As a GM starting their first campaign of Eclipse Phase next month, was wondering if other people have done any conflicts where the common goalposts and differing methodology of exhumans, singularity seekers and ultimates were used as hooks/backdrops/crisis points in their adventures/campaigns? How do you distinguish them from each other? Where do you smudge the lines? Where do they wear the same pair of underwear?
I'm planning an arc right now. It's centred around TITAN data that different groups of singularity seekers are deceiving and murdering each other over in a race to figure out where it is and how to utilize it/misdirect their competitors about the same information...which draws the attention of different groups of exhumans who do the same thing to each other and the various singularity seekers...and then word gets back to Go-Nin that this data is accessible through Discord, and the ultimates lock down traffic to/from the extrasolar locale from which you can crash through to this abandoned(?) TITAN dataplex...except for them. Firewall, on the other hand, is scared shitless by the x-threat potential of this data. More twists and turns await the characters after that point, including what the data might actually be amongst the red herrings, tracing the initial rumours back to their unexpected source, surprises from varying ideological directions in the chaotic soup of future-thinking eccentrics and psychopaths, plans within plans (and plans beyond the concept "plan"), but since I fully expect that at least one or two of my players lurk these forums, I'll keep a lid on that.
I just thought I'd see what other people have done/thought of, since I could use all the ideas I can get to jam-pack this arc with bizarre variations (and even venn diagram blurring) of factions of exhumans, singularity seekers and ultimates. The arc is being planned for much later in my campaign, but seeding the early arcs with all the delicious variety of the bleeding edge of transhumanity is more than my cup of tea, it's the whole teapot.
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Yours,
Dave the Brave