In the Imperial Concordant universe, bounty hunters fulfil a role similar to private investigators on twenty first century Earth. Their most common assignment is surveilance, usually watching a partner for signs of infedelity. They also find much employment with corporations, who use bounty hunters to collect information on employees or other corporations. They make extensive use of bug bots, fly bots and bird bots, or any other observation bot that can fulfill the role they need. Occaisionally they will find criminals if a reward is offered, though law enforcement rarely makes use of their services.

In virch and video, the occupation is portrayed as much more exciting and wearing bounty hunter attire is a fad enjoyed by many. Of course a real bounty hunter trying to "hide in plain sight" will never advertise their presence.