I cheat when uniting my groups. For instance, right now my group technically has nothing holding them together, but they were all at one time employed indirectly by the PC, who blacklisted them after a series of incompetent actions got taken for malice. Since they now face the constant threat of violence from the PC, they've sort of cohered together, though they're no longer in direct danger, as the most axe-crazy of the PC guys has been told to restrain himself.

I've been considering employing MicroTorts on Kronos. So far I havent and its been a few sessions so I shouldnt. But I wonder if I should have.

Well, the gangs that are under the toe of the Ultimates, are all Extropian, and I've been using that. They're currently going after a criminal that recently got married, and they wanted to move to Mars. The issue is that Asimov would need to wait until his Contract Expires, or buy out the interest in his contract. Unfortunately, he's traded to the other gangs before his contract expire, and he gets a new contract. With a new contract length.

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: fleshed out material on Meathab

…may I laugh out loud? Anyways, any adventure that involves honest to god aliens is fine by me. Is there some way the Ikotomi could be involved in one of these?

AGI's certainly can. Since ALI's have Lucidity and Trauma Threshold I would assume they could as well. However, just because they can get something that approximates a human mental disorder doesn't mean they can get all human mental disorders. Outright paranoia for an ALI probably isn't possible. On the other hand things like aphasia, hysterical amnesia, or glossolalia are all certainly conceivable. For Profunda my guess is that the biggest difference is how one becomes enfranchised. To become a citizen you would be required to purchase stock. There would be no naturalization process. Also, in a modern democracy one person has one vote. In a shareholder system one person has however many votes they've purchased (or been given). I'm not 100% sure this holds for the Extropians because I've not devoted enough time to thinking about exactly how all their stuff works. There's just too much stuff in the EP universe for me to be really up on everything. For the last question, there's pretty much an entire book dedicated to that. How someone would get away with murder would be 'very, very carefully'. It's not a perfect system so things can be done to beat it but it takes an awful lot of planning. I would guess that the only people who get away with impulse murders are those who get very, very lucky.

Well, Extropians, don't believe in the civil body, and they dont believe in a civil authority. They're extreme anarcho capitalists, super randroids, "Hey bioshock wasn't such a bad idea", kinda of folks. The laws that you are govern under, are the laws you strictly and explicitly opt into, via contract. You pay a reasonable fee, to have a host of rights, that exist on as a legal fiction for the entity that guaranteeing you. Its possible for two Extropian to be under two entirely mutually exclusive set of laws. For one to commit a crime to another, while the offending party doesn't recognize it as a crime. The two entities that two individuals have contracts with, then engage and resolve the conflict, which by their contract the two individuals have to honor. If you break contract, your contract is made void, you're no longer recognized legally as a person, and therefore can be acted upon with impunity. No one else will wish to make a contract with you, as you're known to violate the contracts you sign or you'll have to sign an egregiously expensive contract, with minimum rights. (With that said, jail doesn't really happen to my understanding. As the wrong party, you'll have to pay for their upkeep in jail. It has to be the wrong party, as the offending party, may not be able to afford it, and you two subscribe definition of jail p Generally, its ruminations in the form of COLD HARD CASH, or services or in an extreme case, indenture service.) So, my understanding is that Extropia, is a company that owns the Astroid of Exotropia. They are one of the larger Companies on Extropia, and certainly one of the richest. However, Extropia holds no authority over you, the individual, except for the authority you've explicitly agreed to recognize via contract. Extropian Company doesn't act as a civil body, its not a State. The only one beholden to Extropia, are those that sign a contract with them for services. Now for the Habitat. The company that owns the Habitat, maybe the largest company on it, or possibly the only company. If you want to be recognized as a person, you'll have to sign up, ante up some payment. If you want to have a say with that company, you buy their stocks. And buying stocks, isn't really having a democracy inside a company. Shareholders make demand, under threat of poor performance of selling their stock, and the board of directors listen to the demands. And then after that, it depends on the companies own corporate structure. They be structure in such a fashion, that the power of share holders is very limited, their only real power is the being able to sell their shares. They may not be able to do votes or have a say with the CEO or CFO, or anyone on the board of directors, and may never be allowed as a board of director for the company. Now what makes this note a State, is that your participation is voluntary. Depending on how your contract is designed, you should be able to opt out with minimum termination fees. You may attempt to entirely negotiate your contract, and there self determine your own set of rights that fit you. You may also leave.