Even before the PCC took the contract for the entire Denver Matrix, the sector's grid was a great example of Pueblo efficiency put to work. Designed to look like a marketplace, each "street" holds a different kind of business; you won't find the Tablelands Restaurant next door to Tablelands Software. Within this framework, each host can still be decorated individually. And yes, "back alley businesses" are literally in back alleys.
> As the PCC now owns the Denver Matrix contract, all Denver grids are slowly being replaced to fit this design scheme.
> Grid Reaper
> Not all of the back alleys hold shady systems. Some of them are backdoors into a legitimate system and others are shortcuts to another part of the grid. I understand one of them is the entrance to Ghostwalker's private node, and it teleports periodically.
> FastJack
Along with a well-designed grid come skilled Pueblo deckers. In fact, some of that local talent comes from a Tablelands subsidiary, so expect to be on the receiving end of some new code that your opposition wants to field-test.
> There's been an upswing of Zuñi otaku here, just like the one in Pueblo. These otaku get on reasonably with the ones at the Nexus, but they're a little gun-shy. They seem more interested in watching and playing than anything else, with the exception of a small group that hangs around the Asylum's system. Don't ask me why, but I get the impression that they're waiting for something.
> Holly
Not surprisingly, most of the businesses around here focus on the Matrix in some form or another. Two of the biggies are Renraku's HyperSense and Novatech's Simplex Software. They like to keep their presence low-key; Renraku because of the Seattle arcology fiasco, and Novatech because the mega as a whole has been sporting a more UCAS-affiliated image, so naturally they wouldn't want to alienate the Pueblo population. As a side benefit, audits seem to go more smoothly.
> Novatech also has a Nightingale's here. It does a brisk business in headware of all sorts, from datajacks to encephalons, with internal enhancements such as bone lacing and jolt-alerts coming in a close second. The key here is to be discreet; even if what you want done is legal, if you don't have a SIN or a preferred share it's best if you have plenty of nuyen with which to grease the right palms. They don't like having to call PuebSec, since it makes an unseemly fuss, but you can bet they will if you make enough noise. In fact, that goes for the rest of the corps in the Pueblo sector as well.
> Sterling
> Here's something worth mentioning: PuebSec doesn't place a lot of restrictions on alcohol and simchips up to the Cal Hots level. But if you commit a crime while under the influence, chummer, you're toast. They treat it as pre-meditated; you planned on getting wasted, therefore you planned on committing a crime. And forget about BTLs, while you're at it. Those are way illegal, and if you get caught dealing, count on the penalty to be five times as stiff than just for possession.
> Bender