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Project Babylon

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Netrunner Project Babylon
 
Card Name:Project Babylon
Set: Netrunner Limited
Language: en
Number: 214 / 374
Rarity: Vital
Player: Corporation
Card Type: -
Difficulty: 3
Agenda points: 1
Rules Text:

Score 1 additional agenda point for every two advancement counters over Project Babylon's difficulty that are on Project Babylon when you score it.

Flavor Text:
Illustration: Greg Staples
Copyright: v1.0 © 1996 WotC
Versions of this Card
1 Project Babylon 214 / 374 Netrunner Limited (en) v1.0 © 1996 WotC
2 Projet Babylone 214 / 373 Netrunner French Unlimited (fr) v2.0 fr © 1996 WotC
Prototype & Rulings
 
Player: Corporation
Card Name:Project Babylon
Card Type: -
Difficulty: 3
Agenda points: 1
Rules Text:

Score 1 additional agenda point for every two advancement counters over Project Babylon's difficulty that are on Project Babylon when you score it.

Additional Card Rulings & Errata
  Ruling Source Date
The Runner only scores 1 agenda point for stealing Project Babylon, regardless of the number of advancement counters on it. Sparky
Netrunner-L
05/22/1996
Trivia

Many players are not quite sure what this agenda represents in the game world setting. Wizards of the Coast NetRep Sparky has revealed the following:

Concept: The Corporation co-opts a counterculture movement, warping it into working for the Corporation rather than against it. In essence, the members of the movement sell out to the establishment.

The "Babylon" reference may be explained by the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9). In this story, the people of Babel attempt to build a tower to reach into heaven. God intervenes, making the workers speak different languages so they cannot understand one another, and the tower falls into ruin. Project Babylon represents an attempt to put a lot of time and effort into a single agenda, in the hope that it can be scored before the runner knocks it down (liberates it).

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The rock band pictured on the card art bear some resemblance to a real-life band called Gwar, who dress up in huge styrofoam costumes to gain this appearance.

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Babel was a main theme in the cyberpunk novel Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson.

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Issue #16 (SRY 4016, September 1996)
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