#nomad lore

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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 Raffen are the most hated of nomads. Even among the normally permissive nomade society, these people are considered sub-human. The Raffen Shiv (the name is a derivation of several colloquial contractions and pejoratives) are scavengers and sociopaths who prey on the innocent and the weak in nomad tribes. They are generally found in places beyond the reach of the law and the rest of American culture. They steal from, kill, or enslave any whom they can trap” (pg 35).

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From R. Talsorian’s Cyberpunk 2020 Sourcebook Neo Tribes

“Marine nomads, sea nomads, and water nomads are all names the government has ignored. Because such people are seen as lawless, they are lumped together by the government and called pirates. It is a term, which to some degree, they have come to enjoy. When they were being plagued by waterborne gangs (or worse, government forces) and the central authorities could not or would not protect them, many loaded their families into boats and took to life on the water.

It was inevitable that any pirate leader named John would inherit this salty name of the seas. Were it not for his diminutive stature, John “Silver” Watson would doubtless be called “Long John”. Those in the Thelas Nation are almost as independent as the Snake Nation’s members, so Silver really controls his own clan, which is admittedly the largest of the waterborne pirates” (pg 31-32).