No matter what race the character is designed to be, they are are still "just human" because the players are human. You can give seom approximation of a race but unless you are that race, or at least interact with the race, there is no way the character will be more than "human with a mask"...
My assumption is that local secured systems use a different "language" than what the cell phones use. They literally can not conenct or talk to the secure system. And there is no VPN into it. You physically have to be there to access information from the secure system. that's what makes it a...