Under Shadow of Fame

Under Shadow of Fame is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

Your famous father, Cowboy 6, pulled off hacks 10 years ago that shook megacorps to the core as he crashed entire satellite networks and paralyzed a Warner-Braun gleamer before being caught and executed. It is hard to live in his shadow, but you have the same gift and are seeking to carve your own path.

+1 Reaction, +1 Will, +8 Tech and +10% Stress Res, When Hacking gain +10 Matrix AP and +10% Matrix Dmg

Source

This Wireghost can be recruited through the Underworld Hub. The name is randomly generated.

Starting Attributes

These Attributes come from the character Backstory and may be modified by the Starting Traits.

• Reaction: 1
• Strength: 0
• Will: 1
• Tech: 8

Starting Traits

The Wireghost will start with the following Trait:

• Born Infiltrator 1: When Hacking gain -2% less Connection Burn (when using Skipjack) and +1 Turn jamming for Security Devices from the Matrix

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose another Trait from the following:

• Sleuth 1: +1 Will and +3 Legwork Success
• Adrenaline Junkie 1: +1 Reaction, -10 Hit Points, +1 Initiative, -1 Move Detection Radius, +5% Move Speed and 20% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready status, 10% to gain double Hype on mission completion
• Thief 1: +1 Reaction, -2 Move Detection Radius and +0.1 Move Points

Tags

The Wireghost will start with the following Tags:

• Faction Insider: Due to your connections and history, you are capable of executing Legwork inside Los Zagales territory without undue attention.
• Faction-Ex: Left Los Zagales without burning bridges and is still able to operate in their territory.
• Faction Barred: Due to bad blood and history, you are incapable of executing Legwork inside Warner-Braun territory without drawing the wrong kind of attention.
• Wanted by Faction: Is hunted by Warner-Braun Global.
• Dreams of Gleam: Dreams of escaping Earth to a new life on a space station 'gleamer' or even to another planet.
• Hidden Identity: Needs to keep their old identity, from above the level, hidden to avoid attracting old enemies and unwanted attention.
• Trusts: Has established a lasting trust with Judge (Gang Boss contact). For years, <Wireghost> worked with and ran digital infiltration for Judge.

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose an additional option from the following:

• Stolen Shadow Site Details: You stole the site details of a Warner-Braun Global shadow site operating far outside the bounds of corporate law. Maybe this will be leverage or maybe someday it will turn into a heist.
• De-activated Deltaware: In your past, you went under the splicer's knife to implant megacorporate grade deltaware. Now it is deactivated, a metallic dead-weight inside you. Maybe someday you can get it re-activated.
• Indebted 1 (on Judge (Gang Boss Contact)): +1 Favor per Month

Starting Cybernetic

The Wireghost will start with the following Cybernetic:

• Cortex Wetware 2: grants Wireghost class, +1 Tech, -5% Stress Res, +20 IO Boost

The Wireghost may start with the following Cybernetic depending on Dialog choices:

• X-Drip Mindflare (Deactivated): This implant has been deactivated. It neither grants any effects nor can it be removed until reactivated. See the Deltaware Activation storyline for details on how to activate it and what the effects are.

Starting appearance

To return Under Shadow of Fame to his default appearance, copy this text to the clipboard and select "import" from his appearance tab:

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Recruitment dialog

CK: We've put out the call for a new Wireghost. What did you find?

Face: I worked the network and I netted a promising solo operator. Keep in mind - the people who end up down here, willing to join a Cyber Knight's crew ... They've all got baggage, bad blood, someone hunting them. No one makes it this far into the shadows without a tattered record. The new potential recruit is waiting in the roster for your review.

Face: Why would we know your name, <recruit>?

Recruit: You wouldn't have heard of me really, but everyone makes a big fuss when they find out who my father was. So I like to get it out the way early.

CK: You've got quite the ice-breaker ... Who was he?

Recruit: On the matrix, he used the handle Cowboy 6.

CK: The Cowboy 6 ...?

Face: The same one who hacked the Warner-Braun military satellite grid and crashed their entire network of Orion sats into the Pacific?

Recruit: The one, the only, Cowboy 6.

CK: That's heavy. I shouldn't have been snide earlier, that is a hell of an ice-breaker and I see why you get that out early.

Face: Ok, but is it true the Cowboy went on to hack the Warner-Braun gleamer, Space ONE, and paralyzed it in space?

CK: The ransom on that one must have been insane.

Recruit: He did but ... He went too far on that one, made a mistake and they caught him. I never saw him again, I never watched the execution vid.

CK: That was a sad end ... So, he taught you and you're following in his footsteps?

Recruit: Not exactly - he was a classic Hacker with his bristling MatrixLink 7. I don't want to know what he'd say if he found out I landed a Cortex Wetgate. He was always hiding somewhere in a dingy hack-haven. When they came for him, he probably didn't even have a gun. I don't want to go like that. So I don't dive on that aging direct-to-brain crap. I ghost in, I get close, I do my work.

Make your choice and continue:

• I like to sneak around a problem, do some proper Sleuthing and put all the back together again. (+1 Will and +3% Legwork Success)
• I won't lie, I'm always chasing the next big hack, and then the next big one - just like Cowboy 6, an Adrenaline Junkie (+1 Reaction, -10 Hit Points, +1 Initiative, -1m Move Detection Radius, +5% Move Speed and 20% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready status, 10% to gain double Hype on mission completion)
• I've grown up practicing the same Thieving ways as my father but as I said to be close to the action. (+1 Reaction, -2m Move Detection Radius and +0.1 Move Points)

Recruit: I won't lie, I'm always chasing the next big hack, and then the next big one - just like Cowboy 6, an Adrenaline Junkie. I know you feel me you're motivated like hell to climb that ladder too, Cyber Knight.

CK: In our line of work, that can be the difference between a score and a disaster. What do you think, Haze?

Face: I've got one more question - you've been out on your own for a long time. Cowboy 6 went down a decade ago. Who have you been running with to get that Cortex Wetgate? That's not cheap chrome. You didn't earn that kind of money without pulling off some heists.

Recruit: I found a business partner in the Ox - they are the rent-a-cops of the underworld, right? Well, I was their rent-a-Wireghost. I still have that connect but, eventually, I had to move on me again. Things were catching up with

CK: You're living under the shadow of Cowboy 6's infamy ... and all the enemies he made along the way. So I'm not surprised you're in trouble - but tell me exactly what is going to eventually catch up to you? And before you answer, let me be clear -- if you want in this company, trust is our baseline. So, even if you don't like your own answer, it better be the truth.

Make your choice and continue:

• I had to get my revenge for my dad somewhere - I hacked Warner-Braun hard and uncovered an illegal black site. For now it's my secret - later maybe it can be yours.
• I stole a hot cybernetic spinal prototype from UltraTek. I paid to splice it in but somehow they bricked it when it came online.
• All those years I ran with my Ox boss, Judge ... I saved her life and squad enough times she is Indebted to me.

Recruit: All those years I ran with my Ox boss, Judge ... I saved her life and squad enough times she is Indebted to me.

Face: It always helps to have another friend who owes us.

Recruit: And a reliable one too, Judge is no slouch.

CK: Was Judge providing cover for you, helping you stay underground?

Recruit: Yes, you're a sharp one, Aspire.

CK: So now that you're out, you need another squad to help cover you.

Recruit: Yes, there may be head hunters eventually now that I've been flushed from my Ox cover.

Face: As long as we know the risks, we can make the decisions.

CK: A private word, <face>? What do you think?

Face: Everyone in this business has something haunting their past. We've got to keep that in mind when weighing a new recruit.