Person of Interest

A brilliant back-alley cyberware surgeon who adamantly refuses to install any cybernetic implants in his own body. Doc Chen can patch up a dying runner, extract corporate tracking chips, or install military-grade optics in his sleep. Despite his profession, he harbors a fierce personal philosophy regarding technology. Chen adamantly refuses to install a single piece of cyberware or neural interface in his own body, relying entirely on natural human dexterity and surgical skill to keep his mind un-hackable.

The premier netrunner and tactical coordinator for The 404s hacktivist network. Brilliant, rebellious, and fiercely protective of street freedoms, Maya wage a digital war against corporate propaganda. She broadcasts unedited corporate atrocity footage over pirate mesh channels. Her main server rig and mobile deck are housed inside an automated subway train on The Underline that never stops moving, making her physical position impossible for corporate satellites to lock onto.

The matriarch of Yoru Market's shadow economy, operating out of a subterranean noodle shop that serves as sacred neutral ground. Mama Sato is the glue holding the Undercity together. Her shop operates under an unwritten law enforced by every major runner in the city: no blood is spilled at her counter. She holds leverage over executives across three megacorps due to decades of off-the-books transactions. Her shop hides a lead-shielded sanctuary vault beneath the pantry, capable of concealing high-value assets.

Senior biogenetics researcher at Hoshi Biodyne and the primary target extracted during recent shadow operations. Brilliant but nervous and physically un-augmented, Vance spent years developing cellular rejuvenation technology before realizing the horrific lengths Hoshi Biodyne would go to monetize and suppress it. His left shoulder carries a fresh surgical scar from removing his corporate tracker. His silver bio-case holds the suppressed age-reversal research alongside the biometric keys to Project ECHO's quantum drive.

The undisputed smuggler captain of waterborne transit through the flooded ruins of Old Tokyo. Operating her matte-black stealth pontoon boat, The Mist Blade, Aria knows every submerged highway, live power line, and drone blind-spot in Mizu Ward. Her boat's composite hull and water-jet vectoring systems scatter thermal optics, making her the only smuggler capable of slipping high-profile fugitives past the Sector 17 blast gates.