In mid 2099, the Martyrs hacked into a fiberoptic trunkline and snagged a heavily-encrypted data archive of unknown origin. Kenshiro 'Zero' Cochrane was a hacker who ran with the Hotwire Martyrs, a street gang based out of the Transverse City sprawl. Ghost Rider 2099 was created by Len Kaminski, Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham and first appeared in Ghost Rider 2099 issue 1 (1994). Although the personality of this new 'Ghost Rider' was essentially Zero Cochran, the Ghostworks still maintained a measure of control over his mind, even going so far as to prevent him from thinking of certain actions which might lead to his becoming more independent than they wanted him to be. His mind and personality were downloaded into a Cybertek 101 robotic body, which he used to avenge his own death and fight the evil schemes of the D/Monix corporation, calling himself ' Ghost Rider' based on the similarities between his new body and abilities to those of the anti-hero from the previous century. The Ghostworks offered Zero a second chance of sorts, asking him to become their 'avatar' in the real world due to his rebellious attitude and complete disregard for authority. Though his body was dead, Zero's mind survived, stored digitally by a group of artificial intelligences which dwelt in a hidden sector of cyberspace known as the Ghostworks. Knowing he had no hope of survival, Zero uploaded his consciousness into cyberspace in order to keep his assassins from recovering their data. Kenshiro 'Zero' Cochran was a hacker in Transverse City who made the mistake of stealing information form a corporation called D/Monix - a mistake he paid for with his life when D/Monix had him hunted down and shot with a poisoned flechette.

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