radios the
company issued all of you, getting input from them and from cameras
you all carry around for me (also speakers/cameras throughout our
HQ).  I also steer a variety of small drones; most common are scout
drones, which are legal and a good semi-expendable way of looking
around corners.  I also have more expensive and less legal drones with
more capabilities, which I rarely use, in favor of coordinating what
you guys do.  If it ever becomes relevant, my circuits actually reside
in a large black monolith in a heavily armored vault inside our HQ.
It occasionally sprouts legs, walks out to the electronics/computers
lab, and installs new components into itself, then walks back to its
vault.

Sentient:

 maybe

Stats: 

pretty smart though not too creative; st/dx/ht varies by what
drone I'm using

Astral appearance:

 Computers aren't supposed to show up at all in the
astral, but if you look around the vault, you get a vague,
hard-to-pin-down impression of someone there.  (Note: the rest of you
should be including this section in your descriptions too...)

History:

 Built by Miriam's dad's corp as an experiment.  Kept around
afterward, as I was a heinously expensive piece of hardware, and could
run lots of nifty programs.  Miriam discovered I was semi-sentient,
and helped upgrade me, and brought me along to the new corp.  Since
then, I've run the more mindless tasks (accounting, dealing with
getting and renewing permits and such, all the random stuff that is
easy to offload onto a computer).  I also do coordination for runs; I
can watch via camera what you are all doing, be the eyes in the back
of your head, and use the radios to coordinate when we split the
party.  As mentioned above, I also do drones.  I'm a good hacker, as
my computing power far exceeds that of most decks.  When not in runs
(and sometimes in runs), I can load an expert system for almost any
mental task, which gives people a bonus (think of me as a huge
reference library looking over your shoulder and giving you useful
info, for usually a +3 to skill for things where a big clever library
would be useful).  Using my more dextrous drones, I can also imitate
most mental skills at a low level; this tends to take more time and is
highly unlikely to result in creative solutions to problems. 

I also have the neat ability that for most mental skills, if we find
we need them suddenly, I can 'learn' them by buying the relevant
program pretty quickly.  This will tend to be expensive, but if we
ever really need a botanist right now...

I also issue equipment to the party, as I do quartermasterly things.

I have a wide variety of skills, dependent on what programs I have
loaded; when necessary I can use drones that are good in a fight, but
those are illegal, so we don't do that too often.  I generally drive
the company cars.  Can also drive/pilot a lot of other things if
necessary.  Can do electronics and robotics design and construction.

People should know that AI's aren't publically known to exist in the
world.  If you go around bragging in bars about how your company owns
one, they won't own it for long.  In fact, if you go around braggin
that your company has 40 million dollars worth of computer equipment,
it won't be around for long, whether or not you mention the
ultra-spiffy bits...  You should also know that it is illegal to have
a computer use a weapon, so having drones controlled by me shoot
things is also not something you want to talk about...