Good Fight

The **Good Fight** is an underground protest and revolutionary movement consisting of hackers, spies, netrunners, criminal gangs, mercenaries and independent journalists with the goal of exposing the Nemesis Group and creating an open civilian government in Nemesis City. They are led by the mysterious Paradox, while their message is spread by **Forbidden FM**, a radio station owned and operated by Paradox.

## History

### Origins

#### Background

Running from 2464 to 2467, the Fifth Corporate War was the largest interstellar conflict since the Great Galactic War nearly 30 years earlier. Fighting on the side of Sol-based Sedna, the Nemesis Group drafted in all fit and healthy residents of Nemesis City for combat; very few returned home, and those that did were forever scarred by their ordeal. The top-secret nature of the war meant that many veterans were unable to publically use their military ranks, and the corrupt hyper-corporate city government was reluctant to pay benefits or grant health insurance to the few that came home. As a result, Nemesis citizens that fought in the Fifth Corporate War had three options: break their back working for the very corporations that had denied them their benefits; live on the streets; or use their skills for criminal activity. Few took the first option; many were forced to choose the second; and some opted for the third, thus giving rise to many infamous mercenaries and gangs. The rise in crime rates, growing anti-corporate sentiment and unacceptable homeless population inevitably sparked an underground counterculture made up of netrunners, rockers, vigilantes and gangs.

#### Founding

In 2469, a pirate radio station called Forbidden FM began broadcasting in Nemesis City. Hosted by a mysterious vigilante called Paradox, Forbidden FM attracted its audience by playing bootleg live recordings or blacklisted music intercut with exposés and calls to action. Such content included interviews with downtrodden citizens, leaked tax records of wealthy CEOs, evidence of police brutality, and bringing to light the dangers of a subscription-based health care system. Everything Paradox exposed was linked to the Nemesis Group in some manner, and slowly a protest movement calling themselves the Good Fight formed as a result of his broadcasts. The Good Fight consisted of people whose professions ranged from pencil-pushers to influencial fixers in the criminal underworld, all of whom were hungry to bring down the powerful.

Soon Paradox found himself associating with "Mama" Serrano, a fixer who ran one of the largest Latin American gang networks in Nemesis City and was viewed by many as a "Robin Hood" figure. In keeping with her reputation, Serrano endorsed the Good Fight and provided contacts with fixers, criminals and hackers that were sympathetic - or, occasionally, outright supportive - to his cause. They provided Paradox with the resources and manpower he required to conduct private investigations into corporate affairs, exposing them for the good of the people. On some nights he would conduct vigilante activities, mostly against criminals that believed themselves to be immune to justice and the law; his vigilantism won him support from both the common folk and a few disgruntled officers in the NCPD.

## Notable Members

* Paradox - leader, figurehead
* "Mama" Serrano - fixer