[Mirikon]

Nath brings up a good point. For all some people really love the Neo-A, white-hat, fight against the man types, the ones that really succeed in the end are the ones who not only started off a step above, but are also willing to play the game.

[Crimsondude]

But that kills all the romance.

[Angelone]

It's the way of the world, try as you like the rich senators son will always be seen as better than you. They are the officers and we are the grunts.

[Mirikon]

But that kills all the romance.

Depends on where you find the romance, Crim. I find the renegade noble running the shadows as an outlet for all the things he can't do in 'polite' society appealing. But then, I always favored Batman over Superman, Punisher over Daredevil, and Wolverine over Cyclops. The kind of character that does it for me is the "Bad Man who does Bad Things to Bad People".

The anime/manga Shingeki no Kyojin is a perfect example. Gotta love it when the main character says his life's goal is to slaughter every last titan in existence.

[Bull]

12) The Bot' Kham seem to be popping up all over the underground these days. They also seem to be a pretty violent and unruly gang (even by OU standards). Kham himself seemed to be a pretty decent and down to earth dude. Is there some record of how we got from one to the other after "Never Trust An Elf?"

The Bot'Kham first show up in Runner Havens.  I have a story kicking around about Kham, and some plot development about the Bot'Kham (as well as a bit about their origins), but it's a project that's kind of on the back-burner as I deal with a lot of other stuff.

[Sendaz]

It's especially funny to see them bad mouth some of the drug operations in their area, but that could just be a case of the Bot' calling the Cartel black..

[Opti]

12) The Bot' Kham seem to be popping up all over the underground these days. They also seem to be a pretty violent and unruly gang (even by OU standards). Kham himself seemed to be a pretty decent and down to earth dude. Is there some record of how we got from one to the other after "Never Trust An Elf?"

The Bot'Kham first show up in Runner Havens.  I have a story kicking around about Kham, and some plot development about the Bot'Kham (as well as a bit about their origins), but it's a project that's kind of on the back-burner as I deal with a lot of other stuff.

Ooh. Fun stuff. I look forward to that.

[Opti]

13) I know that Horizon had a rep as a "good" corp, until recently, but what was the event (or events) that pulled the curtain back? In other words, we all sortof "knew" that their "goody-two-shoes" act was BS, so what happened that proved us right? Also, sources would be aces.

[Wakshaani]

Twilight Horizon on both counts.

[Opti]

I got the pdf and have been reading. That is a great book.

[Opti]

14) Can someone point me to some reading on Neon Samurai and Night Fire? Something about a feud?

[Sendaz]

They sniping has been ongoing, but if you look on pg 49 of Field of Fire, Nightfire (an Ares America company cog) claims that  Neon Samurai has spread
slander against Ares Arms, claiming that the company killed a certain Doctor Elliot Mills-Fargo (Neon's Dad) after he created
the key patents for the MP Laser. Counters by saying the claim is untrue and that Stephen Mills-Fargo, aka"The Neon Samurai," killed his own father after a drunken argument.

Needless to say, not a happy pair.   They snipe at each other all the way back in the original Street Samurai handbook, carrying through other weapons/tech books.

[BlackMyron]

The thing is about Horizon, is that they were not a "Big Bad".  They were exactly as they seemed, a grand social experiment.  The problem was that the whole idea behind the corp was flawed to begin with - the "greater good" predictably mutated into "the greater good for Horizon".

[CanRay]

Which is still not as bad as, say, Aztechnology.

[Crimsondude]

Only in methods (maybe), and only because ORO/Aztechnology has been around longer. But Aztechnology is also concerned with what's best for itself.