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Empire
Archetype: Troll Financial Expert
The first metahuman to graduate from University of Pennsylvania's
respected Wharton School of Business, Empire was subjected to intellectual
prejudices even after it became apparent that he had a keen sense of
markets, always knowing the best emerging industries to invest in. After
graduating, Empire worked for more than 30 different companies, usually
losing his position to a less qualified human, or being outright canned
because he didn't look right in meetings. Virtually blacklisted on the
east coast because of his race, Empire moved west and set up a small
consulting company in which he used humans and elves to conduct face to
face business while hiding in the background and making the decisions that
his workers followed. After building his firm into a respectable entity,
he found himself in the uncomfortable position of being the CEO of a
company comprised almost entirely of non-metahumans. Believing they could
be more successful without a troll "holding them back", the board of
directors fired Empire from his own company in 2056.
Finally fed up with corporate prejudices, Empire turned his knowledge of
business against the corporate world and began systematically destroying
companies who had done him wrong, starting with his own which he
eliminated by engineering a hostile takeover by Fuchi two weeks before
Fuchi itself was annihilated. He then began working his way backwards
through his work history, destroying the financial and organizational
bases of companies via creative stock shifts, market disruption and the
sly distribution of disruptive rumors to key company personnel. One of
his more well known operations was the one that let to the Boardroom
Massacre of 2061, in which he planted paranoia inducing rumors among
Darlington Industries' top personnel, three of whom exchanged gunfire
during a meeting, eventually killing everybody in the room..
Empire continues to amass wealth by leeching funds (via creative
legitimate channels) from megacorporations, selling information to runners
and corps, and doing freelance corporate annihilation work for anybody
willing to shovel him a significant sum of nuyen. He has more than 20
homes around the world, usually heavily guarded estates in exclusive
neighborhoods. Empire also has a fleet of vehicles and a well trained
team of bodyguards who are all qualified to act as riggers – and all of
which are trolls. Empire himself is a physical pacifist, possessing no
combat skills whatsoever, but having no qualms against using other people
to do his dirty work. It should go without saying that Empire isn't too
keen on humans, although he's more than willing to drop his prejudices in
order to make a few bucks. Empire's personality is brutally cold when he
conducts business, but surprisingly fancy free when he's not "on the
clock".
The Accountant
Archetype: Human Financial Expert
A high school dropout who maintained a D average before he bolted, The
Accountant always had an aptitude for math and logic and became quickly
disgusted with people who spent too much time pissing and moaning about
social and emotional issues. Not especially attractive (not that he
cares) and sporting zero social skills (not that he cares about that,
either), The Accountant found work in the financial offices of several
corporations by falsifying information in his resume. His time working
tended to be short since his falsifications would eventually catch up with
him.
Still, his periodic work allowed him to amass enough money to get a
variety of cerebral cyber and bio enhancements installed, all oriented
around numeric processing and analysis. Also during this time he acquired
a sharp knowledge of decking because it allowed him to obtain and process
records more quickly. His most recent cybernetic enhancement was a high
level cerebral deck.
The accountant continued to move from job to job until a stroke of
good/bad luck landed him in the middle of a botched kidnapping in which a
group of runners mistook him for a high level executive. After the
runners delivered The Accountant, the corp quickly realized the mistake
and decided it would be best to simply "erase" the problem. Realizing his
life was in peril, The Accountant managed to escape from his holding cell
by using a conversational logic chain that convinced the guard to unlock
the door. Unable to find his way out of the compound, and with guards
hot on his trail, The Accountant found an open computer terminal and used
his knowledge of his former company to quickly formulate a financial plan
that would allow his captors to easily take it over. He sent the plan and
his location to the CFO of the company and prayed that he was at his
terminal. Ten seconds before the guards arrived, the CFO showed up and
offered him a job. The Accountant refused, but offered to work
temporarily as an independent consultant if they would let him go. The
CFO agreed and The Accountant provided the company with information that
streamlined their own financial structure and allowed for the acquisition
of four other corps.
In addition to working as a legitimate financial expert for the corporate
world, The Accountant also works with runners who need expert analysis of
financial data or a corporate financial computer system, simply because he
feels it's more of a challenge. Most of The Accountant's revenues go into
upgrading his cyberware and the maintenance of a small group of
bodyguards. He lives in a small, sterile, middle class home completely
devoid of any kind of entertainment.
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