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= 23rd Century Cyberpunk =

* Year is 2231, the location is the New Boston Zone.
* A century and a half of worldwide industrial, military activity, deep sea mining, and atmospheric seeding left behind uncountable amounts of nano waste throughout the world. During the golden era of quantum and nano, nanotechnology was the solution attempted for every rising problem.
* The resulting environmental disaster and wars have laid the world to waste. Nano pollution is everywhere--a mix of semi-active nanites, dormant nanites that could become active unexpectedly, materials broken down or partially altered by nanites into who knows what, and the toxic remains of decaying nanites themselves.
* Outside of cities protected by massive domes, human habitation is impossible. There are 112 megacities left on the planet, each protected by a massive dome, shield or mountain.
* 2 billion humans are packed into these hyper urban sprawls or living in orbit (this averages 18 million per major city)
* Space race is in full swing with multiple corporate colonies and space stations from Venus to Saturn, but their inter-reliance with Earth is still very high. Many large scale space stations in orbit of earth. Survival on Earth depends as much on orbital industry as survival in space depends on ground-based support.
* Megacorps ([[Matsumoto]], [[UltraTek]], [[Warner-Braun]], [[Jupiter Group]], [[McKellen Heavy Industries]], [[Rook Technologies]]) battle for supremacy over the world’s economy, space resources, and the matrix. In the shadows, everyone from corrupt megacorp agents to politicians, from the wealthy to the crime bosses, all employ elite mercenaries to do their dirty work and protect their interests.
* You are the leader of your rag-tag team. You have scraped together everything and pulled together to obtain an illegal spinal implant that transformed you into a [[Cyber Knight]]. With a [[quantum computer]] biochip (a [[Quantum Rider]]) implanted in your spine, you step overnight into the underworld as a top tier operator capable of handling the biggest and most dangerous contracts. You have a lot to prove but this is your all-in ticket to the top. There is no going back, there is no way to reverse the procedure -- you’re in it for life or death now.