GURPS 4th edition. Transhuman Space: Broken Dreams

✍ Scribed by Jamais Cascio

• Publisher: Steve Jackson Games Incorporated
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/brokendreams/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
About Transhuman Space
About the Author
About GURPS
1. Overview: Moving Faster and Still Falling Behind
Broken Dreams
The States of the World
The Global System
Weltspiel
Living on the Trailing Edge of the Future
Transition and Transformation
Top Five Most Popular Weltspiel Sites
Advantages of Backwardness
Memetic Relations
Popular Culture
Memetic Warfare
Popular Global Media
Religion
Ideologies and Memes
Voudoun
Politics, Economics, and Power
Globalization
Lithuanian Transparency
Distribution of Technology
Bombjacking
Crime and Punishment
Campaigns in Broken Dreams
2. Opting Out
Leaving the System
Isolates
Isolate Communities
Sabbaticals
Isolate Nations
The Islamic Caliphate
Life in the Islamic Caliphate
The Politics and Structure of the Caliphate
Useful Terms
The Five Pillars of Wisdom
The Salamatin
Technology and the Caliphate
Aylisha
The Caliphate and the Rest of the World
The Sikkiyn
Parvez Kholani
Global Memes and the Caliphate
Characters in the Caliphate
The Transpacific Socialist Alliance
Structure
Infosocialism versus Nanosocialism
Key Directorates in the TSA
Operational Directorates
Technology
TSA Member National Politics
Tia Chong
Factions
Guardians and Helots
Relations with the Outside World
Tommy Guerro
3. Present Shock: Areas in Transition
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Number One Songs from Around the World
Life in a Perpetual Beta Test
Social Transition Stress Disorder
Popular Antistress Drugs
Interfering Waves
Panopticon Societies
To Have and Have Not
Examples of Content-Rights Management
Content Rights and the WTO
Technology Imports and Exports
Knock-Off and Gray Market Companies
Penalties for Piracy
Relations with the Fifth Wave World
Business
Memetic Sweatshops
Law Enforcement
Politics
Backwards Areas
Five Most Popular World Leaders
Resistance to Change
Forms of Resistance
Recent Boycotts
Typical Military Forces in Transition Areas
4. The State of Nature: Conflict and Crisis
The Environment
Heavy Weather
Climate Change
Stormchasers
Earthquakes
The Big One
Diseases
Environmental Cleanup and Anti-Ecoweapon Corporations
Ecotage
Areoforming
Industrial Pollution
Coping with Eco-Crisis
Kleptocracies, Gangs, and Warlords
Kleptocratic Regimes
Active Criminal Organizations
Organized Crime
Factions and Warlords
Revolutions and War
Uprisings
Coups and Civil Wars
Interstate Wars
Five Deadliest Current Civil Wars
International Terror Movements
Great Power Intervention Forces
Terrorist Movements in 2100
Typical Military Forces in Chaotic Areas
5. Life in the World of Broken Dreams
Nairobi
Overview
Robert Ampala
SafariShells
Nyota Kongata
Places
Current Events
Los Angeles
Overview
Places
Chawalit Sang Likphai
Ruben Galindo
Bellissima
Top Five Worldarc Storyworlds – January, 2100
Current Events
Alma-ata
Overview
The Muslim Underground
Evgeny Mara (Mullah Sifr)
Characters in Alma-Ata
Eduard Mikhailovich Kharkov
The Blyustetyelui
Places
Alma-Ata’s Augmented Reality
Current Events
6. Characters
Character Types
Inappropriate Types
Activists
Archaeotechnologist
Artist
Criminal
Entrepreneur
Intelligence Agent
Military Personnel
Missionary/Chaplain
Stormchaser
Tech Broker
Racial and Model Templates
Parahuman and Ideal Type Templates
Bioroid Templates
Cybershell Templates
Advantages and Disadvantages
STSD Effects
Skills
New Skills
7. Technology
Old and New Technologies
Obsolete Equipment
Planned Obsolescence and Mandatory Upgrades
Beta Equipment
Hackware and Hot Mods
Computers
Hardware
Wearable Virtual Interfaces
Software
Augmented Reality and Advertising
Cybernetic Gear
Bionic Limbs and Organs
Software Upgrades
Implants
New Brainbugs
Ecological Equipment
Law Enforcement Equipment
Crime Investigation and Prevention Equipment
Forensic Equipment
Suits and Personal Armor
Crime Scene Investigations
Transportation
Weapons
Weapon Table
Unconventional Warfare
Ecoweapons
Explosives
NNBC Weapons (Nuclear/Nano/Bio/Chem)
Proteus Weapons
Bibliography
Index

✦ Subjects

GURPS; Transhuman Space