Chromaggia
Once, a long time ago, lived a bird, the fatal bird: Chromaggia. She met the arrow of an archer while flying, along the lava coasts. She flew for years, thinking the arrow was giving chase - Chromaggia escaped the arrow, because she could not see.
"Chromaggia, Chromaggia", they asked, "why not continue to out fly the danger?" But they could not see that the arrow was tied to her wing. She flew to untie it and free herself from her destiny:
"But by dragging the arrow others are wounded by my carelessness, my carelessness!" Chromaggia cried, "So down! Towards the mouth of Hell I take his arrow, and my eyes! I would rather be blind!"
Summary
This metaplot deals with the organ and implant repossession by Red Star Clinics, a subsidary of Evo.
Background
An epidemic of organ failures has quietly been sweeping through Seattle, concentrated in the Barrens. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: Red Star Clinics. To those that could not afford the transplants that would save their lives, Red Star offers convenient financing. These payment plans help cheat death - for now. Seizing on a rare opportunity that would benefit them all, Corps around the world pushed through laws to legalize implant repossession. They barely masked their greed by claiming that only through legal default remedies, including repossession, could they keep the price of their needed products low enough for those that truly needed them. The official laws state the patient must be left alive after all legal default remedies have been utilized - which is why Red Star keeps the bulk of their financing off the books, so that repossession can be made that is the most profitable for them. In the process of 'saving' those in need, Red Star also runs a campaign targeted towards creating a more beautiful you on the inside to increase the amount of elective surgeries people were willing to finance. Their efforts also lead to the development of Zhydrate, an expensive an addictive painkiller.
Factions
Red Star Clinics
First opened in the Barrens, Red Star Clinics were heralded as a great community resource pushed by Evo. While their intentions might have started as noble, Red Star provided an opportunity to exploit those in need - funneling information to researchers that needed test subjects as well as offering organ and implant services on payment plans to those who could not afford such things. Should you fall ninety days delinquent, they dispatch their much feared Repo Men to take back what is theirs.
Goals
- Continue offering needed and elective surgery on a payment plan basis
- Protect their right to all legal default remedies in the event someone falls behind on their payments
- Maximize revenue recovered in implant repossession by not adhering to the need to keep patients alive after their products have been reclaimed.
- Continue to use the information obtained by Red Star Clinics to find test subjects for other Evo projects.
Important Members
Eric Fiengold
Nathan Wallace
Once a brilliant bioware and geneware developer for EVO, Nathan Wallace crossed a man he should not have. Wallace was framed for the death of his wife and the coma of his only child, Hope. Red Star VP Eric Feingold claimed that Wallace had been experimenting with EVO geneware on his family, and that was the cause of their death. Feingold used this evidence to strong arm Wallace into working for Red Star directly as a surgeon and repo man. Wallace was routinely sent out to collect on accounts that were kept off the books. Runners broke him out of the cycle after Fiengold had hired the team to take the man out. He has since relocated to San Francisco and set up a free clinic (with a backroom for runners, of course).
Goals
- Obtain the location EVO is holding his daughter, Hope
- Make up for the many wrongs he committed as an organ reposessor for Red Star
- Stay out of the clutches of Eric Fiengold
- Build up a clinic in San Francisco, helping those who cannot help themselves.
Ninety Days Delinquent: The Rescue of Nathan Wallace
Runs
Name | GM | Date | Runners |
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Moore Ware from the Bourgeois | Korean_BBQ | 24 August 2081 | Flyboy Moth Hydro Jenny Glitz |
Little Glass Vial | SedatedAlice | 7 August 2081 | Moth Relay Iceland |
Ninety Days Delinquent | SedatedAlice | 16 July 2081 | Spider Boom Poom Moth Vichnozeleny Ironclad |