A violent and contentious contest for who earns the right to call herself Catwoman, and a brief history of it.

There is this quote about fighting monsters so long you become one, I thought it was total bullshit, the sort of stuff patchouli smoking ball tuggers said to justify not standing for anything. I spent twelve years of my life fighting criminals and terrorists and now I am one.

Stuart Gibson

A clandestine chapter of augmented men and rare women who've devoted their lives to thwarting the dangers of arcanotech and the horrors that come from it

More commonly known as an otretabletka or poteka, a portmanteau of Potyk and tabletka. Regardless of the name, the pill sized device is the object of cold terror for the denizens of the Cosmic Era first world nations and powers because of the insidious power it has.

The CogNet is not a monolithic computer deity, and is not beholden to any single central system, no god-like architect sitting in a control center. It is a decentralized, disassociated, barely cohesive system known by a dozen names across the solar system. The Matrix, the Oasis, the Nexus, the Wired, it's all an electronic dream.

A somewhat infamous and mysterious figure of the shadowrunner underworld

Contrary to the name, a bimbo bot is not a machine, it is something much worse.

The Usagin is a high end biomod that is a popular niche product in the Cosmic Era. The dedication required to become a bunnyperson is serious, as some of the mods are invasive and make some common tech devices no longer operational for the usagin.

Because why not

Also known as ARGs, Argos, Arcos, Arcoboys, Arcobois, and other derogatory terms.

An Abnegator is a synth or augmented human who has had the misfortune of being fitted with an emotion radiator

A highly eccentric socialite and techno-criminal kingpin in the Cosmic Era, suitable adversary for low level heroes, or a patron for low level villainous henchmen

30 Megacorps for your futuristic space dystopias and general sci-fi

A type of combat oriented synthetic lifeform, specificially engineered to counter supersoldiers, martial artists, and infantry forces

More commonly known as Phoenix Labs.

The Ettin System is also known as a Dummy Head

Captain Houou is a decorated orb craft pilot, formerly a mech jock with extensive combat experience.

Mr Big is the codename given to Lester Smalls, a diminutive man in a giant suit.

Superficially a Eurasian/Kamchatkan Brown bear, underneath, a highly skilled and deadly Neo-Soviet agent

A nano-cortex is a computronium fossilization of a human brain