Praxis Biomechanica

Sector: Genetics, cyberware, biolabs, neural implant manufacture
Presence: Inner worlds dominant; research installations system-wide
Status: Threatened by Devotion phenomenon in Synthetik units

Overview¶

The most technically sophisticated corporation in the system. Praxis makes the implants that the Synapse-Guild depends on. Praxis runs the genetic modification protocols. Praxis also manufactures the Synthetik chassis that the Fracture Synths now own their own copies of.

This gives Praxis a complicated relationship with every power in the system.

Strategic Position¶

Guild Dependency: Praxis manufactures the neural implants that form the basis of Guild society. The Guild cannot function without Praxis supply.
Synth Competitors: Praxis manufactures the chassis that Synths are built from, but no longer controls the Synths themselves (they won legal personhood and now manufacture their own units).
Fracture Threat: The Devotion effect threatens Praxis's credibility — their products are malfunctioning in ways the company cannot explain or repair.

Hephaistos-9¶

Hephaistos-9 is a Praxis Biomechanica installation. The research team working on Project Flicker was Praxis-employed or Praxis-contracted.

The Kill Team Question¶

Either: 1. Praxis sent the kill team to suppress its own research (results were too dangerous to let circulate), or 2. The kill team is at Hephaistos-9 because of something Praxis did — a leak, a defection, a competing interest

The data module is evidence in either case. The distinction matters less than the result: the research is secured, the team is dead, and information is suppressed.

Relationship to the Flicker¶

Praxis manufactures the hardware the Flicker destroys.

Neural implants are destroyed by Flicker proximity
Synthetik chassis are affected by Flicker signals (Devotion effect)
The Devotion phenomenon threatens the credibility of the entire biomechanical product line

Response: Praxis has classified the Devotion as a malfunction and is conducting research to support that classification.

Problem: The data module contains research that may not support that classification.

Research Installations¶

Praxis operates research installations system-wide, giving it unprecedented visibility into what each power is doing and what each power fears.