Academic



Knowledge can be the most powerful of weapons in the 25th Century. How this knowledge is used however, is what truly varies those who use their minds over their brawn.

Many use their mental skills to work as information traders, selling knowledge or blackmailing those who they learn about. Others use their knowledge of code and protocol to become cyber-thugs, extorting corporations or people, rarely stealing money directly.

Others apply their knowledge more directly. Street doctors and even businessmen and women of a certain ilk can be said to use their minds over their mouths.

The USR is a big place, and frightfully hard to regulate, and it is inevitable that education is not provided to all, despite their promises and plans. Of course, this allows for those who do have the advantage to exploit their place and luck. Naturally talented individuals crop up just as often, and the main opponents those who follow the logical methods will come across are their own kind.

Of course, the most immediate dangers that present themselves to the academics are those who seek to harm physically, and much of their plans involve the minimisation of direct confrontation, much more able to connect through the data lanes which shoot information through the void.

Despite their weakness, it is a foolish one to think they are safe when the most valuable of weapons is wielded against them: knowledge.