Kate Barrett is an agent with Viribus.
She will be, at least, soon after we meet her but becoming an operative with this independent group of counter-terrorist fighters - branded vigilantes by a lot who do not approve of their tactics or perhaps they are just embarrassed that Viribus is successful. When we first are introduced to her she is a nurse, quite a different profession from what she will become.
If you are a tad confused right now, you are not alone. Barrett is one very confused woman, too, as is her husband, an airline pilot named Solomon, Sol to friends. They were living very normal lives working what they considered normal jobs until they suddenly weren't.
Head of a nursing team in a ward at the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital. Out of the blue she gets a call from the main nursing federation in Australia with a request to fill a suddenly vacant slot at a nursing convention in Dubai. She is shocked because picking a ward nurse to be a representative was unprecedented. She is excited about the opportunity, up until things go sideways.
And it is all because of a major in-the-shadows war between Viribus and White Cloud.
As one Viribus operative tells us, "White Cloud is an organisation who operate under the guise of being environmentally friendly. They call themselves White Cloud to represent 'being everywhere' or some shit, and apparently use the colour white to symbolise purity-like the Virgin Mary. They say it portrays an image of clean, pure, neutral, and all those other clinical types of things. It's a bulls**t name, set up to deceive."
Fighting White Cloud is Contra Viribus (Latin for against forces, Viribus for short). It will be for Viribus that Barrett will start working and become a very impressive operative.