Shadowrun 6e - Neo Tokyo Missions

About the adventure

Neo-Tokyo is widely considered the business capital of the world. Vast economic wealth fuels cutting-edge research and development that have shaped a city that rivals any other in terms of technological wonder. Robot vendors are more prevalent than flesh and blood ones and drones are used for even the most basic tasks. AR spam often crowds out the meat world completely, catering to a baffling breadth of “moe,” the mania that surrounds obsession with anime, aidoru culture, and every single fad that passes through the country. The newest trends in fashion, business, and technology belie a culture steeped in tradition and old-world ideals. Japanese ethnocentrism is firmly entrenched and makes its appearance routinely in dealings with gaijin or the metahumans that many Japanese still see as a disgrace to their society. Only recently have reforms been enacted to grant human rights to Japan’s metahuman population, and it will take generations to erase the prejudices that have festered for decades. Perhaps the whole-hearted embrace of tradition that has led the city to insist on employing a metropolitan police force rather than contract a private security firm such as Lone Star. The Neo-Tokyo Metropolitan Police are a source of pride for the citizens. Highly trained and well-equipped, the NTMP is fiercely loyal to the metroplex and the Japanese Imperial State, rather than to corporate interests. They make extensive use of drones and POLNET, their communications and surveillance system, rivals the capability of any megacorporation. Beat cops operate out of beehive-shaped police stations in each ward and every pair of officers is tailed by a surveillance drone. Mages patrol astrally while watcher spirits observe from crucial vantage points, reporting suspicious magical activity to Awakened dispatchers. When the situation calls for it, high-threat-response teams are heavily armed and operate on a policy of “shoot first then arrest survivors.” In Japan, privately owned firearms are forbidden. Only the police, military, and megacorporate security forces are licensed to carry firearms. Anyone caught with a firearm can expect to be arrested on the spot. Further, guns are harder to acquire. While smugglers and arms dealers do what they can to supply enthusiasts with the firepower they want, the obstacles they face are formidable and the complexity of their methods increase with the size and power of the weapons they mean to import. Players that join an in-progress campaign will be given additional resources in karma and nuyen to allow them to be able to operate at the same level as everyone else in the group.