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Introduction
I
thought since this is the first of the
books we intend to produce at Worldo-
fRifts.com, I’d write a few words. I my-
self am very excited with this first book.
Many long hours have gone into it by not
only by its creator, Marshall, but the rest of
us who read it and troubleshoot ideas.
The difficult task in this project was that
Marshall nearly wrote everything himself.
Having a small staff, jobs were doubled
(sometimes tripled) and so for me taking
care to maintain the web site became an
overwhelming task.
I have to say when Marshall begins to
write the ideas he musters are sometimes so
brilliant they border on insanity. You will
see more of what I mean when more and
more of his material gets posted.
Since the basis of this book was a new
armaments company, we came to the even
more difficult task of coming up with some
new weapons and equipment and not just
revamped versions of stuff found throughout
Palladium’s books. Once again, Marshall
came to bat. I’m sure you will find the
equipment found within these pages some-
thing that will make your gaming more en-
joyable.
Since the term “Net Book” has already
be used (and used often) we’ve decided to
call or material WOR BOOKS with the “W”
“O” “R” standing for World Of Rifts (of
course.) This is the first of a series and we
do plan on creating more. We’re also going
to invite some of you to contribute your own
writings to upcoming WOR Books. Keep
checking in with our web site for more de-
tails.
Because we have no affiliate with Palla-
dium Book® all the material written in this
book are basically “house rules.” Game
Masters has the right to disallow anything
within these pages. We hope that game
masters will adopt some of our geography
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and incorporate them within their games. In
time Palladium Books® may come up with
some material for the area of Connecticut,
but for now, in our warped version of Rifts®
Earth, is our idea.
— Kyle Harris, 2001
A
nother wonderful, and yet long-
winded, way of saying “hey here is
something cool, and free, for us to
read” by Kyle.
I have spent many weeks brainstorming
this “book” (I’d rather call it a booklet due
to its size). I hope that some or all of its
material can be found in your games.
I apologize that there are no pictures. I
have some made but I do not have access to
a scanner. I have tried to be as descriptive as
possible to give an idea of what things look
like. In the mean time I’ll attempt to find a
way to post them.
I have tried to make this a non-munchkin
source of material. That is why many of the
items and equipment here have drawbacks
and penalties to them. If you feel anything in
here (not including things written by others)
is munchkin please make your voice heard.
I am now moving on to another project
that will hopefully be done this year. Kyle
won’t let me tell you what it is (He is para-
noid sort) but I will tell you it is going to be
very cool, and demented.
I’d love to hear your opinions and ques-
tions about anything I have created, or even
things you would like to see created. E-mail
me at marshallc@worldofrifts.com, or look
for me on the Palladium web site message
boards in the Rifts section. My profile is:
Verington.
Enjoy Safe Haven.
-Marshall Champion 2001

–Cities of Safe Haven —
S
afe Haven is a small Industrial state
located in pre-rifts Connecticut.
Comprised of three moderately sized
cities and their surrounding farms and minor
villages, the State of Safe Haven is a grow-
ing community formed out of the ruins of
the ravaged lands of New England.
“It was a privilege to be allowed admit-
tance into Safe Haven. I was marveled by
the vast buildings, the military presence but
the of sense a nice peaceful community.
No one just visits Safe Haven because no
one really knows where it is. I’ve often
wondered how a large facility like Safe Ha-
ven can remain hidden for so long, but it
wiser not to ask. As I said, no one just visits
Safe Haven. You have to be invited or stum-
ble upon it.
I will not go into a long detailed expla-
nation on how I went about the request. I’m
sure some of it would be edited out anyway.
Instead I want to describe the scenery, the
citizens and the people behind Safe Haven.
What I do know of its location is it is in
the area of pre-rifts Connecticut. This also
explains the cooler autumns and the beauti-
ful foliage change of the vast forests. Some-
how there is a sense of unity between the
bright reds and oranges and that of the
splendor that is Safe Haven — Justin Mar-
lowe (excerpt from his book “Safe Haven:
Unity and Freedom.)
In Safe Haven the community is built so
no one has to live in fear. The general com-
munity regards magic and psychic abilities
as the norm, even assets. Their violent crime
rates are low due to strict law enforcement.
Their isolation from the central states means
that they are safe, for now, from the Coali-
tion States Campaign of Unity. Also due to
the lack of magic rich territory, except for
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the northeast portion of Connecticut, super-
natural predators have been kept mostly in
check.
So thus follows the falsehoods and truths
that make up what we call Safe Haven.
—History—
It all started in 103 P.A. in South Amer-
ica with the formation of the Mercenary unit
“Krimson Killers”. Led by an Anti-Monster
by the name of Socrates Johnson, the unit
started taking jobs eliminating local vam-
pires and other supernatural predators.
Slowly the unit began to work its way up to
North America by snaking their way through
the vampire kingdoms. Eventually they set-
tled somewhere in Central America.
Meanwhile in the Coalition States a team
of Special Forces agents was formed to be-
gin the softening of Tolkeen and other ter-
ritories for the upcoming campaign of unity.
The unit was under the leadership of LT.
Eian Joseph Hunter (it is unknown if this is
his real name) and SGT. Sean Verington.
Hunter graduated from the military spe-
cialist intelligence school with high marks in
sabotage and infiltration. A disciplined man
with a silent compassion for his men, and a
reputation of strictly following orders, was a
perfect choice for the command of the “seek
and destroy” unit.
On the opposite end of the spectrum was
Verington. A load mouthed and cocky com-
bat veteran, Verington had a reputation for
taking extreme risks and being outspoken
with superiors. If not for his attitude he may
have made lieutenant sooner. Otherwise
Verington was a skilled soldier whom had
spent a three-year tour of duty in Lone Star
fighting the Pecos bandits. His skills during
this time had honed and Verington had
transferred to Special Forces training. Ver-
ington graduated second to last in his class
and was proud of it. The training com-
mander wrote the following about Verington
in his dossier:
“Sergeant Verington is a skilled and
daring soldier. His skill is surpassed only by
his devotion to the Coalition cause. Sadly he
displays the same dangerous attitude as the
venerable General Underhill. Verington will
either be a valuable asset or a dangerous
liability. It is my opinion that to give this
man officer status would be a dangerous
gamble that I advise against.
—Colonel Niles Bedaviere, Special Divi-
sions Commander; Camp Dagger”
The Special Forces team, loosely dubbed
“The Judges”, began a series of hit and fade
tactics along the Tolkeen front. Verington
went to extreme lengths to ensure that all
that survived remembered who they were.
Their reputation grew on both sides of the
border. In Tolkeen Hunter and Verington’s
names were whispered under a blanket of
fear. People began to call the dynamic
commanders “The most dangerous men in
America”.
In the Coalition States they were revered
as heroes of the Coalition cause. Joseph Pro-
sek II launched a propaganda campaign with
Hunter and Verington as the centerpiece.
Their stories were so embellished that it
came as no surprise when they were made
into an animated series to support recruiting
among the younger generation; they even
had action figures of the entire team.
Hunter and Verington were decorated
many times; Verington even got the coveted
Imperial Medal of Honor. Amazingly none
of the celebrity status went to their heads.
Verington, by 104 P.A. a First Lieutenant,
and Hunter, then a Major, could be found
having drinks in the officers club with their
closest friend Sergeant Ralph, a wolf dog
boy whom had saved both their lives on sev-
eral occasions. When asked about their fame
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Hunter and Ralph would grin and Verington
would break into hysterical laughter, either
way none would answer except for sarcasm
from Verington.
General Underhill stiffly headed across
the banquette hall toward the recent arrival.
Everyone in the hall was in full dress uni-
form, medals gleaming on proud chests.
Everyone, that is, except the man in the
doorway. The man appeared in his early
thirties with auburn hair and brown eyes.
Dressed in field fatigues and donning a
floppy cap with unit insignia upon it. The
man smirked at the approaching General.
“What’s your name Lieutenant?” Un-
derhill demanded of the man. The soldier
came crisply, and slightly exaggeratedly, to
attention and sounded off as if speaking to a
sergeant at boot camp.
“Verington Sir!” The entire hall grew
quite as everyone began to stare at the
scene. From the far end of the hall General
Cabot and the Emperor began to make their
way casually toward the situation.
“Wasn’t it clear to you lieutenant,” Un-
derhill fumed,” that this banquette was in-
tended for Dress Uniform!?”
“Yes sir the requirement was perfectly
clear,” Verington responded straight-faced
as Cabot and the Emperor arrived and stood
a meager five feet away.
“Then perhaps you have a good expla-
nation for the lack of your uniform Lieuten-
ant.”
“Yes sir I do,” Verington replied. He
deliberately looked at the Generals chest of
medals and a malicious grin played upon his
lips.
“Well out with it!” Underhill hissed.
Verington made a sigh as if the answer were
obvious.
“With all due respect to his Generalship
sir,” Verington began as his smile grew,
“But unlike his Generalship, if I were to
show up in full dress I would require two
uniforms to fit all of my medals. Unfortu-
nately I only have one and so did not want to
show up in partial uniform sir!”
General Cabot chuckled and even the
Emperor grinned as the crowd continued to
laugh even after General Underhill had
stormed away in fury.
I am told that General Cabot had the
charges against Verington dropped
again…that man gets away with more mis-
chief than any one I know.
—From the journal of Lieutenant-Colonel
Sarah Coombs, Military Intelligence, Spe-
cial Divisions. (Excerpt from the book
“Most Dangerous Men in America” by Ted
Davis)
The famous banquette in Chi-town was
the first time Verington and Coombs met.
Later that year, after a fiery romance, they
were married.
Soon after the Judges disappeared on a
recon mission in the magic zone. The team
had ventured into a dimensional portal and
ended up traversing dimensions for six
months before finding the “real” Earth.
Amazingly only a month had passed on
Earth when the team returned.
The trip had an adverse effect on the
team. They began to have anti-coalition
thoughts on the issues of freedom, psionics,
and magic. Verington became extremely
verbal about these issues, fortunately his
wife understood. The CS high command
feared that Verington was corrupting the
team. They decided he had to be gotten rid
of. They sent him on an infiltration mission
against the recently arrived Krimson Killers.
All previous attempts had seen their agents
killed and they hoped for the same fate to
befall Verington.
The Krimson Killers had proven again
adept at capturing infiltrator and caught
Verington. But they realized the importance
of their captive and Socrates determined that
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he should be kept alive. The CS, dually up-
set about their failed plan, decided that
Verington had to be assassinated and they
knew just who to do it.
Hunter had continued to show loyalty
upon his return from the rifts and thus they
sent him and the team to do the deed. Little
did they know that Hunter was actually the
silent proponent of all the anti-coalition
thinking in the unit. When ordered to kill
Verington Hunter happily agreed, then
found Sean’s wife and told her of their
plight. Fortunately her loyalty to Verington
was stronger than her loyalty to the Coali-
tion. Hunter took her and the team and de-
fected to the Krimson Killers.
Eventually Verington and Socrates be-
gan a strong working relationship. But for
Verington freedom from the CS was not
enough, as he was always an extremist he
decided they needed to make a nation that
expressed freedom instead of oppression.
Using Sarah’s knowledge of the coming
campaign of unity the group struck a part-
nership with Socrates and headed for a des-
tination far from the CS; Connecticut.
After the plundering of pre-rift cities and
military bases, and some say support from
across the rifts, Verington lead the creation
of the industrial Nation that is aptly named
Safe Haven.

—The Three Cities of
Safe Haven—
“I
am ashamed to say that I be-
lieved all the stories I heard
about Safe Haven. It’s vastness
and supremacy as a mighty city. I was sur-
prised to discover that Safe Haven was not a
city at all. It seems that Safe Haven is split
among three cities. I was fortunate to have
a chance to visit each one.
The first I visited was the capital city of
Safe Haven, Haven City. Haven City is not
only the Capitol City, but also the corporate
headquarters of Safe Haven Arms Corpora-
tion.
Haven City is the education capitol of
Safe Haven as well. Unlike the Coalition
States, Safe Haven teaches their citizens lit-
eracy. Most have learned are learning to
read and write. This in itself is a major im-
provement on that of the Coalition.
Several magic and psychic guilds have
been set up, as they are legal. No official
guild has been yet established. Some say
it’s because founder Verington is still unsure
about dealing with magic users. Whatever
the reason, none has been established. Ha-
ven — Justin Marlowe (excerpt from his
book “Safe Haven: Unity and Freedom.)
— Haven City —
Corporate Headquarters and
Capital of Safe Haven
Located five miles south of the ruins of
Hartford lay Haven City. It is composed of
several multi-level M.D.C and S.D.C.
structures. Architecture varies from ancient
to modern styles. In the center of the city is
a walled in area several blocks in diameter
this area is known as the city proper and is
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home to corporate headquarters, the market
place and many other upscale homes and
businesses. The proper holds many building,
all of which are M.D.C. structures. The ar-
chitecture of the proper is modeled after pre-
rift Roman Empire styles. There is talk of
building a new proper which would be a
small version of a CS super-city fortress, but
this won’t be decided for 1D4 years and will
take 3D6 years to complete (no roll under 5
acceptable).
Outside the eastern border of the city lies
a smaller walled fortress, which holds the
military forces for Haven City. This base
holds an entire Corps (two divisions) of sol-
diers whom are armed with the best Safe
Haven can offer.
The city of Haven is very well off. Safe
Haven is not only an industry but is also the
local government. They provided basic edu-
cation to the populace. The schools are paid
partially by corporate profits and partially by
local taxes. The education provided is equal
to approximately a pre-rift high school edu-
cation. This is due to Verington’s belief that
educated people are happier and will provide
for a better pool of employees to the corpo-
ration. Already an amazing 75% of the
population can or are learning how to read
and write, as well as other courses of learn-
ing.
Also located at Haven City is the Ver-
ington University of Military Science. This
is a college style military school that trains
soldiers as well as scholarly pursuits. It is
based on a combination of West Point and
Harvard. The school is run by the govern-
ment and costs a fair tuition to attend. Safe
Haven can provide partial or full tuition if
the attendee serves four years either in a job
with Safe Haven arms or in the military. If
the attendee drops out or fails they are re-
sponsible for the payment of their tuition,
plus interest. Safe Haven also provides
loans, or low interest subsidized loans for
their employee’s. All applications for tuition
or loans are rated individually; those with
felony criminal convictions are automati-
cally denied.
The Verington University of Military
Science teaches a wide range of courses,
from demolitions to medical degrees. Any
O.C.C. in the following books can be se-
lected: Rifts main book, Mercenaries book,
Coalition War Campaign.
Also located in the city are the two
manufacturing facilities. The first plant
manufactures hand held and personal infan-
try style weapons. The second plant makes
the robots; power armored suits, and vehi-
cles of Safe Haven.
Statistical Data
Population: 140,000 and growing as more
and more people flee the central states.
Population Breakdown:
40% Human’s
35% D-bee’s
20% Mutants
4% Dragons and other creatures of
magic
1% Other
Creatures that are unintelligent monsters
or prey upon other intelligent beings are
banned within city limits and may be de-
stroyed on sight if they have a particularly
bad reputation (like Vampires). This in-
cludes human criminals that have bad repu-
tations or have been ejected from the cities
in the past.
— New Nian
Nia n tic —
The resort capital of Safe Haven
Devon stared at the beads of sweat
forming on his fingertips as the last rays of
the sunset reflect off the light blue hull of the
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cruise liner. How he thought could I lose ten
thousand credits in a day? He had been
positive earlier that day that if he had a few
bucks he would have beaten the entire ship.
He had played all those games with his Un-
cle Ricardo since he was five. He knew
every rule and every loophole.
That was when he had met Harris, the
weasel eyed, pot bellied slug had plenty of
credits to share if Devon would repay him
with interest. He remembered the excitement
he felt when the loan sharks greasy fists
handed over the credits. Now Devon also
remembers the thugs that had been with him,
one a juicer and the other a Borg. He knew
if he did not pay as soon as he exited the
ship, those two thugs would be calling on
him for some “interest”. I’m a goddamn id-
iot.
The blaring of the ships horn snapped
him from his thoughts. It was twilight and
the ship had docked to exchange passengers
for the night run. He had only paid for the
day cruise. Slowly he picked up his only re-
maining possession, a tot bag containing a
change of cloths and a half used bar of soap
from the ships bathroom, then made his way
down the gang plank.
At the bottom waited Harris and the two
thugs. They read Devon’s face and the thugs
began to crack their knuckles in anticipa-
tion. Devon swallowed nervously as he ap-
proached. Perhaps they’ll only break one of
my legs, Devon thought as he approached.
By the look on Harris’s face he wasn’t so
sure…
Built on top of the pre-rift cities of New
London and Groton lies the city of New Ni-
antic. When Haven City was built, they had
plundered the former military bases and
submarine manufacturing facilities that had
been in these two cities. While most of the
items were in ruins, the storms, which had
otherwise ravaged the eastern seaboard, had
been kept mostly at bay by the neighboring
Long Island, which lay three-quarters un-
derwater now. Thus, the people were able to
plunder the entire southern border of Con-
necticut for lost technologies and parts for
manufacturing facilities.
Originally, New Niantic was a port town
for anglers and other sailors that visited the
smaller villages on the cost. But eventually
New Niantic became the site for the naval
production yards of the corporation. They
became the base of the SH Navy and even
produced luxury ships for private citizens.
Now New Niantic is a town rich with fishing
and attractions for tourists. They even have
shopping centers and cruises.
The largest of the private boats is the
luxury cruiser Aquamarine a floating casino
that tours Long Island sound as it’s floor
shows and games go on all day and night
long. A private cruise line named Dream
Star Cruises owns the ship; this company is
not affiliated with Safe Haven. Few private
ships go beyond the shores of former Rhode
Island, as that is as far as all SH Naval pa-
trols currently go.
Also in the center of the city are several
small casinos, hotels, resorts and nightspots
available to any tourist looking for a good
time. Alcohol and “mild” narcotics (like
marijuana, tobacco etc.) are legal but under
strict terms and are heavily taxed, drunk/
intoxicated driving is considered a felony.
“Extreme” narcotics (such as crack, acid and
psi-cola) are illegal and possession of them
can be punishable by heavy fines or jail
time. Dealing in illegal drugs is a felony and
is severely punished.
Also located in New Niantic are two
military bases. The first belongs to the army
and has one regiment of soldiers. The sec-
ond is the Naval base which has a small fleet
of patrol boats and even a couple frigates,
destroyers and two brand new attack subma-
rines.
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Statistical Data
Population: 105,000 and growing
Population Breakdown:
30% Human’s
30% D-bee’s
27% Mutants
3% Dragons and other creatures of
magic
Once again all supernatural monsters
that prey upon other intelligent beings are
refused entry and may be destroyed.
—D-City—
Dimensional Transportation
Center of Safe Haven
Located in the magic rich territory of
northeast Connecticut lays D-City. D-City is
founded around an amazing device that a
Safe Haven exploration team found while
plundering pre-rifts sites to build their na-
tion. About ten feet underground was the
remains of a pre-rifts military research cen-
ter that housed a multitude of scientific
equipment and files, of which most of Safe
Havens technology is based upon. The
strangest of the finds was a large device that
the base was built for. When the power
source was restored and the computer files
were investigated they discovered that the
device was called the Sigma II (To learn
more about the first Sigma project see the
adventure supplement “A Window On The
World” By Randy McCall on pages 218-222
of Palladium Books® “Beyond The Super-
natural”™).
Verington, Hunter and Socrates all knew
what use such a device could be. Thus, they
made it a priority to get it working and begin
testing it. The first few tests turned into fail-
ure as they opened portals to worlds filled
with hostile monsters. Just as they were con-
sidering cutting the losses and abandoning
the project, they successfully opened a por-
tal to a world called Phase World™. Thus
the project was revitalized and soon many
locations were explored.
Now there are five working “Gateways”
as they have been dubbed. Three of them are
for private citizens traveling to other dimen-
sions. The fourth is for further exploration of
other worlds for possible travel. Corporate
delegations and the Krimson Killers, which
use the portals to sell their services to people
of other dimensions, use the fifth. The
Krimson Killers are currently one regiment
strong and are mixed with modern tech, psy-
chic abilities and magic users/ creatures.
Currently the “Civilian” portals cost
about 1000 credits to travel to “safe” worlds
and 3000-10,000 credits plus a signed
waiver to travel to “hostile” worlds. These
portals only open to known worlds. Trips to
hostile worlds will require a specified return
time for the pick up, miss your time and
your trapped forever. Most safe worlds have
scheduled daily, weekly, or monthly pick up
times depending on the popularity of the
world and the number of people who trav-
eled there. A portal will not open to a safe
world that does not have traveling inhabi-
tants or any Safe Haven travelers present
unless requested, which can cost up to 300%
more.
Phase World and the other three galaxies
destinations, Europe, South America, Africa,
Western North America, and Oz are the
most common safe destinations. Atlantis
will never have a portal opened to it due to
the fact the slavery is illegal in Safe Haven.
Currently the only way to travel to Atlantis
is to take a portal from Phase world through
the Prometheans. All travelers to Phase
World automatically agree to follow all
CCW laws and nobody is granted immunity
from CCW prosecution, though usually
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criminals are given to Safe Haven in good
faith to prosecute them.
As for the rest of D-City, it is mostly a
dimensional market place and tourist desti-
nation, on their way to or from Earth.
Besides the base of the Krimson Killers,
Safe Haven has a military base that has a
Field Army (three full divisions) of infantry
to protect the people if the research portal
accidentally opens to a hostile world.
Statistical Data
Population: 120,000 and rapidly fluctuating.
Population Breakdown:
30% Human’s
40% D-bee’s (all non-human travel-
ers are considered d-bee’s)
20% Mutants
10% Dragons and other creatures of
magic
As before creatures that prey upon other
intelligent beings are refused entry and may
be killed on sight.
—Emerald City—
Mining Colony of Safe Haven
Named after the fictional city in The
Wizard of Oz is the backbone of the re-
sources of Safe Haven. When Safe Haven
was founded it was realized that there was
not sufficient resources in the area to sup-
port the weapons dealer.
That is were the gateways of D-city
came in. With the gateways they sent out
survey & exploration crews to investigate
new worlds for mining potential.
Eventually they came upon a world that
was rich in mineral deposits and to their sur-
prise it appeared uninhabited. They soon
sent colonization teams to mine and explore
the world further.
Discovered on the planet was a strange
new ore that was gem-like in appearance
and had a green color like jade, or emeralds.
Kevin Ozmus discovered the ore, thus the
ore was named Ozanthium. All of the central
buildings were made out of this green mate-
rial.
Thus colonists started calling the city
Emerald City after the popular, fictional,
city in The Wizard of Oz. Thus it was only
fitting that the world be called Oz. The nick-
names stuck and are now officially accepted.
Whenever he visits the city Verington jokes
that he is the Wizard of Oz.
Soon it was realized that they were not
alone on this world. It started with strange
tracks and markings being found and then
far extended survey teams began to disap-
pear.
Fearing the worst the Board made the
decision to set up a military presence on the
planet. Their orders were to locate and deal
appropriately with any possible threat.
Soon the smaller villages and mines
were under attack by strange underground
dwelling creatures that came out in the
mines or during the night in mass numbers
and began to slaughter the colonists.
The Military has managed to secure the
remaining towns and mines. They continue
to expand and the monsters continue to at-
tack. For more info see the monster section.
Emerald City has grown and has re-
mained relatively safe from the devastation.
It is now a major contributor to the nation.
Statistical Data
Population: 150,000 and growing.
Population Breakdown:
35% Humans
35% D-bee’s
25% Mutants
5% Others
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As previously mentioned all creatures
that prey on other intelligent beings are not
allowed in the city. Due to safety concerns
of Oz all supernatural predators, that fit this
criteria, are killed on sight.
Ozanthium
On the mining world of Oz a miner by
the name of Kevin Ozmus discovered a
strange new ore that had an appearance of a
green gem like emerald. In his name sake
the metal was named Ozanthium.
A Safe Haven scientist by the name of
Mark Waters realized the importance of this
discovery and decided to research the metal
further.
Waters discovered that the metal had a
strong molecular structure similar to dia-
mond. Alone the metal was just as durable
as any alloy used in the production of mod-
ern armor (M.D.C.).
But Waters soon discovered that the
metal could successfully blended with other
metals to form new alloys. He learned that
mixing ozanthium with any other metal
would form a new alloy that was 25%
stronger than the original metal of equal
weight was.
It seemed that the ozanthium molecules
would blend with the other metals and fill in
the weak gaps. Thus the result was a metal
with a hybrid molecular structure. The most
interesting part is that so far Dr. Waters has
not yet to find a metal that does not share a
compatibility with ozanthium.
Every metal that is combined with
ozanthium gains the green coloring and
gem-like sheen of the ozanthium. Emerald
city is made out of such materials and thus
got its namesake.
It takes one pound (0.45 kg) of ozan-
thium to strengthen ten pounds (4.5 kg) of
other metals. The end result is ozanthium
alloy, which is 25% stronger (add 25% to
M.D.C.). If the ozanthium is mixed with
weaker metals (S.D.C.) then the new alloy is
exceptionally strong (Take S.D.C. rating and
divide by ten. The new number is the metals
M.D.C. rating!). This procedure is called
The Ozanthium-Waters Process; Dr. Waters
is now the chief researcher of the properties
and application of ozanthium at his lab in
Emerald city.
Ozanthium alloys can be used to make
all sorts of items. Most of Safe Haven Arms
weapons and equipment are made of ozan-
thium alloys. Naruni Enterprises is still re-
searching ozanthium and may not have an
application for it for another 1D4 years. See
secrets of Safe Haven to learn more about
their relation with the mega-corporation. So
far they get their ozanthium from Safe Ha-
ven through trade from D-city. Currently the
only way to get to Oz is through the gate-
ways of D-city. Otherwise if Naruni knew
where the ozanthium was they might con-
sider a “hostile takeover”.
Other Territories
Besides the three major cities as noted
there are several smaller villages and farm-
ing communities that are under the protec-
tion and government of Safe Haven. Safe
Haven claims all off pre-rifts Connecticut,
but only occupy the shore, center and east-
ern half. The also claim the western half of
Rhode Island. All territory is broken into
Branches, similar to pre-rift counties, and is
supervised by Branch managers. Two
Branches are formed into a District
The world Oz (which is a P.P.E. rich
world like Earth) is similar to Earth. It has
many mountains with flat lands in between
the mountain ranges. More will be done on
Oz at a later date. For now consider it like
Earth only mountainous and has occasional
Earthquakes.
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Laws
The laws of Safe Haven are based
loosely on a mix of pre-rift United States of
America and the Consortium of Civilized
Worlds (CCW- for more information see
“Rifts® Dimension Book Two: Phase
World™” pgs. 53-54), with strict punish-
ment like the Coalition States. The most
heinous crimes, like first-degree murder and
slavery, are punished by exile or death. Mis-
demeanors are usually punishable by fines
and or jail time in a correctional or labor fa-
cility. Felonies are punishable by fines and
long jail terms in labor camps or correc-
tional facilities.
Citizens of Safe Haven do have rights
given to them under a company bylaw called
the Accord of Entitlement. Anyone who
lives in Safe Haven for a period of three
years may become a citizen; those born in
Safe Haven, born to Safe Haven citizens or
married to a Safe Haven citizen are full citi-
zens.
The Accord gives rights that are similar
to those of the pre-rift bill of rights of the
United States of America. The right to free
speech, possess firearms (even M.D. weap-
ons if licensed) and so on.
Courts run similarly to pre-rifts Ameri-
can business meetings. They are called dis-
ciplinary hearings and are run by the disci-
plinary committee. At the end of a hearing
the committee then votes on if the accused is
innocent or guilty. They follow the mantra
“innocent till proven guilty”. There are ru-
mors of committees taking bribes, but no
founded cases. Members of the Union men-
tioned below, attend to ensure that there is a
fair process and can cast a vote of no confi-
dence in committee members that they feel
are harsh or untrustworthy.
The Internal Affairs department, which
works similar to pre-rift police, FBI and
NSA combined, enforce Law.
Government
A body called “The Board” governs Safe
Haven. They are a group of beings that are
selected for loyalty to Safe Haven and repre-
sent a percentage of the working citizenry,
each Board member represents anywhere
from one to six Departments. These people
give advice to the essential decision-maker
of Safe Haven, The Executive Director. The
Board votes on important issues for the day
and usually passes laws and directives. The
Executive Director does not vote unless
there is a tie. Even if a vote is successful, the
Executive Director does not have to pass the
directives, as the board is nothing more than
a panel of advisors. He may use an Execu-
tive Order to pass a rule without the consent
of the board, but usually the Executive lis-
tens to his advisors as they represent the
people.
Currently there are eight Board mem-
bers, who include Hunter, Socrates and
Verington’s dog-boy friend Ralph. Vering-
ton himself sits on the seat of Executive Di-
rector. All positions are permanent, but the
Executive Director and a two-thirds majority
vote of the board can force a Board member
into resignation.
Finally, each board member has a group
of advisers that talk to them about the con-
cerns of the Worker citizens of Safe Haven
Arms and what legislation they want. This
group is called The Union. Their fellow
workers elect representatives in The Union.
Only workers in Safe Haven can join the
union or bring concerns up in Union meet-
ings, which are called Rallies. At a rally, the
Union discusses concerns and votes on what
to discuss with the board. If the workers feel
that a Board member is not listening to their
concerns, they can have the Union repre-
sentatives’ vote for “No Confidence.” If the
vote of “No Confidence” passes with a two-
third-majority, the board and Executive Di-
rector must vote on a forced resignation.
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If the Workers still feel that they are
mistreated they can vote to strike. If it
passes with a two-third-majority, all workers
stop work until they feel their needs are rea-
sonably met. Striking workers do not lose
their job, but they are not paid for time spent
striking and thus strikes are rare.
Safe Haven is organized into Divisions,
overseen by Division heads (usually a Board
member). Each division is broken into sev-
eral Departments, which are overseen by
department heads. Under them are District
and Branch Managers, who run their local
areas, like pre-rifts counties and cities. The
Branch Manager usually has several Assis-
tant Managers. All managers supervise a
specific area of their control and ensure
proper implementation of the mandates of
the Board.
There are several Departments that rep-
resent each type group (The Department of
Lands and Implementation of Law (LAIOL)
runs territory concerns, Internal Affairs, Di-
vision of the Army, R&D, and Disciplinary
Committee, Division of the Navy).
Magic and Psychic Abilities in
Safe Haven
Magic and psychic abilities are legal and
considered socially acceptable in Safe Ha-
ven. Those who persecute these, or other
people, due to their differences are charged
with felony hate crime.
The military makes an active effort to
recruit these people. The Verington Univer-
sity of Military Science has a training center
for psychics and those with mystic abilities.
As well as the magic and psychic guilds of
D-city (All O.C.C.’s and R.C.C.’s are ap-
propriate. There is even a small population
of feral dog boys. O.C.C.’s and R.C.C.’s
from the books Federation of Magic and
Psyscape are appropriate as the Game Mas-
ter determines individually).
 Crime involving magic or psychic pow-
ers is a felony. All criminals of this sort are
forced to register their powers and abilities,
law abiding magic users and psychics don’t
have to register, and are even subject to
mind probes to determine the extent of their
power.
D-City has a team of skilled techno-
wizards always present to help maintain the
gateways.
Cybernetics and Bionics
Safe Haven has cybernetic and bionic
capabilities equal to that of the Coalition
States, thus the appropriate O.C.C’s are
available. Bionics must be licensed with the
Bionics Licensing Commission (BLC).
Crimes involving bionics, or the theft of bi-
onics and cybernetics from implanted per-
sons, are a felony.
The Safe Haven Military
The Army of Safe Haven can pull on an
array of R.C.C.’s and O.C.C.’s, as previ-
ously mentioned. A term of service is usu-
ally four years. The also will hire mercenar-
ies for special assignments, as needed. The
soldiers and sailors of Safe Haven are con-
sidered employees and thus have represen-
tation in the Union. The Army has several
field units, totaling two field armies, which
patrol Safe Haven and the surrounding ter-
ritory. This does not include the previously
mentioned city defenders.
Sometimes Safe Haven will send units to
the central states to field test new equip-
ment, these items usually have their identi-
fying marking removed so as to not get
blamed, especially by the CS.
Safe Haven Ranks and pay are modeled
after the CS military, thus use the CS ranks
and pay rate.
The Safe Haven navy has a small oce-
anic fleet of patrol craft. This fleet defends
against any monsters or pirates in the area.
There is increased interest in the Navy and it
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is likely that their patrols may soon increase.
The shipyards in New Groton are rapidly
working to upgrade the available vessels to
the Navy. (At some later date myself or Jo-
seph Knight might make a navy supplement,
currently I am satisfied with what they’ve
got.)
The Krimson Killers
The Krimson Killers are a mercenary
unit that are owned by Socrates Johnson and
is supplied by Safe Haven. They are two
companies strong and sell their services out
to any whom can pay their fees. They cur-
rently work part time for Naruni Enterprises
in their repossessions Division.
The unit uses more than technology to
fight, in fact almost 30% of the force have
either psychic or magic abilities. One of said
magic users is a young, female Ice Dragon
who works for Socrates.
The Secret of Safe Haven Arms
Many people know that Safe Haven ob-
tained support from other beings when they
built Safe Haven. Few people actually know
who they are though there has been much
speculation.
Verington, Hunter and Socrates cut a
deal with none other than Naruni Enter-
prises™. The Naruni were being muscled
out of North America by the Coalition
States. Originally, the founders of Safe Ha-
ven merely bought equipment from them,
but when the CS announced the official
declaration of war on the Naruni, the corpo-
ration pulled their market out of North
America.
When they did the Naruni rep. named
Trader Joe nearly got himself captured by
the CS. The Krimson Killers managed to
save him in a daring raid and in return, he
brokered a deal that Naruni Enterprises
would provide materials and some limited
R&D knowledge to build factories. In ex-
change the Naruni got a large shipment of
ozanthium free of charge, and they get dis-
counted price on pure ozanthium ore for the
next twenty years (they don’t expect Safe
Haven to survive once the CS finishes their
campaign of unity). They cannot sell any
item that they’ve knocked-off from Naruni
on any planet that Naruni sells on, other than
Earth if they return or if Safe Haven sold the
world first.
Also it was agreed that the Krimson
Killers would work for their Repossession
division for three years. The founders of
Safe Haven agreed to this contract and thus
Safe Haven grew to its present technological
state.
Wormwood: During their time lost in the
dimensional portals, Verington and Hunter
spent a week on Wormwood. They do not
want to return.
Others: Except for the weapons that are
sold across North and Central America, no
one has any knowledge of them. The occa-
sional weapon has made its way to England
and the NGR. With the advent of ships
available it is projected that sales reps will
journey to these lands in 1D6 years.

Relations With Others

Coalition States: None, the CS has seen

some of their equipment and has heard of
the industrial nation somewhere on the east
coast, but due to travels with the portals and
traders lack of answers, nobody is sure of
it’s location.

Lazlo, New Lazlo and Tolkeen: They trade

with Lazlo and have offered weapons for
defense and refuge for its inhabitants. Due to
Verington’s reputation, Safe Have has no
dealings with New Lazlo or Tolkeen.

Phase World: Trade and tourism. All law

abiding peoples of the three galaxies are
welcome, particularly CCW members. In
fact the Board has attempted to model Safe
Haven after the CCW.

ARCHIE: The computer AI is curious and

suspicious of his neighbors; he currently is
content with quiet observation. Hagan is
paranoid of Safe Haven and does not want
them to discover him.

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Weapons & Equipment
Safe Haven Arms Corporation with li-
cense from Naruni Enterprises continues to
manufacture and sell Naruni technology. It
is the Naruni “franchise” store of North
America. In addition, Safe Haven Arms
Corporation also designs and manufactures
it’s own weaponry and equipment. They
pride themselves with high-quality and use-
ful items at reasonable prices. Being new to
the armaments business, Safe Haven items
are considered rare. Few people have their
equipment and those that do have visited
Safe Haven and purchased their items at one
of the factory outlets. Safe Haven has just
barley implemented the “carpetbagger” rou-
tine across America and the Vampire king-
doms, and thus their representatives are few
and far between. They usually use the local
black market in CS territory to avoid trou-
ble. Most Reps don’t go to the CS at all.
Safe Haven equipment has not yet infil-
trated the Coalition States. The only equip-
ment to enter the Coalition States has been
brought there by customers and not by Cor-
porate Representatives. Safe Haven is not
looking to do business with the Coalition
even if invited to do so. The few pieces of
equipment that have been seized have
caused the Coalition to distrust Safe Haven
and see them as a potential threat.
Body Armor
SH-CA-1 “Trojan” Armor
This is the standard issue body armor of
the SH military. The Army wears camou-
flage or olive drab armor. Naval crews wear
white or light blue. Civilian models are sold
in any other color.
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It is named Trojan because of the metal
plume on the helmet, thus to follow the
theme they have modeled the rest of the ar-
mor after pre-rift Trojan armor. The plume
is actually is a motion sensor and radar de-
tector, these work the same as the cybernetic
implants. The information displays on the
HUD and requires a sensor skill roll to prop-
erly use. The armor has the standard features
of environmental armor.
There are two large spikes on the shoul-
der pads that are actually emitters for a per-
sonal force field that is built into the armor.
This is powered by a pack that attaches to
the hip. Also attachable is a jet pack (same
stats as the jet pack for CS special forces
armor, see Coalition War Campaign) this
pack works underwater and is standard issue
to the navy.
A shield can also be issued for combat or
riot control purposes.
Weight: 25 lbs (11.25 kg) Shield 8 lbs (3.6
kg)
Prowl Penalties: Fair mobility, -15% prowl
M.D.C. By Location:
Head 50
Arms (2) 60 each
Legs (2) 80 each
Body 100
Personal Force Field 50 (recharges 10 per
hour of rest)
Shield 50
Depth Tolerance: 1000 feet (305 m)
Cost: The armor is 60,000 credits, the jet
pack is 50,000 credits, and the shield is
15,000 credits
Laser Weapons
SHC-IL Laser Derringer
A small laser pistol for concealing (+10% to
conceal). It is about the size of a cellular
phone. For an additional 10,000 credits the
weapon can be made to look like any normal
Item of equal size, preordered.
Range: 300 feet (91.2m)
Damage: 2D4 M.D.
Weight: 2lbs. (.98kg)
Rate of Fire: Equal to the hand-to-hand at-
tacks of the user.
Payload: 5 shots per e-clip
Cost: 10,000 credits (special sized E-clip
costs 1000 credits or a recharge at standard
costs)
SHR-AL1 Combat Laser Rifle &
SHR-CAL2 Compact Laser Rifle
These durable combat lasers exceed the new
Coalition weapons. They are air/water tight
and can even be fully submerged in mud and
still work. Their most appealing feature is
that they are the first automatic laser that
fires repeated triple pulses at a cycle rate
equal to pre-rift machine guns. This makes
the rifle capable of spays and bursts.
Rate of fire: equal to Hand to Hand and
W.P. limits.
SHR-AL1-
This weapon looks like a laser ver-
sion of a Heckler & Koch G3.
Range: 2000 feet (610m)
Weight: 9lbs (4kg)
Damage: 2D6 M.D. single, 6D6 M.D. triple
or by spray
Payload: 30 single blasts per e-clip
Cost: 40,000 credits
Bonus: Laser targeting, +2 to aimed shots.
SHR-CAL2-
This weapon looks similar to an
H&K MP-5 submachine gun.
Range: 2000 feet (610m)
Weight: 7lbs (3.1kg)
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Damage: 2D6 M.D. single, 6D6 M.D. triple
or spray
Payload: 21 single shots per e-clip
Cost: 35,000 credits
Bonus: Laser sight, +1 to aimed shots.
SHX-411A Heavy Sniper’s Delight
By Kyle Harris
This gun was not designed for mobile in-
fantry. This was designed to be the ultimate
sniper rifle. It has expanded range and in-
creased damage makes it a new favorite
among snipers. Its only drawback is after
one shot it takes a full melee round to
“charge.”
Range: 4000 feet (1220m)
Weight: 25lbs (11kg)
Damage: 4D6x10 M.D.
Payload: 5 shots per e-clip
Cost: 100,000 credits
Bonus: Due to advanced laser targeting, +4
to aimed strike. Gun is also air/water tight
and can be fired underwater.
Requirement: PS 17. Anyone with less than
a PS of 17 has a –2 to strike and gets no bo-
nus of laser targeting.
Plasma Cartridge
Weapons
Safe Haven™ Arms have replaced Naruni
Enterprises™ as the manufacturer of plasma
cartridge weapons in the Americas. They
make a plasma cartridge rifle, machine gun
and pistol, use the same stats out of the mer-
cenaries’ book. Also they sell personal force
fields, use mercenaries stats. The only dif-
ferences in these products are cosmetic.
SHPC-401 “Penetrator” Plasma
Cartridge Quad Rifle
The Penetrator is a four-barreled plasma
cartridge rifle. Based loosely on the pre-rift
double-barreled shotgun. This is a break ac-
tion weapon that can deliver a powerful at-
tack of several of the barrels at once! The
idea was to create a close quarter’s combat
weapon that was capable of rendering a tar-
get harmless in one shot. The gun has a dou-
ble trigger system. Pulling a trigger halfway
fires one shot. The design of the handle has
made access to both triggers easy. Both can
be pulled fully in a second or less simply by
sliding the finger to the next trigger after the
first is pulled all the way.
Due to its multi-barreled design the Pene-
trator had to have ammunition payload,
range, and accuracy sacrificed to reduce
weight to a manageable amount. Still the
weapon is large and bulky. Characters with a
P.S. of 17 or less cannot fire one handed,
even those above P.S. 17 will be firing wild
one handed and can only fire one or two
shots at once.
Primary Purpose: Defense
Secondary Purpose: Close Quarters, Anti-
Armor
Maximum Effective Range: 500 feet (152m)
Rate of Fire: One at a time or multi-blast of
two, three, or all four barrels at once. Two
shot blasts are at -3 to strike on all called
shots, but still get the aimed shot WP bo-
nuses. Due to the tremendous kick of a three
and four shot blasts called strikes are impos-
sible and use WP bonuses as if the shot were
a burst. Those without a WP can only fire up
to a double shot for one attack.
Mega Damage: Each cartridge does 1D4x10
M.D.. Thus, a four shot blast would do a
whopping 4D4x10 M.D.!
Payload: One round per barrel for a total of
four. It costs one melee action to reload two
barrels, thus two melee actions to reload all
four.
Weight: 14 lbs. (6.3 kg)
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Cost: The gun costs anywhere from two to
three times as much as a plasma cartridge
rifle based on availability and inherent risks.
The cartridges are standard plasma car-
tridges and thus cost the same as rifle car-
tridges.
Heavy Infantry Multi-Purpose
Personal Combat weapon
This is a large combat rifle that is four
weapons thrown into one to form a multi
purpose combat rifle that is diverse in the
type of firepower it can deliver. It has two
side-by-side barrels on the top row with a
third barrel underneath. The top barrels are a
laser pulse weapon and a plasma cartridge
rifle. The bottom weapon is a pump action
grenade launcher with retractable vibro-
bayonets on either side. The “Bull-Pup”
style stock has space for the laser clip and
plasma cartridge clip. The weapon has spe-
cial sized clips, so standard e-clips wont
work, to accommodate the weapons bulk.
The weapons downfalls are that it is so
heavy that it is difficult to wield accurately
without a bipod. Also each weapon has a
significantly low payload that makes it a dif-
ficult selection for extended combat situa-
tions. Still it is a favorite among those whom
love the weapons intimidation factor. The
weapon has a folding bipod for easy aiming
from a prone or entrenched position.
The underside vibro bayonets extend
with the push of a button on the stock. All
those with a PS under 17 fire at a –2 to
strike, and cannot make called strikes, unless
using the bipod or otherwise bracing the
weapon.
Also built into the weapon is a motion sen-
sor that tracks movement anywhere in front
of the weapon in 90% cone style detection
area. This adds a +2 to first round initiative
for all attacks from the front within it’s
sensing rang. It also adds a +10% to detect
ambushes in its range. Note that the system
is of simply construction. It can not distin-
guish friend from foe and anything that
moves that is the size of an apple or larger
with give off a signal, thus a small animal
could set off the sensor and deceive its op-
erator. It requires a read sensory equipment
skill roll to use the sensor correctly.
SH-MPW-3 “Supernova”
Combat Rifle
Weight: 16 lbs (7.2 kg)
Mega-Damage: Laser 2D6 for a single blast
or 6D6 for a triple pulse burst, 1D4x10 for a
plasma cartridge, 2D6 for most rifle gre-
nades to a 12 ft radius (Coalition Micro-
fusion grenades can be used, but Safe Haven
does not sell them, their security forces have
them though) the retractable vibro bayonet’s
do 3D6
Rate Of Fire: Laser rifle & plasma Cartridge
rifle are equal to the users combine hand-to-
hand attacks per melee. Grenades are one at
a time or up to four in rapid succession
(burst if at one target or wild if area satura-
tion)
Effective Range: Laser 2000 feet (610 m)
Plasma Cartridge 800 feet (244 m) Grenade
1200 feet (365 m) Motion Sensor 300 feet
(90 m)
Payload: Laser 18 single, or 6triple, blasts
per clip there are no long clips or canisters,
but can be cable attached to a hip pack. The
Plasma Cartridge clip holds 8 rounds. The
Grenade Launcher has a tubular magazine
that holds 8 grenades and must be individu-
ally reloaded.
Bonuses: The laser sight adds a +1 to all
shots with the laser or cartridge weapons.
The motion sensor, as mentioned above,
adds +2 to first round initiative and +10% to
detect ambush skill.
Cost: 65,000 for a new rifle, they are hard to
come by and there are no repaired versions
or knock offs available yet.
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TW Weapons
Safe Haven Arms has a small research
team attempting to develop techno-wizard
weapons. The number of TW weapons are
low, due to a lack of knowledge about
techno-wizard items.
SHTW-6A Anti-Magic Net Gun
By Kyle Harris
Works similar to the spell Anti-Magic Cloud
(Rifts® Main Book pg. 185) but instead of
a cloud, a mystical net shoots out and entan-
gles the target. As with the Anti-Magic
Cloud spell, those who have been captured
cannot cast magic (see spell saving throw).
The net has the equivalent of a supernatural
strength of 32 and 20 M.D.C. The SHTW-
6A is designed for human-sized to about
horse-sized creatures. THIS IS A
TECHNO-WIZARD WEAPON. ALL
RULES OF TW WEAPONRY APPLY.
Effective range against moving targets:
984.25 feet (300 m)
Effective range against stationary targets:
1,968.50 feet (600 m)
Weight: 15 lbs. (6.8 kg)
Rate of Fire: 4 per minute (1 per melee
round).
Launch Velocity: 721.78 f/s (220 m/s) or
(492 mph)
P.P.E.: 75 per shot
I.S.P.: 150
Cost: 95,000 to 150,000 credits
Magic Powers & Saving Throws: When the
net has been fired, the target can attempt to
dodge with a penalty of –3. If dodge is suc-
cessful, net has missed and gun cannot be
fired till next melee round. Net can be par-
ried with a penalty of –6. If weapon used to
parry net does more damage then net’s
M.D.C. (20), then net is destroyed. If parry
and dodge fail target is enveloped in a mys-
tical net and must make the following saving
throws: standard save versus spell Dishar-
monize (Federation of Magic pg. 153) and
then save versus Anti-Magic Cloud (Rifts®
Main Book pg. 185). All spells equivalent
to 5th level spell caster.
Bonus: 75% chance of target being knocked
over with a loss of initiative as penalty and
temporarily incapacitated for 1D4 melee
rounds. +1 to strike against moving objects,
+2 to strike against stationary objects.
Requirement: W.P. Heavy & P.S. of 15 or
more.
Spells & P.P.E. Required to make it: Anti-
Magic Cloud (140), Disharmonize (150),
with an additional 200 P.P.E. Must be at
least a 5th level magic user.
Other Weapons
SH-VS-10 “Piercer” vibro-spear
This spear has a small rocket engine, similar
to a mini missile engine, in the back and an
activation switch on the handle. When acti-
vated and thrown a sensor in the tip detects
when it makes contact with a target and ig-
nites the engine, which forces the blade fur-
ther into the opponent. The spear hits with
the force equal of a P.S. of 30 (70% chance
of victim being knocked over; 30%if victim
is more than 300lbs.)* The engine will con-
tinue to burn for a full melee round before
running out of fuel.
Weight: 6lbs (2.7kg)
Damage: 2D6 M.D. poking or thrown with-
out using the engine; 5D6 with engine
Ammunition: The rocket uses e-clips as
fuel. One full E-clip is consumed when the
rocket is used.
Range: as per the rules for throwing weap-
ons. The weapon, though well balanced, is
still a little uneven and throws are thus at a –
1 to strike beyond 30 feet (9.1 m)
Cost: 12,000 credits (currently rare)
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Special: *-if knocked down, character will
lose initiative and one melee action. Even if
character remains standing, impaled on a
rocket makes it hard to move –3 strike, parry
and dodge for the rest of melee round.
SHB-11 Energy Crossbow
By Kyle Harris
The design is similar to that of its ancient
ancestor with the exception of the lack of a
bolt. The “bolt” is a concentrated energy
bolt generated from a standard E-clip. Ac-
curacy is increased as well as distance and
damage becomes M.D.
Range: 1200 feet (366m)
Weight: 6lbs (2.7kg)
Damage: 2D6 M.D.
Payload: 25 shots per e-clip
Cost: 10,000 credits
Bonus: Get an additional +1 to all strike bo-
nuses at each level. Rate of fire is the same
as under W.P. Archery and Targeting
(Rifts® Main Book pg. 32). Does not get
the added effective range bonus of 20ft per
level.
Requirement: W.P. Archery and Targeting.
Specialty Ammo
Safe Haven has extensive amounts of
funding toward the development of special
types of ammunition and weapons. Thus as
follows are some of the Items that have
completed tests and are now mass-produced.
Burrower Rounds
This special Rail gun round was devel-
oped as an alternative to the uranium rounds.
The round combines Rail gun and vibro
technology. The round is shaped like a self-
propelled drill bit. The inside of the bullet
holds the small motor that moves it and the
battery that powers the vibro system. The
round is a 1-inch diameter cone. The cone
allows it to fit its bulk in among standard
Rail gun rounds. Due to this only one in ten
rounds is a Burrower round, thus a standard
burst of forty rounds has four Burrowers.
The point is to have the standard rounds
“soften” the target so that the Burrowers can
penetrate. Still, in a burst, usually only a
few rounds survive (1D4 are still active, add
a +1 to the roll for every burrower round in
the burst over four). When fired, the battery
is started and the vibro system engages as
the blade slowly turns. Burrower rounds can
be in Boom Gun flechettes; one flechette
holds four burrower rounds.
Stats for individual bullet:
Attacks per melee: 1
Duration: the battery lasts for 2 minutes (8
melee rounds)
Save: None. Wait for the battery to stop or
attempt to remove the active bullet (-20%)
Damage: Each melee after being hit, each
Burrower automatically strikes for the dam-
age of one Rail gun round. (Example: a
standard SAMAS rail gun round does 1D4
M.D., thus that is what the round does. If
there is no stats available for what a single
round would do, like part of a Boom Gun
flechette, automatically default to 1D4
M.D.)
Cost: 15 credits each.
Electromagnetic Pulse Ordinance
(EMPO)
Concept By: Kyle Harris
Written By: Marshall Champion
What few people realize is that when a
nuclear bomb detonates it releases more than
nuclear radiation. It also releases electro-
magnetic radiation on every wavelength of
the spectrum. The EM radiation that travers-
es the radio portion of the spectrum is re-
ferred to as an electromagnetic pulse or
EMP.
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EMP disrupts operating electrical
equipment in its vicinity. This is because the
EM radiation creates a large current surge to
run through the equipment. To civilian
equipment this pulse is devastating and de-
structive as everything from wristwatches to
cars suddenly short out. Military equipment
is also threatened by EMP, but to a lessened
degree because armor plating acts as insula-
tion from EM radiation.
When Safe Haven discovered the Sigma
II in the science database they found plans
for EMP explosives, which release EM ra-
diation without a nuclear detonation, that
were nearing completion before the Rifts
came. Safe Haven has begun to produce
these weapons. They keep most of them for
their own military arsenal, but some are sold
privately.
When these weapons are used they are
not cinematic. The land and detonate with a
loud “pop” and then all electrical equipment
in its “Blast Radius” short out.
EMP Effects:
All running electrical equipment in the
blast takes damage from the power surge
created by the pulse; equipment that is not
running will not be damaged. (No a surge
protector does not help defend the item.
Wires and circuitry literally fry from the
amount of energy released. If an Item dam-
aged by EMP has multiple hit locations, like
a robot, then every location with running
electronics, in the blast radius, takes full
damage. Locations that extend beyond the
radius still take half damage as the surge
runs through the item. Cyborgs that are not
in Borg armor take double damage, even if
in armor the damage does not hit the armor
but the Borg inside. Items with no electron-
ics take no damage.
Items that survive the damage suffer
penalties from their wiring being damaged.
These effects are cumulative and last until
the items wiring is repaired:
-3 to all appropriate physical attributes
-5 to the Speed attribute
-2 to strike, parry and dodge
-1 from available attacks per melee
-5% to all appropriate skills
65% chance of being “Stunned”
Radio, sensor, etc suffer from interference
for the rest of the melee and the pilots must
rely on their own vision.
When the item runs their available at-
tacks or one attribute to zero the item is
“Fried” and will not work till repaired. Fried
Items require an entire rewiring.
Stunned Effects: These effects last for 1D4
melee rounds:
-20% to all appropriate skill rolls
-10 to strike, parry and dodge
Speed attribute is reduced by half.
Automatically loses initiative
Loses half of its available attacks per melee.
If the unit was moving at high speed before
it was hit a piloting skill roll is required to
maintain control.
EMPO Statistics:
EMP Hand & Rifle launcher grenade:
Damage: 1D6 M.D.
Blast Radius: 12 feet (3.65 m)
Cost: 1,000 credits
EMP Mini-Missile:
Damage: 3D6 M.D.
Blast Radius: 30 feet (9.1 m)
Maximum Effective Range: ½ mile (0.8 km)
Cost: 10,000 credits
EMP Short Range Missile:
Damage: 4D6 M.D.
Blast Radius: 60 feet (18.3 m)
Maximum Effective Range: 1 mile (1.6 km)
Cost: 15,000 credits. Rarely available
EMP Medium Range Missile:
Damage: 5D6 M.D.
Blast Radius: 90 feet (27.4 m)
Maximum Effective Range: 20 miles (32
km)
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Cost: 20,000 credits, extremely rare
EMP Long Range Missile:
Damage: 6D6 M.D.
Blast Radius: 120 feet (36.5 m)
Maximum Effective Range: 30 miles (48
km)
Cost: 40,000 credits if sold on the open
market. Currently only available to the Safe
Haven Military.
Note: EMP will not affect TW weapons be-
cause they are powered by P.P.E., not elec-
tronics. At the GM’s discretion it would
most likely be appropriate that EMP be ab-
sorbed by human flesh and thus not affect
major bionic or cybernetic implants. Lets try
to be fair. I’m sure your players would not
appreciate their character dying because
their bionic lung refused to work, or their
cybernetic heart stopped. Also, for obvious
reasons, bio-systems are also not effected.
Plasma Cartridge Conversion for
pre-rift small arms:
Safe Haven realizes that not everyone
can afford modern weaponry. Most people
and communities rely upon firearms that are
effective against “soft” targets (S.D.C.) but
are worthless against the “hard” targets
(M.D.C.) that make up most of the monsters
and other threats from the Rifts.
To make heavy firepower readily avail-
able to these people Safe Haven has devel-
oped a conversion kit that turns S.D.C. pis-
tols and rifles into M.D. weapons. This in-
volves ordering a kit from Safe Haven for
your particular weapon. The most popular
and common weapons; like the M-16,
M1911, AK-47, and so on have pre-made
kits already available. Rare and unusual
firearms will require the weapon be sent to
Safe Haven for parts molding, this process
takes about 1D4 weeks (including time for
shipping). There is a 20% chance that the
molding is unsuccessful, in which case Safe
Haven will refund the buyers money and
give them something to replace their weapon
if it was damaged in the process.
The kit is simple to assemble, re-
quires a WP repair roll or field armorer roll
at a +10%. Failure means that a part broke
or the parts are assembled poorly. If poorly
assembled there is a 40% chance that the
weapon will jam every time it is fired.
The conversion involves replacement
of the barrel, firing mechanism, and ammu-
nition feed with more durable parts (1
M.D.C. total). This conversion allows the
weapon to fire miniature plasma cartridges
that are molded in the appropriate sizes by
Safe Haven. The weapon is still capable of
firing standard S.D.C. ammunition after the
conversion. The following statistics apply
only to plasma cartridge rounds.
Penalties: The weapons weight becomes un-
balanced and recoil of the plasma cartridges
is double that of a standard round. Unless
the user has a P.S. of 17 or higher, all shots
are –1 to strike, bursts are at –3 to strike.
Bursts & Sprays: Safe Haven has recom-
mended, due to safety concerns, that a con-
verted weapon not be fired in bursts larger
than 3 rounds. It has been found that bursts
of 4 or more rounds had an increased likeli-
hood of jamming, and on rare occasions,
exploding.
If the user fires a burst of four or
more rounds there is a 45% chance, +2% for
every round over four, that the weapon will
jam. (Thus a 20 round burst has a 77%
chance of jamming). If a roll to strike on a
burst of four or more rounds is an unmodi-
fied “1” the weapon jams and explodes
dealing the damage of on roundx2 to every-
thing in a five foot radius.
Bursts can be only at one target,
sprays are possible but the above jamming
statistics still apply with a +5% chance to all
jam rolls and sprays are automatically wild
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and at an additional –4 to the strike roll.
Only weapons that were capable of firing
bursts and sprays before the conversion can
do bursts and sprays.
Kits Available: There are kits and ammuni-
tion available for handguns and rifles in the
following ammo types; 9mm, .45, .357, .44,
5.56, 7.62, .30 (which for simplicity will in-
clude 30-30 and .30-06), .50. Kits are not
made for any other ammo type. (Verington’s
favorite is a converted Winchester repeater,
30-30, because he loved to see them in ac-
tion in pre-rift westerns)
Mega Damage:
9mm does 1D6 M.D.
.45 caliber does 2D6 M.D.
.357 does 2D6 M.D.
.44 does 2D6 M.D.
5.56 does 2D6 M.D.
7.62 does 2D6 M.D.
.30 does 2D6+3 M.D.
.50 does 3D6+3 M.D.
Range: The range of the weapon is affected,
even for S.D.C. ammunition. Reduce the
weapons previous range by 25%, rounding
up.
Rate of Fire: Except for the previously men-
tioned burst and spray rules, rate of fire for
the weapon does not change.
Weight: Increase the weapons weight by
25%, rounding up.
Cost:
Pistol conversion costs 9,000 credits.
Rifle conversion costs 12,000 credits.
Machinegun conversion costs 20,000 cred-
its.
Ammunition for 9mm costs 5 credits each.
All other ammunition types, except .30 and
.50, cost 10 credits each.
.30 ammo costs 15 credits each.
.50 ammo costs 20 credits each.
Note: Even though the weapon is converted
to do M.D. it is still an S.D.C. item and can
be destroyed and damaged by the normal
rigors of combat. The components are
M.D.C. materials (1 M.D.C. total).

Robot & Power Armor
—Mysterious Contact —
The UAR-1 came crashing through the
tree line into the tall grassy field. Lieutenant
Brice poised her Enforcer slightly to the left
of a clump of rocks and pivoted her torso
left to right as she scanned the opposite tree
line for movement.
"Alpha-Kilo Two-Six, this is Alpha-Kilo
Five Four. Negative visual on con-
tact...over," she muttered into the transmit-
ter warily. She had been out in this small
piece of the Tolkeen patrol zone for seven-
teen hours searching for a radar contact
that may or may not exist. Someone higher
up had decided this might be the enemy unit
that had attacked a supply base on the Chi-
town state border the previous day, and thus
wanted the last known location of the radar
signal checked out. It was beginning to wear
her nerves.
"Alpha-Kilo Five Four, this is Alpha-
Kilo Two Six," the radio crackled back at
her, “continue to scan for target and pro-
ceed to navpoint Omega...over."
She sighed angrily. Leave it to a damn
Colonel to not give a crap about the people
in the field. All he wanted was his recon;
obviously her sleep was expected to wait.
"I must protest Two six," she growled
into the mike," I've been out here for hours.
There is nothing here. Chalk the contact up
as a ghost and then we can rest."
"Negative Five Four!" crackled the an-
gry voice of the Colonel himself, "You are to
proceed to Nav. Omega and continue the
search. We'll pick you up there... Acknowl-
edge...over."
Well that was that. No arguing about it
now. "Acknowledged Two Six I...Wait! Two
Six! Contact bearing five-zero-zero-zero feet
and closing...fast!" She announced as the
radar blip appeared on her screen. She was
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clocking its speed at about 400mph, but ra-
dar was saying it was the size of an En-
forcer!
She turned to face the enemy robot as
H.Q. started requesting contact information,
too late for that. A cursory look at the silver
and aqua robot rushing at her confirmed her
fear that this was not going to be easy. The
robot’s right shoulder housed a large rail
gun that resembled an oversized boom gun;
it possessed an array of missile launchers
and a heavy rifle of some sort in its hand.
The jet boosters on its back resembled that
of over sized SAMAS engines, were propel-
ling it at an amazing rate toward her. The
only consolation she had was that it ap-
peared to have suffered some prior battle
damage.
The Robot started to fire at her with,
what she realized, was a particle beam rifle.
The blast ripped into the heavy armor of her
Enforcers shoulder missile launcher. In a
flash of melted metal and sparks the
launcher was seared from its mount. The
enemy robot landed to her right and she
turned to face him. This time she was faster
and fired a volley of plasma mini-missiles at
the robot. The two gattling-style guns in its
shoulders quickly decimated the incoming
missiles. Brice forced her machine to dive to
the right as her opponent fired a group of its
own mini-missiles in response. The missiles
violently impacted into the rock pile next to
next to her. The Enforcer rocked violently
from the near miss.
"Damn this guys good!" Brice cursed as
she lined up her rail guns sights. "Well you
can’t shoot this down!"
The burst went streaking through the air
and slammed dead center in the robot’s
chest. The scream of protesting metal was
heard as pieces of the robots metal plating
seared away to reveal the inner wiring.
"That got you!" she hollered trium-
phantly. Then frowned as the unknown robot
dropped to one knee and pulled down the
large gun on its back left shoulder.
Panicked Brice fired another burst at its
chest as she violently jerked her controls to
duck to the left. Her opponent turned to
track her and fired. The impacting round
forced her Enforcer to the ground. Brice’s
HUD goes dead and is replaced by so many
red-flashing lights that it looked like a crim-
son Milky Way.
The report of the gun follows, rattling
her disabled mech and ringing her ears. It
was defiantly a Boom Gun. Smoke filled the
cockpit and she decided it would be best to
take her chances outside.
Opening the hatch Brice climbed out
into the streaming mid-day sun. The strange
mech was already gone. Only some
scorched and flattened grass marked where
it had been.
Already the world had begun to ignore
the incident. Birds were beginning to sing
again and small woodland creatures were
beginning to stir from their hiding places.
"Hard to believe that there was a battle
hear a minute ago.," Brice reflected as she
ignored her radios constant chatter...
“…Alpha-Kilo Five Four, this is Two
Six...Report status over...Five four, this is
two six...report over...Five four...two
six...can you hear me...status report over..."
BW-1 Beowulf Combat Robot
Safe Haven has spent years researching
and testing their new line of combat robot
systems. The Beowulf is the culmination of
that research. This robot is suitable for the
modern battlefield, as well as destroying
creatures of evil from the Rifts. Thus, the
robot was named after the legendary Norse
hero Beowulf. The developers believe that
the Beowulf combines the best qualities of
North Americas most famous robots &
power armor: the SAMAS, UAR-1 En-
forcer, and the Glitter Boy suit. Between its
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excellent speed and armor, it can survive
most close combat situations. It also carries
a large array of devastating firepower to dis-
patch its opponents swiftly. Due to the fre-
quent use of missiles on the modern battle-
field, making enemies capable of firing on
the robot from miles away, the Beowulf has
many unique counter-measures to protect it
from missile attacks. Safe Haven’s Robot
R&D Division boasts that the Beowulf is the
most missile proof robot available. (For
those who might ask: no the Beowulf does
not utilize laser resistant Glitter Boy armor).
Beowulf Combat Robot
Model Type: SHA-CRS-BW1
Class: Strategic Combat Robot System
Crew: One or Two (if two pilots one is op-
erator and the other is the gunner)
M.D.C. By Location:
Head 125*
Arms (2) 150 each
Hands (2) 50 each
Boom Gun (1-right shoulder) 175
Smoke/gas Dispenser (right leg) 25
Boom gun Ammo drum (1-on back) 250
Legs (2) 200 each
Reinforced Crew Compartment 150
Main Body 550**
Thrust Jets (2) 90 each
Recoil Compensation & Maneuvering Jets
(3) 60 each
Particle Beam Rifle 100
Force Field 100***
Chest Mini-Missile launcher 60
Medium Missile Launcher 150 (left shoul-
der)
Anti-Missile Rail guns (2, one housed in
each shoulder) 30 each
Missile Decoy/ Chaff Launcher (chest) 30
Retractable Vibro-Sword (left arm) 100
Particle Beam Rifle Cable 30****
Chest spotlight & Video Camera 10
*Destroying the head ruins optical and sen-
sory enhancements. The pilot must rely on
his own vision, thus losing all robot combat
skill bonuses to strike, parry and dodge. The
head is a small and difficult target to hit,
thus requiring a called shot at a minus 3 to
strike.
**Depleting the M.D.C of the main body
shuts down the robot completely, rendering
it useless. The crew is safe inside the crew
compartment. Note that the chest spotlight
and video camera are destroyed if the body
takes 200M.D. or more.
***The force field must be depleted before
any of the robot’s components can be hit.
Depleting the M.D.C of the force field shuts
it down. Forever hour shut down it will re-
charge 10 M.D.C.
****Is a small target and requires a called
shot. Even then the attack is at minus 3 to
strike.
Speed
Running: 60 mph (96km) maximum. The
Beowulf is suitable for most terrain, includ-
ing underwater and outer space. The robot
moves at half speed underwater.
Leaping: The powerful robot legs can leap
up to 15 feet (4.6 m) high or across. Add 10
feet (3.0 m) with a running start. A jet
thruster leap can propel the robot up to 100
feet (30.5 m) high and 200 feet (61 m)
across. The robot can also hover in mid-air
for a full minute (4 melees) before the sys-
tem must stop to avoid overheating. This can
be over ridden with a successful piloting
skill roll to continue to hover for one melee.
If the pilot does override the safeties then for
that melee the GM must roll a percentile.
There is a 20% chance (+5% for every pre-
vious melee the safeties were over ridden)
that the system breaks down under the strain
and will not work again till repaired.
Power Slide: The robot can use its jets to
hover up to 25 feet (7.6 m) above the ground
and propel it self-forward, backward, and
side-to-side at incredible speeds for short
periods of time. It propels the unit for a
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whopping 150 mph (240 km). Pilots call it a
jet dodge because they usually use it to slide
out of the way of attacks. The use a jet
dodge only costs one melee action but if the
robot attacks its next melee action, it is at a -
3 to strike. A jet dodge gives an additional
+4 to dodge. The pilot can also use the
power slide to dash into or out of an area
quickly. The robot must dash for one full
melee round to perform this maneuver. The
pilot is at -2 attacks per that melee and gets
no strike or parry bonuses because of the
concentration required to maintain control.
The pilot may use his remaining actions to
attack, dodge, etc. as he sees fit. Due to the
speed its moving, any opponent firing on the
dashing robot is at -2 to strike. The robot
may dash for up to 4 consecutive melees be-
fore risking overheating the engines. As
with the hovering, the safeties may be over
ridden but the base percentile of possible
break down is increased to 25% (+5% for
every previous melee overridden.).
Emergency Power Boost: The pilot can
cause the propulsion system to triple its out-
put for a short period of time to super dash
out of danger. This works just like a power
dash but can only be used to move forward
(no backward or side sliding.) It requires a
piloting skill roll at -5% to activate. A failed
roll means that the system does not respond.
The robot dashes up to 15 feet (4.6 m) above
ground and propels forward at an amazing
450 mph (720 km). It dashes for a full me-
lee. The pilot must also make a piloting skill
roll at -10% to avoid crashing. Due to the
concentration involved in this maneuver, the
pilot is at a -4 attacks that melee round and
gets no strike, parry, or dodge bonuses, and
all attacks are wild and at an additional -2 to
strike. The pilot can still perform a dodge
but must make a control piloting skill roll
every time or crash. Even if not dodging, all
attacks against the robot are at -5 to strike
and called shots are impossible. The unit can
super dash for one melee before the system
must shut down to avoid overheating. Like
the Power Slide, the safeties can be overrid-
den for an additional melee of super dashing
but there is a larger risk of break down. If
the system breaks during this maneuver the
system causes a power surge through the bot
that causes all sensors and energy based
weapons to short out for 1D4 melees and
will not operate. There is a 30% chance of
break down (+10% per melee previously
overridden.). Even if there is no break down
the system will require cooling when the
system stops boosting. It will not work for
one melee for every 2 melees (round up)
spent super dashing while the system cools,
this cannot be overridden. Due to the very
possible, and sever consequences of this
maneuver, it is reserved for only the most
dire of circumstances.
Climbing and Rappelling: The robot can
climb girders, piles of debris, mountain
cliffs, and rappel up and down steel cables.
Base skill proficiency is 75%/60% (add 10%
if the pilot also has a climbing skill.)
Maximum Depth Tolerance: 2000 feet
(610m)
Statistical Data
Height: 20 feet (6.3 m)
Width: 14 feet (4 m)
Length: 8 feet (2.6 m)
Weight: 23 tons fully loaded
Physical Strength: Equal to a P.S. 40
Cargo: Minimal storage space; about 3 feet
(0.9 m) behind the seats for extra clothing,
weapons, and personal items, plus rations
and water storage for two weeks for one pi-
lot (one week if there are two pilots).
Power System: Nuclear. The average Beo-
wulf has an energy life span of 20 years.
Cost: 40 million, and up, credits for a new,
undamaged, and fully powered Beowulf. No
rebuilds available due to its recent release.
Because most Beowulf’s are in the service
of the Safe Haven Security Force most are
unavailable for sale this means that they are
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rarely available. They can be special ordered
from Safe Haven, but 50% of the cost must
be up front and there is a 10-25% charge
based on shipping and risk to the sales rep-
resentative.
Weapons Systems
1. RG-14-BW Rapid Acceleration Elec-
tromagnetic Rail Gun (1): The famous
"Boom Gun" of the Glitter Boy has been
seen as a devastating weapon and the sym-
bol of the finest pre-rifts technology. Safe
Haven has been experimenting with Glitter
Boy units to attempt to produce them. They
so far have been unsuccessful. When the
team of the Beowulf project heard of the
successful copy of the RG-14 they rejoiced
for they had been trying to decide what to
use for anti-armor/supernatural weapon for
some time. The RG-14-BW (dubbed the
"Boom2") is not an exact copy of the boom
gun. The copy made by Safe Haven was
much larger and thus could not fit on a
power armor suit, thus it was to go on the
Beowulf’s right shoulder instead. Other than
its look and change in size, the RG-14-BW
works the same as the original "boom gun".
Due to the height and weight of the
Beowulf, the designers realized that the GB
pylon system could not keep the robot
steady. Instead, the jet system and weight of
the robot is used to compensate for recoil.
To fire the Boom2, the Beowulf must center
and balance its weight by knelling down to
fire to weapon. It costs the pilot one melee
action to get into and out of firing position.
Obviously for this reason, when in firing
position the Beowulf is vulnerable as only
its upper body can move (reduce dodge bo-
nuses by half, also strikes to the legs cannot
be dodged.) Also (except for the anti-missile
rail guns, and the chaff launcher) no other
weapons can be fired in this position. Once
in firing position the boom gun can be fired
normally.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Armor and Assault
Secondary Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Mega Damage: One flechette round holds
200 slugs that inflict 3D6x10. In addition,
the gun can have Burrower slugs (See Safe
Haven Specialty Ammo section.) There are
4 Burrowers per flechette that do 1D4 each
as per the rules for Burrowers.
Rate of Fire: Equal to the combined hand to
hand attacks of the pilot or gunner (usually
4-6.) Bursts and sprays are not possible.
Getting into or out of firing position costs
one attack.
Maximum Effective Range: 11,000 feet
(about 2 miles/ 3.5 km).
Payload: 200 rounds; due to it being on a
robot, the RG-14-BW carries more ammo
than the original boom gun. The boom gun
can be hand reloaded one round at a time by
the pilot. This will take about 15 minutes to
load 40 rounds. A carry drum of 40 rounds
can be attached to the hip to have extra mu-
nitions. The case has 30 M.D.C.
Effects of the Sonic Boom: The Beowulf has
the same insulation protection as the Glitter
Boy. Everybody within 200 feet will be
temporarily deafened. Characters without
any form of head/ear protection will be
deafened for 2D4 minutes and are -8 on ini-
tiative and -3 to parry and dodge. Characters
inside protective armor and power armor
will be slightly protected, yet they to are
deafened for 1D4 minutes; same penalties
apply. Each sonic boom adds to the dura-
tion. In addition, the shock wave will affect
physical surroundings; like shaking build-
ings, and shattering S.D.C. windows, the
radius is 300 feet.
2. PBR-201 Particle Beam Rifle (1): A ro-
bot sized particle beam rifle that the Beo-
wulf carries in its right hand. The rifle is
connected to the nuclear power supply for
an unlimited payload by a cable. If the cable
is destroyed, the rifle still has enough stored
energy for 2D4 blasts. In an emergency, the
rifle can use e-clip canisters that give it 10
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shots. If the Beowulf prepares to fire its
boom gun it must let rifle drop out of its
hand, where it dangles harmlessly at its side,
and then grab the boom gun to fire it.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Armor
Secondary Purpose: Defense
Mega Damage: 1D6x10+10 per blast
Rate of Fire: Equal to the combined hand-to-
hand attacks of the pilot. Even if there is a
gunner, the pilot controls this weapon.
Range: 2000 feet
Payload: Effectively unlimited, but if dis-
connected from the power supply it can use
E-Canisters that will give 10 blasts each.
3. SHMS-12 Medium Missile Launcher
(1): Located on the left shoulder is a me-
dium range missile launcher. It is capable of
holding any medium range missile type.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Secondary Purpose: Assault
Mega Damage: Varies per missile type
Rate of Fire: one at a time or in volleys of
two, three, or four.
Payload: 12 missiles. Typically using multi-
warhead smart bomb (+5 to strike), or high
explosive.
Range: 40 to 80 miles
4. SHMMS-20 Mini-Missile Launcher (1):
This is a rapid-fire mini-missile launcher
that is located in the chest.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Personnel
Secondary Purpose: Defense
Missile Type: Any, but usually fragmenta-
tion (5D6 M.D.)
Mega Damage: Varies with missile type.
Range: About one mile
Rate of Fire: one at a time or in volleys of
two, three, or four.
Payload: twenty
5. SH-DC-1 Missile Decoy & Chaff
Launcher (1): Built into the chest above the
mini-missile launcher is a launcher for anti-
missile counter measures. It launches chaff
(many pieces of reflective foil and pieces of
burning phosphorus) to cause a fake radar
and heat signature to trick enemy missiles
into going after the chaff while the real tar-
get moves out of the way. Also fired with
the chaff is a small electronic decoy that
send false radar and radio signals to trick the
missiles further, this way if the missile is
actually tracking the units own radio and or
radar emissions to attack it the decoy may
trick it. This system actually gives the robot
a chance at dodging volleys. It costs no ad-
ditional attacks to fire chaff and dodge. The
chaff gives a +2 to dodge incoming missiles,
but if there are four or more missiles in the
volley the pilot gets no additional bonuses to
dodge. When using a decoy/chaff to dodge it
must be declared before the opponent rolls
for missile strike. The pilot rolls his dodge
first and then the attacker rolls a strike for
each missile. Every missile that rolls under
the dodge roll is tricked into going for the
chaff. The Beowulf pilot may choose to use
a power slide maneuver in conjunction with
chaff to further trick the missiles, it costs
two melee actions but grants an additional
+4 to the dodge roll. Note that missiles that
are not tricked by chaff my still be rendered
harmless be the anti-missile system (see be-
low)
Purpose: Anti-Missile Defense
Rate of Fire: Equal to pilots combined hand-
to-hand attacks per melee.
Payload: 10 canisters. Each canister costs
1000 credits and is considered rare.
6. SH-AMRG-2S Anti-Missile Rail Gun
System (2): Located in each shoulder is a
fully automated rail gun that tracks and fires
upon incoming missiles. The pilot can spend
one melee action to turn on these guns.
From that point forward the guns will shoot
at any missile or volley attacking the robot.
It uses cluster munitions, which are stored in
a flechette round, to act like a rail shotgun. It
has terrible range but the advantage of the
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munitions is that there is a higher chance of
destroying volleys with it. Each group of
munitions is stored in a flechette, just like
the boom gun. The guns can also be loaded
by hand like the boom gun. Due to their
range the guns won’t fire till the missiles are
very close, thus the pilot must declare if he
will dodge the missile(s) before the guns
attack the missiles, but the guns attack is
resolved before the dodge roll. If the guns
destroy the volley but the pilot had declared
a dodge, then his action to dodge is still used
as he dodges the now nonexistent missiles.
Purpose: Anti-Missile
Range: 1000 feet
Rate of Fire: Each gun fires once at every
incoming missile/volley for a total of 3 at-
tacks per melee. Roll a separate strike roll
for each gun.
Mega-Damage: 6D6 M.D. per gun. If the
missiles were hit there is a 75% chance of
detonating the entire volley.
Payload: Each gun has a supply of 40
flechette rounds. An attack fires one
flechette.
Bonuses: The advanced tracking system
provides a +2 to strike. Pilots bonuses do not
apply.
7. Retractable Vibro-Sword (1): A large
retractable vibro-sword is located in the left
arm of the robot. It can be used to parry mis-
siles (-4 to parry), physical, and even energy
attacks (-6 to parry).
Mega-Damage: 4D6 M.D.
Bonuses: +1 to strike & parry.
8. Smoke Dispenser (1): A smoke-
dispensing unit is located on the right leg of
the robot. The unit can release a dense cloud
of smoke that will cover an 80 feet (24 m)
area in front of it. It can also carry and re-
lease tear gas.
Payload: Five total. The usual mix is three
smoke grenades and two tear gas grenades.
9. Other Robot sized hand weapons: Be-
sides the standard equipment, the robot may
use other robot-sized hand weapons instead
or in conjunction of the standard weapons.
10. Hand-to-Hand Combat: The Beowulf
is built to also use hand-to-hand combat ma-
neuvers. The Robot Combat Basic abilities
are the same as in the Rifts RPG Main Book.
Robot Combat Elite piloting specializing in
the Beowulf provides the following:
Restrained punch 1D6 M.D.
Full strength punch 2D6 M.D.
Power slash w/vibro-sword 1D4x10 M.D.
(counts as two attacks)
Crush, pry, or tear 2D6 M.D.
Kick 3D6 M.D.
Leap Kick 1D4x10 M.D. (counts as two at-
tacks)
Body flip/throw 1D6 M.D.
Body block/tackle 3D6 M.D.
Stomp 2D6 M.D. to a man sized target
Jet thrust assisted body block/tackle 2D4x10
M.D. (counts as two attacks)
+1 on Initiative
+1 to strike
+3parry
+2 dodge
+3 to pull punch
+2 to roll with fall/impact
Two Hand to Hand attacks per melee, plus
those of the pilot, plus an additional attack at
levels five, ten, and fifteen.
11. Sensory Systems of Note: Standard gi-
ant robot systems and the following.
1. Thermo-Imager: Range of 2000 feet (610
m)
2. Infrared and Ultraviolet Optics
3. Infrared Search Lights: In the head as a
pair of red eyes. Range is 500 feet (152 m)
4. Sensor Bonuses: +1 to strike for ranged
combat only
IC-PA-2 Icarus Power
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This is a lightweight reconnaissance and
support armor suit. Its high output engines
provide for superior maneuverability. To
allow for a high max speed for the Icarus,
the suit had to have a light construction.
Thus, what it has in speed is lost in an in-
cremental amount of armor plating. The unit
was produced to provide fast air support for
the Beowulf robot and the Huntress tank. A
Safe Haven™ armored platoon usually has
one or two Beowulf's, two Huntress Tanks,
and four to six Icarus armor suits.
The Icarus is modeled to look like a set
of pre-rift Roman legionnaire armor, with
full-face plating and environmental suiting,
with a set of light, aerodynamic wings like
those on the flying Titan armor (Rifts®
Main Book). The wings can mount an array
of missiles and the unit has a light rail gun,
it also mounts a light body shield on the left
arm and vibro-blades in the wrists.
Icarus Light Power Armor
Model Type: SH-IC-PA2
Class: Strategic Military Reconnaissance
and Support Armor
Crew: One
M.D.C. by Location:
Shoulder Wings* (2) 30 each
Rear Main Jets (2) 50 each
Rear Maneuvering Jets* (3) 25 each
Head** 70
Ammo Drum* (rear) 25
Wrist Vibro-blades* (2) 15 each
Rail gun* 50
Arms (2) 40 each
Hands* (2) 25 each
Legs (2) 80 each
Left Forearm Mounted Body Shield 75
Main Body*** 200
*-A single asterisk indicates a small and
difficult target to strike, requiring the at-
tacker to make a called shot at -4 to strike.
**-Destroying the head of the unit will
eliminate all forms of optical enhancements
and sensory systems. The pilot must rely on
his own human vision and senses. No power
armor bonuses to strike, parry, or dodge!
The head is a small target to hit, shielded by
exhaust tubes and weapon drum. To hit it
the attacker must make a called shot at -3 to
strike.
***-Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body
will shut the armor down completely, mak-
ing it useless. Note: Destroying a wing
makes flight impossible. However, even
without wings the Icarus can make jet as-
sisted leaps and hovers stationary above
ground.
Speed
Running: can run a maximum of 80 mph
(128 km). The pilot still will fatigue at the
exertion required, but at 10% the normal
rate.
Leaping: The Icarus can leap 15 feet (4.6 m)
high or across unassisted by thrusters.
A jet-assisted leap can propel the unit 100
feet (30.5 m) high and 200 feet (61 m)
across without attaining flight.
Flying: The rocket propulsion system allows
the Icarus to hover stationary up to 1000 feet
(305 m) or fly. Maximum flying speed is
400 mph (640 km), but cruising speed is
considered to be 200 mph (320 km). Maxi-
mum altitude is 6000 feet (1829 m; a little
over one mile/1.6 km). Any higher and
rough winds and weather make flight erratic
and dangerous. Optimum altitude is ground
level to about 4000 feet (1200 m). The
Icarus is designed to be a low altitude power
suit that can slip through enemy radar by
hugging the ground.
Flying Range: The nuclear power system
gives the unit decades of life but the jets get
hot and need to cool after ten continuous
hours of flight at speeds above cruising, 24
hours at cruising speed. It can fly indefi-
nitely with rest stops every few hours.
Underwater Capabilities: Swimming: the
unit can swim using the same paddling
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movements as a human for a max speed of
four mph (6.4 km/ 3.4 knots). It can walk on
the ocean bottom at 25% of its normal run-
ning speed. Using its jets the Icarus can
travel on the surface at 50 mph (80 km/ 42.5
knots), underwater at 40 mph (64 km/ 34
knots) or fly above the waters surface at
normal speeds. Maximum ocean depth toler-
ance of 1000 feet (305 m)
Statistical Data
Height: 7 feet (2.4 m)
Width: 2.5 feet (0.76 m) with the wings
down, 11 feet (3.3 m) with wings up
Length: 3 feet (0.4 m)
Weight: 175 lbs. (78.45 kg) without missiles
and rail gun
Physical Strength: Equal to a P.S. of 26
Cargo: None
Power System: Nuclear; average life is 20
years
Black Market Cost: 1.4 million for a new
suit, one million rebuilt without rail gun.
Fair availability.
Weapon Systems
1. Dual wing lasers (2): Built into the wings
are two small laser turrets that can rotate 360
degrees and have a 90-degree up or down
arc of fire. They can fire individually or fire
a double blast. They can also be patched into
the radar to track and fire at incoming mis-
siles. However, the success with that has
been minimal.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Secondary Purpose: Defense/ Anti-Missile
Mega-Damage: A single laser does
2D6M.D. A double blast at the same target
does 4D6M.D.
Rate of Fire: Single & Double blasts can be
fired at a rate equal to the pilots combined
hand-to-hand attacks per melee. If set to
computer controlled anti-missile it will fire
double blasts at a rate of two attacks per
melee.
Range: 4000 feet (1200 m)
Payload: effectively unlimited
2. SH-108-RG Rail Gun (1): This is a light
rail gun that is similar in construction to the
SAMAS C-40R rail gun.
Primary Purpose: Assault
Secondary Purpose: Defense
Weight: Gun: 92 lbs (41.4 kg), Ammo
Drum: 190 lbs (85.5 kg)
Mega-Damage: A 40 round burst does
1D4x10M.D. , a single round does
1D4M.D.. The gun can be loaded with bur-
rower rounds (see Safe Haven specialty
ammo)
Rate of Fire: Equal to pilots hand-to-hand
attacks per melee.
Range: 4000 ft (1200 m)
Payload: 2000 round drum, thetas 50 bursts.
Another drum can be carried on the under-
carriage of the jets, but requires another
Icarus or character with a P.S. of 26 or more
to reload. It takes 5 minutes for the un-
trained, but a mere one-minute to those fa-
miliar to the Icarus.
3. Wing Pylon Mounted Missiles (12 or 6):
Pylons on the underside of each wing allows
the Icarus to mount missiles. Six mini-
missiles or three of the larger short-range
missiles can be mounted on each wing (12
or 6 total).
Primary Purpose: Anti-Armor/Aircraft
Secondary Purpose: Defense
Missile Type: any mini or short-range mis-
sile type can be used
Mega-Damage: Varies per missile type
Range: Varies per missile type
Rate of Fire: one at a time or in volleys of
two, three, or four
Payload: Total of 12 mini missiles or 6
short-range missiles. Missiles can be
mounted on the pylons by anyone who is
skilled at half a minute each. The untrained
will take two minutes per missile.
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4. Wrist Retractable Vibro-Blades (2):
Mounted inside the wrists of both arms are
large retractable vibro-blades for use in
close combat.
Mega-Damage: each blade does 2D6M.D.
5. Hand Held Weapons: Like most power
armor suits the Icarus can use standard hand
held weapons in place of, or in conjunction
with, the current weapon systems.
6. Hand-to-Hand Combat: The Icarus can
also engage in mega-damage hand-to-hand
combat. See power armor combat basic &
elite training on page 45 of the Rifts® Main
Book.
Vehicles
IC-PA2 Huntress AA-EW Tank
The Huntress is Safe Haven's™ answer
to the modern air war and its threat to land
based units. The tank is diverse enough in its
firepower to take on any airborne opponent,
from power armor to the monstrous Deaths
Head transports of the Coalition. Due to its
air-based weaponry the Huntress is ex-
tremely poor during land-based skirmishes,
thus it is usually used as a support vehicle in
the presence of land based units, like the
Beowulf robot.
The Huntress also carries several supe-
rior sensor and communications systems. It
has an entire section of it devoted to elec-
tronic warfare, with jamming and communi-
cations interception its specialty.
Huntress Tank
Model Type: SH-HAA/EW-1A1
Class: Armored Anti-Aircraft/Electronic
Warfare Unit
Crew: Five; one driver, one gunner, one
missile gunner, one sensory systems opera-
tor.
M.D.C. by Location:
Main Body 350*
Turret Rail Guns (4) 30 each
Short Range Missile Launcher 100
Medium range Missile Tubes (4) 50
Tracks (2) 120**
Turret 150
Hatches (3) 25
Hatch laser (2) 15
Reinforced Crew Compartment 100
Sensor Dish 75***
Turret Search Light (1) 10 (is destroyed if
turret takes 100 or more M.D.)
*-Depleting the M.D.C. of the main body
shuts the vehicle down and renders it com-
pletely useless.
**-Destroying the track of the vehicle means
it can only turn in its place, destroying both
tracks renders it unable to move.
***-Destroying the sensor dish ruins all sen-
sory, optical, and the special ECM systems
enhancements. The pilots must rely on their
own vision. Thus, all combat bonuses to
strike, parry, dodge and initiative are lost.
This is a difficult target to hit and requires a
called shot with a negative 3 to strike.
Speed
Driving: On land the maximum speed is 90
mph (144 km) the tank is amphibious and
can travel at a maximum of 30 mph (48 km)
Statistical Data
Height: 14 feet (4.3 m)
Width: 7 feet (3 m)
Length: 18 feet (5.4 m)
Weight: 15 tons fully loaded
Cargo: Minimal storage space; about four
feet for personal weapons, items, and cloth-
ing.
Power System: Nuclear; average life span is
15 years
Cost: 24 million, and up, for a new com-
pletely undamaged Huntress. So far, re-
builds are unavailable. Many of these tanks
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are in the Safe Haven™ security forces, but
they are becoming available to buyers on
markets through out North America.
Weapons Systems
1. SH-RG-AA4 Quad-Barreled Anti-
Aircraft Rail Gun System (1): Mounted in
the turret are four rail guns. They can dev-
astate aircraft at close range as all four guns
can only fire on one target at a time. They
are not as effective against land-based tar-
gets. The gunner operates the rail guns and
when fired all four guns fire at once.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Secondary Defense: Anti-Armor & Defense
Mega-Damage: A single round does 1D4
M.D., a four-gun burst of 40 rounds each
(that’s 160 rounds!) does a massive 4D4x10
M.D.! The guns can also use Burrower
rounds, see specialty ammunition section for
more details.
Payload: An ammo drum in the turret sup-
plies the four guns. It carries 16,000 rounds,
that’s 100 four gun bursts! Reloading the
gun requires special equipment and takes
about an hour.
Range: 6000 feet (1828 m) about 1.2 miles
Rate of Fire: can fire a number of four gun
bursts equal to the gunners combined hand
to hand attacks per melee.
Targeting System: the Guns are at +3 to hit
airborne targets flying at a hundred or more
feet over the ground, but due to aligning dif-
ficulty is at -3 to hit any ground based target
under fifteen feet tall.
2. SH-SML-12 Short-Range Missile
Launcher (1): Located on the back of the
turret is a short range Missile launcher. The
missile gunner operates it.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Secondary Purpose: Anti-Armor
Missile Type: Any, usual load of fragmen-
tation or high explosive.
Mega-Damage: Varies
Range: Varies
Rate of Fire: One at a time or volleys of two
or four
Payload: 12 missiles
3. SH-MMT-4 Medium Missile Tubes (4):
Located on each side of the turret are 2 me-
dium range missile tubes, for a total of four
tubes. Each tube contains one medium range
missile. The missile gunner fires them.
Purpose: Anti-Aircraft
Missile Type: Any, usually fragmentation or
Multi-warhead smart bomb (+5 to strike)
Damage and range varies by missile type.
Rate of Fire: one at a time or in volleys of
two, three, or four
Payload: One per tube, for a total of four
5. ECM Transmitter; can send false signals
to trick enemy radar into thinking the
target is in a different location. 5-mile
radius and can change radar info to im-
personate a different type of vehicle
(I.E.: make the enemy radar think that
the tank is an UAR-1 Enforcer), or cre-
ate false signals to make enemy radar
detect multiple "ghost" units. Make an
ECM skill roll. If successful, the enemy
must make a successful skill roll at -20%
to not be tricked.

4. SH-HL-2 Hatch Lasers (2): Above the

commanders and drivers hatch is a spindle,
mounted laser that can be remote operated
from inside the tank.
Primary Purpose: Anti-Personnel
Secondary Purpose: Defense
Mega-Damage: 4D6 M.D. for a single blast
or a rapid burst (counts as 2 attacks) does
1D6x10 M.D.
Range: 2000 feet (610 m)
Rate of Fire: As per the users combined
hand to hand attacks per melee
Payload: unlimited

5. Sensory Systems of Note:

Has all the same basic robot features plus
the following;
1. Exceptional radar, Track and identify
targets up to 200 miles away
2. Thermo-Imaging, range 2000 feet
3. Passive and Active Night vision optics,
range is 2000 feet
4. Radar/radio jamming systems, 5 mile
range, with a successful ECM skill roll
at +10% all enemy units in the area must
make successful radio and sensors rolls
at -20% every time radio or sensors are
used within the five mile radius of the
tank

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Monsters & Other Beings
The Ka-Chun-Karone
The “Mole” Monsters of Oz
Deep in an intricate tunnel network un-
der the mountains stay the Ka-Chun-Karone.
These creatures resemble a cross between a
bear and a mole. (The monster on the cover
of Beyond The Supernatural looks close;
only these monsters have larger claws, a
more snout-like mouth, and fur on their arms
and legs.)
They live in-groups called burrows,
which number from five to fifty or more. A
burrow is very territorial and will fight to the
death for its area. Ka-Chun-Ka even war
among each other for territory, though some
speculate that they do it for sport.
These creatures, nicknamed “Moles”,
shun bright lights because it blinds them and
causes discomfort (but does no physical
damage to them). They come out at night to
hunt their new neighbor, the humans, be-
cause they find it exciting. During they day
they tunnel through the ground and ambush
miners in their caves. A typical hunting
group consists of 1 to 8 Moles (roll 1D8).
But when they go to war the Moles attack in
massive groups of up to forty, rarely more
(roll 1D4x10).
The Moles have the most diverse diet
any scientist has seen. They can eat almost
anything! In fact their favorite diet consists
of eating metal. This is one of the reasons
they began to hunt humans, the refined met-
als in their armor and weapons tasted good.
The only thing a Mole wont eat is ozan-
thium, or ozanthium enhanced metals. It ap-
pears that they have an allergy to the metal
and they can’t digest it.
Weapons made of these metals hurt them
severely, but chewing on the metal does
nothing to them, its just distasteful.
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The Moles are low intelligence beings,
but they can figure out how to use simple
items (they prefer to eat them). They can
speak in broken and short sentences in Go-
bly, their native language; it is usually com-
bined with exaggerated body language and
growls, grunts, and some slobbering. This
has lead many to believe they are somehow
related to orcs and trolls.
The safe Haven Military is constantly
locating entrances to the moles cave and are
sealing them. They learned early on that
sending teams down to eradicate them was
suicidal and rarely succeeded. Soldiers have
started calling missions against moles
“whack-a-mole-jobs” or just plain “whack-
jobs”.
Ka-Chun-Karone The “Moles”
Horror Factor: 12
Alignment: Diabolic or Miscreant
Size: 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters)
Weight: 500 to 700 lbs (226 to 317 kg)
Attributes: Roll a number of six sided as
indicated all are supernatural:
I.Q. 1, M.E. 3, M.A. 2, P.S. 6, P.P. 4, P.E. 4,
P.B. 1, SPD 4
M.D.C.: 2D6x10+20 add PE attribute.
Natural Abilities: night vision 200 feet (61
m) Can dig through dirt and clay at a rate of
6 feet (1.8 m) per minute. Rock and metal
must be broken up with claws or teeth. Im-
pervious to cold and fatigue. Fire does ½
damage. Is sensitive to seismic vibration
(track to source 85%). Track by smell 60%.
Prowl 55%. Bio-regenerate 4D6 M.D. per
minute (6D6 M.D. if the Mole is resting or
ate some mega-damage metal).
 Bright lights blind them and disorient Oz is a magic rich and similar in every
them; -4 to initiative, -8 to strike, parry and aspect to earth, except it’s very mountain-
dodge. In sunlight they lose their power of ous. Almost any creature from earth could
bioregeneration. be on Oz, but they tend to get eaten by the
Also to approach large light sources (like Moles, whom are the prominent species on
search lights or the light of day) they must the planet. More on Oz may be written at a
save vs. horror factor 14 or they cant get the later date.
nerve to approach. They don’t fear anything
else and thus are immune to horror factor for
anything else.
Their saliva is a dissolvent to metal and
other non-living materials like rock and dirt,
see combat abilities.

I.S.P.: none
P.P.E.: 4D6 can’t learn magic

Attacks Per Melee: Six. Claws do 6D6

M.D. Their bite does 2D6 M.D., their jaws
close like a vise and can pin prey as they
shred it with their claws (+4 to strike with
subsequent claw attacks). It requires a com-
bined P.S. of five points over the Moles rat-
ing to free the victim. Their saliva will cor-
rode any non-living thing. Thus after being
bitten the item will take an additional 6D6
M.D. per melee round for 1D4 rounds (dam-
age from saliva and burn duration are half
against items with ozanthium in it).
The mole can also spit at enemies up to
20 feet (6.1 m) away add 2 feet (0.6 m) for
every point of P.S. beyond 10 the mole pos-
sesses. The damage and duration are the
same as a salivated bite.

Bonuses: in addition to attribute bonuses the

creature gets +2 to parry, +1 to dodge, +1 to
strike, +2 vs. magic & psychic powers. Im-
mune to HF except from light as mentioned
above.

Note: The moles can use simple weapons

and items and the like swords and clubs, but
prefer to eat them.

Other Creatures

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