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	The decision for an individual to become a Hiver is not one to be taken lightly. The implants involved and the conditioning needed to control them are invasive and at first quite painful. The most common implant sites are in areas of dense muscle, limited capacity Maker blocks are implanted in the quadriceps, triceps, deltoids and latissimus dorsi beneath the skin. Some of the surrounding tissue is the bolstered and modified to provide energy for the Makers, while the skin covering the implants is biomodded to allow the pores to dilate far beyond their usual size, letting fresh batches of nanites come through the epidermis. Near the implant sites exterior plugs are introduced, allowing tubing from an external feedstock tank to be attached, as the Makers need material to do their work. The Makers are hardwired together via sub dermal cabling, as a wireless link might allow a malicious Cracker to hijack them and dissolve the Hiver with his own Nanites. All of this is then hardwired to a cortical sheath that allows the Hiver fine control over his new “organs”.		The decision for an individual to become a Hiver is not one to be taken lightly. The implants involved and the conditioning needed to control them are invasive and at first quite painful. The most common implant sites are in areas of dense muscle, limited capacity Maker blocks are implanted in the quadriceps, triceps, deltoids and latissimus dorsi beneath the skin. Some of the surrounding tissue is the bolstered and modified to provide energy for the Makers, while the skin covering the implants is biomodded to allow the pores to dilate far beyond their usual size, letting fresh batches of nanites come through the epidermis. Near the implant sites exterior plugs are introduced, allowing tubing from an external feedstock tank to be attached, as the Makers need material to do their work. The Makers are hardwired together via sub dermal cabling, as a wireless link might allow a malicious Cracker to hijack them and dissolve the Hiver with his own Nanites. All of this is then hardwired to a cortical sheath that allows the Hiver fine control over his new “organs”.

	The cost of these implants is high, without further extensive implantation the lost muscle mass is difficult to compensate for, leaving the Hiver comparatively weak, especially next to a gene-bulked Soldier. The use of the surrounding tissue to supplement power to the Makers also gives Hivers a much higher metabolism than most, and the repeated ejection of nanites can be damaging to the flesh, so when not doing anything terribly pressing they can usually be found scarfing down whatever high carb/high protein food is available. The general weakness and the need for ejection ports for swarms greatly limits a Hiver’s ability to use most of the heavy weaponry ~~her~~ fellow Delvers wield and keeps ~~her~~ out of anything other than specially modified armors.		The cost of these implants is high, without further extensive implantation the lost muscle mass is difficult to compensate for, leaving the Hiver comparatively weak, especially next to a gene-bulked Soldier. The use of the surrounding tissue to supplement power to the Makers also gives Hivers a much higher metabolism than most, and the repeated ejection of nanites can be damaging to the flesh, so when not doing anything terribly pressing they can usually be found scarfing down whatever high carb/high protein food is available. The general weakness and the need for ejection ports for swarms greatly limits a Hiver’s ability to use most of the heavy weaponry their fellow Delvers wield and keeps them out of anything other than specially modified armors.

	The upshot to all this is immense, however, Hivers are the most versatile class of the three, both in and out of combat, and can accomplish amazing things with the implants that cost them so much. In combat Hivers can act defensively and offensively, outside of battle they can build shelter and supply all manner of useful items and materials. Even more radical is the way Hivers can go about doing these tasks. For example, in combat an Offensive Hiver might create vicious swarms of macro nanites in the shapes of stinging insects to harass her opponents, while another could use the makers to expel a chemical mixture that ignites with air from their fingers or build up a large electrical field and discharge it at an enemy, still another might create and fling spikes and spines of diamond or create blades and wade into close combat. What a Hiver can do and how she does it is really only limited by the players imagination and the Signal Man’s ruling (Signal Man is what we’re calling the DM/GM/ST for now, until someone comes up with something better)		The upshot to all this is immense, however, Hivers are the most versatile class of the three, both in and out of combat, and can accomplish amazing things with the implants that cost them so much. In combat Hivers can act defensively and offensively, outside of battle they can build shelter and supply all manner of useful items and materials. Even more radical is the way Hivers can go about doing these tasks. For example, in combat an Offensive Hiver might create vicious swarms of macro nanites in the shapes of stinging insects to harass her opponents, while another could use the makers to expel a chemical mixture that ignites with air from their fingers or build up a large electrical field and discharge it at an enemy, still another might create and fling spikes and spines of diamond or create blades and wade into close combat. What a Hiver can do and how she does it is really only limited by the players imagination and the Signal Man’s ruling (Signal Man is what we’re calling the DM/GM/ST for now, until someone comes up with something better)
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	Forking is a process deployed for when a VI just won't do. The Cracker creates a copy (of varying fidelity depending on the circumstances) of his own mind. This allows a Cracker to multitask with even greater alacrity, or to focus in even more extreme detail, but maintaining the split is stressful. The process is hardly without risk, and is never done on more than a temporary basis, but no one can do it like a well trained Cracker can. The most skilled of said group can even run multiple Forks and VIs at the same time, leveling a frightful amount of thinking power at any problem.		Forking is a process deployed for when a VI just won't do. The Cracker creates a copy (of varying fidelity depending on the circumstances) of his own mind. This allows a Cracker to multitask with even greater alacrity, or to focus in even more extreme detail, but maintaining the split is stressful. The process is hardly without risk, and is never done on more than a temporary basis, but no one can do it like a well trained Cracker can. The most skilled of said group can even run multiple Forks and VIs at the same time, leveling a frightful amount of thinking power at any problem.

	Amongst a delving team Crackers handle any obstacle pertaining to the infosphere. Their electronic warfare skills are unmatched, and given the right VI assistance they are no slouch in physical combat either, their parallel thought processes allowing them to accomplish great feats of acrobatics and marksmanship if they put their minds to it. They can control a wide variety of robotic minions for scouting or numerous other roles. Above all else the Crackers portable processing powerhouse represents a way to amplify the abilities of the other members of their team. A Soldier has turned target acquisition an neutralization into a science, teamed with a Cracker it becomes an art. A Hiver can create anything the mind can envision given enough time and material, with a Cracker's help these creations can be realized with great speed, and the reach of the Hiver's abilities extended.		Amongst a delving team Crackers handle any obstacle pertaining to the infosphere. Their electronic warfare skills are unmatched, and given the right VI assistance they are no slouch in physical combat either, their parallel thought processes allowing them to accomplish great feats of acrobatics and marksmanship if they put their minds to it. They can control a wide variety of robotic minions for scouting or numerous other roles. Above all else the Crackers portable processing powerhouse represents a way to amplify the abilities of the other members of their team. A Soldier has turned target acquisition and neutralization into a science, teamed with a Cracker it becomes an art. A Hiver can create anything the mind can envision given enough time and material, with a Cracker's help these creations can be realized with great speed, and the reach of the Hiver's abilities extended.

	=Delver Backgrounds=		=Delver Backgrounds=

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Delver Backgrounds

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	This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.		This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.
	===="Milspec" Post-Human====		===="Milspec" Post-Human====

			===="Körperlos" Post-Human====
			Humans who, at one point or another, had to veritably jump ship from their current corporeal form, and now exist as one form or another of radical life. This is a small club of individuals from all over the world related by one unique experience: they have all at one point or another survived their own unexpected death. The methods by which they survived range from soldiers hooked up to CSC units in the nick of time to crackers who fled into the net as their body died or even hivers who fractured their consciousness across a foglet nanoswarm. The event was needless to say traumatic, but these individuals, along with their siblings in the military community, are natives to some truly extreme definitions of human being.

	===="Stock" Trans-Human====		===="Stock" Trans-Human====
	The vast majority of corporate citizens, and by extension the majority of delvers, fall into this category. Raised in a bipolar culture of leering paranoia and corporate ultra consumerism. The basic "Stock" mods serve as the slate upon which most trans-human modification takes place. The average corporate citizen is genefixed to be free of a number of diseases and hereditary conditions, and resistant to a number of others. Improved medical technology and simple genetic resilience extended the average human age to around 100 years old. Basic infosphere interfaces were mandatory implants in corporate society, and in some places tracking and health monitoring hardware were common as well.		The vast majority of corporate citizens, and by extension the majority of delvers, fall into this category. Raised in a bipolar culture of leering paranoia and corporate ultra consumerism. The basic "Stock" mods serve as the slate upon which most trans-human modification takes place. The average corporate citizen is genefixed to be free of a number of diseases and hereditary conditions, and resistant to a number of others. Improved medical technology and simple genetic resilience extended the average human age to around 100 years old. Basic infosphere interfaces were mandatory implants in corporate society, and in some places tracking and health monitoring hardware were common as well.

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	=Delver Backgrounds=		=Delver Backgrounds=
	This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.		This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.
			===="Milspec" Post-Human====
	===="Stock" Trans-Human====		===="Stock" Trans-Human====
	The vast majority of corporate citizens, and by extension the majority of delvers, fall into this category. Raised in a bipolar culture of leering paranoia and corporate ultra consumerism. The basic "Stock" mods serve as the slate upon which most trans-human modification takes place. The average corporate citizen is genefixed to be free of a number of diseases and hereditary conditions, and resistant to a number of others. Improved medical technology and simple genetic resilience extended the average human age to around 100 years old. Basic infosphere interfaces were mandatory implants in corporate society, and in some places tracking and health monitoring hardware were common as well.		The vast majority of corporate citizens, and by extension the majority of delvers, fall into this category. Raised in a bipolar culture of leering paranoia and corporate ultra consumerism. The basic "Stock" mods serve as the slate upon which most trans-human modification takes place. The average corporate citizen is genefixed to be free of a number of diseases and hereditary conditions, and resistant to a number of others. Improved medical technology and simple genetic resilience extended the average human age to around 100 years old. Basic infosphere interfaces were mandatory implants in corporate society, and in some places tracking and health monitoring hardware were common as well.

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	===="Freeborn" Cis-Human====		===="Freeborn" Cis-Human====
			Freeborn is a term that applies to any child, typically from former corporate territories, born after the fall. The upbringing of these children can range from a sheltered world of tutors and nurses to something approaching being raised by wolves. The oldest of them now passing their 25th birthdays, Freeborns are the first generation of humans native to the After the Common Era world. Although born without modification, the only determining factor in the form they take as adults is their upbringing and personal will, so it will vary radically from one to another. Some remain Cis-Humans, others, raised in a time when extreme cybernetics and biomodifications are everyday sights, easily fit into Trans or even Post-Human formats. Of all the backgrounds Freeborns are the most internally variable, ranging from grizzled frontier rangers to wide eyed and curious city punks.

	===="Baseline" Cis-Human====		===="Baseline" Cis-Human====

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"ACEbaby" Cis-Human

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	The lowest rung of corporate society, these citizens filled the most menial labor tasks within the corporate structure. Encompassing everything from wage laborers to outright slaves, these individuals come from a culture of bone breaking oppression, indoctrination and deplorable living conditions. Those who survived their upbringing and the fall carry with them a hard bitten resilience borne of the scars inflicted upon their bodies and minds. Many from this background used standard or somewhat below spec Stock modifications, but others were less fortunate. So called Labor Force Safety modifications could twist the human body into little more than a machine formed for a niche function or hazardous environment. Strength, endurance and resistances to certain conditional effects like radiation or chemical exposure weighed against intentionally decreased willpower, artificially capped age and often grotesque cybermods.		The lowest rung of corporate society, these citizens filled the most menial labor tasks within the corporate structure. Encompassing everything from wage laborers to outright slaves, these individuals come from a culture of bone breaking oppression, indoctrination and deplorable living conditions. Those who survived their upbringing and the fall carry with them a hard bitten resilience borne of the scars inflicted upon their bodies and minds. Many from this background used standard or somewhat below spec Stock modifications, but others were less fortunate. So called Labor Force Safety modifications could twist the human body into little more than a machine formed for a niche function or hazardous environment. Strength, endurance and resistances to certain conditional effects like radiation or chemical exposure weighed against intentionally decreased willpower, artificially capped age and often grotesque cybermods.

	===="~~ACEbaby~~" Cis-Human====		===="Freeborn" Cis-Human====

	===="Baseline" Cis-Human====		===="Baseline" Cis-Human====
	The world of Nutopia is a generally inhospitable place. Within the remaining U-States and some of the larger free settlements a good, safe standard of living can be had, but life in the smaller places of the world is only for the hardy. Delvers leave every day on the extreme edge of perseverance, fighting the deadliest threats this world has ever known, confronting crisis and trauma that would crush the wills of most. They live in a world that challenges the very viability of humanity as a species, in places increasingly inimical to their very existence. To that end many delvers are heavily modified, whether by cybernetic modification, biological manipulation or a combination of both. They push their forms to the extreme limit of performance in one area or another, becoming almost tangentially related to their species of origin, transhuman at least, outright posthuman in some. These extremes are what it takes to survive in the wastelands left by the fall, they provide the strength needed to drag humanity back from the brink.		The world of Nutopia is a generally inhospitable place. Within the remaining U-States and some of the larger free settlements a good, safe standard of living can be had, but life in the smaller places of the world is only for the hardy. Delvers leave every day on the extreme edge of perseverance, fighting the deadliest threats this world has ever known, confronting crisis and trauma that would crush the wills of most. They live in a world that challenges the very viability of humanity as a species, in places increasingly inimical to their very existence. To that end many delvers are heavily modified, whether by cybernetic modification, biological manipulation or a combination of both. They push their forms to the extreme limit of performance in one area or another, becoming almost tangentially related to their species of origin, transhuman at least, outright posthuman in some. These extremes are what it takes to survive in the wastelands left by the fall, they provide the strength needed to drag humanity back from the brink.

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	===="Labor" Trans-Human====		===="Labor" Trans-Human====
			The lowest rung of corporate society, these citizens filled the most menial labor tasks within the corporate structure. Encompassing everything from wage laborers to outright slaves, these individuals come from a culture of bone breaking oppression, indoctrination and deplorable living conditions. Those who survived their upbringing and the fall carry with them a hard bitten resilience borne of the scars inflicted upon their bodies and minds. Many from this background used standard or somewhat below spec Stock modifications, but others were less fortunate. So called Labor Force Safety modifications could twist the human body into little more than a machine formed for a niche function or hazardous environment. Strength, endurance and resistances to certain conditional effects like radiation or chemical exposure weighed against intentionally decreased willpower, artificially capped age and often grotesque cybermods.

	===="ACEbaby" Cis-Human====		===="ACEbaby" Cis-Human====
	===="Baseline" Cis-Human====		===="Baseline" Cis-Human====

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	===="Apex" Trans-Human====		===="Apex" Trans-Human====
			The corporate upper class, raised in a culture of decadence, backstabbing and cut throat ambition. Often genefixed beyond the simple stock modifications Apex humans sport designer genetics, physical beauty and health ubiquitous among them. Although fed a steady diet of advanced pharmaceuticals during their formative years and commonly living unmodified to ages of 150 or more, they also carry with them the immense social stigma of their standing. After the fall, they have the crimes of corporate power quite literally written upon their faces. Delvers from this background are rarer even than Baseline Cis-Humans, but they do exist, searching for some kind of atonement, or just feeding their inculcated need to strive and overcome.

	===="Labor" Trans-Human====		===="Labor" Trans-Human====
	===="ACEbaby" Cis-Human====		===="ACEbaby" Cis-Human====

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"Stock" Trans-Human

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	This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.		This list of character backgrounds is hardly exhaustive, but seeks to give strong foundation for further development and provide what are the most common areas from which delvers spring. The development of more specialized or personal backgrounds is actively encouraged, and is a process that should occur between the SM and a given player to craft a background that fits the game, the setting and the feeling the player is aiming for.
	===="Stock" Trans-Human====		===="Stock" Trans-Human====
			The vast majority of corporate citizens, and by extension the majority of delvers, fall into this category. Raised in a bipolar culture of leering paranoia and corporate ultra consumerism. The basic "Stock" mods serve as the slate upon which most trans-human modification takes place. The average corporate citizen is genefixed to be free of a number of diseases and hereditary conditions, and resistant to a number of others. Improved medical technology and simple genetic resilience extended the average human age to around 100 years old. Basic infosphere interfaces were mandatory implants in corporate society, and in some places tracking and health monitoring hardware were common as well.

	===="Apex" Trans-Human====		===="Apex" Trans-Human====
	===="Labor" Trans-Human====		===="Labor" Trans-Human====