townhouse or an apartment, Corpzone living is elegant, and

cutting edge. United Express Delivery, Continental Catering,

Execu-Clean services are all standard, and most people also
have personal servants as well. Corpzoners travel from
expensive nightclub to the theater by armored company car,
lobby-summoned taxi, or occasionally, AV-7 personal
aerodyne. If you don’t have a vehicle, you can rent one with
driier from Executive Transportation Services. If you don‘t have
a date, you can rent thatfrom lntemationalCompanion Network
(“Look like a rnodel4rjust shoot like one!”)
Security is tight, but restrained. Corpzoners don’t have to
carry ID cards like the Mallplexers; your doorman is trained to
know everyone who is everyone in the Zone, and he’d better
not screw up and let some Edgerunner sneak into your
condominium. In the Zone itself, corporate police regularly
sweep the area to roust out the nomads and streetscum:
Armedsolosand personal bodyguards maintain avigilant but
unobtrusive eye on everything around you. Most buildings in
the Zone have remote cameras, but these are trained on the
streets, not the expensive windows of the Corporate hierarchy.
Many Corpzoners rely on private protection firms like Arasaka
Security and Cleansweep Security.
If You‘re a Corpzoner-
Where you work In the Corporate Zone, of course. As a
Corpzoner, you’re one of the Executives, and you rate a real
office with a view over the smog line. For you, working
involves making the hundreds of management decisions that
control the departments in your megacorp. Unlike a
Powerdealer, who makes decisions involving nations, you just
have to manage a mere multinational corporation.
What you eat: You actuallyeatfresh food four nights a week
or more. The rest of the time, you’re eating
you by your personal trainers, maids, bodyguards; you never
get your fingers dirty.
MOVERS
At the lowest rung of the corporate ladder are the Movers;
ambitious young men and women on the way up-fast The
Mover is into housing for status; he wants location, security,
and a place to stash the expensive toys required to impress
other Movers on the way up.
For a Mover, getting ahead is everything. Competition is
fierce; one slip and you could be back in the Sewices
Department and sleeping in the Mallplex. You want to
maximize your housing advantage; it‘s got to be as expensive
asyou can get, nearthewatering holeswheretheseniorexecs
meet, and it’s got to have access to housekeeping, food
delivery and the drycleaners. After all, you don’t have time to
cook or clean yourself. You’ve got to get to the next rung
where someone else sends out the laundry and orders your
meals.
Movers usually live in cheaperapartments on the fringe of the
Corporate Zone. Occasionally, they’ll colonize a loft or
townhouse near the Combat Zone, but never too far from the
most important services, shops and clubs. A typical Mover
tactic: three or four low level execs pool their euro and buy
a rundown tenement nearthezone, then usetheircombined
resources to convince Company security to “clean up” the
surrounding neighborhood. The Movers buy the vacated
housing for nada, sell it to other Movers, and the cycle begins
again; gentrificationatgunpoint.F orthis reason, an ambitious
Mover relocating to an Edgerunner neighborhood is usually
cause for alarm (not to mention assassination at the earliest
opportunity).
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whatyou doforfun: Travel to Europeand the
Far East Vacation at private resorts in Mexico.
Watch movies in your private screening rooms.
Attend concerts of the latest artists. Go to gallery openings. Play
tennis and handball.
What you buy and where you get it: Your suits are Marcini’s
originals, bought at Crandmillor Marshall‘s. Your private AV-
7 comes from the Deveron Showrooms, while your armored
groundlimo is from Weatherford Transport. Private shopping
firms buy gifts for your relatives, while your servants handle
your food shopping. Your drugs and vices are purchased for
If You’re a Mover-
Where youwork In oneof thelowerofficesin thecorporate
Center. You have a cubicle at least, with your own terminal
and access to the secretarial pool. If you’ve made Department
Manager, you’ve got an office, a secretary, and maybe a set
of company-financed interface plugs for your work.
What you eat: Middlegrade pre-pack, but not by anyone
with a name. Most of the time, you don‘t have time to eat any
better; you‘re on the run to the next meeting or teleconference.
When you’re home (rarely), you eat more of the
same. Sometimes, you spring big-time for real lettuce or meat
to impress a client or a date; you’ve got a “French Chef”
MRAM chip just for the occasion. You don’t get off on food
though; you’re after power. Food can wait.
Whatyou do for fun: Any kind of competitivesport(combat
handball is a favorite). You exercise three days a week at the
club, or run the indoor track. Sometimes you do some drugs:
the high speed, dangerous stuff that gets you the edge for
beating out the competition at work (those who haven‘t
bumed themselvesout already). Most of the time, you can be
found in expensive watering holes like the Atlantisor Hari-Kari,
slamming down imported alk, working the connections and
trying to pick up a sex partner (with a clean biomonitor) for
the night.
they want to get to the “suits” is an expensive downtown
apartment. A lot of them recondition Combat Zone houses,
ortake over abandoned warehousesand factories. Edgerunner
homes are always eclectic; each one shows the unique stamp
of its occupant, whether in the African deathmaskssmuggled
in with a load of autoweapons, or the maximum-edge light
sculptures picked up from a fellow artist in the Edge Zone.
Edgerunners hang out in the wild clubs; the new places the
Movers haven‘t stumbled on; the places that are still in play.
Entertainment? We’re talking the latest; whether it’s avantegarde
braindance, arena kill-sports, neo-primitive artwork,
combat dance, violence painting or pure Postdpocalypse
nihilism. The moment it‘s reported on FAX ON FILE, it‘s
history. And you’re outa there.
Security in the Edge Zone is loose and varies from location to
location; thesearepeoplewhodon’twanttobewatchedandtake
violent exception to being restricted in anyway. Cameras, security
dronesand guard patrolsareveryrare. Edgerunners

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are among-the most heavily armed segment of
2020 society; the average Edgerunner couple packs
enough firepower to waste a boostergang, and has
the attitude to use it.
If You’re an Edgerunner-
Where YOU work Depends. It could be illegal
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What you buy and where you get it You frequent the more
avante-edge stores, where you can get the best gadgets; Xian
Electronics, Parkinson’s Place. Sometimes the New Harbor
Mallplexwhen you have to pick up something for the parental
modules back home. You’re always looking for the newest
cybergadget, the hottest drug, and the edgiest personal
electronics; there’s an entire circle of sleek, high priced fixers
who exist just to provide you and your friends with new toys
to blow your euro on.
EDGERUNNERS
That’s probably you. Edge runners are wealthy and successful
members of the Underground City. The Cyberpunks.
Edgerunners make it the unorthodox way: a rockergirl with
a string of braindance and holo hits; a well-known and
respected solo; a freelance media with a hot show on the vid.
You don’t often find nomads on this list, unless they’re
successful smugglers. Fixers make it here as high level talent
agents, organized crime chieftains and junk bond kings. The
thing that sets Edgerunners apart from the Movers and
Corpzoners is their occupations; often illegal or dangerous,
Edgerunner money gives their Zones a “here today, dead
tomorrow“ air of excitement.
Unorthodox jobs mean unorthodox housing and lifestyles.
Edgerunners rarely live near the Corporate Zones; the closest
(smuggling, assassination, netrunning,
extraction). It could be legal (the music scene,
the art scene, or any other free-form creative thing). Doesn’t
matter; it‘s considered impolite for anyone to ask unless they
know the right passwords and they want to hire you.
Whatyou eat: Whenyou’rejacked high, youeatfresh.When
you’re powered down, it‘s kibbleand canned soy. Most of the
time, it’s prepackof allvarieties; goodstuff on the underground
market, stolen out of Misaki Izumiyaki’s personal warehouses,
basic stuff from the comer F~odStoreW~.h en you eat out,
you eat international; Japanese-French one night, the new
Czech-Italian cuisine the next. Food isn’t food to you. It’s just
one more way of defining the Edge.
What you do for fun: Old black and white flat films. Video
games. Erotic braindance. Combat handball (you love to kick
Mover ass). High speed cyberbike racing. Performance art.
Hitting the clubs. Destroying the clubs. Experimenting with
the latest in “chemical enhancement” (the more outrageous,
the better). Taking the megaviolence to the Street and raising
the Body Lotto@ count. You know. Things.
What you buy and where you get it Anywhere except
Crandmill(where the Corporate Dead shop). You know all the
hole in the wall shops where the underground market sells
things. Weapons. Black cyber and software. You know.
Things.