CREDITS

Android Setting Created by Kevin Wilson and Daniel Lovat Clark

Editor Katrina Ostrander
Writing & Additional Gary Astleford, Owen Barnes,
Development Shawn Carman, Daniel Lovat Clark,
Tim Cox, John Crowdis, John Dunn,
Lisa Farrell, Jordan Goldfarb,
Anthony Hicks, William H. Keith,
Jason Marker, Mike Myler, Mel Odom,
and Joe Sleboda with Lukas Litzsinger,
Andrew Navaro, Sam Stewart,
and Kirsten Zirngibl
Android Story Team Daniel Lovat Clark, Lukas Litzsinger,
Katrina Ostrander, and Zoë Robinson

Android Story Team Lead Michael Hurley

Graphic Design Michael Silsby with Shaun Boyke,
Christopher Hosch, and Duane Nichols

Graphic Design Manager Brian Schomburg

Art Direction Zoë Robinson
Managing Art Director Andy Christensen
Cover Art David Auden Nash
Production Coordination John Britton, Jason Glawe, and
Johanna Whiting

Production Management Megan Duehn and Simone Elliott

Executive Producer Michael Hurley
Publisher Christian T. Petersen

Special thanks to Nayt Brookes, Kelly Hoffman, Tim Huckelbery,

Matthew Ley, Connor Osgood, as well as David Preti and Renato Sasdelli
for their expertise and insight into the not-too-distant future.

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Foreword
Introduction: The Worlds of Android

Part 1: It is the Future 96 The Weyland Consortium

38 Haas-Bioroid 98 The Board

39 Current Projects ||

||
Cybernetics and BMIs
Arms Sales
100 The || Groundwork: The 1900s and 2000s
|| Cybersecurity New Angeles |||| Form and Function
The Forces of Physics
Space Elevator || Building a Beanstalk
|| A Highway to Space
40 Bioroids || The Sky Is Falling
|| A History of the Beanstalk
43 “Engineering the Modern Workforce” || Into the Future

Part 2: The World Changed

56 Jinteki
|| Accelerating Development
|| Genetic Perspectives
114 New Angeles || The Geopolitics of the Space Elevator
60 Clones
|| Accelerated In Vitro Maturation 117 Political Standing || Treaties and Tensions
|| Neural Conditioning and Beyond
|| The Henry Line 119 The Districts || Chakana
|| The Tenma Line || Base de Cayambe
|| The Molloy Line || Rutherford
|| Esmeraldas
68 Clonal Health || Contagion || Nihongai
Maintenance || || Laguna Velasco
|| Manta
69 Clonal Medicine || Replacement || Rabotgorod
|| Enhancement || La Costa
|| Research || Quinde
|| Guayaquil
|| Heinlein
70 Predetermination and Cloning
125 Life at the Top
70 Clones and || Liability
Punishment || Abuse and Neglect
132 Traversing the Districts

74 NBN
|| Understanding The Customer 134 Life in the Undercity
|| Safeguarding The Network
|| What You Need to Know
136 North America || BosWash
|| Let us Entertain You
|| ChiLo
|| SanSan
78 The Network || Apocalypse and Genesis
137 South America || Brazil
80 Reality, || Personal Access Devices || Ecuador
Augmented
|| A Deep Black Sea || Colombia

84 Building || Military Technology 138 Europe and || Atlantica

Neural Bridges || Brain-Nets and Skulljacks Central Asia || Mediterranean Failed States
|| BMI Acclimation || Northern Asia
|| Jacking In with Full Immersion
|| Cyberspace
139 Southeast Asia || Mumbad
|| Jacking Out
|| Digital Evidence || Australia
|| Digital Records
141 East Asia || China
90 Myths || Ghost Stories || Japan
and Legends || God Ice
of the Net || 142 Africa || Kampala Rising

92 Just Fun ’n Games || Virtual Life 142 Antarctica

|| GameNET
|| Player Versus Player
|| Sensedep

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Lili Ibrahim
 144 Exploring the || A Home in Space 210 State Militaries and Prisec
Solar System || Interplanetary Shipping
210 National || The U.S. Armed Forces
146 Luna
|| Lunar Uprising Armed Forces ||
|| Rebuilding, Resentment, and Hope
214 Private Military || Argus Security Inc.
Concerns || Globalsec
153 Heinlein
|| Saga of the Silver City || Smaller Outfits
|| Lunacent || Bounty Hunters
|| Tranquility Home
|| Starport Kaguya
|| Angel Arena 218 Android || A Brave New Labor Market
|| Docklands Labor |||| The Anti-Simulant Movement
|| Armstrong Base
|| Beyond Heinlein 222 You Must Accept to Proceed
161 Controlling || Haas-Bioroid 223 The Opticon Foundation
Interests
|| Jinteki
|| Weyland Consortium
|| NBN 225 Seeking Meaning
|| Melange Mining
226 The Starlight || Origins
163 Luna, Mars, and Beyond Crusade || Beliefs and Practices
|| Outreach
164 Mars
|| A Brief History of Colonial Mars
227 The Order of Sol || Political Influence
|| Martian Terraforming

228 Other || The Albertian Order

166 Living on the || Cities
Red Planet || Nodes Movements
|| Incipiata Marte Vita
|| Settlements
229 Clones and || Clones and Souls
Spirituality
|| Clone Cults
171 Bradbury
|| The “Center of the Universe”
|| Walking on Two Planets
|| History 232 The NAPD || History
|| Life and Transport
235 Organization || Career Progression
176 Building a Colony || The Strength of Industry and Structure || Notable Bureaus, Divisions, and Units
|| Daily Patrols

177 Districts and || Districts

240 Procedures
|| Crime Scene Procedures
Government || Government
|| Making an Arrest
|| Confirming Identity
181 Clans and || The Clans || Network Identity
Conflict || Keeping Peace, Making War
242 Technology
|| Standard Police Issue
Part 3: People Did Not
243 Notable || The Franks Case
188 The Worlds || The Lunar Insurrection Case files || The Skylane Fiasco
War || The Martian Colony Wars || “Myers Testimony”
|| Earth on Edge
|| Waging War in the Modern Era
|| The Battle of the Beanstalk 248 Organized || The Mafia
|| The Treaty of Heinlein Crime || Los Scorpiones
|| Scars of the War || 14K
|| The Yakuza

198 The Martian || Earth Government on Mars 252 Netcrimes

|| “Scum of the Net”
Civil War |||| Separatists
and Terrorists

262 System Defenses

202 The Business of Warfare
268 Glossary
202
Outfitted for || Weapons
Killer Efficiency || Cyberware
|| Vehicles

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The Android universe first started as a conversation in a van on the
way home from a game convention with my friend and colleague
Dan Clark. I had some rough ideas about a setting I wanted to
pitch to Christian for a board game, but it was that conversation
that crystalized those thoughts into what would later become the
kernel of the setting. I wanted to do hard sci-fi—or at least use
plausible science in the game. Ambitiously, Dan and I discussed
a near future in the tradition of cyberpunk, where we could also
address some of the current issues of our time such as the margin-
alization of the labor force and rising wealth inequality. I wanted
to tackle some real, serious topics in the game in a way that I’d
never attempted before.
Foreword
At the idea’s core were two competing corporations, both ped-
dling a different form of artificial labor. On the one hand was
Jinteki, a genetics company in the Eastern tradition selling cloned
workers. Their logo was a bonsai, a tiny tree that’s had its growth
purposefully stunted for aesthetic reasons via careful pruning.
That bit of quiet symbolism still pleases me today. On the other
hand, Haas-Bioroid was a stolidly Western corporation, manufac-
turing robotic workers and keeping an eye firmly on the bottom
line. They were cold steel and numbers as a foil to Jinteki’s deep
traditions and artistic perfectionism.
Caught between these two behemoths were the displaced work-
ers. An angry, powerless mob of ordinary people forced out of their
jobs by a series of technological breakthroughs. They had formed
a group called Human First and used sledgehammers to attack the
androids, both because the robotic workers were extremely durable,
and because I wanted to create parallels to the tale of John Henry
and the steam engine. The story of the man who would rather die
than let a machine replace him is one of my long-time favorites,
and if you look, you’ll see that we ultimately named a line of mining
clones in the setting after him. One of the murder suspects in the
original board game, Mark Henry, is from that line of clones.
These three groups and the friction between them were the seed
that everything else ultimately sprang from. Before I had thought
of the Beanstalk or decided to put a colony on the Moon named
after one of my favorite science fiction writers, there was this triad,
with each group opposed to the other two. This appealed to me
because although it was reminiscent of Blade Runner, an obvious
influence on the setting, it went in a completely different direction
with the same technology and allowed us to tell very different sto-
ries. Android was, at its core, a setting about vast economic forces
filtered down to the level of a single individual.
For the rest of the trip, Dan and I invented and fleshed out the
first of those individuals. Louis Blaine, the corrupt cop on the outs
with his wife, was the original Android character. Next was Ray-
mond Flint, the private eye unlucky in love and still haunted by
ghosts from the War. Many, many other characters have followed
since, coming to life through the cards in Android: Netrunner
or within the pages of the Android novels. This universe has grown
far beyond my original rough ideas, and I’m amazed and proud to
watch it keep growing from that first tiny seed.
Kevin Wilson, July 2015
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