More than a program, her son.
Axl with his mother (He didn't have the scar)
Axl was created by Kalinka Cossack, daughter of Mikhail Cossack, his core program is a data collection and reconnaissance program that Kalinka had been working on.
The program collected and copied large amounts of data that could be very precise and in the wrong hands it would be dangerous.
Because of that, Kalinka was worried, especially because she didn't want the same thing to happen to Bass, at first she had created Axl with the intention of hiding the program and protecting him, but she became fond of him to the point of seeing him as a son, just as her father saw Bass as his son.
Because of that, she limited and hid Axl from the outside, trying to keep him as secret as possible.
Axl only had his mother to socialize with and he didn't know many rules or interactions between navi, apart from what he read or saw in broadcasts about Net Battles, that's why he has had a great fondness for Net Battles.
(Since he has collected a lot of data from those transmissions, he has learned a lot about the best defenses and offenses in a battle, something that worries Kalinka.)
