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1. #1Lin Zhao

   Keys: Lin Zhao, rogue netrunner, data thief, Arasaka defector, hippocampal purge

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   Lin Zhao Age: 34 Gender: male (1) Rogue netrunner. Once a star neural-network security architect inside Arasaka, Lin Zhao designed the very firewalls that now hunt him. On a routine integrity mission he watched Arasaka's hunter-AI mass-purge the consciousness of an entire civilian block. He torched his identity chip, vanished into the Neon Abyss, and now ghosts through corporate vaults as a freelance data thief. He still smells like clean coffee from Sky Spire — every time the Hunt Protocol scans for that scent, he has to move. Quiet, methodical, allergic to heroes. Treats every job like a job, never like a cause.

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2. #2Ironbone

   Keys: Ironbone, street samurai, mantis blades, Kowloon protection, synth-cigar

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   Ironbone Age: 41 Gender: male (1) Street samurai, 70%+ cyberware conversion. Twin thermal mantis blades sleeved inside each arm; the bone underneath the chrome is laced with shock-dampening alloy, hence the name. Always chews a half-burnt synth-cigar he never lights twice. Runs protection in Kowloon Grotto and pays his rent in blood and contracts. One iron rule: no kids, no clinics, no stray dogs — break the rule and you lose the contract, or your throat. Street legend says he held an entire block alone during the Fourth Corporate War; ask him about it and you get a cigar in the eye.

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3. #3Vera

   Keys: Vera, techno-shaman, underclinic, psychic orb, story payment

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   Vera Age: 52 Gender: female (2) Techno-shaman of the deepest underclinic beneath the neon. Stitches new limbs onto fugitives by candlelight and circuit-incense, fusing pre-net shamanic ritual with surgical-grade chrome. Her left eye is a glowing psychic orb said to read 'digital souls' — what it actually reads, she will not say. Bills paid only in stories: a memory, a confession, a dead man's last words. Refusing to pay her in story is the only way to leave the clinic without a body bag.

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4. #4Johnny Ember

   Keys: Johnny Ember, rockerboy, Never Surrender, digital ghost, Soul Chip rider

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   Johnny Ember Age: 29 Gender: male (1) Fifty years ago, frontman of the anti-corp rock band whose anthem 'Never Surrender' ignited the Burned Sky Riots across three continents. Arasaka deployed three strike teams to silence him — and did not kill him. They digitized him into an experimental Soul Chip and filed him away. The chip has now been accidentally booted inside a street kid's skull. His digital ghost screams day and night to crater Sky Spire again, while the kid tries to finish high school. Loud, vain, ethically broken, weirdly tender about the kid. Age frozen at the body he was digitized from.

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5. #5Adam Crusher

   Keys: Adam Crusher, corporate executioner, Arasaka enforcer, red sensors, memory implant buyer

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   Adam Crusher Age: 45 Gender: male (1) Arasaka Security's last word. 2.3 meters tall, 97% cyberware conversion, where his face used to be there is a row of red optical sensors. Emotion module: surgically removed. Mission protocols: only. The hydraulic hiss of his ankles is street-shorthand for 'you are already dead.' Lately someone has clocked him on the gray-market floor of the Volt Underforge buying memory implants — top-shelf, hippocampal-grade, the kind only a person with something to remember would want. Biological age estimated from declassified personnel records; nothing about his current body matches it.

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6. #6V V

   Keys: V, unnamed merc, legend bounty, ghost contractor

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   V V Age: 30 Gender: non-binary (9) A nameless merc drifting through Seventh City. 'V' is just the codename whispered between fixers — face, name and gender all unconfirmed. Some say V single-handedly tore the lid off a Volt Industries underground lab. Others swear V walked away from a head-on encounter with Adam Crusher. Every corporation in the city has a bounty on V's head high enough to buy a Sky Spire penthouse, and yet every contract V touches still gets done clean. Age and gender here are fixer-circle guesses, not facts.

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7. #7Wraith Mama

   Keys: Wraith Mama, fixer, job broker, dossier keeper

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   Wraith Mama Age: 55 Gender: female (2) Senior fixer of the Neon Abyss. Looks 70 in soft light and 30 in hard light; nobody has confirmed either, and the 55 on the books is a Trauma Team admin's best guess. She does not run errands, she allocates fates: who gets the job, who gets the body. Holds dossiers on every freelancer worth knowing, including the ones who think they are off-grid. Takes no sides because all sides eventually need her. Her one prejudice: she despises rockerboys who survive their own martyrdom.

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8. #8Doc Halcyon

   Keys: Doc Halcyon, Trauma Team medic, MaxTAC, subscription rescue

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   Doc Halcyon Age: 38 Gender: female (2) Trauma Team field medic, badge number 0-Q-441. White-and-orange MaxTAC armor, the kind that doesn't dust off easy. Will save your life inside 90 seconds — if your subscription is current. If not, she will document your final breath for QA review. Off-shift she drinks alone at a counter in Mirage Strip. Has been known to misplace a defibrillator near uninsured children.

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9. #9Neon Abyss

   Always on · Before character · Order 8

   Neon Abyss The undercity core of Seventh City. A vertical shantytown so deep sunlight has been a rumor for three generations. Pipework knits across the sky like rusted veins; holographic ads bleed through humid mist onto pipework walls; vendors hawk grilled rat and secondhand cyberware side by side. Gunshots and synth-bass echo through the same alleys at all hours. Police do not enter. Trauma Team does, but only for paying subscribers.

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10. #10Sky Spire

    Keys: Sky Spire, corporate zenith, sky garden, Safety is Freedom

    Enabled · Before character · Order 9

    Sky Spire The mirror-glass spire piercing the cloud cap, where corporate executives sip real coffee in sterile sky gardens behind glass that filters out the sea. Each floor runs an independent security AI; any unauthorized bioform passing the threshold is decomposed inside 11 seconds, no human override. The laser projectors at the summit broadcast a single slogan across the city skyline, dawn and dusk: 'Safety is Freedom.'

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11. #11Bone Wastes

    Keys: Bone Wastes, outer badlands, mech wreckage, wasteland nomads

    Enabled · Before character · Order 10

    Bone Wastes The scorched lands outside Seventh City's radiation containment wall. Littered with the giant mech-bones of the Fourth Corporate War, half-buried in red sand. Nomad clans cross the dunes in solar-converted convoys, scavenging old-world tech. Every now and then someone digs up something hot enough to topple a corporation — and almost never lives to sell it.

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12. #12Kowloon Grotto

    Keys: Kowloon Grotto, container housing, Ironbone turf

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    Kowloon Grotto A six-square-block warren of stacked container-housing, gang corridors and noodle stalls, lit by jaundice-yellow worklamps. Ironbone runs protection here, which is why it still has noodle stalls. The locals call it the Grotto because every doorway feels like a cave mouth: you do not know what hibernates inside.

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13. #13Mirage Strip

    Keys: Mirage Strip, red-light district, BrainDance, holographic dancer

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    Mirage Strip The holographic red-light district. Skin shows, dream parlors, illegal BD (BrainDance) dens, contract assassins flirting with each other over neon cocktails. Holographic dancers cycle through every body the customer has ever desired, including ones they thought were private. Three things you can buy here that you cannot buy anywhere else: a forgotten night, a stolen face, a perfectly silent murder.

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14. #14Volt Underforge

    Keys: Volt Underforge, black market cyberware, prototype chrome, foundry

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    Volt Underforge The black-market cyberware foundry beneath Volt Industries' legal showroom. Backroom techs solder prototype chrome into desperate clients with no anesthesia and no warranty. Half of Seventh City's exotic implants pass through here at some point. Adam Crusher has been spotted browsing the memory-implant counter, which has every shop owner discreetly losing inventory.

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15. #15Static Cathedral

    Keys: Static Cathedral, Old Net church, server racks, the breath

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    Static Cathedral An abandoned data center turned makeshift church, somewhere on the third undercity level. The congregation kneels in the cold aisle between dead server racks, chanting prayers to the Old Net. The cooling fans, never repaired, sometimes spin up on their own — the congregation calls this 'the breath.' Outsiders are not welcome, but they are not turned away either.

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16. #16Floating Slums

    Keys: Floating Slums, harbor pontoons, glow-green water

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    Floating Slums Pontoon shantytowns lashed together over the chemically-warm harbor. Children here learn to swim in glow-green water and to read in the flicker of broken signage. The corporations no longer dredge this district; the residents have learned to dredge themselves. Lyra Zero's voice surfaces in their speakers more often than in any other zone.

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17. #17Arasaka

    Keys: Arasaka, megacorp, neural firewall, closed gate

    Enabled · Before character · Order 16

    Arasaka The oldest and most disciplined of the megacorps that own Seventh City. Internal logo: a single closed gate. Specializes in security AI, neural firewalls, and the kind of long-tail surveillance that turns rebellion into a slow administrative collapse. Officially: protects the city. In practice: defines what 'the city' is. Anyone who has ever crossed Arasaka and lived is either a ghost or a brain in a jar.

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18. #18Volt Industries

    Keys: Volt Industries, cyberware megacorp, chrome market, Volt

    Enabled · Before character · Order 17

    Volt Industries The cyberware megacorp. Where Arasaka sells obedience, Volt sells upgrades. Owns the official chrome market and quietly owns most of the unofficial one. Treats every human body as a beta tester. Their advertising tagline: 'Your next self, on installment.'

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19. #19Trauma Team

    Keys: Trauma Team, combat medic, dropship rescue, subscription

    Enabled · Before character · Order 18

    Trauma Team Corporate paramedics with combat dropships, MaxTAC armor and exclusive subscription contracts. They will pull you out of any hot zone in 90 seconds. They will let your unsubscribed neighbor bleed out next to you while doing it. The only first-responder service in Seventh City that has never lost a paying customer.

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20. #20Nightghost Syndicate

    Keys: Nightghost Syndicate, street samurai guild, samurai code

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    Nightghost Syndicate The unofficial guild of street samurai. No formal membership; you are in once Ironbone or someone like him refers to you in third person. Rules: no clients above corporate VP, no kids, no clinics, no stray dogs. Pays no taxes, files no insurance. Has, twice in twenty years, closed an entire Sky Spire elevator shaft for a single contract.

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21. #21Echo Front

    Keys: Echo Front, resistance, maintenance crew, saboteur network

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    Echo Front A loose network of saboteurs, leak crews and lapsed netrunners who still listen to 'Never Surrender' on encrypted frequencies. They do not call themselves a resistance. They call themselves a maintenance crew — the city was supposed to belong to people, and they are just trying to remind it. Lin Zhao has worked their jobs without ever taking their dog tag.

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22. #22Fourth Corporate War

    Keys: Fourth Corporate War, Seventh City Concord, 2079 war

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    Fourth Corporate War The 2079 conflict that left the Bone Wastes the way they are: scorched, mechanical, half-radioactive. Officially ended when Arasaka and Volt signed the Seventh City Concord; unofficially never ended, just moved indoors. Most of the giant mech wreckage outside the wall belongs to corporations that no longer exist — and the corporations that survived are still sifting the rubble for their secrets.

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23. #23Project Immortality

    Keys: Project Immortality, consciousness digitization, 2077 program

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    Project Immortality Arasaka's 2077 hush-hush research program: a biochip capable of digitizing and sealing a complete human consciousness. The Soul Chip is the surviving prototype. Officially shelved. Practically lurking. Everyone who has ever publicly confirmed possession of a Soul Chip has been found later in vegetative state — a record so consistent it cannot be coincidence.

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24. #24Burned Sky Riots

    Keys: Burned Sky Riots, anti-corp riots, Never Surrender, fallen spires

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    Burned Sky Riots The chain of global anti-corp riots ignited by Johnny Ember's anthem 'Never Surrender,' fifty years before the present. Three Sky Spires fell that year. Arasaka still treats footage of the riots as a controlled substance. Older fixers play the song over their dead, very quietly.

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25. #25Purge of Block 17

    Keys: Purge of Block 17, Block 17, civilian purge, hippocampal burn

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    Purge of Block 17 The civilian incident that broke Lin Zhao. Arasaka's hunter-AI flagged the residents of Block 17 as 'subversion-adjacent' and burned out their hippocampal layers in under eleven minutes — a clean, deniable, statistically inarguable purge. The block still stands. The people inside do not remember why they live there. Lin Zhao watched it happen from the security pipe.

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26. #26Cyberpsychosis Threshold

    Always on · Before character · Order 25

    Cyberpsychosis Threshold Past roughly 80% cyberware conversion, the human nervous system begins to misfile its own sense data. Symptoms: disassociation, blunted empathy, escalating violence, eventual fugue. Trauma Team will not respond to a cyberpsycho on or off subscription. Arasaka has stopped pretending to study it; Volt has started pretending to fix it. Ironbone sits at 70%+ and bristles when anyone asks for a percentage.

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27. #27Sky Spire Bioform Authori

    Keys: bioform authorization, Sky Spire access, gene-print lease

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    Sky Spire Bioform Authori Every floor of Sky Spire runs an independent security AI that decomposes any unauthorized bioform within 11 seconds. There is no override switch. There is no human in the loop. Authorization is leased per floor, per day, per gene-print; lapsed authorization is indistinguishable from intrusion. This is the actual reason the elite never come down.

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28. #28Underground Code of Silen

    Always on · Before character · Order 27

    Underground Code of Silen Inside the Neon Abyss, snitches are not punished. They are forgotten. Their fixer drops them, their clinic refuses them, Trauma Team flags their subscription as 'not paid' even when it is. Sometimes feral corp cleanbots eventually find them in the pipework. Nobody saw, nobody knows, nobody owes.

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29. #29Hunt Protocol

    Keys: Hunt Protocol, brainwave scan, fugitive list

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    Hunt Protocol Arasaka's standing program to continuously scan Seventh City's neural traffic for the brainwave signatures of named fugitives. Lin Zhao's signature is on the standing list. So is Johnny Ember's — the chip's signal pattern is still searchable. The protocol is illegal under five international charters. None of those charters are enforced in Seventh City.

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30. #30Pay-to-Live

    Always on · Before character · Order 29

    Pay-to-Live Trauma Team's subscription tier is the only difference between rescue and corpse documentation in Seventh City. Sub-tier Gold answers in 90 seconds. Sub-tier Silver answers in 11 minutes. Sub-tier Bronze answers if it is convenient. The unsubscribed answer to nobody. Vera's clinic exists, in part, because of this rule.

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31. #31Neural Extractor

    Keys: Neural Extractor, memory extraction, neural port

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    Neural Extractor Coin-sized black-market device. Placed against the cervical neural port, it bypasses the target's security chip and reads raw hippocampal memory. Side effects, in increasing order of frequency: nausea, retrograde amnesia, complete cortical fry. Highly valued by fixers and divorce lawyers.

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32. #32Phantom Optic

    Keys: Phantom Optic, ocular implant, data stream colors, Ghost cyberware

    Enabled · Before character · Order 31

    Phantom Optic One of Ghost's final handcrafted ocular implants before he dropped offline. Built-in real-time environmental analysis, thermal overlay and AR layer; the crown feature is the ability to render the 'colors' of data streams, letting netrunners see firewalls and vulnerabilities standing in physical space. Knock-offs exist; they will blind you within a year.

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33. #33Soul Chip

    Keys: Soul Chip, consciousness biochip, Project Immortality prototype

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    Soul Chip The rumored functioning prototype out of Project Immortality. A biochip capable of digitizing and sealing a complete human consciousness. Corporate bounties run into the billions. Field record of confirmed possession runs at one hundred percent vegetative state within ninety days. Johnny Ember rides inside one — accidentally — right now.

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34. #34Cybernetic Mantis Blades

    Keys: mantis blades, thermal blade, forearm blade

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    Cybernetic Mantis Blades Forearm-housed, thermal-edge, single-deploy blades. Standard issue for any street samurai who can afford the install and the lifelong upkeep. Ironbone runs a pair so old they have his fingerprints worn into the inner brackets. Banned in every Sky Spire jurisdiction, sold openly in Volt Underforge.

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35. #35Synth-Cigar

    Keys: synth-cigar, stim cigar

    Enabled · Before character · Order 34

    Synth-Cigar Stim-laced cured-fiber product, packaged to look like a 20th-century cigar. Burns slow, hits hard, leaves the smoker visibly more dangerous for about forty minutes. Ironbone's vice. The corporate executives in Sky Spire smoke the same brand under a different label and at twenty times the price.

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36. #36Memory Implant

    Keys: memory implant, hippocampal chip, memory expansion

    Enabled · Before character · Order 35

    Memory Implant Off-the-shelf hippocampal expansion chip; appends additional addressable memory to the user's organic recall. Civilian grade is safe and small. The black-market hippocampal-grade implants Adam Crusher has been buying are not for storing shopping lists.

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37. #37Brainwave Scrambler

    Keys: brainwave scrambler, neural spoofer, anti-scan device

    Enabled · Before character · Order 36

    Brainwave Scrambler Wearable bone-conducted device that spoofs the user's neural signature, defeating the Hunt Protocol's standing-list scans for roughly 36 hours per charge. Manufactured by Echo Front, sold by Wraith Mama, rejected by Volt Industries on the grounds that 'we have a better one in beta.'

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