Here's a central NPC in a quick adventure I wrote. A wealthy family hires the characters to hunt down and eradicate an ex-black ops agent. But Firewall hearing of the contract wants the man alive for any potential knowledge on his ex-employers. Meet Johnathan Chen, a retired black ops agent who served a now extinct nation from before the Fall. He was directly responsible for the permanent eradication of thousands who his masters called dissidents. His controllers are rumored to even have had a direct hand in orchestrating the Fall. The potential of reward for bringing Chen to the victims' families is staggering. Rumor has it that he's been resleeved during another wave of restoring backups. There is a slight catch. Chen's only surviving backup was written when he graduated from the military academy, decades before any of the atrocities took place.

I'm running an argonaut re-instantiated named Helios. Before the Fall he taught math at MIT and was a part time card counter. After his family was killed he was able to escape using the university's network to egocast to Hooverman-Geischecker in close Sol orbit. There he was eventually given a heavily armored slitheroid morph and decided to help the cause as spacecraft pilot when not doing research. Self defense is very important these days, so he's become very proficient with rail pistols and mono-filament swords. He's also relatively resistant to re-sleeving into anything except a slitheroid. That is unless of course he can find and retrieve enough DNA from his remains on Earth to grow a clone of his old body. He's currently under contract to a Hindi Intelligence Agency and has been for the last several missions, currently based on Luna.

I whipped up two premade characters for some players who didn't know the system. Saiyd Kamboj, Re-instantiated Splicer Pre-Fall he was a hostage negotiator for a private security firm (Clear Sky Security), the oldest of 5 children he was also the first son. His father, a powerful businessman (an arms merchant) paid the exorbitant amount to have him gene-fixed. Since then his father has been a powerful, controlling figure in his life going so far as to set up an arranged marriage to strengthen his own business empire. This marriage went against Saiyd's own desires and was forced to abandon a relationship with a young woman from a Muslim family in favour of the Hindu girl his father preferred. Saiyd was schooled in America and eventually took take a job with Clear Sky Security as a hostage negotiator. Gifted at his job he was able to provide for his wife and children with ease, never telling them the exact nature of the work he was doing and often sleeping with other women, secretly hoping one day to find the woman he had been forced to leave behind. Afghanistan was the place of his fall, still factionalized from years of American interference, he was assigned to recover the daughter of a powerful Afghani warlord who was seen as 'pro-American'. The daughter kidnapped by Pakistani radicals was being used to keep the warlord from gaining more power and influence - the Warlord intended her to marry another rival Warlords son in order to secure a treaty. The operation to recover her was a success but in it's wake he found himself in her arms and robbing her of her virginity. The two fell in love and agreed that when his current contract was over that he would whisk her away (before the wedding) and they would disappear from their respective families and countries. However while he was away on another mission, the wedding took place and the husband upon finding his new bride to be 'defiled' killed her as honour and custom dictated. Saiyd arrived back in time, sneaking in to meet her but finding her dying. In a rage he turns on his allies gunning down the warlord, the rival warlord and the warlord's son before being taken down. Rescued by the firm, he is summarily fired and fined heavily. He returns to his wife and children and finds himself broke and begins drinking heavily. One day he is approached by a marketing executive for a reality tv-show (one popular with his wife) who offers him a place and a handsome compensation fee for participating in the show. The show: 'Dude Where's My Hover Car?', a gameshow in which contestants have their memories suppressed by early psychosurgery techniques and who are then put through a series of scenarios from their past life to see if they can remember any details of their former life. The more they remember the bigger the cash prizes. Despondent and with nothing to lose he signs his memories away. It is during the procedure that the fall happens and the TITANS seize control of key technological interests, the psychosurgeon is killed and the feed-back trauma kills Saiyd as well. While dead he becomes the unwitting test subject for a TITAN experiment using femto-technology on organic bodies. For years he is left un-animated as the Fall rages on, a forgotten experiment until one day a signal triggers the machines inside him and he is bought back to life. His memories suppressed, slowly starting to leak through into his consciousness and only remembering how badly he has been burned by the advances of human technology, Saiyd pushes himself onward trying to recover his memories and find his place in a post-fall world. Strangely though he is left with this strange urge to go to Mercury (and to the Pandora Gate), though he doesn't know why. -- The player wanted to play a bio-conservative who shunned technology so Saiyd has no implants of any kind, in fact he has the Implant Rejection flaw at it's maximum level. However what the player doesn't know is all of Saiyd's back history (which I am revealing by way of flashbacks periodically) and he doesn't know that for all intents and purposes that his flesh body is indestructible - kill it and it just rebuilds itself. I look forward to when that comes up at last.

copied from my post on the Eclipse Phase Facebook page: I am in the process of breathing life into a transhuman who calls himself Gideon Zero. Ostensibly, his real name is/was Thomas Murphy prior to the Fall. However of the trauma of his death and his subsequent resleeving have led him to utterly reject not only that name and identity, but his own sense of humanity. To him, Thomas Murphy died on Earth. He may have his memories, but he is not him. Gideon regards Thomas with disgust and embarrassment. Thomas was a backbiter, a coward and a lousy spouse, even with the horrors of war raging all around him. Gideon distanced himself from that life by rejecting the opportunity have a human biomorph and instead opting for a slitheroid body, much to the shock of Thomas' surviving family, whom Gideon has distanced himself from and avoids all contact with. His only remaining connections with Thomas' life are his skills. Thomas Murphy was a robotics engineer for a Sino-American business conglomerate prior to the fall and Gideon has continued to find this knowledge useful on Mars and in his travels among the Autonomist stations. Gideon, while tolerant of humans, prefers the company of non-humanoid beings. He particularly takes an interest in Transhuman Philosophy as it applies to uplifts, infomorphs, AGIs, and others like himself. He sees Exhumans as dangerous, however, and regards their activities as immoral. The TITANs, despite his progressively nonhuman nature, are regarded as even more dangerous because he sees them as a threat to his identity as an individual. Gideon is not a violent individual, despite his morph being lightly armed. He would prefer to avoid a pitched battle, if at all possible. However, his position as a Firewall agent means that sometimes, that just isn't possible and his morph has been armored and otherwise reinforced as a result. The addition of an Emergency Farcaster has further improved his survivability in hostile situations as well. NOTE: While developing this character, it was pointed out to me that he displays signs of psychosis and neurosis. I suppose that's true, haha. NOTE #2: Gideon, while distinctly disinterested in sex, does wish to have offspring of a sort one day. Rather than forking off a copy of himself, he wishes to create a wholly new being. He sees his best chances of doing so among the residents of the infamous Carnival of the Goat.

My character's background is that he's one of the last batch of uplifts and pods that were created on a small science outpost on the edge of the solar system. at some point, funding got cut for the station so the scientists left and gave control of the station to the remaining civilians. soon the everything went to shit and my character had to become ruthless and cruel to survive in his new surroundings. from all this he learned that he needed to be both smart and at peak physical condition at all times. He has resentment towards the human race, but knows that they all aren't bad. he's an introvert but will talk to people when it calls for it. he also likes to have the best parts incorporated into whatever morph he's in a the moment.