Flavour time!

It totally blew my mind when I recently heard that Atman and Brahman are concepts in hinduistic philosophy that are related to each other and are in my view represented by both card's machanics. Brahman is the transcendet self, the universal energy; Atman is the individual self that wants to merge into Brahman to be finally liberated to step off the cycle of rebirth. Using Atman and Brahman both as breakers make total thematic sense: Atman sets its strength upon install (birth), but can be resetted when Brahman'ed (death, soul goes back into "pool"). Atman can then enter play again with a different strength (rebirth).

I love the flavor here. I'm not a biologist at all, so I'll sum it up in my own words. Haruko Obokata, stylish, brilliant, young, lead the research for stem cells and claimed to have found an easy way to somehow manufacture stem cells - an important thing in cloning. This was made by putting cells under heavy stress, like putting them in an acid bath. The cells were called STAP cells. But Obokata fell off grace when researchers found this to be a scientific fraud and the following scandal even drove her mentor into suicide. The experiments were manipulated, data flawed and images photoshopped.

Flavor text on this card is awesome, mixing the Obokata scandal from 2014 with the grim and noir tone we love so much in Netrunner - especially in Jinteki. And indeed, eating 4 net damage sets runners under heavy stress and they likely change their strategy.

These days (end of 2016) we see the rise of stealth runners. Enforcer helps a ton: Trashes a stealth program. Trashes Mirror. Trashes Net Mercur. A surprised runner will click like a madman and thankfully embrace a brain damage. That's fine for me. Enforcer is anti-stealth.tech onepointoh

I like to add one name: Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone. He's got a lot of events, too!

Account Siphon, The Maker's Eye, Dirty Laundry on archives + Notoriety/Quest Completed is pure Express-o-gasm.

Once upon a time, there was an ID that made people scratch their heads: The Professor. You just played it because you like to run janky or you ... um, no idea. Sorry.

I think The Prof gets better and better these days. Why not start this with an expansion pack that's thematically focussed on the UCBB? London Library is so much Professor, maybe that's the card to make him really come back again.

• Put a Femme Fatale on it and run every server you like. Or Atman. Cyber-Cypher anyone?
• Add LLDS Processors to your inventory and each breaker you smash on the table is even stronger! For some extra cyber feeling, add Net-Ready Eyes
• Don't know what this can do with even more clicks. Rachel Beckman might give you a hand... Install 2, run, uninstall both.
• Add some recurring credits - say, Cloak - to your Rig and you might run without any money.