Take on the role of an operative in the Hex Gen network, a decentralized movement of hacktivists resisting the economic pillaging conducted by the unholy alliances of Big Tech, Big Military, and Big Finance. Think "The Windup Girl" meets "Neuromancer". Features: -Facial, vocal biometric capture devices -"Nohface" electronic face projector for thwarting surveillance/drones which cover almost every inch of city -Wireless internet -Darknets - all web activity is fully surveilled, you need stealth not only in meatspace but in cyberspace -More types of hacking - cryptography, DDoS, spoofing -Hunger: experience real economic destitution as you slowly die of starvation and are forced to beg, steal, or even kill for a piece of bread. -DIY: Upgrade your hemp trenchcoat with solar trim, syphon electricity from the private power grid, take apart old phones and radios to hack together an EMP gun, set up a hydroponic garden in your squatted flat so you don't have to kill for every meal.
The latest and greatest. "District Ten", an austerity ghetto/wasteland/warzone in Northeast San Francisco. No running water, swarming with climate change refugees, laid-off white collar workers, and remote-controlled counter-insurgency Terminators ruthlessly snuffing out any resistance movements / freedom fighter groups that begin to take root.
And here's Kennedy High, former leading-edge, inner-city charter school, now serving as a viper pit run by Micronesian neuro-crack drug gangs and a strip club catering to gentlemen partial to "gene-splice" girls with webbed feet and triple-breasts.
"The bombed-out factor of Kennedy High School was extreme, even among the dereliction all around, and the rubble lay with a certain archaic stillness that suggested it had been hit long before the Intellectual Property Wars or the Oakland Austerity Riots. Caused, perchance, by an earthquake, a tsunami, or one of the other increasingly frequent Black Swan disasters wrought by climate change. Or more likely, a stray Jericho missile mis-launched by a Killerhunter autonomous drone, which always seemed to hit hospitals and schools in the San Fran necropolis. Or, perhaps, the school’s decimation was the result of active human malfeasance, the only commodity in abundance nowadays."
You have really thought this thing through. The Story is so interesting. I can't wait to hear more of it!