during our last session, they had extracted a Shiawase scientist and his family and were on their way to the delivery point when they stumbled into a car trap set by a local go-gang. Unfortunately for all concerned, the go-gang had been a little too successful in their trapping--they had already bitten off more than they could chew with another van that had stumbled into the trap and were in the midst of a firefight with the occupants. So when the PCs arrive, both sides open fire on them, figuring that they're the other side's backup. My players, being fresh and unwounded, blow away the remainder of both sides. During the last few rounds of the fight, a figure darts away from the other van and makes a run for it, catching a stray round in the head for its trouble; the black ops PC makes a wonderful Perception test and sees this. So, after they're done mopping up, he goes over to check the figure; it's a young woman, unconscious, but still alive; he carries her back to their van and also checks the bodies and records their faces in his commlink's memory for later checking to see who they are. After delivering the scientist, they took the girl to their street doc contact.

At that point, we had to end the session due to the time, but this is what they're going to find out:

The girl's name is Aelita Stones (+5 Karma to whomever can tell me which show my sisters hooked me on without checking Wikipedia) and she's a low-level Lone Star citizen-employee, 23 years old... whose SIN is now flagged as deceased; apparently there was a nasty fire earlier at her apartment. To add to the confusion on the part of the characters, when they get around to checking who the others at the firefight were, they were a runner team with a decent rep that specialized in high-level covert extractions--scientists, corp execs, magicians, etc. Overkill for a low-level corp citizen.

But it gets better. When she wakes up... she doesn't remember anything, not even her name.

So, as this bit is in this thread, you can probably guess what the deal is by now--Aelita is a technomancer (as my campaign is set in 2068, they're still well under the radar) and the extraction team was delivering her to MCT. Thanks to a combination of excessive Fading from when she was trying to get away from the extraction team, the drugs they gave her to keep her quiet and the bullet graze to the head, she now has amnesia.

So, here's the really fun part (my players requested a character-driven campaign, so I'm giving it to them):
How is the hacker character going to react when he finds out that the pretty girl he helped rescue is a technomancer? Rivalry, dislike, "I don't care," I'll protect her if it's the last thing I do," etc.
And, even more fun... the black ops character is essentially on a leash to NeoNET; they have his SIN on file, although it was technically lost in the Crash; if he doesn't do what they want, his biometrics get uploaded to the databases complete with a criminal SIN saying that he's an escaped murderer-rapist-pedophile-litterer-jaywalker-and-any-other-bad-thing-you-can-think-of and should be shot on sight. And since NeoNET is also hunting for TMs...

I figure give them four or five sessions to get attached to her before the complications start to hit the fan. As for how... well, she, before the botched extraction, had gotten into the habit of backing her memories up online, so all of her memories are still secreted away in little portions of the 'Trix. Unfortunately, MCT found a few of them (which is what tipped them off to the fact that she was a TM) and is now using those bits as bait, hoping that she'll try to retrieve them before heading into the shadows. They'll have to wait longer than they think they will (as she doesn't remember backing them up, of course), but sooner or later...

I think the little "memories as bait" is a great idea. I had a GM before that used amnesiac characters all the time and it drove us nuts. but it looks like you've got a very unique way of doing it in this case that should work nicely.

As an aside, I don't think I've ever seen that many Evil GM faces in a single post.

During our last session, I rolled some dice and found that the hacker's backdoor account into the Shiawase system had been found after an hour and a half and gave my Evil GM Cackle™, which earned me an "I hate you" from the black ops player.

essentially, I hit upon the idea of an amnesiac TM during the Technomancer Limitations thread a little while back; after I fleshed out the concept a bit and thought of what I was going to name her, I realized that I had unconsciously taken a plot point for a character from a TV show and twisted it a bit to suit my purposes. After that, there was no choice but to name her after the character in question.