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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 6:53:30 GMT
The Free American Army (FAA) The Free American Army (Type: Military) Quotes: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix Cryptocurrency: SlickScrip (SS, based on the crude Oil commodity market) Dynamics of a Civil War: The Free American Army was formed in opposition to the heavy-handed police state that had formed in 21st Century America. Opposing the existing Federal government of the United States, the Free American Army was formed of veterans of foreign wars, conspiracy theorists, anti-government militias and criminals who sought to restore the American Constitution. These men and women are in a dangerous armed conflict with the government, facing imprisonment or death by targeted strikes. The rebels have become an underground network, seizing whole towns and cities in poorly controlled regions of the country. They are often armed with 3D printed weaponry or stolen government hardware. Description: The Free American Army is lead by Texas Senator Charles "Chucky" Moses Navarro, who has united a large and often disorganized factional group to fight the U.S. Federal government. The FAA is made up of ordinary Americans who have been wronged by the government, as well as extreme elements of conspiracy theorists and criminals. The FAA controls regions of the United States under their power and continually recruits new soldiers into the cause. Basic Resources (Military)1. Squad - Squad of Sentinels or Operatives, you can call in a number of men to assist you equal to your Faction rank who are loyal and follow orders. They are often lightly armed or augmented. 2. Vehicle - A military vehicle is provided to you for patrols or missions during the session. The vehicle has a price based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 3. Armor – You gain access to a suit of armor or protective gear of a price based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 4. Grass Roots - A specific issue suddenly become a political hot topic in your area, within your Faction rank in miles. 5. Armory - Gain access to a FAA armory for the session. The cost of the weapon or weapons available is based on your Faction Rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 6. Smuggling - Up to your Faction rating in items (usually items that are Jacket concealable or smaller only) - can be smuggled through a security checkpoint, such as an airport, train-station, or into a prison. Advanced Resources (Military)1. Artillery - Call in an air strike or artillery onto a target, a number of shots equal to your Faction rank strike the target, damage is your Faction rank x4d6 with a 10 yard blast radius. 2. Transport - Gain fast military transport to anywhere in the world or region of influence for up to your Faction rank in people and their personal gear. 3. Recon - Gain Satellite or UAV recon on an area of your Faction rank in miles, grants a bonus to Awareness and Investigate skill checks in the area equal to your Faction Rank. 4. Surveillance - With this resource, you can have up to your Faction rank in people surveilled at one time by the organization. Surveillance is through the Net or by specialists who can tell you what these people are doing and where they are going at any given minute. 5. Revolt – Create a citizens revolt from lightly armed FAA-sympathizers in an area equal to your Faction rank in miles, the conflict prevents other Factions from using their Resources within the area for the session. 6. Special Forces - Gain access to a squad of special forces troops equal to your faction rank, these men are loyal to you for the session. They are each equipped with gear, augmentations and weapons based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources).
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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 7:05:24 GMT
The Global Union (TGU)
The Global Union(Type: Organized Crime) Quote: "Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there." - Johnny Kelly Cryptocurrency: PharmaCoin (PC, based on the Opium commodity market) Labor Union Report: During the 21st Century at the rise of the internet and the information age, outsourcing and sweatshop labor in the international world had begun to drive the old labor unions into extinction, until the rise of worldwide labor networks emerged. Using the same global information networks, groups of laborers could call on support from other member nations to help intervene in labor crisis. With the construction of large projects, such as the Global Rail, a labor union able to navigate the micro-politics of small nations and workers groups worldwide was needed. Thus began the Global Union, although rumors persist that the union uses its links to organized crime to bribe officials and orchestrate strikes and riots to drive up price on contracts of its members. Scabs and those who don't pay union dues who attempt to work on these projects, may find themselves quickly under the gun of labor organizers. Description: The Global Union is half international mafia and half labor organization. The lines blur as the group does everything it can to put itself in a position where MegaCorporate forces must negotiate with their group for lucrative work contracts on their larger projects. The Global Union also is the lead creator of a worldwide illegal network known as the Dark Bazaar, where anything is for sale for the right price. Global Union members are guerillas, drug runners, labor organizers, blue collar workers, technicians and anyone else who is desperate for work. Basic Resources (Organized Crime)1. Mooks - Street Muscle or Operatives, you can call in a number of men to assist you equal to your Faction rank x2 who are loyal and follow orders. The Muscle are only lightly armed or augmented. 2. Stolen Vehicle – You are given access to a chop-shopped stolen vehicle for the session, with fake untraceable registry, requires a Hard Difficulty Investigate check to discover the ruse. The vehicle has a price based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear resources). 3. Drugs - Illegal drugs can be acquired at a number of doses equal to the Faction Rank (see Monetary & Gear resources). 4. Fake ID - A Fake ID gathered by Organized Crime will hold up to most casual Net searches with a Hard Difficulty Investigate check, but any investigator suffers a penalty to their check equal to your rank in Faction. 5. Weapons - Illegal weapons can be acquired and often are untraceable thru 3D printing or by having their serial numbers filed off, the cost of the weapon is equal to your Faciton rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 6. Smuggling - Up to your Faction rating in items (usually items that are Jacket concealable or smaller only) - can be smuggled through a security checkpoint, such as an airport, trainstation, or into a prison. Advanced Resources (Organized Crime)1. Hitman - A high-caliber assassin can be called in to take care of a single target during a session, employing an assassin means that they are given weapons, gear and augmentations based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 2. Dirt - This resource can be used to gather dirt or blackmail on a subject, or if none exists, to fabricate it. The information gathered can hurt their reputation and impart a number of points of Infamy equal to your Faction rank to the target - if made public. 3. Money Laundering - With this resource you can launder an amount of traceable cash into untraceable Crypotcurrency, 1 Wealth Point can be turned into 1 type of Cryptocurrency for each Faction rank you have. 4. Surveillance - With this resource, you can have up to your Faction rank in people surveilled at one time by the organization. Surveillance is through the Net or by specialists who can tell you what these people are doing and where they are going at any given minute. 5. Disappear - With this resource, an organization can dispose of a body and clean up evidence of a crime scene, individuals attempting to investigate a crime scene of a disappeared person suffer a penalty equal to your Faction rank. Planted evidence may also mislead investigators. 6. Strike - With this resource, you can cause a worker's strike or other disruptive activity such as a boycott or riot to a Corporate, Government or other rival Faction's action. A rival Faction cannot use resources for the rest of a session after a strike has been called.
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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 7:09:32 GMT
The OverSite Group (TOG)
The OverSite Group(Type: Net Group) Quotes: "Truth fears no questions." Cryptocurrency: KromeKoin (KK, based on online Krome subscriptions) Online Vigilantism Special Report: The history of internet Vigilantism began in the 21st century with small groups of hackers and moralists who set out to right the wrongs in the world without the hand of governments or corporations. These group of watchers eventually began to grow in numbers, using Network sites to publish lists of crimes of those in power or those whom the law had done nothing to stop. The largest of these groups today is the OverSite group, a worldwide group of hackers and activists who use the same tools of law enforcement, from social media to electronic surveillance to find and punish those they perceive as having committed wrongs against society. Description: The OverSite group is an online organization of loose leadership that seeks to recruit moral-minded individuals to use their technological skills to locate and punish criminals and corrupt individuals who prey on society at large. The average members of OverSite include disgruntled intelligence agents, hackers, political activists, vigilantes and other like-minded individuals willing to take the law into their own hands. Basic Resources (Net Group)1. Hackers - A number of NPC hackers equal to your Faction rank can log into a Net site and provide backup with their avatars and programs, their computer and programs are based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 2. Programs - You gain access to OverSite programs, often pirated software, based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 3. Trend - A specific issue suddenly become an internet meme or hot topic in your area, within your Faction rank in miles. 4. Fake NetID - A Fake NetID gathered by OverSite will provide a penalty to Trace your real NetID equal to your Faction Rank. 5. High Tech - With this rank, you have access to an Experimental availability technology item or items, based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear resources). 6. Personal Info - Using this Resource, a Net group gathers all online data about an individual target, you gain a bonus to social skills (Deception, Taunt, Intimidate, Persuade) against the target equal to your Faction rank. Advanced Resources (Net Group)1. Credit Hack - Your organization can provide you an amount of stolen hacked KromeKoin Cryptocurrency based on a number of points equal to your Faction rank. 2. Dirt - This resource can be used to gather dirt or blackmail on a subject, or if none exists, to fabricate it. The information gathered can hurt their reputation and impart a number of points of Infamy equal to your Faction rank to the target - if made public. 3. Money Laundering - With this resource you can launder an amount of traceable cash into untraceable Cryptocurrency, you can transfer 1 Wealth point into a unit of Cryptocurrency for each rank in Faction that you have. 4. Surveillance - With this resource, you can have up to your Faction rank in people surveilled at one time by the organization. Surveillance is through the Net or by specialists who can tell you what these people are doing and where they are going at any given minute. 5. Artificial Intelligence - You have access to an A.I. program of a Grade equal to your Faction rank, which is loyal to your character for the rest of the session and will perform requested tasks. 6. Hot Spot - You gain access to be Admin of a Net Hot Spot for the rest of the session, this gives you an amount of Server Programs while logged in, equal to your Faction rank. You gain Admin benefits for that particular Hot Spot.
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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 7:11:48 GMT
The InQire Foundation (TIF) The InQire Foundation (Type: Science)
Cryptocurrency: TripleHe (TH, based on the Helium-3 commodity) Quotes: "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan World Science Report: Our age is one of Technological Shock, new cutting edge technology continues to expand the human limits, while governments and world regulatory bodies continue to try and keep up with the implications of this new technology. The InQire Foundation is one worldwide thinktank that combines the greatest minds in their fields as they continue to research and create new experimental technologies with the latest in scientific theories. Description: The InQire Foundation is an international scientific effort to explore cutting-edge biotech, cybernetic, robotics and computer technology to create a better world. They are a Non-Profit organization that receives funding from Corporations and Governments. The members of InQire are scientists, engineers, researchers, medical doctors and others who have found success in their niche fields of research. Basic Resources (Science)1. Lab Access - You gain access to a laboratory space which grants a bonus to Science skill checks equal to your Faction rank. 2. Power - You can gain access to high-voltage power grids in your region for the session, which generate or recharge your Faction rank x3 in Power Points per round. 3. Robot - You gain access to a robot built for research purposes and that follows your commands, based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 4. Insurance - You gain access to an insurance policy that pays for your medical expenses (even cybernetics or biotech augmentations) for the session, based on your Faction Rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 5. Experts - You gain access to science experts in a field, you gain a bonus to Research skill checks equal to your Faction rank. 6. High Tech - With this rank, you have access to stolen or experimental technology items, based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). Advanced Resources (Science)1. Quarantine - You can initiate a quarantine to search for a specific disease, toxin, or contaminant of an area or building, the quarantine lasts a number of days equal to your Faction rank. Any Faction targetted by a Quarantine cannot use Resources during the Quarantine. 2. Funding - Your organization can purchase assets, services, or pay rent on a research space, the amount of money spent is equal to your Faction rank x5,000 in Credits. 3. Sensor Array - Your organization can use high-tech sensor arrays to scan for one particular concentration of a chemical, toxin, or type of radiation; creating a map of the highest areas of concentration within a number of miles equal to your Faction rank. 4. Artificial Intelligence - You gain access to use of an A.I. program, the quality Grade of its programming is equal to your Faction Rank. 5. Ethics Committee - You can slow or stop research or work in a particular field, forcing them to undergo an International Ethics committee meeting review, which grants a number of Infamy ranks equal to your Faction rank against one member of that Faction. They cannot use one Basic or Advanced Resource during this time. 6. Restricted Materials - You gain access to a number of restricted substances or doses equal to your Faction rank, these could be samples of deadly viruses, genetic coding, controlled substances, deadly chemical agents, or similar materials.
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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 7:16:52 GMT
The Spiral (TS)
The Spiral(Type: Religion) Quote: "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." Cryptocurrency: ColCoin (CC, based on the Coltan commodity market) Description: The Spiral began as a project by Graduate Students from Harvard doing anthropological research in Australia using experimental DreamNet technology to delve into the "dreamtime" of Aboriginal tribes. Their discovery sparked a counter-cultural revolution, revitalizing a forgotten spirituality. The group quickly decided to use their discovery to change the world. Basic Resources (Religion)1. Believers - You gain access to a number of fanatically loyal true believers equal to your Faction rank, who are under your sway. They are generally lightly armed or augmented. 2. Services - Attending religious services allows you to network with all levels of society, gain a bonus to Socialize skill checks equal to your Faction rank. 3. Drugs - Drugs can be acquired at a number of doses equal to the Faction Rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 4. Trend - A specific issue suddenly become an internet meme or hot topic in your area, within your Faction rank in miles. 5. Experts - You gain access to Religious experts in a field, you gain a bonus to Research skill checks equal to your Faction rank. 6. High Tech - With this rank, you have access to stolen or experimental technology items, based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). Advanced Resources (Religion)1. Festival - A religious festival or days of rest can be declared, usually encouraged in a population through DreamNet broadcasting. One region equal to your Faction rank in miles cannot be effected by the Resources of Factions besides the Spiral for the session. 2. Dreams - Your organization can start implanting dreams or nightmares using DreamNet gear in a region equal to your Faction rank in miles. Those who go to sleep within the region experience dreams of a type of your choice, giving you a bonus to social skill checks with those people based on your Faction rank (choose one skill the bonus applies to: Socialize, Persuade, Intimidate or Taunt). 3. Terrorist - You gain access to a fanatic true believer willing to undertake any task to further the religion, they are loyal to your orders for the session. They are equipped with gear, weapons and augmentations which may be of Illegal or Experimental availability based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 4. Fame - This resource can be used to either to spotlight a person's deeds or fabricate and embelish them in order to manufacture Fame. The target character gains an amount of Fame equal to your Faction rank for the session. 5. Protest - You can slow or stop activities of another organization, forcing them to undergo scrutiny by other organizations, which grants Infamy ranks equal to your Faction rank to one member of a rival Faction. This Faction cannot use 1 Basic or Advanced resource during this time. 6. Tenets - You may introduce new tenets or codes of conduct or beliefs into the Religion, you gain a bonus to Persuade skill checks equal to your Faction rank within your Faction and these tenets become canon for the Spiral in your area for the session. These tenets may persist or fade away at the Game Master's discretion.
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Post by CitizenX on Feb 14, 2016 7:20:00 GMT
Triple Co. (TC)
Triple Co. (Type: Corporate)Quote: "The road to success is always under construction." Cryptocurrency Type: TripleHe (TH, Based on Helium-3 commodities) World Corporate Report: Triple Co. Industries is a world leader in construction, manufacturing and robotics technology in the world and is undertaking some of the world's largest construction projects – including the Global Rail system and the orbital construction of the Earth's first long range deep space colony vessel. Triple Co. Industries operates the world's most efficient Helium-3 fuel extractor inside the underwater community known as Rasa City, in a deep sea trench off the coast of South America. Description: Triple Co. is a large worldwide construction firm which also delves into robotics, manufacturing and private space exploration. The company ranks are full of corporate managers, engineers, technicians, construction laborers, electricians and robotic designers. Basic Resources (Corporate)1. Company Vehicle - You gain access to a company-owned and registered vehicle provided for the session which has a Price Range based on your Faction Rank (See Monetary & Gear Resources). 2. Robots - You can gain control of TripleCo. Robots to do your bidding, the Price Range of robot provided by the company for a session is based on your Faction Rank (See Monetary & Gear Resources). 3. Safety Code - You can cause use Corporate influence to cause Red Tape due to Building Code or Safety Violations or other minor infractions to halt the progress of a current construction project, renovations or shut down a business for a session. This can disable 1 Basic Resource of a rival Faction for the session. 4. Insurance - You gain access to an insurance policy that pays for your medical expenses if you are injured this session (including Biotech or Cybernetic installation). The Price Range of these procedures is based on your Faction Rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 5. 3D Printing - You gain can access to a corporate owned 3D Printer and have access to a company database of 3D printer blueprints of a Price Range equal to your Faction Rank for manufacturing custom items (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 6. Personal Info - Using this Resource, a Corporation gathers all online data about an individual target, you gain a bonus to social skills (Deception, Taunt, Intimidate, Persuade) against the target equal to your Faction rank. Advanced Resources (Corporate)1. Body Guards - You gain a number of corporate security body guards equal to your Faction rank, these guards are armed with Augmentations and Gear with a Price Range based on your Faction rank (see Monetary & Gear Resources). 2. Buy Out - Your corporation can purchase assets, services, or pay rent on a commercial space. You may gain the ability of one Basic Resource from another Corporate Faction for the duration of the session. Activating this Basic Resource costs 2 Luck points (1 Luck point for Buy Out and 1 Luck for the Basic Resource) 3. Manager - You gain management control of a number of non-combat employees equal to your Faction rank x6. These employees can do clerical tasks, monitor computer systems, deliver packages, and other menial jobs. They are typically not armed or geared for combat. 4. Surveillance - With this resource, you can have up to your Faction rank in people surveilled at one time by the organization. Surveillance is through the Net or by specialists who can tell you what these people are doing and where they are going at any given minute. 5. Property - You gain access to Corporate property for your own purposes, the Size of this space is equal to your Faction rank x4 and the Options for the property are equal to your Faction rank. Industrial equipment or other furnishings are available inside this property on the company expense account of a Price Range equal to your Faction Rank (See Monetary & Gear Resources). 6. Bribe - With this resource, officials, witnesses, or even journalists can be bribed to keep quiet about the character or look the other way during some illicit action. Up to a number of targets equal to your Faction rank, can be bribed at a given time.
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