
Tan Chih-Yan
BASIC PROFILE
Name: Tan Chih Lin
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Role: Cybercrime Specialist, SID
Former Role: Leader of White Knights (Red Hat Unit)
Affiliation: Paradise Police HQ → SID
CHARACTER OVERVIEW
He doesn’t solve crimes.
He reads systems.
Tan Chih Lin is one of the very few who understands both:
machine logic and human weakness.
Two years ago, he led the White Knights to stop a global-scale
KARAM cyber attack.
That operation changed him.
He realized:
The real battlefield is not in the streets.
It is inside systems.
CORE TRAITS
Curiosity & Intellect
Extreme Persistence
Creative Problem-Solving
Advanced Technical Mastery
Vulnerability Analysis (System + Human)
Adaptive to AI & Emerging Tech
OPERATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
“Systems don’t fail.
People do.”
He doesn’t hack machines.
He hacks behavior.
ROLE IN STORY
Digital brain of SID
First contact with the β-system
Only one capable of interpreting system-level patterns
High-risk factor: May become the system’s target—or host