The Pure Hand is an anti-augmentation militant group operating across the GLMZ, with their largest cell — about seventy members — based in the remnants of Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. They believe that cyberware is an abomination, that neural interfaces are a leash disguised as a tool, and that the augmentation industry exists to make human beings into upgradable products for corporate profit. They're not entirely wrong about that last part, which is what makes them dangerous.

The movement started as a philosophical position and became a gang when philosophy met desperation. Early Pure Hand members were people who couldn't afford augments and reframed their poverty as moral superiority. But the movement attracted genuine ideologues — former bioethicists, religious traditionalists, people who'd seen augmentation addiction destroy someone they loved. The group hardened after a series of confrontations with augmented criminals who targeted Purist neighborhoods specifically because they knew the residents couldn't fight back with chrome. The Pure Hand learned to fight back with numbers, improvised weapons, EMP devices, and a willingness to absorb casualties that augmented opponents found unnerving.

The crew manufactures crude but effective EMP grenades and disruption devices that can temporarily disable cyberware. They've also developed chemical agents that accelerate augment rejection — a particularly cruel weapon that can turn a person's own implants against them over a period of weeks. Their fighters train in unaugmented combat techniques and pack tactics designed to overwhelm individual augmented opponents. Against a single chromed-up enforcer, a Pure Hand squad of eight can be surprisingly effective.

The movement's weakness is that their ideology alienates potential allies. In a world where most people have at least basic augmentation, being militantly anti-chrome makes you a fringe group by definition.