Mangadyne, Where can I find out about it? Options

[Bashfull]

I've got a player whose character has been dumped by Mangadyne. I can't find much information about it: where should I be looking?

And, if you're a kind soul, please take a look at my Verge question too?

[Method]

If you're having trouble finding info you might want to look for Manadyne as this is the correct name of the company. There is a small blurb in Street Magic, page 18. Basically they are a small magic corp based in Boston with hook-ups at major magic universities like MIT&T that allow them to corner the market on new spell formulae, techniques, etc. I'm sure they are mentioned in older books too, Target:UCAS if IRC.

[The Jake]

Street Magic is the book you're after.

- J.

[Ancient History]

Little more complicated than that. In their SR form, Manadyne and Mangadyne first showed up in Portfolio of a Dragon. After the Crash 2.0, Mandadyne bought out Mangadyne, which continues to exist as a division or wholly-owned subsidiary. Manadyne and Mangadyne have both been featured in recent SR4 products, such as Emergence, Street Magic (as mentioned above) and Runner's Companion.

[Method]

Wow thats needlessly complex... Mangamanadynodoodlydoo who in the what now? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have a vague recollection of a reference to Manadyne in Dunk's will?

EDIT: NM. Just checked this sweet site called the Ancient Files that cleared it up for me.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Was that the first mention of the two companies?

[Jaid]

incidentally, mangadayne is also in the BBB. they produce commlinks, or maybe it's OS's for commlinks... can't remember... (ie, one of the prebuilt 'links or operating systems is a mangadyne iirc)

[Bashfull]

Thanks, to all the above. As you can see, I've been perplexed for a good reason. I also read, when I did my search of this site, that it was odd for Mangadyne to be building OSs, since they were primarily a graphics outfit. Where did that info come from? AH, where are the references to them in Runner's Companion?

[Ancient History]

Project Monad, p.128

[Nath]

Mangadyne first appeared in Blood in the boardroom, joigning the PPG, with no clue at what they do or where they are (there are no reference that I could find about them in Portfolio of adragon). The first real description was in Corporate Download, in Wuxing chapter. It says that Mangadyne works in anime-style IC iconography and system sculpting. That's for the the graphic outfits. Matrix has the same kind of blurb on it, Target:Matrix reminds they designed the Malaysian Independant Bank[/i] host, and Shadows of Asia add a presence in Kuala Lumpur or Singapore.

There goes the Second Crash, and they started making OS.

[Bashfull]

Oooooh, that is sooooo sweet: thanks for the info, ladies and gents. As it happens, I've got one character who is a mage sacked by Manadyne and, on the other, a Technomancer who has had various experiments done on her in the Tir. Are Mangadyne the good guys here? Dunk obviously thought so. This is going to make an excellent plotline.

[evil cackle]

[Method]

...there are no reference that I could find about them in Portfolio of a dragon.

Dunk leaves Manadyne 80 million for magical research. This seems to be the earliest reference to either corp that I can find.