Perhaps the most intelligent of the yogangs (only Vidiots give them a run for the money), you and your fellow Radicals (or Rads) play the most dangerous game of all: fighting the corporate-government apparatus on its own terms. You're the top students in your classes at the corporate or public schools. You're the smart whiz-kids who do much more than regurgitate corporate-approved facts and opinions; you understand the material and dissect it for fun. Hard-bitten and cynical, you nonetheless believe you can use the Beast's strength against it; you endeavor to break the government over its own ironclad rules.

What You Look Like

As a Rad, you're quite an aberration among yogang culture; since you fight the system within the system, you have to dress the part. You stand out as post modern yuppies among throngs of leather-decked mohawks and cyberlinked techmongers. You make a point of appearing well groomed, well behaved, and well disciplined as part of the "disinformation campaign" you're running. Typically you have nice clothes, though never too expensive. Rads also wear slickers or dusters to conceal their leaflets, flyers, thief equipment, and weapons. It's all part of the image Rads seek to project. In short, the Rads don't look like the have a subculture. They are the culture.

Subculture

While you normally operate within the rules of the System, psychwar techniques are your primary tools when rallies, leaflets and petitions don't work. Fake car bombs that release soap suds, M-80's in desk drawers. Paint balls shot at people or their cars. All of these tactics are designed to let the victim know that he could be dead or maimed, but isn't ... yet. Not fun people to cross, the Rads.

Belonging

The PoliClubs are the only yogang that actually has petitioners take a real live bona fide test; you had to take it just like everyone else. They won't even give the test to someone who hasn't already attracted some attention in school for either intelligence or rebelliousness, or preferably both. The test is a measure of mental acuity, political sentiment, and the ability to see beyond the corporate facade. It's an essay test.

Your Allies and Enemies

The PoliClubs have cordial relations of sorts with the EcoRaiders, who at least share a common agenda of attacking the corporations. The two factions will often swap information of use to the other, based on the enemy-of-my-enemy theory. The PoliClubs maintain good relations with the Vidiots, whom they use to help broadcast their beliefs, accusations, and other political projects. On occasion the Vidiots with smear the Rads, but they don't take offense at this; it's all part of doing business.

Slang

Ballot out: to eliminate a political rival.

The Beast: the government, a corporation.

Beastman: a loyal corporate employee.

Chrome: high-profile corp, frontman, visible target.

Splunger: yes-man, toady, someone unable to think for himself.

Track: as a noun, incriminating evidence; as a verb, to blackmail.

Vote: A decision, usually ending in someone's ballot being outed.

Worm: breaking and entering.

Yogang Skill: Organize (INT)

As a Rad, you know that all power really resides in the People. So you've mastered the ability to Organize - to get the masses out in the streets when you need them, canvassing neighborhoods, putting up posters, coming to rallies. The greater your ability, the more people you can organize around a cause, rally or event (your Skill times 50). Political groups are also a great source for information, like having a million eyes throughout the city, telling you what the opposition is doing rather like a low level equivalent to the Edgerunner skill of Experience (= to 50%).

If You're a Rad

1) Tell me your name, age and sex.

2) Describe what you look like.

3) Besides your V-Trodes, pick four different things from the list below that you are currently carrying:

Pocket Cellphone

Personal V-Term (computer/digital assistant)

Armored Duster (SAR5) with 20 pockets inside

Paintball Gun with 10 acid loads, 20 paint loads, and 10 sleepdrug loads

5 small (DC6) explosives

Light Handgun

Tracker and 10 Tracer pins

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