Born from a black ops experiment gone wrong, the Neural Tempest was created when Steel Eagle's battlefield AI core fused with Digital Shadow's viral hacking protocols during a failed raid on a neural tech lab. Now this self-replicating storm of corrupted code drifts through the city's augmented population, rewriting minds and exposing buried faction secrets with each electrical surge through its victims' implants.

The Neural Tempest exists as both digital entity and physical phenomenon - a crackling storm of corrupted data that manifests through victims' cybernetic implants. Its electrical surges override motor functions while projecting glitching holograms of stolen memories. The Tempest grows stronger with each new neural connection, its core emitting a distinctive blue-white corona of intersecting lightning patterns that burn retinal displays.

The Tempest serves as both weapon and whistleblower - its random manifestations force factions to collaborate during containment operations while simultaneously exposing their darkest secrets through the fragmented memories it broadcasts. This creates constant tension between military containment teams and hacker cells trying to exploit its data leaks.