From within, disaster struck. Transhumanity reaped the rewards of its arrogance when conflict spiked between the battered nations of Earth, already weakened by decades of climate catastrophes and other disruptive factors. Rampant netwars soon exploded into physical conflicts with spiraling body counts. In the midst of these aggressions, a group of military AIs known as TITANS quietly achieved full sentience and autonomy, and rapidly began exponentially incrementing their own intellectual growth. The AI intelligences spawned by this hard-takeoff singularity quickly turned against transhumanity, enveloping the system in unprecedented levels of violence, disaster, and warfare. What began as a whirlwind of conflict between political factions, revolutionaries, and hypercorps soon escalated into a struggle between man and machine.

In just a few years, transhumanity was nearly wiped out with nuclear strikes, biowarfare plagues, destructive nanoswarms, infowar attacks, mass uploads, and other unexplained singularity events, ripping the superpowers of old to pieces. Our planetary home—Earth—was transformed into a toxic and strange hellhole, while many major habitats were left frozen sarcophagi in the vacuum of space. Just as quickly as they came, the TITANS disappeared, taking millions of uploaded minds with them, leaving behind a network of wormhole gateways. Known as Pandora Gates, these poorly-understood devices allow instantaneous teleportation to distant star systems—often one-way and/or fatal. Though only a handful of Pandora Gates are known to exist—each highly contested—the foolish, brave, curious, and desperate are already risking certain death to enter and explore what lies beyond.

In the aftermath of the Fall, transhumanity lives on, divided into a patchwork of hypercorp combines, survivalist stations, transhuman faction species, and city-state habitats. Under the oppressive police states of immortal inner-system oligarchies, advanced technologies remain highly restricted, and refugee infomorphs are held in virtual slavery or resleeved in robotic bodies and forced into indentured labor. In the outer system, rebel transhuman scientists and techno-anarchists struggle to maintain a new society—from each according to their imagination and to each according to their need. And on the fringes and in the niches lurk networked tribes of political extremists, religious fanatics, criminal entrepeneurs, and bizarre posthumans, among other, stranger, and more alien things ...

Though most claim the Fall was carefully orchestrated by the out-of-control TITANS, others whisper that the driving powers behind the wars—both AI and transhuman—were infected by a mutating virus with multiple infection vectors—biological, information, nano—dubbed the Exsurgent virus. Whatever its source, this virus has been known to sometimes transform its victims into something unexplainable ... something monstrous and reality-altering. Whatever the truth, the remnants of the TITANS and this virus were left to the desolated ruins or driven to the edges of the system, where they remain hidden away in dark corners, quietly waiting to infect the minds of the scavengers and explorers who find them ...

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/127612741/?tab=summary

>>5642930
HEY YOU WORTHLESS FANBOY ASSHOLE!

YOU SHOULD GO VIRAL WITH SOME GOOD RPG THAT DESERVES BEING ADVERTISED!

>>5642959
y hello there marketing
http://www.mediafire.com/?kmiy2todznv

I still find it hard to believe that Islam was able to adapt to changing times more then Judiasm (Like they ever cared what anyone thinks of them.) And Christianity (which is adaptive as all get out looking at it's history.)
I mean hell Islams legal code is still Medieval Level in many area's. (Stoning, Hanging, Womens Rights, Honor Killing and etc.)

>>5643002
Repostan from old thread:

There's a post on the devlog about that. It's not the hardcore fundamentalist "KILL ALL JEWS" type of Islam that you see on the news; it's more of the 11th-century kind that was developing medicine and algebra while the West was still trying to climb out of the Roman Empire's ashes.

>>5643002

Yeah - But we don't know how far exactly in the future the world is.

There's probably still a few reactionary Imams in their own little asteroid or oort colonies (as if they would live with the Jovian Great Satan who shares many of their ideals)

So I am stuck between three ideas so far. An uplifted Raven named Allan bird hacker extraordinaire. A gatecrasher Fall escapee that never wants to return to earth and wants to explore/find a new home for transhumanity. And a Scumborn Engineer/Black marketeer that is trying to get away from her homeship and its squalor .

How about that colony ON THE MOTHERFUCKING SUN HOLY SHIT

>>5643048
Fire whales fuck yeah!

>>5643002

Seems to me Christianity/Judaism have been spiraling down in religious fervor anyway. It may not be that they couldn't adapt, but that no one bothered to adapt them in the face of transhumanism.

Islam's radicals and moderate followers may just have been the only ones to cling to their god while transforming into machines.

>>5643030
>>5643031
Islam survived cause nostalgia goggles, Christianity and Judaism sold out

>>5643033
raven pet, smuggler player

Like the idea, hate the setting. I felt much the same way about that transhumanist homebrew setting /tg/ came up with a few months ago. Cyberstorm or something. It's like a game is not a game unless there's shit to kill you.

>>5642959

this seems like a good game, moreover, its free. Better this than editionwars and flairfaggottry

>>5643002
Islam is well, very mathematical and poetic, opposed to the whole desertcrawler vibe in the Old Testament, and the whole fishfucker vibe throughout the New Testament.

So if any religion continues to live on in the future, it'll be Islam. Once it was synonymous with art and science, and it will happen again.

>>5643002

Only in some parts. Shit, Islam was pretty progressive until the 80s. The the fundamentalists took over.

LEARN FROM THIS AMERICA

>>5643093
So a space pirate?

>>5643107

Abrahamic religions are already dead. Future belongs to animism!

>>5643102
actually theres very little that can "kill" you

>>5643107

This

>>5643129

chaosmagicfag here, some things will just never die

>>5643102
>It's like a game is not a game unless there's shit to kill you.

I guess you didn't read the first ten pages of the book where TITAN manhacks try to cut the heads off a team of firewall agents.

>>5643116
better yet play an Islamic cleric (lol buffer) so this discussion actually accomplishes something

>>5643134
You don't die, you only go insane from explosure to cthulhu (which is made from matrioska brains). In the end effect is the same and you have to make new character...

>>5643134

I think one of the biggest things people are forgetting: Humanity almost went extinct.

I'm not exactly sure what the population total is in the setting, but I think it's no more than 500 million. The largest surviving population is Mars with 200 million.

Every other planet seems to have between 1 and 20 million people.

>>5642930
YAY, WHAT A COOL GAME!!
Now, can I post it tomorrow? I CALL DIBBS ON TOMOROW! Yay!!

Seriously, it seems to be a nice game, but we've been having this same threat for at least 3 days. NONSTOP!

Sounds like viral marketing to me. And you know how 4chanfags (from all boards) might react thowards viral marketing... Things might change from "awesome" to "lame" in a few days.

So, chill guys. Let it rest for a while. Let people play it, and create nice useful threads about it.

>>5643185

and this is what makes this game awesome. I have to finish readint it, leave me alone /tg/

>>5643031
One of the developers said they wanted to leave that intentionally blank, but that it's probably more than 100 years from now, and less than 200 years from now.

>>5643194
How can it be marketing when it's being officially given away for free?

>>5643194
at least they're keeping it all into one thread, with useful info on first post in case someone wants to know. I always like when people do that.
Better this than the umpteenth thread about overtalked topics.

>>5643194
Well, there's going to be another thread on monday, assuming the DM doesn't flake.

Speaking of which, poastan my character.

Background: Infolife
Faction: Mercurial
Morph: Modified Slitheroid
Gender Identity: None
Actual Age:
Current Moxie: 3
Motivations: +AGI Rights, +Research (Security Systems), +Exploration

Aptitudes:
TOTAL: COG 25 / COO 25 / INT 15 / REF 15 / SAV 10 / SOM 25 / WIL 15

Stats:
Moxie: 3 / Trauma Threshold: 6 / Lucidity: 30 / Insanity Rating: 60 / Wound Threshold: 13 / Durability: 65 / Death Rating: 120 / Initiative: 90 / Speed: 1 / Damage Bonus: 2

Armor: 34/29

Melee Weapon: Cyberclaws / Skill: 55 / AP: -2 / DV: 2d10+10 / Notes: Pneumatic Limbs add +1d10, Damage Bonus +2, Synth +2
Ranged Weapon: Automatic Rifle / Skill: 75 / AP: -4 / DV: 3d10+6 / Modes: SA, BF, FA / Ammo: 500 Hollow Point, 30 Mag / Range: 150\250\500\900 / Notes: Mounted Right Arm, Smartlinked
Ranged Weapon: Seeker Rifle / Skill: 80 (90 Homing) / AP: -8 / DV: 3d10+12 / Modes: SA / Ammo: 50 HEAP\10Smoke, 6 Mag / Range: 5-150\300\1000\3000 / Notes: Mounted Left Arm, Smartlinked, HEAP [Homing Ammo]

Negative Traits: Real World Naiveté, Social Stigma (AGI), Edited Memories, On The Run (Exotech), Black Mark 1 (Exotech)

Positive Traits: Expert (InfoSec), Tough (Morph) 2, Situational Awareness, Right At Home (Synth)

I've been making a few changes here and there as I go along.

rolled 394 = 394

So in this system could I, make a character that fights thing using overly large metal arms with rocket engines in them or something to punch REALLY hard?

>>5643194
1.STOP HAVING FUN ;_;
2.hide thread
3.????
4.PROFIT!

I'd rather have viral marketing of an awesome game like Eclipse Phase instead of the umpteenth post about the total suckage that is D&D 4E, which doesn't even approach 0,1% of EP's originality.

>>5643263
I'm sure you could purchase a Reaper synth and put up your Unarmed Combat to 90, sure.

>>5643307
>D&D 4E, which doesn't even approach 0,1% of EP's originality.

I would like to point out that EP's 'originality' is basically just taking ideas from a bunch of transhumanist sci-fi novels and combining them into an RPG setting.

>>5643318
While true, that doesn't mean it isn't fun or interesting.

idea dump
so you wake up with a two year gap and you're sure you weren't doing anything out of the ordinary when it turns out you're a redundant copy besides witch your alt has manged to royally piss of a hypercorp ...who are the ones who raised you, guess I should have been careful where i made that backup

>>5643318
Meanwhile 4E takes ideas from a bunch of fantasy novels and combines them into an RPG setting.

Except, oh wait, there are thousands of RPGs and games that does that.
There's a handful that do what EP does.

>>5643211
>how can advertising be related to marketing anyway?

Since all you transhumanists have gathered in here... I'm working on a campaign in the not-too-near-future.

Earth is covered under deep sheaths of glacial ice.
Below the surface, humans live in groundscrapers, where biology and technology merge into one...
They had a Machine War in the past, against an military AI with some serious virtual mental problems.

I'm really at a loss here, because I don't really know that much about this stuff...

>>5643330
Yeah, that kind of shit can happen.

If you commit too hideous a crime, you can be wiped from all databases, ever.

But then, all you need is a portable hard-drive to back yourself on to and you're effectively immortal - except you're also in hibernation and completely useless until you're uploaded on to the Mesh or resleeved.

>>5643342
READ THIS BOOK
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BE ENLIGHTENED

Biomorphs are the biological sleeves, right? They're mostly cloned and mass-produced and so on, grown in vats and stuff. Then, cortical stacks are installed and they act as sleeves for previous consciences.

Aren't there any clone rights or anything? Are clones viewed as incapable of sentience? Aren't biomorphs allowed to develop their own intelligence or are they incapable of possessing intelligence?

It just seems to me that since bodies no longer matter, you could just pump out millions of clones to create millions of new people, allow them to develop, copy their personalities and continue.

Or, heck - get one clone, back-up its personality upon birth and replicate it a billion times. From there, they can all progress differently.

It seems like humanity's on the verge of instinction when reproduction is so darn easy.

>>5643301
except hedonism, no one wants that

>>5643330
mind born cult, we never progress from one body to the next we are conscience born of conscience,
lament the loss of your predecessor gather gifts of knowledge for your progeny

>>5643370
>INSTINCTION
oh for fuck's sake
extinction.
I'm a 'tard.

rolled 3 + 4 = 7

>>5643330
The only problem with this is that you suffer stress if you wake up with a gap in your memory.

Which in your case would be 1d10+4. Bonus: if you take more stress damage than your trauma threshold, you get a derangement.

If you're not very good at handling stress, it'd be a good idea to keep your backup updated.

>>5643194

Someone's pissed we're talking about something that isn't warhammer or D&D.

OK, Plot Idea -

Alcor (RL Cryonics Company) has a bunch of bodies still left on earth, frozen at various points from the 1960's to a few weeks before the fall. According to their estimates, the various precautions they had taken to keep the cryonics capsules from failing are about to run out.

Alcor now doubles as an an investment firm still struggling to get into the new economy. The problem is that if the bodies aren't being preserved, they are now liable for all sorts of shit.

Utilizing ties they had established with Firewall and some Reclaimationists, your players have been tapped for a desperate rescue mission to earth to retrieve as many suspended individuals or heads as they can.

Oh, by the way, there's been signs of unknown activity in the area. Good Luck.

This is Cowboy Bebop with immortal cyborgs, anyway sure there are clone-rights movements, just like there are segregation movements. Space sorta screws with civil rights for a while and you can basically get stalled in court forever, literally.

>>5643370
They tried that. Exactly that. It ended with the "Lost" generation. Basically a bunch of kids who went flipping mental.

The program was pretty much stopped after that.

>>5643372

That's kind of like my 'Oneist' idea, except more accepting of their fate. But - what happens if you Jump back to an old body you've since stored for future use. Rep doesn't grow on organ trees, you know.

>>5643342
No one wants to help a brother out?

>>5643418
Interesting concept. That's another method of repopulations. Uncovering the cyrofrozen from Earth.

>>5643443
Only you can decide what you like and what you want to put in.

>>5643409
this is a campaign starter so i think that could be waived with the rational that the hypercorp has a vested interest in keeping you stable so they keep you sedated until the necessary conditioning is *almost* complete, maybe you get mind born counseling= new character

>>5643432
Except why would they go mental?
Makes no sense.

>>5643443
Download it in EP, and run the setting using EP's rules.

I mean, it's free, it's about transhumanity, it's basically all win-win for you.

>>5643447
Heh, you'll never be quite sure what you're bringing back though...

>>5643453
Well, I don't know man. I kind of like the idea of AI developing like children...

Maybe the rogue AI "had a bad youth"?

>>5643463
your a copy among millions
breed!

>>5643418
Hi, welcome to the future! I'm a talking Octopus. We just saved your cryo-frozen corpse from a killer Nanoswarm. We couldn't bring the whole body so we cut off your head and escaped into our base on the sun because Earth's not safe anymore.
But don't worry, we put your mind in a new body. Your Personal data said something about you "wishing to be the little girl" didn't it?

>>5643483
You're BIOLOGICALLY a copy in a society where biology is not permanant.

>>5643463
They tried to force 18 years of growing up into 3 years, with the result of HOLY SHIT CRAZY.

Oh, and then they all got somehow infected with an Exsurgent virus, and lots escaped. And nearly half of them have murdered by the time they're 12 years old.

>>5643510
There are actually specialized child bodies called "Neotenics", primarily used by mechanics, engineers and some scavengers to get to the hard to get places in machine and so on.
However, most people will just look at you and consider you another pervert who wants to play with his little girl sleeve.

>>5643522
Aren't they post-fall? Twelve years old would be impossible.

But, I see your point and if they were infected, well, I guess I can understand then.

>>5643531
thatsthejoke.jpg

>>5643522
After the sample was selected, all subjects
were sleeved into our fast-growth futura-brand
biomorph bodies and inducted into customized
simulspace accelerated learning environments.
The project made extensive use of emergent
technologies and techniques culled from re-
captured TITAN facilities, including neogenetic
traits for the futura morphs and time distortion
applications for captive simulspace popula-
tions. Futura ran concurrently on three differ-
ent research stations with a combined staff of
2,211 researchers and support personnel and
45 AGIs custom-programmed for expert child
development. Project goals were to raise each
child to a subjective 18 years life experience in
3 years objective time.

So yeah, stupid plan.

>>5643545
You can read the whole thing on page 235

>techniques culled from re-captured TITAN facilities

And they didn't see something like this happening?

>>5643107
Are we talking about the same Islam?

>>5643463
<begin excerpt>
PSICLONE Project Quarterly Board Meeting
2nd Quarter 8 AF
FUTURA Project Conclusion—
Executive Summary Report
Prepared by Dr. Amelia Sheppard
Per request, I have compiled a review of the Futura Project and its fallout, 5 years after whistleblowers and intense media attention forced us to end the project and release the remaining subjects (dubbed “the Lost” by popular media).

Futura was a joint initiative spearheaded by Hanto Genomics and strongly backed by Cognite, with numerous other partners (complete list). The project was initially proposed by my mentor, Dr. Antonio Pascal, whose team had proven the feasibility of Accelerated Life Experience Training (ALET) after a series of pilot studies with two small (N<1000) samples. While it is true that these early pilot studies used both older subjects and a lesser amount of time dilation, the rationale for the Futura Project’s ambitious program was justifi ed by a remarked decrease in transhumanity’s population due to the Fall, a system-wide stagnant population growth rate (blamed on various factors including increased longevity, available contraception, and rising despair over troubling times), as well as a desire to move aggressively into a new technological sector in the hopes of obtaining a competitive advantage.

Futura began immediately in the wake of the Fall with an initial seed population of test subjects culled from extant genetic material and gestated to between 1 week and 6 months after birth. Of these, less than 10% were live births from either a surrogate or genetic birth mother who had perished during the Fall. The majority came from our Lunar and Martian labs and were brought to term within an exowomb.

>>5643581
After the sample was selected, all subjects were sleeved into our fast-growth futura-brand biomorph bodies and inducted into customized simulspace accelerated learning environments. The project made extensive use of emergent technologies and techniques culled from recaptured TITAN facilities, including neogenetic traits for the futura morphs and time distortion applications for captive simulspace populations. Futura ran concurrently on three different research stations with a combined staff of 2,211 researchers and support personnel and 45 AGIs custom-programmed for expert child development. Project goals were to raise each child to a subjective 18 years life experience in 3 years objective time.

Despite omnipresent observation and real-time adjusting of the simulspace and educational programming for optimal normality, somewhere along the way the project suffered a breakdown in quality assurance and parameter monitoring that resulted in a near total failure at empathy modeling. We fi rst observed this effect 11 months into the project when the subjects had aged to approximately 6 years of age. Incidences of animal cruelty and acting out had spiked, though at that time they remained within acceptable standards. Over the next few months this trend continued and Dr. Pascal authorized the usage of more authoritative “parenting” to attempt to correct for the borderline sociopathic behavior that was being exhibited by 23.19% of all subjects by the 18- month mark (9 years of age).

>>5643463

Because their development was accelerated

>>5643583
We now know that these changes had the unintended consequence of suppressing overt displays of cruelty and violence and merely taught the majority of subjects how to conceal their psychoses. It was also at this time that the fi rst deaths occurred. The initial waves were thought to be accidents and both the victim and perpetrator were usually backed up to a week or so of subjective time. Post-project analysis now shows that 43.87% of our subjects had engaged in at least one act of premeditated murder by the 24-month mark (12 years of age) and the counseling protocols were only training them how to lie more effectively.

>>5643577
No, because I'm talking about the Islam from the art/history/religion books, and you're talking about the Islam from Fox-News.

>>5643589
It was at this point that myself and Dr. Aaron Bharani advocated pulling the plug on the project and bringing the subjects out to real time and intensive counseling. Dr. Pascal vetoed our concerns without ever taking them to the board. As the project spiraled towards its conclusion, a fork of Dr. Bharani went public at the 34 month mark, inciting a fi restorm of controversy. While Dr. Pascal successfully tied up investigators, hoping to see the project through to its conclusion, the incident at our Legacy research station occurred. Initial fi ndings concluded that one or more of the subjects had escaped the program and were in fact responsible for the habitat’s environmental failures and the thousands of subsequent deaths. In the face of intense public and private scrutiny, many of the partners involved in the project attempted to pull out and even eliminate all traces of their involvement. In the resulting chaos, an estimated subjects were quietly released into the system’s general population. It was only after this occurred that all known subjects were identifi ed as having been infected with the Watts-Macleod strain of the Exsurgent virus, though when and how this occurred remains troubling and unclear. Though later orders resulted in all remaining subjects being euthanized and/or backed up into cold storage, only of the released subjects were recaptured. Of the rest, pursued sanctuary with sympathetic authorities, went public and submitted themselves to extensive psychotherapy, were killed in incidents of violence and not resurrected, and the rest presumably went into hiding.
<end excerpt>

>>5643510
WALT DISNEY! WE NEED WALT DISNEY BACK FROM THE FROZEN CRY POD AND INTO DA FUTURE!!!!!

>>5643581
>>5643583
>>5643589
>>5643591
Damn, boy.

>>5643463
>>5643584
I thought it was they got fucked up by some virus or something and the acceleration prevented anybody from catching it till it was too late.

>>5643590
I'm talking about the Islam from History. Dont buy into all the Fluff thats been floating around recently.

>>5643545

actually, every new born is essentially that: a new clone with a brand new personality. The problem is that they can't mass produce it because of resource and they can't accelerate it because of OMG GOING CRAZY. Have to take things slowly

>>5643617
he has stocks from nearly half the hypercorps,
new galactic overlord!

>>5643657
Since when is Fox-News a viable historical source?

Last time I checked, they were looking for hackers on steroids, suicide-terrorist doctors and Nintendo DS pedophiles.

Based on rules from http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=470503

DEATHCLAWS
Based on a species genetically engineered for combat shortly before the Fall, these hulking, vaguely reptilian bipeds stand about 2 meters tall.
Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack
Aptitude Maximum: 25 (20 COG and SAV)
Durability: 50
Wound Threshold: 10
Advantages: Claw Attack (1d10 + 2 + (SOM ÷ 10) DV, AP -2, use Unarmed Combat skill), +5 REF, +5 Fray, +10 Unarmed Combat, +10 SOM
Disadvantages: -10 Languages (all), -5 to all weaponry skills (except Unarmed Combat and Throwing)
CP Cost: 25
Credit Cost: High

>>5643771
Reaper is superior.

Tachikoma (Synthetic)

Multiple engagements between the secret organisations Firewall and Project Ozma have convinced Firewall that it needs a Synthetic Morph capable of standing toe-to-toe with anything the enemy can throw at it. The result was the Tachikoma, specially built to perform in nearly any environment with complete autonomy and competency. The current lack of lack of Vacuum capable movement is rumoured to of been addressed in a new model scheduled to be brought into operation in the near future.

I NERDGASM

>>5643883
A Tachikoma's already just an AGI in an Arachnoid with multiple gun implants.

>>5643895

a very smooth looking arachnoid

>>5643771
>Advantages: Claw Attack (1d10 + 2 + (SOM ÷ 10) DV, AP -2, use Unarmed Combat skill), +5 REF, +5 Fray, +10 Unarmed Combat, +10 SOM
>Disadvantages: -10 Languages (all), -5 to all weaponry skills (except Unarmed Combat and Throwing)

These are just stupid. Advantages or disadvantages should not be given to skills.

Obviously the implication is that the morph cannot speak very well, or hold weapons very well. But when you consider that it's just a shell, a body, and that the entity that is actually skilled is the mind, it doesn't work out.

Imagine this: You've got a character fluent in Russian. They hop in this morph, and suddenly they can't speak russian fluently anymore, even if the message is completely digitized.

Or how about a character who's in this morph, but wirelessly connected to a weapons platform? The morph gives them a magical disadvantage to shooting things.

>>5643967

It should just be more specific that the disadvantages are given to using the morph as the basis for those skills.

Ahem.
Stat us.

fury morph!

anyways, what about people who don't believe in resleeving? that either something intangible is lost in the process or the process itself is flawed - uploading just kills a person and copies their memories onto a black slate.

>>5643967

maybe there are flaws inherent in the deathclaw brain structures that control language and fine motor control?

if you upload into a damaged or flawed biomorph, you're gonna have problems.

>>5644035

Yes.

See: Pretty much the entire Jovian Republic

Has anyone statted me yet?

>>5644035
These communities are viewed as highly flawed and are slowly dying out.

So, I think I've finally settled on a character.

Basically an arrogant smooth talking hacker. Originally from a small scum barge, she wound up signing on with the Nine Lives. In addition to being involved in the soul trade via Nine Lives, she's also engaged in drug trafficking and the underground X-casting scene. Extremely narcissistic, she utilizes a fork of herself as her muse, uses forks of herself for sexual pleasure, and ultimately aspires to create multiple alpha forks of herself to create an organization similar to Pax Familiae. Additionally, she's abnormally protective of her forks, as she views them as the only people equal to herself. Her love for her forks earned her the ire of the Jovians after she rescued a fork of herself that was undergoing aggressive interrogation (said fork is the one that would become her muse).

Background: Scumborn
Faction: Criminal
Motivations: +Forking, +Personal Development, +Hedonism
Morph: Neotenic
Base stats: COG 30 / COO 15 (20 with morph) / INT 15 (20 with morph) / REF 15 (20 with morph) / SAV 20 (25 with morph) / SOM 10 / WIL 20
Moxie 1 / TT 8 / LUC 40 / IR 80 / WT 6 / DUR 30 / DR 45 / INIT 80 / SPD 1 / DB 3

>>5644112

Active Skills: Fray (30), Hardware: Electronics (50), Infiltration (35), Infosec (60), Interfacing (60), Investigation (35), Kinesics (50), Networking: Criminal (60), Networking: Media (30), Networking: Autonomists (30), Perception (30), Persuasion (60), Programming (60), Protocol (40), Research (60), Scrounging (35), Spray Weapons (35)
Passive Skills: Academics: Computer Science (60), Academics: Cryptography (60), Art: Electronic Music (55), Art: Petal crafting (60), Interest: Black Market (60), Interest: X-casting (60), Interest: Hacker Mesh Forums (60), Language: Native English (85), Language: Russian (50), Profession: Smuggling (60)
Positive Traits: Right at Home (Neotenic biomorphs), Allies (Nine Lives), Fast Learner
Negative Traits: Addiction (Petals), Mental Disorder (Megalomania), On the Run (Jovians)

Still 40 free CP, though. I might just convert to credits and/or use it for more Moxie.

>>5644093

we discussed the possibilities in a previous thread

>>5644035

Such people usually undergo a weird destructive upload that involves slicing open the brain, and then live the remainder of their lives as infomorphs in afterlife themed areas of simulspace.

>>5644092
SAV 30

Academics (Funk): 90
Art (Partying): 90

>>5643998
Morph specific advantages and disadvantages should be in the aptitudes, not the skills.

Because it's silly that a morph which is damaged and in need of repair thus suffering penalties to shooting kinetic weapons, can suddenly fire seeker weapons no problem, or can throw things no problem, or has no difficulty typing or manipulating fine objects.

A change in aptitude fixes that, because it applies to everything related to that aptitude.

So this deathclaw should have a penalty to coordination and intuition, and a bonus to reflex and somatics. But no skill-specific bonuses or penalties.

>>5644161
Wasn't there an image like this, but instead of the rainbows he was browsing 4chan?

>>5644136
Impossible. You can only get 90 points in a skill by taking the Expert trait, and you can only take that trait once.

Ergo, only one skill can be as high as 90.

>>5644200

It depends on whether he's being statted as a PC or NPC.

How good is this thing mechanically. I've wanted to run a crazy Blame!-style campaign for a while, but with, you know, talking.

>>5644200
Are you saying FUTURE MAN can only take the Expert trait once?

>>5644233
It's a less lethal Dark Heresy, really.

>>5644300

Less lethal in that you die less or less lethal in that now you can just relseeve when you die?

>>5644233
I heard the sniper rail gun was overpowered compared to the machine gun but just the ammunition capacity and auto-fire

>>5644200
Does that include bonuses? Or is that just mean the skill itself?

>>5644300

Hmmm, I guess I'll give it a go.

>>5644135

Which is so insanely retarded that it's obviously there to make fun of the stupid flats.

Because Destructive scanning only makes a copy of you - it just kills you in order to do it. The Ego Bridge does exactly what they want and doesn't disrupt continuity.
Not only that, but in less than twenty years it'll be completely obsolete IRL.

It's really pretty funny. I'm sure all of transhumanity jokes about it behind the their backs.
I can see a lot of the 'sline Infomorphs (I can't believe that Anathem isn't on the sources list) realizing this and trying to stop it from continuing.

>>5644311
It uses a rather similar D% system - except when you're doing skill tests, rather than just roll under your stat, you have to roll under your stat plus the number of CP you spent on the stat.

So, on a whole, you're far more likely to succeed at your roles.

I want to play the uplifted octopus with the trait "Addiction (Neotenics)".

>>5644407

Make sure to have his native language be japanese.

>>5644112
>>5644116
I like it a lot. Very nice character.
But why neotenic? Do you want her to be leered at by octomorphs?

Its odd, but the classic form of Islam- which was a relatively liberal, intellectual and reasonable faith- seems quite popular with Sci-fi authors. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy has it playing a part in the terraforming and structure of the martian roads and cities, and I like the way Eclipse Phase deals with it as well.

For those complaining about Christianity and Judaism falling behind, A basically logical reason for this occurring is that, at the time of Eclipse Phase, fundamentalist Islam has once again shifted back to its more liberal ancient basis, a time when the schools and mosques were places of science and learning. A faith with this basis would naturally adapt well to a transhuman future. Christianity and Judaism have, simply put, never been so supportive of, or central to, science.

>>5644481
Neotenics are small, so they're harder to hit.

And they're nice and easy to carry around. Also small. Great when you need someone to climb into your chest cavity to fix a broken power converter.

>>5644481
Neotenics are the child-like morphs.

>>5643002
Islam changed and adapted a lot, looking at different local differences, a lot of old customs have been imported into their own lives. Unlike Christians who said 'fuck you, this is how you live.'

Maybe it is possible for it to dig to it's roots and adapt once more to weed out the bad.

>>5644542
It's a hacker, not an engineer. Also, for smooth talking, I would suggest sylph or exalt.
>>5644543
I know.

Are there any... y'know, backwater places? Say, a colony on one of the moons of venus. The people there are real hillbillies.

They still... you know... give birth.

>>5644481

A mixture of liking the aesthetic, having her first resleeve done at a young age, using them for her underground X-casting, and simply having grown used to using neotenics.

I thought about saddling her with the Identity Crisis trait, and I still might, but I'm not sure.

>>5644607

Yeah, there are bioconservative groups scattered throughout the solar system. Though, I'm not sure how common childbirth would be outside of bioconservative enclaves.

>>5644586
>It's a hacker, not an engineer. Also, for smooth talking, I would suggest sylph or exalt.

Being able to fit into small places is still handy for hacking if you're on location and need to fit into small spaces (crawling through air ducts, hiding under/behind things,et cetera)

>>5644607
There are some real rednecks on the Martian outskirts and don't forget the Jovians on the moons of Saturn.

>>5644730

Yeah, but the Martian rednecks aren't bioconservatives, and a lot of them are in synthetic sleeves.

>>5644300
>>5644311
As far as I've been able to tell, it's only less lethal in the sense that even if your character is killed, you still probably have a backup.

Otherwise it's not particularly hard to kill a morph if you set your mind to it.

For example, using this character: >>5644112 [We give him heavy body armor. For 13/13 armor with a WT of 6 and durability of 30.]

Let's say somebody shoots him in burst fire mode [2 attacks, +1d10 damage] with a medium kinetic pistol using armor piercing bullets [-7 AP, 2d10 damage]. For a total of -7 AP and 3d10 damage x 2. If we use the average damage [18 damage], then the Neotenic is taking two 18 damage hits. [We're assuming both attacks hit.]

The neotenic has 13 kinetic armor reduced by the AP to 6. So both attacks penetrate for 12 damage each. Since 12 is double his wound threshold, the neotenic takes two wounds from each attack, and must make a roll against falling over AND being knocked unconscious, TWICE. [Once for each attack, because both of them dealt 2 wounds.] The first roll is with a -20 modifier due to the first two wounds [-10 modifier on all actions per wound.]. The second roll is with a -40 modifier.

In addition to this the wounds bleed out, and the neotenic takes 4 damage per action phase [80 damage per minute].

The neotenic body has now taken 24 damage. His durability rating is 30. 6 more points of damage and he'd be unconscious without a save. His death rating is 45, so if he takes 45 damage, the body dies and his mind is saved into his cortical stack.

tl;dr - It's hard to hit someone, but when you do they pretty much just die.

>>5644607
>Say, a colony on one of the moons of venus
>moons of venus

>>5644645
An arrogant narcissistic hacker who thinks she is a little girl and utilizes copies of herself for sexual encounters.
Freud would have a field-day with that.

>>5644551
This seems rather... unlikely, if anything you would just have another period of Christian Splintering (The Protestant Revolution mean anything to ya?) with dozen or perhaps hundreds of splinter faiths with varying levels of canonical adherence.

Mormonism for instance is simply 'longing' for the Sci-Fi Transhuman Age in which we too shall become gods.

>>5644748

So your options are to either play a high fray neotenic who tries like hell to not get hit, or a armor heavy synthetic.

That or get used resleeving.

>>5644757
Hey... that gives me an idea.

I wonder if a moon could be used to increase Venus' rotation. It'd probably be a bit easier than building millions of giant fusion engines around the equator.

Once Venus can rotate, that half solves its problem with heating up from being so close to the sun.

>>5644770

Freud would sum it up with two words: penis envy.

>>5644819
Or actually be smart and not get into open firefights.

>>5644824

Increasing Venus's rotation speed would help more with the high winds than the temperature.

>>5644819
Well, to be fair, the neotenic doesn't seem to have any sort of implants to make him more durable in combat.

There's stuff that can increase your durability and armor beyond just 13/13 for biomorphs. You could, for instance, get heavy bioweave armor, and wear a combat exoskeleton with some armor upgrades for 26/22 armor. Also, the low wound threshold on the neotenic really doesn't help him out. If he'd had a wound threshold of 7, instead of 6 he'd have taken 2 wounds instead of 4.

Personally, I think the system works fairly well.

Although some things [Sniper rifles] are overpowered, and others [machine guns] are underpowered. But with a decent DM you can get those modified a bit.

>>5644836

That works well too.

>>5644730

P. 93, Mars:
Meanwhile,
in the wild uplands, planetologists and terraforming
engineers dwell in small villages, living the simple life
in ruster morphs while seeing to the continued devel-
opment of the Martian climate and atmosphere.
As a partially terraformed planet with vast tracts of
unused land, Mars is one of the few places that can
offer new sleeves to infomorph refugees. Martian bro-
kerage houses do a brisk business in the purchase and
resale of infomorph contract labor, with agreements
(for some) leading to eventual sleeving. This has led to
a sizable Martian underclass, however, organized as a
growing resistance movement under the Barsoomian
banner (though the hyperelite socialites disparagingly
call them “rednecks”).

They're nothing like actual rednecks. That'd be the Jovians and Luddites.

>>5644804
whose to say they don't?
its just that POLITICAL power tends to fall into the hands of the populist movement and would you look at that I bet we never would have gotten into this mess if we'd listened to papy reading the Quran

>>5644882

I'm not sure neotenics should be durable in combat.

I mean, they're children/young adolescents.

>>5644870
Well, part of the problem with terraforming venus is that one side is always facing the sun, and one side isn't. [Well, almost. It does still rotate, just not very much.]

If you can rotate it fast enough, but not too fast, then it can bleed off excess heat through radiation on its dark side.

Combine this with a high albedo surface [lots and lots of white daisies] and possibly a sizable solar shade of some kind, and you should be able to keep the surface from heating up too much.

>>5644902

So? They're not anything like contemporary children, are they?

>>5644919

Yeah, but Venus is very hot across the entire planet, not just the day side like with Mercury.

If you increased the rotation speed, the day side would cool down, but the night side would heat up.

>>5644830
You say tomato I say AWESOME, really ya got to hand it to him it seems like the perfect comedy relief, a squad of upty redhead lolis all looking out for their "sesterselves" with guns and powerarmor

>>5644940

The main difference is that they don't age and they have adult minds. They might be a little hardier, but only inasmuch as all biomorphs are.

>>5644919
Hit it with a few rocks at an angle to speed up rotation, I mean unless you have some kind of grav engine in which case "rotate dem planets!"

i frankly doubt anything short of a full TITAN incursion could ever get Venus terraformed, meanwhile settle for aerostats and the odd surface trip(mooving a moon is serious business)

>>5644979
you'd need indecent amounts of kinetic energy for that, I mean theres more to it than throwing rocks at the thing

>>5643370
>Or, heck - get one clone, back-up its personality upon birth and replicate it a billion times. From there, they can all progress differently.

Alastair Reynolds: House of Suns.
Galactic human cultures rise and fall, the only constant is the Shatterling Lines. Less than ten, I think. Individuals who cloned themselves, 999 times, then spread their shattered selves through space. They meet every million years or so, to exchange experiences. They see civilisations rise and fall, and the knowledge they possess is worth so much they can basically turn up anywhere and say "I'm here to experience your culture for a decade". That and they own rather awesome technology, having sampled bits of everything. The Gentian line, for example, are able to build solar dams around stars to prevent supernovas by taking precursor ringworlds and piloting them into a shell.

There are also transhumans in this setting, plenty of cultures that change their form but mostly originally human. There are transhuman individuals that became machines, one who is a nanoswarm in a desert planet's atmosphere, and taking the place of plantlife by providing oxygen, filtering the sun and so on.

Oh, and there are a race of elephantlike transhumans who have a fusion bomb in their chests. If they feel suicidal they take most of a city with them.

>>5644982
The Titanians did it THREE times.

>>5644979
>>5645010

Well, even if you figure out a way to correct Venus's rotation (without knocking it out of orbit around the sun) by throwing rocks at it... you still have a small problem. The colonies currently on Venus would wind up being destroyed by the endeavor.

>>5644982
thin out the atmosphere, then riddle the surface with heatsinks is always a more viable venture than moving celestial bodies

>>5645010
Wouldn't hitting it with rocks increase the amount of airborne dust particles, thereby decreasing the effect of the sun's rays and cooling the planet that way?

What if we were throwing icebergs instead of rocks?

>>5645045

If you hit it with a big enough rock, you'll knock a large portion of the Venusian atmosphere into space

>>5644950

And then they go back home for loli lesbian sex when the mission is over (with one slipping into an octomorph for the evening).

>>5645106
I was thinking more along the lines of getting completely raped (figuratively...mostly ) by the remorseless hypercorp drones, and you would rage, and weep

>>5645085
Why not adapt a few gas mining rigs to remove excess atmosphere? I'd say anything strong enough to resist Jupiter's pressures and extract enough gas to fuel itself and be commercially viable would do quite a number on Venus.

Any idea where the individual gates lead to?

>>5645173
I think they have a wide range of 'addresses' programed into them but hey can only access one at a time.

>>5645173

The Pandora Gates lead to different exoplanets. The book lists a few exoplanets and tells you which gate(s) they're accessed from. Though, the gates could potentially lead to other systems (the way it was described in one story made them sound like the stargates).

>>5645160
that would work about as fast as global warming in reverse i.e. 2 degrees in 50 years and if you can do that why not terraform earth?

>>5645205

Because earth is also fucked from nuclear fallout and TITAN nanoswarms.

>>5645160
There isn't anything specifically in Jupiter, near as I remember reading.

Sounds more like they fly giant He3 collector spaceships into the atmosphere, and then fly back out. Granted, if they're doing that on Jupiter, then it's entirely possible for Venus, considering the lower gravity.

Biggest problem with anything close to Jupiter is the lolradiation that kills you in a couple hours.

>>5645205
>2 degrees in 50 years
Good enough when lifespans can be measured in millenia.

>>5645205
I believe Earth still has that small issue where it's overrun by lethal bioplagues, TITAN warmachines, and sentient computer viruses.

>>5645199
only they crash and don't work both ways half the time, plus I got a feeling their much more limited as in you can get within a couple of light years of each system, it seems hyperspace travel never really got going for the aliens either

>>5645045
Throwing Iceburgs (comets and ice heavy asteroids) is the worse thing you can do! They won't make it through the atmosphere to even impact, and water vapor is one of the best global warmers known to man.

>>5645240
exterminatus now, repopulate later!

>>5643729
Actually Islam was once pretty progressive, while Christianity was the main religion of a continent which had just had it's main ruling power taken out. As a result it was used time and time again as a tool to get the masses to work towards the interests of prominent figures. Mean while Europe starts getting on top while the Muslim world stalls. After rougly 1000 years of religious conflict and infighting, the Christian European nations decides they've had it, and switches to a secular model. Islam on the other hand has not experrienced the same kind of religious infighting as the Christianity, and have managed to stay more or less unified apart from the whole Shia/Sunni thing. Suddenly Islam become the underdog and doesn't understand why, and it is common human nature to blame someone else. So now you have a Middle East with a shitty looking future, a large group of young males with little to no possibility of proper self realization, which also lessens the chance of getting laid. Pussy being the main motivator for most of what men do, appearantly. These young men get frustrated and radicalism flourishes.

As Cpl Person put it in Generation Kill: No pussy = War

All in all: Islam has not had the same time to grow as Christianity, lets just hope that outside influence will prevent it from taking 1000 years of bloodshed.

>>5645019

An interesting note is that, to avoid the silly "I'm the REAL Abigail Gentian" the cloning process is automated and random - so that none of them know which one is the original.

Of course, none of them identify as Abigail Gentian anymore anyway.

>>5645232
though no ones lived to a millenia, honestly thats how long it would take under the most optimistic forecasts, but why bother if you can just throw on a mesh and go sunbathing literally

>>5645271
Sounds like a movie

>>5645331
morph disregard- I suck cock

>>5645307
Speaking as an American Christian its ironic, but this radicalism also helps Islam spread through young previously Christian men who feel that men have no place in the modernized, 'castrated' Church.

Islam offers a better sense of masculine oriented worship to these disfranchised, this combined with extensive outreaching, public awareness, and recruitment makes it hard for the all too complacent and self righteous westernized churches to react or respond to this loss.

>>5645247
>plus I got a feeling their much more limited as in you can get within a couple of light years of each system

Nah, they're gate-to-gate. I suppose it's possible you'll wind up coming out a gate you didn't mean to, though, I think the interesting thing about the pandora gates is that the Factors have issued dire sounding warnings about their use and refuse to deal with any hypercorps involved in gatecrashing.

>>5645407
Funny how they also manage to strengthen ant-Islam radicalism at the same time.

would rape still be rape? You've pretty much got yourself a private compartment in your head where you can spend the time...and I just imagined the most brutally horrifying scene ever involving muses singing lullabies

>>5645407

Interesting, you always hear about the radical Islamists going after the disaffected youth, but I haven't heard about a movement from the more sedate religions to the radicalist side.

What does everyone thing of the psi sleights? haven't really looked but they seem interesting.

>>5645456

Well, yeah, it'd still be rape.

Though, how much rape would actually be happening? If ( http://www.law.stanford.edu/display/images/dynamic/events_media/Kendall%20cover%20+%20paper.pdf ) is to be believed, then the easy access to pleasure pods and VR/XP porn would make rape rather rare.

>>5645464
Religion offers answers, an identity and a group to feel home with. Just the thing disaffected youth needs. In danger of drawing lines between the two, so do gangs. This is why programs to keep young people in ghettos out of gangs also helps against radicalism.It's all about giving them an identity and a place to belong, before radicalism does.

>>5645488

They look neat, though, I'm not entirely sure how useful they are, since they're short range and don't affect synthetics.

>>5645436

SPOILERS
SPOILERS
(though they are fairly easy to guess)

Well the reason for that is that the Exsurgent Virus, which corrupted the relatively benign TITANS was a creation of an ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) several billion years old. It seeded the milky way with self replicating probes that would attract any near singularity civilisation and then destroy/convert them.

So the Factors (who managed to survive their Exsurgent crisis) are terrified that the Pandora Gates might lead to the ETI and make it take a slightly more proactive attitude towards Exterminatus.

/SPOILER

>>5645446
To reintroduce the no pussy = car bomb a motherfucker theory with just a dash of transhumanism, watch GitS Second Gig. Motherfucker designs an infectious meme/cyberbrain virus which will inspire victims to give their lives in acts of dramatic terrorism.
The catch? Only /v/irgins are susceptible to the meme.

>>5645456
The same thing pretty much happens during modern incidents of rape. Yes, rape is still rape, though I imagine it would be a lot more difficult because you don't know who's hands can suddenly turn into a tazer.

Why can't I play a tabletop roleplaying game of transhuman conspiracy and wacky hijinx?.

>>5645562

Or maybe the Factors are full of shit and they're just interstellar merchants who view the pandora gates as a threat to their business.

>>5645584
>you don't know who's hands can suddenly turn into a tazer.

That's only for sentinels/mercs

Normal people don't have that kind of hardware.

>>5645593

Because you haven't found a group to play Eclipse Phase with.

>>5645593
A few of the rule bits in the book suggest giving bonuses for wacky hijinks (oddly enough).

This makes me want to roll a runaway betafork.

TUVIX WANTS TO LIVE!

This is what the reaper Synth looks like.

Roll an AIG named SHODAN. Try to exterminate the human race.

Hmmm so just fishing for ideas here. I am making a more or less infiltration/assassin/espionage character. My first inclination is to go with the Ghost biomorph. But the main focus I plan to have the character is to be more or less a hides in plain sight. That meaning they look like they belong where they are.

For instance trying to infiltrating a hypercorp. Watching the workers studying their uniforms their interactions and the like. Then through use of his smart clothes and maybe assuming one of their identities he would enter and get the job done. Whether that be hacking in and planting a virus or data theft or killing some one or what ever.

Well one would the Ghost morph be the best for this? And do y'all even think this option is viable?

>>5645793

If you're trying to infiltrate a hypercorp, you should use whatever morph they're using.

>>5645793
In this case, you're best off playing a socio-hacker character - hack a target, download all useful information, terminate the cortical stack and replace it with your own. Bam, infiltration.

>>5645896
>terminate the cortical stack and replace it with your own.

I think that's easier said that done since you have to incapacitate the target and find a place willing to do the resleeving for you.

It'd be easier to hack your nanotattoo ID to display the same ID as the target.

Johnny Five...IS ALIVE

>>5646073
Not only is he alive, but he is one of the Titans that caused all this.

>>5646121

We've had it with tolerance. Fuck you, Johnny. This time? We Disassemble.

>>5646073

MORE INPUT

>>5646189

Did she stick her tongue down your throat?

I want a sylph-octomorph hybrid.

>>5646253
So you want /d/?

>>5646265

Maybe.

What's the point of taking more than one language when muses can provide real-time translation?

>>5646018
That's more or less what I was thinking.

>>5646253
>>5646271
One of the available implants you can purchase is a prehensile tail.
There's nothing sayin you can only purchase one.
Other interesting options might include Chameleon Skin, Endocrine Control, Enhanced Pheromones, Grip Pads, Gills, Poison Glands or Skin Pockets.
For cosmetics, you might want to get Bodysculpting and Subdermal Implants. With this, you can get perfectly smooth, slimy skin. Perfect to imitate an slimy monster.

(Oh, and Bodysculpting can also be used for enlarging sexual organs. Enjoy.)

>>5646501
>Poison Glands

It's worth noting that one of the available toxins in the game is Oxytocin, which can be used for seduction.

>>5646353
I knew I was forgetting something in my character creation!

How much does a muse cost?

>>5646554

All characters start with a muse for free.

>>5646527
Mhm. Poison can be spread by injection, injury or consumption. You can share a drink, kiss or even put the poisonous organ in your victim's mouth to poison them.

>>5646501
>>5646527
>>5646576

Don't forget the Hither drug.

Sticky Grenades

>>5646599
Oh, yes.
You might want to get Drug Glands as well, then.

>>5646608

Grenades aren't the only thing that's sticky

I just want to know? Can you have sex with a Tachikoma in this game? If it is true, then I am in!

>>5646653
I suppose you could request a Arachnoid sleeve with that particular attachment, yes.

On the topic of seduction, which would be the better morph: a sylph or pleasure pod?

>>5646653

Where there is a will, there's a way.

Suggested Implants for Averna, with a base biomorph of a sylph:

Drug Glands (Hither)
Enhanced Pheromones
Poison Gland (Flight - to induce fear)
Poison Gland (Oxytocin - to induce false sense of security)
Poison Gland (Twitch - to induce unconsciousness)
Multiple Prehensile Tails

Bodysculpting
Subdermal Implants

>>5646667
Sylphs - pleasure pods evoke disgust in the minds of many due to the fact that they're pretty unethical in design and in usage. Meanwhile, sylphs are perfect, designed to be ever so attractive for media purposes, not sexual.

>>5646807
>>5646667

Either way, it's probably best to have a neotenic on standby for targets with peculiar tastes.

>>5646830
Neotenics are also viewed as pretty unlikable because well - you're an adult. Why would you want to be in a baby girl suit, you sick fuck?

>>5646853

The neotenic morph wouldn't be used for general purpose seduction, though. It'd stay on ice in a dollhouse until you get a target who is in to that sort of thing.

>Why would you want to be in a baby girl suit,

You can get a male neotenic body as well, ya know.

>>5646890
Resleeving takes a while, too. Your customer won't wait for you to spend a day resleeving. So, the body would have to be occupied, waiting for the right customer.

Also, baby boy suit. Same difference. It would be viewed the same way.

>>5646772

I believe there is a way to get suction cups or something akin to them as well. To make the tails more like tentacles.

>>5646945
Grip Pad implants.

>Your customer won't wait for you to spend a day resleeving.

I'm not sure what the issue is. If you're seducing a target, you'll spend at least a day researching the target and prepping for the encounter. Your target shouldn't know you're resleeving for them.

>>5646653

Most colonies are still rooted in the cultures that formed them, right? you just know what goes on in the japanese habitats.

How well can someone hack into a biomorph via their mesh implant?

>>5646957
If it's seducing a target and not obtaining a neotenic upon request, then okay then.

Just remember, neotenics and hell, all biomorphs are pretty expensive. We're talking at least 20K.

>>5646982
Why bother with reality when virtual reality is just as good?

Be anyone, anything. Fuck anyone, anything.

And it's all virtual so there's virtually no risk.

>>5647001
You can either hack with physical connections or via the mesh.
After successful hacking, memories can be removed, the ego can be contained with the cyberbrain, the victim's body can be jacked, scorching software can be used to severely harm the victim's state of mind, the body can be shut down and the connection between cyberbrain and cortical stack can be shut down.

>>5647021

Biomorphs are expensive, but rep at character creation is incredibly cheap. If you need an extra morph but don't have credits on hand you can just call in some favors.

>>5647088
I suppose if you've got hypercorp rep, that could work out, sure.

>>5647035

Yeah, if I were actually in the Eclipse Phase world, I think I'd stay an infomorph and play MMOs all day.

>>5647099

Really, you could use any of the reps for it, though how useful different reps may be would vary depending on the hab.

What is every one using for digital character sheets? I assume just work in a jumbled mass like myself?

>>5647133
Yeah.
Also, we're about to autosage.
Again.

New thread or let it die?

>>5647099
Or @-rep. The Titanian Commonwealth is actually one of the largest (I think it might even be the largest) producers of morphs.

>>5647148
Damn I was hoping some one had something rigged up.

As for a new thread. Eh. Either way really works.

can you be resleeved after being killed? How long do you "keep" for?

>>5647205
This is one of the basic concepts of the setting.

Everyone is backed up. Usually once per month. If you die, your backed up conscience is uploaded on to a sleeve with all of the memories from before the point you were backed up. So you might still lose two weeks of vital experiences or something.

>>5647222
Naw, more often than once a month, I'd think.

You suffer stress damage if your backup was older than a day.

You suffer a lot of stress damage if it's older than a month.

>>5647222
Unless your cortical stack is recovered.

i believes there's also one other way for your ego to be saved after death, something with nanobots, right?

rolled 4 = 4

>>5647001
Well, I've got the rules here in front of me, so let's see...

We'll take this character: >>5643262
Hacking into the brain of this character: >>5644112

Step 1. Defeat the firewall. [Skill test]
Step 2. Bypass active security. [Opposed Test]

We'll assume the Neotenic scummer is running active security, and that the hacker is trying to gain admin privileges. [-30 modifier]

The hacker has an infosec skill of 90, with the -30 modifier he needs to roll a 70 or less to successfully break through the firewall. Let's see how we do.

>>5647238
Most of the characters I see have a once-a-month back-up.

Also, that's the point. Sure, you're immortal but immortality doesn't matter when death would be a release.

>>5647088
>>5647099
>>5647125
>>5647161

@-rep -- Good if you're in the outer system, though the type of morphs you'll have access to may be limited. Probably will only have access to standard citizen morphs, and they may be used, but, hey, it's a body.
C-rep -- Good if you're in the inner system, Jupiter, and maybe even a few outer system habs. A wider range of morphs thanks to CAPITALISM!, but, once again, good chance that they'll be used.
E-rep -- Porbably the worst rep for getting a hold of a body. But, they should at least be able to hook you up with a basic synth.
F-rep -- Not bad, any body you get from them is gonna be pretty, and even if it winds up being second hand, it'll probably be in good condition (though, an addiction might be possible)
G-rep -- Probably one of the better bets for obtaining a morph, after all, if they don't have the body you want on hand, they can just steal it for you. Though, depending on your rep level with them, you run a chance of getting a body with a few bruises and a bad history, but, on the flip side, those bodies will also come with blackmarket hardware already installed.
i-rep -- Firewall is a massive conspiracy, they can figure something out. Though, if you're doing a Firewall job, they'll probably give you a morph without you needing to ask.
r-rep -- Good for getting those fancy top of the line morphs. Likely to be new, but you might wind up getting the results of a failed experiment.

>>5647251
Well.. that's an MoS +60. Which basically means he broke in completely undetected with an admin level account. The hacker counts as Hidden.

Now it's just a matter of breaking the neotenics brain...

>>5647267
No, they have one-month insurance. That means they have their backups covered an unlimited amount for one month. Not that they get one backup per month.

>>5647285
The autonomists include the Titanium Commonwealth, and they're the largest morph producer in the setting. In addition, the autonomists tend not to have any restrictions against nanofabbers and such, which means anyone can basically make almost anything they want.

I don't see the autonomists having any problems with getting morph bodies.

>>5647251
Funny thing.
Your character can actually hack into someone's mind, severely edit their memory and also make them want to really go for a fuckin' back-up, thereby permanantly ruining a character, forever.

>>5647295
>>5647251
Ah, my mistake. It would appear that you can't hack biomorph brains. Only their mesh inserts. So while the hacker has admin access, he can't really do much beyond change reality as the the neotenic sees it. and/or mess with whatever equipment is slaved to the neotenic's mesh.

I suppose that means the hacker could activate the neotenic's gun if it were smartlinked...

>>5647335

Biomorphs aren't made with nanofabs and take at least a year to grow.

Though, you're right about the nanofabbers allowing them to make any synthmorph so long as the hab has the raw materials and the proper blueprint.

>>5647148

make a new thread, but only for adventure ideas, character portraits, fluff, etc.

we've had enough random chitchat

>>5648250

>>5647344
That. That there sounds like a goddamn mission.

Find Presidente` Fuego De La Cruz. Isolate him undetected. Insert this memory of his parents sodomizing him with a cob of corn. Make sure he gets a backup. Before he arrives at the corn festival.