Can you play a rigger from south east Asia running in Seattle.

What I am seeing is a rigger/hacker that subscribes to the theory “never shit in your own back yard” connect to the matrix with a dedicated sat link and the closest any trace program should be able to get to you is some wear in south east Asia, Indonesia or Australia, you have a mechanic contact in Seattle (or wherever the campaign is set) that looks after your drones for you, attend all meats virtually and never tell anybody where you live and you can use VR to go on the run “in spirit”.

Is there anything stopping this concept or making it unduly a bad idea.

Edward

Not only is this completely doable, I've played such a character to great effect.

The primary issue, the way I see it, is payment. Consider: Most Johnsons, at least in my games, could give a shit how a motley band of runners divide up their payment. They just drop a big lump of cred all at once on them. It wouldn't be difficult for the runners to keep your share of a particularly lucrative score.

Sure, you could get your revenge. I'm just saying. There's something about having a physical presence that makes things smoother in your group. You're less a dial-a-decker and more a member of the team.

True they could rip me off, but they could do that if I was a non combat hacker anyway, what am I going to do in my meat against a Sammy and a mage.

As to being part of the team, threw AR and VR I can be walking along beside them, provided they have visual senses to pick up AR objects, and as a rigger I do contribute to combat. So I’m not worried about that aspect.

Edward

Because SR continues mostly to ignore the potential for lag time this is a potential PC. There are static and dead zones to deal with that a physically present hacker can deal with better using a high Signal commlink. To fill that gap in the remote hacker would need a satelite uplink rigged up to a repeater commlink. It is kind of up to the GM how much mobility the satelite uplink would have while operating.

EDIT The hacker would also have difficulties getting access to systems set up inside wireless blocking walls. The team would have to run an optical line outside to a repeater or satelite uplink.

nah just a drone with a high signal repeater commlink, sattelite optional

I have this image of the Doberman rolling along up front, couple of runners flanking it on either side, when the door at the end of the hallway opens up and a couple of security guards are suddenly in the hallway. They stare at the team, the team stares back, then the team dives for what cover they can find as the security guards start spraying lead down the hallway.

The Doberman eats a couple of mags of ammunition and essentially disintegrates before the guards are put down with a couple of well-aimed bursts of gel ammo, and then the team gets to chuckle and shake their heads as the lower left corner of their vision scrolls the message "omg wtf lag kill"...