Character Creation

I considered that and was intending to work through everyone's contacts with them before we start. I see these possibilities:

1a. You have one or two contacts in your current location. They somehow are still relevant even when you get to Tokyo. (I might weave it in.)
1b. We can't use those contacts somehow. In which case I'll create a story opportunity to gain new ones in Tokyo.
2. You have one or two Tokyo contacts already. They'll definitely pop up in the story.
3. You can't think of anything. Then give me whatever backstory you can. I need details to spin something!
4. You may or may not know each other. That's perfectly fine. There'll be individual threads first.

@thevagrant's questions first:

1. For drones such as the gnat, hornet, flying eye, etc, which have certain attacks features not described as 'mounted weapons', it'd make better sense for them to deliver their payload via a weapon targeting rather than a manouvering autosoft.

2. Yes, but to clarify, Hot Sim VR + Synaptic Booster 1 give:
Init dice: 1 for default init, 2 for VR init, 1 for synaptic booster
Actions: 1 major 1 minor for default, 2 minor from the VR dice, 1 minor for synaptic booster (you double-counted the first and last)

3. Yes to the calculation of weapon mounts. (6e uses Body/3, 5e additional Rigger rules abandons that formula but uses the optional rules for modification slots, hence the confusion).

4. Yes the control rig cost is Rating squared. Rating 1 is a x1 multiplier. Rating 2 is a x4 multiplier etc.

5. For specialisation, no more than 1 specialisation per skill at character creation. If you want to propose some specialisations feel free to ask. 'Jumped in'? Hmm, let me think on that one...

Let's park horse-riding as (a specific sort) of Animal Handling. So Outdoors (Animal Handling). Outdoors normally uses Intuition, but Animal Handling uses Charisma (from the older editions). Not sure about using Agility, which is used for very specific things in SR like firearms and close combat.

@deadpool_qc the latest character sheet you sent me looks good to go, just a few finishing touches is all. Go ahead and transfer to your GP sheet.

Everyone, it looks like for the five of you who've been working on character creation, we are largely done, apart from a few small questions to tie up. This means we can start! Get your avatars set up too if you haven't done so. I'll be writing up some intro posts this weekend. Thanks for being part of this. :)

@falconloft let me know what your priority selections are for your character so I can do the maths

And whoever hasn't given me backstory, I need at least a bit so I have a start point for you.