1. For player characters to join Morningstar, the characters themselves need to express this interest to either Gaby or El (this can be handwaved) and the players need to let us know here! Recruitment is not necessarily immediate, with something of an unofficial provisional period for characters to better earn the trust of the organization. This will be done via them being tapped for tasks or jobs and carrying these out successfully.
Joining Morningstar does not mean not being able to work elsewhere – the opposite, in fact! As Morningstar are a rebel organization, it's necessary for its members to have normal, everyday lives and jobs so as to best remain undetected by the authorities.
(We're not entirely sure from your questions if this is a route you'd like Kylo Ren to go, so please let us know in response if you are interested in him joining Morningstar!)
2. New Amsterdam has two large crime organizations and a plethora of smaller street gangs. The two organizations are the Petrov Family and the Riverside Mob, and a few of the largest and most well known street gangs are the Kings, the 66, the Warlocks and the Hi-Jacks. While the Petrov Family and the Riverside Mob have been operating under truce for several years now, their decades long feud continues through the street gangs associated with their operations.
To get involved with any of the organized crime in the city, a character would need to start with being introduced to a gang. The best ways to go about this would be to spend time at a bar a gang frequents and befriending one of their members, or participating in one of the illegal sports the gangs run and impressing them that way. Those illegal sports are underground fighting rings, illegal robot dog fights, and street racing (hovercars, hoverbikes and hoverblades). They hold these sports for the gambling alongside the illegal card dens they also run.
3. There are both illegal and legal courier opportunities in New Amsterdam. Couriers commonly use hoverbikes or regular bicycles, and can be asked to carry packages both of the physical kind and of the digital kind. The latter is most commonly utilized by corporations and criminals needing to securely move data from one location to another, and is very high risk due to the dangers of storing such large data packets on an individuals' neural implant for too long a length of time.
There are several (legal) courier companies throughout New Amsterdam. Most of them operate on vehicles that they lease from the company itself, paying a monthly fee. Employees are allowed to bring these vehicles home, and they are registered to their neural implants for the duration of their employment. If the vehicle is damaged, wrecked or stolen, the employee is responsible for paying for repairs or a replacement.
These jobs require very little education or work experience. All employees of courier companies have to pass a basic background check to ensure that they don't have a criminal record, while illegal couriering is usually handled more informally by gang associated individuals.
4. Hoverbikes cost the equivalent of what a motorbike would cost now, so are very expensive. Bicycles are cheaper, but slower and ground-bound.
5. There are no physical libraries as there are no physical books except in the private collections of the very rich. We have answered a similar question here for more detail on how books and information can be accessed instead.
6. The relationship between Earth and the colonies is somewhat distant but otherwise fine. The colonies are not independent. They are run under the same government, and are reliant on Earth to send supplies. They have also only been populated quite recently, so are not culturally split from Earth. There is some resentment for Earth population living in better conditions and treated better, and many colonists feel they were deceived about what kind of lives they were leaving Earth to live. It is rare for a colony resident to move back to Earth, as this would cost a large amount of money (and would not have the possibility of government subsidy like moving the other way), but this background would not impede them from any jobs.
This said, it's unfortunately not possible for Morningstar to provide any characters with any backgrounds that involve military or police service, as these are not records they have the ability to alter or fake in a way that would hold up under any scrutiny. Characters hoping to go into this line of work, either officially or through private companies, would need to start from scratch.
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1. For player characters to join Morningstar, the characters themselves need to express this interest to either Gaby or El (this can be handwaved) and the players need to let us know here! Recruitment is not necessarily immediate, with something of an unofficial provisional period for characters to better earn the trust of the organization. This will be done via them being tapped for tasks or jobs and carrying these out successfully.
Joining Morningstar does not mean not being able to work elsewhere – the opposite, in fact! As Morningstar are a rebel organization, it's necessary for its members to have normal, everyday lives and jobs so as to best remain undetected by the authorities.
(We're not entirely sure from your questions if this is a route you'd like Kylo Ren to go, so please let us know in response if you are interested in him joining Morningstar!)
2. New Amsterdam has two large crime organizations and a plethora of smaller street gangs. The two organizations are the Petrov Family and the Riverside Mob, and a few of the largest and most well known street gangs are the Kings, the 66, the Warlocks and the Hi-Jacks. While the Petrov Family and the Riverside Mob have been operating under truce for several years now, their decades long feud continues through the street gangs associated with their operations.
To get involved with any of the organized crime in the city, a character would need to start with being introduced to a gang. The best ways to go about this would be to spend time at a bar a gang frequents and befriending one of their members, or participating in one of the illegal sports the gangs run and impressing them that way. Those illegal sports are underground fighting rings, illegal robot dog fights, and street racing (hovercars, hoverbikes and hoverblades). They hold these sports for the gambling alongside the illegal card dens they also run.
3. There are both illegal and legal courier opportunities in New Amsterdam. Couriers commonly use hoverbikes or regular bicycles, and can be asked to carry packages both of the physical kind and of the digital kind. The latter is most commonly utilized by corporations and criminals needing to securely move data from one location to another, and is very high risk due to the dangers of storing such large data packets on an individuals' neural implant for too long a length of time.
There are several (legal) courier companies throughout New Amsterdam. Most of them operate on vehicles that they lease from the company itself, paying a monthly fee. Employees are allowed to bring these vehicles home, and they are registered to their neural implants for the duration of their employment. If the vehicle is damaged, wrecked or stolen, the employee is responsible for paying for repairs or a replacement.
These jobs require very little education or work experience. All employees of courier companies have to pass a basic background check to ensure that they don't have a criminal record, while illegal couriering is usually handled more informally by gang associated individuals.
4. Hoverbikes cost the equivalent of what a motorbike would cost now, so are very expensive. Bicycles are cheaper, but slower and ground-bound.
5. There are no physical libraries as there are no physical books except in the private collections of the very rich. We have answered a similar question here for more detail on how books and information can be accessed instead.
6. The relationship between Earth and the colonies is somewhat distant but otherwise fine. The colonies are not independent. They are run under the same government, and are reliant on Earth to send supplies. They have also only been populated quite recently, so are not culturally split from Earth. There is some resentment for Earth population living in better conditions and treated better, and many colonists feel they were deceived about what kind of lives they were leaving Earth to live. It is rare for a colony resident to move back to Earth, as this would cost a large amount of money (and would not have the possibility of government subsidy like moving the other way), but this background would not impede them from any jobs.
This said, it's unfortunately not possible for Morningstar to provide any characters with any backgrounds that involve military or police service, as these are not records they have the ability to alter or fake in a way that would hold up under any scrutiny. Characters hoping to go into this line of work, either officially or through private companies, would need to start from scratch.