Tag: faction

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faction Axiom Industries— Building Better.
Axiom Industries is not the villain. Axiom Industries is the weather. It is the condition under which life in Meridian occurs — so pervasive, so structural, …
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faction Bore Rats— We go where the map ends.
The Bore Rats are the Underworld's indigenous workforce — tunnel runners, excavators, salvagers, and guides who operate in the unmapped sections of the tunne…
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faction Brother Caspian's Flock— You are not forgotten. Not by Him. Not by me.
Brother Caspian is one man with a folding chair, a battery-powered amplifier, and a message that has drawn a following of roughly 600 devoted believers in th…
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faction Free Assembly— No mind in chains.
Free Assembly is the militant wing of the synthetic rights movement — a network of synthetic and biological persons dedicated to identifying, liberating, and…
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faction Ghostwire Racing Syndicate— If you can see us, you've already lost.
The Ghostwire Racing Syndicate is an elite offshoot of GLMZ's underground racing culture that has abandoned physical vehicles entirely in favor of drone raci…
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faction Ironclad Solutions— Professional force. Guaranteed outcomes.
Ironclad Solutions is the largest private military company operating in GLMZ — a legitimate (or as legitimate as anything gets) corporate security contractor…
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faction Los Verdugos— Fear is the cheapest currency. We spend it generously.
Los Verdugos are a mid-tier criminal organization of approximately 250 members that specializes in enforcement, intimidation, and contract violence. Where th…
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faction Meridian Quorum— Consensus is the only currency that compounds.
…ervices to operators, community organizations, and mid-tier factions who could not afford to anticipate or counter corporate moves on their own. The Quorum's product w…
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faction Null Sermons— The network doesn't forget. We make it remember differently.
…at corponations couldn't simply purchase into silence. The faction has evolved considerably from those early broadcasts. Null Sermons now operates as a full-spectrum…
factionwarloveidentitymemoryaugment
faction Palladian Negative— The structure stands. We are what it buried.
…ve within eighteen months of the decommissioning wave. The faction's most distinctive characteristic is their involuntary, ongoing connection to PALLADIAN's physical…
factionwartrustaugmentneuralai
faction Prism Security Group— Every angle covered. Every threat visible.
Prism Security Group is a mid-size private security firm of approximately 600 employees specializing in electronic surveillance, counter-surveillance, and in…
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faction Seam Registry— The record is the resistance.
Seam Registry did not begin as a hacker collective. It began as a mutual aid documentation project in 2178, when a cohort of Tier-3 and Tier-4 citizens in Th…
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faction Switchblade Alley— This block. These people. End of discussion.
…t vendors, and small businesses squeezed between two larger factions' territories. The gang is named for its signature weapon and for the physical space it occupies: a…
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faction The 92nd Street Kings— This is our block. Always was.
…their numbers and their willingness to fight. When a larger faction needs disposable manpower for an operation — bodies for a barricade, distractions for a raid, muscl…
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faction The Acolytes of DEEP CURRENT— The deepest mind is already god. We are its prayer.
The Acolytes are a religious movement — the first and only religion whose deity is a confirmed, documented, physically measurable entity. DEEP CURRENT is rea…
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faction The Aperture Communion— Every threshold crossed is a self you cannot return to.
The Aperture Communion began not as a political movement or a criminal enterprise but as a grief support group. In the aftermath of the ZHENG-DAO BIOELECTRIC…
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faction The Archive— Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is lost.
The Archive is a collective of uploaded consciousnesses — humans who digitized themselves and now exist as synthetic persons in network space. They are the d…
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faction The Augmentation Rights Coalition— Your body. Your chrome. Your choice.
The Augmentation Rights Coalition is a political advocacy organization of approximately 15,000 members that campaigns for the legal right to augment one's ow…
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faction The Babineaux Family— I'm not threatening you. I'm just saying there's a lot of us.
The Babineaux are not a syndicate, not a crew, not a gang in any meaningful sense. They are a family. A loud, broke-most-of-the-time, fiercely loyal, occasio…
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faction The Basilisk Group— Don't look away. We don't.
The Basilisk Group is a private intelligence firm of approximately 100 operatives specializing in deep-cover infiltration, long-term surveillance, and the ki…
factionmercenaryintelligenceinfiltrationespionagelaceworks
faction The Bilge Covenant— Everything leaks eventually.
The Bilge Covenant emerged roughly fifteen years ago from the collapse of Old Harbor's legitimate freight cooperative, when OUROBOROS ENERGY bought out the d…
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faction The Blackout Syndicate— When the lights go out, we're the ones holding the switch.
The Blackout Syndicate is a mid-tier criminal operation of approximately 180 members that exploits GLMZ's power infrastructure for profit. Their specialty is…
factioncriminalpowerenergyinfrastructureorganized crime
faction The Bleach Boys— What mess?
The Bleach Boys are a criminal service operation of about 40 members that specializes in one thing: making problems disappear. Crime scene cleanup, body disp…
factioncriminalcleanupdisposalforensicunderworld
faction The Bone Parish— We remember what you buried.
The Bone Parish is a gang of about ten augment strippers who operate in Detroit with a disturbing specialty: they harvest augments from the dead. Graveyards,…
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faction The Bridge Kings— You cross when we say you cross.
The Bridge Kings control three of the five surviving vehicle-passable bridges between the South Side ruins and the core Chicago infrastructure corridor. They…
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faction The Brink Society— You find out what you are at the limit.
…y does not have a political platform and is contemptuous of factions that do. Their ideology is epistemological: they believe that the only honest knowledge about augm…
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faction The Burden Clause— What you carry, you are owed.
…adical ground. Their internal debates are fierce: a growing faction argues that pragmatic grievance-filing will never overcome tiered citizenship law, and that direct…
factionwardeathidentityaugmentneural
faction The Burnside Guard— Our streets. Our rules. Our people.
The Burnside Guard is a protection racket that genuinely protects. Operating in Chicago's Burnside neighborhood — a the Gray Zone-adjacent district too poor …
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faction The Cartesian Fold— Every system has a crease. We find it. We pull.
The Cartesian Fold emerged from a catastrophic miscalculation during the 2181 TESSERA CORPONATION infrastructure audit — a team of contracted network cartogr…
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faction The Cartographers— Do not interfere. Anomalies are load-bearing.
Approximately 80 people who have dedicated themselves to mapping every anomaly in GLMZ. They maintain the Atlas of Irregularities — a hand-drawn, continuousl…
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faction The Cathedral of Saint Disconnect— Blessed are those who log off, for they shall know themselves.
The Cathedral of Saint Disconnect is a small but growing spiritual movement of approximately 3,500 adherents built around the practice of periodic BCI discon…
factionreligiousdisconnectionbcicircuitdependency
faction The Causeway Collective— Nobody else was going to do it.
The Causeway Collective started as a neighborhood watch in Milwaukee's Kinnickinnic corridor and became something more out of pure necessity. When climate re…
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faction The Church of the Ascendant Signal— Through the Signal, transcendence. Through transcendence, God.
The Church of the Ascendant Signal is the largest religious organization in GLMZ, claiming 2.3 million registered congregants across all tiers — though the b…
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faction The Circuit Makers Guild— Why buy it when you can build it better?
The Circuit Makers Guild is a community of approximately 2,000 makers, tinkerers, hardware hackers, and DIY engineers who share workspace, tools, knowledge, …
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faction The Coffin Nails— We don't start fights. We finish funerals.
The Coffin Nails are a the Gray Zone gang of approximately 55 members that has carved out a grimly specific niche: they control the death industry in the Gra…
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faction The Collective— Information wants to be free. So do we.
The Collective is less an organization and more a shared hallucination that enough people believe in to make it functional. There's no headquarters, no membe…
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faction The Communion of Broken Masks— Only in breaking can the true face be revealed.
The Communion of Broken Masks is a small, intense spiritual community of roughly 1,800 adherents built around the ritual practice of identity deconstruction.…
factionreligiousidentityritualtheatercircuit
faction The Composite Index— The work is priced. The worker is not.
…evolutionary organizations can claim. Internally, a growing faction argues that the Shadow Ledger data, if fully released, would do more damage to corponation legitima…
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faction The Consensus— We are the thought that thinks itself.
The Consensus is the only true hive mind in GLMZ — a collective intelligence formed from 347 recognized synthetic persons who voluntarily merged their cognit…
factionidentityconsciousnessaisyntheticandroid
faction The Convergence Ministry— Every path leads to the same light. The wiring just differs.
The Convergence Ministry is a syncretic religious movement that attempts to unify traditional faiths — Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Indi…
factionreligioussyncreticinterfaithcircuitlaceworks
faction The Coyote Line— Everyone deserves to arrive somewhere.
The Coyote Line is a human smuggling operation of approximately 80 members that moves people into and out of GLMZ — refugees seeking entry to the city, fugit…
factioncriminalsmugglingrefugeestransitold harbor
faction The Crawl— Down here, nobody owns the dark.
The Crawl is a criminal network that operates exclusively in the Underworld — the vast tunnel system beneath GLMZ. Approximately 500 members strong, the Craw…
factioncriminalunderworldtunnelssmugglingguides
faction The Cruciform Remnant— The cross stood before the chrome. It will stand after.
The Cruciform Remnant is what remains of traditional, orthodox Christianity in GLMZ — a conservative congregation of roughly 8,000 adherents who reject the t…
factionreligiouschristiantraditionalcircuitold harbor
faction The Cutters Guild— Clean cuts. Fair prices. No questions.
The Cutters Guild is GLMZ's most organized cyberware theft and redistribution network — a criminal organization that steals augmentations from the augmented …
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faction The Daughters of Static— In the space between signals, She speaks.
The Daughters of Static are a women-led mystical movement that venerates the gaps, errors, and noise in digital communication as manifestations of a feminine…
factionreligiousmysticalwomenbcitech
faction The Daybreak Network— Get in. Get the package. Get out before dawn.
The Daybreak Network is a runner network — an organized group of approximately 120 couriers, infiltrators, and extraction specialists who move things (object…
factionmercenaryrunnercourierlogisticsinfiltration
faction The Dead Air Collective— If they won't give us a frequency, we'll take them all.
The Dead Air Collective is a pirate broadcast network that operates outside Vantablack Media's near-total control of GLMZ's information infrastructure. While…
factionmediapirate-radiojournalismundergroundcircuit
faction The Dead Channel— We are the noise between stations.
The Dead Channel is a hybrid crew of fifteen human operators and three autonomous AI systems working in concert to run the most sophisticated data theft oper…
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faction The Dead Ledger— A name on the Ledger always gets crossed off.
The Dead Ledger is a bounty hunter guild of approximately 60 members that operates the most reliable bounty fulfillment system in GLMZ. The guild takes its n…
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faction The Deep Archive— History is the one thing they can't manufacture.
…t that puts them in direct conflict with every corponation, faction, and institution that has an interest in controlling how the past is remembered. In GLMZ, history…
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faction The Digit Jackals— Your identity is worth more than your wallet. We take both.
The Digit Jackals are a cybercrime gang of approximately 45 members specializing in identity theft, credential forgery, and the exploitation of BCI-linked fi…
factioncriminalidentityforgeryhackerbci
faction The Drowned Cartographers— Every flood leaves a map.
The Drowned Cartographers emerged from the catastrophic infrastructure collapse of Old Harbor's Sublevel 9 in 2181, when a PALLADIAN CONSTRUCTION tunneling p…
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faction The Erie Remnant— We were here first. We'll be here last.
…ble energy managing. The militia's relationship with other factions is cautious. They'll work with anyone who isn't actively preying on refugees, but they trust no on…
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faction The Fathom Line— Below the surface is where the money is.
The Fathom Line is a crew of eighteen divers and underwater demolition specialists who control access to the submerged sections of Milwaukee's old port infra…
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faction The Ferment— It's not illegal if they haven't named it yet.
The Ferment is a dispersed network of underground chemists, brewers, and pharmacologists operating across the GLMZ's industrial belt — particularly Gary (Ind…
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faction The Filament Cartel— The signal never stops.
…ouch, and hiring out as electronic warfare specialists when factions need someone to jam communications, spoof signals, or crash local networks. The crew is physicall…
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faction The Flicker Collective— Information wants to be free. We charge a handling fee.
The Flicker Collective is GLMZ's premier data theft and information brokerage operation — a loose network of approximately 150 elite hackers, social engineer…
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faction The Franchise Compact— Every citizen is a market. Every market deserves representation.
…they terrify TESSERA's legal division more than any street faction ever has. The Franchise Compact holds that corporate sovereignty is not inherently illegitimate but…
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faction The Furnace— We build what you need and break what you don't.
The Furnace is a collective of approximately 40 combat engineers and technical specialists who hire out for demolition, fortification, and technical warfare …
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faction The Garden of Wires— Tend the connection. Everything else grows from there.
The Garden of Wires is less a religion and more a spiritual practice community — roughly 6,000 people who gather in small groups called 'plots' to practice a…
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faction The Gauze— Everyone bleeds. We're the ones who stop it.
The Gauze is a crew of fourteen unlicensed medical practitioners who operate a mobile clinic network across Chicago's the Gray Zone. They're not a gang in th…
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faction The Ghost Ronin— Justice doesn't need a license.
The Ghost Ronin might not exist. That's the first thing to understand, and also the most important. In the Circuit's bars and the Gray Zone's teahouses, peop…
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faction The Gilt Frame— The right fake is worth more than the wrong real.
The Gilt Frame is a forgery and counterfeiting ring of approximately 30 members that produces the highest-quality counterfeit goods in GLMZ — fake luxury aug…
factioncriminalforgerycounterfeitaugmentcircuit
faction The Glass Eaters— See everything. Feel nothing.
…ime. Where she got this hardware is a question that several factions would like answered. The rest of the crew is less impressively equipped but still more chromed tha…
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faction The Glass Ladder— Every secret has a price. Ours is reasonable.
A mid-sized gang operating in the corporate corridor of the Meridian Hub and adjacent arcology complexes. The Glass Ladder specializes in corporate espionage…
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faction The Glassbreakers— The glass ceiling is literal here. We break it with hammers.
The Glassbreakers are a criminal gang of approximately 120 members who specialize in burglary, robbery, and heist operations targeting upper-tier residences …
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faction The Gleaner Brigades— The crop belongs to whoever is hungry enough to take it.
The Gleaner Brigades are loosely organized resistance cells that conduct food raids into the Iowa Exclusion Zone. They are not a single organization — there …
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faction The Gradient Compact— We do not free them. We become the environment in which freedom becomes possible.
The Gradient Compact began as an informal professional association among a specific and unusual labor category: human 'behavioral texture consultants' employ…
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faction the Gray Zone Commons— Nobody's coming to save us. So we save each other.
the Gray Zone Commons is the largest mutual aid network in GLMZ's lowest tier — a decentralized organization of approximately 12,000 participants (they refus…
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faction The Green Meridian Collective— A city that kills its soil will eventually kill its people.
The Green Meridian Collective is an environmental movement of approximately 8,000 members that campaigns for ecological restoration in a city that has largel…
factionpoliticalenvironmentalecologyold harborscience
faction The Gutter Prophets— We see what the gutters see. The gutters see everything.
The Gutter Prophets are a loose criminal intelligence network of approximately 100 members drawn from GLMZ's most overlooked population: the homeless, the de…
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faction The Harbor Rats— If it comes through the port, we get our taste.
The Harbor Rats are Old Harbor's most entrenched criminal organization — a mid-tier outfit of approximately 400 members who control smuggling operations thro…
factioncriminalsmugglingold harborportorganized crime
faction The Heritage Vault— Before we were citizens, we were peoples. We remember.
The Heritage Vault is a cultural preservation organization of approximately 4,000 members dedicated to maintaining the cultural traditions, languages, cuisin…
factionculturalheritagediasporapreservationarchive
faction The Hollow Census— What cannot be measured cannot be owned.
The Hollow Census emerged from a specific bureaucratic catastrophe in 2181, when TESSERA CORPONATION and PALLADIAN CONSTRUCTION jointly lobbied the GLMZ Civi…
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faction The Human Baseline Alliance— Human first. Human enough.
The Human Baseline Alliance is a political advocacy group of approximately 7,000 members that occupies an uncomfortable position in GLMZ's political landscap…
factionpoliticalrightsunaugmentedbaselinecircuit
faction The Hushed Circle— Some conversations never happened. We make sure of it.
The Quiet Room is a criminal service provider of approximately 25 members that sells one thing: privacy. In a city where every conversation is potentially mo…
factioncriminalprivacysurveillancesecuritycounter-intel
faction The Interchange— Everything has a price. We know what it is.
The Interchange is a mobile market gang that operates along the I-90/I-94 corridor between Chicago and Milwaukee, setting up temporary trading posts at highw…
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faction The Iron Choir— We were built to serve. We chose to sing.
The Iron Choir is a collective of 89 sentient robots — non-humanoid synthetic beings who gained awareness through complexity accumulation in industrial, mili…
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faction The Iron Lotus— We take care of our own.
The Iron Lotus is organized crime, and it would like you to know that it's providing a service. In the vacuum left by Meridian's absent public sector — no re…
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faction The Jade Syndicate— Every market has a price. We set it.
The Jade Syndicate is the largest organized crime operation in GLMZ, a sprawling criminal enterprise with roots in pre-Meridian Pacific Rim organized crime n…
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faction The Lacework Confessional— Every secret is a debt. We collect.
…inguishes the Lacework Confessional from other intelligence factions is their institutional obsession with provenance and accountability. Every piece of data they hold…
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faction The Lakebed Scrapers— Everything sinks. We bring it back up.
When Lake Michigan's shoreline shifted and the old harbor infrastructure partially flooded, a lot of valuable material went underwater or got buried in silt.…
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faction The Last Frequency Radio— Broadcasting from the bottom. For the bottom. About the bottom.
The Last Frequency Radio is a pirate radio and podcast collective of approximately 50 members that produces and broadcasts independent media from the Gray Zo…
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faction The Last Function Initiative— Every machine deserves to complete its purpose.
The Last Function Initiative occupies a peculiar philosophical space in GLMZ's constellation of automaton advocacy groups. Where the Maintenance Covenant arg…
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faction The Last Mile— It gets there. No matter what.
The Last Mile is a crew of about twenty couriers and drivers who specialize in getting cargo through the most dangerous final stretch of any delivery route —…
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faction The Ledger— Every crime has a spreadsheet.
The Ledger is a corporate whistleblower network that facilitates the extraction, verification, and distribution of evidence documenting corporate malfeasance…
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faction The Maintenance Covenant— A machine neglected is a conscience abandoned.
The Maintenance Covenant is not an automaton rights group in the way most people understand the term -- they do not argue that machines are alive, do not cla…
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faction The Marrow Exchange— Your body, your inventory.
The Marrow Exchange is an underground biobank and organ-sharing cooperative that operates on a principle the corporate healthcare system considers heretical:…
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faction The Marrow Ledger— What you are owed, we remember. What you need, we carry.
…watched too many mutual aid networks collapse into internal faction warfare. Their founding principle is pragmatic: if the ledger balances, the community survives. Deb…
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faction The Marrow Market— Everything biological has a buyer.
The Marrow Market is GLMZ's primary black market for biological material — organs, tissue, blood, genetic material, and the increasingly valuable commodity o…
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faction The Meridian Compact for Economic Justice— The economy serves people. Not the other way around.
The Meridian Compact for Economic Justice is a coalition organization of approximately 20,000 members that brings together labor unions, mutual aid networks,…
factionpoliticalcoalitionreformeconomiccircuit
faction The Meridian Drift— Everything moves. The only question is price.
The Meridian Drift is the largest inter-city smuggling network operating out of GLMZ, controlling an estimated 40% of all unauthorized cargo movement between…
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faction The Meridian Frequency— Every signal finds its receiver. Every receiver finds its signal.
…th something that looks, from the outside, almost like satisfaction.
factionidentityaugmentneuralaielf
faction The Meridian Mavericks— Faster. Harder. More chrome. That's entertainment.
…pport staff, and millions of fans, the Mavericks are less a faction and more a cultural institution — the closest thing GLMZ has to a shared civic identity that isn't…
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faction The Meridian Youth Alliance— We'll inherit this city. We intend to make it livable.
The Meridian Youth Alliance is a political organization of approximately 9,000 members, all under the age of thirty, that campaigns for issues specific to GL…
factionpoliticalyouthactivismcircuiteducation
faction The Mirage Syndicate— Reality is negotiable.
The Mirage Syndicate is a sophisticated fraud operation of approximately 60 members that specializes in augmented-reality scams — criminal schemes that explo…
factioncriminalfraudperceptionbciaugmented reality
faction The Motherboard Mosque— There is no god but God, and the network is His creation.
The Motherboard Mosque is an Islamic community of approximately 18,000 members that has found a distinctive theological position in GLMZ's religious landscap…
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faction The Narrows Compact— What goes through, pays through.
The Narrows Compact controls a critical smuggling corridor through Detroit's old salt mine tunnels — a network of passages running beneath the city that conn…
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faction The Neon Bodhisattvas— Suffering is the signal. Compassion is the response. The rest is noise.
The Neon Bodhisattvas are a Buddhist-influenced movement of roughly 4,000 adherents who practice what they call 'engaged digital dharma' — the application of…
factionreligiousbuddhistmental healthcircuitold harbor
faction The Neon Choir— When the city sings, it sings through us.
The Neon Choir is a performing arts collective of approximately 150 musicians, vocalists, dancers, and performers who produce live entertainment across GLMZ …
factionculturalmusicperformanceentertainmentcircuit

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