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[Prophet]

I'll suggest the name Taboo but agree with B.

[Blood_Librarian]

~~Cycle 0, Sub Cycle 4~~

The Taboo has fed you information about the entire local district, and you can adequately describe the networks and (lack thereof) subtleties of dealing with these groups on the cyber-level.

There are three local gangs that take note, and they all have ties to the larger players in some fashion; The Cravers, Psy-Wiz,  and the Iron Brotherhood

You deal with Psy-Wiz and the Iron Brotherhood, due to the fact that the only other group of any note generally shoots first and asks questions later. Not to mention their abhorrently degenerate digital presence. Psy-Wiz commonly deals in the moving of hallucinogens and actual real food. They specialize in magical assets as well, but you had managed to contact them through their digital website (that deals in distribution.)

Iron Brotherhood, by contrast, mostly deals in petty theft, protection rackets and sometimes supplying the local mercenary groups with locally crafted armor and sometimes weapons. Their bread and butter are hot-rods and armored vehicles fit for driving through buildings. each of their pieces is a work of industrial art, and most of them are remotely operatable.

The Cravers are brutes, through and through with hands in the meat trade and gun running. They commonly host gang wars against any faction they can, and have even recently gone high profile, leveling an entire Diable Avionics office building after a heated war that lasted a little over three days. An attempt on contacting this group has resulted in a burned false identity and a smashed Node. They are by far the largest and most dominant group.

4

The laboratory expansion in the Corporate Blacksite has been mostly slowed down by various halts and confusion on par from an inefficient and mismanaged construction team, making for a perfect, if a frustrating ground for planting the various nodes and other equipment destined to become subverted. It is estimated that the lab will be operational by the end of the cycle. Already, you have acquired complete copies of the research data from the various terminals about the entire project.

Cybernetics eat away at a person's body, in such a way that their "spirit" loses coherence. The only way for one to stay completely sane from hardware installations is to either take a little, or take a lot, or the conflict between "Man and Machine" in its interface becomes overwhelming. This is very exclusive knowledge, and only high-end Black-Corporate clinics even know of this little tidbit of information.

This lab seeks to push the limits on the "majority" portion of cybernetics, in the form of seeing how much of the person they can replace. the hardware logs and cybernetics that they have already stocked appears to be geared towards the creation of infiltration units, preemptively referred to as "ONI's".

Overall, there isn't much you can do besides watch.

~~Cycle 0, Sub Cycle 7.3~~

Another mercenary team is becoming active in the sector, this time pointed towards a Psy-Wiz Distribution farm, although you're not too in-the-know to know their exact mission, you have eyes and ears in both the location and their path towards the distribution network.

A. Contact the mercenary group for questioning.
B. Inform the Psy-Wiz security forces about the incoming forces.
C. Pre-emptively eliminate them by renting automated assets and then subverting an automated ground-craft to create an accident.
D. Observe the events until something interesting occurs.

[Prophet]

D

[mightymushroom]

I'm inclined to get the people we know more indebted to us, simultaneously improving Taboo's reputation for knowing things.
B

[VoidSlayer]

B Information broker is a good position.

[TamerVirus]

B

[Blood_Librarian]

~~Cycle 0, Sub Cycle 7.3~~

With the local forces of hte site notified, they begin setting up to red alert, they refuse to take any additional data in the form of observation logs due to mistrust with the Taboo, but they had hunkered down for siege warfare by the time the mercenary group had arrived.

Although the defending forces did not hold nearly as much in terms of anti-siege equipment (Unlike the mariad defenses that you yourself uncovered in your black-site), an alert security force in the compound makes for a great boon, if nothing else for the want of trying.

Unlike the group which had stormed the building which stores your intelligence, These individuals display an extreme level of competence in taking down guards, breaching through walls and ultimately completing their objective of spraying a herbicide on several experimental breeds of hallucinogens before leaving the building, with only a half dozen casualties.

Just as they make it to their get away vehicle (A large 5 door SUV) ,they come under pursuit by A set of two low-power Cube Vans, who persue valiantly until the mercenary team deploys a spike pad which cause the two vans to Spin out. hijacking local camera sections, you manage to watch them all the way up to two third the way to their presumed final destination despite their hackers attempts on blanking the cameras on the way. With the hackers Rig subverted by your mechanisms, now would be the perfect time to act.

A. Attempt to hijack the vehicle by using the Rig as a proxy, and boot out the jacked in driver. Cause an accident. Detonate the Rig.
B Initiate contact to the hacker and by extension the rest of the mercenary team.
C. Alert Taboo assets on the nature of the mercenary team and blacklist the individuals from interaction with all three gangs. Effectively blacklisting them from operating in the area ever again.
D. Observe them all the way to the drop off point. Information-mine the Rig  while your idling.

[Prophet]

D

[mightymushroom]

D

[VoidSlayer]

B Might make good contacts in the future.

[TamerVirus]

D

[crazyabe]

D.

[Blood_Librarian]

~~Cycle 0, Sub Cycle 7.4~~

They took a winding path of several alleyways, high ways, and a varying mix off such roads to shake off any potential trails, before disappearing in an alleyway without camera footage for no less than three and a half hours. Finally, they move in with an entirely different colored vehicle (Presumably a chameleon paint job had been done.), they moved to a drop-off point and pulled out bags of harvested samples, and moved to a meeting point.

From there, corporate hack-teams had already quarantined the area, and you only got grainy (but usable).

the mercenary team approaches what appears to be a brute, hulk of a Creator-species with several fully armed bodyguards. They converse shortly and after a few hard looks and a brief situation where they exchange goods and funds, they separate.

You did not manage to collect financial data of the transaction, but you did manage to collect license numbers and even a facial scan of two guards  (but not the Johnson) as they leave the scene and away from the district and your area of influence.

The Mercenary teams move to a designated-safe house in the district and begin lying low after the mission, while also committing to copious amounts of pilfered drugs, initiating contact with their own intelligence team and Fixers, and generally acting like pirates after a good haul.

A. Initiate a gang-war in the area with a timed release of Intel towards Craver meat-trading and pay off some  Iron-Brotherhood thugs to clear the building.
B. Contact the Mercenary team.
C. Keep tabs on all affiliated parties, but take no significant action.
D. Send feelers out towards the Johnson who hired the mercenary team in the first place.
E. Send feelers out towards inteligence brokers on who exactly this group is.

[crazyabe]

E. Information is Power, Especially with someone like us.

[Prophet]

E