Setting Details

Society driven by the ongoing interactions of innumerable overlapping factions and cultural powerbases. "I am a Gay Communist Gun Nut"

The society has just gone through a sudden destructive shock. Ex: The Great Depression, Russia after Cold War

Slower-than-light space travel, fusion power, implants, orbital tower, ballistic airliner, cybertank, bioweapons, reflec, Gauss needlers, fission/electric power, orbital-collected solar power, cloning, simple implants, bionics, plastiskin; late-1990s to "the near future"

Mass production, steam power, telegraph, railroad, zeppelin, ironclad warships, dynamite, repeating handgun, direct current electricity, germ theory of disease, anesthetics, vaccines

Devices can be built with abilities far beyond that achievable by prevailing technology.

Secrets, infiltration, covert manipulation of others

Imperfect characters in an imperfect world