Everything you need to try Chrome & Covenant is free. The books give you the complete experience.
What’s Free
The free content on this site is not a stripped-down demo. It’s a complete, playable experience:
Rules: Full 2d10 resolution system, character creation, core classes, skills, basic combat, starter cyberware catalog, one Conduit Protocol path, datarunning basics with starter programs, equipment list, and the currency system.
World: The complete Lucent Ark story, 14 AI profiles, all four regions at overview depth, 8–10 faction profiles, the Mesh and its layers, and an interactive timeline.
Play: Neutral St. Louis as a fully detailed free starter city, The Milk Run (starter Blip), Historical Era Blips, The Echo Protocol (jump start adventure PDF), GM tools, and downloadable character sheets.
Fiction: All completed short stories, published free and cross-linked to regions, factions, and AIs.
What’s in the Books
The books provide depth, breadth, and variety that the free content introduces but doesn’t exhaust:
Expanded classes and subclasses. The free rules give you one class. The Core Rulebook gives you all of them, with paths, hybrid options, and advanced mechanics.
Complete equipment catalogs. The free site has starter lists. The supplements have full catalogs with modification systems — hundreds of weapons, cyberware, drones, and vehicles.
Deep faction lore and mechanics. The free profiles are “common knowledge dossiers.” The Factions & Reputation book covers 23+ factions with NPC rosters, mission generators, and mechanical integration.
Regional sourcebooks. The free site gives overview-depth regions. The sourcebooks map every district, name every power player, and provide months of session content per region.
Advanced GM tools. Echo construction frameworks, campaign management systems, NPC generators, and front tracking tools that make running C&C sessions easier and richer.
The hidden truths. The free content tells you the public story. The books tell you what really happened — and what’s still happening in the background.