# Introduction

*The Chrome Market, Near-Future Weapons, Cyberware, and Street Tech for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/chrome-market/introduction*

In the last century a gun was a gun. It did not know who was holding it, it did not report where it was, and nobody three streets away could turn it off.

> **Everything here is connected, and everything connected can be reached.**

That is the bargain of every item in this book. Linked gear is better than what came before, and it has a second owner: whoever can get into it. A crew in this period chooses, piece by piece, how much of that bargain to take.

## What You Should Expect

**Smart weapons.** The **Smart** quality removes Bane Dice for a linked shooter. It also makes the weapon a target for a jammer, a pulse grenade, and a hacker.

**Cyberware with a cost.** Every implant has a **Load**, and Load comes off the character's Strain Points for good. A body takes only so much. Chapter 5 has the rule and Chapter 6 the catalogue.

**Bioware.** Grown augmentation: quieter, undetectable, immune to a pulse, slower to get, and three times the price.

**Intrusion as a clock.** Chapter 8 runs a hack in the same rounds as the fight around it: layers to get through, an Alert that climbs, and countermeasures that bite back.

**Drones.** Chapter 9 gives eleven, with three ways to run them.

**A watched city.** Chapter 10 rates places by **Coverage** and crews by **Heat**, and sells the false faces, false names, and jammers that keep one from becoming the other.

**Prices for everything.** Chapter 11: clinics, fixers, safehouses, and what a month of life costs.

<img class="framed" src="https://exodusnds.com/assets/sourcebook/chrome_market/chrome-market-street-stall.jpg">

## Two Tiers

| Tier | Years | What it looks like |
|:--|:--|:--|
| **Near** | About 2030 to 2060 | Smart guns, exoskeletons, drones everywhere, the first implants worth having, cameras that know faces |
| **Chrome** | About 2060 to 2100 | Neural links, replaced limbs and nerves, monowire, powered armour, synthetic bodies |

A Chrome game has everything from the Near tier, cheaper and second-hand.

## Using This Book in Your Universe

**The names are generic.** A Universe supplies its own makers, corporations, and slang.

**A Universe's own rules come first.** Where a Universe prints its own intrusion procedure, surveillance track, or implants, use them, and use this book for the gear.

**The weapons of today still work.** Everything in *The Modern Armory* is on sale in this period at half price. This book adds what is new.

**The far future has its own book.** Gauss rifles, flechette guns, and energy weapons are in *The Stellar Armory*. A Chrome game may take its early ones from there as prototypes.

## What You Need

The **Exodus NDS core rules**.