I have a few characters I could bring to this party:
Chikage - An AI Street Samurai. Trust me, it works.
Sakura - A human miko Mystic Adept.
Tamamo-no-Mae - An AI Face. Again, it works, even in meatspace.
Iceblade - Elven combat mage.
Selena - Elf bow adept
Any of your ideas sound interesting - though I presume that the AI concepts would operate primarily out of a drone, probably humanoid? Most of this game will be meatspace, which is why I noted leaning away from AI.
I think Hawk Eye and Night Vision are ones that anyone can take anyway.
Normally maybe, but the reasoning for them now being either SURGE'd or genengineered is related to one of the plots (as well as adding a dose of science/explanation to the qualities). It's not like it's expensive to grab them through equipment, if that's all you're concerned about. Genecrafted doesn't necessarily come with SINer or Records On File, due to off-the-book companies bringing experimentation to the world stage.
I'll work up Chikage for karmagen. Never done that before, so this'll be fun. Are you allowing Rigger 4? Because I was going to use the Nadeshiko for this.
Minus the
mimic mod, I don't see a problem with it. You could also get a humanform Evo Orderly with some modifications to remove a few of its limiters - I thought it was directly inspired by a Korean nursing aide robot, and would interpret that as being a humanoid if obvious drone, if that's what you're looking for.