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==Connections and Friends==

Sun Shangxiang: Known better as Lady Sun, or Sunny as Nate likes to call her. She is an up and comer in the female wrestling scene and sponsored by some mid level corporate execs. Nate is her personal trainer and regular sparring partner. Despite her affectionate nick name she's a rather serious about everything, a result of her close hyper-corp ties. She's in an Olympian morph, but it's been heavily modified for the rigors of the ring. She represents one of Nate's main links to Mars based Hyper-Corps.

Wang Fu Ming: Something of a media mogul and celebrity, Wang writes reviews of XP's and even did a little production back in the day. He's always diversifying though, whether its clothing design, trying to break into music, investing in old earth artifacts ("The price can only go up! Up I tell you!") At the moment he's paying Nate to teach him some hand to hand combat, more out of boredom than any real necessity. Slim, even for a Slyph morph, Nate tries to get Wang to capitalize on his smooth movement and foot work rather than raw brute force but he's hot headed and has a minor addiction to combat drugs. MRDR is his latest fix, and he'll shoot it up if he even sees Nate just for an excuse to get a good fight going. Prone to mood swings and rash behavior, but still a solid contact for anyone looking to get their XP's out of obscurity or just get the latest gossip on the inner workings of Noctis.

Lee Yubai: He was Nates manager back when he was still swinging, and as such has some powerful ties to the cartels and to a lesser degree, the media in Noctis. However, he wasn't one of the guys who made Nate take the dive, he was just one of their flunkies like Nate. That connection is what really separates Lee from the few remaining contacts Nate has with the crime circuits. He's gone up in the world since their working relationship ended, but he's still only mid level and Nate still remembers him as the foul mouthed bookie stuck way in over his head. They went through a lot of the same shit, the same people screamed and swore at them, even though Lee was technically Nates boss they were both hanging onto the short end of the shit stick and all that hardship built their friendship. These days Lee's back working the books again, but in a proper managerial position like any respecting mid level mobster should be.

Li Yuchun: The lovely lady who employs everyone's favorite fallen star. She runs the Emperors Palace, a bar and eatery located in Pembroke Gardens. Li Yuchun is probably one of Nates closest friends, even though things are always professional they still get along and Li even has Nate over for some proper, traditional Chinese cuisine once in a while. She hired Nate on the spot one night when he thrashed a couple of Guanxi goons making trouble (specifically, trouble for him, bastards spilled his scotch.) Li does more than run her own bar though. She has ties with the Barsoomian movement, as almost all of her staff other than Nate are uplifts or synth morphs. While Li herself was born here on Mars (Only 40 years before the fall if you ask her, but everyone else knows the truth...), she has nothing but sympathy for the plight of the reinstated masses and uplifts. More than one neo-gorilla freed from the bonds of indentured servitude has found their way to steady employment at the Emperors Palace.

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