Does "anti cyberware" people or groups exist in the lore?

[d4_]

Like the title say, does "anti cyberware" people or groups exist in the lore? Are there some who stay 100% human and refuse to get any form of implant?

[Grobut]

There used to be whole gangs centered around that, and they were constantly at war with Maelstrom for the same reason.

Maelstrom is still around, and they are not.. so you can guess how that went.

[Graf Erik]

Sure, you can even debate with them (... after you rescue one of them from Maelstrom)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGEwCEbu1s

[d4_]

Originally posted by Graf Erik:

Sure, you can even debate with them (... after you rescue one of them from Maelstrom)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrGEwCEbu1s

The monks are full over cyberware, they are not pure.

[d4_]

Originally posted by Grobut:

There used to be whole gangs centered around that, and they were constantly at war with Maelstrom for the same reason.

Maelstrom is still around, and they are not.. so you can guess how that went.

Cool

[collageboi]

theres also that guy who shouts at the top of his lungs by viks WHAT IF YOUR EYES AINT YOUR OWN like dude take a chill pill

[Graf Erik]

Originally posted by D4wn - 老六:

The monks are full over cyberware, they are not pure.

The right one is, yes. Thats the point.
Maelstrom (a gang of cyberware fanatics) abducted him and installed cyberware against his will, just to mess with him. Nice people they are. You have to rescue him.

[Dawido]

Yeah, as I know, Poland in Cyberpunk universe due to conservativism is against mega corporations and modifying your body, so it's rare thing too see somebody with modified body parts

[d4_]

Originally posted by Graf Erik:

Originally posted by D4wn - 老六:

The monks are full over cyberware, they are not pure.

The right one is, yes. Thats the point.
Maelstrom (a gang of cyberware fanatics) abducted him and installed cyberware against his will, just to mess with him. Nice people they are. You have to rescue him.

Ah okay thanks, I get it

[saice]

From the Tabletop. Yes there are groups that are anti-cyberware, political cliques and a few religions.

There is also this bit of fear and paranoia around cyber psychosis that makes the average joe nervous around getting to much. So there is a kind of idea of what a reasonable amount of cyberware is to normies in the cyberpunk universe.

Also in the tabletop Bioware is a thing and it is see as a kind of "green" alterative to cyberware.

Fun fact in the tabletop Cyberpunk 2020 fullborg conversion while being kind of rare is common enough that there are models design for jobs. Like the Samson and Enforcer for construction workers and police work.

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Full_Body_Replacements

[collageboi]

Originally posted by D4wn - 老六:

Originally posted by Graf Erik:

The right one is, yes. Thats the point.
Maelstrom (a gang of cyberware fanatics) abducted him and installed cyberware against his will, just to mess with him. Nice people they are. You have to rescue him.

Ah okay thanks, I get it

i think if i remember he has got cyberware but only because it was forced the scavs got them one escaped

[envirovore]

Originally posted by collageboi:

theres also that guy who shouts at the top of his lungs by viks WHAT IF YOUR EYES AINT YOUR OWN like dude take a chill pill

Garry the Prophet.
One of my favorite NPCs.

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by collageboi:

Originally posted by D4wn - 老六:

Ah okay thanks, I get it

i think if i remember he has got cyberware but only because it was forced the scavs got them one escaped

They were out begging for alms when some Maelstromers asked if they would accept cyberware 'as donations'. After that, one thing led to another and you got a quest.

The main (old days, 2020 time) anti cyberware gang was known as 'the Inquisitors'
The blurb from the 'NightCity' sourcebook for 2020 says

Inquisitors: this gang is unique in all of NightCity. Not only do they believe that cybernetics are "evil" ( using only training and biotech), but they also have a war going on with every other gang in the city. EVERYONE hates these guys, from the Slaughterhouse to the Givers of Pain. No one can find their home turf, and no one can find the leader of the gang. There is a standing reward of 25,000eb to the man who brings the Inquisitor's leader to the Hack Man, leader of the Blood Razors (it is rumoured that the leader of the Inquisitors caught and killed the Hack Man's younger brother).
Threat Level :A Threat Code: A1B

As for now? Very likely the Inquisitors bit the dust back in 2023 as they wouldn't have survived the rads from the detonation of 'Saka towers, nor the aftermath (I get the feeling that Adam Smasher had a LOT of fun in the city centre for a while back then, hunting non Full-Borg people down if they were desperate enough to go into that area after the rads had died down)
And yeah, the Inquisitors made (inadvertently) the Maelstrom.

Maelstrom formed around the remnants of the Metal Warriors, after they were almost wiped out by the Inquisitors. They added members from the Red Chrome Legion and the Ironsights gangs. Think the Inquisitors also whipes those two other gangs nearly too, so they formed up together and then the Towers took them (Inquisitors) down (lol)

Nowadays most people have at least a little chrome.
Claire, the bartender at the Afterlife is one of the few folks we know (other than the Monks) that is cherry when it comes to cyberware.
And the Monks tend to remove any chrome they may have had (it's just unfortunate that there is pretty much only 1 'monk' skin, so they all sport removal scars on their right arm I think) where possible. Think organic replacements (cloned organs) are okay so long as they are cyberware free. (assuming they can pay for them BEFORE taking the vows of poverty and non-materialism)

[d4_]

Originally posted by Silverbane7:

Originally posted by collageboi:

i think if i remember he has got cyberware but only because it was forced the scavs got them one escaped

They were out begging for alms when some Maelstromers asked if they would accept cyberware 'as donations'. After that, one thing led to another and you got a quest.

The main (old days, 2020 time) anti cyberware gang was known as 'the Inquisitors'
The blurb from the 'NightCity' sourcebook for 2020 says

Inquisitors: this gang is unique in all of NightCity. Not only do they believe that cybernetics are "evil" ( using only training and biotech), but they also have a war going on with every other gang in the city. EVERYONE hates these guys, from the Slaughterhouse to the Givers of Pain. No one can find their home turf, and no one can find the leader of the gang. There is a standing reward of 25,000eb to the man who brings the Inquisitor's leader to the Hack Man, leader of the Blood Razors (it is rumoured that the leader of the Inquisitors caught and killed the Hack Man's younger brother).
Threat Level :A Threat Code: A1B

As for now? Very likely the Inquisitors bit the dust back in 2023 as they wouldn't have survived the rads from the detonation of 'Saka towers, nor the aftermath (I get the feeling that Adam Smasher had a LOT of fun in the city centre for a while back then, hunting non Full-Borg people down if they were desperate enough to go into that area after the rads had died down)
And yeah, the Inquisitors made (inadvertently) the Maelstrom.

Maelstrom formed around the remnants of the Metal Warriors, after they were almost wiped out by the Inquisitors. They added members from the Red Chrome Legion and the Ironsights gangs. Think the Inquisitors also whipes those two other gangs nearly too, so they formed up together and then the Towers took them (Inquisitors) down (lol)

Nowadays most people have at least a little chrome.
Claire, the bartender at the Afterlife is one of the few folks we know (other than the Monks) that is cherry when it comes to cyberware.
And the Monks tend to remove any chrome they may have had (it's just unfortunate that there is pretty much only 1 'monk' skin, so they all sport removal scars on their right arm I think) where possible. Think organic replacements (cloned organs) are okay so long as they are cyberware free. (assuming they can pay for them BEFORE taking the vows of poverty and non-materialism)

Amazing, thanks a lot, take some points