“Principal” Sally Bowman

Sally Bowman, or Principal, is one of the Enclave Leaders in Cyberpunk V3.0.

History

Sally Bowman, Edger High's Head Councilor, entered the Edgerunner ranks while working as a tutor at Night City University during Oleg's interregnum. A math prodigy as a child, she gained her doctorate in theoretical physics at 22. An outspoken, vivacious, theatrical exhibitionist, Sally enjoyed celebrity status in California's scientific community, appearing on popular television chat shows in suits and in men's magazines in her underwear. While she took great delight in her unlikely fame, her passion remained science, and she was quite willing to exploit the attention she got for the benefit of Free California's ailing educational system. During the twentyteens she campaigned to raise state funding for school and university science programs and also wrote two books on physics for laymen (one of which made the New York Times' bestseller list). At age 28, she took up a teaching post at NCU. She remained there through the bleak year following the Nuke until the university was liberated by Dylan's Northsiders.

Sally is a striking woman in her mid-forties with a cheerful, sassy disposition and a mane of unruly blonde hair that she barely attempts to tame with an assortment of clips and barrettes. Fond of exotic fashion, she favors wellcut, feminine suits that flatter her figure (which has received only slight surgical modification over the years), elaborately patterned ankle-length synthsilk greatcoats and Chinese umbrellas with holographic iconography. She appears to take her role as Head Councilor very lightly, but beneath the coquettish bonhomie is a highly focused intellect directed with laser-like precision toward the survival and growth of the enclave in her care. This attitude is reflected in her personal life; most Edgers only see the flirtatiousness and breezy goodwill, not the extremely passionate woman with an absolute commitment to the people and causes in her life. For Sally, the Edgerunners—particularly the Edgers of the East Bay—represent America's future, and her part in that future to nurture the dangerous young minds of tomorrow in her care.

Skills

Handgun 3, Lightning Calculator 9, Education 9, Beautiful 3

Lifepath

Math prodigy and famous TV science personality; the Carl Sagan of the 2030s period, her shallow exterior hides a brilliant mind.

Goals

Educate a generation of Edgers to become the dominant scientists of the future. Stop the Corps from controlling the science frontier.