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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Niagara, Canada
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In a hard-SF TL9 setting with TL10+ computers, I'm poking around at stats for people who've uploaded themselves. Right now, I'm looking at using B&C to describe the copy-clan of one of the poorer emulated minds. But I'm not particularly familiar with B&C (or Social Engineering); I suspect I'm missing a trick or three. Can someone double-check my initial rough figuring, and suggest other improvements?
-----8<----- ** The "LoadBear" Copy-Clan * Mission Statement: Provide services to existing copies, including safehouses (and other emergency services), lobbying and liasing, secure comms, and a clan library. * Capabilities: * TL: at least superscience-free TL9, with TL10+ computers * Members: 1,000 * Wealth: Struggling * Contacts: Administration-21 [4], Engineering skills-12 [5] * Member Traits: Claim to Hospitality (other copies) [5], Signature Gear ($15k, baseline robotic bodies) [1], Extra Life (Requires Copy) (provides storage of digital backups of members' minds) [20], Undisclosed Facilities (safehouses) [1] * Notable Resources: Rathauses (robo-dorms), private comms, computers * Reaction-Time Modifier: -2 (TL9 (-1), Administration-21 (-2), Complexity +1) * Costs and Values: * Startup Cost: $21.6M + PointValueAsPercentage(min -20%)=36%*PreviousNumber = $29,376,000 * Resource Value: StartupCost/200 = $146,880 * Patron Value: 10 * Enemy Value: -30? * Ally and Dependent Value: ? * Social Attributes: * Type: Fraternal (copies), Trade (copy-clan guild), Advocacy (for em rights) * CR: 3 * Loyalty: Very Good (16; +3) * Rank: Guild Rank 0-3 [2/level] (Nominal Hierarchical Position With Title (1/level), Chain of Command (1/level), Typical Resources (1/level), Not Dominant or Unique (-1/level)) * Income Range: $? Struggling to $? Comfortable * Reputation: +1 (extropians, transhumanists), +0 (other ems, who share some interests but also compete for similar economic niches), -1 to -4 (anti-emulationists and other anti-immortalists) * Notes: - Copies who diverge enough to lack a Sense of Duty to other copies are free to stop paying dues and stop receiving benefits. ----->8-----
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