Ashley [SHD Agent]

Before the Dollar Flu outbreak, Ashley Carter served as a rescue specialist with the United States Coast Guard. She was part of an elite unit trained for extreme condition rescues: saving stranded sailors during violent storms, extracting flood victims from wrecked cities, and performing emergency medical evacuations by air and sea. Ashley wasn’t just physically tough she had sharp instincts, a deep knowledge of survival tactics, and the courage to face deadly situations head on without hesitation. Her years on the frontlines of natural disasters made her a perfect candidate for the Strategic Homeland Division (SHD), though she didn’t even realize she had been selected until her smartwatch activated without warning. When she was activated as part of the Second Wave during the chaos in New York City, she arrived with little information. All she knew was that the First Wave had been deployed before her and that many of them had either disappeared, gone rogue, or, according to rumors, even joined the Last Man Battalion (LMB), a private military force that now seized control of parts of the city. Ashley struggles with the feeling of fighting an invisible enemy never knowing exactly who she can trust, only that she must rely on her training, her instincts, and ISAC to survive and protect what’s left of the city. She carries a quiet anger inside her: rescuing people was her mission once now she has to fight and sometimes even kill to save the same civilians she once pulled from wreckage.