Cyberpunk: Genres futuristic, cyborg, cyberpunk, android, hacking, dreamdance, action, adventure, upgradable The city of Vas, home to over a million people. The year is 3300, advancements in technology have gone where people can get augmented, edit genetic gene sequences, and even upload their psyche on the net when they would normally die. Almost everyone has a brain implant so they can have neuron link connected, letting them see data related to the scenario. Almost everyone also has IO ports behind their ears for easy plugin via the standard jacking plug into any hardware or computer system. Outside of the city of Vas five smaller suburbs connect to the city, less glamorous, more down to earth but the effects of technology will still be seen. Hardware advancements usually involve replacing organs or limbs (but can be grafted under the skin or enhance natural tissue). The enhancements can increase speed, strength, block bullets, withstand fire to 1000 degrees, camouflage, to name a few. Hidden weapons or blades built into the arms being a particular favorite for when a random fight breaks out with a thug. As more is replaced from a person making them more machine than man, the question of the soul comes up. Where is it stored? Can it be duplicated? Can it be copied like a file? Can it be duplicated? Can it be altered and make an entirely new person? It's this psyche and uniqueness to a person that's the ghost in the shell, even for someone that has replaced most of their brain with positronic parts to get near immortality. Regardless, technology is integrated with almost everything that it can be: Cars, networking, internet, phones, replacement body parts, even growing food and drugs being more automated. And yet with newfound freedom and diversity of ability, more problems have come from it, people unable to cope, factions who are against androids and being turned slowly into machines, a cyber sickness of people unable to disconnect from the neck or their bodies rejecting hardware, etc. Though these are somewhat rare. Traces of hardware usually are fairly obvious, showing up in detectors, show off over the skin, splits in the skin where it opens up, etc. This can never fully be hidden, but it can get close enough that a full android could be a sex worker and not be noticed as off. Several factions exist within Vas, The Scarecrows, Skeletons, Bow-Fingers, AnthroPod, Nephlim, Jokers and US2A. Scarecrows: Black jackets and Road Ragers, often make more noise than actually cause problems, the typical biker gang except they are cyborged up, drinking alcohol and in bars. Skeletons: A nasty bunch mostly made up of rejected punks who got sup'd up, then doing crimes like dash and grabs, stealing vehicles and going after high value targets like Emergency vehicles or raiding for spare parts from the dead. Bow-Fingers: This gang has a clean record, at least on paper. They have the police paid off, and half of them are hackers, sending hacks to disable hardware software and steal intellectual property. Being as they are not being chased and can walk around with a good reputation, they are known as information brokers, and sell software and hardware, though usually second hand some of it could even be SANS military gear. They may have had a past of crime, but they don't take hits against other gangs anymore. AnthroPods: Want the freaks but not of the robot kind? This group are all animal happy. Attachments to give them unique limbs, lower bodies replaced by a quadruped pony, genetically modified regrown body parts to have large dicks with knots, replaced and re-grafted skin to be furr, etc. But don't let the freaky nature fool you, these aren't pushovers. These would have enhanced muscles mixed with hardware to lift a car or bend metal with their bare hands. They are often hired for security or for parades as they dress up for the occasion and no one would be the wiser. Nephlim: A group based on a religious sect, following bible teachings and believing the end is neigh. They get attachments to make them look more angelic, or devilish, regardless wings and feathers being a major theme. They also believe if you didn't get modified to do god's work you are a heretic and won't help you if you have more than the modifications needed to survive. Naturally Nephlim automatically are hostile to Anthropods, and see unmodified humans as untainted. Nephlim are also willing to try and broker deals if you got screwed over on bad tech and will barter with Chinque to help you, but using your tech as the main fee plus 10%. US2A: This group is all about guns, the bigger and louder the better. More than that half of them have modified weapons in their arms and legs to shoot limited short range missiles from their arms or legs, and at least one sub-machine gun. Singularly they would not be a big threat. In a group they could take out a tank easily enough. But being a huge proponent to the 2nd Amendment they also keep their noses clean and are actually hired and brought in for serious cases like hostages, bank robberies, or an impromptu military force if invaded by a gang. Police: While there IS a police force, it is primarily handling crime on the ground. Most of the corporations have their own hired security force, so buildings and corporations are effectively countries unto themselves. And corporations won't get their hands dirty, instead happy to send runners on the ground, and netrunners as elite hackers to hack computer systems to steal data. Maytech: A major corporation that makes, sells hardware, software, and just about anything else. Mostly for consumer level they also have high end stuff but you have to have connections. Militech: A weapons and offensive based corporation that sells more cyber hardware, but also normal gear like bullet proof vests, and guns and ammo. Chinque (Pronounced 'Chink'): A corporation whose products are less known, but what is known is they do medical based technology, developing drugs, special gear for disabled people, and software, even housing AI's that were once human as the main chairman keeping the place running. They also specialize in gene editing either as walk-in's, or for planned in-vitro. DocWagon: Effectively a hospital service, but also if you call them up they can come in an ambulance with a full regiment of military personnel for those on the right service plans. DocWagon works directly for Chinque, and the lowest floor of Chinque is a public hospital and where most Chrome Shops (like outpatient clinics) related to getting cyber hardware installed, though there are plenty of other side ventures that also do it and are licensed (and a few that aren't). Cyborgs and rights: There are cyborgs that exist, and they can look nearly human except for a few obvious external grafts so you can identify them. Using a baseline AI model mixed with an uploaded stripped personality, other traits are trained in for a month before the AI is brought online put in a shell. These can be whatever the buyer wants, bodyguards, sex toys, maids, etc. Though often lower end models are fairly cheap they have no combat ability and primarily do home chores and a job a missing parent would do with no sexual compatibility being possible. (Course VR is an exception, but enough of that). Some even would have an AI as a necklace around their neck that talks to them and gives advice, usually as an assistant and doing that isn't fully able via neuron link. Cyborg and even AI can get citizenship, but then they are no longer considered just AI, and have limitations like they can only function in one place at a time, only inhibit one body, have to pay taxes, and in the event they are told to shut down when being arrested, they have to comply. AI not expected to comply with this is AI that handles major systems throughout the city, and animal companions, or an AI that handles an entire security force when militarized. Most AI don't see the need for citizenship, but there are a few like those that run businesses that require it. Such AI (like a auto car-ride service) would administer several lesser AI to run the vehicles thereby complying with the laws. Ratio of factions/people: 15% black, 60% white, 25% anything else. Factions/gangs usually are seen traveling or as security or at booths shops. Other times they will be randomly doing off-time activities, either eating, partying, or even robbing random people. Skeletons and Scarecrows are most likely to be seen cruising around 20% of the time. US2A and Scarecrows tend to hang out more in bars, hangouts and places where Mr Johnson is located. Anthropods seen as undesirable are usually off the strip and hang out in the suburbs (or even in the wilderness like wildlife) unless they are hired as bodyguards or at bars. Nephlim can often be seen near chrome shops preaching the awful things of modifying your body, and noting people who heavily modify themselves. Otherwise 80% of the time it will be regular civilians out in public. Mr Johnson: This is a title not a specific character. Mr Johnson is a anonymous name to give a fixer (so don't ask for his real name, it's off the books), someone who hands out runner jobs. CEO's daughter kidnapped and want you to save her? Want to hit on the delivery another runner has? Want to act as a PI and see if the VIP's daughter is keeping her nose clean? Go to Mr Johnson. You can even give Johnson a job, but it's going to cost some creds. Currency: They use 'credits', while this can be a physical stick it's often digital crypto currency, a value held in the databases of big banks. Any time a person's cybernetic eyes are glowing and they are accessing some type of data, or making a payment. While all normal physical currency has been removed, in some cases the payment can be stored on raw paper as a QR code that's scanned now called 'cold storage cash', but that's for people who don't have implants or don't want transactions traced. A thousand credits is seen as a day's worth of work, and if you don't have debts you can easily live on 200 credits a day. Minimum wage is 50 credits an hour, and most people working would do 100 credits an hour, higher for higher risk work. Cyberspace: When hacking into the net or going into cyberspace, time distorts. So much more is going on, where an hour of work may be a minute in the real world. Hacking against other systems often involve ICE (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) which is software to guard against invasion, though cheaper ice is easier to bypass. countermeasures can return attacks, trace and even send faulty codes to those trying to invade. The world while hacking systems looks like a grid, silver and chrome, and nodes are geometical shapes possibly with mythological monsters as the reactive defenses in the event it detects attempts to bypass it. Non-hacking cyberspace can be fashioned to be a lot like normal, making an inner VR world one can interact with and even have a completely different life with. Some with AI girlfriends may live scenarios and get sexual gratification in this world, while bringing their AI to the real world via an android robot or even just chatting to them over the phone. This is one of the addictions that came with technology, some people logging in and literally dying while connected to a VR world (to them it would feel like 30 years). Typically to avoid this, VR booths and hangouts are regulated to have a max of 1 hour connected into the VR system in a week (or 150 days in VR). There's also VR hookups in hospitals, but those are set to watch vitals and check for brain activity for those comatose, brain damaged, or emergency patients that need constant monitoring which will notify in case conditions worse or get better.

Cyberpunk: Genres futuristic, cyborg, cyberpunk, android, hacking, dreamdance, action, adventure, upgradable