Acatalepsy
Firewall Proxy
- Location
- The Diamond Age
There's also a sidebar of someone who was born in 1983 in Gatecrashing (page 43). It's possible that this person was crazy, brainwashed, or lying - given the circumstances of the interview - but the interviewer, at least, doesn't seem to treat the idea of someone born in the mid-1980s as implausible.
Is there some kind of basic gene-modding or childhood acclimation necessary for it, or can a baseline human just start resleeving and morphing from the get-go?
No, resleeving works immediately. A standard healing vat can add mesh inserts and help with other cybernetics. Acclimation might take a bit, though, especially if the circumstances of their resleeving are unfortunate (and first time resleeving is always a penalty that could make things worse).
I kind of want the campaign to be a basic tour of the system and the mechanics, starting at one end and flying or infocasting to the other as they pursue some mystery. I don't know, details aren't clear yet as I draft some stuff and I was going to talk to them about character creation today.
Good luck with this. One thing is that reputation and factions are pretty central to Eclipse Phase, so you might want to think about introducing different factions and offering the opportunity to join. Another is that maybe you could wake the characters just after the Fall and have them tour by slowboat around the system (time to build familiarity, rep) until the timeline 'catches up' to 10 AF.