I have had a few fairly well developed characters in my games with decent day jobs, a quick list: CodeBreaker - My current character is currently employed as a prototype Morph tester for a small Hypercorp (Qel'Thyr Industries), which I represent with a Patron trait and sometimes having access to the shiny, shiny custom Morphs that they have smuggled away on a few Habs. It was the easiest way for my GM to let me integrate my custom Morphs without having to explain why they are not all that widespread. Bishop – One of my friends old characters (He got deaded, for good). He worked as a P.I out of one of the Martian cities. In a System where information is power, and intrigue and sneakiness is paramount I imagine a well trained and skilled P.I could make a mint. Fit well with his skills and backstory as well. Daelphy – My Sisters old mess-about character, she worked as an Escort (ಠ_ಠ ) on Venus. Everyone needs some lovin', even in a post scarcity world! Orion – Another friends character, he worked as a high-end carpenter who made all the nice shiny Oak tables that the Hypercorp Elite types seem to love so much. In a time when anyone can get something printed out of the Maker, I would think that a product made with dedication and hard work would be valued. It doesn't matter what you have, it matters where it comes from.

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I'm pretty sure that Firewall works alot like the CIA/KGB in that they find people who are in the right place at the right time and turn them into operateives.

I am fairly sure that is indeed the case. The Spoilers section seems to suggest that basically anyone could potentially become a Sentinal, as long as they have some skill that Firewall might find even the slightest bit useful. Also I imagine they are quite hungry for the odd types, and the Psi users. Easier to keep them from killing everyone if they are working for you.

My gaming group involves: Jasper Warren III, philanthropist hypercorp scion who promotes the latest and coolest good causes. Gives a very good cover for showing up almost anywhere and tends to distract from what some members of the entourage does. Little Viper, ex-Chinese military materiel (a pretty advanced swarmanoid/nanofog). Main cover doctor/morph designer, but also does nanoprogramming. Jasper and Viper recently forked, and now have two independent alphas involved in Gatecrashing and monitoring the shady groups supporting it. Jasper Bis is a psychosurgery reviewer for Extropia Medical Journal, and Viper Bis is a freelance software security expert for a subsidary of Medusan Shield. Sam Spade, super-networking P.I. One of those people who also seem to have a legit reason to show up everywhere. Kemal Osman, ex-Jovian Republic logistics expert. Sensitive to political trouble he managed to defect to the autonomists via Firewall, selling sensitive information from the military-industrial complex. Currently does logistics planning for Phelan's Recourse (anarchists need a lot of logistics, they just don't want to admit it). Patrick Chekala, Tanzanian lobbyist. Represents the uploaded nation of Tanzania, tries to get it embodied in the right way. Not a Firewall agent, but got entangled in Warren's schemes. Another character was a University of Putingrad (Luna) engineering professor specialized in nanoconstruction, a social engineer working as a marketer (with prostitution as a hobby), and a mercenary (an increasingly thin cover for being part of a Firewall nuke-the-site-from-orbit team).

In my game we had: -An uplifted housecat who works as an ego hunter. -An economic hitman who may have been engineered to spec for Firewall. -A hedonistic industrial spy who moonlights as a combat hacker and escort. -A data smuggler specializing in highly illegal XP clips. -A member of the Lost hiding among a band of Ultimates. -The head of the dockworker's guild who preferred neotenic morphs because they could crawl inside of spacecraft engines. -An experimental AGI implementing the fictional character Spider Jerusalem who traveled the solar system as a freelance reporter.

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what exactly do a social engineer, work wise? how does he or she does his-her job?

Social engineering can either mean the hacker trick of conning people into opening up their security ("Excuse me, ma'am, but we are installing upgrades. Could you please log in to your computer?") or the literal deliberate manipulation of social structures. The latter would involve memetics, marketing, sociology, figuring out how to change institutions or incentive structures to make people do certain things.