Consider me intrigued. I've played the game and read a bit of the lore, seen a bit of Edgerunners too. I've got two main character concepts swirling around; one's an old soldier from the Fourth Corporate War who went full-borg over the course of the conflict while working for Militech and is now living as a Solo who's just trying to make ends meet (how that works with cyberpsychosis I don't know, maybe he's just high-functioning like Smasher and completely devoid of actual empathy, but not completely batshit insane), and the other is a bit more out there. Namely an AI, playing on the fan theories and in-universe conspiracies behind the blue-eyed people, that's been placed in a humanoid substrate or body.
I'll admit that that latter idea may be a tad more problematic given how OP AI in general can be in this setting since everyone's hooked up to everything, my personal cybersecurity nightmare as someone with an associates degree in computer science, but it is one that I had. Not too sure what their overall arc would be however, as I haven't gotten farther than the initial concept development wise.
Those are two interesting character concepts, but I don't think it's quite the right fit for this RP.
Firstly I'm going to be adapting/streamlining the tabletop version of character creation, which comes with limits on initial Cyberware and stats. I've seen full borgs done... But generally to the deteriment of the rest of their build and in my honest opinion the rest of the team. OOC, this is super expensive high stat equipment. In universe, if you're fired or otherwise leave a corp, they brick the stuff they paid for... Bad news for someone without a meat body.
Secondly, I didn't clarify it before, but full cyberpsychosis is game over. If you hit 0 EMP (Empathy), we can discuss how you want to proceed, but if you want to continue playing, you will need a new character. Low empathy characters will start to experience symptoms of cyberpsychosis, but the mechanics and impacts of that I'm still working out. Smasher is canonically an outlier in his ability to be so chromed up/low humanity and still stay functional.
Thirdly I'm flat out denying non-human characters as player characters. No AIs, bots, or sentient/haunted vendits. Now, if you want to propose something as an NPC or future plot point, that's a different matter, but for now, I'm keeping this off limits.
But hey, I'm open to discussion! Grizzled old vets with shady connections are every bit as welcome (if not more so) as wide eyed kids who've just picked up their first disposable pistol.
