Riko LaPorte's Connections

Bubz wires Riko's grow-op equipment without comment after every fire; the relationship is unspoken and continuous After each fire, Bubz rewires the equipment and Riko resumes cultivation without turning the repair into a discussion.

Resident of Trailer 3-Bravo; the sheet-metal grow-lean-to extends off the back of the trailer toward the Park's south catwalk and Lt. Foam the kittenbot has imprinted on the lean-to's vent steam pattern in a way Bubz has classified as 'fookin' settled' Riko's home is physically fused to the grow-lean-to and the south catwalk, making his private trailer part of the Park's shared hazard and revenue map.

Forty stacked trailers too poor to automate and therefore rich in the connection the Heights pays to buy back.

Peripheral crewmate; Riko has not been told he was signed up as the Hash Synth-Tar Resurfacing front for Jules's current Get-Rich-Real-Easy iteration and would not accept the information if he were Jay-Roc's sub-label and Riko's resurfacing kit are being joined by Jules into a front operation Riko has not knowingly approved.

A cosplay netrunner who has broadcast corrupted audio to no listener since 2181.

Jules designs the schemes; Riko runs the lean-to that funds the schemes. The relationship is fraternal and load-bearing Jules supplies plans and pressure; Riko supplies revenue and trust, even after each scaling attempt burns the lean-to again.

A Dregs schemer on Phase Eight of the Get-Rich-Real-Easy Plan — one in seven clears, which he calls a positive trend.

Container 7-Delta — the operational planning room where Jules outlines schemes and Riko occupies the overturned crate by the scheme wall Riko enters the bay as the revenue anchor Jules keeps planning around, taking the crate beside the wall where the next request will become his problem.

An unsealed cargo-container planning bay where Jules's green drink glow signals his presence across Dregs Park.

Files Riko's grow-lean-to as 'Resident Hobbyist Workspace 4-Charlie' on the weekly compliance report; Riko has never been told and never asked Corrin's compliance schema misnames the grow-lean-to as hobbyist workspace, giving Riko's actual revenue engine an innocuous administrative mask.

A Good Fortune sector-overseer administratively dead since 2179, still filing weekly compliance reports nobody reads.

Sources the salvaged glucose-bulb shells he packages product in; the Sump Row dealers who fence the output have stopped asking his name Riko's product leaves in Sump Row shells and through Sump Row dealers, while the dealers accept anonymity as the price of steady purity.

An illegal smelter canyon where 6,000 workers process the 69% of waste Ironclad's own facilities won't touch.

Has paid Patch in synth-tar coupons on three documented occasions for kittenbot-adjacent repair work; the coupons have been filed in a drawer labeled 'do not honor' and Riko has not been informed Riko pays Patch in synth-tar coupons for repair work adjacent to Bubz's kittenbot needs, while Patch files the coupons rather than honoring or rejecting them.

The Dregs' only middle class, anchored by a shop whose technicians out-diagnose Helix at a fifteenth of the price.

Operational revenue anchor; runs the unbranded grow-op that keeps the crew solvent Riko belongs to the crew through the lean-to's output: his product is the one operation that reliably clears enough value to keep the others possible.

Eight Deep Dregs hustlers held together by a demoted overseer's paperwork fiction and a warmth no corporation can buy.