So, take two! We have a revised scenario for you. Let us know what you think!
Under our altered scenario, Langley will still be going after Nate because he feels as if it's his right within the new world order after the Aerie, and that he needs to do what he can to restore stability as a good UN citizen. Obviously, this is a load of crap. More than that, Langley isn't the most intimidating person, and "this guy stole my notebook" will be a mark against Nate, but won't be the huge smoking gun that the new UN task force would want. They could use it in propaganda to demonize the Displaced and Nate, but it's going to look silly. Anti-establishment and anti-capitalist sentiments are running rampant right now, and the last thing the UN wants is for them to look like they're promoting the ideas of someone like Connor Langley.
Since you were curious, theft would never land someone in prison. It would definitely fall under a working rehabilitation scheme, so Nate would typically be assigned community service. But since Langley is also going to bypass the NAPD, going straight to reporting Nate to the new UN task force, there won't be any risk of this. The idea here is that Langley thinks he deserves to be heard. He's out of touch with reality.
Thinking he needs to get a smoking gun to convict Nate as a favor to the government, Langley will start hounding him and find out that he works at a Riverside Mob casino. Even if it'll be a loose connection, Langley will start telling people there that Nate is a thief, that he can't be trusted, etc. Normally? This might get Nate in trouble, but given his survival instincts and skill in the arena in the Aerie, the Riverside Mob head (Rose Mancetti) will be curious about paying Nate some additional attention.
Here are some ideas that we're spitballing from there, though keep in mind that these are all loose:
• We set up a plot where it ultimately comes out that Nate's actions in the Aerie revealed Rose's identity to the world. In the process, we'd set up some additional ties between the Mancettis and a major NA corporation, though they would have been severed a couple centuries prior. This would be a major grudge, one that would hold until the 26th century.
Our criminal organizations are floundering because they're desperate for power. They originally had a scheme to influence the colonies, but that has to take a backburner now. The mobs are anti-capitalist in the way that they're mad that they don't have power, and they feel entitled to it.
The reason why any of this would matter is that grudges hold, and Nate could learn about that grudge and do what he can to hide his involvement (albeit AU). Another fun avenue would be Nate earning Rose's trust over time, and then it comes out that Nate was responsible for the reveal of her identity in the Aerie.
• Nate becomes a Riverside Mob thief (or even The Thief, though that would come with him building trust with the organization). He'll get special tips for how to dodge surveillance in Meadowlark's world, though they'll be flawed thanks to the neural implants. Nate will get a sense that neural implants really annoy the mob. For obvious reasons.
• Nate is eventually sent after the Morningstar technology that helps scramble identities with the goal of giving it to the Riverside Mob. Or: he's assigned to do that, at any rate. They know the Displaced have ties to Morningstar. More than that, it seems like people are getting their hands on that tech who aren't Morningstar (see: Jason/Harley/Hook's Pulsar tip explosion). Not wanting to be outdone, Rose decides that the mob needs this tech at any cost.
• Another idea we have is that Nate and Ian could try to replicate the Morningstar technology thanks to Ian's knowledge from his own face-hologram gig. It's something that would take more digging, but it's something that's occurred to us.
• Somewhere in there, Riverside would send people after Langley to keep this scrawny rich dude off Nate's ass. What they do to him would be up to you. They could kill him, beat him within an inch of his life, or just scare him with a bloody nose. It would be their way of showing they're investing in Nate.
Overall, these are ideas that we're just spitballing! We hope that shifting the focus off Langley's actions to what the mob does in response will lean more into what you were hoping for, but please let us know! Our major concern is how this might loop in other characters, but Nate could create a little thief's guild within Riverside. They are ultimately against the world's corrupt systems, they'd just also be aiding and abetting a super sketchy organization that selfishly resents it all.
Once again, let us know what you think! We're making this up on the fly, and we hope this is closer to what you were hoping for.
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So, take two! We have a revised scenario for you. Let us know what you think!
Under our altered scenario, Langley will still be going after Nate because he feels as if it's his right within the new world order after the Aerie, and that he needs to do what he can to restore stability as a good UN citizen. Obviously, this is a load of crap. More than that, Langley isn't the most intimidating person, and "this guy stole my notebook" will be a mark against Nate, but won't be the huge smoking gun that the new UN task force would want. They could use it in propaganda to demonize the Displaced and Nate, but it's going to look silly. Anti-establishment and anti-capitalist sentiments are running rampant right now, and the last thing the UN wants is for them to look like they're promoting the ideas of someone like Connor Langley.
Since you were curious, theft would never land someone in prison. It would definitely fall under a working rehabilitation scheme, so Nate would typically be assigned community service. But since Langley is also going to bypass the NAPD, going straight to reporting Nate to the new UN task force, there won't be any risk of this. The idea here is that Langley thinks he deserves to be heard. He's out of touch with reality.
Thinking he needs to get a smoking gun to convict Nate as a favor to the government, Langley will start hounding him and find out that he works at a Riverside Mob casino. Even if it'll be a loose connection, Langley will start telling people there that Nate is a thief, that he can't be trusted, etc. Normally? This might get Nate in trouble, but given his survival instincts and skill in the arena in the Aerie, the Riverside Mob head (Rose Mancetti) will be curious about paying Nate some additional attention.
Here are some ideas that we're spitballing from there, though keep in mind that these are all loose:
• We set up a plot where it ultimately comes out that Nate's actions in the Aerie revealed Rose's identity to the world. In the process, we'd set up some additional ties between the Mancettis and a major NA corporation, though they would have been severed a couple centuries prior. This would be a major grudge, one that would hold until the 26th century.
Our criminal organizations are floundering because they're desperate for power. They originally had a scheme to influence the colonies, but that has to take a backburner now. The mobs are anti-capitalist in the way that they're mad that they don't have power, and they feel entitled to it.
The reason why any of this would matter is that grudges hold, and Nate could learn about that grudge and do what he can to hide his involvement (albeit AU). Another fun avenue would be Nate earning Rose's trust over time, and then it comes out that Nate was responsible for the reveal of her identity in the Aerie.
• Nate becomes a Riverside Mob thief (or even The Thief, though that would come with him building trust with the organization). He'll get special tips for how to dodge surveillance in Meadowlark's world, though they'll be flawed thanks to the neural implants. Nate will get a sense that neural implants really annoy the mob. For obvious reasons.
• Nate is eventually sent after the Morningstar technology that helps scramble identities with the goal of giving it to the Riverside Mob. Or: he's assigned to do that, at any rate. They know the Displaced have ties to Morningstar. More than that, it seems like people are getting their hands on that tech who aren't Morningstar (see: Jason/Harley/Hook's Pulsar tip explosion). Not wanting to be outdone, Rose decides that the mob needs this tech at any cost.
• Another idea we have is that Nate and Ian could try to replicate the Morningstar technology thanks to Ian's knowledge from his own face-hologram gig. It's something that would take more digging, but it's something that's occurred to us.
• Somewhere in there, Riverside would send people after Langley to keep this scrawny rich dude off Nate's ass. What they do to him would be up to you. They could kill him, beat him within an inch of his life, or just scare him with a bloody nose. It would be their way of showing they're investing in Nate.
Overall, these are ideas that we're just spitballing! We hope that shifting the focus off Langley's actions to what the mob does in response will lean more into what you were hoping for, but please let us know! Our major concern is how this might loop in other characters, but Nate could create a little thief's guild within Riverside. They are ultimately against the world's corrupt systems, they'd just also be aiding and abetting a super sketchy organization that selfishly resents it all.
Once again, let us know what you think! We're making this up on the fly, and we hope this is closer to what you were hoping for.