Gangwars Story

This is going to be an RPG based roughly on the events / world of shadowrun, with gang members and simple people being in focus.

Background

Year 2082. Berlin.

The world has gone through a lot of changes in the last 60 years. A long oil crisis and the following world-wide wars have left the global economy crippled until developments in biotechnology could solve the energy problems partially. The development of biocells to fuel our hungry industries has stabilized the political situation after a long period of tension.

Connecting the human neural system to digital systems and redesigning our computers to fit this new kind of interface was the next big thing. Now, disabled people could control machines with their minds and a new kind of prosthetics was finally possible. The next step was the introduction of integrated prosthetics, also called cyberware. Machines could finally be integrated into our system and use our own body energy and be controlled by our own neurological system. This huge medical revolution soon also transcended into other areas such as sports and the military.

Then... something unexpected happened.

Reports of inexplainable incidents increased - freak accidents, strange occurances, weird phenomena that put scientist into confusion. As a global pattern slowly started to emerge, individuals claiming to be long-dead prophets and saints appeared. The whole world was in an uproar as a young student by the name of Jesus walked across the Tiber river to the Vatican, demanding the Pope to step down from his earthly throne and to dispand the church. As the young man started healing the sick and performing further wonders, he was put into custody by Italian officials for disturbing the public peace. As a result, demonstrations and riots occured all over the world. A whole new Christianity emerged.

But that was not the only supernatural occurence. A group of native americans demanded their old territories back and threatened with terroristic acts in case of refusal. The US government captured many of those "terrorists" but had no time for interrogation. The ghost dance created a massive volcano near Arizone, causing massive quakes that destroyed parts of San Francisco and L.A. The actions of this group...