d10 Ways The Company Tracks You

Inspired by the awesome d10 Reasons You're In The Corporation's Pocket over at traaa.sh. That site has some awesome Mothership resources. 

This is some setting infrastructure, but don't feel like it has to be this Universal Solution. It could be that in this quadrant things are a certain way, but not in others. The Company has to adapt to different markets and sectors. 

If you've already started a game and need to introduce this, 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 are pretty easy to work in; some of the others are 'hidden behavior / things in the PCs' and may or may not work.

Art by Xenya Dominguez

d10 Ways The Company Tracks You

1. Ship burst-transmits whenever it jumps; the Company has an elaborate system of message-receiver satellites and couriers that pull data from them. Burst-transmitter is built into your ship's jump calculator.
2. Hidden cameras on the ship, hidden brain-in-a-jar somewhere on the ship, secret network of space-brainwave transmissions in these sectors.
3. Civilization scabs sell your data as soon as you're getting docked; they're buying data from the station manifest-checkers and selling it to the Company.
4. Hypnogogic command dream-locked into the humans causes them to lose a tiny bit of time at each port transmitting reports up to the Company. Androids unaffected.
5. There are a lot of spy scouts and couriers in the area that fly into scanning range and jet away again.
6. Preinstalled cyberware (1 slot, body camera and transmitter) broadcasts data to corp networks every so often. Reapable, as in, you could try to get this cut out and sold, however the Company will see this as a breach of contract and try to retake any loaned goods.
7. Obvious cameras in ship, 'tamper proof' physical data dumps when in civilization when docked. Spacewalking best way to have a private conversation.
8. Spot bonuses incentivize self-reporting - jobs often pay less as this is how most ships cover fuel, O2, stores.
9. Locator/IFF beacon and cargo scanners that you need to work track data and transmit it to Company systems.
10. Jump-space monitoring by a fleet of Android pilots who are begging for any kind of release from where they are stationed, but also still doing their job.