Cyberpunk derivatives in Starfinder?

[JiCi]

Cyberpunk derivatives are fictional genres that define a world's technological level. Cyberpunk and steampunk are such technological levels.

Now... does Starfinder have a general technological level, or do some of its planets have earlier styles of technology?

[Ixal]

JiCi wrote:

Cyberpunk derivatives are fictional genres that define a world's technological level. Cyberpunk and steampunk are such technological levels.

Now... does Starfinder have a general technological level, or do some of its planets have earlier styles of technology?

I think Verces and Eox was already spacefaring during the time of Pathfinder (and is also very tolerant of cyberware) and Aballon is a planet of machines and described as one of the major economies of the Pact System. Other system in the System are not quite as advanced *cough* Akiton.

So yes, there is some technological difference between the planets although non are not futuristic.

Planets outside the Pact System vary wildly, including primitive tribal planets.

[Echo Vining]

that doesn't seem to be what the term 'cyberpunk derivatives' is specifically about

[Nyerkh]

The bigger political entities should be fairly uniform in terms of tech level. Access may vary locally, and not everyone is necessarily interested in all aspects of modernity, but there's enough exchanges within the Pact Worlds that most of everyone can have access to similar things. Though as pointed out, some have been advanced for a lot longer, it's just that the others have caught up by the time the Gap's done.
And the Veskarium or the Azlantis are only more monolithic.

It's on a bigger scale that things change. Those three entities aren't really on the same level on everything, for example.
And then there's the other, smaller Factions, and whatever awaits in the Vast. Some have more, some had more and lost it and some aren't there yet - and not all of them are even trying to.
The Kishalees and their foes were probably further developed than most civilizations we've seen since, for one.

The actual classical categories however, steampunk, dieselpunk, formicapunk, whateverpunk, don't land themselves all that well to spacefaring endeavours... At first view.
I've certainly read fun fiction of low/no tech, all magic spaceships of steel and wood however. Who knows what could happen.
The Vast's a big place, unsurprisingly. There's room for whatever interests you. We just haven't seen that sort of things in canon yet (I don't think).

We do have biological ships, both animal and plant-based, and many organic weapons, but that's still high tech stuff.

[Metaphysician]

Cyberpunk, as its commonly used, really isn't a specific tech level. Its a state of social affairs. You can have a cyberpunk story at a wide variety of tech levels, ranging from "real world present day" to "crazy far future space opera".

If you want "Just ahead of modern tech levels by a few decades", you will not find that in Starfinder. Or rather, that would be a primitive, undeveloped world that isn't part of interstellar society. Starfinder's "default" tech level is much closer to Star Trek than the modern world.

[Dracomicron]

Third party, but Interface Zero was built around Starfinder rules and is explicitly cyberpunk.

[Toxicsyn]

I highly recommend Interface Zero.

[Claxon]

My understanding of Cyberpunk is a dystopian setting with advanced technology.

So "What if 1984 were happening in Starfinder?"

Starfinder rules can easily be used to run a cyberpunk setting. And there's enough space that one could easily set up such a setting on many of the planets in the pact worlds. Although, it would probably turn into Cyberpunk-Magic world since magic is also extremely prevalent but...meh.

[Zero the Nothing]

I'm running a Cyberpunk Starfinder game on a homebrew Earth-like planet. I'm not using Interface Zero though, didn't fit with what I wanted.