Ok, so a technomancer can only have 5 sprites. Now the rules of decompiling state:

If the sprite’s tasks are reduced to 0, it will dissipate on its next action. Any technomancer on hand
may attempt to compile it again before it leaves, bringing it back under their control.

Now does that mean my buddy can create a sprite of a type I do not have at say rating 1, decompile it, and then I grab it and recompile it? I assume at that point I could register the darn thing. This seems like a cheap loophole, but at the same time, it kinda makes sense.

Thoughts?

That is it in a nutshell.

Mages can do the same with spirits. Once the entity exists, anyone with the right skills can take it over.

And somewhere out there, there is a Mystic adept, pretending to be a poke-rancher, by collecting rare, out-of-tradition spirits(twisted, toxic, shadow, free, great form, the list goes on!), and binding them again before they go away.

gotta catch 'em all

New underground fight scene! I'm thinking future run here; PC's hired by someone to break up these little duals.

"Toxic Spirit, I choose you!"

heh, if you make it obvious what the underground fighting is, you probably won't even have to pay them

well. you might have to pay them to prevent them from causing collateral damage from the use of orbital weapons (it's the only way to be sure...)

Good point. This is a, "Holy Shit, guess whats going on under that bridge! I'll be the Draco Foundation would pay HUGE for this!" moment.

What have I -dooonnnee-! oh god.

Underground spirit-fighting betting rings. Like chickenfighting, with more fireball.

Glorious.

Edit: You know, now that I think about it, using spirits with realistic form might be a way to keep a ring like this a bit under the radar - especially with awakened paracritters thrown in there.

and maybe have a human adept raised as a slave to fight tossed in the mix to keep the betting up.

I've had some underground paracritter fighting at my table. My players won some money on a Metaroo boxing match.

Use orcs instead, they mature faster.