Industrial World vol.3

In Industrially developed societies the technology level affects everything: inhabitants, environment and, of course, local crime. Here is a set of two industrial gangs of criminals with a different design and philosophy.

The first of them are gloomy and bloodthirsty K’Ux - rippers of industrial areas, augmetics hunters, looters, and techno-cannibals. Their maniacal obsession with new cyber improvements, based on semi-religious fanatism, makes them extremely undesirable to meet on narrow industrial streets. Taking cybernetics from the victim, often with fatal consequences for them, they send the trophy into the mouth of their cyber beast. There, in the caustic gastric juices mixed with acids and purifiers, the iron will be freed from the remnants of unwanted flesh and will be ready to install in a new carrier. A side effect of this dubious ritual is a change of color because of oxidation, which often gives away the origin of the goods, but does not always stop the shady dealers. Permanent implantations have finally destroyed their immune systems, and they can no longer live without continuous injections of antiseptics, painkillers, psychostabilizers and immunomodulators.

The second gang is the exquisite V-True-V. Led by a mysterious Teacher, these skilled masters of cyber beasts and advanced augmetics do not disdain orders for industrial espionage or even murder. They are few in number and don’t often appear at the crime scene personally, but remotely control their cyber pets, or hunt in pairs with them, driving the target to a well-aimed shot. But the resulting profit is just another step towards their secret goal. The perfect machine capable not only of thinking, but also of producing wonderful new machines is the crown of their Teacher's creation. However, what comes out from under the hammer of thinking machines does not look at all like a new branch of evolution and terrifies everyone who is unlucky enough to encounter it.

This set includes nine gender-diverse K’Ux gang Fighters - armed with fire- and web- weapons, blades, and chain melee weapons, including a powerful chain hammer in the hands of a massive cyborg, a web token for use on top of captured targets and a detailed augmetic behemoth - gang's favorite pet.

In the V-True-V set, you will find a great Teacher and his students behind the cyberconstruction control interfaces and with a sniper rifle, several of their creations, including a shoal of cyber piranhas, hounds, a hawk, a spy snail and two artificial intelligence machines - a blacksmith and soulcatcher, as well as a strange creation of cyber mind, a token for machine made by other machines.

I could write an article about the creation of these tokens, what I was inspired by, what I paid attention to, as well as several plot ideas for the quest. If you are interested, write in the comments.