Cyberpunk (role-playing game): Difference between revisions

* [[Brain Uploading]]: The Soulkiller can read a brain and convert it into an engram. Originally intended by Alt Cunningham to preserve the dying, Arasaka stole it and used the fact that early versions killed the target in the process as a weapon. However, if the target has already been dead for a while, the resulting engram is flawed, as seen with {{spoiler|Jackie}}.

* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: ''V3.0'' was decanonised in response to extensive fan backlash over many changes, including the use of action figure photography instead of drawn artwork.

* [[Combat Medic]]: Trauma Team will fly to the rescue of subscribers in armed aircraft and carry armed security specialists to protect the EMTs.

* [[Divided States of America]]: Several Free States seceded from the old USA and are still resisting unification with the New United States.

* [[Lost Technology]]: Thanks to the DataKrash, a lot of pre-2020 tech has been locked behind the Blackwall created to contain the rogue AIs, out of reach to most.

* [[NGO Superpower]]: Most of the [[Mega Corp]]s have private armies at their disposal. The most noteworthy are Arasaka and Militech, who even have air forces, navies with carriers, intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, and basically supply corporate security and soldiers to everybody else. There have even been a few all-out Corporate Wars in the canonical setting. They're not ''completely'' unaccountable to their host nations - for one, the Japanese government was able to rein in Arasaka and force it to confine its operations to Japan for a few years as part of taking responsibility for the Fourth Corporate War - but they are pretty damn close.

* [[Powered Armor]]: They're called "Linear Frames" and grafted onto the user's body.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Adam Smasher. It's hard to get more psycho than someone who demands his contracts not only allow for civilian casualties, but '''mandate''' that kind of collateral damage.