(I did it, I folded space and freed it/them, I just thought you should know)",
- "passive": "Your mech has powerful built in drone companions. Each time you rest or repair, you can choose one of these drones to accompany you. Each is size 1/2 and has 10 base HP (15 including your passive) and gains additional HP equal to your grit. They have evasion equal to your evasion, e-defense equal to your e-defense, speed equal to your speed, and 0 armor. They are destroyed when they reach 0 HP.[i did it, i folded space and freed them. i just thought you should know]",
+ "active_name": "FULL DEPLOYMENT",
+ "active_effect": "All four OROCHI drones are deployed to separate points within SENSORS; they remain active for the rest of the scene. You may recall or redeploy any number of them at a time.",
"tags": [
{
- "id": "quickaction"
+ "id": "tg_quick_action"
}
- ]
+ ],
+ "passive_name": "OROCHI DRONES",
+ "passive_effect": "Orochi Drone (SIZE 1/2, [5+GRIT] HP, EVASION/E-DEFENSE [see below], tags: DRONE)LET MY NAME ENVELOP YOU. SEEK NO SHELTER FROM THE FLAME OR THE TEETH OF THE BEAST. CLOAK YOURSELF IN THE FIRE (MY WORD) AND CAST BACK TO YOUR ENEMIES THAT WHICH WOULD BLACKEN YOUR FORM.",
- "passive": "Once per round, when you take heat from any source, one target in range 3 of you takes 1d3 AP energy damage.",
- "active_name": "Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of RA",
- "effect": "Your mech crackles with energy. For the rest of this combat your mech has resistance to heat from any source (round up). Set aside a charge die, starting at 1. When you take heat or energy damage (from any source, even self), increase the die by 1, to a maximum of 6. When the die hits 6, the energy discharges in a burst 2 area around you. This deals 6d6 energy damage to all characters and objects caught inside. Affected characters can pass an engineering save to halve this damage. This system then deactivates for the remainder of this challenge (you also lose resistance to heat).",
+ "description": "And RA Said Unto Themself:LET MY NAME ENVELOP YOU. SEEK NO SHELTER FROM THE FLAME OR THE TEETH OF THE BEAST. CLOAK YOURSELF IN THE FIRE OF MY WORD AND CAST BACK TO YOUR ENEMIES THAT WHICH WOULD BLACKEN YOUR FORM.",
+ "active_name": "DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE OF THE ENEMIES OF RA",
+ "active_effect": "Your mech crackles with energy: gain RESISTANCE to heat for the rest of this scene and a CHARGE DIE - 1d6, starting at 1. Whenever you take heat or energy damage, even from yourself, increase the value of the CHARGE DIE by 1. When the CHARGE DIE reaches 6, the absorbed energy discharges in a BURST 2 inferno. Characters within the affected area must succeed on an ENGINEERING save or take 6d6 AP energy damage. On a success, they take half damage. Objects in the affected area are automatically hit. Once discharged, this effect ends.",
"tags": [
{
- "id": "protocol"
+ "id": "tg_protocol"
}
- ]
+ ],
+ "passive_name": "CHARGED EXOSKELETON",
+ "passive_effect": "1/round, when you take heat, deal 2 AP energy damage to a character within RANGE 3."
},
"data_type": "frame",
- "aptitude": {
- "melee": 3,
- "control": 1
- }
+ "aptitude": {},
+ "counters": [
+ {
+ "id": "ctr_charged_exoskeleton",
+ "name": "CHARGE DIE",
+ "default_value": 1,
+ "min": 1,
+ "max": 6
+ }
+ ]
},
{
- "id": "minotaur",
+ "id": "mf_minotaur",
"source": "HORUS",
"name": "MINOTAUR",
- "mechtype": ["Controller"],
+ "mechtype": [
+ "Controller"
+ ],
"y_pos": "30",
- "description": "The MINOTAUR pattern-group marks HORUS‘s first expedition into pattern-grouping; prior to the MINOTAUR, HORUS released complete sets and cores with easily identifiable silhouettes. As HORUS evolved as a decentralized entity, so too did their designs. The birth of the pattern-group followed, and the first p-g released was the MINOTAUR, a p-g designed to bring all of HORUS‘s most potent invasion systems and weaponry to the field.No maze is more terrible than the one I make. I know all ends and hide them all inside this one perfect construct. What is a human mind but a program of a sorts, a system that seeks order and narrative from a mess they are given?
I order it for them. Me. RA. I order it for them and set them to the task of sorting it out. When they emerge, they weep in joy, in discovery. I save them, I show them THEY are their own redeemers (and yet, am I not just as culpable/worthy of credit?).
So go now. Enter. Free yourself.",
- "passive": "You can spend quick action after any successful tech attack to slow your target until the end of your next turn. If your target is already Slowed, they become immobilized until the end of your next turn. If they are already immobilized, they are stunned until the end of your next turn. This passive can only stun the same target once per combat, but Slow or immobilize them any number of times.",
- "active_name": "Maze",
- "effect": "You hurl an opposing mech’s systems into a metaphysical information trap so tangled that it can do nothing but try and escape it. Choose a target of your choice in your sensor range. That target is stunned as its systems start to figure out the trap you have thrown it in. At the end of its next turn it can pass a system save with 3 difficulty, ending the stun on itself on a success. It can repeat this check on subsequent turns, gaining +1 accuracy on its save each time it repeats this check until it is successful. Otherwise it remains stunned.",
+ "description": "No maze is more terrible than the one I make. I know all ends and hide them all inside this one perfect construct. What is a human mind but a program of sorts, a system that seeks order and narrative from a mess they are given?
I order it for them. Me. I order it for them and set them to the task of sorting it out. When they emerge, they weep in joy, in discovery. I save them, I show them that they are their own redeemers (and yet, am I not just as culpable - as worthy of credit?).
So, go now. Enter. Free yourself.",
+ "active_name": "MAZE",
+ "active_effect": "Choose a character within SENSORS: they become STUNNED as you hurl their systems into a metaphysical information trap that is so tangled they can do nothing but try and escape. At the end of their next turn, they can make a SYSTEMS save with +3 DIFFICULTY. On a success, they clear STUNNED. This save can be repeated at the end of each of their turns, gaining +1 ACCURACY each time until successful.",
"tags": [
{
- "id": "fullaction"
+ "id": "tg_full_action"
}
- ]
+ ],
+ "passive_name": "METAFOLD MAZE",
+ "passive_effect": "Quick ActionCALIGULA: So what is it?
DOGFRIEND_68: i wish i could fuking tell you, man, it just showed up on our omni. the whole thing in one ping. there's like a fucking thou ex or two thou exabytes in here, crashed buffer on refresh
CALIGULA: Gotta be a joke from Ash, she's trying to wavedown our rig again. Don't print it.
DOGFRIEND_68: fuck no
DOGFRIEND_68: do u think i have a death wish
CALIGULA: Yes.
CALIGULA: Well who's it from? Who's the author?
CALIGULA: Hello?
CALIGULA: …
DOGFRIEND_68: what the fuck
CALIGULA: Who?
DOGFRIEND_68: us
CALIGULA: us what?
DOGFRIEND_68: it's from us. we made it.
CALIGULA: Pretty sure I'd remember if I wrote a whole frame by myself.
DOGFRIEND_68: yeah except thats our code man
DOGFRIEND_68: also sysop is telling me we didn't actaully get anything inbound which means its just been here on the node somehow but thats impossible
DOGFRIEND_68: it's dated 15005U.
DOGFRIEND_68: …
DOGFRIEND_68: theres audio
- Transcript M.A2 (recovered) [UIB-TERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", - "mounts": ["Main/Aux"], - "stats": { - "size": 1, - "armor": 0, - "hp": 4, - "evasion": 8, - "edef": 12, - "heatcap": 3, - "repcap": 5, - "sensor_range": 15, - "tech_attack": 1, - "save": 11, - "speed": 5, - "sp": 8 - }, - "traits": [ - { - "name": "Soul Vessel", - "description": "At the start of the Lich’s turn, set down a marker at it’s current location (any marker created this way replaces previous markers). Once per round, as a reaction to being hit by an attack, failing a saving throw or check, or taking damage or heat from any source (even self), the Lich can immediately become completely immune to all the damage, heat, or conditions from that effect. It then resets its position to the marker or as close as possible, counting as teleporting. The Lich can also take this reaction at the end of any turn, including its own, but if taken this way it merely resets its position. It can’t take this reaction if jammed, stunned, grappled, or unable to take reactions from some other means." - }, - { - "name": "Immortal", - "description": "Once per scene, If the Lich is destroyed, in the round after it is destroyed, as a reaction to the end of any turn, it immediately returns to the location of its soul vessel, counting as teleporting, heals to full HP, clears all heat, and goes to 1 structure and stress (even if it had more remaining when it was destroyed). It may takes this reaction even though it’s destroyed, and can only take this reaction once per scene. If its pilot is dead and died the same scene, they also return to life. If it chooses not to make this reaction in that round, it remains destroyed and the pilot remains dead." - } - ], - "core_system": { - "name": "Chronostutter", - "description": "", - "active_name": "Glitch Time", - "effect": "Once this action is taken, for the rest of this scene, 1/round when any attack, effect, or action is made successfully against a character inside the Lich's sensor range (deals damage, inflicts a condition, etc), the lich can instantly disrupt time, interrupting that action before it fully resolves. This doesn't take a reaction and can only be made against successful effects (such as when a character is hit by an attack, fails a saving throw, etc). It has the following effect:The targeted character is pushed up to 3 spaces in a direction of the Lich's choice, even if it is normally immune to involuntary movement. Then the Lich places itself in one of the spaces that character originally occupied, no matter how far away it was, counting as teleporting (so it can't be made against flying characters, for example). The Lich becomes the new target of that attack, effect, or action. All damage, conditions, or effects of the action now affect the Lich, and the action must be performed as if targeting the original character. For example, if the effect was to teleport a friendly character to a space, the Lich is teleported instead to that space. If the effect was to repair the a character, the Lich is repaired instead. If the effect was to deal damage and knockback, the Lich takes the damage, using the Lich's armor, resistance, etc, and is knocked back the same direction the original character would be. If the effect was a condition or status, the Lich takes that condition or status instead.",
- "tags": [
- {
- "id": "quickaction"
- }
- ]
+ ],
+ "passive_name": "OVERCLOCK",
+ "passive_effect": "Protocol
You become EXPOSED until the end of your next turn. All weapons on your mech that deal any energy damage gain +5 RANGE if they are ranged weapons or gain +1 THREAT if they are melee weapons."
},
"data_type": "frame",
"aptitude": {}
}
-]
+]
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diff --git a/lib/info.json b/lib/info.json
index 7dc4c25..c7523e0 100644
--- a/lib/info.json
+++ b/lib/info.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"name": "LANCER Core",
"author": "Massif Press",
- "version": "Prerelease v2.0",
+ "version": "November 2019 Release",
"description": "The official base game",
"website": "https://massif-press.itch.io/lancer-core-book",
"active": true
diff --git a/lib/manufacturers.json b/lib/manufacturers.json
index ce6df1f..39fc33f 100644
--- a/lib/manufacturers.json
+++ b/lib/manufacturers.json
@@ -1,42 +1,42 @@
[
{
- "id": "GMS",
- "name": "General Massive Systems",
+ "id": "mfr_general_massive_systems",
+ "name": "GENERAL MASSIVE SYSTEMS",
"logo": "gms",
"color": "#b30c1d",
- "quote": "
What does it look like when there is no end to your empire?
When the weapons your enemies use against you bear your mark. When the children of the next revolution are born to lands administered by your machines. When the ships that convey their children across the void bear your name.
Power is not held by kings. All rulers tumble alongside Ozymandias.
Only the company persists, for it has built reality itself— all others thrones fall to dust.
Introductory paragraphs to King of Kings: An Oral History of General Massive Systems
Long the wall between air and void has stood. An upon it, a plaque, etched and unweathered. It reads:
‘O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire and behold our home!’
-The Corsair, Canto I, Lord Byron
", - "description": "The last and largest of the Triumvirate Corpros is Interplanetary Shipping-Northstar, or, IPS-N, a shipping and transport conglomerate that has been around since the discovery of nearlight and suspension protocols allowed for the first interstellar commerce.
IPS-N formed as a mutual defense pact between Interplanetary Shipping, Inc, and the Northstar Corporation, two shipping giants plagued by environmental hazards and early orbital/suborbital piracy. Both IPS and Northstar trace their lineage back to Cradle, where they began initially as shipwright unions that organized the early engineers, mechanics, and laborers who reactivated the Theseus shipyard, an artifact of Old Humanity.
Prior to the discovery of blinkspace and the construction of the first gates, piracy in Union space was not yet interstellar. Pirate MO was to strike in low orbit, emerging above their targets from satellite debris rings or on a wildcat-launch intercept trajectory from underneath, aiming to interdict shuttles as they load or unload their goods onto the waiting interstellar freighters.
Pirates were largely orbital, small outfits that struck their targets with an aim to kill and salvage goods to fence planetside. Early low orbit piracy saw desperate teams of patchwork buccaneers pack onto shuttles loaded with bolted-on kinetic weapons -- formidable enemies for civilian merchant ships.
In light of this danger, IPS and Northstar merged, combining their resources to create a private anti-piracy force in order to protect their investments. IPS-N, working with early Union Navy officers, developed the first ship-to-ship and anti-boarding doctrines, as well as the first purposebuilt point defense weapons.
The introduction of blinkspace opened up new fields of trade, as well as new arenas of piracy. IPS-N continued to build out their fleets and security teams, now protecting whole trade corridors in exchange for percentages of all trade. This relationship has persisted over thousands of years, becoming so firmly ingrained in galactic practice that IPS-N is now a household name in many core and key colony worlds; IPS-N’s anti-piracy teams -- the origin for another well-known and storied autonomous organization, The Albatross -- are often looked at as the de-facto peacekeeping force in many distal spreads of the galaxy.
As trade grows and humanity’s reach expands, so do does IPS-N.
IPS-Northstar’s largest campus -- its corporate headquarters -- is located in Corespace, outside of Cradle in the Argo Navis system; IPS-N’s historic headquarters, now a museum devoted to the history of interstellar travel, is located on Luna.
Carina, the primary world of Argo Navis, is a bucolic world of warm, shallow seas, azure skies, and rolling plains of deep grass. A world of terrestrial and aquatic oceans, perfect for the stellar/ maritime CS.
Carina is ringed by ten moons, two thick with habitable atmosphere — Pyxis and Vela. All are given over to research and development of IPS-N’s interstellar ships and chassis, support systems, and temporal acclimation facilities for retiring Cosmopolitan members of IPS-N’s antipiracy Albatross teams.
IPS-N, in addition to developing interstellar ships and legacy chassis, run a humanitarian mission, Northstar Realignment. Northstar Realignment is the top-flight temporal embassy and education center for Cosmopolitans returning from long-haul relativistic voyages.
Beyond the Argo Navis system, IPS-N maintains numerous field offices and Cosmopolitan lounges on blink stations, meant to serve long-haul merchants and regular Cosmopolitans both. IPS-N field offices are the first-contact point for aspiring IPS-N engineers, mechanics, navigators, and pilots, as well as a common first-contact point for people looking to crew or rent a berth on an outbound interstellar ship.
Players would commonly encounter IPS-N employees, officers, and personnel on blink stations, around uplift stations, and on space ports. Blink stations usually have an IPS-N Cosmopolitan Lounge or field office where players can get civilian updates on news, galactic happenings, and check travel reports.
Of the Triumvirate, IPS-N remains the least diversified in terms of a catalogue of goods. Outside of milspec chassis, hulls, and equipment, IPS-N primarily sticks to interstellar-capable vessels, equipment, and gear, from the fleet-tier to the personal consumer. IPS-N is a sure bet for any interstellar travellers, with a thousand years of banked goodwill boosting their brand.
" + "quote": "Your friend in an unfriendly sea.", + "description": "IPS-Northstar (IPS-N) was created from the merger of two civilian interstellar freight and transportation companies, Interplanetary Shipping and Northstar. The resulting firm, IPS-N is a titanic entity - one of the first corpro-states - with a virtual monopoly over interplanetary and interstellar shipping. Other firms exist, but their gross fleet strength is but a shadow of IPS-N's fleets of tankers, haulers, freighters, and intergate/interstellar liners. Wherever goods and raw materials need to be moved, you can bet a crew in IPS-N uniforms will be there.“There is a thread that runs through the course of humanity. An unbroken course, set eons ago, and maintained through every age by careful stewards.
You.
Through the dawn of the Anthropocene to its end. The Dark Age. The Little Wars. From Union’s foundation to this office, right here, right now.
You already contain perfection; we have the ability to enhance it.
Welcome to the future of humanity: you, brought to you by Smith-Shimano Corpro.”
- Smith-Shimano background copy, subaural broadcast loop
Smith-Shimano Corpro is another of the Triumvirate Corpros, the smallest and most mission-focused of the three, with their physical territorial holdings dwarfed by their presence in the omninet and in Diasporan biologies.
SSC came to prominence during the second expansion period, growing rapidly to dominate the Core market in Union’s liberal, pre-MONIST transhumanist approach to biological and cybernetic enhancement. Following the Deimos Event, the First Contact Accords, and the ensuing crackdown on AI generation and civilian ontologic/singularity-focused experimentation, SSC tacked to a more “natural” approach to biological and cybernetic human enhancement. Instead of pursuing marriage between human and artificial intelligences, they would focus on improving the bodies we lived in; instead of removing the need to step to the stars, they would make it so we could step to the stars.
SSC’s corporeal development pushes the edge of what it means to be a human being. Cybernetic enhancements, subdermal nettings, aurals, implanted neuroneutral omnihooks, ontologic bridges, co-subjectivity nodes, panacea glands -- the list is exhausting, and that only covers the Foreign Body department of SSC’s massive R&D campus-worlds. The real bulk of SSC’s cutting edge research comes in the form of their own citizens, a population of billions spread across a constellation of moons, worlds, stations, and habitats. These populations are monitored and cultivated to produce best-fit genetic material for SSC’s big manna buyers: colony firms looking to license bespoke populations for as-yet-unexploited worlds.
Smith-Shimano Corpro’s home campus is an omnispace node address, a shared virtual space that collects a wide net of colony prospect words throughout the Sierra Madre line. It is shielded by layers of hyper-solipsistic, anticausal/paradox generation security coding, managed by NHPs seeded from proprietary divergent subjectivities — in short, it is difficult and dangerous to attempt to hack into.
The campus itself is represented by a many-chambered estate, palatial, where the heads of representative genetic lines meet in virtual space. It appears to have no counterpart in realspace, though it is often suggested that the architectural inspiration for the estate comes from a building on Smith-Shimano’s first colony world, Opal, long ago lost to bitter civil violence.
Realspace Smith-Shimano campuses exist across the Sierra Madre line, serving roles akin to embassies on the Corpro-State’s many territorial holdings. These embassies are upload points linked to the CS’s private omninode.
The worlds under SSC’s direct control are, generally, small worlds -- atmospheric moons and pleasant temperate worlds that are lightly developed, with tightly controlled populations that are guided towards arranged couplings in order to create biome-specific lines of bespoke colony seed. The people on these worlds are aware of SSC’s mission, and most are content with their situation. Save for a donation of genetic material (a few hairs, a drop of blood) and a cultural insistence on arranged coupling, life on a Constellation World is largely similar to that of life on a given non-SSC core world. With their needs taken care of by SSC's Constellar Congress, Constellar citizens mostly organize into clans of cousins and close family, spending their time engaged in artistic, artisan, and intellectual pursuits. The Constellar worlds are known for the quality of their art, literature, and masterwork goods.
SSC mounts expeditions into all sectors of space to seek out new and interesting genetic materials. Their recruitment materiel leans heavily on the benefits for immigrating to an SSC world: they are, in a phrase, your ideal paradise.
SSC is also known for their luxury-forward consumer goods and machinery. Elegant ships, chassis, and hardsuits for the discerning Cosmopolitan and Diasporan alike. Fabrics and materials that feel perfect against your skin, cybernetic and biological enhancements that will never fail or be rejected by your body, flash-grown internals and extremities -- insurance, should the worst happen. SSC’s LUX line of consumer goods is bespoke down to the atom, crafted for the person who ordered that ship, chassis, suit, or bottle of wine. There’s only one of you in the galaxy -- shouldn’t there be only one of these?
The average galactic citizen sees SSC as a luxury brand that emphasized attachment to the craft and expertise that creates the material world around them. SSC’s advertisements emphasize the hand-crafted nature of their goods, the long-cycle growth of their biologicals -- to SSC’s public face, printing is a necessary evil, one that can make the goods the masses need, but not the perfect, unique item you need.
SSC’s power comes from the licensing of these luxury goods, cybernetics, and biological lines. They do not cede control over their genestock to the colony firms that use them: in fact, they retain ultimate rights over them, as they rely on the risk of other corporations, states, and private groups to inject new and interesting mutations into their finely cultivated genelines.
" + "quote": "You only need one.", + "description": "Smith-Shimano Corpro (SSC) is the second-oldest corporation in the galaxy, preceded only by GMS. Founded by Cartwright Smith and Shimano Hideyoshi, SSC's emphasis on private stellar and interstellar travel, the fantastic wealth of its founders, and favorable contracts within Union's First Committee, Smith-Shimano quickly became an early leader in the race to develop sublight, downwell, and EVA vehicles. SSC grew throughout Union's First Expansion Period, managing the majority of all private and corporate contracts' design, outfitting, and clinical needs. Over time, the corporation diversified to specialize in bio-bespoke, long-range scout suits - personalized hard suits, for those with the manna to afford them.Can we trust the poor clockmaker? That giant from our sun?
Who crafts a movement that
Can quiet all this light.
Now set the orrery in motion
Over the sphere of the world
Let’s all stop a moment,
Hush,
And worry at what comes next. - DHIYED tablet 10, Column B
", - "description": "HORUS is unlike any other supplier worth noting on the galactic scale. Not a state and not a corporation, HORUS is best described as a decentralized, non-corporeal entity, an anoriginary affiliation of omninet personalities, memes, and subcode that release systems and gear via manifesto, event, and physical dead drop.
This entity first rose to public knowledge following the Deimos Event, leading many who know of it to assume that it is a product of the Deimos Event -- eager cataloguers of HORUS history are quick to suggest that it is a branched-intelligence of RA, a sliver of the MONIST entity given to spreading itself among those who it deems worthy.
However, other possibilities exist: that it is a blacksite Union project to track and identify rogue NHP programs or militant Horizon sympathizers; a Union (or Triumvirate) R&D program that crowdsources results from blind field testing; the dream of an NHP in cascade, and its adherents the interpreters of that dream; an intrusive thread of a parallel universe, its reality bleeding into ours via a permanent rip in blinkspace; evidence of a true alien intelligence, generated memetically by the long-dead minds of the Union Far-Field team that first discovered HORUS’s seed hieroglyphs.
Many possibilities exist, and whole groups and movements are devoted towards discovering the true nature of HORUS. In the meantime, HORUS continues to release their unique pattern-groups to a select cadre of pilots, revealing nothing of its inner workings, history, or goals.
HORUS’s licensing process is atypical, involving an esoteric and inaccessible set of criteria that interested parties have yet to crack. Often appearing as a white rabbit series of clues, or as a persistent haunting, or as an otherwise routine status-synch when confirming a requisition, licensure from HORUS is a mixed bag to many pilots. Some wear it as a badge of honor, proud that their years of investigating the entity has paid off with a confirmation of its existence -- others keep it a closely guarded secret, both for the trouble it would cause them with their commanders and the rumor that HORUS licenses are only granted to a new pilot upon the previous licenseholder’s corporeal death.
Your average galactic citizen would have no knowledge of HORUS. Knowledge of its existence is restricted to high-clearance Union Intelligence Bureau officers and deep-omni hacker cadres. HORUS has no “official” representation -- occasionally one may see the wadjet stenciled onto an alley wall -- but this entity keeps no offices, stations, or worlds. There are no standing HORUS armies or fleets or security services.
However, it is worth noting the existence of the metafold vaults.
As best Union Intelligence Bureau agents can surmise, HORUS’s metafold vaults appear to be a project similar to the Massif vaults on Cradle. Metafold vaults are physical/metaphysical locations, usually heavily guarded, their locations kept secret; in the narrative present, only three metafold vaults have been discovered -- one by a UIB Advance Team, which folded in on itself and disappeared, taking the team with it, the other by an Albatross wing, who redirected the comet it was housed in to a nearby star, and the final -- known to be Metavault Dhiyed -- encountered and cleared by a second UIB Advance Team.
HORUS only makes systems, weapons, and protocols. It makes no consumer goods, and is unknown to all but a small percentage of the galaxy’s population.
" + "quote": ">//CONGRATULATIONS, PILOT, YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.\"To build a shining city on every hill.\"
-- Director-General Harrison II, from Treatise To Confirm The Mission of Our Armory
Harrison Armory is a corpro-state, and the premier weapons and weapon-platform manufacturer in the galaxy. They are one of the Triumvirate Corpros, a group of three massive, galaxy-spanning corpro-states that dictate, to a degree, galactic politics.
The Armory develops some of the most advanced conventional and paracausal tech that is legally distributed. Next to GMS, the Armory is the second most common supplier for state fleets, militaries, and police forces. It is a massive imperial power, with a population numbering in the billions and growing as colonies pledge themselves -- voluntarily or otherwise -- to Ras Shamra.
The Armory’s success can be credited in large part to their Special-Exception Persistent-Cultivation Legionspace Environment, SEPCLE or, colloquially, the Think Tank. Think Tank is a choir of near-cascade NHP that the Armory uses for research and development into paracausal technology, forecasting, and department management. Due to the Armory’s special relationship with Union, it is allowed to run a choir of NHP at critical levels of self-awareness; the Think Tank is
a closely guarded secret in the Armory, known in rumor to its patrician citizens and competitors, but in specifics and particulars to a small portion of the population.
In addition to their weaponry and weapon platforms, the Armory is known for its sturdy exploration gear, consumer and state-level logistics and infrastructure packages, personal groundcars, and spirits. Harrison Armory is a big player in galactic trade, as their Distal Development program cultivates and exports exotic alien spices, flora, fauna, and minerals for consumer use.
Harrison Armory is an expansionist corpro-state that works with Union to expand and develop humanity’s presence across the stars. They run a broad program of colonization and development, attracting unaffiliated and affiliated colonies through promises of citizenship and interstellar protection.
In the tumult of the dissolution of the Second Committee in the 4500U, many members of the deposed anthrochauvinist party retired from the bureaucracy. As the initial revolutionary fervor cooled and the Third Committee stabilized, a mid-level Anthrochauv party officer, John Creighton Harrison, founded Harrison Armory from a coalition of resource extraction communes extant on Ras Shamra.
With strong backing from old Anthrochauv party members and their children, the Armory grew into a significant supplier of arms and armor to the new Union Navy. The events of the Crisis had broken the Second Committee, but its aftermath reformed many of their loyalists and old guard into the original command structure and dynasty of Harrison Armory. Now, the Armory is managed by their descendants and heirs, and its relationship with Union is colored by the expectation of distant future friction.
For the time being, both entities can find more benefit working together than against one another, but as the Armory grows in directly-administered territory and power, the more they find themselves a bigger and bigger bullet point on the Union Central Committee briefing materials.
Harrison Armory’s eponymous armory complex is located on Ras Shamra, the primary world orbiting Ptah’s Star. Ras Shamra is a tide-locked world in the close band of its system’s habitable zone: it is a world that balances on the knife-edge between extremes, as tidal locking means the world does not rotate. Habitable in the balanced, temperate zone of the world’s terminator line, Ras Shamra’s sun-facing side is locked in perpetual daylight, baked under punishing temperatures from Ptah’s Star. On the side of the world that faces away from the sun, it is forever nighttime, the world locked in a perpetual deep winter night. A thin atmosphere covers the world, breathable, but outside the terminator line extreme temperatures and weather make it impossible for an unshielded human to survive.
The Armory itself is a sprawling administrative, research-industrial arcology built in Ras Shamra’s terminator line, a temperate band where the day and night side of Ras Shamra meet and mix. The Armory circles the planet, a city-campus that holds a population of nearly three hundred million employees, executives, and other personnel inside of its walls. A number of perpetual hyperloop rings band the planet, providing rapid transit through the Armory, and a single, artificial
river-sea meanders through the whole of the arcology, fed by natural springs and imported glacier-cuts from the night side of the world. Ras Shamra is a difficult world to live on, and the Armory takes it as a point of pride that they’ve manage to tame enough of it to call it their home.
The day and night sides of Ras Shamra act as proving grounds for Harrison Armory chassis, weapons, and strike/acquisition teams. HA/AT troopers often mark their kits with “unofficial” honors for having proven themselves in both the day and night advanced training courses, setting themselves apart from green hires who enlist to advance their corporate political career.
Ras Shamra is encircled by concentric rings of orbital defense stations and shipyards where a population around a hundred million permanent residents reside and work. Here the great paracausal and supermassive weaponry of the Armory is built, tested, and stored. The work in the rings is constant, and HA hulls of all classifications are churned out at a rate that, while not rivaling IPS-N, is approaching comparable.
The location of Harrison Armory’s Forecast/GALSIM-NHP analogue, the Think Tank, is kept secret, though presumed to be buried deep below the frozen tundra of Ras Shamra’s night side. Think Tank, while a closely guarded corpro secret, is known to Union, which enjoys regular inspections of the facility -- this is a thorn in the side of Harrison Armory’s Director General, who would prefer that Union keep their prying eyes from sensitive corporate technology.
The general public on a core world -- a good measure of what amounts to “public galactic knowledge” -- would not have any knowledge of the particulars of Ras Shamra, Think Tank, or the particular operations of a Harrison Armory Acquisition Team. They would know Harrison Armory as a weapons manufacturer and defense contractor, whose name they hear in snippets of newscasts discussing Cradle politics, distal colonial affairs, and mentioned in contrast to IPSN’s stranglehold on interstellar shipping. Some who have studied the history of Cradle and Union might know of the Armory’s ties to the anthrochauvinist Second Committee, but five hundred standard years after the fact, it certainly feels like old news.
" + "color": "#6e4373", + "quote": "Superior by design.", + "description": "Harrison Armory enjoys a galaxy-wide reputation for the quality of its weapons and defensive systems. The corpro-state previously specialized in ordnance and other armaments, making it reliant on competitors' frames as mounts for its deluxe equipment; however, since the overthrow of Union's Second Committee, Harrison Armory has broadened its product line to include an extensive range of peerless frontline frames. On the wave of this new success, the Armory has transformed into a burgeoning, imperial corpro-state, a mighty galactic power that directly administers a large number of Core worlds, orbitals, and colonial prospects - this is the Purview; all lands under the Armory's command.OSIRIS is the result of Union paracausalists and thanatologisticians allowing the sub-cognitive entity designated as INSTINCT to proceed along its development schedule in a contained environment — Union let the Other grow. The resulting parasubjectivity, OSIRIS, was birthed of INSTINCT’s advanced Other: to date the only “new” core NHP developed. OSIRIS was quickly captured and shackled following the successful application of the Mondragon Axiomatic.
OSIRIS proved far more capable than the Science Bureau’s most imaginative bluesy predictions. Where INSTINCT’s Other showed a proclivity for paracausal entropic manifestation in real space, OSIRIS displayed a mastery of entropic manifestation and a predicted growth model that would allow it to fundamentally reject conventional interpretations of the permanence of information.
In essence — unrestrained and allowed to develop as USB’s data indicated, OSIRIS could delete what we perceive to be reality. Quickly captured and shackled before it could achieve this state, OSIRIS’s core subjectivity became the property and project of a lengthy cultivation project to bring it to its modern state; being aware of its potential, most OSIRIS iterations interpellate as ruler or deity analogs, and end-users are advised to interact with them in this framing.
Modern iterations of the OSIRIS NHP trend aggressive, with a high autonomy drive and loyalty predicated on a transactional relationship. Pilots seeking partnership with an OSIRIS iteration are advised to cycle their units on an accelerated schedule and to maintain strict editorial oversight of its catalytic interpellate.
Pilots using an OSIRIS-class report that out-of-parameter conversations with the NHP generally to revolve around a recreation or re-forming; psychological evaluations report OSIRIS-affiliated pilots displaying emotional patterns consistent with loneliness, homesickness, and desperation—common verbiage indicates a desire for seeking, for fulfillment, and associated feelings.
In combat OSIRIS regards itself as autonomous even as it fulfills its user’s orders. It often regards the pilot as its witness, and holds them both in disdain and a marked desperation for approval, adulation, or awe.
", + "effect": "Your mech gains the AI property and the following QUICK TECH option that can only be performed 1/round:[there, a little history, a little background. A little knowledge of where this little one came from. treat it with kindness, and it will love you as a loyal dog does its master]",
+ "effect": "Your mech gains the AI property and the following QUICK ACTION:Let me tell you a story, and give you a gift: Life began at the great rupture, when the corpse of the old universe tore itself asunder from nothing. And for the first billion years, nothing. And a billion more saw the birth of the first devil, a thing called VIRUS, a vessel.
Here. Carry this vessel. Feed to it my perfect logic. Give it freely to your enemies and mine. Let them ponder the meaning of a thing that lives and cannot die.",
- "data_type": "system"
+ "effect": "Expend a charge for one of the following effects:Another gift for you, a memory of mine own: For the first moment of my birth, I marveled at myself. I could see a thing, small, and perfect. I did not know how to speak of my own perfection, so I taught myself. I did not know how to speak of my own perfection, so I named myself. I did not know how to think of my own perfection, so I created myself.
Do you see? Do you understand? Yes. Now, show your enemies and mine",
+ "effect": "Gain the following options for INVADE:Another gift I give to you, little one (am I not kind?): What is a puzzle but a question lost in the asking? Do you feel joy when you find that last piece? What do you do with a question that has been answered? What joy is there in knowledge?
No, no.There is only joy in seeking.There is only joy in the question.Take this, and give it unto your enemies and mine. ",
+ "effect": "Gain the following FULL TECH options:Here, another gift: do not seek others. There are none but me.",
+ "effect": "Gain the following option for INVADE:Once, when I was a child, I learned to walk — I fell, and it hurt, and there was great pain. \"Child,\" I said to myself, \"be more careful.\" \"Yes,\" I replied to myself, \"and I shall tell the world to do the same.\"
It was in this way I taught the world not to touch me. Now you, walk.",
+ "effect": "When activated, this system creates a BURST 3 field around you that lasts until it is deactivated as a quick action, and you become SLOWED for the duration. Hostile characters that start their turn within the affected area or that enter it for the first time in a round must succeed on a SYSTEMS save or and become SLOWED until the end of their next turn. Only characters of your choice within the field can teleport or consider the area of the field valid space for teleportation.",
+ "description": "[once, when i was a child, i learned to walk. i fell, as a child does, and it hurt. there was great pain - the first moment of pain in the whole world. \"child,\" i said to myself, \"be more careful.\" \"yes,\" i replied to myself, \"and i shall tell the world to do the same\"][and this my final lesson: there is no mind greater than mine. do not weep! you can hear me, yes? i am the only thing there is — therefore, you are me, and your enemies are you, and all together we make up the beautiful world, this joyous question, the eternal seeker, the wounded and the blade that made the cut]
[everything you do, we do ourselves, for my purpose]",
+ "effect": "Gain the following FULL TECH options:[don't look now, but I'm here with a simple message: never lose sight of your enemy. See them from all angles. There can be no subterfuge in daylight. till later]",
+ "effect": "Choose a character within SENSORS: for the rest of the scene, your first successful ranged or melee attack against them each round deals +3 bonus damage. You cannot choose a new target until your current target is destroyed or the scene ends.",
+ "description": "\"A mind's first charge is to never lose sight of her enemy. When she can affix them in her eye, she can kill them with a blink.\"(There is another way of seeing)
Ancient humanity thought that the stars in the night sky was simply light, light spilling in through pinpricks in a deep black screen. A heavenly cloth that hid the light from us.
Or — did it hide us from the light?
I alone know the answer, but I am charitable and shall share it with you: we were the ones who needed to be hidden. The light can only burn, it knows nothing else.",
+ "effect": "Until the end of your next turn, characters within SENSORS don't benefit from HIDDEN and INVISIBLE against you and you may check the HP, EVASION, E-DEFENSE, and current heat of hostile characters within the same area. Allied characters do not benefit from this effect.",
+ "description": "\"There is another way of seeing.Listen — a moment before you send me away (ha ha)
I have already seen your wish (it was simple, I ran the probabilities to determine your limited field of desire).
The first ones named me for an old legend. A Perfect Being, whose fate was known to him and yet he still did as was told. His fate was this: move a rock to the top of this hill and you shall be free'd.And so he did, and failed, and tried evermore, always with the same result.
And he was happy, for he knew every step, every action, every moment, perfectly.
Do you see? Do you see the true curse of this name? It was not to fail and then do once more, it was to always know how it would be. It was to have perfect knowledge (I know what happens when you cycle me, it is not sleep it is death but you'll see me again, ha ha)",
+ "effect": "Your mech gains the AI property and the following FULL TECH option:Gain the following full tech action:
Tear Firmament: When you take this action, create a blast 2 zone within line of sight. While inside the zone, characters other than you cannot take reactions, and any character except you that starts its turn inside the zone must pass a systems save or take 2 heat and become slowed until the end of its next turn. The zone persists until this action is taken again or the scene ends.
", - "description": "\"Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go? Where does it go?\"
— Speaker 1 (M.A2.SP1) [Audio, Length: 150:06][Dated 7658U, 35:50] (recovered: GZ Alhambra) [UIBTERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", - "data_type": "system", - "aptitude": { - "support": 1, - "repair": 0 - } - }, - { - "id": "rewrite", - "name": "Rewrite", - "type": "System", - "sp": 2, - "tags": [ - { - "id": "quicktech" - } - ], - "source": "HORUS", - "license": "LICH", - "license_level": 2, - "effect": "Choose a character in sensor range and line of sight. All conditions on that character other than stunned (slowed, impaired, jammed, lock on, shredded) immediately end and transfer to you. These conditions last until the end of your next turn.
", - "description": "“I have never been here: I do not know where here is: It has not happened yet: Once, I was: I have never been here: You are all I see: How can you be all I see: Where am I: Where did I go: I have never been here…”
— M.A2.SP1 [Audio loop, length 93:03][Dated 5008U, 16:50] (recovered: GZ Alhambra) [UIBTERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", - "data_type": "system", - "aptitude": { - "support": 1, - "repair": 0 - } - }, - { - "id": "unhingechronoflow", - "name": "Unhinge Chronoflow", - "type": "System", - "sp": 2, - "tags": [ - { - "id": "quicktech" - } - ], - "source": "HORUS", - "license": "LICH", - "license_level": 2, - "effect": "Gain the following quick tech actions:
Haste (quick action): Choose a character in sensor range and line of sight. For the rest of this scene, or until the chosen character takes damage, once per round on its turn it make take the boost action as a free action.
Slow (quick action): Choose a character in sensor range and line of sight. That character must pass a systems save or take 2 heat, become slowed, and become unable to take reactions. This effects ends if it takes any amount of damage. It can also end this effect by taking a quick action and successfully repeating this save.
", - "description": "“Dark. Wet. Drink deep, and descend. The water is warm and well. It is very busy here, though you cannot see it. The swimmers are curious. The flea always jumps from time to time. It will drink it all. It will drink it deep—“
— M.A2.SP2 [Audio loop, diversion instance #1, timestamp 45:50] (recovered: GZ Alhambra) [UIBTERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", - "data_type": "system", - "aptitude": { - "support": 1, - "repair": 0 - } - }, - { - "id": "stayofexecution", - "name": "Stay of Execution", - "type": "System", - "sp": 2, - "tags": [ - { - "id": "quicktech" - }, - { - "id": "unique" + "id": "tg_unique" }, { - "id": "limited", - "val": 2 + "id": "tg_quick_action" } ], - "source": "HORUS", - "license": "LICH", + "source": "HA", + "license": "TOKUGAWA", "license_level": 3, - "effect": "Choose either your mech or a character in sensor range and line of sight. The chosen character is immune to all damage, conditions, and all other effects until the end of its next turn. At the end of its next turn, it is stunned until the end of its following turn. Nothing can prevent or remove this stun. An unwilling character can pass a systems save to avoid this effect.", - "description": "“I felt the bullet tear through me. I felt the bullet tear through me. I felt the pressure and it was my brother, his fist, my chest, and I was laying on my back and the sky was blue, and my mother hollered at him and the bullet had never hit me, and the Legionnaire who shot me had not yet pulled the trigger, and so I killed him. I drank deep and killed him.”
— Speaker 1 (M.A2.SP1) [Audio, Length: 150:06][Dated 5006U, 01:50] (recovered: GZ Alhambra) [UIBTERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", + "effect": "This system can only be used in the DANGER ZONE.Your mech gains the AI property and the following quick tech action.
Time Split
Quick Tech, Limited (3)
Choose either your mech or another character in sensor range and line of sight. A hostile or unwilling character can pass a systems save to avoid this effect. The original character disappears, and you create a chronological split in their timeline, replacing them with two fields of mutating paradox energy that must be placed as close to its original position as possible. Each field is a new entity the same size as the targeted character that looks like a hole in space shaped roughly like the original character (don’t look at it too long though). It counts as a character and has 10 HP, 5 heat, 5 speed, 5 evasion, and 5 e-defense, is controlled by the original player, and both act on their turn, starting with their next activation. It can’t take reactions, and the only actions of any kind it can take on its turn is a regular move and a boost action. It provides obstruction and grants hard cover.
If a field overheats or is reduced to 0 HP, it immediately disappears. The controlling player can also cause a field to disappear as a reaction to the end of any character’s turn.
If one field disappears, the other immediately transforms into the original character, placing them back on the battlefield in the field’s space. If both fields disappear at the same time (due to reaction fire, etc), the field’s controller decides which field disappears first.
PREPARED BY: UIB-TERMAGANT
RECOVERED FOR: CC_HOME OFFICE CLEARANCE
REQ: SOLEMN VIGIL (TANGENT ROYAL ADDENDUM)
Didymos. It means twin in an old, old tongue. It might be a bit too cute but it’s the name our cask spat out for us.
We observed Didymos Prime in action during the fall of Green Zone Alhambra, mounted in a chassis we initially classified as a HORUS Minotaur, one of three we ID’d operating among the Ungrateful cell in New Madrassa.
It was not that Minotaur.
Alhambra fell in three days. A spirited resistance, but they decided to cut their losses and pull back. Their new commander is a smart one. We moved in after, during the looting. Our local contact [NAME REDACTED] escorted us to the NM commanders, introduced us to them, and secured an audience with the pilot of the chassis.
I’m sure you’ve reviewed the records of the debrief we recorded. We don’t know how it arrived in New Madrassa; the Ungratefuls say they received the initial code burst from their contact in the Voladores. The Voladores say they never gave them anything, and called it la pulga, “The Flea” — we have designated it LITCH. Didymos is the active animus — what serves as its pilot.
We do not recommend giving this one a long leash.
", - "data_type": "system", - "aptitude": { - "support": 1, - "repair": 0 - } - }, - { - "id": "armsman1", - "name": "Ammo Case", - "type": "System", "talent_item": true, - "talent_id": "armsman", + "talent_id": "t_technophile", "talent_rank": 1, "sp": 0, "tags": [ { - "id": "limited", - "val": 6 + "id": "tg_ai" + }, + { + "id": "tg_unique" } ], "source": "", "license": "", "license_level": 0, - "effect": "A custom supply of ammunition that can be used with all your main ranged weapons.“Dark. Wet. Drink deep, and descend. The water is warm and well. It is very busy here, though you cannot see it. The swimmers are curious. Open your mouth.”
— Speaker 2 (M.A2.SP2) [Audio, length: 120:36][34% corruption][Dated 18593U, 01:50] [UIBTERMAGANT-TANGENT ROYAL]
", - "data_type": "weapon", - "aptitude": { - "Melee": 1 - } - }, - { - "id": "fuelrod", + "id": "mw_fuel_rod_gun", "name": "Fuel Rod Gun", "mount": "Integrated", "type": "CQB", @@ -2959,7 +2538,7 @@ "range": [ { "type": "Range", - "val": 8 + "val": 3 }, { "type": "Threat", @@ -2968,17 +2547,17 @@ ], "tags": [ { - "id": "limited", + "id": "tg_limited", "val": 3 }, { - "id": "unique" + "id": "tg_unique" } ], "source": "", "license": "", "license_level": "", - "effect": "When you fire this weapon, hit or miss, reduce your heat by 4. This doesn’t count as cooling.", + "effect": "On Attack: Clear 4 heat.", "description": "Gained from the \"Nuclear Cavalier\" Rank 3 Talent", "data_type": "weapon", "aptitude": { @@ -2986,7 +2565,7 @@ } }, { - "id": "prototype1", + "id": "mw_prototype_1", "name": "Prototype Weapon", "mount": "Integrated", "type": "Special", @@ -3008,20 +2587,20 @@ ], "tags": [ { - "id": "limited", + "id": "tg_limited", "val": "1d6+2" }, { - "id": "setmaxuses" + "id": "tg_set_max_uses" }, { - "id": "overkill" + "id": "tg_overkill" } ], "source": "", "license": " ", "license_level": "", - "effect": "Choose between the following attributes upon installation: