Phan Club

The Phan Club is a vrNet domain that specializes as a fan club for the PHIA Phorce. The site is run by EmReader, whose real name is Emily Reeds, and it sports at least several hundred thousand visitors. They are also responsible for creating a few vrNet short films about the PHIA Phorce with holographic recreations of key events they were involved in.

Overview

Having been founded following the PHIA Phorce's response to a major Rampant outbreak in Port Oraulan, the Phan Club specializes in documenting the news and exploits about all of the PHIA Phorce. In many respects, the site treats the PHIA Phorce as if they were celebrities - containing detailed bios about their upbringings and whatever their most recent accomplishments were. Fans have also put together a codex of Rampants that the PHIA Phorce has faced, often putting together strategies on how to defeat them in hopes of helping their heroes in some way.

The Phan Club is also a news site where Rampant sightings are documented along with any other points of interest where they believe the PHIA Phorce may be able to help out. While they try to remain neutral, the site has had a history of politically themed articles and discussions with particularly heated discussions surrounding Virtuoso. Opinions are split on how the PHIA Phorce should handle the megacorporation - some suggesting a more diplomatic approach while others pushing for more direct action.

On another note, the Phan Club is also home to fan fiction where users write their own stories and vrNet simulations about PHIA Phorce members. Many of them are of particularly low quality, however, with many of them centered around fantasized self-inserts and intimate romantic interactions. Even EmReader has taken part in it at some point, something which she is not particularly proud of.

Relations

• PHIA Phorce - Relations are mostly positive with the PHIA Phorce itself. Occasionally, EmReader is consulted for information. However, some of the PHIA Phorce members have had mixed reactions to them being put in the spotlight and treated like celebrities. Naturally, some of the PHIA Phorce were horrified by some of the fan fiction material written about them.
• Virtuoso - Virtuoso sees the Phan Club as a nuisance for the bad press. However, they do see them as a convenience for keeping track of detailed information about the PHIA Phorce.