>>> [BBS THREAD: TerraFirst!—What You Need to Know]

[THREAD STARTED BY: /screaming_dandelion]

/screaming_dandelion

For those who still think TerraFirst! is just some ragtag group of neo-hippies chaining themselves to trees, wake up. They’re a decentralized, fanatically militant eco-anarchist network. Cells operate globally, but UCAS and NAN border zones see the most activity. They target heavy industry, biotech labs, and arcology farms. Most cells reject modern tech, even cyberware. Others use it tactically—think hacked drone swarms or awakened badgers with BTL-triggered rage states. They’re not above killing civilians if they see them as “collaborators.” Be aware. Be careful.

/matrix_widow

Adding to the above: TerraFirst! cells vary in ideology. You got your “Earth Mother” shamans in Salish-Shidhe who do ritual reclamation, yeah, but there’s also nihilist cells in Redmond that bomb water treatment plants just because they're “unnatural.” They hate the corps, but they also distrust technomancers, cybered runners, and even mana-tech mages. One cell in Detroit lit a wizkid on fire for using spirit-bound fertilizer. These aren’t your friendly tree-huggers. Think Black Bloc with summoning circles.

/holofox

Can confirm. Ran against a cell in the Redmond Barrens, called themselves "The Hollow Root." Took out a biotech testing site. They left the lab monkeys alive... but slit the throats of the researchers. Left a manifesto carved into a corpse. Creepy fraggers.

/DrDoubleTap

Had a deal with a Johnson in Snohomish who hired a crew to secure a gene-lab. TerraFirst! blew up the transit route two days before the op. Thought we had a leak, but turns out they were watching the local construction drones to ID lab deliveries. They're smart.

/FungalTommy

Worked a job near Tarislar. Their elven cell there is basically a death cult. Called themselves "Soil Pact." Poisoned three block’s worth of soy patches to “return nutrients to the land.” Got a lotta hungry folks in Bellevue now. Thanks, greenboys.

/shatterchain

Saw a mage summon a storm to collapse a low-income housing block they claimed “disrupted a ley line.” Old woman died in her bathtub. Buncha green spirits circled her apartment for an hour after. These people make Toxic shamans look reasonable.

/tomo

We had a technomancer who wanted to parley with a TerraFirst! squad...something about shared anti-corp sentiment. They planted a data-bomb in his commlink. He lost half his face. Point is, if you’re part machine or use “unnatural code,” you’re already on their dreklist.

/GhostWitch

Weird thing? I’ve seen a few TerraFirst! shamans use cyber spirits, machine-elementals that shouldn’t exist. Makes you wonder if some of them aren’t just twisting Earth worship into a justification for power grabs and chaos.

/paxomega

Frag TerraFirst!. One of their cells burned down a street clinic in Tacoma. Said it was “healing the unworthy.” Was a trauma ward. Bunch of SINless orks inside. Dead. Never forget that.

/Urban_Ghost_42

Don’t assume they’re unorganized. I tracked financial transactions from three different “ecofriendly” charities in Seattle funneling cred to their cells. Front orgs. They're laundering donations from real idealists into bomb parts.

/Rimecode

They tried to recruit me back in '68. Said deckers who exposed corp pollution data would be “redeemed.” Then they asked me to hack a hydro plant and make it flood a slum. Real inspiring stuff.

/SwitchbladeMary

Best way to ID TerraFirst! op signs? Watch for nature symbology twisted into weapon imagery, roots growing through rifles, vines choking drones, beetles crawling over dataterms. They brand everything like it’s an art show.

/ColdDawn

One of their awakened operatives in Puyallup used plant growth spells to rupture sewer lines under a corp R&D site. Whole area smells like death and methane. Still uninhabitable.

/NullSyntax

Hey! Don’t sleep on their Matrix ops either. Some of their runners are into “digital wilding”... Releasing code viruses that replicate like invasive species. One wiped an entire Horizon talent pool database.

/ManWithNoSIN

I used to think they were just misguided. Then one of their "reclaimers" firebombed a squat where my cousin lived because it was “on sacred moss.” They’re zealots. Period.

/deepscourge

Just to balance the hatefest: yeah, they’re nuts, but they did run a corp-eviction out of an old Salish sacred site. Runners say it was clean. No casualties clean. Just drones, spirits, and a lot of scorched tire rubber. Not all cells are psychotic.

/ZeroOne

Maybe. But that same cell torched a logging camp two months later. Killed four ork workers. Who’s innocent? Who decides? Not them.

/FugueFlynn

Frag ‘em. Frag their vines. Frag their animal spirits. I’m planting landmines around my greenhouse now just in case they “reclaim” it next week.

/TlalocSpine

I’ve run with them. Not proud. Some of them really believe in the cause. Others just want to watch concrete burn. It’s not one movement. It’s a hundred angry gods fighting over who gets to call it sacred.

/SlamOmni

If you get hired to hit a TerraFirst! node, double your fee. If you're approached to work for them, triple it and make sure you get paid in advance. And then burn the commlink you got the call on. They don’t forgive. Or forget.