Yang Liang was born March 21st 2045, in the darkest barrens of Shanghai China. His father was anonymous, his mother a waitress. For the first 10 years of his life, he shared a small room above the resturaunt with his mother. As soon as puberty hit and he started growning he was pressured (not very hard) into joining The Heavenly Undertakers, a third tier gang controlling about 20 blocks of city. Their leader Xaing Pao was an excellent swordsman, and insisted on a brutal training regimen for all of his junior members, hoping that he would attract the attention of a larger gang, or one of the triads. Luck was with him. Three of his young trainee's, including Yang Liang awakened within a few days of eachother. With two young phys-ads and a mage at his side, Xaing Pao was too attractive to pass up, and The Undertakers were adsorbed into The Yellow Lotus triad in 2060. For Six years, Laing provided the muscle to back up Xaing Pao's plans for wealth and position, as well as continuing his training in the sword and mystical arts, until Pao became Sin Fung of the Shanghai Yellow Lotus.
The position came with many enemies and Yang Liang was officially Pao's number one body guard. For two years, Liang foiled attempt after attempt on his much hated masters life, thinking more and more often that he'd like to leave "the life". The more he got a look at the misery he helped to cause, the harder it became to do his job.
One night it finally ended. Someone bribed one of Yang Liang's soldiers to help him into Xaing Pao's house after Laing went to sleep, and he killed Xaing Pao, lit a fire and then tried to kill Liang. Laing killed the assassin and then faced a difficult decision. A failure this severe might well cost him his life, but if he ran away, it would look like he was involved and the Yellow Lotus would hunt him to the ends of the earth.
Liang dragged the assassin's body to Xaing's room, put his own clothes on the assassin, and threw him on the rapidly spreading fire. As he was leaving though, he saw Xaing's magical sword laying on the ground, with the flames getting closer. Unwilling to let such a beautiful blade be destroyed in the fire, Yang Liang picked it up, took the certified cred stick from the Assassins clothes and ran. He moved by night, hiding in the shadows for a few weeks until he hit Hong Kong.
After almost three years in the Hong Kong shadows, Kwai Chang Caine is known as competent, reliable and honest muscle. He keeps his head shaved bald, and always has his sword on. So far, no one has recognized him, as Shanghai is a long ways away, and he's not sure what he'll do if anyone does.

Kwai Chang Caine (Yang Liang)
Orc Physical Adept

Stat PNT Level Modified
Body 3 6 6
Agility 5 5 5
Reaction 3 3 5
Strength 4 6 6
Charisma 3 3 3
Intuition 3 3 3
Logic 3 3 3
Willpower 3 3 3
Edge 2 2 2
Magic 5 5 5

Skills Level
Athletics (Group) 3
Blades/Katana 6
Infiltration 4
Con 3
Etiquette 3
Perception 2
Pistols/Ares Viper 2
Throwing Weapons/Knife 1

Knowledge
AK:Hong Kong 2
SW:Paranormal Animals 3
IN:Meditation 3
AC:Feng Shui 2
ST:Hong Kong Underworld 2
Wu / N
Cantonese / 3
English / 3


Contacts:
Sagacious Xui, Fixer 2/4
Dimitri Petrovich, Tolo Vory Soldier 3/3
Ping Tao, Bartender, Charlie Chans 3/2

Gear:
Rating 2 weapon focus.

Adept Power Level Points
Improved Reflexes II 3
Improved Blades 2 1
Astral Perception 1

MCT PersoAid 'DocOc' Medical Exoskeleton.

Similar in function to the Evo Orderly the DocOc is very different in design. The patient is encased in a high tech exoskeleton that holds him immobile and wraps him in a mesh of medical sensors and perfectly placed treatment devices. Very popular with paraplegic patients the DocOc allows patients a very convincing illusion of normal mobility whilst keeping them in a state of almost complete bed-rest. MCT marketing often promote the benefits of this system to reduce muscle wastage, bed sores and psychological damage caused by long term incapacitation.

The 'DocOc' features an inflatable cellular whole body splint that holds the patient in place, gently massages the skin to keep it in good health and prevents flexing of broken bones. Sensors monitor a patients injuries and limit the exoskeletons movement to prevent tearing stitches and other activities compromising patient care. Often this results in patients experiencing less than optimal manual freedom and to compensate for this the 'DocOc' has a pair of myomer tentacle/arms sprouting from the middle of it's back.

These trademark arms allow patients to interact manually with the world around them through the drones built in vehicle rig and permit medical staff to work remotely on the patient if they wish to function as an outpatient and to perform emergency procedures should the patient relapse or suffer other injuries.

Many optional accessories are available. Internal and external armour for evacuating patients from hot-zones safely, a Valkyrie module can be fitted for particularly vulnerable patients, even a Satellite Uplink so that the adventurous patient need never be more than a few seconds from a Doctor.

Stats: As Evo Orderly

Handle: Vice, short for Miami Vice. Name given to him in LA in reference to his old stomping grounds, and his clothing choices.

Name: Riley Travis
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: 1/4 hispanic, 1/2 caucasian, 1/4 black
Metatype: Human
Nationality: CAS

Date of Birth: April 3rd, 2041
Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida, CAS.
Height: 5’11�
Weight: 206lbs (including bone lacing)
Eyes: what ever color he wants them to be. Originally brown.
Hair: black cornrows on the top and back, shaved on the sides
Distinguishing marks: Riley has a regimental insignia brand on his left bicep, and a UV inked bar code across his throat. If read, the code is gibberish, and doesn’t match the check number. He has an embedded RFID tag warning any heal care provider that he is allergic to opiates. He had it put in after he managed to conquer his opiate addiction, and doesn’t want to deal with getting re-exposed and potentially falling off the wagon.

Family:
Both parents and two older sisters still live in Jacksonville, and are happy Ares wage slaves. He is estranged from all of them, and the family assumes that he was killed, and Saeder-Krupp just doesn’t feel like telling them.

Demeanor:
Riley is a something of a social chameleon. He is as rough or smooth as he thinks that the situation demands, and plays the part of dedicated soldier, psychotic ganger, and nervous wage slave equally easily. If given the luxury of being himself, Travis hurls himself headlong into the latest thing to pique his addictive personality.

When he was in the military and corporate life, his limited finances and massive administrative oversight meant that he kept his cravings in check, but now, in the shadows, the only limit on his addiction is his own willingness to go out and make the money to support it.

He lives well beyond his means, and works the shadows constantly to support his drinking, gambling, and fast lane lifestyle. Driven by his incessant need for cash to throw into trying to fill the hole in his sole, he is totally unconcerned with the nature of the work he does, as long as it pays well.

History:
Born and raised in Jacksonville, he joined the CAS army at 17, served two tours as an air cavalry rifleman on the Texas border. After his honorable discharge, he went to work for S-K Prime, who crammed him full of cyberware and smoothed his rough edges. He was quickly transferred to the Miami office, where he spent three years as an intermediary between the grey part of S-K and the local shadow scene.

When his senior director began purging the department, Travis left, fleeing into the Los Angeles underworld. After several years of life in LA, he grew sick of the paparazzi, the bloggers, the P2.0 nonsense, and the annoyances of trying to commit stacks of felonies alongside people who were more interested in being famous than in not being caught. After catching an accomplice marketing and selling unedited simsense recordings of a run, he murdered the offending hacker, and relocated to Hong Kong.

Subrace: human
Body: 4
Agility: 4 (6)
Reaction:5 (7)
Strength: 4

Intuition: 3
Logic: 2
Willpower: 2
Charisma:4

Initiative: 8 (10)
Essence:0.83
Edge:2

Negative Qualities. I took Mild Addiction twice, since he’s perpetually kicking an addiction and replacing it with another, so at any given time, he’s wrestling with one to three compulsive behaviors.
Addiction (mild): Vice just threw off his novacoke addiction, then yielded to his poor impulse control and bought a racing bike, and is starting to get into street racing and the gambling that goes with it. He’s a mediocre rider, and compensates by relying on his augmented balance and reflexes.
Addiction (mild): Vice is in the process of fighting off his prostition addiction.
SINner (Standard). As a legitmate citizen of the CAS, he was issued a SIN at birth. Since he was enlisted in the CAS Army during Crash 2.0, he was issued a fresh SIN, much to his chagrin.

Active Skills:
Athletics Skill Group - 3
Infiltration - 3
Con - 3
Negotiation - 4
Pistols - 3
Automatics - 5
Dodge - 4
Unarmed Combat - 2
Pilot Ground Vehicles (Bike) - 1(+2)
Etiquette (Street) - 3(+2)
Perception - 1

Knowledge Skills
Area Knowledge: Hong Kong-2
Casino Gambling-2
Street Drugs-1
Corporate Security Procedures-3
CAS Army Procedures-2

Language Skills
English (Native)
Cantonese-2
Spanish-2
Vietnamese-1

Cyberware and Bioware (Vice’s cyberware was installed by Saeder-Krupp. He added the bioware himself)
Cybereyes, rating 4
Flare Compensation, Low Light Vision, Smartlink, Thermographic Vision, Vision Enhancement-3
Cyberears, rating 4
Audio Enhancer-3, Balance Augmenter, Audio Enhancer-3, Select Sound Filter-4, Spatial Recognizer
Trauma Damper
Bone Lacing (Plastic)
Cyber Safety
Muscle Toner-2
Wired Reflexes-2
Enhanced Articulation
Datajack
Orthoskin-1

Gear
Survival Knife
Ares Predator IV with concealed holster, silencer, 6 spare magazines of explosive ammo, 2 spare magazines of gel ammo, skinlink
Ingram Smartgun X with 3 spare magazines of explosive ammo, skinlink
FN 5-7C with smartlink, gas vent-3, 4 spare magazines of explosive ammo, 1 spare magazine of gel ammo, skinlink, personalized grip, concealed holster
4 high explosive grenades
2 thermal smoke grenades
2 cold smoke grenades
4 flash bang grenades
Armor Vest
Fairlight Caliban with Novatech Navi upgraded with Firewall-6, biometric reader, satellite link, skinlink
Plastic restraints, 1 bundle of 10
Grapple Gun
Catalyst Stick
3 100m spools of stealth rope
Maglock passkey, Rating 4
Medkit, rating -6
Mapsoft of Hong Kong, Rating 6
2 Trauma patches
Suzuki Mirage
Fake SIN, rating 4 (Donald Xavier, simsense weapons handling consultant)
Fake SIN, rating 4 (Zachary Jones, bonded courier)
High Lifestyle, 1 month

Assets
15,720 nuyen

Contacts : 21BP. Vice knows a lot of people. None of them are particularly important, and most of them don’t really like him that much, but they answer the phone when he calls. The contacts are extremely open ended on purpose, since I wasn’t sure which side you’d want us on in the organized crime war.

Vincent Cocetti - Fixer (2/2)
He’s that guy that knows everyone. Or at least he was in Los Angeles. He's new to Hong Kong and just starting to make a name for himself. He talked Vice into making the move across the Pacific in hopes that he can gain face in the Free Enterprise Zone by turning local Johnsons onto the out of town shooter.

Tina Bleeth - Street Doc (1/1)
Not so much a Street Doc, as an orthopedic surgeon, with a legitimate practice. She's able to help him out with advice when his cyberware starts spitting out diagnostic error codes, but won't risk her practice by treating injuries gained in the process of committing crimes. Her office is in an complex in Mid Level.

Xue Li Tan - Triad Accountant (1/2)
Low level money launderer and bean counter for the Smoke Circle Society. When she needs to make a collection from someone who's established himself as a problem, she occasionally calls Vice.

Mai Li - Executive Personal Assistant (2/1)
She’s a glorified secretary, working for the marketing director for Rhymnin' and Stealin' Records, a small local recording studio/record label. She met Vice through the street racing scene, and has no clue what he does.

Hokato Ota - Arms Dealer (3/2)
He works for a Snakehead ring that kidnaps young girls from mainland China and Vietnam and brings them into Hong Kong to be sex slaves in exchange for small arms and munitions to fuel the ongoing wars in the respective nations. They met through the Macao based mercenary company that Vice worked with for six months in the sweltering hell of Vietnam.

Svetlana Sirko - Socialite (1/3)
Professional celebrity, club party host, and paparazzi bait scion of Russian shipping empire centered in Vladavistok, currently run by her father Sasha, who is also a high level Vory boss. She knows Vice from the local drug and party scene, and dabbles in the BTL trade.