San Francisco has had a personality facelift in the last four years. No longer off limits to metahumans, the traditional atmosphere of acceptance has flowed back into the city, breathing new life into it. In addition, corporate investment has begun to pour back into the city.
Tourism—a long time mainstay of the city—has reopened.
San Francisco is well known for its landmarks, like the Golden Gate Bridge and Nob Hill. Fisherman’s Wharf, a popular waterfront area, is dotted with restaurants and hotels. The historic cable car lines were restarted in 2070 and run on a regular schedule. Also, the University of California-San Francisco campus reopened in early 2069.
Corporate facilities spread out in the suburbs, like Ares’ Silicon Valley enclave, where cutting edge Matrix R&D occurs. MCT has extensive corporate facilities in San Francisco as well, with several located in the high-rises of the SoMa (South of Market) neighborhood. SoMa is also home to numerous smaller companies, ranging from innovative start-ups to A-level corps, many of which rent out space in the MCT building complexes.
San Francisco is located near two major faults, and minor earth-quakes are a regular occurrence.

> Since many of you were busy elsewhere, I’ll just give you the cliff’s quicky version of the end of Saito. It was beautiful. While a bunch of local groups ran piecemeal gainst Saito—from pirates to the dwarfs of Halferville to the occasional runner team—the turning point came when Ares stepped in. They made noises that it was concern for their Silicon Valley area, but I think Damien finally just got pissed off (or maybe bribed? blackmailed? who knows, who cares). With Ares special forces running the op, dozens of groups joined up. We’d lacked a cohesive vision, and we finally had one. I saw Ares special forces working side-by-side with runners and pirates, Mothers of Metahumans (MOM) ladies sheltering troops in their basements and feeding us PB&J, Ancients gangers running weapons, even a contingent of shamans from Shasta. It was huge, well-organized, and we completely smashed them. Everyone was flying high for days from all the good feelings … or maybe that was just those brownies those hippy ork ladies kept handing out …
> Sounder

> Remarkably enough, after “liberating” the city, there was very little retaliation against the predominantly Japanese humans who’d gone along with (or even
encouraged) Saito’s power trip. MOM made sure the transition was mostly peaceful. MCT rolled into the power vacuum, and they’ve bent over backwards to make their policies metahuman friendly.
> Lyran

As a late post, not sure if its too late for whole "shadowrun homework" aspect but I can give it a shot. This is combination of my characters background and how he operates in the matrix.

Name:Anti
Appearance: The AI appears to be in formal human wear, sporting a formal black tuxedo. The face is semi blurred much like what you see if your face gets censored on TV. If an expert hacker was to analyze him, They would get that the program once was an anti virus program or IC use by a minor corp.

Anti's Castle: Anti's home is a burst-a-move Space Ninja. Not much is known why he choice such a strange home. Some say its merely because its the sort of common yet uncommon object that would be over looked. If one was to enter Anti's home node, they would notice the entire thing seems to be like a small city. Programs move from home to "work" running Anti's daily programs of social networking, playing various matrix games and mmos all at once. Anti has also programed it so that at certain times "Muggers" try to attack him. He seems to do it mostly for combat training and seems to get great satisfaction out of defeating these fake attacks. Occasional when Anti is bored he changes the city's layout. Some say the city reflects Anti's desire to become "real."

Anti uses nearly all the programs, since he is an AI he has personalize nearly all his programs to reflect his persona.
Attack: Anti takes out a firearm of his choice from his suit and takes a shot, lately he has been using a 9mm Pistol he saw in an old matrix movie he torrented a while back. Sometimes, he will simply pull out a medieval sword out of his hammer space and fight instead using that. He is known not to miss
Armor: Anti usually uses his armor program, he will often "shoot" the attacks. The shoots do little damage but slow down or stop parts of the attacks that are trying to harm him. This is mostly inspired from a certain action movie he once saw.
Biofeedback Filter: Generally Anti being an AI isn’t to good with the filter, he generally uses it like how he creates his nods he shapes it.
Black Hammer: Like attack, he pulls out a firearm expect usually a heavier one such as a RPG or HMG. Anti's black hammers are known for the ability to pierce the average firewall with ease
Blackout: Also known as nappy time, Anti simply pulls out and throws a gas grenades. Generally spams then until the target is down.
Corrupt: The AI simply walks up to whatever he wants to corrupt and gives a simple touch, shaping it into what he chooses. Often a blue aura accompanies him
Data Bomb: Anti simply places mission impossible style nano bomb, walks away casually. As we all know cool guys never look back when they set off the explosion.
Defuse: Anti takes on the uniform of the bomb squad, and cuts the red wire, because as we all know red wire is always the right one, he always wait for a couple of seconds if he must for the dramatic pause.
Nuke: Takes one of the data bombs and throws it instead of placing it. He then shoots it in midair.
Sniffer: Anti takes this program and gives whatever the target is a good sniff.
Spoofing: Anti generally just shapes the matrix according to what he wants to make.
Stealth: Anti becomes a faint outline of himself. The average matrix user generally doesn’t have stand a chance of even spotting him due to his natural stealth
Track: Anti just follow the trail, depending on how well the user hide himself the target then leaves an a bright red outline. The brighter the outline the more easily the worse stealth/attempt to hide ones self from Anti.
Encrypt/decrypt: Generally takes out a key to unlock or lock the target. A lock symbol appears around the target
Scanning: Anti simply takes a look at the target and well scans them
Browse: Anti walks into a car, and starts a road trip via the world wide inter webs
Edit: Anti reaches his hand through the target and re ranges and edits whatever he feels that he can shape.
Exploit: Anti generally just runs through the firewall, or if hes feeling dramatic jumps over it.


Anti generally doesn’t like to use too much VR, he usually lives vital information up but allows likes to see world best unfiltered

See you tonight
-Paul

Calander update!

July week 1- Bordum

July Week 2 - Nothing

July Week 3- Brainscan Run- Unknown Corp was implanting mind control software in people's cranial comlink. KE busted them.

Might be late for tomorrow game. Don't wait up for me.