Base Stats: Go from one to 50. Every five points above twenty, which is average, is +1 success to actions related to that stat. Every five points below is -1 sucess.

Strength - Your physical ability to move things around and exert force. Swinging a sword hard, pounding metal with a hammer, moving rocks, and other physical exertions require strength. Wearing heavy armor also requires strength and stamina.

Dexterity - Flexibility, speed, agility. A character with high dexterity will show an aptitude with juggling, swinging swords accurately, dancing, and other feats of agility. 

Stamina - Toughness, Health. Stamina determines how much abuse a character can take before becoming seriously injured. It also determines how much endurance the character has during long or hard activities before growing tired. Willpower can sometimes extend stamina (pushing yourself past your limit). Stamina is injured with the installation of biological modifications. If stamina is reduced to zero, you don't survive the surgery/process. Very sad.

Perception - Your ability to notice things quickly and thoroughly. Sherlock holmes had a high perception. Snipers and bowmen also need high perception to have good aim. It is much like the mental version of Dexterity.

Intelligence - Your ability to think things through logically to a reasonable conclusion. This does not denote how quickly you come to the conclusion, which is a combination of Intelligence and Perception, but more of how accurate your conclusions tend to be. It is much like the mental version of Strength.

Willpower - Your ability to resist mental tampering and mental fortitude. A person with high willpower can ignore impulses to flee and tend to take things head on with little hesitation. It can also be a measure of how stubborn someone is. It is much like the mental version of Stamina

Magery - Your connection to the ambient magic of the world. Those with high magery have the potential to become very powerful mages. Magery is damaged with the addition of cybernetic additions which hamper the flow of energy through the body. When magery drops to 0, you begin to die of cancer, organ failure, and basically rot from the inside out. It's very similiar to what happens to those who venture into space.

Appearance - Your physical attractiveness in the eyes of the average person. Attractive qualities in the Empire for males include broad shoulders, defined muscles, clean clothing, either clean shaven, or thick bearded, but not inbetween. For females, if non human, long tails, fair sized chest, large hips and blue eyes are the current 'appealing'. Human females are found to be attractive if a bit taller than the male, and have small feet. Yes, this can sound a bit odd, but to each their own. Your own characters measure of beauty can vary.

Cyberspace - When dealing with the online world, Intelligence replaces Strength, Perception replaces Dexterity, and Willpower replaces Stamina.

Basic Skills

Basic skills are the vast majority of skills. It's what you learn in books, on the streets, and from your teachers. Any skill that isn't a physical adaptation or magical talent, it's a basic skill.

Skills go from one to fifty, with fifty being complete and total mastery and twenty being proficiency.

Skills also have subskills. For example, the melee skill is your ability to swing around a weapon, any weapon, but melee/swords is specific to swords. If you do NOT use a subskill, you suffer a +1 difficulty. No subskill can raise above its host skill in rating. So, if you have 10 melee, you can have, at most, 10 melee/swords.

Tiers - Tiers and professions are your friend. They say what sort of training/experience you've had growing up and moving along in your career, whatever it is you do. We have these professions, and sub-professions, available.

Weapons and Armor

All weapons have two primary stats, damage potential, and stopping power. Stopping power is the ability to punch through defensive armor. If a weapon has superior stopping power to an armor's shielding potential, then it can apply its full damage potential and can inflict criticals. If the stopping power is less, but no more than half, the chance of criticals is eliminated, but full damage can commence. If lower than half, the entire attack is for naught, this weapon is simply too weak and pathetic to bother this armor.

Hit Points - Stamina times three plus the special skill of Raise-HP times two. Simple, no? If you run out of hit points, you collapse and pass out. If you fall to a negative amount equal to your stamina, then you die of shock. You can die before hitting this level due to criticals. Hit point damage reflects bruising, pain, and blood loss.

Special Skills - Magic spells, physical adaptations, and strange abilities all fall under the umbrella of Special Skills. Special skills are easier for some professions than others, depending on the particular special skill. They are rated one to fifty, like basic skills and stats and are more expensive than basic skills.

Criticals - Criticals are specific damage incurred from worldly trauma. Being burnt, shot, slashed, falling, having things fall on you, etc. Criticals run the gamut from taking a few extra hit points of damage to a broken bone to instant grisly death.

EMP - Oops, you got hit with an electro-magnetic pulse.. and you have cyberware. That's got to sting.. You take twice as many hitpoints in damage as the stamina penalty worth of cyber in you. You also take an 'A' electricty critical for every twenty points of damage (round up).

AI - Artificial Intelligence. The pinnacle of computer technology! AI is available to purchase at variable levels, depending on who's doing the buying. The base model available to anyone can be programmed to have an effective rating of 20 in one or more skills. Corps can easilly order models with skills at fifty, and illegal models exist exceeding human potential. The higher the rating an AI has, the more limited it is in what it does. AI do not experience emotion, though some are trained to respond to it.

Hitting Things - So you have a gun, or a pipe, or a fancy schmancy ripper and you want to teach that perp a lesson about bar-room etiquette, eh? Let's assume it's your turn.

Feats of Strength: To make a feat of strength, compare your strength to this here chart. If your strength is at or higher than what you're trying to do, you can do it. Easy no? If you want to try it anyway, roll Willpower vs 12. Every success is 5 more points of strength for that instant. Adrenaline is a wonderful thing. This roll may not be repeated in case of failure.

 Furries and hybrids: They existed quite commonly before 1300 AH, but now they're a little more rare. If you want to be an animal person, you have three basic options open to you, each with its own upside and downside. It should be noted that you are an effective minority, so a few slurs may ruin an otherwise peachy day.

Stun: Many times criticals will stun you. Stun rounds stack up on each other, building and building. While you are stunned, you make all your rolls at +3 difficulty, making it harder to score succs. If you pile up more rounds than your Stamina or Willpower (Whichever is greater), then you pass out from the shock. While unconscious, stun rounds will pass at triple normal rate.

Defensive: Sometimes criticals will say you have to spend rounds 'in the defensive' or 'parrying' This means, all non-defense actions suffer +2 difficulty. To your advantage, you get -1 difficulty to defending yourself since that's all you're doing. If you wish, you can go defensive of your own will at the start of any turn.

Disarming: Disarming can be done with basically any non-explosive weapon. Machine guns, pistols, rifles, clubs, swords, what have you. To attempt it, roll Dexterity(or perception if ranged):(type)/Disarm vs 10. By type I mean the class of weapon, ranged or melee. Disarming with brawl is possible, but requires at least five points of Martial-Arts. As usual, if you don't have the subskill (disarm), then you suffer +1 diff and have to try at vs 11.  Assuming you don't fail, the victim has two options, roll with your force, or try to directly oppose it. At this time, the attacker should add the Mk. rating of his weapon to his roll as succs.

Yielding Initiative: Many criticals affect initiative. In this case, the victim of the critical must reduce their initiative, if it's not already low enough, below the initiative of the person who inflicted the critical. Let's say Bob and Joe get in a fight. Bob hits joe with an initiative yielding critical. Next round, Bob rolls 4 and Joe gets 5 initiative. Joe must reduce his initiative to 3, one under Bob, due to being shaken/unbalanced/whatever from the critical.

Selling Stolen Cars: So you jacked a car, did you? And now you want to get rid of it? Well, ok. The base price of a car is 15 eGil multiplied by its resource requirement. Consult this chart for modifiers: