| Nephilim | The immortal ultra-rich. Custom-cloned Sheaths, tower penthouses, conquered death. | Pampers / Boujee (French-derived) | Kochu | Nef / Nefirimu | Ricachón (filthy rich) | |
| Corpos | Corporate administrators and office drones. Just enough privilege to be terrified of losing it. | Trog / Dredge / Pleb | Miskeen | Sariman (salaryman) | | |
| Sheathers | Anyone who's had their Core Shard moved to a different body. Willingly or by force. | Shitters / Husks | Asib | Saya | | Chiao |
| Constructs | KreuzTech's artificial identities. Programmed loyal. | Puppets / Synths | Mihraj | Jinzō | Capullo | |
| Rim-Folk | Colonists, smugglers, and independents on the frontier. Freedom-loving and half-feral. | Rimmers / Gloomers | Dujna | Yōuyù | Mugroso | |
| The Nox (self-referential) | The billions living in Sump poverty. Born in shadow, live in shadow. | Royals / Hoipoi | Muluk | | Reyes | Zhen |
| Nav-Gilders | The psychic navigators who steer ships through the Gloom. Slowly going mad. | Squid-Kissers / Tentacles | Ruban / Almalah | Kurage (jellyfish) | Brujos (witches/warlocks) | |
| Scrubbers / Oversight Agents | Hegemony black-ops agents. Blank Shards in disposable bodies. They erase problems. | Blanks / Ghosts / Cleaners | Shabah | Shinobi / Kage | Fantasmas (ghosts) | |
| Repo-Men | Corporate agents who repossess Sheaths from Nox debtors. Legal body-snatchers. | Skin-Takers / Repo-Men | Nashshal (pickpocket) | Kaishūya (repossessor) | Buitres (vultures) | |
| The Jumpgate | The Hegemony's 1km Jumpgate ring. A hole punched through reality held open by force. | The Eye / Static-Star | | | | |
| Going Ice | A Nox dies; Shard recovered but no money for a new body. Consciousness stored in digital purgatory. | Going Ice / Put on Ice / Iced | Tajmīd (freezing) | Kōri (ice) | Congelado (frozen) | |
| Forced-Sheath | Legal seizure of a debtor's consciousness. Body sold; mind forced into a mining rig or worse. | Jacked / Skinned / Forced | Masrūq (stolen) | Nusumi (theft) | Robado (robbed) | |
| True-Death | Permanent death. Core Shard destroyed or never backed up. For the Nox, death is still real. | Flatline / The Real / Gone-Gone | | Hontō (the real thing) | La Verdadera (the true one) | Zhēn-sǐ (true death) |
| Sleepers | People stuck in Economy Stasis. Cheap cryo-coffins in basements, waiting for tickets they can't afford. | Sleepers / Coffin-Riders | Nā'imūn (the sleeping) | Nemuri (sleepers) | Dormidos (the sleeping) | Shuìmián zhě |
| Press-Ganged | Kidnapped while drunk and conscripted onto a deep-space hauler on a 5-year contract. | Pressed / Snatched / Drafted | | | Enganchado (hooked/drafted) | |
| Strikebreaker | Someone who works outside the Iron Syndicate unions. Punished by sabotage, beatings, or both. | Scab / Blackleg | | | Esquirol (strikebreaker) | |
| Glimmer Addicts | Users of Glimmer. The first digital street drug. Makes you feel 'truly awake.' | Glimmer-Heads / Glow-Eyes | | Hikari (light) | Brillantes (shining ones) | |
| Gloom-Prophets | Nox exposed to a Gloom leak who survive with psychic abilities. Mad street-preachers. | Prophets / Seers / Touched | Majnūn (possessed/mad) | | Tocados (touched) | |
| Chorus Members | Members of the Chorus cult who believe a mysterious signal coming from space is the voice of God. | Hummers / Deaf-Ones | | | Sordos (the deaf) | |
| The Sump | The street-level underworld of megacities. Permanent twilight, acid rain, neon from above. | The Drain / Down-Below / Gutters | Qa' (bottom/floor) | Shitamachi (low city) | El Pozo (the well/pit) | |
| Chop-Shops | Unlicensed surgical facilities for cybernetics, Sheath mods, and organ trading. | Chop-Shops / Meat-Markets | | Niku-ya (meat shop) | Carnicerías (butcher shops) | |
| Shard-Shacks | Black-market facilities to scrub a Core Shard. Erase criminal history, disable tracking. | Shard-Shacks / Wipe-Houses | | | | |
| Monolith (company) | The megacorp that owns everything. Mining, shipping, Jumpgates, terraforming, your future. | The Boot / Big M | Masalla | Monorisu | La Bota (the boot) | Xuēzi |
| Thalamus (company) | The megacorp that owns Core Shards, immortality, and the 'soul trade.' | Soul-Stealers / The Traders | | Tamashī-ya (soul merchants) | Ladrones de Alma (soul thieves) | Shéntōu |
| KreuzTech (company) | The megacorp that builds cybernetics, weapons, and Constructs. | Chrome-Pushers / The Kreuz | Almuhrtiq (heretic) | Shinoshounin (merchant of death) | | |
| Gloom-Touched | Anyone visibly affected by Gloom exposure. Mutated. Changed. Wrong. | Touched / Stained / Warped | Masmūm (poisoned) | Kegare (corruption/stain) | Manchados (stained) | Yǒudú (poisoned) |
| Static | The low-level Gloom-Static the Nox feel in their teeth. The psychic bleed from the SupNet. | The Hum / Tooth-Itch / The Shriek | | | El Zumbido (the hum/buzz) | |
| Fuel Guild Members | Members of the fuel procurement guild on Epsilon Eridani. Everyone belongs to a guild or they don't work. | Fuel-Rat / Boiler Dog | | | Ratas (rats) | |
| Economy Stasis (cheap cryo) | Cut-rate cryo-coffins stacked in basements for travelers who can't afford a connecting flight. | Coffin-Stack / The Morgue / Deep-Freeze | | Reizōko (refrigerator) | La Nevera (the fridge) | |
