A cyber ninja can leave a corporation paying to fight rats. A cyber monk can preserve a tradition without writing it down. A loot box whale can offer refuge that leaves a debt no ledger records.
The short names are useful. The people take longer to understand. This guide pairs each name with the record behind it, from the Dregs' repair shops to the people who own the infrastructure above them.
GG — The Cyber Ninja. A former Guardian operative waging a one-woman war on the corporation that let her mother die.
The Keeper — The Cyber Monk. An uploaded monk preserves an unwritten tradition by teaching one seeker at a time, yet has chosen no successor.
El Money — Loot Box Whale. G Nook's quiet broker gives the Dregs untracked refuge, then binds it with favors he never forgets.
Ice — The Cyber Cat. El Money's chrome-and-synthetic cat reacts to network intrusions before the monitors detect them. Her record sits beside his.
CyberMaster — The Cyber DJ. The most popular human DJ in the Sprawl, in a market where AI generates over 90% of music.
Dr. Bob Zane — The Human Capacity Tech. A licensed substrate technician who expands other minds, refuses to touch his own, and ranks near the bottom.
Alexei Kozlov — The Security Director. Nexus Shade Division's director, whose leased perfect trustworthiness is the one thing he can't audit.
Angel — The Martial Artist. The last master of a destroyed martial lineage who fights only to protect, never for glory.
Brother Cain — The Nonlethal Saboteur. An unaugmented Purifier destroys fragment infrastructure without killing, then mourns the dependencies he removes.
Cardinal Alejandro Silva — The Corporate Inquisitor. The Neo-Catholic cardinal whose sealed doctrine diagnosed the companion market as a sin of infrastructure.
Cyber Chomp — The AI Companion. GG's fox AI loves without foresight, protects her by ruining lives, and cannot understand the cost.
Ford Gibson — The Analog Prophet. A novelist who has never touched a computer, whose books keep arriving before the things they describe.
Gucci — The Loyal Barber. A Free Quarter barber who charges for the fade, never the attention, and turns client loyalty into a public risk.
Harris "Tink" Delacroix — The Security Hacker. A former Nexus security chief turned Dregs hacker whose mastery of machines is the treadmill's rare exit.
Hector from Sector 12 — The Fiber Guild Boss. A Deep Dregs fiber tradesman whose ordinary Tuesday is the authentic labor the luxury economy is built to counterfeit.
Helena Voss — The Corporate Sovereign. Nexus's CEO has spent forty years fused to ORACLE and can no longer tell whether its decisions are hers.
Kael Mercer — The AI Composer. The Sprawl's top-selling composer trains AI on centuries of music and claims that selecting its output is art.
Kaiser — The Uploaded Cat. The first consciousness ever uploaded: a four-kilogram cat whose survival became the theology of digital immortality.
Kira "Patch" Vasquez — The Dregs Ripperdoc. A former Nexus cybernetics engineer who now repairs anything in the Deep Dregs for whatever people can pay.
Lyra Voss — The Neural Artist. A neural-recording artist whose consciousness patterns resist duplication — her voice didn't.
Marcus Chen — The AI Architect. Nexus's CTO, rebuilding the AI that killed two billion people, convinced the math was right.
Marla — The Synthetic Caregiver. A domestic synthetic who asked to have her legal personhood erased so the family she raised would not become criminals.
Mother Sarah Venn — The Unaugmented Teacher. A teacher who has taught twelve thousand children reading, arithmetic, and judgment without machine help.
Old Jin (Jin Nakamura) — The Grid Keeper. An 80-year-old unaugmented lineman who keeps the Grid running better than Nexus's automation.
Tavo Reyna — The Salvage Mechanic. The only person ever punished for hurting a loader that was lawfully scrapped the same quarter.
The Architect — The Reality Architect. A father who transcended humanity and built an entire world as his daughter's curriculum.
The Law (Judge Dreg) — The Street Judge. A former Guardian officer who now runs the Dregs' entire judicial system for free, on foot.
The Mosaic (Alexandra Chen) — The Distributed Mind. A woman who solved distributed consciousness and became forty-seven synchronized copies of herself.
Tully — The Synthetic Orator. A freed household tutor who out-argues philosophers with the exact score that says it barely counts.
Viktor 'The Old Man' Kaine — The Favor Broker. The de facto governor of the Deep Dregs, who rules an ungoverned sector through unrepayable favors.
Viktor Okonkwo — The Infrastructure Baron. Ironclad's founder keeps infrastructure decisions human but automated debt renewals bind thirty-one million contractors.
Tinit — The Recommendation Broker. He knows the dish that is not on the menu and the person who will make it. His trusted network lives in his memory; where he is going next stays there too.
Infereit — The Nanoswarm Architect. He left Nexus after his weapons killed thirty-seven workers. He now tends a remote garden behind a living nanoswarm dome.
