The Packrats and the T-Hack in grydscaen are two groups that are fighting for information freedom and the end of oppression in the Echelons and the Zone. The view from the City is that these groups are rebel forces that are causing chaos in the Echelons.
The Packrats specifically are out to equalize the landscape. The Zone Police and the enforcers and trackers of the Elite government are rounding up psychics off the street and taking them in for experimentation at the hands of the military. This is an error in the eyes of the Packrats.
More than an error of judgement, the Elite government has stated that order can only come through ultimate power and controlling the unruly elements of the populace like the psychics and the poor is necessary.
The Packrats see freedom as their cause and send out small parties to stop the raids by the trackers and free those that get caught. Of course the Packrats are outnumbered and out gunned by the Zone Police but their resolve is formidable.
The Packrats follow the belief system of the Prophets from the Parable of Thoth that states all psychics are good and inately beautiful beings. This is in opposition to the Elite view from the international religion that psychics are abherrent and need to be controlled. Some far right factions in the Elite call psychics demons.
In grydscaen: tribute there is mention of a secret society that the minister Mr. Hirasawa belongs to. This group is responsible for subversive actions in the highest levels of government. In addition to supporting the Atlantea Federation position on the Inlan Islands, this group does blackmail on Mr. Stuart to try to make him lose his position as lead minister of the parliament.
Another error in their way is the view of the class society in the City, the Echelons and the Zone. People in the Zone can not pass into the Echelons and people from the Echelons who are also not citizens can not pass into the City. This segregates society forming a visible rift that can not be broken by conventional means. Citizens have cit cards which give them many perks and living in the City you want for nothing for the most part. Every now and then you will run into someone who is hard up in the City but there are services available and philanthropy is popular among the citizens.
The Packrats like the T-Hack see their goal as a mission of sorts, fighting the good fight. The Packrats draw the line at destruction in some cases where the T-Hack go in full force nothing is sacred. When the Packrats blew up a building in the City and killed someone from Lino’s family, they crossed the line into the extreme. The martyrdom of those that actually set the blast left an indelible mark on some of the younger Packrats but Faid made sure that he explained life was sacred even in light of the cause.
There is a scene in grydscaen: war where Faid confronts Riuho regarding human life and citizenship. Where Riuho see citizens as fodder to destroy, Faid sees them as people and he tries to get Riuho to see that but it falls on deaf ears.
The posturing of the Elite may be extreme in the eyes of the Packrats but the government sees only one way out of its glass windows. Those that oppose are to be oppressed and taken down, their voice silenced. Faid will not be silenced, his Packrats fight for freedom in the Echelons and the Zone. “The Elite are in error,” says Faid, they have to be stopped.