Android Lore Wiki
Setting encyclopedia for Shadow of the Beanstalk / Worlds of Android, expanded with Android: Netrunner TCG flavor. Personal table reference — not a full book reprint.
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Human First
Anti-android extremist movement—jobs, purity, and violence against bioroids and clones.
Humanity Labor
Labor movement resisting android replacement of human workers.
Liberty Society
High-visibility New Angeles group advocating clone rights and legal personhood challenges.
Martian Colonial Authority (MCA)
Post-War colonial government framework for Mars—contested by clans and rebels.
NAPD
New Angeles Police Department—overstretched, surveilled, and squeezed between corps and undercity reality.
NAPD Technology & Support Services (TSSD)
NAPD division racing Netcriminals who corrupt evidence databases and city systems.
Opticon Foundation
Watchdog NGO focused on android rights, ethics, and corporate abuse documentation.
Order of Sol
Religious / ethical order in the android era; intersects with politics where android ownership is contested.
Organized Crime
Syndicates (Tri-Maf and others) running protection, smuggling, chips, and bodies through undercity and docks.
Space Elevator Authority (SEA)
Jurisdiction and operations authority around the Beanstalk; Yellow Jackets appear in SotB.
Starlight Crusade
Prominent new religion using technology to stimulate spiritual experience; led publicly by Cardinal James Reese.
Street Gangs & Streetbangers
Youth gangs and turf crews—drugs, thrills, and pipelines into larger orgcrime.
SXC (Space Command / space military)
Space-capable military forces used in the Worlds War and Beanstalk defense—SotB lists SXC troopers and exosuit pilots.
Tri-Maf / Orgcrime syndicates
SotB shorthand for major organized crime federations—political leverage, runners, and undercity rule.
Universal Nations
Post-War international body formed as part of the Worlds War settlement architecture.
Yakuza
Secretive hierarchical syndicates in New Angeles—crime, legitimate fronts, and centuries of tradition.
Activists & Extremists
Human First, Humanity Labor, Liberty Society, Opticon watchdogs, anarch cells — the moral (and immoral) war over androids and inequality.
Government
City and national authorities in theory above the corps; in practice tangled with contracts, elections, and the Beanstalk’s strategic value.
Loonies
Luna-born culture and Heinlein politics. Resourceful, low-g native, often at odds with Earth megacorp control of the Moon.
Weyland Consortium
Construction, space infrastructure, and the Beanstalk’s corporate spine. Builds habitats, stations, and the future — and bills the worlds for it. Board politic…