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The **Detroit Sheriff’s department** is in charge of criminal investigations. The Sheriff is an elected position and so they depend heavily on donations and media support. Sheriff Biyu Chen used to be little more than an incompetent stateswoman but since her election she has become surprisingly clever in her efforts to crack down on crime.

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The **Detroit Council** is led by Mayor Manuel Rodriguez whose campaign donors include several prominent corporate execs whose companies get special treatment. Since the federal and state governments have lost power over the years, most important decisions are made by the local council.

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**On The Spot Security** are a cheap and nasty security and private investigation company based in Detroit where you call up people to guard a place, escort a person, investigate a case or drive you somewhere in an armoured van. It’s the Uber of security services.

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**The Detroit Prison** is overcrowded, but those who are disobedient while in the prison system are no longer put into regular solitary. Now they’re given the Braindance - put in an induced coma with a VR rig slowly replaying a memory. Braindances aren’t meant to last longer than three months at a time, but some people have been given back-toback Braindances for years.

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The **FBI** have a small branch in Detroit that is primarily staffed by their **VASCU** unit aka Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit who focus on serial arsonists and serial killers.

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**Detroit Free Press** is a local media company that isn’t owned by the OnDemand Group who provides bias-free facts that can be found on a few of the major streaming services.

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The **Grand Library** is a Virtual Reality space that masquerades as a real, massive library. It’s said that so long as you know the right search terms, you can learn anything here.

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The **International Society of Psychics** are a loose affiliation of psychics and researchers into psychic phenomena.

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The **Loyalists** are a group of academics and scholars who are said to focus on occult knowledge. They aren’t well-known outside of occult circles.

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**Network Zero** is a group of hackers, bloggers, vloggers and urban explorers who work together to pick the truth from the lies in the changing corporate landscape. Some go into full-blown conspiracy theories and are certain that aliens, vampires and other monsters live among us, but most focus on the hidden truths of the corrupt corporate world.

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**Null Mysteriis** is a loosely-organized group of scientists and professionals who feel that they can both prove and analyse supernatural phenomena using rational science. They’re most well-known for investigating alleged hauntings and psychics.

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The **Rosicrucians** are a worldwide secret society that claim to possess esoteric wisdom handed down from ancient times. Beginning in the 17th century with a series of manifestos that purport to herald a universal reformation of mankind through a science allegedly kept secret for decades until the intellectual climate might receive it.

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**Wayne State University** is a public research university in vibrant Midtown which consists of 13 schools and colleges offering more than 350 programs to nearly 37,000 graduate and undergraduate students. Despite being a public university, it has had to reach out to corporate donors and so much of its campus is plastered with advertising to the point where people need to sit through 2 minutes of advertisements before every lecture.

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