Organization:Uniqus

Founded in 12006 NH, Uniqus (pronounced Yew-nee-kwas) is a high-end SAM developer and an associated retail chain. The company produces expensive, well-programmed Superhuman Ability Modules that are eligible for tech support forever. Unfortunately, it also tends to produce powerful SAMs that push the limits of what SAMs can do.

The primary limiter of SAMs is that the programming required to give someone god-like powers would need to have unlimited access to the New Real. Since even the Descendants don't have that level of access, theoretically it would be impossible for a SAM to make someone a god.

Uniqus takes that as a challenge. Even the most restricted, and some would say most pointless, of Uniqus SAMs, Teaching Aid, has the power to create pocket universes and pseudo-timelines along with summoning objects from thin air. The two most overpowered of their SAMs, Borderline and Extropy, are more commonly known by their names among the criminal element as "Gap-Hax" and "Hard to Destroy", due to the terms being featured in heist films and action movies as terms for rich people who bought their way to invincibility.

As a result, Uniqus is seen by many SAM owners as a traitor to the original ethics of SAMs, catering to people who already have more than they deserve, at the cost of making the New Real pay-to-win. Others point out that instead of providing a bit more power to people who feel powerless in the relatively utopian but chaotic and crowded metroscapes of Gaia, Uniqus is trying to make the world that much closer to a cyberpunk dystopia where people who can afford Uniqus products feel entitled to have power over those who can't. Others still, mostly those who use their powers to help people who the overextended police force can't spare an officer, feel that the luxury pedigree of Uniqus and the customers that reputation draws to Uniqus products undermines the only legitimate use of a Superhuman Ability Module.