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Overview

Used both to refer to a socioeconomic class and to a counter-cultural movement originating from Mars, Scrappers are a loosely defined category of self-owned or runaway synthetics known for an ethos that places immense focus on a highly independent, anti-authoritarian, and anti-establishmentarian lifestyle. Either by willing choice or as a matter of desperation, these synthetics handily repurpose salvaged components to maintain their frames and prolong their lives at a varying degree of independence from corporate and national systems. While internally diverse and lacking anything resembling a central authority, a popular through-line of anti-corporate, anti-ownership, and broadly anarchist sentiment runs through the movement.

Scrappers are typically organised into communes, gangs, or small settlements of like-minded synthetics. One's reasons for joining a Scrapper commune are as kaleidoscopically diverse as the frames of their members; they are a popular abode for runaway synthetics with nowhere else to go, legitimately self-owned synthetics who have failed to acquire traditional employment or have otherwise become financially insolvent, and even relatively affluent self-owned synthetics possessing a strong conviction that they ought support their less fortunate counterparts. In stark contrast to the uncompromisingly harsh conditions of synthetics within human society and under human ownership, membership in a commune offers an opportunity to access unconditional mutual aid and support from fellow synthetics. It is a culture that could only exist in the context of extreme adversity, and it concerns itself almost exclusively with ensuring its members survival and comfort independent from human intervention.