#neo tribes

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“When the average cyberpunk thinks of nomads, he usually thinks of large convoys of vehicles moving down the dusty roads of post-apocalyptic America. To a large extent, this is accurate; nomadic culture is defined by its rootless nature and its reliance on vehicles. What makes modern nomad culture unique in human history is the scale and scope of its operations.

A culture on the move is a new thing, and in 2020, the new is often dangerous.”  

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“Officially the largest of the nomad groups, the Snake Nation is not a true nation in the eyes of many Americans, nomad and static alike. Nomads are generally a very libertarian and independent people, and the Snake Nation is a loose confederation of those who, though they wanted to preserve their autonomy, wanted a voice in nomad politics. 

Freddie Douglas currently leads the Snake Nation. He is a capable man, gifted with both the strength to see his will done and the intelligence to know that strength is often not the best solution. He has seen the power-games that the other groups play, and he has not been amused. In fact, he often wishes he could go back to being a simple clan elder”(pg 19-20).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“In America, there are just over seven million nomads; over half of them have given their allegiance to one of the seven Nomad Nations of North America. These groups are composed of clans, tribes, and families which share common interests, enemies, or goals. The largest of the nations calls itself the Snake Nation, while the smallest is a nomad owned corporation: MetaCorp. Found between these two extremes are the Blood Nation, the Folk Nation, the Jodes, the Thelas Nation, and the Aldecaldos” (pg 19).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“These are simple rules for a simple culture: work hard, be fair, protect the family. Words to live by, and words to die for. The nomad lifestyle is far more than a vehicle, a tent, and an attitude; nomad lifestyle is governed by imperatives as powerful as any corporate regulations, and whole lot moral besides” (pg 7).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“The Folk Nation was the last of the Seven Nations to solidify. This is due to two reasons: the Folk were undergoing an internal power struggle, and they were fighting a war they could not win. The Folk Nation was born in the ghettos and suburbs of Chicago. They survived in a gang structure because they were a family first; when they became mobile, they looked to the family for guidance, supported the family as their responsibility, and led the family as time went on. For all these reasons they couldn’t just leave Chicago.

But bio-plague of 2012 wiped out a lot of upper leadership but Mr. Cool rose out of the ashes to lead the nation. Cool was a leader in the Kansas City area. He had done some fairly large scale transportation and smuggling operations in the past and saw in transport the ability to survive. As they became a major nation they forged stronger allegiances to those concepts of family and community. As a result, the illegal businesses that the Folk used to run are closed now” (pg 33). 

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“The Aldecaldo family was the first true nomad family to form, though at the time they were not nomads, but casualties of the city of Los Angeles. Juan Aldecaldo lost his wife to cancer, his daughter to a car accident, and his son to gang violence. When the media bothered Juan at the scene of the crime, his reply was replayed on television screens across America. Juan’s brief oratory about the government and the police caused a reaction he did not anticipate. At his son’s funeral, there were thousands of people. Juan was tired of seeing others forced to bear the same loss he had. So the disaffected left in the night, almost five thousand strong: those who were living on the same blocks as Juan and those who were just fed up with the city.

Juan led the nation for years before passing away in 2015. A man by the name of Santiago met Juan Aldecaldo shortly before the great man’s death. He was given a mission: he had to help the Aldecaldo, so they could help others. It was not a responsibility he took lightly, or in fact easily, but he did take it” (pg 28-30).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“The original Bloods were a criminal organization with chapters across the United States, though they probably originated in the wastelands of Los Angles. The Bloods who emerged from the ruins of Miami, however, were of a different mold. Haitian and other Caribbean immigrants to Miami had brought with them both Santeria and Voudon. The Bloods were now a mish-mash of Caribbean, African-American, and Cuban/South American cultures -they were battle-hardened survivors and they had faith. 

As the first ever male head of the Blood Nation, Malcolm Kent-Smith has a great many eyes watching him. He was elected to the elders at the unheard of age of thirty-two. It has been widely speculated that the elders of the Blood Nation want a leader with a good balance of youth and wisdom to help them privatize and transition to a nomad-owned corporate system similar to that of MetaCorp. Because of the combination of former Disney and Barnum Circus employees, the Blood Nation created the greatest traveling entertainments of the new millennium” (pg 24-25).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“The original Jode family came from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. They were not driven out by economic crisis, but by ecological crisis: as the agricultural lands dies, the people who worked them began to die as well. In 1998, the great dust-storms obliviated the possibility of anyone farming for quite a while, and those that had the strength began heading west towards California for no other reason than it seemed easier than going east through the more densly populated areas of Collapse America.

Malachi Jode has been called the first nomad. His vision and influence united the original members of what became the Jode Clan. In his nation, he is revered with almost religious awe. But in his few personal statements to outsiders, Malachi has always down-played his reputation as much as possible. It is hard to be a legend, although, as his hair turned from red to grey, Malachi has endured the title with aplomb”(pg 21-22).