#Shadowrun 5e character sheet guide series#

Technomancers receive their powers from a mysterious source known as ' Resonance.' Given the recent public awareness of this group and their rarity, Resonance is even less well understood than magic. Also hit but not as severely were Ares, Wuing, and Shiawase. Among the megacorps the worst hit were about a dozen megacorps (AA or above), including MCT, Saeder-Krupp, Renraku, Aztechnology, and NeoNet. Technomancers retaliated against their abusers and persecutors. None of them authorized the use of lethal force against technomancers, but they did take precautions by implementing proactive crisis management and tightening their security measures. In the neutral camp were Aztechnology, Wuxing, and Ares Macrotechnology, which took a wait and see approach.

They worked both publicly and behind the scenes to de-escalate the situation, offering technomancers who were in hiding legal aid and protection. Evo embraced technomancers seeing them as the next stage of human (metahuman) evolution. The pro-technomancer camp was represented by Evo with the public support of Horizon and the quiet support of the Shiawase Corporation (due to Empress Hitomi. Which was hoping to keep its involvement in the MCT led the anti-technomancer camp out of necessity as they posed a threat to its business model, unlike Renraku who because of it's history with AIs and the otaku prior to the Crash 2.0 saw them as an existential threat to be contained or if necessary exterminated. The response of the megacorps varied, and three camps emerged. Governments around the world publicly established research programs involving technomancers or 'revealed' formerly secret programs to the public (hiding deeper the more darker projects). Technomancers were persecuted all around the world for a time, a mini-version of what happened to orks and trolls decades earlier. at least until the activities of Sojourner and Pulsar, the first digital intelligences to 'go public.' This event painted technomancers in a harshly negative light and brought about a massive witch-hunt. Their combined powers were sufficient to massively disrupt the local Matrix, and the media pinned the blame for the explosion on them - exacerbated by the release of a security video showing one of the patients brutally murdering a doctor at the facility. Then in 2070, a Hong Kong research facility operated by Mitsuhama Computer Technologies exploded during the escape of a dozen 'patients,' actually forced experiment victims of a secret program of MCT's. These incidents might have been ignored as unrelated or frauds except for their strange similarity, albeit at greater intensity, to the powers of the otaku, 'children of the Matrix' presumed killed or stripped of their powers during the Second Crash. Strange events throughout the 2064-2070 period caused independent investigators to search for connections children found operating hacked machines with no apparent commlink and no history of sufficient technical aptitude, 'techno-wizards' performing magic tricks on seedy night acts, and leaks of hacked data referring to test subjects with mysterious powers. Many were institutionalized due to the severity of the symptoms several corporations quietly took a special interest in this ailment, and some of the patients were moved into special corp-sponsored facilities and their datatrails altered or erased.

This mysterious ailment manifested after the Second Crash sufferers reported schizophrenia-like symptoms caused, apparently, by the presence of wifi Matrix broadcasts.

#Shadowrun 5e character sheet guide series#

They were unknown to the general public for many years, until a series of events forced them into the public eye.ĪIPS (Artificially Induced Psychotropic Schizophrenia) Technomancers first appeared shortly after the Second Matrix Crash of 2064 most seem to be reborn Otaku or people who were 'trapped' in the VR Matrix during the Crash, though some seem to have no connection to either of these groups.

1.1 AIPS (Artificially Induced Psychotropic Schizophrenia).