“I used to be foolhardy just like you. But I found a way out through voluntary work in the local community.” –Brad

District: The Pleasure Strip

Occupation: Ex-Cyberpig turned square head good guy.

Before signing up to be a scumbag cop, Brad was a scumbag full stop. In his youth, he was a huge fan of Gunther’s crystal and seriously believed that, because he didn’t wallow in Little Amsterdam, he was a better class of junkie.

Many years ago, Brad was partying at the Flying Arm Bar. He deliberately got into a fight with six knuckleheads over a spilt drink. He picked up a pool cue and smashed it over their heads in turn, knocking them all out in the space of a minute.

When security came pounding over to him, Brad knocked them out too, and then the whole bar descended into scenes of mindless violence. It wasn’t long before the Cyberpigs turned up and restrained Brad, dragging him to the rear of a riot truck and throwing him inside.

“You mother fuckers,” Brad yelled. “Let’s fight it out right here, right now!”

“Relax, you big chump,” a piggy said to him. “You’re not under arrest.”

“I’m not?”

“No, no. We actually want to recruit you.”

“You serious?”

“Damn straight. We watched your little bar fight after one of our off-duty buddies beamed over a live broadcast to my Skanna. He was mightily impressed and so are we.”

Brad was immediately fast tracked through some “training” and given his badge at a ceremony where he swore to “shoot now, serve later”.

It wasn’t long before Brad had earned himself a reputation as a complete bastard, second only to chief bastard Brutus. He fully embraced the Cyberpigs way of life, terrorising Cyberia’s citizens on a daily basis and smashing his daily quota of “having one less punk on the streets”.

But it turned out that deep down Brad wasn’t like the other Cyberpigs. For several years he would collapse after a 24-hour shift, splattered with brains and blood, and begin to wrestle with his conscience.

One day he disappeared without a trace. After a couple of weeks searching, his colleagues presumed that he’d fallen victim to a Cyberpig slayer (such as Jo Chi) and he was designated as missing in action. Yet Brad wasn’t missing. To the contrary he was finding his true self.

It turns out that prior to his disappearance, Brad was approached by some monks who told him that if he wanted to change his life around and be a role model for today’s youth then he should visit their virtual reality monastery.

Brad decided to give it a go and after a year of spiritual healing, he vowed to help as many aimless punks to reconsider their lives through intervention and motivational speeches.

But being an ex-Cyberpig sticks a huge target on his back, but so far nobody has come after him.

Until now…

Preferred Weapon: The boomerang. But these days he tries not to use it.

Advice for the youth of today: “I used to be trigger happy as a young pup, too. But I found that collecting litter on an early Sunday morning really turned my life around.”

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