Found this article in 'the facebooks' and it read like a breakdown of the Cosmic Era.

A flash copy of a person, inserted into an auton, for a variety of purposes

Expies are cheaply made autons with artificial brains.

A festival of settling scores and airing of grievances

The largest autons in use, Cyclopes are mechanical giants compared to humans, but just knee high to the average battlemech

Paradigm City

The tradition of Sabanto-Meido arose in Nippon/Japan after the widescale adoption of robotics and automation. It is a cultural movement to embrace traditional values and to counter the subculture movement of the Ko girls.

The challenge is simple, write a 500 word location submission, with the theme of Winter being prominent. Entries will be added to this codex.

One of the more notorious and infamous shadowrunners of the Cosmic Era

Wonder World LLC is the largest operator of virtual theme parks, amusement parks, and other non-sport, non-mmo virtual environments.

The most frequent weak point targeted on a human being is the skull. Pulp the brain, and the body becomes worthless. It was only a matter of time before someone tried to armor the head.

The Cromwell Chassis is specifically the mechanical remains of Major James 'Cyborg' Westerland, but the term has spread to include the pattern of cybernetic upgrade Westerland pioneered.

The next generation in designer engineering, the new skin.

Spider-bots

Muse is both a common term for a handheld Cognet linking device, and also a specific brand of said CogLink device. Functionally the Cosmic Era version of a smartphone

When you live at the bottom, the only thing you have is to look up. If you're lucky you can see the lights of the great towers and the stars. If you're like most people, you just look at concrete. But the stars and lights are still up there.

30 plug and play angels, devis, yami, muses and avatars for the tech savvy player

The combat catalog of Cyberdyne Systems, the primary defense contractor of Cascadia.

Observation and scanning technologies for the Cosmic Era

Imperfect simulacra, ever attempting to improve themselves, to make themselves better