The rule books are more of a guideline. The purpose of this page:
Cyberware Reflavored as Biotech
In Paragons, most cyberware is not chrome. It’s grown. Engineered not from steel and circuit, but from bio-sculpted tissue, neural grafts, and recursive genetic protocols designed to integrate seamlessly with the host. These augmentations—collectively referred to as biotech—are the legacy of centuries of experimentation from institutions like Tarsen Collegium, Axiom Corp, Starion Labs, and the Mnemoscape itself. Whether it’s a memory-linked eye socket that reroutes trauma into clarity, or a tendril-fused spinal array that accelerates Drift capacity, every implant is alive at some level. They don’t beep. They breathe. And sometimes, they remember things you never lived.
This biotech is not without consequence. Every graft is a compromise—of identity, of biology, of memory. Some recoil at what it means to be more than human. Others chase it like a hunger.
*See the Allowed Ranged Weapon Categories below*
Dev III is Banned. (p. 31)
Refer to the Attached Tables. Some Dev II gear is excluded (i.e., banned).
Banned Animals: Cyber Dog.
Banned Cyberware: Data Jack, Detachable Eye, Extra Limbs, Hardpoint, Hidden Compartment, Integrated Gear, Reach.
The campaign permits only a (large) subset of the ranged weapons in Science Fiction Companion. Only Compound Bow and Crossbow are allowed from Core.
Because there are so many ranged weapons and so many different types, it will take me a while to get it all recorded.
In the meantime, here is the list of ALLOWED ranged weapon categories in Science Fiction Companion:
Included free of purchase. No refunds or exchanges.
“You don’t trade in credits. You trade in obedience.” —Unknown Renegade, intercepted transmission from Scora
The Echelon System’s economy is a Founder-backed, centralized credit regime, engineered to maintain control over society in a post-Exodus world. It exists because Nova Sinclair willed it into being.
Without her, the system would choke on physical currency, fracture under corporate greed, or collapse beneath Mei Xun’s obsession with order. Instead, Sinclair built something enduring: a unified, digital economy, centered around the Unified Credit Ledger (UCL) and its currency—credits (slang: creds). Every citizen, corporation, and drone operates within this structure. Every transaction flows through it.
But Sinclair’s brilliance goes beyond systems engineering. She understood a truth no other Founder did: an economy is not just math. It is trust, participation, and desire. From the highest executive to the lowest drone, even pirates scraping out a life in the Void—all of them matter. She gave them a reason to believe.
If the Echelon System has a face, it is Mei Xun’s. But if it has a heartbeat, it is Sinclair’s. And that heartbeat runs on credits.
Beneath this official framework lies the black market: crypto (or crypt-coin)—untraceable creds laundered in hidden Mnemoscape nodes called Crypts. These dark vaults, buried in the Hollow and rumored to whisper with Revenant code, fuel the system’s shadow economy.