LexiCorp Omnimedia
Type: Entertainment
Motivation: Greed
LCO extorts celebrities, politicians, the idle rich in exchange for favorable coverage. Major income sources include identity theft (and extortion), illegal wiretapping (and extortion), Intellectual property theft (and extortion), and pornographic social networking sites. Why? F*ck you, that's why! Money to be made.
Influence: 4
PCons: Financed; ruining people's lives has no overhead and a great profit margin. We HATE you, you stupid, smelly cows.
NCons: Burned out; so many thumbs, in so many pies. One can hardly muster any enthusiasm anymore. Good God, this used to be so much FUN... now it just seems like a chore. My great-grandma used to call stuff like that 'level-grinding'.
NPC: Donnybrook Li is junior Vice-President for Special Resource Procurement, LCO's smuggling arm. He grew up with Iole in the same neighborhood, and hired her for a special job.
Grey Area
Type: Group
Motivation: Survival
A hacker collective being pursued by corporate security. They've owned some high profile financial cyberspace nodes of late, and now the net is closing in.
Influence: 4
PCons: Equipped - with bleeding edge worms and viruses
NCons: Hunted - by corporate sysops and private cops
NPC: n0rthbridge - passed Voight a competitor's annual report prior to official release
