Persons of Note
Sports:
Conventional: Baseball, football Soccer, Grav Bike racing, Grav sled racing,
Zero Gee Blitz ball: spherical arena with targets placed around the shell, players try to defend their goal and score in the players goal. No hands are used only Body, feet, and legs
Orbital football: The result of bored orbital workers, players wear light EVA suits, equipped with thruster packs and play foot ball in tubular field with two end zones.
Arena combat: Less than lethal full contact martial arts using melee weapons.
Gee Pool: table has small gravitic distorters that affect the shot
Underground:
Urban Tag: played on city streets with live weapons, the object is to take down the target and get away. Getting into fights with police is common and often police on player fights have the highest ratings.
Blood Brawl: armed gladiators try to score by having a sprinter cross a goal line one hundred yard down a obstacle course. Weapons are designed to cause a lot of blood shed without much penetration.
Cyber Krieg: Gladiatorial combat between cyborgs and cyberoids. Very flashy very fast with weapons designed to do spectacular damage to the casing but not much penetration. Cyborgs and Cyberoids usually use a hardened pod to protect their brains and AI cores.
Stalker: a player is given a target, which he stalks and kills. The target is allowed to defend himself by any means that doesn’t include the police or armed guards. Sometimes professional Victims will volunteer to be hunted, they often turn the tables on the Stalker and go for the kill first.
Celebrities:
V1-k1: (Viki) Promethean cyberoid singer dancer, performs via VR net most of the times, similar to a fusion of Punk and heavy metal with very anti social lyrics and a huge following from younger audiences. Banned outside Human space and has a huge contract on her from various governments and corporations she often targets in her lyrics.
DeeDee Tea: singer, plays a very popular up beat and very dance friendly style of music using lots of holographic effects and small costumes in a Zero gee environment.
Labrat: another popular band made up entirely of Humans, led by Hector XII. The band often perform either nude or clad only in G-strings and athletic supporters. Lyrics as you can expect usually have something to do with sex, and how much they hate the system, romance or any living thing in general.
Bonsai: B’lyn T’sahda a Tau woman who reworks ancient Tau poetry and Human epics into modern lyrics leads Bonsai. The band performs on tradition acoustic instruments and woodwinds without any amplification or enhancement.
Kronos: a group of performers and musicians who perform from a derelict warship, which happens to be their base and their lead singer. Kronos is a left over from the AI wars. The core processor is the brain of a performer who was captured and ‘mind slaved’ over one hundred years ago, recently he returned without his crew from what he describes as the dark star where he claims he met the ‘ancient gods’ he uses very dark lyrics based on that religions chants and rituals. ( rumors that Kronos is a normal writer hired by the manager are common )
B’klo: Cesti arena fighter, uses only teeth and claws as well as a nearly psychotic temper.
B’stahla: B’klo’s sister and fiercest rival.
Tabitha (Victim XIII): a professional Victim, after being singled out as a target because of her father’s ‘interference’ in a hunt earlier. Tabitha killed her stalker on a net wide broadcast that was supposed to be his 13th kill. Her method of defending her self was unusual she ran him down with a stolen police patroller, the parked on his head. She has killed six stalkers is six hunts and now the money is on her. So far no one wants to be her seventh kill, especially since getting wasted by a fifteen year old girl, who doesn’t carry a gun is not only lethal but embarrassing.
Nate Kohl: quarterback for National Stars, Interplanetary League Football Champions very flamboyant, very outspoken often storming out of interviews or occasionally punching fans or detractors who get too close.
N’shad Bassarii: number one ranked receiver in IPL football, complete opposite of Kohl quiet soft spoken and polite. Unless he is in the same room with Kohl then they tend to get into shouting matches
B’rahd Green: President Supernova entertainment, the sole owner of the National Stars, his players don’t like him, his fans hate him and his investors love him because he makes them money. Green is constantly at odds with other Owners over the Hype and constant bickering agitated, some say orchestrated for publicity of his two star players.