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| ====== Insight ====== | ====== Insight ====== | ||
| - | * Inseer characters gain a +2 cultural bonus to all computer-related checks. This bonus also applies to all grid shadow-related stats. | + | |
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| + | * Inseer characters gain a +2 cultural bonus to all computer-related checks. This bonus also applies to all grid shadow-related stats. | ||
| //"Click on this reality."// | //"Click on this reality."// | ||
| -Zane, 2460 | -Zane, 2460 | ||
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| Insight is the youngest stellar nation, born only 40 years ago. On the surface, it barely deserves mention. It boasts the fewest star systems and the weakest military. But as the saying goes, knowledge is power. | Insight is the youngest stellar nation, born only 40 years ago. On the surface, it barely deserves mention. It boasts the fewest star systems and the weakest military. But as the saying goes, knowledge is power. | ||
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| Insight's history is inextricably entwined with VoidCorp and the [[Grid]]. Although systems for electronic data transfer existed in the 1960s, the first true Grid came into use in 2032. The Earth-Grid linked all of the planet in a sophisticated virtual environment, and the computer-focused corporation that eventually became VoidCorp had its hand in the Grid from the beginning. | Insight's history is inextricably entwined with VoidCorp and the [[Grid]]. Although systems for electronic data transfer existed in the 1960s, the first true Grid came into use in 2032. The Earth-Grid linked all of the planet in a sophisticated virtual environment, and the computer-focused corporation that eventually became VoidCorp had its hand in the Grid from the beginning. | ||
| - | While claiming massive areas of space in its early days, VoidCorp made technological leaps. In 2193, the first drivespace communication relay -commonly known as a [[Stardrive|drivesat]]- was designed. Initially limited to simple data exchanges, in only seven years VoidCorp Employees integrated Grid technology with the drivesats. While real-time interstellar Grid exchanges remained impossible, gridpilots developed the use of [[Shadows|shadows]] to cross drivespace and interact in the [[Grid|interstellar Grid]]. | + | While claiming massive areas of space in its early days, VoidCorp made technological leaps. In 2193, the first drivespace communication relay -commonly known as a [[Stardrive|drivesat]]- was designed. Initially limited to simple data exchanges, in only seven years VoidCorp Employees integrated Grid technology with the drivesats. While real-time interstellar Grid exchanges remained impossible, gridpilots developed the use of [[Shadow|shadows]] to cross drivespace and interact in the [[Grid|interstellar Grid]]. |
| Profits and fortunes could be made from this medium, and VoidCorp hastened to realize that goal. Most stellar nations licensed creation and even maintenance of Grid systems to VoidCorp Employees. No independent corporation could compete with the stellar nation. After two decades of VoidCorp dominance, competitors sensed the opportunity for profit, and VoidCorp saw the need to maintain a division devoted to advanced Grid design and shadow programming. | Profits and fortunes could be made from this medium, and VoidCorp hastened to realize that goal. Most stellar nations licensed creation and even maintenance of Grid systems to VoidCorp Employees. No independent corporation could compete with the stellar nation. After two decades of VoidCorp dominance, competitors sensed the opportunity for profit, and VoidCorp saw the need to maintain a division devoted to advanced Grid design and shadow programming. | ||
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| A year before GW1, Insight marked is centennial as an incorporated division. Generations of Insight Employees had been born, educated, and even died as members of the division. The top-notch computer professionals had unrestricted access to the Grid and all the information it could provide. Insight employees enjoy not only the liberty to exchange ideas internally, but also channels that connected them to all of humanity Insight's intellectual freedom manifested itself in a multitude of ways. Their freedom led to revolution and betrayal. | A year before GW1, Insight marked is centennial as an incorporated division. Generations of Insight Employees had been born, educated, and even died as members of the division. The top-notch computer professionals had unrestricted access to the Grid and all the information it could provide. Insight employees enjoy not only the liberty to exchange ideas internally, but also channels that connected them to all of humanity Insight's intellectual freedom manifested itself in a multitude of ways. Their freedom led to revolution and betrayal. | ||
| - | Insight's revolt started with small things. Often difficult to manage, the Inseers were allowed to choose one of their own as their division's new vice president in 2314. The practice of promoting [[Gridpilots|gridpilots]] from inside the division to leadership soon became an Insight tradition. Under their own leaders, Insight gridpilots popularized radical systems of thought. The Grid, Inseers posited, is not an artificial reality, or even a secondary reality. The Grid was, waiting for us to find it. The Grid is, more real than real, the haven of conscious minds embracing one another. The Grid will be humanity's ascension. | + | Insight's revolt started with small things. Often difficult to manage, the Inseers were allowed to choose one of their own as their division's new vice president in 2314. The practice of promoting [[gridpilot_advanced_class|gridpilots]] from inside the division to leadership soon became an Insight tradition. Under their own leaders, Insight gridpilots popularized radical systems of thought. The Grid, Inseers posited, is not an artificial reality, or even a secondary reality. The Grid was, waiting for us to find it. The Grid is, more real than real, the haven of conscious minds embracing one another. The Grid will be humanity's ascension. |
| //"Information born free."// became the Insight motto. To this day, the Inseers still believe that data has a natural inclination to disseminate, and no government, religion, or corporation has the right to restrict the flow of information. Given this difference in attitude, the break with VoidCorp was foreordained. Aware of how VoidCorp executives would react to any statement of Insight's principles, the Insight revolution stayed underground. | //"Information born free."// became the Insight motto. To this day, the Inseers still believe that data has a natural inclination to disseminate, and no government, religion, or corporation has the right to restrict the flow of information. Given this difference in attitude, the break with VoidCorp was foreordained. Aware of how VoidCorp executives would react to any statement of Insight's principles, the Insight revolution stayed underground. | ||
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| Insight leads much of the computer industry, specializing in Grid hardware, software, and interfaces. While VoidCorp Grid systems remain universal and fixed - boring, say the Inseers - Insight Grid systems are beautiful, unpredictable works of art. Despite their complexity, the Insight environments allow greater individuality and creativity. When used by a skilled gridpilot, Insight systems provide the best performance known. Insight's relentless advances into VoidCorp's markets has fueled the hatred VoidCorp feels for its rebellious child. | Insight leads much of the computer industry, specializing in Grid hardware, software, and interfaces. While VoidCorp Grid systems remain universal and fixed - boring, say the Inseers - Insight Grid systems are beautiful, unpredictable works of art. Despite their complexity, the Insight environments allow greater individuality and creativity. When used by a skilled gridpilot, Insight systems provide the best performance known. Insight's relentless advances into VoidCorp's markets has fueled the hatred VoidCorp feels for its rebellious child. | ||
| - | VoidCorp has refused to recognize Insight's independence except to the extent required by the [[Treaty of Concord]]. VoidCorp often refuses to attend diplomatic conferences where Inseers are expected, and VoidCorp Employees are taught that Insight is composed of deviants and traitors. For their part, most Inseers believe that VoidCorp represents a step in mankind's evolution that they have transcended. In the Grid, the war quietly rages on, as VoidCorp uses its greater resources to test Insight skill. The guerrilla warfare remains largely invisible to all save its players, and the [[Galactic Concord]] is powerless to stop the giants of the industry from tearing at one another's throats. | + | VoidCorp has refused to recognize Insight's independence except to the extent required by the [[the stellar nations|Treaty of Concord]]. VoidCorp often refuses to attend diplomatic conferences where Inseers are expected, and VoidCorp Employees are taught that Insight is composed of deviants and traitors. For their part, most Inseers believe that VoidCorp represents a step in mankind's evolution that they have transcended. In the Grid, the war quietly rages on, as VoidCorp uses its greater resources to test Insight skill. The guerrilla warfare remains largely invisible to all save its players, and the [[Galactic Concord]] is powerless to stop the giants of the industry from tearing at one another's throats. |
| Most Inseers have adopted the doctrine of the Insightful. The Grid represents the first environment in which minds can exchange information uncluttered by hindrances. Free information is a natural state to which the Inseers believe all sentient beings will ascend. Of course, the demands of a successful economy mean that Insight endorses free information but markets technology to receive, manipulate, and send information. Like all stellar nations, Insight is invested in a range' of industries from agriculture to weapons manufacture; in all of these, though, the Insight bent toward advanced' technology is visible. | Most Inseers have adopted the doctrine of the Insightful. The Grid represents the first environment in which minds can exchange information uncluttered by hindrances. Free information is a natural state to which the Inseers believe all sentient beings will ascend. Of course, the demands of a successful economy mean that Insight endorses free information but markets technology to receive, manipulate, and send information. Like all stellar nations, Insight is invested in a range' of industries from agriculture to weapons manufacture; in all of these, though, the Insight bent toward advanced' technology is visible. | ||
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| ==== Grid Warrior ==== | ==== Grid Warrior ==== | ||
| Outward appearances can be deceiving. Nobody would suspect a scrawny unkempt person as this to be a skilled and adept warrior. But his battlefield is not in the open. It is the grid. Armed with a gridcaster computer gauntlet, neural interface cybernetics, and some of the best software he can program, security and personal hardware and software defenses are powerless against his skilled manipulations. Battling VoidCorp's oppressive corporate rule has taught Inseers a thing or two about grid warfare. Nowadays if anyone needs high class top secret information stolen or destroyed, you don't call a thief, you call an Insight grid warrior. | Outward appearances can be deceiving. Nobody would suspect a scrawny unkempt person as this to be a skilled and adept warrior. But his battlefield is not in the open. It is the grid. Armed with a gridcaster computer gauntlet, neural interface cybernetics, and some of the best software he can program, security and personal hardware and software defenses are powerless against his skilled manipulations. Battling VoidCorp's oppressive corporate rule has taught Inseers a thing or two about grid warfare. Nowadays if anyone needs high class top secret information stolen or destroyed, you don't call a thief, you call an Insight grid warrior. | ||
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