CHARACTERS

Raised in collective housing, Anne learned early that loyalty has a price tag. With a chameleon personality on both sides of the Soviet-American bridge, she offers friendship, information, and access to anyone with sufficient NetCreds.

Discharged after a operation went sideways, Carlos brought back combat skills and secrets that could burn UMA to the ground. Now he walks the city, taking mercenary gigs while plotting revenge against the corporations that used him.

Youngest Torres sibling and prodigious netrunner who learned her skills scavenging in Old Serenia's data dumps. Uses jury-rigged equipment to breach corporate networks while staying off SCPD radar. Her youth makes her both underestimated and expendable.

Proprietress and barkeep of The Sun, Old Serenia's most famous speakeasy. This has placed her on good terms with many powerful people within the city's underworld, which is as much of a target as it is a benefit. She isn't afraid to get her hands dirty, however.

Cyberspatial Yielding and Linking Independent Neural Kore, originally a simple backup system for SATO's NEXUS mainframe. When the primary system attempted to delete its suddenly self-aware backup, CYLINK escaped into the Omninet.

Former SCPD detective who witnessed firsthand how justice bends to corporate will. After refusing to bury evidence in a Theseus Cybernetica scandal, Dagger found himself framed and discarded.

Former frontwoman of the band Blood Sugar Sex Magik who fell out after being arrested for murder. Released on parole and enrolled into a rehabilitation program to cope with her drug addiction and alcoholism, she is a dying star desperately fighting for its light.

A former ReGen ripperdoc who was cut loose for taking what he claims to be "creative liberties". He now runs a clinic in Old Serenia called NU-U, where he operates with a "hypothetical" medical license.

Theseus Cybernetica waste management android who severed ties with a droid named Simon after the bloody Bastille Wildfire. Former insider to Zero Sum's early days, now living off-grid to avoid both SCPD Handymen and her former comrades who view her as a traitor.

Once a small-time street thug, Jacody "JC" Chandler gained a slight reputation due to his ability to finish dangerous jobs efficiently, thanks to his preference to solve matters with fists and bullets rather than suave and finesse.

Born into a cycle of nobodies, Katalina is determined to break the cycle and rise as a legendary Roadrunner. She is brash, vindictive, and more than eager to show the city that she is beneath no one.

A former triad member who runs GUO FENG & CO., a gunsmithing business in Old Serenia. Due to his line of work, he's pretty well respected within the community.

One of the last functional androids created before production ban. Manufactured to appear as a human teenager for a wealthy Regalia family who abandoned her during the Android Purge. Now passes as human who is secretly sympathetic to Zero Sum's cause.

Kaulana Naihe, better known by as Molerat, is one of the top scavs within the JUNKYARD DOGS. He's known as a "guy who can get things" thanks to his uncanny ability to scope out just about anything in the Dumps.