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Message no. 1
From: Mark McKenna <mmckenn@*****.BGSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FASTJACK
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 04:13:12 -0500
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Fastjack wrote:
>
> *************************************************
> * *
> * >>>>>[Tu ciberterminal sera mia.Piensalo
bien *
> * cuando te encuentras en lo mas oscuro de la *
> * matriz]<<<<<
*
> * -Fastjack<18:05:46/12-22-52> *
> *************************************************
Umm... I have a quick and very annoying, and more than likey very stupid
thing to say, are you FastJack the person who isn't Born till the year
1999 in the game who post everywhere in the books, or a person who likes
Fastjack and took the name, in fact nevermind I now know its the ladder,
sorry just wondering in thought for it is late where I am at
McKenna

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Message no. 2
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: FASTJACK
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:50:18 +0000
On 20 Feb 97 at 4:13, Mark McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Fastjack wrote:
[snip .sig]
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> Umm... I have a quick and very annoying, and more than likey very stupid
> thing to say, are you FastJack the person who isn't Born till the year
> 1999 in the game who post everywhere in the books, or a person who likes
> Fastjack and took the name, in fact nevermind I now know its the ladder,
> sorry just wondering in thought for it is late where I am at

Oh, no... not THAT discussion again. Pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeeee!!!!

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Message no. 3
From: Mark McKenna <mmckenn@*****.BGSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FASTJACK
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:40:38 -0500
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Sascha Pabst wrote:

> On 20 Feb 97 at 4:13, Mark McKenna wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Fastjack wrote:
> [snip .sig]
> *************************************************
> > Umm... I have a quick and very annoying, and more than likey very stupid
> > thing to say, are you FastJack the person who isn't Born till the year
> > 1999 in the game who post everywhere in the books, or a person who likes
> > Fastjack and took the name, in fact nevermind I now know its the ladder,
> > sorry just wondering in thought for it is late where I am at
>
> Oh, no... not THAT discussion again. Pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeeee!!!!
>
> Sascha
Sorry Sascha I won't ask again, it was late in the evening and I hadn't
any sleep in about three days, for those of you in school dontcha just
love when proffs make everything due at the same time :) it makes me all
warm and fuzzy inside... NOT!!!!! So I'll stop right there and regain my
sanity somehow
McKenna
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Message no. 4
From: Fastjack <uc298@*****.UNICAN.ES>
Subject: Re: FASTJACK
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:59:46 +0100
[snip]
In the sixth world only a real Fastjack...all of us are posers :-)

[delete his owm sign]
Message no. 5
From: Tim Coxon <Tim.Ntoo@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: FASTJACK
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:56:52 -0000
> Sorry Sascha I won't ask again, it was late in the evening and I hadn't
> any sleep in about three days, for those of you in school dontcha just
> love when proffs make everything due at the same time :) it makes me
all
> warm and fuzzy inside... NOT!!!!! So I'll stop right there and regain my
> sanity somehow
> McKenna
McKenna is living life to the fullest <gr>. Hasn't slept for three days
that is...

And that was another thought from the black depths of my mind.
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Message no. 6
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:22:02 +1000
Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
again. I have a gift for it. :)

Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

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Message no. 7
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:36:52 -0400
At 09:22 AM 6/4/97 +1000, Lady Jestyr wrote these timeless words:
>Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
>again. I have a gift for it. :)
>
Yeah, you're even better than me. However, I've got you beat on the off
topic drek :]

>Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
>said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
>deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>
>(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
>is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)
>
Well, no ones sure, but FJ is old enough, and it is rumoured that he was
part of EM. He was 12 when the awakening hit, and that strange message hit
the internet ("Welcome to the 6th world. Play nice." Or something close
to that).

>Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
>other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?
>
Well, one of the guys that runs the Denver Data Haven (Shiva or Bash)
mouths off to him in the Denver Sourcebook, and Fastjack proceeds to shut
him down pretty effortlessly.

I'd say one of the only characters that could come close to matching FJ is
(drek, I can;t thuink of his name! It;s the elf from the Secrets of Power
and Never trust and Elf. I hate it when my mind ges blank!), although the
elf has since kinda gone in a different direction. He now decks "naked"
all the time, and is flirting with the AI he met...;]

Dodger! that's his name! YES! :]

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Message no. 8
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:52:49 -0600
At 09:22 6/4/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
>said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
>deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I think.

>(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
>is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Once again, AFAIK, yes.

>Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
>other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

Naw.. FastJack just can't lose :) He's just too much the cool elf.. and of
course, being Tom Dowd's character, he'll never die.
(I know Tom has nothing really to do with SR now, but would you kill your
ex-bosses pet? :)

>Lady Jestyr
>"Internationally Clueless" :)

We know, we know.

Disclaimer. All the stuff here (Expect knowing about Lady J being
clueless) was taking from Whoswho, which is a bunch of posts that was
compiled by David B and sent to me. I keep intending to work it into the
FAQ :)

-Adam

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Message no. 9
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:51:57 +1000
> >Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
> >again. I have a gift for it. :)
> >
> Yeah, you're even better than me. However, I've got you beat on the off
> topic drek :]

Of course - you've got inbuilt procedures to do it! *grin*

> >Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> >said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> >deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
> >
> >(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> >is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)
> >
> Well, no ones sure, but FJ is old enough, and it is rumoured that he was
> part of EM. He was 12 when the awakening hit, and that strange message hit
> the internet ("Welcome to the 6th world. Play nice." Or something close
> to that).

I remember that, but I had thought that the list consensus (IS there
such a thing?!) was that FJ was not in EM...

> Dodger! that's his name! YES! :]

So so far Dodger is the only contender to stick it to FJ...

> Bull-the-mind-is-going-Ork-Decker

Ah, it's just old age, Granpa >:)


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Message no. 10
From: The Spaceman <spaced@*.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:00:31 -0700
>>>>> Lady Jestyr didst say unto the aether thusly:

# Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last
# night - he said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was
# the generation of deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
Well, I'd say you're right based on a passage in Dowd's book
_Night's Pawn_. To paraphrase, Church had heard speculation that FastJack
was an EM member, but he knew it to be impossible as all the EM people's
fates had been determined. I can look it up if people are interested....

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Message no. 11
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:07:49 -0400
At 07:00 PM 6/3/97 -0700, The Spaceman wrote these timeless words:
>>>>>> Lady Jestyr didst say unto the aether thusly:
>
> # Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last
> # night - he said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was
> # the generation of deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
> Well, I'd say you're right based on a passage in Dowd's book
>_Night's Pawn_. To paraphrase, Church had heard speculation that FastJack
>was an EM member, but he knew it to be impossible as all the EM people's
>fates had been determined. I can look it up if people are interested....
>
PLease do, if you could...

For some reason I thought FJ WAS a member of EM... But I could be wrong.

However, FJ IS old enough to be on EM, adn is not an ELf (According to the
Denver book, FJ was 12 when the awakening hit. he MAY have been a spiek
baby, but this is not indicated.)

Bull
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Message no. 12
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:46:15 EDT
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:22:02 +1000 Lady Jestyr
<jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU> writes:
<<Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)>>


Actually, I thought that Fastjack was a member of Echo Mirage. I'm pretty
sure I heard that somewhere...<shrug> About all I really know is that
he's in his fifties, he's a drek-hot decker, and that someone (might have
been in one of the sourcebooks, but I doubt it) speculated that he
manages that by programming in machine language, rather than an object
oriented programming language, or whatever the substitute is in SR. He's
human (Dodger is the spike baby), and he's been around a while. He's
certainly old enough to be a member of Echo Mirage, and I always thought
he was.


<<(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)>>


<shrug> I don't even know if Damien Knight is. Lucien Cross wouldn't
surprise me, and at least one member of EM decamped to each of the Matrix
giants, probably. Unfortunately, I don't know of anywhere that all the
member of EM are accounted for. I do know that the main book gives a
little bit of info as to what happened to those who survived, but no
specifics.


<<Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?>>


Probably some of the _really_ major deckers. Dodger, The Smiling Bandit
maybe. Captain Chaos perhaps. There certainly aren't many of them if
there are any.


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Message no. 13
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:31:24 -0700
---Lady Jestyr wrote:
>
> (AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

In one of the S/R novels, I believe 2XS, there's another survivor of
Echo Mirage...I think her name was Molly or something like that. She
was a good friend of Dirk Montgomery.

I won't say more due to Spoilers. :o)

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Message no. 14
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:33:19 -0700
---Lady Jestyr wrote:
>
> Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
> other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

He's not a Shadowtalker, but there's always the ebon boy, Dodger...

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Message no. 15
From: The Spaceman <spaced@*.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:04:47 -0700
>>>>> Bull didst say unto the aether thusly:

# PLease do, if you could...

Ok, you asked for it. (No spoiler warnings because, well, no real
spoilers).
"The name was held in almost as much awe as the Denver data haven,
of which FastJack was said to be a co-founder. It was also said that, as
part of the old U.S. government's Echo Mirage project, he was one of the
first deckers, ever, to fight the computer virus that swept the world's
databanks in 2029. Chase knew that rumor wasn't true, however, because
he knew the names of everyone at Echo Mirage. FastJack couldn't have
been one of that group. Their fates were all accounted for."(Dowd
212-3)[1].


# "The best Ork Decker you never met" -Me, in the
# upcoming "Target: UCAS" Shadowrun Sourcebook!

Another quotation:"It was also said that no one had ever met FastJack
in the flesh. Some said he had none."(Ibid. 213) Anything you want to
tell us Bull? :)

[1] Dowd, Tom. _Night's Pawn_. Penguin Group (Roc):New York, 1993.
ISBN 0-451--45238-0

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Message no. 16
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:23:13 -0400
> Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

Hard to say. Little is known of FJ's background.
In MY world, he was either an EM member, or one of the deckers who "got
ahold" of some EM equipment immediately afterwards.

> (AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

I believe this is correct. Most are dead, or still employed by the UCAS
govt. IIRC.

> Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
> other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

He's good ... Damn good.
He slaps Bash on the nose like a bad doggy in the Denver book.
I think he'd do the same to Dodger IMO. Dodger strikes me as more of a
sneaky style decker, rather than the gerrin' and rip'em type that Fastjack
can be.
Lucifer always seemed more of a theorist type to me, and since he's DOA,
the point is moot.
Perhaps the one decker that could give FJ trouble would be the ones working
for Dunkelzhan?
Remember the end of PANA? D logs on, and FJ jumps to trace him, but he
immediately escapes, and FJ is unable to trace him at all.
Also, Brightlight/Leonardo ... maybe, but IMO Leo is a cheatin' IE and
doesn't exist in my world! ;-)

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Message no. 17
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:24:32 -0400
> FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I
think.

WTF? Don't you mean Dodger was a Spike Baby?
AFAIK FJ is a human.

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Message no. 18
From: NightLife <habenir@******.SAN.UC.EDU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 01:31:32 -0400
>FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I think.

I believe you meant Dodger.

>>Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
>>other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

The Smiling Bandit maybe.

>Naw.. FastJack just can't lose :) He's just too much the cool elf.. and of
>course, being Tom Dowd's character, he'll never die.

Fastjacks the human, Dodger's the elf get it straight.

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Message no. 19
From: Andrew Norman <A.J.Norman@******.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 14:05:53 GMT00
> Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>
> (AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Wasn't one of the members killed in the novel about Jack the Ripper.
She was mad or paranoid and was a decker.

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Message no. 20
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:47:51 +0100
|
|Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
|again. I have a gift for it. :)
|
|Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
|said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
|deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

I'm not sure, but I THINK one of the only survivors of Echo Mirage was one
of the characters in one of the books... An old(ish) woman who got fried by
black IC when the main character was linked in with a neural mesh....

[GOD! What is that book????]

|(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
|is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Damian Knight as well eh????
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Message no. 21
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:49:27 +0100
I hate it when my mind ges blank!), although the
|elf has since kinda gone in a different direction. He now decks "naked"
|all the time, and is flirting with the AI he met...;]
|
|Dodger! that's his name! YES! :]

How could you forget such a name?????
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Message no. 22
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:59:35 +0100
Lady Jestyr said on 9:22/ 4 Jun 97...

> Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

I don't think it's specifically said anywhere how, when, or where
FastJack started decking, but he's been around for ages, since before the
Awakening anyway. This could mean he was part of Echo Mirage, but I don't
remember any confirmation (or denial) of that in SR sourcebooks or novels.
(FastJack was 12 years old in 2011, so that makes him 59 by 2058, though
he calls it "considerably older than [twelve]" in the Denver players'
book.)

> Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
> other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

FastJack is one of the best deckers in the world, perhaps even _the_ best.
Even the mysterious/powerful figures behind the Nexus (Bash, mainly) can't
stop FJ from messing with the system when Perri wants to say something
about the otaku, for example.
We don't know as much about the Dodger's abilities, but they're probably
around the same level as FJ's, since Dodger is about the same age
(probably a bit older) and has also seen the Matrix grow from nothing,
plus the Dodger has the advantage of being an elf, and therefore
physically in his 20s (in human terms) while FJ would have some aging
problems, I guess.

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Message no. 23
From: tom Cone <Brother-1@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 00:41:23 -1000
>>anybody who could stick it to FJ?
>Smiling Bandit maybe.
SB is pretty good, but I don't think he's that hot.
Message no. 24
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:29:33 -0400
At 09:51 AM 6/4/97 +1000, Lady Jestyr wrote these timeless words:
>> >Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
>> >again. I have a gift for it. :)
>> >
>> Yeah, you're even better than me. However, I've got you beat on the off
>> topic drek :]
>
>Of course - you've got inbuilt procedures to do it! *grin*
>
This is true...:]

>> >Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
>> >said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
>> >deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>> >
>> >(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
>> >is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)
>> >
>> Well, no ones sure, but FJ is old enough, and it is rumoured that he was
>> part of EM. He was 12 when the awakening hit, and that strange message hit
>> the internet ("Welcome to the 6th world. Play nice." Or something
close
>> to that).
>
>I remember that, but I had thought that the list consensus (IS there
>such a thing?!) was that FJ was not in EM...
>
Well... I'm not really sure where it says that or IF it says that... I
thuink it was hinted at in Denver, but I'm not sure...

>> Dodger! that's his name! YES! :]
>
>So so far Dodger is the only contender to stick it to FJ...
>
Basically,. and I think most will agree that FJ will slap Dodger around
like a rookie... Dodger doesn;t spend enough time honing his skills these
days... He's too busy flirting with an AI...:]

>> Bull-the-mind-is-going-Ork-Decker
>
>Ah, it's just old age, Granpa >:)
>
Gee thanks, young lady...

Hey, let me borrow a cane, Pete... Seems I've been promoted to the same
status as you! :]

>Lady Jestyr
>"Internationally Clueless" :)
>
I'll agree tehre...:]

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Message no. 25
From: "Mark E. Manhardt" <droopy@**.NET>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:38:53 +0000
> From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
> Subject: FastJack

> Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

I don't believe that his status with Echo Mirage was ever stated, but
he is certainly old enough to have been a part of that program.

> (AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Yeah....kinda funny, he's the ONLY person rumored to be a part of EM.
Why no others?

> Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
> other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

Well, he locked out a sysop in the Denver Data Haven from a remote
location (Canada IIRC.) Said sysop also quickly backed down when
Fastjack directly challenged him. I'd personally rate Fastjack as
the best non-Otaku decker out there considering the statements thrown
around in the books.


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Message no. 26
From: "Mark E. Manhardt" <droopy@**.NET>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:38:53 +0000
> From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
> Subject: Re: FastJack

> FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I think.

I'm pretty sure that he's a norm. I'll have to go back through and
look. (I'm prolly the only person out there who highlights the
damned decker comments, color coded by person.)


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Message no. 27
From: "Mark E. Manhardt" <droopy@**.NET>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:38:53 +0000
> From: The Spaceman <spaced@*.WASHINGTON.EDU>
> Subject: Re: FastJack
> Another quotation:"It was also said that no one had ever met FastJack
> in the flesh. Some said he had none."(Ibid. 213) Anything you want to
> tell us Bull? :)
>
> [1] Dowd, Tom. _Night's Pawn_. Penguin Group (Roc):New York, 1993.
> ISBN 0-451--45238-0

No, he has flesh alright. Made a comment once about restricted
movement, paralized perhaps.....


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Message no. 28
From: "Mark E. Manhardt" <droopy@**.NET>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:38:53 +0000
> From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
> Subject: Re: FastJack
> Remember the end of PANA? D logs on, and FJ jumps to trace him, but he
> immediately escapes, and FJ is unable to trace him at all.

Could be done by removing the SAN from the matrix (shut off the
machine?) It'd be hard to trace something that no longer exists,
especially if the SAN was temporary in the first place.


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Message no. 29
From: MENARD Steve <smenard@****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:01:36 -0500
Wrong. There is another known Echo Mirage member, though she died in
the novel she was introduced in:( She was the decker in 2XS, can't
remember her name.

Steve


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Subject: FastJack
Author: Shadowrun Discussion <SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET> at INTERNET
Date: 6/4/97 9:22 AM


Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
again. I have a gift for it. :)

Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)

(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)

Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?

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Message no. 30
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 09:55:22 -0400
At 08:38 AM 6/4/97 +0000, Mark E. Manhardt wrote these timeless words:
>> From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
>> Subject: Re: FastJack
>
>> FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I
think.
>
>I'm pretty sure that he's a norm. I'll have to go back through and
>look. (I'm prolly the only person out there who highlights the
>damned decker comments, color coded by person.)
>
<laugh>

Ya know, I can definately see wh6y you would do that... It's not a half
bad idea, really...:]

Bull
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Message no. 31
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 07:57:16 +1000
> <<(AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)>>
>
>
> <shrug> I don't even know if Damien Knight is. Lucien Cross wouldn't
> surprise me, and at least one member of EM decamped to each of the Matrix
> giants, probably. Unfortunately, I don't know of anywhere that all the
> member of EM are accounted for. I do know that the main book gives a
> little bit of info as to what happened to those who survived, but no
> specifics.

That little tidbit comes from Corporate Shadowfiles, I think. Not sure,
but I think in the Ares sec tion, where it's talking about Gavilan
Ventures, this comes up. Even so, AFAIK it's only shadowtalk, but it's
still the only hint we've got...



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Message no. 32
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:04:09 +1000
> > deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>
> Hard to say. Little is known of FJ's background.

Ahhhh! No! Tell me I'm right, dammit! :)

> I think he'd do the same to Dodger IMO. Dodger strikes me as more of a
> sneaky style decker, rather than the gerrin' and rip'em type that Fastjack
> can be.

The bit that really scared me was in one of the sourcebooks (I think
it's a sourcebook with gear in it, but I don't know which one) FastJack
casually says something to the effect of "Oh, I was wandering through
Fuchi's main Tokyo system the other day and here's what I found." Pause
for deckers to go into apoplexy... :)

> Lucifer always seemed more of a theorist type to me, and since he's DOA,
> the point is moot.

Yeah, that depressed me. I liked himm... :(



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Message no. 33
From: "MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:24:09 +1000
> Yeah, I know... I thought I'd initiate conversation on an old topic
> again. I have a gift for it. :)
>
> Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>
> (AFAIK the only known member of Echo Mirage prominent in the SR world
> is David Gavilan/Damien Knight, right?)
>
There were a few more mentioned at different times. Buddy, a decker
friend in one of the books (can't remember which one) was a member of
EM..... she gets brain-fried in the novel, so she's not around any more.

BTW; The bit about Knight being part of EM isn't substatiated.

> Also, just how good would you say FastJack is? Are there any of the
> other Shadowtalk characters that could stick it to him as a decker?
>
Nope, with the exception of Renny, and Fastjack seems to be on the same
side as him in all the incidents you get to read about.

Marty
Message no. 34
From: "MARTIN E. GOTTHARD" <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: FastJack
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:25:24 +1000
> >Anyway, my boyfriend and I were arguing about FastJack last night - he
> >said FastJack was part of Echo Mirage, I said he was the generation of
> >deckers after it. I'm right, aren't I? :)
>
> FastJack, AFAIK, was a spike baby.. so he's about 50 or 60 in 2058, I think.
>

Fastjack is human. (He'd damn-well better be!)

Marty
Message no. 35
From: mattness@**.pl (MATT)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:59:41 +0200
Hello everybody
Hoi priyatels
My name is mattness pl and I'm from Poland.
(sorry for my English, chummers)
That's my first post on ShadowRN

Motto:
> "Alice? Who the f... is Alice?!"<

"Fastjack" - who the frag is Fastjack?!
"...legendary decker..."
Does anybody try to collect facts about this character?

As I remember, he had some contacts with otaku kids in Denver...
In my private, I repeat, PRIVATE opinion it can be(but that's
just a thought) Damien Knight, one of the Ares big fishes.

According to Corporate Shadowfiles (rumours) Knight it's not his
real name. He is David Gavilian, major of USAF, liason to NSA,
headed up Echo Mirage projectback after Crash of '29.

Check quote of SR character Eddie Monster in mentioned
sourcebook.(In Ares Macrotechnology section, at the end of
Corporate Shadowfiles)
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Message no. 36
From: valeuj@*****.navy.mil (Valeu, John W. EM3 (AS40 R-3))
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:46:44 +1000
>Hello everybody
>Hoi priyatels
>My name is mattness pl and I'm from Poland.
>(sorry for my English, chummers)
>That's my first post on ShadowRN

Since I'm on the opposite side of the world, I get to be the first to
welcome you!!!

>Motto:
>> "Alice? Who the f... is Alice?!"<

Heh heh heh... I can tell you that one as well.

>"Fastjack" - who the frag is Fastjack?!
>"...legendary decker..."
>Does anybody try to collect facts about this character?

Fastjack
Real name: Unknown
Born in/around late 1990s

>As I remember, he had some contacts with otaku kids in Denver...
>In my private, I repeat, PRIVATE opinion it can be(but that's
>just a thought) Damien Knight, one of the Ares big fishes.

Nope.

>According to Corporate Shadowfiles (rumours) Knight it's not his
>real name. He is David Gavilian, major of USAF, liason to NSA,
>headed up Echo Mirage projectback after Crash of '29.

Correct. Damian/David currently has his hands full with running a megacorp.

Fastjack is roughly 60 years old. There's not a system he can't break into,
and there's not a program he can't write. In essence he is Harlequinn in
the Matrix.

Target: Matrix has a full rundown of him, Grid Reaper, Smiling Bandit
<Strikes Again! HA-HA-HA>, Red Wraith and Slamm-O!.
Message no. 37
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:26:29 +0100
On Oct 25, 2004, at 14:46, Valeu, John W. EM3 (AS40 R-3) wrote:

> Fastjack is roughly 60 years old. There's not a system he can't break
> into,
> and there's not a program he can't write. In essence he is Harlequinn
> in
> the Matrix.

Mmh... I wouldn't say that, actually. He's incredibly good, no
questions, but the big difference between him and Harlequin is that
there is only one Harlequin. Aside from great dragons, nothing comes
close. He's so far beyond what metahuman magicians can do (including
other IEs) it's not even funny.
Fastjack, on the other hand, is beyond world-class too, no questions,
but there are some metahumans of comparable "power" out there on the
Matrix. Dodger (the /other/ 70-year-old decker :p ) comes to mind.

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Message no. 38
From: nightgyr@*********.com.au (Smoke)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:43:37 +1000
> Mmh... I wouldn't say that, actually. He's incredibly good, no questions,
> but the big difference between him and Harlequin is that there is only one
> Harlequin. Aside from great dragons, nothing comes close. He's so far
> beyond what metahuman magicians can do (including other IEs) it's not even
> funny.
> Fastjack, on the other hand, is beyond world-class too, no questions, but
> there are some metahumans of comparable "power" out there on the Matrix.
> Dodger (the /other/ 70-year-old decker :p ) comes to mind.

Considering both Fastjack and Dodger are supposedly Elven, their age
probably doesnt matter too much.
Message no. 39
From: loneeagle@********.co.uk (Lone Eagle)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:19:26 +0100
At 03:43 PM 10/25/2004, Smoke wrote:
>Considering both Fastjack and Dodger are supposedly Elven, their age
>probably doesnt matter too much.

Dodger _is_ Elven, he was a Spike baby, I've never heard rumours that
Fastjack was elven though.
I have heard the rumours that he was once Echo Mirage - and his own denials
of same.


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Message no. 40
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:31:12 +0100
On Oct 25, 2004, at 15:43, Smoke wrote:

> Considering both Fastjack and Dodger are supposedly Elven, their age
> probably doesnt matter too much.

It does -- age means experience. Dodger is an Elf (spike baby born in
the 1990s); however I'm pretty sure Fastjack is human. IIRC he's also
an Echo Mirage survivor. Now given the number of people who claim to be
EM survivors, that may not mean much, but Fastjack is one of the 3 I'd
be inclined to believe really *are*. The other two being David
Gavilan/Damien Knight and Alice Haeffner.

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Message no. 41
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:29:14 +0200
According to Valeu, John W. EM3 (AS40 R-3), on Monday 25 October 2004 15:46
the word on the street was...

> Born in/around late 1990s

Probably 1999, going by p. 74 of the Denver player's book, which says he
was 12 in 2011.

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Message no. 42
From: lists@*******.com (Wordman)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:33:56 -0400
On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Max Noel wrote:

> I'm pretty sure Fastjack is human. IIRC he's also an Echo Mirage
> survivor.

He's also a Mac user. I don't remember where, but in some book he
mentions having a (fictional) Macintosh processor in use in his deck
(doing something minor), as a deck without it "just doesn't feel the
same". To which, someone responds "sounds like you've got yourself a
fetish there, Jack." Lord only knows why I remember this.

Wordman
Message no. 43
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:52:55 +0100
On Oct 26, 2004, at 04:33, Wordman wrote:

>
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Max Noel wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure Fastjack is human. IIRC he's also an Echo Mirage
>> survivor.
>
> He's also a Mac user. I don't remember where, but in some book he
> mentions having a (fictional) Macintosh processor in use in his deck
> (doing something minor), as a deck without it "just doesn't feel the
> same". To which, someone responds "sounds like you've got yourself a
> fetish there, Jack." Lord only knows why I remember this.

You just made my day. :-D

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Message no. 44
From: d_hyde@***.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:49:33 -0500
>> He's also a Mac user. I don't remember where, but in some book he
>> mentions having a (fictional) Macintosh processor in use in his deck
>> (doing something minor), as a deck without it "just doesn't feel the
>> same". To which, someone responds "sounds like you've got yourself a
>> fetish there, Jack." Lord only knows why I remember this.
>
> You just made my day. :-D

Hmm.....I wonder if he's got a dual or quad processor G9 Powerbook ;)
Message no. 45
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:12:16 +0200
According to Wordman, on Tuesday 26 October 2004 05:33 the word on the
street was...

> > I'm pretty sure Fastjack is human. IIRC he's also an Echo Mirage
> > survivor.
>
> He's also a Mac user. I don't remember where, but in some book he
> mentions having a (fictional) Macintosh processor in use in his deck

That's from the same page in the Denver book I mentioned the other day, and
IIRC even the same shadowcomment that gives his age :)

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Message no. 46
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:14:55 +0200
According to Derek Hyde, on Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:49 the word on the
street was...

> Hmm.....I wonder if he's got a dual or quad processor G9 Powerbook ;)

He has a Mac Firestorm -- or its processor, anyway :)

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Message no. 47
From: msde_shadowrn@*****.com (Mark S)
Subject: Fastjack
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:58:43 -0700 (PDT)
Wordman Wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Max Noel wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure Fastjack is human. IIRC he's also an Echo Mirage
> > survivor.
>
> He's also a Mac user. I don't remember where, but in some book he
> mentions having a (fictional) Macintosh processor in use in his deck
> (doing something minor), as a deck without it "just doesn't feel the
> same". To which, someone responds "sounds like you've got yourself a
> fetish there, Jack." Lord only knows why I remember this.

Ha, I remember when our gaming group got Denver and we all laughed
about
that one. It's on Denver p.74, I had to go dig it up. They're talking
about an immortal elf link posted in 2011 that FastJack downloaded
personally. From the sounds of things, either FastJack has some
ungodly
heap of a deck, or they made the move from silicon to optical well
before 2011.

>>>>>(I was twelve. I am now considerably older than that. For the
record, I downloaded it using an old, sorry-state Mac Firestorm I found
in my uncle's basement. That machine's main processor now resides in
my
deck, though it's doing tertiar sub-level assignment work. Any deck
without it feels uncomfortable.)<<<<<

--FastJack (19:51:29/5-21-55)


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