Cyberpunk nordics

 


Naomi Alexis, Language (Finnish) 10 https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Naomi_Alexis

  • Notes from underground (s.34)
  • Lena Ekenstam, rocker, swedish
  • Margrethe Auken, corp, danish
  • Maddog's friends, nomads, scandinavian
  • Lars-Olov Skeppsholm, fixer, swedish https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Lars-Olov_Skeppsholm
  • Maddogs, rocker, swedish
  • Petra Olsson, fixer, swedish
  • nameless Thugs and Policemen
  • Dr Lise Auken, danish
    • "'Runners face real dangers in the neighbouring SovSpace and Scandinavian Bloc nets which, for separate reasons, are no friends of the hacker. The Soviets lag in interface tech and, having invested a lot in finally developing a national Net, get pretty paranoid about the idea of experienced Western 'runners, hacking since nursery, playing tag through the Gosupravset' (State Administration Network): they have enough trouble coping with home-grown chicanery and wheeler-dealing. Since one of the main pillars of the Scandinavian economy is no-questions-asked banking and secure black data storage, they don't plan on losing their reputation for discretion. The Scands pay top rates to get the latest counter-intrusions software, the hottest deck jockeys. "
    • "Besides, Europe is rich, and money breeds temptation. The France/Belgium/Luxembourg industrial triangle is knee deep in corporate spies, security, conmen and parasites, while the northern coast of Europe is periodically washed with the blood of customs police and the smugglers who bring in designer drugs and black cyberware from Scandinavia."
    • " In the recriminations, a French E-Commissioner managed to license European subsids to three big US and Japanese firms, so rich Euros soon won't have to go to the States or Scandinavia for decent cybertech. But they still have access to the (incredibly expensive) black clinics of Scandinavia and Switzerland that specialize in easing the marriage of meat and metal."
    • "Some are effectively semi-clandestine political societies, such as the notorious neo-fascist Neues Reich and the Greek meatboy/revivalist Spartans. Others are essentially circles of shared values and interests, with revivalism just an expression of these bonds. The Hansa, for example, is a group of northern German and Scandinavian industrialists lobbying for the development of Baltic sea routes and happy to indulge in some fancydress after-hours drinking in its name."
    • "Neutral Turf: Developed, but outside EC political control, Scandinavia has become an essential neutral meeting ground for agents, buyers, sellers and spooks of every kind to meet, deal and spy. And the Scands just charge everyone all they can for everything they can. So long as a governments and corps want to play their power games, why shouldn't someone make an honest e-buck?"
  • Jarkko Valkkonen, missing finnish reporter, was investigating Petrochem's food processing plant in Topeka, US (s.107-108)
  • Mikael Stomberg, euro contributor
    • If you're a Eurocitizen then you can visit anytime, they're associate members of the EC after all. Getting into Scandinavia is even harder than getting into Europe for outsiders. Effectively the rules are the same, just add 20% to all the costs and double the time to process the paperwork.
    • 6/10 top cyber clinics are in Nordics
      • neutral market
        • europeans use nanotechnology more than cybernetics
        • bioenguneering is in very common use in Europe. 
          • Scandinavia is very keen on bioengineering, they feel it's got great possibilities for the future
        • europeans have a very deeply rooted dislike of overt cyberware.
      • security against netrunners is very high
    • Fixers-actually in Europe we prefer to be called agents- Agents need to cultivate contacts outside of Europe as well as inside. You won't get far if you can't get people what they want, and often what they want comes from outside. Scandinavian colleagues are a must, even better if you have some friends who can help you get things through customs. Other than that you could do worse than have a few connections in the Far East and the U.S. As often as not they'll be wanting things from Europe too, so it can be mutually beneficial.
      •  FIXERS, like cops, are like chameleons. They change styles as needed, depending on who they are dealing with. Even their voice, accent and mannerisms change to suit the audience. Only while relaxing can you tell their true status. Fixers are more at home in casual clothing than in anything more formal. They tend to go more for the relaxed styles of Scandinavia than the more stylised look of Italy. It doesn't hurt their business if their clothing implies a close link to Scandinavia.
    • Scandinavia has phenomenal schooling levels. Classes are kept below thirty by law and a higher percentage makes it to higher education than anywhere else in the world.
    • Natural (or preserved) areas are areas that have kept their twentieth century (or earlier) appearance, often enforced by law. Preservation orders can be placed on an area either by local government or the EC itself. In most countries these tend to be merely small villages or parts of larger towns. In Germany and Scandinavia, though, they've gone one better and protected regions: whole towns with their surrounding villages, fields and countryside are legally protected from change.




"Hello, I'm Gillean Jordan. Welcome to the world report on N54 News. The Western Corporate States recently announced a new visa program. Persons intending to relocate there must first find a sponsor from among WCS-affiliated companies. Following a twenty-year employment period within the WCS, visa-holders can earn the right to permanent residence, a marriage license, and a single-child permit. In Northern Europe, the humanitarian crisis has worsened. Refugees from flooded regions in Belgium and the Netherlands continue to pour into Scandinavia. Sweden has responded with force, sinking over a dozen refugee vessels in recent weeks. Despite humanitarian efforts, nearly sixty people have been killed. Have we found Heaven on Earth? Permanent human settlement on Antarctica is celebrating ten years today. A wealth of natural resources hidden under the ice has spurred the continent's rapid economic development. Though some environmental degradation has occurred as a result, inhabitants of the South Pole are still enjoying life as Antarctica's first dollhouse was recently opened. But perhaps the most appealing to locals and newcomers alike is the astonishingly low crime level. Antarcticians enjoy a murder rate of only 70 per 100,000 residents. Thank you for watching N54 News. We'll see you next time." https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberpunk_2077_News_Broadcasts


"when something shady crops up that threatens them (ECC), they generally band together in defense, which gives them a far more unified defense. That's why Arasaka did what they did at the beginning of the Corpo path to the ESA, the EEC (and by extension the European Space Agency) is far more stable, and therefore far more in control of their goals, including space."
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