The Skidd

Outlasting the rising of the Oceans and Valleys of Fire from the sins of the ancestors in 2020, outlasting the death of the United States Republic in 2100, outlasting even the fall of the State of California in 2200 and becoming the world’s shining example of an independent cyber enhanced City State…

San Francisco.

C-Tek takes place in San Francisco circa 2222 in a subsection of a neighborhood known as the Skidd District.

Not originally intended for human habitation after the year 2087, the Skidd District is the poorest part of San Francisco, squalid and desperate. The retaining wall which separates the city proper from the North Bay Land Bridge is in bad repair in this part of the city, allowing for all manner of threats from the outside to make their way inside.

Other Rumors abound as well, that the Dark Web has a server hub buried there deep underground, and that many Web-Runners make their way there to seek it. That the old carbon capture pits underground have huge amounts of easily broken down transmuted Hydrogen and those who can sort the junk from the precious H are able to make a decent chunk of Lyght Coin.

Even darker rumors swirl as well, that the Corporations and Central Planning have hidden cameras all through the district, filming and betting on the fates of the poor souls who end up StreetSide in the Skidd.

C-Tek

C-Tek is a specific series of Basic Tek installed at birth in virtually every single person who is born into the modern world.

Basic Tek is exactly that, the basic technology installed in most people at birth.

Since the first homo-sapien picked up a heavy club to bash an enemy, human beings have instinctually sought devices that augment their natural abilities.

Basic Tek, a term coined by early corporations based in ancient San Francisco and a small village known as ancient Mountain View, was designed after the SARS Covid-19 Pandemic of 2019 as a series of medical devices installed literally inside of human beings. These devices could do a number of things but the most important was to track and augment the human immune system against disease. Filling each human with every vaccine available became problematic for a number of reasons; allowing technology to monitor the immune system and alert the user to infection and even counter serious infections in real time became a staple of the global elite, eventually becoming more affordable and being introduced to the masses.

All humans, all Electronic Organisms, Synths and Emergent beings have this basic Tek package installed inside of them at birth. Even the Ranger Clans have determined that being virtually immune from disease to be a benefit and make sure their children are augmented, though rumors swirl they have altered and removed certain root assembly instructions embedded in the code.

Electronic Organisms would seem to be virtually immune by design, however, as their systems become more complex, they grow in unpredictable ways that have sometimes mimicked human biology. In order to make sure these E/O's are protected, Basic Tek is installed at creation.

The only exception that exists to this day as a puzzle is a group of humans known as "Pure Biologicals" or more commonly as the slang "Pure Bios." These people are extremely rare and are usually distrusted and even jailed because their unprotected immune systems are seen to be a possible danger to all of humanity.

What turned out to be truly revolutionary was that Basic Tek provided the basic platform for more expanded augmentation in the form of more advanced Tek that is used modernly in different professions; this Tek has come to be known as: Profession Tek, or slang: Pro Tek.