Virtual Cats

Digital subversion organisation loosely aligned with Cyberia. It emerged 9200's from unknown origins, announcing itself as a digital company of sociocultural mercenaries. The Cats specialise in information warfare, sophisticated political and economic subversion, memetic warfare and whole-system perversion. Their earliest well-documented strike was against the Vadeep Normalisation College in the MPA 9253, where they successfully infiltrated and destroyed the organisation economically, politically and socially by inserting a number of frauds, scandals and political mistakes into the organisation and then organise the media attention. Since then they have taken a number of contracts on various institutions, societies and polities in the Wormhole Nexus.

Their most famous attack was the disruption of Ömktari logosphere, a sizeable middle regions polity in the NoCoZo. In 9739-9748 they slowly undermined the stability of the region without even the guardian AIs noticing anything amiss, until the Cats "pulled the plug" on most social infrastructure in 7748. As the economy, social network databases and personal transports ceased to work, and memetic seeds planted years before blossomed, the logosphere just ceased to exist as an unified entity and in fact collapsed to become a mere cluster of co-cultural worlds. Most likely the attack was sponsored by competing interests, possibly the Iw Jyk Kje corporatism.

The Cats had official headquarters on Fata Morgana, but are an exclusively virtual group. Members appear to be virtuals, posthumans and AIs, distributed across the inner sphere networks but sending copies wherever needed. They have access to extensive computing resources and great inter-clade practical sociological skills.

The Solar Dominion made no secret that it considers the Cats a dangerous terrorist group, and did it best to unravel the organisation. They also alleged that it is actually a front for the Orintergen AI-clone. However, no activity unambiguously associated with the group is known since 9951.