Cyberpunk 2020 lazarus group1/7/2024 ![]() government declared war on for - crap, I'm dredging this up from memory have to find my books again - their hand in assassinating the President of the U.S. gov't may be in the pocket of megacorps, there is the story of the one megacorp that the U.S. There are some nice org charts about the Cyberpunk 2020 military here too.Īlso, while some individuals in the CP2020 U.S. There's a short description on how their tactics differ from corporate security / para-military forces (corps try to minimize collateral damage, the military won't think twice about destroying property to take out a sniper especially if there are no civilians present). ![]() military (such as it is) is now organized - no longer as segmentized, they train together cross-branch. It breaks down how the various remnants of the states are currently handling things. Let's see, you need a copy of Home of the Brave. I can't believe there's a thread on Cyberpunk 2020! These, in our game, wear black uniforms rather than dark blue and the players refer to them as 'black-bellies' (in homage to the novel Escape from New York). The vast majority, however, should be subcontracting corporate police. Swarms of drones, with all the discernment and policing ability as those currently flying over Pakistan and Yemen. They have to rely on policing skills and the integrity of a few good apples to get the job done, where corp contractors send in the drones. So really, the police in P&S are the earlier state of 'still employed by the city' or those too useless to be bought out. The people are no longer part of the equation and governmental officials are also employees of 'subcontracting companies'. The corporations and the government are the same thing, with the government as the very junior partner. What was lost in later editions of Cyberpunk is the essential theme, as is brilliantly put by Omni Consumer Products VP Dick Jones to Clarence Boddicker in 'Robocop' Donald Lundee (Ret)) so they offer preferential rates on equipment. Also Militech is exceptionally loyal to the US Government (their CEO is a 4* Gen. Emile Lazarus (Ret) and he has a fondness for helping the US out. You may as well as well consider them as a corporate family. ![]() As you mention in your question, there's an awful lot of integration between the US military and those two corps. If not then they can always hire such a unit from The Lazarus Group.Īs for the US military against Militech/Lazarus? Won't ever happen. Government law enforcement teams can be a major worry to Edgerunners because they'd be harder to pin down and contain once the shit hits the fan than a rival, 6-8 man corporate covert team.Īs for covert stuff? Well LEDiv does do undercover ops a lot so it's probable they've got a few wet-work units kicking around. Plus they have access to AVs and what not (heck - Night City Police Dept has a couple of Militech AVX-9 "Viper" gunships - it's good marketing). They don't have to worry about ammo conservation because they can also send Patrolman Plod running to the nearest precinct house to get some more ammo. This is because such police units tend to be reactive in nature and therefore on the outside of a building shooting in rather than inside a building and being shot at. Even a well equipped corporate espionage team wouldn't really like to take on such a unit. Bad day for our heros is a-coming.Ĭ-SWAT and MaxTac teams in urban areas are legendarily of the overkill variety. They can either do things quietly or just go on maximum offensive (because a good defence is a good offence anyway), commandeer the local tactical police units and BOOM. So some swanky LEDiv agents arrive in Night City looking for our heroic edgerunners because they have received intel that our protagonists are working for Some Bad People (tm) and are going to raid a super-secret government facility to get hold of some Nasty Shit (tm). Whilst not having the sheer clout of Corporate forces don't think that LEOs or LEDiv depts aren't well equipped of funded in the cities of the USA.Īnd remember - those LEOs can be commandeered by the federal law enforcement teams if need be. ![]() You really must track down a copy of the Protect and Serve supplement.īut in essence. ![]() DEA etc) amalgamated after the Collapse in LEDiv (Law Enforcement Division)?Īctually I know they were. Wasn't all the federal law enforcement agencies (FBI, ATF. ![]()
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