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Files are where you keep the important information of a computer. Secret plans lists of enemies, the missing three minutes of the Watergate tapes, etc. Often, a file will contain useful information or dues to a problem facing your Cyberpunk team. At the very least, a Netrunner can sell or trade the contents for something useful, which is Why they took up this dangerous occupation to begin with. At this point, you'll want to decide what kinds of files are in your computer system and where you'll store them. Files are always placed in a memory for storage. Each file (no matter what type), uses 1 MU. There are six types of files: Inter-Office: These files are records of memos, letters to clients, gossip, games and other generally useless stuff that gets stored on any large computer system. Most of it's worthless, but occasionally a savvy Corporate will bury something in the garbage just because he knows no one will look there. Databases: These are lists; lists of names, phone numbers, figures, records, etc. A database might contain the entire list of employees of a corporation, or a list of clients who regularly receive company catalogs. You check out a database to find out a particular person's phone number, for example. Business Records: These are actual business documents. They would include important meeting notes, memos, reports and so on. Most business information is stored here. You might look in Business records to find a copy of the Arasaka sales report for May, 2019. Transactions: These are usually things that involve money; checking accounts (write yourself a check and mail it to your safe box). financial records (wipe out that bill you owe Militech for the five new missile launchers) and orders (tell Procurement to buy you a new AV-7 with all the options). As you might have guessed, this is where most Netrunners go to steal money or order plane tickets. Grey Ops: These are secret records and orders. In Grey Ops, you might find records of bribes, slush funds, blackmail information, trade secrets, espionage information, etc. This stuff is valuable; it's also well protected. Black Ops: These are top secret records and files. Assassination orders. Murders. Corporate sabotage. The stuff that's dynamite in the right hands. Watch out; this stuff is always guarded by lethal defenses. Inside each file are hundreds of documents; individual pieces of information up to 100,000 pages long. A file can hold a lot of documents; for example, the file BLACK OPS might hold the following: · ORDER TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT By using the READ option of the Menu, you can get a list of all the documents in a file. Some files may be locked. This means a special code has been attached to the file; you need the right code to read the file. You can try to figure out the code indirectly (always a good roleplaying option, as the players search the Chairman of the Board's trash cans for a scrap of paper and quiz everyone who knows Saburo Arasaka to discover the name of his childhood pet because the Ref said it was a clue). Or you can brute force your way into the file by using one of the many decryption programs available (Codecracker, Wizard's Book, Raffles). The best way to keep track of your files is to write the contents down on a 3x5 card or other scrap of paper, making sure to also write down what memory it is stored in. |
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