CordialUltimate2 wrote:

I want to use 3 forks with 40 COG (possibly with Savant Cyberbrains) and Parallel Processor to act as logistical backup for Firewall and my team. Indentures would be lower class workers.

At the very least, getting parallel processors is a waste here, as aptitudes don't go above 40. I don't really see any advantage here above just hiring, or having a Register handle it. I'm assuming your character is a Sentinel, and really shouldn't be linkable to any Firewall resources like shell corporations; a Router should probably intervene in the security hole you're opening for Oversight.

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-Ghostrider shenaningans

I don't really see those tricks working long term. For getting through a checkpoint maybe, but you're talking about falsifying employment records, which is more complicated and longer term. At the very least, you need to hire fake people to hide your real egos, and ensure that no whisper of data gets out about what you're actually doing; not simple in a Panopticon.

CordialUltimate2 wrote:

I'm asking for legit "by the book" exploits, because I want to be able to make compelling case to my GM if he starts using brainscans, while avoiding bringing them to his attention ;-)

This is a stupid way to play a game. Mars orbit is not out of the reach of Oversight.

SquireNed wrote:

If you have your forks in your own facilities doing their own business, who cares?

Oversight

SquireNed wrote:

you only get scanned frequently if you're doing stuff that requires you to get scanned.

Considering brainprints are the most definitive form of ID, you likely need to get brainscanned in order to work. It's even better than an SSN or other forms of modern ID.

SquireNed wrote:

How many people will have the ability to do multiple brain-scans on multiple forks of yours?

Oversight can, and that kind of thing is their job. White collar crime is kind of their thing.

I think that another thing is that Oversight doesn't really care about what you're doing unless you make it their problem. Does the PC really have a thing against alpha forking? I don't see a lot of anti-Alpha sentiments except in the JR, and the JR hates everything fun.

Multiple personalities would definately screw with a basic brainscan, but a more complex machine could probably recognize the augmentation and deduce a scan of each ego (which has to be doable, or you wouldn't be able to seperate the egos into two seperate morphs later). The ghostrider shenanigan seams like a good way to go. Heck, if you're willing to look like a monster, you could use Freeman morphs and have "dummy" egos in the meatbrains and use your forks as the "Monitor AGI". Most people won't notice (or know; freemans are used to covertly control populations), and the ones who do will assume you're using them to make slaves of the meatbrain ego, and not check if your monitor is an AGI or not. The Ego Breeding is DEFINATELY exhuman, but it would work too. Of course at that point you'd end up with highly-competitive forks who probably consider themselves superior to the original, so be aware that that can of worms gets ugly fast without proper precautions. As an alternative, you could just get a Hive license; I forget which book it's in, but there's a section that talks about people who have expanded the concept of "I" to include multiple egos. While the most prominant example is La Familia, there are supposedly more mundane versions in the PC, such as "twins" or even "families". Because it's alpha-forking, you'll probably need some sort of license from your local legislation, but once you've got it you basically have permission to be multiple people. Hypercorp CEOs do it with betas, but supposedly it happens with alpha-forking too. Your GM may disagree on the "in the PC" aspects of this though. As a last-ditch attempt, you're probably going to know about brainscanning ahead of time, so you may just hack it. Pre-load it with a dummy scan that it will output instead of yours, and then undo your changes on your way out the door. And, for the crazy-prepared, you can always hack the person doing the scan. Ego-nap them, give them psychosurgery to not recognize when multiple people have the same brainscan, and then replace the original with your copy. Ironically, this last part is the hardest >_>" But if you want the same mechanical benefit, you're already at 40 COG so no point in getting bonuses there, and for the +30 you can get ghostriders in your primary morph and load them with alphas. +30 helping bonus for all mental or mesh actions, and you can just delete/merge as soon as your done with whatever your latest problem is. You'll probably get some funny looks from security doing augment-scans, but if the ghostriders are empty, who are they to say you don't use betas like half the other CEOs who pass through there?

Goya Machines are automated forced merge machines. It's basically a box which jams egos together and creates a new one with elements of both, but dominated by the one with the strongest will or self image. Exhumans use them to "eat" skills and memories to gain them, but it would definitely bypass a brainprint scan. It's sort of the reverse of ego breeding. Anyway, excluding the very immoral options, I think an unregistered multiple personality augment might be very difficult to detect with a brainprint scan. It's not an actual brainscan, and it doesn't access the cortical stack, as that's the real telltale. It just looks at a fancy EEG of how the brain reacts to stimuli. A full hour-long test might catch it, but I don't see a 5 minute EEG catching that subtlety for what it is. The trick with an unregistered ghostrider should also work, but sourcing the dummy egos might be harder.