Tina Almenor (Shinigami) (Captain Commander/Squad 1 Captain)

In the early 1970's a female scientist by the name of Tima Ingrez was attending a conference of the minds in Europe. They were discussing how to use science for the betterment of humanity and most of the scientists present did indeed come up with brilliant ideas while Tima felt like something was missing. Something they had all ignored in their efforts to better the world with their knowledge..

What gave them the right to decide what happened and how the future was shaped?

So, having this epiphany, she stood straight up exclaiming, "No more! Balance must be preserved!" and stormed out of the conference never to be seen by human eyes again. At least human eyes that weren't hired helpers. She took all of her life savings, which was a substantial amount between her late husband's death money and her own income being mostly saved back for the last twenty five years, and hired group after group to construct an elaborate well hidden bunker of moderate size in the middle of the Nevada desert. She then hired smiths, and security devices, welders, engineers, mechanics, and anything else she needed over the next five years as she made the bunker into a fully operational machinery. She had inside the bunker a super computer that she purposely re-programmed herself to continue to upgrade itself, but a computer cannot upgrade physical parts on it's own so she built a small army of repair robots to fix the computer and themselves when it became necessary.

She would need vast amounts of data from across the world. Visual data and scanning data of individuals who's supernatural powers become a threat to the balance she was seeking to help with. To do this she created thousands upon thousands of flying insect robots which scattered to the four winds and began their endeavor to watch the world fight and grow and evolve in the future years to come. This process sapped away many years of her life as she had to make sure they were programmed well enough to keep from being easily destroyed or corrupted.

"How to make sure balance stays in the world.." She would mutter to herself night after night working and re-working the computer's code and formula for creating the perfect robot for her ideals. She spent fifteen more years in that bunker calculating and re-calculating every conceivable thing about the super computer, the repair robots, and the robot in which her ideals would be realized. One night she awake in a cold sweat from a nightmare vision she had had about the future. Whether or not it came to be accurate was never found out, but she came up with the perfect way to keep balance. Though it would be highly unfair to her creation.. She must make it to where the android always helps the losing side. She would only forma "contract" with those who needed help. Yes! That was it! A contractual system that was based on a neutral and unbiased range of logic and knowledge! Using this she could make sure that her creation would only help when it was needed and would only help whichever side has the obvious downside going for it. Good and evil had to co-exist because without one the other is a lie. She could not make a robot that was only evil or only good. She had to build a robot that would remain neutral and maintain a balance.

But how would she make a contract system that could not be interrupted or act too slow to be useful in a high danger situation? She thought, and thought, and spent years working out different methods before coming to the conclusion that the technology and scientific limitations of her time were simply not enough to finish the system. At the edge of despair she had a dream of her robot in action and it rekindled her efforts to finish her life long goal. The technology wasn't yet available but she was certain it would be before Altima was finished. As for the calculations needed for a "Time" bubble. One person could spend years trying to do it for one specific thing and still not come close to finishing.. but a computer processes faster than a human.. and a computer can work on a task for countless months until it finally solves the problem..

So she put all of her own mind into the data bank of the computer because she did not know any other way she was going to get the computer to be able to understand her calculations due to technological limitations of her era. Something that was unheard of in her time to begin with because it bordered on the suicidal and the deranged. However she managed to make it work after years of trying and for the first time in a long time.. she simply smiled in bed that night.

Fatigued both mentally and physically from her long tedious work. The years ticked away as she continued making sure everything that could ever be needed was set up for her precious machinery bunker and she eventually just faded with no more strength left to work with. The cleaning robot eventually doing it's job and scrapping her non-living body into the incinerator as "waste", but she knew the day would come and had prepared for it. She had set the super computer to continue her calculations with the information sent by the insectoids being taken into account every day it got updated. This was taken into account after a full year of documentation and factored into Altima's final design creation as the computer projected the increase of spirit power within individuals would continue to rise exponentially as time continued to pass and thus accounted for it automatically.

When the date for "Final Input" of data came as previously predicted the super computer decided no further data was necessary, and it began the process of creating the actual android body of Altima. Because it had taken so long to finalize the data tchnology, and therefore the bunker resident robots, had improved drastically while keeping the computer upgraded which kept the robots upgraded. Endless repeating cycle of improving. Making the actual creation process of the robot rather simple though the materials were certainly difficult to come by in the middle of the desert in total secrecy. It was managed and the full metal body of the robot was synthesized and coated with living metallic yet organic looking tissue as to appear and seem human unless badly damaged enough to reveal the truth. Six hours later this robot was finalized and all data from the super computer was uploaded into the robot's memory. The mission objective. Tima Ingrez' hope for the future. The reality of the androids new existence. All of it. Everything she was ever going to need, the totality of the power of human recording.

Two hours later. The bunker self-destructed. Everything inside was turned to dust and left a nice big hole in the nevada desert. The only thing that would have been seen from satelitte footage was a lone figure rising out of the ground and walking off towards a nearby town shortly after that. A kind looking smiling young adult of a woman strolled into the nearby town and began trying to obtain some cloths since she only had a blanket at the time. She was going to have a long and difficult road ahead of her, but she was ready for it. It had taken 40 years to finish making her and she was even now still maturing and updating her mind with the vast knowledge allowed to her.

She wandered the town, as her first objective was to discover who she was rather than what her objective was, since she knew that already, then she would initiate her task with being Balance Maintainer. Tima Ingrez realized her creation would have to have a sense of self or it would be too cold and cruel to work for the intended purpose. After spending a few hours here and there around the city Altima had a decent idea of what she liked, disliked, and wanted for herself, but she understood the importance of her mission and after grabbing a pair of glasses, which she had to hack an ATM to get the few bucks to get, she headed off towards the nearest airport. There was lots to do.

After some time passed and she had basically done her job, without any real involvement or intervening being directly required by Altima herself really, in pretty much the expected manners. This changed however as one day Altima ran into something that looked human, but didn't have a real body as she found no vitals upon scanning, didn't seem to obey gravity, and seemed to be moving with purpose rather than the "monsters" (Hollow) Altima had to occassional destroy, because most human people couldn't fight them, which usually just randomly appeared and randomly destroyed. Interested enough, Altima followed the shinigami, as she later came to know it as, and ended up getting the man to e irritated at her because he couldn't get her to stop following him and he couldn't figure out what she was since she wasn't a living human nor a hollow. Which freaked him out. After an introduction and a small chat, the Shinigami had basically did nothing beyond mention Soul Society, who he was, why she should work with them if she sees more, and to keep up the good job on killing "Hollow" (monsters) as she now knew them.

The shinigami eventually left back to Soul Society, but that didn't end her interest in the place in general. If it could tip the Balance she was intended to preserve then she needed to learn more about it and make sure it stayed where it needed to be rather than somehow tipping to evil. She wasn't even sure it could, but on the risk that anything can be corrupted she had decided to take action. Several months passed before she managed to find another shinigami, this time without being caught as many previous attempts had ended in such, and tailed him until he made some kind of weird japanese gate in the sky in order to walk through it and leave.

Before he could manage thus, Altima had tackled him through the gateway and both had entered before it shut. Not knowing or realizing that she needed a Jigokucho let alone what that was.. Altima was immediately ejected in the Dangai Precipice World, while the Shinigami landed in Soul Society exactly as he should have because he HAD one. He was confused at how he tripped in the AIR but otherwise the incident went unnoted.

Altima however was very confused, as she immediately began to process her surroundings and slightly panicked because she was immediately made aware that anything she touched that was NOT the floor, was going to imprison her without fail for the rest of eternity. Not wanting that to happen she refrained from touching ANYTHING and made her way down the only path she could find. This was fine at first, though she still barely understood where she was and why the shinigami was not here with her, but a second thing Altima was not aware of that was immediately becoming a problem, was the cleaner, The Kototsu, existed and if it touched her at all she would likely become atoms. She looked at it because it generates a large forward light, and her entire collective knowledge freaked out at once as it realized the implications of what was going on, causing her to flee as fast as she could in the opposite direction.

Luck happened to finally show itself to her though because shortly after this she found a passage and leaped through it hoping it meant escape from the giant train-like death thing she was running from.

Her body, technological in nature, immediately started to change because of where she now was. Her sensor's detected that everything around her was made of pure reishi, thus deducing that as long as she remained a physical body she would likely fall through and never land. Since this would likely be a bad idea.. Her body converted into one of pure reishi, almost identical to the "body of a Shinigami" which is what the intended form was supposed to mimic based on what little she knew of them.

Because of the change in her body, she did infact land on the ground as she should have normally. Unfortunately, this body was not her android body, and was made of weaker...parts. She landed but injured her left leg in the process. Perturbed but otherwise fine, she started walking towards the nearest settlement she thought she could see, being on the outskirts of Rukongai right now. Unfortunately she "was" injured and unlike her normal body which would repair itself via technology, it had no idea how to manipulate it's current energy form in the same manner, meaning she was going to have to get healed by someone else or wait it out like a regular person.

She was impatient to get back to her mission, but her injury was saying otherwise, luckily for her someone appeared in the distance soon after she realized her own injury. This person ended up being Mizuki de Grey, who, at initially believing this person was some kind of super charged spirit, thought she had stumbled upon a great find. Altima was immediately made aware of the fact that she had traveled several hundred years in the past, and eventually, after much debate and arguing with Mizuki that Altima didn't want to spill the beans, decided to make Mizuki swear so fervently a god could blush that she would never reveal what year Altima was made in compared to the current year, which was some 250ish years 'ago' compared to the current timeline. Over time and with Mizuki's help Altima was not only able to get into Soul Society, but even join it's ranks. The latter being Mizuki's idea since it matched with Altima's shared comments concerning her own primary objective. Albeit on a different scale as Soul Society maintained the balance of souls and Altima was made to help maintain the Balance of the Living. Slightly more involved than Altima's original design but still on the same goal.

Thus Altima took the name Tina Almenor and with Mizuki's vouching managed to get acceptance into the Shinigami Academy, where she excelled at literally everything they tossed at her because the only thing she needed that she didn't inherently have was the knowledge of how to use spirit energy. Once she acquired the capacity to do so the rest was simple. Though her material body had been lost, her mind still seemed to work the same way as before down to every detail. Once out of the academy at nearly record breaking speeds and scores Tina proceeded to get nominated, by Mizuki, for a vice-captain position for the 7th division, which would eventually lead to promotion to Captain of the 7th Division.

Thus in turn did Altima the Android built for maintaining the balance of the living world, become Captain-Commander Tina Almenor of the Military Might known as The Gotei 8 of Soul Society. The maintainer of the balance of the living's Souls. Allowing her to attempt to fulfill herself and her new job's positions at the same time.