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====The Mini-Factions====

When the deluxe Order and Chaos (Anarch + Weyland) was released the Netrunner community was left to wonder: who would NBN share the last deluxe with? As there are 3 runner factions and 4 corps the answer was not obvious - some reckoned there'd be one of each runner identities, others reckoned a new faction, but when Data and Destiny dropped the answer was somewhere in-between: three runners, each with a very limited card pool, a lot of influence and a unique theme. All had some similarities to the existing factions, but clear differences as well.

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: '''Sunny Lebeau'''
:: Working for the large and independent security corporation Globalsec, Sunny Lebeau tests corporate security and investigates megacorp wrongdoing. She's a strong and independent womyn who don't need no man, working to provide for her children and eventually save enough get her wife Pat away from her job on Mars. Equipped with the best gear and security clearance Globalsec can provide, Sunny has no passive ability - she simply has 2 Link; good for winning traces, the minimum amount needed to turn on the memory-saving ability of certain breakers, and the amount needed to make certain resources work. The general descriptor for the way Sunny operates is "slow and expensive, but good" - with costly but powerful breakers, probably the best high-cost console in the game, and good ability to make money from resources, it often takes Sunny a while to get set up, but her late-games are crushingly powerful. She is the only one of the Mini-Factions to come with a full breaker suite, so she's the most usable and conventional mini-faction runner right out of the box. For the expensive but inevitable late-game power, Sunny is often considered to be similar to shapers.   
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:  '''Adam'''
:: Bioroid Jesus. A bioroid with no memory of who he is and and his Directives ([[Robot|Asimov's Three Laws]]) altered to give him a semblance of free will and a singular and independent purpose: Always Be Running. It could be that he escaped somehow, was set free, or is just a useful idiot for Haas-Bioroid on a blacker-than-black-ops mission buried in his programming.
::Adam has three Directives, resources that start the game installed and are effectively part of his ID text, which offer some powerful abilities, though they all come with drawbacks. His card pool comes with a number of ways to shutting off these Directives along with a console that scales when he scores agendas, showing Adam growing past his programming. Because the directives start installed, Adam generally gets off to a fast start - mainly because he's often forced to run. While this makes him vulnerable, it also puts a lot of pressure on the corp. Other than the directives and the cards focused on removing or temporarily blanking them, Adam's cards are focused on utility. With his early-game pressure and need to run, Adam is sometimes considered to be a pseudo-criminal.  

:  '''Apex'''
:: Most [[Cthulhu|mysterious]] of the Mini-Faction runners, nobody knows exactly what the hell Apex is except FFG, and maybe not even then. It could be a virus that became sentient, an AI experiment that went rogue, or maybe [[Gay Purple Man]] went to [[/d/]] and Apex is what crawled out. All anyone knows about Apex is that it is very hard to stop, and it eats data like a fa/tg/uy eats Cheetos. It gets out as much as a fa/tg/uy too; being a non-physical entity it can't install non-Virtual resources.
::Apex uses the cards on the board as a resource that can be spent - its faction cards usually require it to trash a card to use an ability, and at the start of every turn Apex can install a card facedown for free, no clicks needed. Apex can do a lot of things with these - [https://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/09032 avoid damage,] [https://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/09036 make money,] [https://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/09031 trash ICE,] and power [https://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/09033 Endless Hunger]. That last one is important; Apex can threaten servers even with no cash, though it's rolling for [[Anal circumference|anal circumference]] if it hits something that doesn't say ''exactly'' "End the run" on it. Its signature console makes it ''very'' hard to kill - throw enough cards on the table and you can walk through the worst meatgrinders the Corp can muster and come out swinging. Oh, and it can [https://netrunnerdb.com/en/card/09030 pull a diet Wrath of God out of its ass.] For the trashing abilities and common use of alternative costs Apex is most like an Anarch.