Scarlett Wintyrs is an agent with the Centurian Agency.
That is the name of an intelligence organization, apparently a privately held one in a world several decades into the future (taking place around the year 2060) where there are numerous highly secretive yet quite busy private security firms. An interesting response is given by Wintyrs when a civilian askes her just how many such organizations existed in the world at that time and she replies, "That's not something you want an answer to". The fact that the person asking the question was pretty smart lets us know that these corporations have gone to some effort to remain clandestine. The competition between the companies is intense and we will find more than a few instances of one organization trying to destroy a different one. Occasionally, obviously, there are times when it is in the best interests of two or more agencies to cooperate to accomplish a goal but watching the negotiations at one such time shows the distrust is almost palpable.
Inside the Centurian Agency, Wintyrs is without any doubt in the minds of her boss and supervisor, known to his operatives only as the Spymaster, the best in the organization and possibly the best operative from any of the agencies. She has been doing this sort of work for more than a few years and even after a good number of life-or-death scrapes, she still enjoys it and would likely never consider doing anything else. One odd statement given to Wintyrs by the Spymaster in the first recorded adventure said, "Remember - if you should be compromised, detained, or killed, The Centurian Agency will cease to exist and no one, anywhere, will acknowledge they know you or have even heard your name."
As mentioned the activities we follow take place a bit in the future. Most of the world is as we know it now but there are some noticeable technological advances. The most interesting (and, to me, slightly unnerving) are hovercars. There are other cool gadgets and inventions mentioned, several of which Wintyrs uses in her job, produced for her by techs who seem to be housed in dark rooms deep the bowels of their headquarters.
Wintyrs is a very self-confident operative, one who knows she is good but she also knows it is important to make sure others are aware; "standing 5'7", she always wore heels ... to make herself look not only more attractive but also more intimidating". This dark brown haired woman had joined the agency straight out of college, never knowing any other sort of career other than being an operative.
Good Lines:
- Said by a very bad man as a threat to Wintyrs, "I have a cast iron stomach when it comes to inflicting pain".