Can't get free from Mass Effect even here... XDDD Gally/Alita (Forked character with insanely high combat skills, higly adaptable and can sleeve into almost any synthmorph without problems, while she is not good at computer-related tasks she got another AGI called Melchizedek that its a computer wiz without much physical skills) Nerevar (an ego-meme who spreads everywhere ensuring that it is always somebody with its goals and ideals of freeing the opressed clanking masses against the imperialistic Planetary Consortium, the skills and attributes of this character can vary wildly while its goals, core personality, and ideals remain). He is higly favoured by an Infomorph called Azura that has been related to Nine Lives... as a member who runs the legal operations and tries to keep her clients away from the rest of the organization. Usagi Yojimbo (an uplifted samurai sleeved in a somewhat animalistic morph with bunny's characteristics that goes around roaming, related to the Geishu corporation that is part of Morningstar. He is really skilled with a katana, but can -and will- use other weapons aswell). He has a friend (Gen, Rhino-like) who goes around as a freelancing bounty-hunter, and had some friendly encounters with the next entry... Raphael, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Leonardo (with Splinter the AGI sleeved in a rat-like pod in the shadows): four uplifts that use some modified turtle-like morphs with characteristics halfway between furies and ghosts, they just want to eat pizza and train, but the evil FootCorp keeps messing around them. They also have a friend, a freelance reporter called April O'Neal that has, among her skills, Profession (damsel in Distress) and Profession (Escaping from all but FootCorp employees). Aribeth Tylmarande (a drunkard Firewall agent that blames herself after the infection of her entire cell, resulting in the corruption of all their backups. Her Fury morph just makes her need more alcohol than anybody could imagine to get really drunk... She also had a fit and joined a Singularity Seeker group, but was killed, and now her backup wanders around like a banshee/soul in pain). Bastila Shan (a really experienced Async that has been a teacher for years, returned to active duty with her former colleages against a nefarious plot from Cognite's part, and had her second personality -that wanted to collaborate with Cognite, since they had just brainwashed it after capturing her- repressed during therapy. Her last mission finished with the destruction of a really big and expensive Cognite installation). And I finished with the gaming/manga characters I have in my bookcase near my computer than I think of... aside from Fanhunter, Discworld, and some other stuff either ridiculous or inappropiate. Or really hard to insert XD.

I'm using Mr Albert from Valérian and Laureline in my current campaign - an old and refined gerontocrat with plenty of idiosyncrasies (like using *paper* to store information), a massive contact network and plenty of secret plans he will never tell you... but he will treat you with a lovely salmon on rye bread with aquavit, or maybe some champagne when you need it. Just because you are an expendable pawn in his plans doesn't mean he will be unfriendly or cheap.

Anthony Stark - Hypercorp Oligarch and one of the most brilliant minds in the Planetary Consortium. Stark has connections at the highest levels of the PC. Ozma agents have been known to use Stark tech not yet out of the testing stages, leading some Firewall leaders to believe he designs weapons and equipment specifically for them. More disturbing rumors suggest that Stark may even be one of Ozma's most senior leaders. His bodyguard wears a custom-designed battlesuit outfitted with technology that his competitors would pay a fortune for a look at and he has engaged in rather aggressive corporate warfare to keep proprietary.

Dr. Henry W. Jones, Jr. - While he's a well-respected professor of xenoarcheology who teaches at Cambridge University in Noctis-Qianjiao, Dr. Jones is even more famous in Gatecrashing circles as an explorer of ancient alien ruins. He's got more than his fair share of enemies among the hypercorps, however, due to his insistence that his finds be used for the public good rather than private profits.