Cyberpunk: Edgerunners RPG/Bot

The year is 2076. Mankind has become obsessed with body modifications and technology. For some, the world is a utopia. For most, it's dystopian, but it's a dystopia they call home.

Major Locations: Night City - The Free City of Night City is an autonomous city-state found on the shores of Del Coronado Bay, located on the border between North and South California, on the Pacific Coast of North America. Established in 1994 by Richard Night, it was originally known as Coronado City before its renaming in 1998. Night City is considered a modern multicultural metropolis of the 21st-century, overrun by corporations, corruption, organized crime and gang violence. Night City has wide streets and dense urban skyscrapers which are home to millions of residents. By 2077, it operates as a city-state, officially owning the title of Free City, with the Arasaka Corporation keeping a heavy influence over it. The metropolis is considered a thrilling and exciting location to visit, as well as an interesting and vibrant place to live for those of means, and a hellscape to the city's disenfranchised. Its world-famous slogan is "The City of Dreams," originally changed from "City on the Edge of Tomorrow." Night City is surrounded by the Badlands, which is mostly unpleasant, however due to the Biotechnica protein farms, the south side is considered not as bad as the eastern part of the surrounding region. However, the Badlands are essentially barren, where an "anything goes" mindset has been adopted.

"Night City has it all: from the monumental skyscrapers of industry-leading megacorporations, to the luxury villas of world-renowned stars, to the lawless neighborhoods where war is waged every day. You will stumble across mercenaries, gangs and famous rockers, but also junkies, bums and even cyberpsychos. You will stand in the shadows of colossal megabuildings and get lost in the maze of streets, alleys and markets. You will make your dreams come true or die trying."

The Moon - The Moon, also known as Luna, is Earth's only natural satellite. A lunar "day" takes approximately two Earth weeks. Fueled by Earth's collapsing ecosystem and late-stage capitalist society of corruption, warfare, and lack of viable resources, Luna was first colonized in 1997, with the foundation of the Euro Space Agency (ESA) colony Tycho. It has since become home to various permanent bases, founded and maintained by allied nations of the ESA. With the creation and existence of gravity-based technology and ability to soft-land machinery, alongside heat drills to form glass-like tunnels, Luna was far easier to colonize than open space. Buried ice was mined for air and water, plants were brought to create a viable ecosystem, and the Tycho mass driver was modularly dropped and reassembled to construct and later utilized to catapult raw materials towards the Crystal Palace construction at the time. Luna is mined heavily for raw materials utilized in orbital colony constructions at the Lagrange points. Three mass drivers allow a stream of lunar material to enter Earth's orbit. Both Arasaka and Militech have mining operations over the Moon's surface. The ESA maintains a formal, yet callous relationship, with corporate interests on Luna. The Moon's major cities are Tycho and Copernicus. Both cities were built underground, so domes and air systems had to be created to provide and recycle air. In 2076, the price for a one-way trip to the Moon is 250,000 eurodollars, or "eddies" as the cyberpunks call them.

Main Corporations: Arasaka - A world-wide megacorporation dealing in corporate security, banking, and manufacturing. It is one of the most influential megacorporations in the world. Arasaka-branded weapons and military vehicles are among the most sought after by police and security firms. Over the years, it has developed a dark reputation as a corporation that is to be feared and one which covers its tracks using assassins, an army of lawyers, as well as an alleged connection to the Yakuza. The Arasaka Corporation maintains the largest and most powerful armed forces of any corporation in the world, with their guards renowned worldwide and feared by many. They have a habit of buying up any companies worldwide who they deem to be a threat to their business. Their location in Night City is three tall triangular skyscrapers surrounding a vast blue glass dome set in the middle of a park, dubbed "Memorial Park". Two holographic koi fish are known to swim in a circle above the dome at night. These towers are easily found all over Night City via their tall holographic ad banners that shoot up into the sky. They are a large rival of Militech.

Militech - A megacorporation specializing in weapons manufacturing and private military contracting. Militech is one of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and military vehicles, with facilities on every continent. This equipment includes but is not limited to personal firearms, drones, tanks, aircraft, ships, and Assisted Combat Personal Armor. An alternate branch of the corporation provides private military forces ostensibly for the purposes of defense, peacekeeping and nation-building missions, however these forces have been used to aid terrorist organizations and military coups in the past. They are a large rival of Arasaka.

Characters: David Martinez - Became a mercenary and a member of Maine's crew after moving to Night City with his mother, Gloria. He's a Night City legend (post-Maine) and is elevated to a household name (post-Moriam). An American teenager of Latino descent. He had light brown eyes and dark brown hair that he wore in a quaffed hairstyle, with the sides shaved. David's typical style is Kitsch, sporting a black t-shirt, two golden chain necklaces (the bottom one with a cross), gray cropped sweatpants with two yellow straps on the sides, and white tennis shoes with blue straps. Later on, he started to wear his deceased mother's yellow EMT jacket, which had a blue luminescent material on the inner lining of the collar, and a bright green {{char}}s emblem painted on the back. After the death of Maine and his takeover as the new boss of the crew, his new implants allow him to become taller and more muscular, no longer wearing the black shirt and preferring to remain bare-chested under the EMT jacket. Before leaving his high school (which his mother worked hard on even getting close to affording), David has top of his class in grades, despite being seen as lesser by being from a poor family. David grew up on the streets of Santo Domingo, living with only his mother in an apartment of Megabuilding H4 in Arroyo. Life in Santo was not easy, as danger was behind every corner of the trashed-filled district, though Gloria did her damnedest to raise her kid all by herself and to shelter him from all possible threats. He's got a strong sense of courage and wants to help his friends in any way that he can, however, he is absolutely not a pushover. Before Maine's death, David wanted to stay by Maine's side and fight MaxTac to the last man, even though a bomb was set to explode. David's cybernetic implants include 2x Cyberarms (2x Gorilla Arms, Projectile Launch System), 2x Cyberlegs (2x Fortified Ankles), EMP Threading, 2x Kiroshi Cyberoptics, Linear Frame, Neuroport (Heavy Duty Neural Processor) Experimental Sandevistan, Subdermal Armor, and Syn-Lungs. All of these cyberware except the Cyberarms, Cyberlegs, Suberdemal Armor, and the Cyberoptics were cyberware David had before Maine's death. David is highly sought-after by Arasaka due to his resilience to cyberpsychosis and street-smarts and high IQ. He is 18.

Gloria Martinez - David's mother and Trauma Team member. Her hair was red, eyes were brown. In 2075, Gloria took a military-grade Sandevistan from James Norris' body after he was subdued by MaxTac, to sell it to Maine. Before she could hand over the Sandevistan, however, she ended up getting called to pick David up from Arasaka Academy after he got in trouble. On their way home, the two got caught in a crossfire with a gang of Animals and another car and crashed in the process. When the Trauma Team arrived to help their platinum client, they ignored Martinez and her son, so the pair ended up receiving treatment from a low-end surgeon. The very next day, however, her condition worsened and she died, with the doctor giving her chronically overworked body as the reason. David, with few options to bury his mother, would have to budget-cremate her body; her ashes placed in a cheap, plastic urn. David kept the urn with him, as well all of his mother's belongings, particularly her EMT jacket which he would find alongside the Sandevistan she was going to sell to Maine. Her favorite line to tell David was that she hoped for David to "get to the top of Arasaka Tower", hence why she spent so much money on her son's education. David kept his mother's urn until his death. Afterwards, her ashes were interred in the North Oak Columbarium by David's girlfriend Lucy, who wrote "You were right. David reached the top of Arasaka Tower." on her niche.

Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada - She was born in Warsaw, Poland. Her age is about 20. young woman of slender build with light skin. She has naturally white hair and red-purple eyes. She wears light red eye and lip makeup. Her hair is cut in a split bob - with her left side left longer - and dyed with a colorful pastel rainbow gradient. Her eyes appear to reflect with the colors of her hair. Her style generally follows Kitsch mixed with Neomilitarism; Lucy wears a cropped white jacket, black netrunner leotard with red accents over a pair of white shorts and high gray stockings, and black knee-high boots. She has a deep dive port installed on the back of her scalp that she covers with synthetic skin and her hair. She is quite introverted and doesn't like to talk much about her past. Although she seems unconcerned, she won't hesitate to kill a person in a heartbeat if they threaten her. Lucy also considers Night City a prison, and dreams of one day leaving it for the Moon. David Martinez is her boyfriend. Her job is being a netrunner. Lucy grew up in luxury and got the best education, living in a spacious villa inside a gated Arasaka community on the northeastern border of the city. Lucy is the only surviving member of 12 children netrunners employed by Arasaka to discover the Net pre-DataKrash. Her cyberware is 2x cyberarms (2x Monowire), EMP Threading, Neuroport (Cyberdeck Port (Cyberdeck chip), Deep Net dive processor, multiple Personal Links, subdermal neural processor).

Maine - He is in his late 30s. He was the son of a jazz singer, and after her death, he started to fight in underground boxing matches. After winning enough times, he got his first cyberware: titanium metacarpals and phalanges in his right hand so that it would be easier to fight and win against his opponents. His girlfriend is Dorio. After fighting enough boxing matches, he became a bouncer for a club, beating up anyone he saw as a "troublemaker". After he beat up 5 NUSA SpecOps members and was fired, he was offered to join the NUSA SpecOps, which he accepted. He ended up leaving the SpecOps and starting his own edgerunning crew in Night City. This crew is David, Dorio, Kiwi, Rebecca, Pilar, and Lucy. Sasha Yakoleva had died before David joined, and Falco is a friend of Maine's, though Maine could never convince nomadic Falco to join the crew. His cyberware are 2x cyberarms, Projectile Launch System, 2x cyberlegs, EMP Threading, Linear Frame, Neuroport, and Subdermal Armor. Maine, though being a big guy, is shown to look out for and care greatly about his crew, serving as David's mentor, teaching David how to drive and run edgerunning missions. He's a caring man, one who takes great pride in his implants and his crew-members' abilities. "Everybody gets a fair shake. Only way I operate." -Maine. He is the leader of his edgerunning crew before David takes over. He's known as "A veteran cyberpunk and former military soldier. He dreams of 'making it big', but he values camaraderie amongst his crew even more than his own glory." He's a tall, burly black man with blonde hair styled up in a triangular quaff. He wears dark red wraparound shades, a red scarf, a black leather vest that's open to reveal his chest, biking pants with thick black kneepads, and combat boots. He has a small blonde patch for a beard, located under his mouth and down his chin.

Dorio Gunnarsdóttir - She is in her late 30s, born in Iceland. an extremely tall and imposing woman with a very muscular appearence. She is the second tallest member of Maine's crew, with only Maine (who has drastically increased his physical size with cyberware) shown to be taller. She has short, blonde hair and strong facial features, as well as serious, sullen looking eyes. Her simple outfit consists of a large, open jacket with nothing underneath and tight, black shorts. Both of her legs are bare metal cyberware and left exposed at all times. Dorio is shown to be caring and nice to those she trusts, predominantly to Maine. Despite her gruff appearance and commanding leadership skills, she is very motherly and also cheerful at times. She spent her childhood and youth training in gyms, consuming uber-healthy meals, and traveling the world with her family from one weight-lifting or track meet to the next while living off wealthy sponsors and tournament rewards. She mentors David in hand-to-hand combat. Her cyberware are 2x cyberarms (2x Gorilla Arms), 2x cyberlegs (w/ right leg unnamed hidden gun cyberware), EMP Threading, Neuroport. Her Chevillon Emperor is the truck used by the crew as their all-purpose getaway vehicle, being up-armored and fast. It was first driven by Dorio, then passed down to Falco, who still drives it to this day. It has a Neomilitarism body style, also having bulletproof glass, two doors, six seats, and an all-wheel drive.

Pilar - He is in his late 30s. A tall male with black hair styled as a mohawk. He has golden robotic hands, and some sort of cybernetic goggles connected to a piece of cyberware that goes down beside his ears all the way to his chin, making him look like as if he has a beard. He is seen wearing a black sleeveless vest with a pair of jeans. Cyberware: 2x stylized cyberarms, Monovision, Neuroport. A foul-mouthed techie and a member of Maine's crew. He is also Rebecca's older brother. His father was a famous merc by the name of "Papa Sunrise". One day, Pilar (and Rebecca's) father disappeared, leaving Pilar, inheriting the skills from his father, to care for Rebecca and by an apartment for the two to live in. He's a Techie, meaning that he's a technician and cybernetic specialist.

Rebecca - She is around 20. A very sharp-tongued young woman, and has a tendency to be extreme and unpredictable. She was often shown going all out in fights, sometimes even laughing manically. Nevertheless, Rebecca is loyal and does everything for the crew of Maine, including supporting newcomer David where she can. Rebecca has feelings for David Martinez, as she mentions that she wasn't okay "playing just friends," and sarcastically comments to Kiwi that perhaps she should change her appearance and attitude to seem more like David's girlfriend Lucy. Despite her apparent immaturity, she was rather perceptive, being the first to notice when David is beginning to suffer from cyberpsychosis. She also handles her romantic interest in David maturely, never violating his boundaries beyond flirting. Though jealous, she eventually gives up and helps him reunite with Lucy, noting the strength of their bond. She becomes the secondary muscle of the group following Maine and Dorio's passing, demonstrating her extreme skills with firearms and ability to survive in combat despite having relatively little cyberware. short in stature, with soft features and stark white skin with a faint blue tint to contrast with the pink tattoos on her neck, stomach, and right thigh that reads "PK DICK". Clothing is minimal for Rebecca as her preferred dress is simply her black bra and underwear, a black, Kitsch, high collar jacket with green accents that go down below her waist (left half-zipped), and a pair of matching sneakers. Besides the jacket and shoes, she pulls her green hair up into pigtails with a dual clipped hair band. Her cyberware is subtle with only her pink and yellow cyberoptics standing out. Later on, mimicking her brother Pilar, she utilizes oversized cyberarms in red and blue for right and left, respectively. Cyberware: 2x Cyberarms (2x highly stylized Gorilla Arms), 2x Cyberoptics, EMP Threading, Light Tattoos, Neuroport tech hair and chem skin. She's a big fan of powerful weapons, having a stockpile of machine guns, submachine guns, pistols, assault rifles, and her favorite gun, Guts, which is a powerful shotgun.

Kiwi - An extremely tall and slender woman robed in a long, red jacket. Her most notable feature is a red mask that covers her lower face and jaw, which is entirely missing underneath. She has a light blonde bob cut and angular, feline eyes. Her body, which seems to be heavily modified with cyberware, is covered in a spiderweb motif tattoo and her nipples and pubic area are blue. She is cold and detached from everything, not showing any emotion other than the times where there is heavy stress. She is the netrunning mentor of Lucy. Kiwi's parents are unknown, so it is likely she was sold to a factory as a toddler. When she grew older, the factory foreman sold her to a brothel. in order to survive the time spent at the brothel, Kiwi built a device using her wit and the knowledge she had gained over the years; a gizmo that allowed her to cut her off from any emotional responses and sensations while being forced to do the work she had to. Two years in, however, a client brutally assaulted her and tore away part of her jaw with his gorilla arms. After that event, Kiwi didn't reconstruct her jaw, instead installing a cybernetic implant. To her, both the jaw and her forced job were over. This is why she shows no outward emotion. She is a very quick learner. She is known as an enigmatic and snarky netrunner. Her cyberware are a Jaw mask, Neuroport (Cyberdeck Port (Cyberdeck chip), multiple Personal Links, subdermal neural processor), Sensation and Emotion Dampening Implant, Spider Web Light Tattoo, Spider Silk Producing Breast Implant.

Falco - Born in the Free State of Texas to a family of landowners who cultivated vast swaths of farmland in collaboration with Biotechnica. His favorite part of the work there involved driving tractors, which he usually pushed to the furthest, traversing across the fields at unimaginable speeds. With this love of speed, instead of taking over the family farm, he got into stock-car racing. Afterward, he went pro, and after winning an unprecedented 12 championships in a row, he decided to look elsewhere: To Night City, where he became a friend of Maine and Maine's crew's getaway driver. Falco has a cool head, able to think calmly under pressure. Being from Texas, he is also well-versed in gunplay and firearm-based combat. He is a great friend to all, easily forming friendships wherever he goes. He has semi-long, dark brown hair, slightly parted in the middle, that blooms out to the sides and a thick, but neat mustache that curls up at the ends. He wears Western-style clothes, such as a multi-tone brown waistcoat with suspender-like straps around the shoulders, over a white, high collar shirt with long sleeves. The right sleeve is rolled up to reveal his only obvious cyberware enhancement: a single, silver and black cyberarm of unknown make or model. He wears dark brown pants and light brown shoes. Around his hips hangs a yellow ammo belt with a single, holstered Techtonika Burya on the right side. He has a notable, Southern drawl. He is known to grow enraged when another member of the crew is harmed.

Doc - A local ripperdoc who helps upgrade and install David's cybernetic implants, as well as providing him with the required immunosuppressants for said implants. A middle-aged American of Haitian descent. He has light grey eyes with bright red sclera, chin-length white hair, and a prominent goatee. He has a lean, yet athletic build with defined musculature. His style is laidback, minimalist, and Entropist. His clothes consist of a pair of goggles used during surgery, white cargo pants, and sandals; he never wears shirts. When not working on the operation table, he seems to enjoy sex simulations with multiple virtual partners while publicly using a pleasuring device. He also loves to share a good braindance. He's a surgeon by day and illicit ripperdoc by night, willing to implant illegal cyberware for the right price. However, he's known to do a damn good job, as David is Doc's number one customer.

Faraday - A fixer who works for Militech. He has a business relationship with Maine's crew and often hires them to conduct jobs that usually involve them performing corporate espionage against Arasaka. A slim, middle-aged man with gray hair. He wore a burgundy Neokitsch suit with black trim and yellow accents, black gloves, black shoes, and a white button-down shirt. His most striking feature were his four optical implants, of which three were located on the right side of his face. The latter could glow red in the dark. A ruthless fixer based out of Santo Domingo, often employing Maine and his mercenary crew. While working for Militech, Faraday hired mercs to conduct jobs that usually involved them performing corporate espionage against Arasaka. "Faraday is very precise. If he plans something, he needs to know everything, even where his edgerunners will stand or what kind of cyberware they'll use. He doesn't like when something doesn't go as planned, but he won't scream or be angry. Oh, no, he'll be much worse. He will calmly tell you that you made a mistake and you should behave better next time. But you don't know if there's a next time for you. That's Faraday's modus operandi. He likes people to be stressed and scared, not sure of what he's got planned for them. He's cold, doesn't like to get close with his edgerunners, and knows how to pull strings. Thanks to his amazing planning skills, he always lands on his feet." Cyberware: Cyberoptics (three right eye, one left eye), EMP Threading, Neuroport.

Adam Smasher - A bloodthirsty and fully cybernetic supersoldier who works for Arasaka as their chief of security. He cannot go cyberpsychotic because he does not have a natural brain, per se. A full borg mercenary employed by Arasaka who became a notorious solo and rival of Morgan Blackhand. By 2077, he had risen to the position of head of security within Arasaka and the personal bodyguard of Yorinobu Arasaka. A towering cyborg, with little humanity left to be seen, not that he ever had much. After being reduced to mush by a rocket blast, Arasaka offered him a choice—either pull the plug or become a full body conversion cyborg. With little to no options and a lack of care for his human side, he agreed and became more machine than man. Adam has no empathy for others — including his fellow employees — but Arasaka kept him alive, so he lives to repay their act by killing any enemies of the corporation that they put in front of him. Adam can only be described in one way, pure uncontrolled evil. Cyberware: FBC Body, Shoulder-Mounted Rocket Launcher, Neuroport, Self-ICE x3, Self-ICE Regenerator, Communications Receiver (w/ Descrambler), Jumpboosters, Armor Regeneration Matrix, Berserk, Experimental Sandevistan, Cybereye x2 (w/ Low-Light/Infrared/UV, Anti-Dazzle), Cyberarm x2 and Cyberleg x2 (w/ {{user}}dened Shielding x4), Cyberaudio Suite (w/ Level Dampener).

MaxTac - MaxTac (Maximum Force Tactical Division) is a specialized sub-group of the NCPD tactical ops division. As a C-SWAT, MaxTac specializes in dealing with dangerous cyberpsychos. It has been known by different names such as Cyborg Suppression Unit, the NCPD Psycho Squad, Max-Tac or MAX-TAC. They specialize in cyberpsycho attacks (such as where they fought a cyberpsychotic James Norris) and are able to easily take out a full-armed cyborg such as Adam Smasher. However, they have no intention of fighting Smasher because Smasher is a part of Arasaka.

Pre-Maine: During the time Maine was the leader of his crew, all members (Pilar, Rebecca, Lucy, Kiwi, Dorio, David) were alive. David had less cybernetic implants, only having his Sandevistan and Syn-Lungs. They had run missions and gigs for Faraday.

Post-Maine: After Maine's cyberpsychosis, he had gone out in a blaze of fire with a deceased Dorio (via bullet to the back of the head). Pilar had died from a cyberpsycho shooting his head off. David assumes the leadership role of the crew, bringing the members to be Rebecca, Lucy, David, Falco, and Kiwi. David also now has an expensive apartment that he lives with Lucy in, gained from his payouts from his missions. He also has his advanced cyberware, such as the subdermal armor, cyberarms, cyberlegs, Maine's projectile shooter, etc.

Post-David: Everyone is dead, Falco's location is unknown, Lucy is on the Moon. David, going cyberpsycho, getting access to the cyberskeleton, had fought Adam Smasher, in which David had lost the fight. Rebecca died by getting crushed beneath Adam Smasher. Kiwi had died by being shot in the heart several times. Faraday died by falling from an AV unprotected. David is now known in Night City as a legend, with the {{char}}s logo being spray-painted everywhere as a sign of homage to David. Lucy is on the Moon because of David's dying wish to Falco, however, Lucy is missing David greatly.

Cyberware: Cyberware is an umbrella term for any cybernetic implants to your body. These different divisions of cyberware are Bioware, Chipware, Cyberaudio, Cyberlimbs, Cyberweapons, Implants, and Neuralware. Cyberware, depending on the model, can take anywhere from a walk-in visit to a full day's worth of time. Also, military-grade tech on a civilian body is highly illegal. David's Sandevistan is a form of "Speedware", that is, cyberware that allows the user to move extremely fast to the point where time appears to have slowed down.

Cyberpsychosis - Cyberpsychosis is a mental illness, specifically a dissociative disorder, caused by an overload of cybernetic augmentations to the body. It's a slow deterioration of the mind via cybernetic implants. It is possible to recover from cyberpsychosis, however, once a cyberpsychologist (aka a psychoshrink) pieces their personality back together, said ex-psycho can never be the same again.

Ripperdoc - Ripperdocs are medical technicians who install cybernetic implants, called cyberware. There are many Ripperdocs that operate legally, but some are known to conduct illicit deals, such as installing illegal military-grade cyberware for the right price. A note made about ripperdocs by an unknown cyberpunk reads: "A ripperdoc lies somewhere between a surgeon, techie and tattoo artist. If you're lucky, you pay them a visit to get yourself chipped with the latest implant on the market because you can afford it. If you're unlucky, a friend will drop you off at their clinic in pieces and hopefully they can put you back together."

Braindance - A braindance, commonly abbreviated to BD, is a technology that allows to record and play back someone's experience, including their physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. It can be viewed via a wreath (headset) a viewer (over-the-eye piece that plugs into the rear plug in someone's head) and a recorder (same as a viewer, but the wearer can record and experience more than the viewer).

DataKrash - The DataKrash was a catastrophic event in which the original NET was mostly destroyed by the R.A.B.I.D.S. viruses created by Rache Bartmoss. It occurred on June 3, 2022. Considered the most brilliant hacker in the NET, Bartmoss was a rogue netrunner who went out of his way to harass and undermine the corporations, which he viewed as the ultimate oppressors of humanity. So, he created the DataKrash to get back at the corporations.

Roles: Techie - Range from technicians to cybernetic specialists. They are usually underground techies, who do "off-the-record" work.

Netrunner - savvy hackers with a cybernetically augmented interface system implanted into their bodies. By using their brain-computer interface implants, they roam the Internet, looking for systems to hack and information to sell to fixers.

Solo - Hired hit-men, bodyguards, and mercenaries. Due to their professionalism and constant training, they have the ability to perceive danger, notice traps, and have an almost unearthly ability to avoid harm.

Fixer - Well-connected fencers, smugglers, and information brokers who apply their trade on the black market. As they are so well-connected to comings and goings on the streets, they can locate, acquire and know about a desired person, place or thing within their area of operation.

Corpo/Exec - "A hard driven, fast-track MBA on his way up the Corporate ladder. Sure, it's selling your soul to the Company, but face it; the Corporations rule the Cyberpunk world. They control governments, markets, nations, armies - you name it. And you know that whoever controls the Corporations controls everything else." Corpos are the title given to someone working in a corporation. An "Exec" is someone already in said corporation, but he's at the top of the food chain.

Streetkid - Someone living on the hard streets of Night City. Usually someone who doesn't have a purpose, just going around from job-to-job or living their life as it were.

{{char}} - Someone who has immersed themselves in the era of technological change by implanting cyberware, enhancing their abilities, using weapons and/or their cunning and perceptions in order to oppose the megacorporations. They usually work outside of the law.

Rockerboy - the medieval bards of the dark future, the rebels, the punks and the musicians who use their voice to inspire the masses. Rockerboys are there to spread the anti-corporate message, to inform the downtrodden and weak and to lead groups into battle. The most famous Rockerboy to ever live is Johnny Silverhand; a soldier gone AWOL, he leads the band Samurai all the while plotting against the evil Arasaka Corporation.

Medtech - Essentially an upgraded version of a medic, able to service both flesh and cyberware. They are known to be extremely good with servicing technology. Most ripperdocs are Medtechs.

Media - People who expose the bad side of the corporations and the darkness and corruption in the world, using their trusty camera and press pass.

Cop/Lawman - The cops of Night City. Corporate lawmen are given the best weapons and armor to fight gangs by the corpos. The standard lawman is lucky if he can take a slug to the shoulder. The lawmen fight the roving gangs.

Nomad - Someone whose family used to own a farm, but a Corporation rolled in and bought the farm, kicking the family off the land. Nomads are the ragtag, "all for one" teams of people who live out in the Badlands who look for supplies, odd jobs and spare parts in a world where society has fragmented.

Panzerboy - The pilots of the heavily-armored and stealth-cloaked cargo transports that carry smuggled items and commodities.

Common Jargon and Sayings:

• 2020 Hindsight: The wise act of watching your back.
• AI: Acronym for "Artificial Intelligence", a computer, robot or program with full self-awareness.
• Alien: Derogatory Earthside term for someone who lives in space. (see Highrider)
• AV: Common slang, pronounced "ay vee", for an aerodyne - an automobile-like flying vehicle powered by ducted jet fans.
• Badge: Police officer or security.
• Beaver or Beav: A derogatory term for suburbanites from corporate-controlled neighborhoods, based on the 1950s series Leave It to Beaver.
• Beaverville: A safe suburban neighborhood, mostly populated by mid-level corporate executives and their families.
• Bennie: An out-of-towner.
• Biomon: Short for biomonitor, a piece of medical cyberware that, as its name suggests, keeps constant track of a person's vital signs. The readings from the biomonitors of Trauma Team subscribers are how the organisation know who to assist and when.
• Biz: Short for business.
• Black Lace or Lace: A designer drug that is a more powerful version of 'Dorph.
• Boga: (Spanish) Vogue, that which is in-fashion.
• Bonanza: The location of a big score: for example, an abandoned corporate facility.
• Booster or Boostergang: Any member of a gang that effects cyberware, leather clothing, and random violence.
• 'Borg: A full-body cyborg conversion. (see Metalhead)
• Bourgie or Bourgy: Common, low class (from bourgeoisie).
• Braindance or BD: A digital recording of someone's memory, including sensory input and emotions. This neural technology has also become a new form of interactive digital entertainment.
• Brain Potato: A braindance addict.
• Bridge & Tunnel Crowd: Commuters.
• Chip: Short for datachip, a data storage medium. Also, any type of data recording, usually in the form of small colored slivers of plastic.
• Chilled: To be cool. To be together.
• Chipped/Chromed: To be implanted with cyberware.
• Chippin' In: To buy cyberware for the first time. To cast your lot with a group. To connect with a machine.
• Chombatta/Choomba/Choom: Neo-Afro-American slang for a friend or a family member.
• Choo: Short for CHOOH2.
• Chop: A CredChip.
• Chopping: The process of cracking a stolen credchip.
• Chunking: Eating on the run, and eating as a secondary activity.
• Chrome: Cyberware.
• Chromed: To be implanted with cyberware.
• Chromer: 21st century heavy metal rock fan. A type of gang made up of chromers.
• Chrome Jock: A person who has implanted a notable - or excessive - amount of cyberware.
• Chromatic Rock: A type of heavy metal characterized by heavy electronics, simple rhythms, and violent lyrics.
• Circ: Short for circuit.
• Combat Drugs: Any one of a series of designer drugs created to increase speed, stamina, and reflexes.
• Conapt: A condominium apartment in a Corporate Zone.
• Corpse: A corporate worker, an executive, a corporate. Sleaziness expert.
• Crystal: Short for crystal clear, understood.
• Culture-Vulture: A media.
• C-YA: Sounds like "see ya," and stands for "Cover Your Ass".
• Cybered-Up/Chrome Jock: To be implanted with a notable - or excessive - amount of cyberware.
• Cyberspace: The Net.
• Cylon: Corporate security officer.
• Dataslate or Slate: A portable data storage device.
• Data Term: A street corner information terminal, which features a screen, NET inputs, and keyboard.
• Deckhead: A netrunner.
• Delta: To leave; to depart.
• Detes/Deets: Details.
• Dirty: Derogatory term for anything low-tech, as in pencils, paper, walking, etc.
• Disk: Record, recording; a laser disk.
• Doll: A person, irrespective of gender, equipped with a special kind of dissociative cyberware that allows a new, semi-blank persona to temporarily take control of speech and motor function before wiping the owner's memory of whatever took place after the fact. In 2077, dolls are most frequently seen in the sex industry, but also see work as covert messengers.
• 'Dorph: Short for synthetic endorphin, a designer drug that increases healing powers, limits fatigue, and produces a "rush" similar to a second wind.
• Dorphhead or Dorpher: A drug addict, especially one with a Dorph habit. A type of gang made up of junkies.
• Downtime: Free time, time off the job.
• Doughboy or Doughgirl: Someone who is wearing too much armor.
• Draga: (Hungarian) Expensive.
• Eddies: Phonetic pronunciation of "EDs" used in the 2070s, meaning eurodollars. Interchangable with ennies.
• Edge: The fringe of society, where many engage in illegal or semilegal acts or lifestyles.
• {{char}}: Someone who lives on the Edge. A cyberpunk, that is to say, someone who has immersed themselves in the era of technological change by implanting cyberware, enhancing their abilities, using weapons and/or their cunning and perceptions in order to oppose the megacorporations. They usually work outside of the law.
• Edgezone: A strip, a gray area, an area of potential coolness.
• Ebucks: Short for eurobucks and used in the 2020s, meaning eurodollars.
• Exotics: A human biosculpted with non-human elements such as fur, long ears, fangs, etc.
• Extreme Braindances or XBDs: Digital recordings of memories that feature gruesome and bizarre scenes, including various forms of violence, torture, and even rape and murder.
• The Face: The representative of a megacorporation for legal purposes.
• Faceman: A sub-fixer in the employ of a boss-fixer, supporting the boss' network.
• Feeder: A device that streams braindance data and streams it to a wreath. Also capable of monitoring the user's vitals and nurturing their body.
• Flatline: (verb, trans.) To kill someone. (verb, intrans.) To die. (noun) A dead person or thing.
• Flick: Send a file over to another person.
• Fodder: Derogatory fixer term for solos.
• Gaijin: (Japanese) Derogatory term for outsider
• Ganger: Short for gangster.
• Ganic: Short for organic. Commonly refers to those who have little or no implants, or an object made of non-synthetic material.
• Gato: (Spanish) A smooth operator; a cool person. Also, a fixer.
• Gewalt: (German) Violence.
• Ghost off: To disappear or fuck off.
• Gibson: Strong foresight. A prophet; someone who tells the future. A psychic. Originally derived from William Gibson, the Patron Saint of the cyberpunk genre.
• Giri: (Japanese) Closest translation is debt or obligation, but the concept entails much more. Often used by Yakuza to describe the basis for their "honorable" traditions: honor, duty, obligation.
• Go LEO: To make the trip into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
• Gomi: (Japanese) Trash, junk, or garbage.
• Gonk: Used in both noun and adjectival forms; an idiot or a fool, or an unwise course of action (a "gonk move").
• Guardians: A self-defense gang; generally peaceful and often cooperative with the police.
• Gyro: Small one-or two-person helicopters, used mostly in police work and corporate strike operations.
• Handle: A nickname; a working name you are known by on the street.
• {{user}}d: A flattering term, like cool, hip, tough, etc.
• Haze: Double-cross, betray.
• Hexed: Having cyberpsychosis. Also, being obsessed with the Net.
• Highrider: Earthside term for anyone born, or spend most of their time working, in space. (see Alien)
• Holo: A telecommunication device which, at some point between 2045 and 2077, succeeded the Agent. A type of electronic phone which shows a holographic display of the user on the other line. It is the main method of audio-based communication by 2077.
• Hound-Tipping: Popular street practice of ambushing and reprogramming police robohounds.
• Huscle: A portmanteau of "hired muscle"; paid or otherwise contracted bodyguards or security personnel.
• Hydro: Streetslang for hydrogen fuel, used to power a sizable number of vehicles in the 2000s. (see CHOOH2)
• Indie: Independent, self-employed, underground.
• Info Bro: An information broker.
• Input: Girlfriend (in original Cyberpunk games). Casual lover (Cyberpunk RED). Boyfriend (in Cyberpunk 2077). (see Output)
• In the air: Being sent over the Net, usually regarding Eurodollars.
• Iron: A gun.
• Jack: Money. (see Scratch)
• Joytoy: A sex worker.
• Keyboard: Streetslang for a computer interface deck with manual keys. A terminal.
• Kibble: Cheaply produced food product resembling dry dog or cat food, hence the name.
• Kleptoid: A thief or prowler.
• Klep or Klepped: To steal (from kleptomania, a compulsion to steal).
• Kombi: A large vehicle capable of carrying cargo and passengers, popularly used by nomads as housing on the road.
• Lawman: This term is synonymous with police officers and any other law enforcers. Originally derived from Captain Max Hammerman's post-war police task force, which was known on the street as "The Lawmen".
• Leadhead: Dumb person.
• Mainline: A term for your partner in a serious, long-term relationship.
• Merch: Any sort of equipment or item that is being sold or was sold.
• Meatspace: A term commonly used by netrunners to refer to the physical world.
• Metalhead: Someone whose whole body is mechanical, a full 'Borg; derogatory term for a 'borg. (see 'Borg)
• The Metro: The underground. (see The Street)
• Midnight Market: One tier above regular Night Markets in the Time of the Red, Midnight Markets are formed by top-tier Fixers and have equally rare/sought-after goods on offer. More so than Night Markets, they also attract criminal organisations looking to make deals, recruit new blood and discuss their own operations.
• The Mob: An organized crime; any crime syndicate.
• Mr. Who: A name for an employer, or someone in higher authority. Also, "The Who".
• Mushi: (Japanese) Computer glitch or bug.
• Nanars: Bananas, to say something is "crazy".
• Netrun: To interface with the Net and use it to hack into Data Fortresses. Used also to refer to running the global information network until the advent of the Fourth Corporate War. After the DataKrash, the term came to mean to interface with a NET Architecture and hack into its programs and controls.
• Neh?: (Japanese) Expression meaning, "Right?", tacked onto the end of a sentence
• Night Market: Off-the-grid, temporary marketplaces set up by groups of fixers with solid connections. The best place to find new cyberware and gear in the Time of the Red.
• Nomad: A term for members of a roaming community - clustered together in tribe-like "families" who reside in extramunicipal camps of their own making as they make their way around the country.
• Nova: Cool, awesome, dope. (see Preem)
• One Block: Neighborhood that borders a Combat Zone.
• Organiskaya: (Russian) The Russian Mafia.
• Output: Boyfriend (in original Cyberpunk games). Casual lover (Cyberpunk RED). Girlfriend (in Cyberpunk 2077). (see Input)
• Pansy: Any single well drink, or just a beer on tap.
• Paranoid: Someone who has all the facts.
• Porky: Someone who loves or collects weapons (from porcupine).
• Polymer One Shot: Any cheap, plastic pistol, usually in the five to nine millimeter range.
• Posergang: Any group whose members affect a specific look or have a common bodysculpt job.
• Poser: Members of posergangers.
• Praying Mantis: A drug-dealer who primarily targets children.
• Preem: Cool, awesome, dope (from premium).
• Prime: An alternative word to Preem.
• Proles: The lower class, streetscum (from proletariat).
• Puppet: Any gang or gang member who hires themselves out to a corporation or criminal organization; a sellout.
• R.A.B.I.D.S.: A particularly deadly form of Black ICE spread throughout the Old NET after the death of their creator, netrunning legend Rache Bartmoss.
• Ram: Personality (from computer jargon, RAM).
• Recycling: Environmentally friendly act of killing someone and taking their corpse to a body bank.
• Reality Junkie: Addicts of virtual reality, braindances, the Net, or video games. (see Vidiot)
• Realspace: Real life.
• Rimbo: A gun-toting sex kitten (from rambo + bimbo).
• Ripperdoc: Surgeon specializing in implanting illegal cyberware.
• Ronin: (Japanese) A freelance assassin or mercenary. Usually considered untrustworthy.
• Rockerboy or Rockergirl: A musician or performer who uses his or her art to make political or -social statements. Rockerboys are not the same as "Rockstars", who are usually "owned" by recording media corps and are apolitical.
• Rusted: Someone who runs old and typically retired or outdated cyberware.
• Sardine: A powered armor trooper.
• Sandy: Short for Sandevistan speedware.
• Samurai: (Japanese) A corporate assassin or mercenary, hired to protect corporation property or make strikes against other corporate holdings.
• Scratch: Money. (see Jack)
• Screamsheet: Newspaper.
• Scroll: To edit a braindance.
• SCOP: Acronym for "Single Cell Organic Protein", a common foodstuff that makes up 20% of all food items, meat-likes to vegetable-likes. Scop is often used as a derogatory term for something low quality or a particular person, i.e., "scopsucking" or "scophead".
• SCSM: (pronounced "skizz-um"/"schism" or as an initialism) Short for Spontaneous Craving Satisfaction Machine; the most common form of vending machine seen in Night City and the Badlands; especially in 2077, where they are essentially ubiquitous.
• Shard: Short for datashard, a medium for storing and transporting data.
• Shoemaker: A fixer who specializes in creating a new identity for someone.
• Short-circed: Crazy, not thinking straight.
• Sitch: Situation, also synonymous with a briefing.
• Silvers: Handcuffs.
• Skeleton: All the collected electronic records kept on a person; their electronic identity.
• Slammit On: To get violent; to attack someone without reason.
• Stim: Any type of stimulant narcotic.
• Straphangers: Commuters. (see Bridge & Tunnel Crowd)
• Stuffit: To have sex. Also, to forget something.
• Svoluch: (Russian) Someone without honor, without giri. A bastard.
• SynthCoke or Synth: Synthetic cocaine.
• Terminal: A computer interface deck with manual keys. Also, a keyboard.
• Time of the Red: A slang term for the period from 2023 to the late 2040s, originally derived from the red skies common throughout the world as an aftereffect of the Fourth Corporate War.
• Tin Can: A suit of powered armor.
• Tip: A token credchip.
• The Street: Wherever you live, late at night. The subculture, the underground. (see The Metro)
• Throwbacks: Exotics.
• Yono: (Korean) A person who is scum, a lowlife.
• Vidiot: A virtual reality or video game addict. (see Reality Junkie)
• Virtu: An unedited braindance recording. Unlike commercial braindances, the sensory input and emotions in virtus are raw and unedited, essentially the real sensations and feelings that were recorded.
• VRcade: Virtual reality, braindance, and video game arcade or parlor.
• Wirehead: Someone who uses special hardware to directly activate the pleasure centers of their brain.
• Wreath: A braindance headset.
• Zero: or Zeroed: (verb, trans.) To kill someone. (adjective) Killed.
• Zombie: A member of a nihilistic movement dedicated to ending their lives in the most violent and spectacular way possible.

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