I'd like to start a thread called "The plot pot" that would just be an open pot to toss plot ideas into.
First tosses:
"Dead ego walking". You've been rebooted by firewall only to find that you have been sentenced to death for a capital crime and executed, with all known backups likewise erased.
What do you do now? Try to clear yourself without exposing firewall? Emigrate to the AA? Try to clear yourself of the charges, assuming you didn't do what you were executed for? BTW, what were you executed for? The media said it was classified...
"Kill Team". A hypercorp has done something really egregious, and firewall has determined it's CEO must die as a warning to others that such acts cannot be tolerated. Your team has been given the task of terminating the big boss man and making sure he never gets rebooted. But how to get past his security? Say, if evidence of his acts could be found and brought to light, even his status couldn't save him from permanent deletion...
"The Thing and I" The exsurgent virus is the greatest threat transhumanity has ever faced, and must be destroyed in whatever form it takes, right? So why is the person infected with it you've been tracking to terminate seemingly trying to help people and save lives? What about the message he sent you, instead of killing or infecting you, telling you that the strain he contracted has mutated, and is no longer hostile towards transhumanity? He could have killed you but didn't, despite your hounding him across the solar system. Something's odd here...
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"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
First off, great idea for a thread. That said, I recommend page breaks.
Here's a link to a thread with some good seed ideas. http://www.eclipsephase.com/merging-forks-two-different-egos
"I learned the hard way that if you take a stand on any issue, no matter how insignificant, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it." -Jesse "the mind" Ventura.
A small hypercorp has made it quietly known that it'll pay good credits for samples of pre-Fall Earth animal DNA as part of a next-gen biomorph program it's bootstrapping. If credit's not your thing they'll pay you in rep and favors with few questions asked.
A group of Brinkers have put out word that they're looking for infomorphs to join them in an expedition: they're constructing an interstellar probe that they're outfitting with nanoreplication gear, disgusting amounts of computronium, and a small thruster that they want to send out Sol system to see what else might be out there. (Wave of the tentacle to Charles Stross.)
One word: 'botnet'
An unscrupulous individual has developed an AGI with the sole intention of using it to send AR spam that can evade filtering software on the mesh. There's just one problem: to speed things along the spammer used code from a... questionable... period of transhuman history, and consequently it's infected with a very subtle variant of Exsurgent. Subtle enough that it can hitchhike in the AR spam.
A graffiti artist has invented a nanoplague that adds comments to the DNA of biomorphs it infects. It does horrible things to cyberbrains, however, causing them to malfunction and even crash, resulting in corrupted cortical stacks.
"the hunt is not complete until the targets heart is pulled from its chest and eaten" -hunter