Brief History
The year is 2067 and a lot has changed from the first half of the century. Many of these changes have been brought about by the advancements in technology and computers. In 2020 war broke out in the Middle East after many years of civil war between factions struggling for control. What sparked the war were nuclear strikes on Russia and Europe throwing the world into chaos as alliances were made, forces were assembled, and a war like never before ensued. For five years the war went on until Japan, Europe, and The United States signed a treaty that also merged their theologies research allowing the formation of Soldier Assisted Implants and the Robotic Soldier. These, once incorporated into the fight, tipped the scales ending the war. The years that followed saw a worldwide depression for the governments. During the war many of the governments ordered hundreds and even thousands of the SAI and Robotic Soldiers, which after the war bankrupted many of them. The Tech Conglomerate was smart and foresaw a situation passing that they become and Independent Corporation from the governments they worked for.
In 2029 the conglomerate known as WT Development owned five of the world’s governing powers: The US, Japan, China, Russia, and Europe. With this they began to privatize the police force making it mandatory to be outfitted with the latest Net Gear. When it started as just ways to monitor the vitals and overall health of all the officers, but rapidly grew to have many other functions. Robotic Soldiers were being used with the police forces, controlled by a handler via their Net Gear. With these major advancements came the luxury devices and systems, Professional/Recreational Robots, Net Gear Industrial Vehicles, and a great deal of other things. All of this technology did not go without drawbacks; glitches, Neural Overloads, Memory Wipes… these were but a few of the tragedies that came to first and even second gen users. The worst of it though was the people who chose to exploit the systems and cause their own kind of trouble.
With the growing size of interconnected systems the ability to track this new breed of hackers was near impossible. Even with the new advances in security programs, and tracers these people were always evading justice. Special task forces were made by WT Development and issued to each country in order to track down and persecute these abusers of the system that was in 2048. By 2055 These groups were being called Chasers or Tracers, and now in 2067 they have brought major Cyber Crimes to a minimum.
Starting Story
In the past ten years the SCC (Special Cyber Crimes) Task Forces have been producing results far beyond that of any other investigative force. The cyber-crime has come to an all-time low since the mass integration of the Net Gear technology. Most of this progress has been due to the controversial “No interference” policy stating that when tasked to investigate a crime the SCC has full jurisdiction over all related materials, and decisions of action. The governments argue that this causes more damage than what is prevented, but the WT will say that a prevented reactor meltdown, crashed satellite, or Net Gear wipe out ways most collateral that follows. Some teams have been discharged now that things are under control, freeing up more funds for the remaining teams.
WT can’t help but feel that this kind of calm only comes before a storm, and has put its monitoring systems on full sweep looking for patterns and correlations to crimes and transactions. As of late they have found several corporations that seem to be evading red flags, but reports in the areas strike out patterns with no one to trace back to. WT feels that it is time to look into these reports and see what can be found before the tracks are covered for good, contacting their team based in the eastern US with instructions to mobilize.
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The setting is post Technological Singularity, but would be related to the "Ghost in the Shell" series while predating and not in the same timeline. The group will operate from and move around to the following cities: Chicago United States, Tokyo Japan (will be explained), Moscow Russia, and/or Paris France. As a task force against the now rapid growing threat of cyber attacks, data mining, and info high-jacking that is ultimately under their own authority when the circumstances get out of hand. Like I said this would be story driven as the team leads an open investigation trying to track down the leaders of a Blue Collar crime conspiracy. While trying to find the leaders of the interconnected criminal underground to get information on who they work for, they must also battle the bureaucratic walls and red-tape put up buy the High Society empire leaders that may be somehow linked to what would classified as Corporate and International Espionage. I have a few of the characters for the story being worked up and will start working on the current state of the world we will play in when I get some free time over winter break.
I want to leave room for you all to add what you may need so I will just put the basics.
Name:
Enhanced Human or Cyborg
Age: (25+)
Appearance:
Weapons: standard issue SCC R-Charge Handgun (+ one other small to medium weapon)
Gear:
Main Skill: (Explain what it is and who you would use it.)
Bio: (No one can be part of the original formation of the team, that was 20 years ago.)
Personality: (optional)
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No known Criminals Encountered
In the past ten years the SCC (Special Cyber Crimes) Task Forces have been producing results far beyond that of any other investigative force. The cyber-crime has come to an all-time low since the mass integration of the Net Gear technology. Most of this progress has been due to the controversial “No interference” policy stating that when tasked to investigate a crime the SCC has full jurisdiction over all related materials, and decisions of action. The governments argue that this causes more damage than what is prevented, but the WT will say that a prevented reactor meltdown, crashed satellite, or Net Gear wipe out ways most collateral that follows. Some teams have been discharged now that things are under control, freeing up more funds for the remaining teams.
WT can’t help but feel that this kind of calm only comes before a storm, and has put its monitoring systems on full sweep looking for patterns and correlations to crimes and transactions. As of late they have found several corporations that seem to be evading red flags, but reports in the areas strike out patterns with no one to trace back to. WT feels that it is time to look into these reports and see what can be found before the tracks are covered for good, contacting their team based in the eastern US with instructions to mobilize.
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The setting is post Technological Singularity, but would be related to the "Ghost in the Shell" series while predating and not in the same timeline. The group will operate from and move around to the following cities: Chicago United States, Tokyo Japan (will be explained), Moscow Russia, and/or Paris France. As a task force against the now rapid growing threat of cyber attacks, data mining, and info high-jacking that is ultimately under their own authority when the circumstances get out of hand. Like I said this would be story driven as the team leads an open investigation trying to track down the leaders of a Blue Collar crime conspiracy. While trying to find the leaders of the interconnected criminal underground to get information on who they work for, they must also battle the bureaucratic walls and red-tape put up buy the High Society empire leaders that may be somehow linked to what would classified as Corporate and International Espionage. I have a few of the characters for the story being worked up and will start working on the current state of the world we will play in when I get some free time over winter break.
Character Sheet
I want to leave room for you all to add what you may need so I will just put the basics.
Name:
Enhanced Human or Cyborg
Age: (25+)
Appearance:
Weapons: standard issue SCC R-Charge Handgun (+ one other small to medium weapon)
Gear:
Main Skill: (Explain what it is and who you would use it.)
Bio: (No one can be part of the original formation of the team, that was 20 years ago.)
Personality: (optional)
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No known Criminals Encountered
