Found this on the Cyberpunk rpg wiki and it made me wonder how a cyberpunk story with a politician as the protagonist would go?
Found this on the Cyberpunk rpg wiki and it made me wonder how a cyberpunk story with a politician as the protagonist would go?
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Corpo = political
I think people into cyberpunk focus too much on the capitalist dystopia aspects, there are many ways you can frame a story and have it still be cyberpunk. Ghost in the Shell (especially Stand Alone Complex imo) is a perfect example how cyberpunk can also be about fighting government corruption and having to choose how you want to create a lasting peace after a war and what those choices cost you.
So a political, corporate or cop can be a cyberpunk hero in my opinion – but it should never be easy because these are folks who are choosing to swim against the current.
Here’s the deal. There’s nothing saying that your ‘Corp’ is a for-profit organization. Imagine Doctors Without Borders or The Red Cross employing the same kind of protective services as Biotechnica or Militech. Perhaps there’s a ‘Corp’ formed to influence the next election in your Hero’s favor. Your Hero had been a hard-charger, trying to make changes at the street or bloc level. Now they have a change to influence things at the state level, with the right help. The difficulties will come in what support you’re willing to accept from the world at large and keeping your own people from committing the kinds of ‘sins’ that would prevent your election.
Basically Talos Rucker from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (if they had actually used his character better…). An aug himself he fights for aug’s rights and was successful enough doing so that he posed an actual threat. Like yes activist =/= politician but I think from what we have seen in the game, I could rather easily see him being elected and trying to change the system from within.
famous champion of the little guy, winston “they are a beastly people with a beastly religion, the famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits” churchill