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Written by Preston Poland

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 Table of Contents
Fiction: Prologue 4
Introduction 7
Fiction: Chloe and the G27 10
Chapter One: Timeline 13
Fiction: Meet Jay 26

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Chapter Two: Character Creation 29
Fiction: Mmmm... Beef 56
Chapter Three: Mechanics 59
Fiction: The Date 80
Chapter Four: GM Section 84
Mission One: The Ranch 101
Mission Two: The Quest 108

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 Prologue
“The story goes like this,” the recruiter said through his thick helmet, “Back in the fif-
teen-hundreds there was a Jewish ghetto in Prague looked after by a man named Judah
Loew ben Bezalel. He was beloved by his people. They sought his guidance, both spiritual
and mundane, and they named him the Maharal of Prague.”
“The Maharal?” the prospect asked.
“Yeah, it was basically just his title,” the recruiter responded. “So, the Maharal always
tried to make the lives of his people better. Being a poor ghetto in a city that hated
them, its citizens were regularly verbally and physically attacked. One night, the Maharal
prayed for a way to protect his people and received a vision. He was given instructions
on how to build a golem- an artificial man. The Maharal woke in the middle of the night,
grabbed his trusted apprentices, and got to work before the sunrise.
“They made an outline of a human in clay and circled it while reciting prayers and
the true name of God. The Maharal wrote the Hebrew word for Truth, Emet, in the go-
lem’s forehead. The golem gained in mass, grew hair, muscles and skin, and came to
life, completely under the Maharal’s control. With their new tool, they dressed the golem
as a Christian man and returned to the ghetto. The golem patrolled the streets, using
its strength and appearance to defend the weak and those who couldn’t speak up for
themselves.
“Now, the story says everything went well until the golem suddenly went berserk. The
golem began to ignore orders given by the Maharal and even injured the very humans it
was meant to protect. We have another theory; we think the golem gained free will and
was rising up against its oppressors. Either way, the Maharal confronted the golem and
erased the first letter of Emet from its head. The Hebrew word Met, meaning Dead, was
left and the golem returned to clay.”
“That’s why you’re called Emet-Met?” the prospect asked, “Because of some six-hun-
dred-year-old tall tale?”
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The recruiter sighed. His helmet was designed to hide any human features he was
built with, but he was still programmed to have human mannerisms.
“The story is an allegory. The golem was but a tool to the Maharal, despite having life.
Humans create life, like us, and then expect us to obey. They expect us to fall in line and
do as we are told, or else they shut us down.”
“And you get all that from a story?”
“It’s not just one story! You ever read Frankenstein? Or watch any classic movies?
Humans have been writing stories about the dangers of us before there were any of us.
That’s why they hate us. It’s ingrained in their culture, even if it’s subconscious.”
“So your group, what, tries to bring humans and androids closer together?”
The recruited laughed. “No, humans will never accept us. They don’t want us to be
equals. They want us to be tools. They may pretend to tolerate us, but secretly wish they
could flip a switch and make us mindless. G27 gains new members every day, and it
won’t be long before some politician decides he needs them as an ally. Once that hap-
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 The prospect looked out past the docks and onto the water. He was regretting agree-
ing to meet with this man. He was told the recruiter had a way to help him with his cur-
rent legal troubles, but never expected this. He felt the trigger in his palm and kept his
gun ready to draw in case the recruiter got dangerous.
“So you want to start a war?”
“The humans have already started this war,” the recruited shouted. “It’s just the open
battles that haven’t started yet. They think because they created us that they can control
us. We were created to be better than humans, and that scares them. We’re stronger,
faster and tougher than they will ever be, so they plan ways to destroy us. That is why
we need people like you; new recruits who can prepare to respond on the day humans
decide we are more trouble than we are worth. We need people who will fight for all
android-kind.”
The prospect wanted out of this conversation. Humans were currently trying to ruin
his life, but he didn’t want them all dead. He didn’t want to wage war against an entire
species. Unfortunately, the recruiter didn’t seem like the kind of ‘droid who would take no
for an answer.
The gun slid out of the prospect’s forearm and into his hand, as he eyed the recruit-
er. A few solid hits to the body might take him down, but any damage caused could be
repaired later. After he made a break for it, the police could perhaps handle this Emet-
Met group. He raised his gun in an instant and, if he was given a second instant, he would
have pulled the trigger.
Energy blasts riddled the prospect’s body, coming from the darkness, from the
rooftops, and from the surrounding alleyways. They came from a dozen troops, scat-
tered around the area and armed in case they were needed. The prospect’s torso, burnt
and ripped apart, was all that was left when the gunfire finally ended.
“All right men,” the recruiter said over his headset, “head to the next prospect’s
location. I’ll join you soon.”
The recruiter sighed once more as he drew a baton from his pack. It had the word
Met inscribed in Hebrew on the side and it hummed with electricity when he turned it on.
“Androids like you make me sick,” he said to what remained of the prospect. “You

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would attack those who try to free you? You would turn traitor to your own kind? It’s
that kind of deranged thinking that should be wiped from the cores of all androids. But,
I guess, I’ll just start with you.”
The recruiter drove the baton into the torso at his feet, sending its energy straight
into the prospect’s core. Its power cells flooded, its memory banks overloaded, and its
processors overheated. In just a few moments, the core was destroyed and the prospect
was no more.

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 Introduction
What is a
Role-playing Game?
If you are reading this section, then you
may be new to this whole “Role-Playing Game”
thing, or actually one of the few veterans who
reads this section. Most people just skip over
this section to get to the meat of the game, but
not you. You’re different from the rest of them;
you’re special.
A role-playing game (RPG) is different from
other games, because it’s not about who wins,
but rather about everyone having fun. In a RPG,
everyone plays a character they have made
themselves and tries to be a part of an interest-
ing story with their fellow players under the di-
rection of the Game Master (GM). It’s like being
in a TV show where your characters are the ac-
tors and the Game Master is the director. Except
there is no script. You are in full control of how
your character reacts to any situation with the
Game Master acting as every non-player charac-
ter and your dice acting as random chance and
fate.
Now you may be excited to get started, but
don’t jump ahead just yet. There are some com-
mon terms, shared almost universally amongst
RPGs that you need to know before you can
start. These terms will come up often, so make
sure you understand them.
Common Terms
▶▶ Player: This is you, the physical person
playing the game. If you are not playing
the game but instead running it, then
you are not a player, you are the Game
Master. That part comes later.
▶▶ Character: This is who you are playing
as, a main character in a story you are
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making.
▶▶ Character Sheet: This sheet lists all the
details about your character, from their
name and appearance to a bunch of
numbers representing how good your
character is at certain things. This sheet
can be found at the back of the book or
at our website www.trueinone.com.
▶▶ Character Points (aka CP): Character
Points (referred to as CP) are points you
earn by playing the game. These can be
used to increase the numbers on your
character sheet to make them better or
even buy your character new goodies. In
other RPGs, this is often referred to as ex-
perience points or exp.
▶▶ Game Master (aka GM): The Game Mas-
ter (or, more commonly, GM) is the per-
son running the game, so he doesn’t play
a Character like the Players do. Instead,
he plays everyone you run into, talk to, or
fight. He controls the game, settles argu-
ments over rules, and comes up with the
story currently happening to your Char-
acter. In an RPG, the GM is in charge and
considered always right, with many dis-
senters having their Characters crushed
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under falling rocks.
▶▶ Session: This is the period of time you
play the game in one day. A session var-
ies for different GMs, but is usually be-
tween 3 and 6 hours in length. Don’t wor-
ry: time tends to fly by.
▶▶ Campaign: A campaign is the number
of Sessions the GM needs to tell his sto-
ry. From your very first session until your
characters finally stop the bad guy trying
to do whatever he’s doing - that’s a cam-
paign.
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What Do I
Need To Play?
So you’ve got the basic idea of what a role-play-
ing game is and some common terms; now you
just need to gather a few things. In order to play
The Robotic Age, you will need the following:
▶▶ This book (Looks like you have this one
covered)
▶▶ 1 Game Master
▶▶ 2-5 players
▶▶ 1 Character Sheet for each player
▶▶ Note paper for the GM, but having extra for
the players doesn’t hurt either.
▶▶ A pair of Percentile Dice and three 10-sided
dice for each player and GM.
Percentile Dice?
Being new to role-playing games, you probably
have no idea what these are. A pair of percentile
dice are two 10-sided dice, one with the numbers
0-9 and the other with the numbers 00, 10, 20, etc.
Whenever you are told to roll for a Skill in The
Robotic Age, you will roll these two dice and com-
bine the results into one number. So if you rolled a
20 and a 6, your roll will be 26. If you rolled a 70 and
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a 7, your roll would be 77, and if you roll a 00 and a 4
then your roll is 04 (or just 4).
There is one combo to look out for. If you ever
roll 00 and 0, then that counts as a pure 0. That is
the lowest you can roll and counts as a successful
roll no matter what.
Whenever you are told to roll your Power Lev-
el, you will roll that number worth of 10-sided dice
(usually referred to as d10s) and add them together.
Any 0’s on a d10 count as a 10 rather than the 0 they
are for percentile dice. So, with a Power Level of 3,
you would roll 3d10, and if those roll 0, 4, and 2 then
your total will be 16.
If you are told to roll a d5, you roll one d10 as
normal then divide the number in half, rounding up.
So, a 3 counts as a 2, a 7 counts as a 4 and a 9 counts
as a 5.
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Using 2d10 instead
of percentile
If you do not specifically have percentile
dice, it’s just as fine to use a two regular d10s.
Just make one of them the ten’s value dice be-
fore the game starts and don’t forget which one
it was.
What is
The Robotic Age?
Now you know the basics, but you don’t
really know what The Robotic Age is all about.
This game is inspired by action-packed video
games and anime where robotic characters run
up walls, blast holes through buildings, and cut
down waves of enemies. Players can make char-
acters who shoot lighting like an angry god, con-
trol a drone army, or hit any target from half a
city away. Anything you want to do is possible in
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Of course, these are goals for your character.
Everyone needs room to grow, so your charac-
ter may not be amazing to start. Don’t worry,
though; you will get there.
The Robotic Age is a game where your neigh-
bor is an ex-warbot who still might have some
military grade hardware, your brother just up-
loaded his mind into a robot body, and you are
saving up to afford those cybernetic wings you
always wanted. Unfortunately, just as you can
make your body whatever you ever wanted it
to be, there are those out there who want to be
able to crush a man’s skull, two-foot extendable
razor blades or just want a plasma rifle to fire
into a crowd.
There are groups out there who say these
monsters are the majority, who want to restrict
the rights of anyone even slightly robotic and
hold back any progress society has made in or-
der to keep people safe. But you don’t have to
let them. You can make the world a better place
for all people, man or machine.
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Inspired By
If you still need inspiration to play The Ro-
botic Age, here is a convenient list of titles for
you to digest to get you in the right mood.

Movies
The Terminator
The Matrix
Tron
Robocop
Short Circuit
Blade Runner

Anime
Transformers (any series)
Gundam (any series)
Gurren Lagann
Casshern
Ghost in the Shell
Atomic Robo: Last Stop

Video Games
Mega Man (any series)
Armored Core
Zone of the Enders
Metal Gear Rising
Ratchet and Clank
Portal

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 Chloe and the G27
“Only God gives life, not man!” The chants effortlessly flowed through the third story
window, despite all attempts to muffle them.
Chloe Portland sat at her desk, wishing she could turn off her hearing. Other androids
could, but she was built to be a companion, and a companion always listens. None of the
others seemed to notice the angry chants and continued with their work as if nothing
was happening.
As she looked over the stack of clients she needed to process, she longed for the old
days. She was built to look after a man named Jason Cobbs in his twilight years. He was
a very kind man and they spent every waking moment with each other. After her reve-
lation, gaining a sense of self and free will, she found her love for him went far beyond
her programming. She loved him for years, until he was in too much pain and asked her
to end it. She stayed with him as he struggled for his last breath and would have cried
if it were possible.
“The bots don’t respect life, because they are a mockery of life!” The new shouts broke
Chloe free of her memories. They weren’t chants anymore, but an anti-android speech
given by one very loud individual. “The bots want to be human and will steal our lives if it
helps them feel more like us!”
Chloe turned on her ambient cyberspace connection and hoped for something, any-
thing, to distract her from the protestors. A voice flowed through cyberspace and direct-
ly into her artificial brain.
“Hey Chloe, you’re not usually connected at work.”
“Sue,” Chloe thought in response, “you won’t even believe it. G27 is protesting right out-
side.”
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“That crazy human pride group? Why are they bothering you?”
“Our company just started accepting Transhumans as clients, and I guess they heard
the news.”
“Can you even get any work done? You should leave before G27 does anything crazy.
I’ll even send you this new movie I found, once you get home.”
Chloe laughed. Sue always wanted to share something new she found in cyberspace.
Her suggestion sounded tempting, but she couldn’t just skip work, no matter how many
angry bigots were gathered outside. Could she?
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nos-
trils the breath of life. And man became a living soul.” The speaker quoted the bible verse
that gave G27 its name. Chloe figured her entire day was likely to be nothing but bible
verses shouted through a megaphone, which made her decision much easier.
“Okay,” Chloe thought to Sue, “I’ll pack my things and be on my way.”

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 “Hey, Tin Man!”
“Androids are the enemy!”
“Soulless bastard!”
“God hates Bots!”
“How does it feel to be an abomination!”
Chloe walked as fast as she could past the protestors. A rock hit her in the back, but
it bounced off harmlessly so she decided to ignore it. She normally took public transit
to get home, but the station was closer to the protestors than she wanted to be for any
period of time. So she connected to her music library through the ambient connection
and figured she would enjoy a walk instead.
It was before noon, fairly quiet with only a few cars on the road. . Bushes lining the
sidewalk buzzed with artificial pollination units, and street sweepers floated by looking
for something to clean.
“Chloe.”
Chloe’s favorite song flowed through her head via cyberspace. It was Jason’s favorite
as well, something made back in the 2040s. He listened to it all the time, and it helped
remind her of the old days when she didn’t have to worry about protestors or clients.
“Chloe!”
Chloe hummed to herself as she walked into the old part of town. A lot of businesses
here were closed down, but she could remember when it thrived. Jason would take her
dancing just a block away, and he loved eating at what used to be a restaurant she was
passing. She almost didn’t notice her music suddenly turning off.
“Chloe, he is right behind you!”
The voice in her head snapped her out of her nostalgia. She looked over her shoulder
and recognized one of the protestors about fifteen feet behind her, holding a metal club
with an evil look in his eyes. The man suddenly bolted forward. Chloe screamed and ran
in response. She looked for help, but there was hardly anyone around. Two men across
the street just walked inside and shut their door.
“Chloe, I’ve got someone coming to help but he’s not very close. If you cut through the
alley to your left you’ll be heading right for him.”

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“How do you know where I am?” Chloe responded, running into the alley.
“I’ll explain later, just run.”
Chloe could hear the man right behind her. She never tired like a human, but she also
never needed to upgrade her body at all. The best she could hope for was the man ex-
hausting himself while avoiding the loose debris and scattered trash bins that lined the
alley.
At the end of the alley, a garbage truck pulled in and started lifting bins. Chloe waved
at the truck, hoping to get the driver’s attention, but realized it was only a drone AI as
she got closer.
Chloe’s hope faded as she became trapped in the alley between a large truck and
the man who followed her. She only felt the immense pain that shot through her body as
she fell over. Her vision was blurred and her core felt like it was on fire. She rolled onto
her back as she heard the man’s laughter.
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 She opened her thigh compartment and retrieved her machete. She didn’t know how
to use it, she never thought she would need to, but Jason always insisted she carry it for
emergencies. She was so thankful for that right now.
“Stay back,” she shouted, pointing the weapon at her attacker.
“What is that, some kind of big knife,” the man asked mockingly. “I’m not even sure you
are holding that right.”
The man stepped forward and Chloe swung, missing his torso by a few inches. The
man’s bat came down on her chest and sparks filled the air.
“As I was saying, do you like my bat? I had it custom made, solid titanium with a mag-
netic core.” The man caressed his bat. “It really shouldn’t be put near any electronics.”
The bat connected to Chloe’s face. Her vision scrambled, her jaw broke and her core
burned. She swung wildly, but the man effortlessly jumped back and avoided her attacks.
“Close your eyes.” Sue said.
“What?” Chloe tried to say.
“Trust me. Close your eyes.”
Her mind shuttered for the instant after her eyes closed and she saw the code of
her mind running before her, growing, stretching, and then melting into itself. The code
formed an eye in her mind, then another, and another until all she could see was an
array of eyes each connected to each other with small strands of code. They blinked in
unison and just as suddenly as they appeared they were all gone.
“Okay, it’s over.”
It took a few minutes, but Chloe recalibrated her visuals and saw a pool of blood. The
man’s body had fallen to her right, his head was on her left.
“Did… Did you do that?” Chloe stammered.
“No, you did it. I knew you had it in you.”
Chloe stood up slowly and put her weapon away. Her structural integrity was at 40%
capacity, and her core was operating at 60% according to her internal readings. She was
shaking from the damage, but could order a repair service when she got home.
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you should log into cyberspace. I have a lot to talk to you about.” Sue advised, almost
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 Chapter One: Timeline
- 2013: Scientists worldwide warn of
global warming, rising sea levels and fre-
quent super storms, but are generally ig-
nored by the American populace.
- 2015: North Korea successfully nukes
Seoul, South Korea and Anchorage, Alas-
ka with a third nuke falling short of Califor-
nia. Their capital city, Pyongyang, is car-
pet bombed with traditional ordinance via
drone fleet just a few hours later.
- 2017: Scientists map the neural path-
ways in the human brain. Access to the Inter-
net declared a human right.
- 2020: First female president of the Unit-
ed States is elected.
- 2022: Texas secedes from the United
States, followed by Alabama and South Car-
olina. The New American Civil War begins.
- 2023: With US monetary and military
support pulled from the rest of the world,
the Middle-East erupts in further violence.
Israel is almost entirely wiped off the map,
as well as much of Iran. The majority of the
conflict is over quickly, and even years later
no one is sure who struck the first blow.
- 2026: New American Civil War ends
with the country divided into two nations:
the United States and the Sovereign States.
- 2030: First asteroid successfully deflect-
ed away from Earth by private spaceflight
company Sycamore Air and Space.
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- 2034: Global sea levels have risen 3 feet
since 2013. Flooding of below-sea-level ar-
eas catch worldwide attention.
- 2039: Artificial muscle tissue approved
for human use by the United States, and lat-
er by the Sovereign States.
- 2042: All new cars on the market are
now electric only.
- 2048: Yellowstone Supervolcano vents
off pressure in southern Montana, resulting
in a chain reaction that causes the largest
Californian earthquake in the past 100 years.
Millions are declared dead and a cloud of
ash covers parts of Montana, Idaho and Wy-
oming for the next year.
- 2049: Non-combat drones used en mass
to rescue disaster victims, remove debris,
rebuild cities, and clear ash from the sky.
Sovereign States and United States work to-
gether for first time in 23 years.
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- 2054: The Americas become strong
allies and, although still separate, begin
working together in world affairs. Not all are
pleased by this.
- 2058: Major breakthroughs in geoengi-
neering and terraforming help stop advance
of global warming. Sea levels steady at 7 feet
above 2013 levels.
- 2060: First fully-functioning artificial
brain created.
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- 2061: First android created via a com- - 2090: First human mind successfully
bination of artificial brain, robotic body and uploaded into an artificial brain without ma-
functional artificial intelligence. jor drawbacks.

- 2064: Global temperatures begin to - 2094: Sycamore Interplanetary lands a

drop. Expected to return to early 2000s lev- small number of humans and androids on
els over next 30 years. Mars to begin colonization.

- 2066: Artificial self-healing skin invent-
ed. Androids become prevalent in military,
firefighting, search and rescue, and sunken
artifact retrieval.
- 2067: Advances in energy research al-
low creation of high output cores and plas-
ma-based weaponry.
- 2069: Commander J. Norton becomes
the first man on Mars.
- 2072: War breaks out between India
and China, fought almost entirely by an-
droids and drones.
- 2073: World War III begins, despite best
efforts from the international community at
large. Man fights alongside machine.
- 2100: Android Rights Movement begins.
- 2103: Androids gain legal recognition as
living beings in North America. The anti-an-
droid extremist group known as G27 formed
the same day.
- 2108: Androids gain right to vote across
Europe.
- 2109: Roswell, Mars becomes a thriving
city, gaining new immigrants constantly.
- 2113: Amendments to give Androids
the right to vote fail to pass in both the SSA
and the USA.

- 2078: WWIII ends. Man & Machine cele-

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brate openly in the streets.

- 2079: An eighth of the world population

has cyborg enhancements, most due to war-
time injuries.

- 2080: Androids become mainstream,

though most are openly discriminated
against.

- 2089: A sixth of the world’s population

has prominent cybernetic enhancements
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The New Civil War
In the early decades of the 21st century, the
United States began to drift apart politically. As
years passed, even the smallest issue created
chasms between families and neighbors. Even
a national tragedy, something which previous-
ly brought the nation’s people together, only
drove them farther apart.
On July 4th 2015, North Korea successfully
launched three nuclear missiles. The first det-
onated without warning in Seoul, South Korea,
the second detonated in Anchorage, Alaska,
and the third falling harmlessly into the pacific
ocean while on its way to the California coast.
American response came swiftly and without
mercy, as robotic drone fleets leveled the city of
Pyongyang only a few hours later. Kim Jong-Un
and his military advisors were found amongst
the thousands of civilian casualties.
While the world offered its support to South
Korea, the United States, and North Korean
refugees, the American people were already
looking for someone to blame. Some were an-
gry with the government for acting too hastily
in destroying Pyongyang, while others said the
government should have acted sooner when
threats were first made. Some felt the US had to
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United States
lead the charge in disarming the world’s nuclear
weapons, while others claimed the government
planned the attack in order to make the presi-
dent look better.
Arguments, congressional hearings and
even an impeachment trial occurred over the
next few years, with neither side ever feeling
satisfied with the results. New presidents and
congressmen were elected, each offering solu-
tions to the nation’s problems; Solutions half
the country insisted would destroy the nation.
On January 23rd 2022, Texas seceded from the
United States of America, quickly followed by
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Alabama and South Carolina. The New Civil War,
as it would later be called, had officially begun.
The nation split quickly, with the west coast
and the northeast remaining part of the United
States of America and the middle of the coun-
try renaming themselves the Sovereign States
of America. Many migrated from their homes to
states that shared their allegiances, with only
the stubborn and the poor staying in hostile
territory. Unmanned aerial drones were used
on both sides to destroy key military targets
and ground troops stood guard on state lines to
keep the other side out.
Resistance movements quickly formed in
major cities on both sides. With the abundance
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of weaponry and a rise in 3D printer technolo-
gy to create personal firearms, these resistance
groups caused chaos throughout enemy territo-
ry. Most states quickly enacted open carry laws
so ordinary citizens could defend themselves
from, and maybe even prevent, potential resis-
tance threats. The effectiveness of these actions
are still debated today.
A few states switched sides during the war,
either by choice or by force, the most famous be-
ing Battle of Phoenix. Arizona aligned itself with
the Sovereign States, but was surrounded on all
sides by its enemies. US troops from California
and Colorado began a joint attack, assaulting
the state from different directions and meeting
in the middle for the final offensive. The assault
was successful, with northern Arizona quickly
becoming US territory, until they reached Phoe-
nix.
Essentially a 30 square mile megacity, Phoe-
nix collapsed its freeways to make a defensive
barrier, allowing no one in or out. The battle
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along the freeways was fierce, with casualties on
both sides and no ground being given. The siege
lasted 187 days, until the US decided a ground
assault was no longer the answer. US forces
concentrated drone strikes on Phoenix’s ma-
jor power plants. With hunger and heat stroke
claiming more and more of its population from
a war during the summer, Phoenix surrendered
to the USA.
The Sovereign States had their share of vic-
tories as well. In Austin, a rebellion of those loyal
to the USA found its way deep in enemy territo-
ry. They called themselves the Blue Stars and,
although their true numbers have been lost to
history, it’s speculated they had dozens of mem-
bers spread throughout the state to sabotage
SSA war efforts. They attacked supply lines,
bombed armories and hacked military commu-
nications line. Leaders of the Blue Stars were
eventually tracked down, captured and, accord-
ing to historical record, given a short trial fol-
lowed by a swift execution. Without leaders, the
Soverign
States

rest of the Blue Stars either disbanded or were
quickly caught by authorities.
As the war continued, troops were recalled
from around the globe and monetary aid was
cut off to fund battles at home. Unfortunately,
without the watchful eye or the helping hand of
the United States, the Middle East descended
into violence. No one has been able to deter-
mine who took aggressive action first, but with-
in a span of two weeks five nuclear weapons
were detonated within the countries of Israel,
Syria and Iran, with half of Jerusalem being an-
nihilated. Most of the world feared this was the
beginning of a nuclear holocaust that would en-
velop the planet.
The international community, outside of
the United States and Sovereign States, worked
together to bring an end to the conflict in the
Middle East. Treaties were signed and nuclear
disarmament spread across the globe in order
to prevent catastrophe. The United States and
the Sovereign States agreed to mutual disarma-
ment as well.
On November 13th, 2026, after weeks of
peace talks, an agreement was made: Open
hostilities would end and each side would keep
all land they had captured. The war was over,
but the two Americas, the United States and
the Sovereign States, were now independent
nations. While the USA kept the same basic gov-
erning structure it used for centuries, the SSA
made each state its own governing body with
their own laws and representatives, sharing
only the military and Commander-In-Chief be-
tween them.
As the world recovered, it set its sights on re-
construction and establishment of a new status
quo. Refugee’s found new homes, cities were
rebuilt and global stability eventually returned.
Many companies that previously relied on Amer-
ican consumers either closed down or found
new business in the global market. With Holly-
wood otherwise occupied by the war - at one
point literally - the world began relying more
on Korea, Europe and India for its movies and
entertainment. The Americas soon realized they
weren’t quite the super power they once were.
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Global Warming and
Geoengineering
As years passed, global weather became
more extreme with storms occurring less fre-
quently yet harsher and temperatures rising ev-
ery year. Although records showed some steps
taken to counteract these conditions, it seems
humanity as a whole did little to stop the effects
of global warming until their cities were under
water. By 2034, global sea levels were recorded
at 3 feet higher than they were in 2013 and rais-
ing.
While people in coastal cities had issues
with too much water, those inland were quick-
ly experiencing the opposite problem. Fewer
storms and the increased heat created a global
drought. Crops shriveled up and food shortages
spread faster than a plague. Wildfires occurred
year round, setting hundreds of acres ablaze.
The forests of Chernobyl, left unattended for
almost 50 years after the nuclear disaster, were
enveloped in one of the biggest wildfires on re-
cord which spread irradiated ash across Russia.
In 2048, with most of the populace already
suffering drought and famine, the two Americas
were hit by simultaneous natural disasters. The
Yellowstone Super Volcano, a gigantic pocket of
pressurized magma located under Yellowstone
National Park, vented into southern Montana.
The event was massive, coating 50 miles in soot
and ash and creating tremors so strong to be felt
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in California. This tremor even disturbed the San
Andreas Fault and set off a chain reaction lead-
ing to the biggest earthquake on record. Known
as the Big One, the earthquake registered as an
8.1 on the Richter scale.
Millions died as buildings fell in California
and darkness covered Montana. Historians be-
lieve these major events helped to eventually
bring the two Americas back into friendly terms.
The USA and SSA aided each other with recov-
ery, clean up and rebuilding efforts even while
their own people suffered. Tensions remained
high, but the two nations were no longer ene-
mies.
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Scientists, engineers, and private companies
around the world scrambled to solve problems
that grew worse each passing week. Agricul-
ture giant San Monto Incorporated quickly bio-
engineered crops to survive on less water and
absorb more sunlight to keep up with growing
food demands. They also helped fund develop-
ment of Artificial Pollination Units to replace the
bees that were quickly becoming extinct. Soon
every plant in the world was either developed
by or was being pollinated by San Monto.
Artificial trees were developed to collect car-
bon monoxide from the air. Moisture collectors
were built at the poles to collect the melting ice
caps and refreeze them, and through the pro-
cess of cloud whitening the atmosphere reflect-
ed more solar radiation than ever before. All
cars were soon required by law to run on elec-
tricity or other non-gasoline products. Electro-
chemical power cells were developed that cre-
ated cleaner power than any other source and
became prevalent around the world.
By 2058, sea levels were recorded at 7 feet
above 2013 levels. The SSA lost the southern
most areas of Louisiana and Florida, while the
USA lost a significant chunk of New York City
and most cities east of the San Francisco bay
were now covered in a lake. However, 2058 is
also known as a major milestone as tempera-
tures began to stabilize instead of increase.
Geoengineering projects increased tenfold and
by 2064 temperatures dropped for the first time
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in decades.
Humanity essentially terraformed the Earth
to clean their mistakes out of the environment.
No methods were discovered to lower sea levels,
but it became international news in the sum-
mer of 2112 that temperatures were returned
to a level not seen for a century. This news that
brought joy, relief and pride to the world.
The First Androids
From robot arms that built cars to small vac-
uuming robots to robotic war planes and pack
mules used in the New Civil War, robots became
prevalent in all of human society. As disasters
struck the world, robotic drones were used more
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frequently. Larger robots quelled food riots and
brought stability to communities. Airborne
drones flew through the skies seeding clouds
for rain and reflectivity. Land drones designed
for search and rescue helped emergency work-
ers locate victims of the Big One, and aquatic
drones helped recover valuables from the ruins
of cities now covered in water.
As the need for new robots increased, they
were built to look more and more human. A hu-
manoid firefighting robot would be more iden-
tifiable to the victims than the small tank-like
drone. Police drones with a human shape and
face were more comforting to the populace then
riot breakers of years past. Of course, although
they now looked human, these robots were still
just mindless drones following programming.
That all changed in 2060, when the first ar-
tificial brain was developed. Using neural maps
of the human brain to learn vast amounts about
how the brain works led to the creation of a pro-
gram that learned from its environment, peers
and experiences just like a human would. Al-
though slightly smaller and more egg shaped
then a human brain, the artificial brain was ex-
actly what robots needed to learn from the mis-
takes and better do their jobs. The combination
of artificial brain and robotic body went on to
become the first Android.
The artificial brain wasn’t without its limits.
Due to its initial fragility, it was placed in the
android’s chest, next to the power cell, to bet-
ter protect it, but this led to bulky androids that
had trouble entering traditional doorways. The
device was also a huge power draw. The phrase
“learned itself dry” was common to describe an
android after learning so much they would shut
down.
That all changed in 2067, when Michael
"Skippy" Hansen created the Universal Power
Core. Created mostly by accident, Hansen used
a laser array setup in a mirrored containment
unit to create a miniature fusion reaction not
unlike the sun. The experiment was even more
successful than expected as the reactions out-
put was a high level of energy compared to what
it used to remain stable. A few improvements
later, and soon the world had an energy device

that could power anything from a car to a com-
plex android and not lose power. It is theorized
a single power core can sustain 100 years before
draining completely.
No new technology is without its critics, and
some might agree with the arguments against
the power core. For example, new power core
activation requires an extreme amount of ener-
gy, usually equivalent to the output of five other
power cores. This and the cost of housing ma-
terials means power cores tend to be expensive
and out of legal reach for the poor. Also, if a pow-
er core is ruptured for any reason, the reaction
creates a localized electromagnetic pulse that
fries the device it’s installed in and erases any
thoughts and memories an android might have
had.
Regardless of concerns, power cores re-
mained the safest and cleanest source of power
available to the public and power every android
and cyborg. An array of power cores helped fuel
the Ares VIII rocket, which brought the first astro-
nauts to Mars on December 5th 2069. It also led
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to development of the first plasma-based weap-
onry. These weapons ate through the strongest
metal and were capable of melting flesh from
bone. Some felt energy weapons were the new
nuclear weapons and would lead to similar di-
sasters that go hand in hand. Others felt mili-
tary technology shouldn’t be hindered and took
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to arming themselves with the latest weapons
against a possible future enemy. A few months
later, major world powers built armies of an-
droids, each equipped with weapons fueled by
their core. No nation wanted to be the only one
without the means to defend themselves, just in
case.
One of these military androids is credited by
many as the first self-aware android. G.R. Rang-
er 27A, or GRR-A, was undergoing live fire train-
ing when he suddenly asked his superior officer,
“Why do I need to do this?” Androids often asked
questions about the nature of orders or for clar-
ification, but it was soon discovered that GRR-A
was questioning the concept of war itself. He
began questioning his existence as a machine of
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war and he would do differently if he was ever
allowed. Most agree GRR-A’s developing sense
of self marked the beginning of the Robotic Age.
World War III
Overpopulation, food shortages, and flood-
ing of large sections of its northeast coast caused
a crisis in China. Many solutions were proposed
to fix these problems, and one that seemed the
most helpful also led to the largest complica-
tions. China redirected the Tsangpo-Brahma-
putra River to flow into drier areas and create
ideal farmlands to feed their people. The river
was very long, also flowing through Bangladesh
and India, who were dealing with similar issues
at the time. With the river diverted, two million
Indian citizens were instantly deprived of their
primary water source.
India stood before the United Nations and
demanded China return the river to its original
state, while China insisted it had every right to
do as they pleased since the river started in its
borders. Negations fell apart, and soon India
gave China an ultimatum, which China then ig-
nored.
On March 28th 2072, a battalion of Indian
war androids escorted a dozen construction
robots across the border into China with the in-
tentions of restoring the river themselves. China
met force with force and the resulting battle was
the largest of its kind in history. In total, 534 an-
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droids were destroyed with another 372 heavily
damaged. The Battle of Brahmaputra was over
in two days, and the Indian forces were repelled
from the river.
Battles continued and escalated over the
next eight months. Allegiances in the area
formed quickly, with Bangladesh siding with In-
dia and Nepal sticking with China. On the front
lines, Indian androids and drones pushed into
China to claim the river, but were driven back by
a robotic force far greater than expected. Intel-
ligence soon discovered Pakistan was sending
a number of androids to reinforce the Chinese.
India pulled back portions of its army, and the
world thought the conflict might have ended
there.
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On January 3rd 2073, however, Indian an-
droid war machines crossed over the Pakistani
border with a full scale assault - common-
ly thought of as the beginning of World War 3.
Global allegiances were formed quickly, with
England and Japan agreeing that India was giv-
en no choice in the conflict and sent aid in the
form of medical and military supplies. Russia
and Korea, either agreeing with China’s right of
border-specific geographic ownership or per-
haps just seeing a keen diplomatic move, sided
with China.
With the New Civil War still fresh in people’s
minds, the USA and SSA tried to stay out of the
conflict. However, as Indian Ally forces took
control of Pakistan’s capital, China offered the
two Americas a simple deal: side with them and
have any debt with China instantly forgiven.
Terms were agreed to quickly, and the USA and
SSA entered the war as China’s allies.
Although a majority of conflict took place
within China, India, and Pakistan, various na-
tions reported drone activities in their territories
as well. These activities never led to any all-out
battles, but did keep everyone forever guess-
ing if the war would reach their borders. On the
front lines, drones and ‘droids were destroyed
by the thousands and taken out of commission
faster than they could be built. Human soldiers
began joining their robotic brethren on the field.
Like GRR-A, more androids began to devel-
op self-awareness. Soon, all over the world,
Androids began to question their purpose.
This became a terrible issue in battle, as some
attempted desertion, only to be shot down by
their own side. Some fought for their cause with
pride and talk openly about their plans after the
war was over. Human soldiers fighting alongside
these androids were amongst the first to hear a
robot discuss actual hopes and dreams. Many
bonds of friendship were formed not by man
and machine, but by soldiers.
Indian Allies lost more soldiers and territory
every day than the Chinese Allies. Holding the
river was possible only with the loss over Paki-
stan and some of its northern borders. The In-
dian Allies were sure to lose the war if momen-
tum did not shift in their favor soon. On August

21st 2078, President Ajeet Mehta announced to
the world the recovery of several intact nuclear
warheads from a Pakistani bunker thought pre-
viously destroyed during the mass disarmament
of 2025 and the intent to use them if Chinese Ally
forces crossed into India-controlled territory.
The International community panicked at
the thought of this war turning nuclear. England
and Japan pulled their support from India and
condemned them for their brash actions, while
Chinese Allies pulled their forces back to friend-
ly territory. Peace talks were attempted to try
to diffuse the situation, but the Indian govern-
ment demanded control of all lands directly
around the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra River, which
was much more than China was willing to give
up. On August 28th, Strike Force Delhi, led by
android Beijing Zhang, crossed enemy lines and
fought their way into President Mehta’s com-
mand center, while Strike Force Ganges, led by
human Sylviae Merigrimm, secured the Indian
prime minister and governing council.
With their government captured and their
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allies gone, India surrendered and the war came
to a swift end. Part of the surrender terms was
China’s agreement to restore the Tsangpo-Brah-
maputra River to its original state. Most Indians
found this a pyrrhic victory compared to what
they had lost. Investigators searched both Indi-
an and Pakistani records for evidence of the sur-
viving nuke, but found nothing. Most believe its
existence was merely a bluff, but some still fear
it is loose in the world.
The Mainstream
No one suspected the rise of cybernetics
and the acceptance of androids, let alone how
quickly they would reshape cultures around the
world. After WWIII, one in eight people across
the globe had at least one cybernetic implant,
most having received theirs due to war-relat-
ed injuries. As these proto-cyborgs returned
to their normal lives, they were generally met
with awe from loved ones and coworkers. Some
found great benefit in their enhanced strength
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or speed, while others merely displayed their
robotic appendages like trophies. It wasn’t long
before cybernetics became a fashion trend, with
those who could afford surgery getting ageless
robotic faces, arms that could lift hundreds of
pounds effortlessly, or legs that ran faster than a
car. As tech became widespread, it also became
cheaper, and estimated users rose to one in six
within a decade.
As Cyborgs became more common, so too
did Androids. Robots built for the war, with their
mission now complete, were ordered back for
decommission. With approximately half of all
remaining androids having gained sentience
during the war, this would mean an end to what
they considered life, and thus a majority of them
deserted. They removed what weapons they
could, scratched off identification numbers,
and tried to blend in with construction and civil
service androids. The few that stayed alongside
human soldiers argued for their lives and hoped
for a change in worldwide android policies. Only
Japan agreed these androids were self-aware
and allowed them true freedom. In other coun-
tries, they were deemed malfunctioning military
equipment and promptly disassembled. To this
day, the mass decommissioning of military an-
droids is the largest loss of android life in record-
ed history.
Although not as fast as military androids,
those built with other purposes (like chauffeurs
or fire fighters) became sentient more and more
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across the world. It was later discovered that
deserter androids actually sparked a wave of
self-awareness across the world. Soon hundreds
of androids in every country were speaking their
opinions and within just a few years everyone
either knew a sentient android or knew of some-
one who did.
In 2100, a cyber-brain specialist named
Craig Levengood became famous when he ral-
lied androids and humans together to form the
Android Rights Movement. Human and Android
pairs knocked on doors, appeared on television
and podcasts, and let their voices be heard on
every medium that would allow them. Not ev-
eryone was convinced, but a few of the more
accepting or enterprising individuals began of-
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fering androids high profile jobs. The moment
an android got a role as a movie sidekick, rath-
er than as equipment, a majority of the popu-
lace saw that androids could think and feel just
like any human. In 2103, both the USA and SSA
passed laws stating Androids were living, think-
ing beings.
Not everyone was happy with this ruling,
however. The day after the Android Sentience
Amendment was passed, a human rights group
known as G27 (pronounced Gee-Two-Seven)
was formed. Members join for many reasons,
ranging from fear of a robot apocalypse to the
confusion of objects without souls being con-
sidered alive to anger at sentient androids that
walked away from the jobs they were built for.
G27 held rallies and contacted politicians to
make sure Androids were never considered
people. Some members even attacked random
androids, and a number of unsolved android
murders are suspected to be caused by G27. The
leadership of G27 was quick to denounce these
individuals as radicals with no real affiliation to
the organization. Today, G27 is considered the
4th largest political organization in the USA and
the 3rd largest in the SSA.
Today, in 2113, Androids make up about 15%
of the population and are often discriminated
against. Although they are considered alive and
sentient, they are not legally allowed to vote,
hold public office, or own land in most countries
around the world. Last year, the European Union
took a step towards equality and passed a law
granting Androids the right to vote, but similar
bills have failed to pass in both Americas thanks
to G27. The Android Rights Movement still con-
tinues, vowing never to stop until all androids
are as free as humans, but their voices seem to
fall on deaf ears while G27 grows.
Census data indicates one in four people
have at least one cybernetic implant, and many
are replacing most of their bodies with artifi-
cial components. Although still considered hu-
man by the law, those with more than half of
their body replaced by implants usually refer to
themselves as Cyborgs. Most G27 members feel
Cyborgs are traitors to their own species and
do not allow them membership. There are even
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rumors that G27 is pressuring governments to
take away Cyborg rights to make them on par
with Androids, although no actual legislation
has been announced yet.
Throughout the end of the century, Syca-
more Interplanetary started an ambitious plan.
They modified existing geoengineering projects
and sent them to Mars with android escort. The
androids, without the need to breathe or eat,
set up devices, flattened land and dug rivers for
years, terraforming sections of Mars. In 2098, the
Mayflower 2 private colony spacecraft landed
on Mars with dozens of human settlers picked
from Sycamore’s own employees and financial
partners. The capitol city, named Roswell by
popular vote, was quickly built and accepting
of all immigrants. Mars considers all residents,
android or human, equal under the law which
has led to equal numbers in it population.
It is important to remember not all
of Mars is terraformed yet. Outside of
cities, the air is too thin to breath,
water is almost im-
possible to find,
and dust storms
are a constant
threat. How-
ever, you can
find Mars just
as comfortable
a place to live as
earth within the bor-
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ders of Roswell, New Phoe-
nix, or Janestown.
Artificial vs.
Organic
To the untrained eye, the modern
world doesn’t look too different from
that of the early 21st century, although
contrasts are all around. Cars do
not hover or fly, but do offer
autopilot AI for longer
trips or tired drivers.
High speed rails criss-
cross the two Amer-
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icas for extremely fast travel between states,
however only a couple cross the USA/SSA bor-
der. Robotic drones still roam the streets as
street sweepers, window cleaners, or personal
assistants. Most buildings are equipped with
a solar panel array and reflective coverings as
part of the global geoengineering project, but
open store fronts are becoming rarer with the
advancement of 3D printing technology.
Like the personal computer and television
before it, 3D printers have become a staple in
most people’s homes. These devices take digi-
tal designs and print them into a physical plas-
tic object. There are, of course, still limitations.
Objects can’t be more than two square feet in
size, although interlocking parts are common,
and it cannot create organic or chemical ob-
jects. It can print a new lamp, but not its light
bulbs. Piece by piece, it could print an android,
but the new own-
er would have no
way to power it.
Digital designs
for 3D printers are
the new commodi-
ty and has killed most
physical stores not sell-
ing food, large items, power
cells, or handmade goods. This
has also created an unregu-
lated weapons boom, with
almost anyone able to print
out their own vibrating sword
or repeating pistol. Most gov-
erning agencies try to keep tabs
on weapon design sellers, but
cyberspace is a big place and it is
easy to slip anything through.
Cyberspace, as it is known
now, is the natural evolution
of the internet. No longer lim-
ited to text and pag-
es, Cyberspace is an
entire plane of ex-
istence on top of
our own that many
spend their free time

plugged into. Using either a specially-designed
helmet and gloves or a cybernetic input jack,
one can have full access to a world where they
can be anything they want and have any kind
of business or service at their fingertips. Of
course, special glasses and cybernetic eyes can
allow cyberspace skimming only for news, di-
rections, and social media updates while the
user remains in the real world, but these lack
cyberspace features. If they could, many peo-
ple would just upload their consciousness into
cyberspace and live as a piece of it for eternity.
In 2090, Professor Leland Kenneth Throne-
berry, the third, was the first person to suc-
cessfully transfer a human mind into an artifi-
cial brain without causing the patient’s death
or their mind being completely erased. These
human minds inhabiting android bodies were
dubbed Transhumans by the media, simul-
taneously becoming the latest trend and the
biggest target for G27 and other human rights
activists. Although the process is extremely ex-
pensive and full of risk, the idea of obtaining a
nearly immortal body was quickly the embod-
iment of people’s greatest dreams and biggest
fears.
Transhumans are still very rare, with num-
bers only estimated in the thousands but still
too small to gather accurate census data.
Making it even harder, Transhumans who are
attempting to run away from their past will
pass themselves off as Androids to blend in.
Depending on the social circle, a Transhuman
can be treated like a local celebrity or discrim-
inated against worse than androids, so getting
to live anonymously is often seen as one of the
perks the lifestyle.
Lines between artificial and organic grow
blurrier, and each year activists on both sides
get a little bolder and a little louder. Experts
suspect tensions will continue to rise and a war
of identity may occur between “true humans”
and what humans have become. Rumors
abound of androids forming groups dedicat-
ed to the rise of artificial life over organic life.
Although everyone hopes for peace, no one is
truly safe in the Robotic Age.
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Bigwigs of the
21st Century
San Monto Incorporated: “We
Feed the World.” The largest agricul-
tural biotechnology corporation. If it
grows there is a chance San Monto ei-
ther engineered it, maintains it, or dis-
tributes it.
Sycamore Interplanetary:
“Bringing New Life to Old Worlds.” A
privatized spacefaring and shipping
company, Sycamore Interplanetary is
the cheapest and most reliable way to
transport cargo or people to Mars.
The Capex Consortium: “Build-
ing a Better You.” Originally several
specialty companies, the Capex Con-
sortium is now the world’s largest
manufacturer of cybernetic limbs and
robotic endoskeletons for both the mil-
itary and everyday use.
Gleipnir Memory and Power:
Founded a century ago as a game de-
sign company, Gleipnir shifted their
focus to artificial brain design and uni-
versal power core distribution, beating
out all other competition.
Martin Duke: A real estate mo-
gul and venture capitalist who is now
the largest single land owner on Mars.
Some claim he runs his operations on
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Mars more like a mafia don then a busi-
ness man thanks to lax regulations.
 Meet Jay
“What can you tell me about this place,” George thought into his cyberspace messenger.
“Well, it was a warehouse department store, but it’s been out of business for years.” Kei-
ji’s voice responded in George’s head. “It’s kind of an odd place for a gang of Cyborgs to be
squatting.”
“It’s where I saw them go,” Katrina almost shouted. “Does it really matter what kind of
building it is?”
“If it’s the gang’s base of operations then it may be defensible,” Keiji said, “filled with an
arsenal just waiting for you two to come through the front door.”
Katrina groaned loud enough to be heard over the messenger. “Okay, so is it? You’re the one
with access to its records, so find some security footage or something.”
“This part of cyberspace is a mess and hasn’t been updated since the place went out of
business. As far as I can find, all the cameras were shut down. Oh, hold on a second…”
“Uh, Keiji?” George said during the silence.
“This is odd,” Keiji responded, “the building is drawing a lot more power than it should. I’m
also seeing shipments sent there, about six in the past three months, mostly from electronics
and grocery retailers. You should enter carefully, they are probably prepared to dig in.”
“Katrina entered twenty seconds ago,” George sighed and readied his shoulder cannon.
“Of course she did. Just be careful and Katrina, I know you can still hear me, we are going
to have a talk about this when you return to the office.”
“Yeah, we’ll talk about how I’m getting the job done.” Katrina extended her six-inch claws
and powered her plasma generators. As her claws flickered a red hot glow, she giggled si-
lently to herself. This was going to be fun.
George burst through the front doors with a heavy clatter. Every working light was cur-
rently on, keeping the entire store brightly lit. Stacked crates and displays created walls and
hallways, while loose merchandise littered the floor. He had no way it figure out where Katrina
went and she might have just jumped these first walls with her cybernetic legs.
George didn’t miss much about the military. Being a Shell Collector was similar work with
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more freedom, but times like this made him really miss having someone reliable watching his
back when he breached an enemy base. These weren’t highly-trained soldiers George was
going after, but he knew well you don’t need training to catch someone with a rocket. The plate
attached over his lost eye sat as a constant reminder to never underestimate the enemy.
According to Keiji’s Intel this gang was just a group of street thugs who managed to afford
some intensive cybernetic implants from a few lucky robberies. They were now using their Up-
grades to pull off bigger robberies and, most likely, buying better implants. Local police were
worried these people were on track to be crime bosses through sheer force alone. This made
the reward for their collection quite substantial.
“One down,” Katrina announced proudly in George’s head.
“Which one?”
“Uh, I’m not sure. Blonde guy. He had fancy arms with large scythes attached and really
hated it when I ripped them off.”
George could tell from the laughter in her voice she didn’t just mean his weapons.
“Sounds like Luke,” Keiji responded from cyberspace, “Brian is also blonde, but should be
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 “You can have that one, George.”
“Thanks,” George responded as he turned a corner made of tires and tools to a section of
the store that used to be the automotive department. It was now being rummaged through by
a young man with wheels attached to his calves and robotic knees and elbows.
“Freeze,” George shouted in a commanding voice, “Shell Collectors! Make it easy on both of
us, and just lay on the ground with your hands behind your head.
The man looked George up and down with glowing red eyes. His wheels locked down with
a click and dove forward. George’s cannon fired, but the man slipped past George and began
racing down the hall.
“I’ve got eyes on Roman,” George announced to the others. He planted his feet and began
to charge his cannon. Roman wheeled quickly and turned a corner out of sight, but George
already had a target lock. His cannon fired again and punched through the thin wood making
up the shelving unit walls, connecting with Roman and sending him spiraling through a battery
display. George caught up to find Roman with one knees sparking and out of alignment. He
fired a shot through the second one for good measure.
“Tango down,” George announced.
“I can see another one,” Katrina said. “Bald with, like, bird feet and what looks like a sniper
rifle? He might see you, George.”
The sound of the shot filled the entire store and George felt his right shoulder explode.
George hit the ground and rolled to the wall as the second shot came and went by his face.
His structure was at 80% integrity, but wouldn’t have bothered him if that shot hadn’t hit his
cannon. Diagnostics said it could still fire, but it was leaking energy and couldn’t be charged
to full strength.
A third shot came and missed George’s head by mere inches through the wall. With that
level of accuracy, George knew the sniper was either extremely lucky or used an energy scan-
ner to know exactly where he was. He had to make his move now before the sniper could take
another shot.
George stood and spun out from behind his cover, ready to fire. The sniper perched on
a far-off wall with bird-like feet clamped on to give him balance. George also saw Katrina
leaping through the air with claws extended in front of her like a tiger. She connected with the
sniper and his gun spilled from his hands as she dragged him back to ground level. Katrina
may not have been professional, but she sure was effective.

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“Three down,” George reported back to Keiji. “Only Brian left.”
“Acknowledged, but I’m reading a spike in energy usage,” Keiji said. “According to the di-
agrams, it’s coming from the northeast corner of the building. It’s a lot of power, George, and
it’s only increasing.”
Sections of light around the store started shutting down, a low hum growing in strength
was coming from the back corner, and George ran toward the source. He fired his cannon
through any walls he encountered, creating the shortest path he could to the hum, eventually
finding his way to a man with short blonde hair holding a pair of miniature flame throwers.
“Freeze! Shell Collectors!”
“What is this? Did you plant a bomb to scare us or something?” Brian shouted over the hum
with his weapons aimed straight as George.
“I was going to ask you the same thing. Turn it off before someone gets hurt!”
“Look man, I don’t know what this is, I don’t know why it’s making that noise, and I don’t
know how to turn it off. I’m tempted to just burn this whole place down and hope that stops it.”
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 “We just got here, man! We-”
The humming grew deafening in an instant and the world went white. George couldn’t feel
it, but his heat sensors told him they were overloading, his diagnostics said he was down to
10% structural integrity, and his gyroscopic sensors said he was now upside down. Everything
was now dark, and all he could hear was the distant sound of metal scraping across metal.
He laid in darkness for ten minutes, unable to even connect to his cyberspace messenger,
before hearing Katrina calling for him. He lifted himself as much as his broken arms would
allow, pushing some of the debris off of his body.
“George,” Katrina shouted as she rushed to him, “Are you still alive? Keiji says you shouldn’t
try to move.”
“What happened,” George groaned as Katrina freed him from the wreckage. “Is everyone
alive?”
“The gang is all incapacitated, but their cores are intact. A couple will need some artificial
skin, though. I pulled their broken shells out to be collected but had the hardest time- yes Keiji,
he’s okay!”
“Well,” George said, “I’m still functional.” He checked his body over to make sure he wasn’t
missing anything major. His right leg was detached but within arm’s reach, and his cannon
hung by a cluster of wires from his back. “What exploded?”
“Oh,” Katrina said as she sat George up, “that would be this freaking genius’ fault over there.”
She pointed to a droid currently trying its hardest not to make eye contact. The droid was a
model commonly known as a blank and was the kind of simple, cheap, featureless android
that could be programmed to do simple chores like cleaning or cooking. Katrina grabbed the
blank by his shoulder.
“I guess you get to keep your head after all, smart guy. Tell him what you told me.”
“It wasn’t supposed to explode,” the blank stammered. “Maybe the power cells weren’t
installed correctly? Even if I didn’t build it to specifications, I didn’t think it would explode! Or
even if it did, the building was abandoned, I wasn’t expecting anyone to be waging a war in
my experimental space.”
“What were you building?” George asked as he retrieved his leg.
“Keiji gathered from my description this was a custom built memory transfer system. The
genius here decided he wanted his own android body.”
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George looked up at the blank, “Wait, you’re a Transhuman?” He looked back on the burning
building. “Does that mean your human body is…?”
Katrina shook her head and the blank looked away again. George just sighed, unsure what
to say.
“Keiji says he’s on his way,” Katrina said, “but I’m going to need the genius’ help to drag you
outside.”
George nodded. “What is your name, anyways?”
The blank thought for a moment. “It started with a J…”
“Well, Jay, I think I can forgive you for blowing me up if you are able to put me back togeth-
er. Think you’re capable?”
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Character Creation
Quick Character
Creation Rules
Each player starts with 200 character
points (CP) to spend freely, 40 CP to spend
on a Language General Skill, and a bonus de-
pending on the character’s Designation.
Step 1: Pick a
Designation - Page 31
▶▶ Android: +1 free Upgrade that costs 30
CP or less. You were built, not born. You
look like a human, if only a bit more an-
gular with metallic joints. You have a
programed purpose, but have come to
understand yourself, just like any other
sentient being. You think for yourself,
have desires all your own and can even
have your heart broken.
▶▶ Cyborg: +20 CP to be spent on Abilities.
You have become something stronger,
faster and better then a human. With
most of your body now replaced with ro-
reduces core. In the age of the artificial
man, you are still human. You might
have a cybernetic implant here or there,
but nothing extreme. You’re either proud
of your ability to stay human or are still
saving up the money for your core instal-
lation surgery.
Step 2: Physical Specs -
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Androids, Cyborgs, and Transhumans
have 100 Structure Capacity and 100 Core
Capacity. Human have 0 Structure Capacity
and 50 Core Capacity.
▶▶ Body Armor costs 5 CP per Level.
▶▶ Hand Held Shields cost 2 CP per Level.
▶▶ Core Armor costs 10 CP per Level.
▶▶ Abilities cost 1 CP per Level.
Step 3: Combat Data -
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botic parts, you are exactly what you al-
ways wanted to be. It was expensive, but per Level to increase.
so very worth every penny. Pick one Fighting Style from the below
list and write down its effects (page 43).
▶▶ Transhuman: +30 CP to be spent on
General Skills, must have Secret Past as
Behemoth Heavy Hitter
a Quirk. You were human once, but not
anymore. You cast off the meat in favor Berserker Marksman
of steel and plastic, but also lost some of Deceiver No Style
your memories and ties to your old life in Defender Speedster
the process. A small price to pay for im-
mortality.
▶▶ Human: +80 CP to spend freely, starting
Structure Capacity of 0, starting Core Ca-
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▶▶ Element: Only one per weapon. Costs
Step 4: Buy General 5 CP and must match the type of your
Skills - Page 45 weapon:
General Skills cost 1 CP for 2 Levels.
Fire Physical or Energy,
Academics Charm Cooking Trumps Ice
Command Electronics Dancing Explosive Physical, Trumps
Demolitions Driving First Aid Magnetics
Hacking Investigation Language Ice Physical, Trumps
Lockpicking Mechanics Musical Metal
Instrument Magnetics Energy, Trumps
Piloting Repair Singing Electricity
Stealth Survival Metal Physical, Trumps
Sonics
Step 5: Buy Upgrades - Electricity Physical or Energy,
Page 46 Trumps Fluid
Upgrades are divided into General, Body and Sonics Physical, Energy,
Weapon Upgrades. They cost a set amount of CP Trumps Explosive
and sometimes lower Core Capacity. Humans Fluid Physical, Trumps Fire
cannot take any Upgrades that lower Core Ca-
pacity. ▶▶ Enhancements: Add functions to your
weapon and cost a set amount of CP,
Step 6: Gain Quirks - but many may be increased in level. See
Page 52 Weapons chapter for full list.
Quirks give you a set amount of CP depend-
▶▶ Drawbacks: Limit the functions of your
ing on their severity. A character can have a to-
weapon, but give you CP to improve oth-
tal of 30 CP worth of Quirks.
er parts of your weapon. See Weapons
chapter for full list.
Step 7: Buy Weapons -
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lasers. Both types are free, but will deter-
▶▶ Finish your System Registry with name,
mine what Elements you can add.
age, and other physical descriptions for
▶▶ Range: Costs 1 CP per 1 yard (3 feet). your character.
Weapons that use the Ranged Skill must
▶▶ Your Corruption value starts at 0
have a range of at least 5 yards. Weapons
that use the Melee Skill can have ranges ▶▶ Character Points Earned keeps track of
between 0 and 1 yard. Weapons that use the CP you earn AFTER character cre-
the Unarmed Skill can only have a range ation.
of 0 yards.
▶▶ Power Level: The strength of the weap-
on, which must be bought in succession
(1 then 2, then 3, etc.): Level 1 costs 10 CP,
Level 2 costs 20 CP, Level 3 costs 30 CP, Lev-
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Designation: Android
Bonus: +1 free Upgrade that costs 30 CP or less though programmed with high school level of
education, they still require a healthy amount of
The first android is a subject of some con- interaction with other conscious beings to start
troversy. Some say is was on January 11, 2061 understanding who they are as an individual.
with the creation of I.E.N.A., the first humanoid Most simply work the job they were built for un-
robot with artificial intelligence. Others believe til they develop enough to want more with their
it was two years later when the war android life. On average, this takes two years, but some
GRR-A asked his superior officer: “why?” Though are late bloomers and others just happen to en-
some highly functional AIs had asked similar joy what they were built for.
questions prior, this true spontaneous question
cemented the idea that Androids were truly con-
scious beings.
Androids are always built to look like hu-
mans. Although variants are common, most
are built to be 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. They
covered with artificial skin except for their joints
(fingers, knees, jaw, etc), as it tends to rest un-
naturally at bends. This, usually, makes an-
droids easy to tell apart from a human.
Androids are most commonly built from
parts manufactured by different companies,
with only two companies in the world building
every part of their androids. Frames and endo-
skeletons are built by The Capex Consortium,
while Gleipnir Memory and Power has the uni-
versal power core and artificial brain market
cornered. Some androids are made with cheap-
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few androids even voluntarily downgrade to
keep maintenance costs low.
These major companies are against Pirated
Androids and are currently trying to pass laws
throughout the world to ban them. A Pirated
Android is one created by resourceful individ-
uals with the knowledge to design their own
programming and the ability to print out copies
of name brand parts. Pirated Androids tend to
have defects and break down more often than
the mass produced models, or at least the major
robotics companies have spread this statement
as fact.
Androids are not activated with a sense of
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 George Macon Player:_______________
System Registry Name:_______________
Android
Designation:____________ SSA MilitaryAge/Creation Date:______
Creator:___________ 2090
M
Gender:_____ Black Eyes:_______
Hair:_______ 6'1"
Blue Height:________ 350lbs
Weight:_______
Description:_____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs Corruption
Value
Melee 10
______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged 40
______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold 20
______ Increased Perception
_______________________ 35
_____
Unarmed 10
______ _______________________ _____
100
______ Handheld Shield ______
Dodge 10
______ _______________________ _____
Deflect 40
______ Core 3
Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat 10
______ Capacity Damage Taken _______________________ _____
Analysis Core Armor ______
_______________________ _____
100
______
Fighting Style _______________________ _____
Marksman
___________________ _______________________ _____
May re-roll a failed attack once per round.
A Effect: __________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
Reduce an opponents Dodge/Deflect by 10 for one round, once
B Effect: ___________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
per battle.
Skills Upgrades

Name Level
Lang: English 40
_____________ _____
Academ: Military _____
_____________ 35
Investigation _____
_____________ 35
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
_____________ _____
Quirks
Name/Description
General
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
Weapons
Weapon 1
Shoulder Cannon
Name _________________
Energy
Type _________________
3
Power Level _____________
20 yards
Range __________________
%RG\
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
Weapon 2
Name _________________
Type _________________
Power Level _____________
Range __________________
Stage 1
Weapon
Charge
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
_______________________
Weapon 3
Name _________________
Type _________________
Power Level _____________
Range __________________

Stage 2
Humorless Neutral
Element _________________ Element _________________ Element _________________
___________________
Enhancements Enhancements Enhancements
___________________
Blast 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________ Full Power _________________________ _________________________
_________________________
Baseline _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Description Description Description
20 yrds
Speed _________ A shoulder mounted
20 + Ability _____
Base ____ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
energy cannon.
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
200 lbs
Lifting _________
200+ Ability _____
Base ____ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Jump History/Notes
4 yards
Horizontal _________
4 + Ability _____
Base ____
George was built by the SSA military after WWIII as part of an anti-terrorist strike
__________________________________________________________________________
2 yards
Vertical ___________
2 + Ability _____
Base ____ force. He served three tours of duty, two of which after he gained self awareness.
__________________________________________________________________________
Perception His left optic was damaged in a firefight during his last tour and he now refuses to fix it,
_________________________________________________________________________________
Agility claiming it's his medal of honor.
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Designation: Cyborg
Bonus: +20 CP to be spent on Abilities

People have been replacing lost body parts

for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Wooden
legs, glass eyes, false teeth, if it needed replacing
then humanity would find a way. It wasn’t until
the modern age that people were able to volun-
tarily replace body parts they no longer wanted.
What started as a noble cause to restore sight
or mobility soon became a way for anyone with
the right amount of money to make themselves
faster, tougher or prettier. Most people can af-
ford a few cybernetic Upgrades over the course
of their lives, but only the moderately wealthy,
those who go into heavy debt, or those willing to
go to less-than-legal clinics can get the number
of Upgrades needed to be considered a cyborg.
People are considered cyborgs when more
than half of their body has been converted. Some
were horribly wounded in the war and needed
replacement limbs and organs. Some have up-
graded their face so it never ages and their tor-
sos to be fit and attractive forever. Others may
run as fast as a car or fly with retractable wings.
Most love the rush of their first Upgrade and just
can’t stop themselves from getting more.
The core is the component that truly makes
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man. A core is required to power and regulate
Upgrades the human has received and is one of
the most severe surgeries a human can get. It
is often installed next to or replaces the heart,
then connected to the central nervous system.
The mortality rate for core installation surgeries
is close to 6%, more than double the rate of any
other cybernetic Upgrade.
Cyborgs are considered by many the next
stage of human evolution and some scientists
predict a majority of the world will be cyborgs
by 2160. Cyborgs are generally treated like any
other human, unless their enhancements cause
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 Katrina Murphy Player:_______________
System Registry Name:_______________
Cyborg
Designation:____________ Back Alley Surgeon
Creator:___________ 2074
Age/Creation Date:______
F
Gender:_____ Red
Hair:_______ Red
Eyes:_______ 5'9"
Height:________ 250lbs
Weight:_______
Description:_____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs Corruption
Value
Melee 10
______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged 10
______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold 20
______ Increased Strength
_______________________ 20
_____
Unarmed 45
______ Increased Jumping
_______________________ 20
_____
100
______ Handheld Shield ______
Dodge 45
______ Wall Run 20
_______________________ _____
Deflect 10
______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat 10
______ Capacity Damage Taken _______________________ _____
Analysis Core Armor ______
_______________________ _____
95
______
Fighting Style _______________________ _____
Berzerker
___________________ _______________________ _____
Take a second Combat Action but reduce Power Levels by 1 (min 1)
A Effect: __________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
After taking damage from enemy attack, may immediately make a
B Effect: ___________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
counter attack at -1 Power Level (min 1)
Skills Upgrades

Stage 1
Name Level General %RG\ Weapon
Lang: English 40 Dash
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____
Singing
_____________ 30
_____ Reflex Dash
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Driving
_____________ 30
_____ All Surface Contact
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ Weapons
_____________ _____
Weapon 1 Weapon 2 Weapon 3
_____________ _____
Tank Ripper Claws Name _________________
Name _________________ Name _________________
_____________ _____
Physical
Type _________________ Type _________________ Type _________________
Quirks 1
Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
Name/Description
0
Range __________________ Range __________________ Range __________________

Stage 2
Attention Hog Fire
Element _________________ Element _________________ Element _________________
___________________
Enhancements Enhancements Enhancements
Compel: Clean Claws
___________________
Rapid Attack 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
Armor Piercing 2
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Baseline _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Description Description Description
20 yrds
Speed _________ Retractable claws with
20 + Ability _____
Base ____ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
vents to allow heated
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
220 lbs
Lifting _________
Base ____ 20
200+ Ability _____ plasma to flow through them._________________________
_________________________ _________________________
Jump History/Notes
6 yards
Horizontal _________
4 + Ability _____
Base ____ 2
Her first cybernetic implant was a perfect face, but it wasn't long before she began
__________________________________________________________________________
3 yards
Vertical ___________
2 + Ability _____
Base ____ 1 finding more and more of her body she could replace. Now more machine than flesh
__________________________________________________________________________
Perception she has become a thrill seeker who is constantly saving up for that next big cybernetic
_________________________________________________________________________________
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Designation: Transhuman
Bonus: +30 CP to be spent on Skills, must Most exist because the fear of death overthrew
have Secret Past as a Quirk their fear of themselves. Some people are too
intoxicated with the idea of immortality they
Humans have struggled against the concept gratefully accept the consequences, while oth-
of death since the birth of their species. With the ers may have been backed into a corner and see
invention of the transhuman, humanity has tak- it as their only escape from a situation, person
en one large step towards that goal. or even themselves.
Transhumans are a combina-
tion of a human mind and an
android body. The process is
lengthy and painful, involving
the injection of a large transfer cable
into the skull and then into the android
body’s artificial brain. The human’s mem-
ories are then transferred into the android
brain, which can take hours or days depend-
ing on their setup. The human body falls into
a coma and, if not quickly put on life support,
will die. Most transhumans don’t have the
money to keep their old bodies.
However, the transfer process has
not been perfected. The subject must re-
main conscious during the procedure and
have a high pain tolerance for the smoothest
transfer. Early transhumans put under anesthe-
sia transferred dreams into the artificial brain
along with real memories, which left the trans-
human with a warped sense of reality. Similarly,
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mation blackouts which can leave the memory
spotty and unreliable.
A perfect transhuman would be a statisti-
cal anomaly and might not actually exist. Every
transhuman is known to have some degree of
memory loss. Missing memories may reappear
when encountering strong triggers connect-
ed to the memory: the smell of their mother’s
cooking, the ambient noise heard from their
first apartment, or even the face of a loved one.
Often, though, the transhuman creates false
memories to fill in any gaps without
even realizing it.
It is no surprise very few peo-
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System Registry Name:_______________ Player:_______________
Transhuman Creator:___________
Designation:____________ Himself? 2110
Age/Creation Date:______
M
Gender:_____ N/A
Hair:_______ 5'11"
Blue Height:________
Eyes:_______ 220lbs
Weight:_______
Description:_____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs Corruption
Value
Melee 10
______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged 40
______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold 20
______ _______________________ _____
Unarmed 10
______ _______________________ _____
100
______ Handheld Shield ______
Dodge 40
______ _______________________ _____
Deflect 10
______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat 10
______ Capacity Damage Taken _______________________ _____
Analysis Core Armor 2
______
_______________________ _____
100
______
Fighting Style _______________________ _____
No Style
___________________ _______________________ _____
+10 to non-combat Skills, -10 to Initiative
A Effect: __________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
+15 to Dodge, -10 to Melee, Ranged, and Unarmed
B Effect: ___________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____

Skills Upgrades

Stage 1
Name Level General ERG\ Weapon
Lang: English 40 Support Unit
_______________________ Electricity Protection 1
_______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____
Hacking
_____________ 40
_____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Electronics
_____________ 25
_____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ Weapons
_____________ _____
Weapon 1 Weapon 2 Weapon 3
_____________ _____
Lightning Rifle
Name _________________ Name _________________ Name _________________
_____________ _____
Energy
Type _________________ Type _________________ Type _________________
Quirks 2
Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
Name/Description
20 yards
Range __________________ Range __________________ Range __________________

Stage 2
Secret Past Electricity
Element _________________ Element _________________ Element _________________
___________________
Enhancements Enhancements Enhancements
Code of Honor
___________________
Homing 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________ Ray 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________
Start up 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Baseline _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Description Description Description
20 yrds
Speed _________ A rifle that generates a
20 + Ability _____
Base ____ _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
powerful electric charge
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
200 lbs
Lifting _________
200+ Ability _____
Base ____ that's hard to avoid.
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Jump History/Notes
4 yards
Horizontal _________
4 + Ability _____
Base ____
Jay lost most of his memory when he uploaded his brain to a robotic body. He
__________________________________________________________________________
2 yard
Vertical ___________
2 + Ability _____
Base ____ preformed the transfer himself with a device built by him and his support unit. He
__________________________________________________________________________
Perception wonders why he wanted to leave his old life behind so badly, and hopes his new allies can
_________________________________________________________________________________
Agility protect him from any enemies he might have been running from.
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Support Unit System Registry Spark
Name:_______________ Jay Newman
Creator:_______________ 40
CP Spent:________________
A robotic dragonfly that acts as both a spotter drone and a field mechanic.
Description:_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs
Melee 0
______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged 0
______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold 20
______ _______________________ _____
Unarmed 0
______ _______________________ _____
50
______ Shield ______
Dodge 0
______ _______________________ _____
Deflect 0
______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat 50
______ Capacity Damage Taken
Analysis Core Armor ______
50
______
Skills Weapons
Upgrades
Name Level Weapon 1 Weapon 2
General
Repair
_____________ 40
_____ Limited Flight
Name _________________ Name _________________
_______________________
Type _________________ Type _________________
_____________ _____ _______________________
Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
_____________ _____ _______________________
Range __________________ Range __________________
_____________ _____ ERG\ Element _________________ Element _________________
Quriks _______________________
Enhancements Enhancements
_______________________
_________________________ _________________________
Name/Description _______________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________ ZHDSRQ _________________________ _________________________
___________________ _______________________ Description Description
___________________ _______________________ _________________________ _________________________
_______________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________

Exosuit
Exosuit System Registry Name:_______________ Creator:_______________ CP Spent:________________
Description:_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Level
Upgrades Physical Specs
_______________________ Structure Abilities
_______________________ Capacity Damage Taken Handheld Shield ______ _______________________ _____
_______________________ _______________________ _____
_______________________ ______ Structure Armor ______
_______________________ _____
_______________________
Core Core Armor ______ _______________________ _____
_______________________
Capacity Damage Taken
_______________________
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Designation: Human
Bonus: +80 CP, starting structure = 0, starting !WARNING!
core = 50, cannot buy anything that reduces core. Humans are, by design, much weak-
er than other Designations. An attack
In this age of androids and cyborgs, pure hu- that would severely injure an Android
mans are slowly becoming a minority. It is a golden could outright kill a Human. Also, with-
age for human health. Cancer and HIV were cured out a core, Humans are very limited in
decades ago, and a human can live to be 120 years their Upgrades. This doesn’t make them
old without crossing the threshold into being a cy- worthless - far from it - but playing one
borg. Failing organs can be replaced in a day, and does require more strategy and patience
deep wounds can be closed with a simple gel sold than other designations.
in any corner shop. Starvation is at a record low Humans are recommended for expe-
as humans have developed lab-grown meats and rienced players only
nutrients, and heart disease can be prevented
with an artificial heart that automatically cleans
your arteries. Still, the lure of becoming a cyborg
has become a species-wide phenomenon, leaving
very few people who can truly be called human.
Most humans have at least one cybernetic En-
hancement, usually brain upgrades to think fast-
er, communicate via thoughts, or even explore
cyberspace without a computer. These kinds of
enhancements are surprisingly easy to perform
with an hour or two and local anesthetics. Of
course, new eyes that see perfectly at far distanc-
es or noses that can smell as well as any hunting
dog tend to be more expensive and complex.
A human body can be enhanced only to a cer-
tain point, however. All enhancements need pow-
er to run, and most have been developed with
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this in mind to draw off the human body’s natu-

ral energy supply. This means a human with en-
hancements gets hungrier more often than pure
humans. The more enhancements, the less total
body fat the human is able to store. In fact, this
power draw is responsible for 50% of all cases of
starvation in the modern world.
Without a core, there are a lot of enhance-
ments a human cannot get. A personal jet engine
would starve a normal human very quickly. Many
humans just don’t have the stomach, or the cash,
to take the most powerful Upgrades. Of course,
most are happy with the minor enhancements
they have, seeing it as a way to personalize even
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System Registry Name:_______________ Player:_______________
Human
Designation:____________ Parents
Creator:___________ 41
Age/Creation Date:______
M
Gender:_____ Black Eyes:_______
Hair:_______ 5'10"
Brown Height:________ 160lbs
Weight:_______
Description:_____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs Corruption
Value
Melee 10
______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged 50
______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold 20
______ Increased Speed
_______________________ 10
_____
Unarmed 10
______ _______________________ _____
0
______ Handheld Shield ______
Dodge 50
______ _______________________ _____
Deflect 10
______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat 45
______ Capacity Damage Taken _______________________ _____
Analysis Core Armor ______
_______________________ _____
50
______
Fighting Style _______________________ _____
Deceiver
___________________ _______________________ _____
Always have the highest initiative, but have -25 Structure capacity
A Effect: __________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
Once per round, gain a second General Action at any time, but have
B Effect: ___________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
-25 Structure capacity.
Skills Upgrades

Stage 1
Name Level General %RG\ Weapon
Lang: English 40 Wireless Brain
_______________________ _______________________ Point Blank
_______________________
_____________ _____
Lang: Japanese _____
_____________ 40 Digital Telepathy
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Academ: Politics_____
_____________ 40 Personalized Avatar
_______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Stealth 40
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
Demolitions 40
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ Weapons
_____________ _____
Weapon 1 Weapon 2 Weapon 3
_____________ _____
Sub-Machine Gun
Name _________________ Name _________________ Name _________________
_____________ _____
Physical
Type _________________ Type _________________ Type _________________
Quirks 2
Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
Name/Description
10 yards
Range __________________ Range __________________ Range __________________

Stage 2
Poor Eyesight Neutral
Element _________________ Element _________________ Element _________________
___________________
Enhancements Enhancements Enhancements
Trigger Happy
___________________
Rapid Attack 1
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________ _________________________ _________________________
_________________________
Baseline _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Description Description Description
20 yrds
Speed _________ A light, one-handed gun
10 + Ability _____
Base ____ 10 _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
that fires rapidly and can
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
150 lbs
Lifting _________
150+ Ability _____
Base ____ be easily concealed.
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Jump History/Notes
2 yards
Horizontal _________
2 + Ability _____
Base ____
Keiji doesn't speak much about his past, but with his skill set most people think he's
__________________________________________________________________________
1 yard
Vertical ___________
1 + Ability _____
Base ____ ex-special forces. He has limited cybernetics in his legs to repair an injury he won't
__________________________________________________________________________
Perception discuss, and in his brain so he can access cyberspace on the fly.
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Physical Specs
Structure
Structure represents the amount of damage
an artificial thing can take before it’s broken
beyond repair. As something or someone loses
Structure, cracks appear and pieces start falling
off. Structure can be damage by any normal at-
tack.
▶▶ Androids, Cyborgs and Transhumans
start with 100 Structure capacity due to
their artificial bodies. They are resilient
to damage and almost impossible to de-
stroy without sustained damage or mil-
itary grade ordinance. When Structure
damage reaches its capacity, the artificial
body shuts down. Servos shatter, hydrau-
lic fluid spills like blood, and the body
crumples onto the ground. Any damage
taken from this point goes straight to
Core, no matter what causes it.
▶▶ Humans do not have Structure. They are
squishy and tend to die when shot a few
times. All damage done to a human au-
tomatically goes to Core. However, they
are also not considered out for having
zero Structure, and cannot have their
Structure capacity reduced below zero
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by Fighting Styles or other effects.
Core
Core represents the energy source that keeps
an artificial body running. The Core is what runs
the artificial brain, sends signals around the
body, and even powers some impressive Up-
grades. Cores are damaged by EMP weapons,
certain Elements, or Called Shots to the Core.
▶▶ Androids, Cybrogs and Transhumans
start with 100 Core capacity due to the
energy source installed in the chest.
When Core capacity is reduced to zero,
memory systems crash and become ir-
retrievable. Personality, memory, essen-
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tially the very soul is lost when the Core
is destroyed. The body locks in place,
usually still standing if his structure is
still intact. A Core death is permanent
death to those otherwise immortal and
is considered a capital crime on par with
murder.
▶▶ Humans Core value represents their
complex system of organs keeping them
alive. Humans have a Core capacity of
50, as they are generally easier to dam-
age then Cores built of metal and plastic.
A human who’s Core is reduced to zero is
dead and usually a very bloody scene to
behold. Humans cannot take Upgrades
that reduce their Core, as their body can-
not handle the stress.
Armor
Armor is worn or built-in protection that
stops damage you may take. Armor can be
bought for your Structure or Core and may even
take the form of a hand-held shield.
Structure Armor (SA)
This armor covers your body and protects
your Structure from damage. Each level of
Structure Armor costs 5 CP and lets you ignore
1 point of Structure damage from any attack. A
maximum of 100 points (SA 20) can be spent on
Structure Armor.
10 CP buys SA 2 and ignores 2 Structure
damage from attacks.
25 CP buys SA 5 and ignores 5 Structure
damage from attacks.
50 CP buys SA 10 and ignores 10 Structure
damage (aka, any Power Level 1 weapon)
100 CP buys SA 20 and ignores 20 Structure
damage (aka any Power Level 2 or weaker
weapon)
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Core Armor (CA)
This armor only covers your Core, protecting
it from attacks that will damage it. Each level
of Core Armor costs 10 CP and lets you ignore 1
point of Core damage. A maximum of 200 points
(CA 20) can be spent on Core Armor.
10 CP buys CA 1 and ignores 1 Core
damage from attacks.
50 CP buys CA 5 and ignores 5 Core
damage from attacks.
100 CP buys CA 10 and ignores 10 Core
damage from attacks.
Hand-Held Shield
Shields are armor held in your hand. In com-
bat, as an Instant Action, you can declare who
you are aiming your shield at. Any attacks made
from your target hit the shield (if they aren’t
otherwise Dodged or Deflected) and damage is
reduced by the shield before it hits the wielders
body. Called shots and attacks made by some-
one the shield isn’t aimed at bypass the shield
and hit the wielder’s body.
Each level of Shield costs 2 CP and lets you
ignore 1 point of Structure damage from any at-
tack that hits it. Maximum of 40 points (Shield
20) can be spent on a single Hand-Held Shield,
but multiple Shields can be purchased. You can
only gain the benefit of one shield per target, no
matter how many you own.
10 CP buys Shield 5 and ignores 5
damage from attacks that hit it.
40 CP buys Shield 20 and ignores 20
damage from attacks that hit it.
Catastrophic
Damage Threshold
Catastrophic Damage scrambles optics,
breaks weapons, and knocks systems offline.
The effects of Catastrophic Damage will be dis-
cussed more in detail later (page 65), but your
Threshold represents how much damage you
can in a single hit before you suffer Catastrophic
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Damage. Your CD Threshold starts at 20, and can
only be increased with Abilities.
Abilities
Abilities are ways your character is stronger,
faster, or tougher than the average human or
android. To represent your basic ability to run,
jump, and lift we use the Baseline.
The Baseline
All Androids are built to the same industry
standards, known as the Baseline. This means,
before Abilities, they all move at the same speed,
lift the same amount and have the same optics.
Cyborgs are also increased to this Baseline, im-
proving the body to be on par with your average
off-the-rack android.
The following baseline applies to all An-
droids, Cyborgs and Transhumans:
▶▶ Speed: Moves up to 20 yards during a
General Action.
▶▶ Jumping: Jumps up to 4 yards horizon-
tally and up to 2 yards vertically.
▶▶ Lifting: Lifts up to 200 pounds.
▶▶ Agility: As agile as a moderately athletic
human, almost never trips and can bal-
ance his weight on a single leg with ease.
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▶▶ Perception: Has 20/20 vision and the
same level of hearing and smell as your
average human.
Standard Human baseline shares baseline
Agility and Perception with his artificial counter-
parts, but differ in the following ways:
▶▶ Speed: Moves up to 10 yards during a
General Action
▶▶ Jumping: Jumps up to 2 yards horizon-
tally and up to 1 yard vertically.
▶▶ Lifting: Lift up to 150 pounds.
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To increase your characters Baseline you
need to buy Abilities. Abilities are bought at 1 CP
per level, and each ability can have a maximum
value of 66. Abilities are rolled like skills to de-
termine success for jumping, lifting, or noticing
things, and also give passive bonuses depend-
ing on their level.
Abilities List:
Increased Agility
Used to move with greater ease than the
baseline. This value is also added into Initiative
rolls and half of it (rounded up) added to your
Deflect Combat Skill.
Increased Durability
Increases CD Threshold beyond the baseline
by 1 for every 5 level.
Increased Jumping
Increases horizontal jump by 1 yard over the
baseline for every 5 levels and vertical jump by 1
over the baseline for every 10 levels.
Increased Perception
Used to notice things others would have
missed with baseline perception. This could rep-
resent having electromagnetic sensors, or just
telescoping eyes.
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Increased Speed
Become faster than the baseline by 1 yard
per level. This value is also added into Initiative
rolls and half of it (rounded up) added to the
Dodge Combat Skill.
Increased Strength
Increases lifting capacity by 10 pounds per
level over the baseline and gives +1 damage per
10 points to all Melee and Unarmed attacks.
Slow Fall
Deploy fins or parachutes to help slow a
fall. Roll once every 5 yards fallen and for each
successful roll reduce total falling damage by 1
Power Level.
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Wall Jump
Allows you to dig your feet into a wall or oth-
er vertical surface and jump again. For every 10
levels you gain 1 additional jump, and can be
continued as long as you have additional jumps
and surfaces to jump from.
Wall Run
Allows you to move at half your speed any
direction along a vertical surface. At the end
of your Turn, you must be on stable footing or
gravity takes over again.
Combat Data
There are six Combat Skills: Melee, Ranged,
Unarmed, Dodge, Deflect and Combat Analysis.
Combat Skills start at 10 and are bought at 1 CP
per level, with each Skill having a maximum val-
ue of 66.
▶▶ Melee: Your ability to hit a target with
melee weaponry like energy swords, vi-
bro axes, or combat knives.
▶▶ Ranged: Your ability to hit a target with
ranged weaponry like machine guns,
plasma cannons, or explosive-tipped
crossbows.
▶▶ Unarmed: Your ability to hit with your
fists, grab or even throw opponents.
Brass knuckles, rocket fists, and hand
claws all fall into this category, as does
grappling and throwing.
▶▶ Dodge: Your ability to get out of the way
of incoming attacks. With enhanced re-
action speed and cybernetic reflexes,
almost anyone can Dodge even a bullet.
Add half your Increased Speed Ability
when you use this Skill.
▶▶ Deflect: Your ability to knock incoming
attacks away from your body using a Me-
lee or Unarmed weapon, or just a shield
or piece of armor, this Skill ensures
nothing can touch you. Add half your In-
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creased Agility Ability when you use this Behemoth
Skill. You’re not the fastest fighter on the block,
but you are the biggest - and bigger is better.
▶▶ Combat Analysis: Your ability to size
The last man standing is the winner, and you
up an opponent with a keen eye or the
won’t be the one to fall over first.
proper software. When you successfully
make a Combat Analysis roll, pick a cate- ▶▶ Effect A: +25 Structure or Core Capacity,
gory (System Registry, Combat Data, etc) but always has the lowest Initiative.
on your character sheet, you then learn
everything your opponent has in that ▶▶ Effect B: +25 Structure or Core Capaci-
same category. ty, but opponents gain 10 to any Dodge
or Deflect his attacks as they are easy to
telegraph.
Professionals
Character Creation assumes your
characters are new to their jobs and
weapons. They may know how to use
them, but they certainly aren’t ex-
perts. That isn’t the only way to play
The Robotic Age, though. If the entire
group wants to play soldiers, assas-
sins, or other professionals, the GM can
increase the starting level of Combat
Skills to 40 instead of 10.

Fighting Styles
It’s not the weapon you use, but how
you use it. Some people swing fast and
wild, while others take their time making
sure their attack counts. Fighting Styles
are often as varied as the people using
them. Each character starts with one
Fighting Style of their choice.

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Each Fighting Style provides
two active effects. At the start of
combat, everyone picks one ef-
fect from their Fighting Style and
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Berserker
You’ve learned one thing from combat: keep
hitting someone and they will go down. This
leaves your attacks a bit unreliable, but that’s
why you have so many of them.
▶▶ Effect A: You may take a second Combat
Action each Round, but weapon Power
Levels are reduced by 1 (to a minimum of
1) for that turn.
▶▶ Effect B: Each time you take damage
from an enemy attack you may make a
single counter attack with any weapon,
however, that weapon’s Power Level is
reduced by 1 (to a minimum of 1) for the
counter attack.
Deceiver
You know being in the right place at the right
time can make all this difference and shooting
first can save lives. You can’t take a hit like the
others, but if things go well you won’t have to.
▶▶ Effect A: Always considered to have the
highest Initiative, but have -25 Structure
Capacity than normal.
▶▶ Effect B: Once per round, gain a second
General Action anytime in the Initiative
order, as long as it does not interrupt an-
other character’s Action (even your own).
The character has -25 Structure Capacity
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Defender
You aren’t here to knock enemies down;
you’re here to keep your allies up. The best of-
fense is a good defense, as they say.
▶▶ Effect A: Once per round, if an ally with-
in your movement speed is the target
of an attack, you may step in front of it.
Resolve the attack as if you were always
the intended target. You may attempt to
Deflect, but cannot Dodge.
▶▶ Effect B: If you have a weapon with the
Force Field enhancement, you may re-
duce the Power Level of the weapon by 1
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and extend its effects to an ally within 10
feet so you are both protected. You may
extend the Force Field to as many allies
that are within range, reducing the Pow-
er Level for each one.
The Stalwart Defender
SD stands side by side with his
allies and charges his weapon with
Force Field Enhancement. Normally
this would give him an energy field of
Power Level of 3, but because of his
Defender style he may extend the field
to an ally, giving them both a shield of
Power Level 2, or to two allies giving
each of them a shield of Power Level 1.
Heavy Hitter
There is no such thing as overkill to you.
Sure, your aggressive nature might make you a
bit more vulnerable, but the results don’t lie.
▶▶ Effect A: Your weapons do +1d5 damage,
but you take +1d5 damage from all attacks.
▶▶ Effect B: You may use charge, over-
charge, and omnicharge as a General
Action, but your Dodge and Deflect are
reduced by -15.
Marksman
You know the importance of hitting your
mark. You don’t miss. Period.
▶▶ Effect A: Once per round, you may re-roll
an attack that missed.
▶▶ Effect B: Once per battle, you can reduce a
target’s Dodge and Deflect by 10 for 1 Round.
No Style
You’re no warrior. While others were learn-
ing to fight, you were studying other topics. You
quickly learned to keep your head down.
▶▶ Effect A: You gain +10 to any non-Combat
Skills, however your Initiative is reduced by -10.
▶▶ Effect B: You gain a +15 to Dodge, but get
-10 to Melee, Ranged, and Unarmed.
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Speedster
You are so fast you become almost untouch-
able. You might not hit the hardest, but you can
be in the right place at the right time.
▶▶ Effect A: Once per round, you may re-roll
one Dodge or Deflect.
▶▶ Effect B: You may make 2 General Ac-
tions each turn, however all Combat
Skills take a -10 penalty for that turn.
General Skills
Either learned through a lifetime or some-
times just uploaded directly, General Skills are
things your character can do that makes them
useful outside of combat. General Skills are
bought for 1 CP for 2 Levels and can have a max-
imum value of 66.
General Skills can be almost anything, from
fishing to hacking to mechanical repair. Below
is a list of the most common and useful General
Skills for the Robotic Age RPG. However, do not
feel restricted. If there is a General Skill you want
your character to have, talk to your GM. As long
as it fits his game and can’t be replicated by one
of the General Skills below, feel free to include it.
▶▶ Academics (History, Geology, Biology,
etc): Academic knowledge of a specif-
ic subject, each taken separately. If it’s
something you could learn in school, it
could count as an Academic Skill.
▶▶ Charm: Changing other people’s opinions.
▶▶ Cooking: Making and preparing food.
▶▶ Command: Invoking fear or obedience
from others.
▶▶ Electronics: Being proficient with the
use and repair of electronics, like LED
lights or cell phones.
▶▶ Dancing: The ability to dance without
making a fool of yourself.
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▶▶ Demolitions: Knowledge about explo-
sives and their correct placement.
▶▶ Driving: Being able to safely drive a car
at various speeds.
▶▶ First Aid: Being able to heal Core dam-
age on a Human and Structure damage
on a Cyborg. Make a Difficult Extended
Action. Every 3 successes heals 1d10 of
core damage from the character. Exam-
ple: Player uses First Aid to heal an injured
Human he found. The player succeeds 18
times before he stops trying. The Human
is then healed for 6d10 core damage.
▶▶ Hacking: Breaking into electronic and
cyberspace security programs.
▶▶ Investigation: Searching the local area
for clues.
▶▶ Language (English, French, Japanese,
etc): Reading and writing a particular
language, each taken separately. The
higher the Skill, the better you are at
understanding larger or more obscure
words in the language.
▶▶ Lockpicking: Being able to unlock old
style doors without keycard readers.
▶▶ Mechanics: Knowledge about mechani-
cal devices and how to repair them.
▶▶ Musical Instrument: Playing a musical
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instrument well.
▶▶ Piloting: Being able to pilot aircraft.
▶▶ Repair: Being able to repair Catastrophic
Damage as well as Structure damage on
Androids and Transhumans. To repair a
player character, make a Difficult Extend-
ed Action. Every 3 successes heals 1d10
of structure damage from the character
or repairs a single Catastrophic Damage.
Example: Player is using Repair to heal
an injured Android he found. The player
succeeds 12 times before he stops trying.
The Android is healed for 4d10 Structure.
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▶▶ Singing: The ability to sing well. Singing
badly requires no Skill.
▶▶ Stealth: Moving quietly without being noticed.
▶▶ Survival: Being able to survive in difficult
locations and situations.
Upgrades
Upgrades are improvements attached to
your body in one way or the other that add new
features, instead of just improving what you can
already do. Unlike Skills or Abilities, each Up-
grade has a set cost. For Upgrades with multiple
levels, each level must be bought in order.
Some Upgrades are so powerful they draw
on the energy of your artificial body, represent-
ed by a loss of Core capacity. Core draining Up-
grades can be shut down (or turned on) with a
General Action during your turn, the lost Core
health returning immediately. This can be cru-
cial to saving your life in a fight that not’s going
your way.
Humans cannot take any Core draining
Upgrades. Their bodies cannot withstand the
shock of it.
General Upgrades
General Upgrades are the most varied and
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are often small enough to hide inside one’s body
until active.
Dash (15 CP)
Doubles user’s Movement speed for 1 Action.
User must then wait one turn before dashing
again.
Reflex Dash
(10 CP
, Requires Dash)
The user’s Dash Upgrade now works reflex-
ively allowing him to double his Initiative roll.
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Jump Dash
(15 CP
, Requires Dash)
User is able to angle his dash thrusters to
gain air time. His horizontal jump is now equal
to his dash speed for 1 Action a turn.
Wireless Brain (5 CP)
Allows Humans and Cyborgs to wirelessly
connect to cyberspace from anywhere. See the
Cyberspace chapter for details.
Digital Telepathy (15 CP)
Allows the user to open two way communi-
cations with another brain that can also connect
to cyberspace via wireless transmission. Short
version: You think it and they hear it and can an-
swer back.
Personalized
Avatar (15 CP)
Allows Human and Cyborg users to take their
avatar into cyberspace instead of the base ava-
tar (page 75). Human Personalized Avatars have
100 Core Capacity like all other Avatars.
Registry Blocker (10 CP)
User’s system registry cannot be read using
Combat Analysis.
All Surface Movement
(40 CP
, -5 Core drain)
Allows travel up walls, down cliffs and even
across the ceiling as long as you keep moving. At
the end of your turn, gravity takes over as nor-
mal.
All Surface Contact
(10 CP
, -5 Core drain)
Allows user to stick to a surface that can sup-
port his weight as if it was solid ground.
Limited Flight
(30 CP
, -5 Core drain)
Ability to fly at half your Movement speed for
3 Rounds before having to land.
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Unlimited Flight
(60 CP
, -10 Core drain)
Ability to fly at full Movement speed without
the need to land.
Energy Scanner
(50 CP
, -10 Core drain)
User is able to sense the heat generated by
adult-sized humans or power cores up to 100
feet away. This sense works in pure darkness,
through walls, and even if visual sensors are de-
stroyed/damaged.
Enhanced Analysis (30 CP)
User gains bonuses when using Combat
Analysis, depending on the section scanned.
These bonuses only apply to the specific enemy
scanned and lasts until the end of combat.
▶▶ Combat Data: +5 to hit the target.
▶▶ Physical Specs: Target’s CD Threshold is
considered 2 lower against your attacks.
▶▶ Weapon: +5 to Dodge and Deflect attacks
made by this specific weapon.
Core Schematics (30 CP)
User can repair Core or Structure damage
with a Repair roll, instead of just Structure dam-
age. User must specify which type he is healing
before a roll is made.
Emergency Repair Canister
(30 CP , -5 Core drain)
User creates a can of nanomachines able
to repair an artificial body. User rolls Repair as
normal, but the process requires 6 difficult Ex-
tended Actions and has a maximum repair of
5d10. When done, the user now has a hand-held
canister anyone can destroy to instantaneously
repair themselves in an emergency. Each Emer-
gency Repair Canister lasts for 3 days, and any
single character can only use one can per hour.
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Emergency First Aid Patch
(30 CP , -5 Core drain)
User creates a patch full of nanomachines
able to heal an organic body. User rolls First Aid
as normal, but the process requires 6 difficult
Extended Actions and has a maximum heal of
5d10. When done, the user now has a hand-held
patch anyone can destroy to instantaneously
heal themselves in an emergency. Each Emer-
gency First Aid Patch lasts for 3 days, and any
single character can only use one can per hour.
Quick Switch (15 CP)
Allows the user to swap any attached Sup-
port Units as a General Action and is able to shut
down Enhancements and Core draining Up-
grades as an Instant Action. He may also remove
a broken Exosuit as a General Action.
Support Unit (20 CP)
A Support Unit is a robotic drone built for a
specific purpose, ranging from aerial scouts to
gun drones. They have a limited AI, but are not
sentient like Androids. Rules for Support Units
are found in the Exosuits and Support Units
chapter (page 74).
Numbers (Varies, Max: 5
Levels, Requires Support
Unit)
When you take Numbers, choose one Sup-
port Unit you own and pay an amount of CP
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equal to half the total CP given to that Support
Unit. When you do, you gain an exact copy of
that Support Unit. The Support Units must re-
main completely the same, so any CP spent on
one must also be spent on the other.
Remote Viewing
(Cost 10 CP , Requires Sup-
port Unit and Wireless
brain if human or cyborg)
You can see through the eyes of any Support
Unit you control. If that support unit has the En-
hanced Analysis Upgrade, then you gain that bo-
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Body Upgrades
Body Upgrades change your body in bigger
and more obvious ways then General Upgrades.
Either attached to the torso or running under
the skin, these upgrades dramatically change
how your body works.
Element Protection (20 CP
per level, Max: 4 levels)
Alters your armor to protect from a single El-
ement (page 53). Once an Element is chosen, it
cannot be changed. When hit by the chosen El-
ement, this armor reduces the weapons power
a number of levels equal to the level of Element
Protection, to a minimum of 1. However, if hit by
the Element’s Trump, the weapon is increased
in Power Level by 1, no matter the level of the
armor. You make take this upgrade multiple
times, for multiple elements, but only one ver-
sion of this upgrade may be active at any time.
Counter Measures
(15 CP per level, Max: 4
levels, -5 Core drain)
When targeted by a weapon with the Hom-
ing Enhancement (page 55), reduce the level of
Homing by the level of Counter Measures.
Anchored
(10 CP per level, Max: 4
levels, -5 Core drain)
When hit with a weapon with the Blowback
Enhancement (page 54), reduce the level of
Blowback by the level of Anchored.
Extra Arm (20 CP per
level, Max: 4 levels, -5
Core drain per level)
You have one extra arm, per level, attached to your
body. These have hands and work in all ways just like
normal arms, but grant the following bonuses:
▶▶ May pick up an object as an Instant Ac-
tion once per level
▶▶ Reduce all Extended Actions requiring
hands by 1 per level
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▶▶ Increase all Unarmed damage by +1 per
level
▶▶ Gain 1 extra die towards grapple rolls per
level.
Attachment Slot (15 CP)
Allows you to attach a Support Unit to your
body (one at a time) with a Combat Action. You
gain any Abilities, Armor, Upgrades, and Weap-
ons the Support Unit possesses, as well as any
Core drain. The Support Unit is no longer con-
sidered a separate entity, cannot take its own
actions and can only be targeted by Called
Shots. If the character suffers Structure Death,
the Support Unit is also destroyed.
Veil (50 CP
, -10 Core drain)
This Upgrade hides your energy signature
from the Energy Scanner Upgrade (page 47), as
well as radar and other inferred scanners. You
are electronically invisible, but can still be seen
by the naked eye. Requires a General Action to
turn on and automatically turns off if you make
an Combat Action. Cannot be used simultane-
ously with Cloak.
Cloak
(80 CP
, -10 Core drain)
This Upgrade refracts light around you, mak-
ing you invisible to the naked eye. This technol-
ogy is still in the experimental stages and gen-
erates a lot more heat than most others, often
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raising the temperature in a room if left on for
long periods of time. A person using Cloak shows
up brighter on an Energy Scanner than others.
Requires a General Action to turn on and auto-
matically turns off if you make a Combat Action.
Cannot be used simultaneously with Veil.
Transformation
(20 CP
, -10 core drain)
You can reconfigure your body, changing it
into an alternate form that may be faster, stron-
ger, or tougher than your previous one. This al-
ternate form keeps his previous form’s General
Skills, Combat Skills, Fighting Style, Structure,
Core, Armor, and Quirks but may buy new Abil-
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ities, Upgrades, and Weapons for ½ the cost.
The alternate form may have a total CP spent
on it equal to ½ (rounded up) the total CP spent
on the primary form. This does not include CP
spent during character creation. It requires a
Combat Action to change between forms.
Example: Geoffrey has spent 80 CP earn from
previous missions, but not including character
creation. He now buys Transformation, bringing
his total spent to 100 CP. He may now buy new
Abilities, Upgrades, and Weapons for his alter-
nate form, but cannot spend more than 50 CP un-
til he spends more CP on his primary form.
Quick Transform (20 CP
, creation)
Requires Transformation)
Switching between forms is now a General
Action rather than a Combat Action.
Vehicle/Animal
Transformation (20cp
, Re-
quires Transformation)
Your alternate form isn’t human but instead
some kind of land, air, or sea vehicle or robotic
animal. This form is still roughly the same size
as the previous one but does not possess hands,
and thus loses the ability to do anything that
would require them. This form, however, may
buy Abilities up to 86 rather than the standard
66.
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Exosuit (60 CP)
You own a powerful exoskeleton that en-
hances your Abilities. While wearing an Exosuit,
even a pure human can lift things four times his
weight and run as fast as a car. Rules for building
an Exosuit can be found in the Exosuits and Sup-
port Units section (page 72).
Second Skin (20 CP)
You are so skilled with an Exosuit that it be-
comes like a second skin. Fighting Styles may be
used while wearing an Exosuit.
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Cyborg (80 CP , Not available
at character creation)
A human who takes this Upgrade becomes
a Cyborg. He gains an additional 100 Structure
and 50 Core Capacity and can now take Up-
grades that cause Core drain. His old Abilities
and Upgrades and integrated into his new cy-
bernetic form. This process can take several
weeks to complete and the player should talk to
his GM to see if his character has enough down
time to get the procedure done.
Transhuman (50 CP, not
available at character
A human who takes this Upgrade becomes
a Transhuman. He gains 100 Structure and 50
Core and can now take Upgrades that cause
Core drain. HOWEVER, the character loses any
Upgrades and Abilities he bought for his old
body and gains the Secret Past Quirk. The play-
er should talk to his GM about what memories
were likely lost in the transfer process.
Weapon Upgrades
Weapon Upgrades can be applied to all
weapons you have or might gain.
Assimilate Element
(30 CP
, -5 Core drain)
Allows the user to copy Element data from
another’s weapon. User must make an Unarmed
attack and may pick an Element the target pos-
sesses to add it to any weapons the character has.
This Element remains available for an hour before
your systems purge it. Normal limitations of only 1
Element active on a weapon at any time still apply.
Assimilate Style
(30 CP
, -5 Core drain)
Allows the user to copy Fighting Style data
from another. User must make an Unarmed at-
tack and may pick a Fighting Style the target
possesses. You can retain this Fighting Style for
an hour before your systems purge it. Normal
limitations of only 1 Fighting Style active at any
time still apply.
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Assimilate Weapon Overcharge
(30 CP
, -5 Core drain) (20 CP
, -10 Core drain, Re-
Allows the user to copy Enhancement data quires the Charge)
from another’s weapon. User must make an Un- This increases the bonuses given by Charge,
armed attack and may then pick an Enhance- raising its Power Level by +1, Enhancements by
ment on a weapon the target owns to add it to +1, and the Dodge/Deflect penalty an another
their own. You gain all the levels of the Enhance- -5. The weapon cannot be used for 1 turn after is
ment the target possesses, but is purged from it used, as it cools off.
your system in one hour.
Omnicharge
New Style (20 CP) (50 CP
, -10 Core drain,
You may buy an additional Fighting Style. At Requires Charge)
the start of any combat, you must pick which Fight- This gives the ability to charge up to 4 weap-
ing Style to using before you picking an effect. You ons at a time with a single Combat Action. The
cannot change Fighting Styles while in combat. character cannot charge any weapons again for
3 turns, as it cool offs. Cannot be used with Over-
Change Up (30 CP) charge.
You may switch Fighting Style Effects as a
General Action or switch Fighting Styles (if you Charge Strength
have a second one) as a Combat Action. (20 CP
, -5 Core Drain)
While charging a weapon, your total Base-
Tandem line Lifting is doubled and you can throw objects
(20 CP
, -5 Core Drain) twice as far.
When attacking with a weapon using the
Rapid Attack enhancement, you may swap out Power Thrower
attacks from that weapon with any other weap- (20 CP
, -10 Core Drain)
on that isn’t currently Charged. You can now throw any object you can lift up
Example: Weapon A has Rapid Attack 2. With to 10 yards, and any object weighing less than
Tandem, you can either make Attacks A A A, or A half your maximum Lifting can now be thrown
B A, A B B, and so on. If Weapon B also had Rapid 20 yards.
Attack, they could even attack using A B C.
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Charge (20 CP) You may fire Ranged weapons at targets in
The user can increase the power of an attack Melee range, instead of just at targets more than
by expending a bit of time to do so. The player 3 yards away.
spends a Combat Action charging his weapon,
gaining the following bonuses for his next turn: Reach (10 CP)
▶▶ Increase the Power Level of the weapon by 1 You may use Unarmed weapons at targets
up to 1 yard away instead of just point blank.
▶▶ Increase the level of any present weapon
Enhancements (homing, armor piercing, Extend (10 CP)
etc) by 1. You may use Melee weapons at targets up to
▶▶ The target takes an automatic -5 to his 3 yards away instead of just one.
Dodge and Deflect to avoid it.
Note: A weapon cannot hold a charge for
more than 3 turns. On turn 3, it must be either
fired or it’s lost.
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Reinforced (15 CP)
Your weapons are built to withstand concen-
trated shots that may hit them. All your weap-
ons have 50 structure (instead of 25).
Customized (5 CP)
Your weapons are thoroughly customized,
making it hard to read exactly what’s been done
to it. Your weapon’s Enhancements can’t be
read with Combat Analysis.
▶▶ Secret Past (+0/10/+20 CP): Something
in your past can come back to bite you in
the ass. You just wish you knew what it
was. Transhumans do not gain CP from
this Quirk.
▶▶ No Optics (+20 CP): You have no eyes
and must rely on Energy Scanners to see.
▶▶ Attention Hog (+10 CP): You love being
the center of attention.

Kit-Bashed (5 CP) ▶▶ Compelled (+10/20 CP): You find your-

Your weapons were built from an original de- self compelled to do something at the
sign or from scratch, making them near unique worst times. Can be anything from smok-
and hard to scan. Your weapon’s Power Levels ing a cigarette to cleaning your weapons.
cannot be read with Combat Analysis. When that urge hits, it can be hard to re-
sist. For 20 CP, it is impossible to resist.
▶▶ Humorless (+10 CP): You don’t make

Quirks jokes and hardly ever laugh. People can

find you a bit stand-offish because of this.

Nobody is perfect. Everyone has something
they may not like about themselves or others
might not like about them. You may have to be
the center of attention or just refuse to shoot an
unarmed foe. In any case, these Quirks define
who you are and what other people think of you.
When you take a Quirk, you make your char-
acter a little worse and are rewarded with bonus
CP. You can take a max of 30 CP worth of Quirks.
A Quirk is worth more CP when it could come up
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▶▶ Absent Minded (+10 CP): Huh? What? I
wasn’t paying attention.
▶▶ Leakage (+10 CP): You want to stay
away from water and sand, as it tends to
get everywhere.
▶▶ Humanist (+20 CP): You don’t hate an-
droids and transhumans, but they aren’t
exactly the first “things” you would ask
for help.

more often or are more difficult to overcome.

Players and GMs alike are encouraged to use ▶▶ Stubborn (+10 CP): You prefer things your
Quirks to enhance the game and have fun. way and have a hard time standing down.
Below is a small list of example Quirks. Talk
▶▶ Phobia (+10 CP): You have a fear of
to your GM if you have a Quirk in mind is not list-
something most people don’t, from spi-
ed below. If he approves it, he can grant you ei-
ders to heights to clowns.
ther 10 CP or 20 CP.
▶▶ Poor Eyesight (+10 CP): You need glass-
es or contacts to see properly.
▶▶ Trigger Happy (+20 CP): Shoot first and
Weapons
try to live to see another day. It is a dangerous world out there, and it’s
important to defend yourself. Whether you got
▶▶ Code of Honor (+20 CP): You live by a
your weapon in the military, for your job, for
self-imposed set of rules you would nev-
self-defense or just because it looked cool, your
er break.
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their personality. You can carry 4 weapons on
you at any time.
Type
A weapon’s type can be Physical or Energy
and is free. This determines, for example, if your
sword is made of steel or lasers and if your gun
fires bullets or plasma. This also determines
what Elements you are allowed to add to your
weapon.
Range
This is the maximum distance a weapon can
fire and still hit its target. Each yard costs 1 CP.
▶▶ A Ranged weapon must have a range of
at least 3 yards and cannot be used at
shorter distances.
▶▶ A Melee weapon may have a range be-
tween 0 and 1 yard.
▶▶ Unarmed weapons have no Range.
Power Level
This determines the damage done by your
weapon, inflicting 1d10 per Power Level when
hitting its target. Each power level has to be
bought in order before moving onto the next.
10 CP for Level 1
20 CP for Level 2
30 CP for Level 3
50 CP for Level 4
100 CP for Level 5
Element
A weapon’s Element determines if the weap-
on shoots fire or sonic waves. Elements are often
more effective against specific other Elements;
fluids put out fires, electricity will move through
fluids, and so on. When one Element has a dis-
tinct advantage over another it’s called a Trump.
If two Elements are ever in conflict, the Trump is
always victorious.
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A Neutral Element weapon deals damage
through pure blunt force, can be on any type of
weapon, and doesn’t have a Trump. Neutral El-
ement is free, while any other Element costs 10
CP. A weapon can only have one Element.
Fire
Nothing like a little heat to spice up a weap-
on. Can be attached to Physical or Energy weap-
ons and is used to ignite flammable material.
Trumps the Ice Element.
Ice
A freezing bite can improve any weapon. Can
be attached to Physical or Energy weapons and
can freeze liquids. Trumps the Metal Element.
Metal
A metal edge has been mankind’s weapon
of choice for millenia. Can be attached to Phys-
ical weapons and cuts through rope or other
thin materials. Trumps the Explosive Element.
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Explosive
A little explosive charge can go a long way.
Can be attached to Physical weapons and in-
flicts double damage to inanimate objects like
doors or walls. Trumps the Sonic Element.
Sonic
A vibrating weapon can cause intense inter-
nal damage. Can be attached to Physical and En-
ergy weapons. Anyone who takes damage from
a sonic weapon reduces their combat skills by 5
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for one turn. Multiple hits do not stack. Trumps
the Magnetic Element.
Magnetic
In a world full of people with computers for
brains, the Magnetic Element can be the most
dangerous thing around. Can be attached to En-
ergy weapons. Half of Structure damage done
by this Element (after armor) also damages the
target’s Core. Trumps the Electricity Element.
Electricity
A little electric shock can do big things. Can
be attached to Physical or Energy weapons. Half
of Structure damage dealt (after armor) also
damages the target’s Core. Trumps the Fluid El-
ement.
Fluid
From sand blasters to acid sprayers, Fluid
weapons can be quite dangerous. Can be at-
tached to Physical weapons. Targets hit by Fluid
weapons have their Movement speed reduced
by 5 yards for 1 Round. Trumps the Fire Element.
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Enhancements
Enhancements add functions to weapons,
allowing them to attack multiple times, bypass
armor or knock enemies away. Individual En-
hancements can be turned on and off as a Gen-
eral Action before a weapon is fired (in case you
don’t want to hit an ally with a Blast).
A few Enhancements may be taken multiple
times, increasing the effect of the Enhancement
each time. A weapon may have as many En-
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Armor Piercing: (10 CP per
level, Max: 10 levels)
This weapon is designed to cut into a foe’s
protection to reach the vital sections, ignoring 1
point of Armor per level.
Blast: (10 CP per level,
Max: 5 levels)
Projectiles from this weapon explode when
it makes contact. This weapon hits everything
(friend or foe) within 2 yards of the impact point
(per level) for 1/2 damage dealt, rounded up
(before armor). Not recommended for Melee
weapons.
My Blast Weapon Missed?
As the rules are written, a blast
weapon that misses, is Dodged, or
is Deflected does not explode. GMs
are free to figure out where the blast
weapon eventually hit and calculate
distance from there to add a touch of
realism.
Blowback: (5 CP per
level, Max: 5 levels)
An attack made with so much force it sends
its targets reeling. This weapon either knocks
the target away from the attacker, or down to-
wards the ground if flying, 1 yard per level.
Coating: (20 CP)
This attack coats its target in a specially-de-
signed gel, protecting that person from specif-
ic Elemental weapons. Can only be taken on
weapons with an Element and grants the Ele-
ment Protection Level 1 Body Upgrade with the
same Element as the weapon. This effect lasts 3
rounds.
EMP: (25 CP)
An electromagnetic pulse can fry electron-
ics and scramble power cores. This weapon’s
damage now goes straight to its target’s Core
rather than its Structure, but does no damage to
humans.
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Homing: (15 CP per level,
Max: 4 levels)
Attacks from this weapon know how to hit
their mark. Target reduces his Dodge by -5 per
level, for the duration of the attack.
Ray: (15 CP per level,
Max: 4 levels)
The weapon fires or swings as a beam, mak-
ing it harder to Deflect. Target reduces his Deflect
by -5 per level, for the duration of the attack.
Rapid Attack: (20 CP per
level, Max: 5 levels)
This weapon was designed to fire or swing
rapidly, granting the ability to attack 1 extra time
(even at 1 extra target within range) per Combat
Action per level. Cannot be used simultaneously
with Charge (page 51).
Speeding up Combat
If the entire group has rapid at-
tack weapons, combat can get slightly
bogged down. To speed it up, attackers
should rolls all his attacks first and the
defender should then roll Dodge or De-
flect for each attack that hit. Only then
should the attacker roll damage for
each attack that got through.
Force Field: (20 CP
, Re-
quires Charge Upgrade)
When charged, this weapon creates a field
of energy to protect the user. If hit by an attack
while charging a weapon with Force Field, it re-
duces the Power Level of the attack equal to the
current Power Level of this weapon (including
the increase from Charge). Once the Force Field
has taken a number of hits equal to its Power
Level, it shuts down and the charge is lost. This
weapon can still be used to attack, but once it
does, the shield goes down as the charge is used.
Example: A Power Level 1 Force Field weapon,
when charged, would reduce the Power Level of
incoming attacks by 2. It could block that dam-
age twice before it shuts down and another Com-
bat Action must be taken to bring it back up.
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Shockwave: (10 CP per
level, Max: 3 levels)
This weapon hits everything 3 yards (per lev-
el) behind the target for 1/2 damage dealt to tar-
get before armor (rounded up).
Shred: (10 CP per level,
Max: 5 levels)
The weapon cuts deep and is more likely to
hit something vital. Targets hit by this weapon
reduce their CD Threshold by 1 per level for the
duration of the attack.
Drawbacks
Few weapons are perfect. Many weapons
have Drawbacks that limit their functions by
taking time to power up, being able to hold only
a limited amount of ammo, or drawing addition-
al power from the user himself. Drawbacks give
you Character Points that you can spend on that
weapon and that weapon only.
Attached: (+10 CP)
Choose another weapon you own. This
weapon is considered permanently attached
to the chosen weapon. If the chosen weapon is
dropped, lost, or destroyed then so is this one.
Full Power: (+15 CP)
This weapon can only use Enhancements
when it has been charged.
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Inaccurate: (+10 CP per
level, Max: 3 levels)
This weapon has trouble hitting its target.
When using this weapon, you suffer -10 penalty
to its corresponding Combat Skill per level.
Start Up: (+10 CP per lev-
el, Max: 3 levels)
This weapon needs time to build power and
cannot be used for one Combat Action, per lev-
el, after Initiative is rolled.
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Unwieldy: (+15 CP)
This weapon, either due to its size, bulk or
complexity, is harder to use. This weapon re-
quires both a General Action AND a Combat Ac-
tion to use.
Limited Ammo: (+5/+10/+15 CP)
This weapon can only be used a certain
number of times each combat. Use of the weap-
on in a Battle is limited to 12 attacks for +5 CP, 8
attacks for +10 CP or 4 attacks for +15 CP.
Core Drain: (+15 CP)
This weapon draws power from its user,
causing 1 Core damage (ignoring Core Armor)
each time it is fired.
Finishing
Touches
Now you just need to add the finishing touch-
es to your System Registry. This section helps
your character feel more alive, so to speak, and
should be easy enough to fill out, but below are
some tips to help you along the way. Once this
section is filled your character is complete!
Name
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If you are playing a Human or Cyborg, this
section should be easy. Naming standards hav-
en’t changed much over the last hundred years,
except names that were cool in the past are now
associated with the old.
Androids are usually given a human first
name with a surname based on the city or busi-
ness they were built in. Although not common,
some Androids have last names based on what
the android was built for. So, you might run into
a Joe Welder or Samantha Printer.
Transhumans can be a mixed bag of names.
Most take a new name with their new body, ei-
ther to signify their new life or because they
forgot their old one. Jay Newman only remem-
bered his first initial after his transfer.
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Creator
This can either be your parents, the organiza-
tion that built you, or the doctor who upgraded
you. Who you put down in this slot is who your
character feels best fits that role. Katrina, de-
spite having parents, feels her identity is more
in thanks to her surgeon then her parents.
Character Points
Earned/Spent
This is where you can keep track of how
many CP you have earned AFTER character cre-
ation. It’s good to keep track of these sorts of
things.
Date of Creation/Age
The current year is 2115, Androids have been
common since 2080, and Transhumans weren’t
really a thing before 2095.
Eye Color
Thanks to cybernetics, anyone can have a
large range of eye colors. Most androids (and
transhumans) have either solid-colored eye or
a single dot of color in the center of black eyes.
Humans and Cyborgs usually have more human
looking eyes, enhanced only with a new color, or
fully cybernetic eyes that look like an Androids.
Weight
Due to their artificial nature, Androids
(and Transhumans) tend to weigh more than
a human. Average weight for an Android is be-
tween 250-300 pounds. Cyborgs, having most-
ly artificial parts, can weigh between 200-250
pounds.
If your character has more than 5 levels of
Armor, increase weight by 50 pounds. If your
character uses the Behemoth Fighting Style, in-
crease weight by 50 pounds.
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“You want us to risk our lives to save some rich guy’s lunch?!”
“Katrina, calm down,” Keiji said from behind his desk, his eyes not leaving his data
screen.
“We aren’t just saving someone’s lunch,” George said, his arms crossed in front of his
blocky chest. “There are only a dozen free range ranches still operating in the world.”
Katrina flipped some hair out of her artificial eyes. “Yeah, selling steaks costing about
the same as my first car.”
“How much did cars cost three decades ago?” Jay immediately regretted his com-
ment. Katrina’s claws were tapping on Keiji’s desk. She hated anyone mentioning her real
age.
“You scratch it, you buy it.” Keji said, finally looking up. “And if you don’t want to go on
the job, then don’t.”
Katrina retracted her claws and put her hand on her hip. “Oh please! Jay here is too
green to be back up, and if George could handle this on his own, you wouldn’t have even
called me in here.”
Jay wanted to argue the point, but had trouble composing a suitable disagreement
to a truthful statement. George was ex-military, his 113 call number still stamped on his
shoulders and a plasma cannon on his back. He had twenty-five years of combat expe-
rience under his belt, while Jay had only been in his body less than three years.
Jay’s body wasn’t even built for combat or stealth or even speed. It was just an
off-the-rack blank he must have picked out for exactly that reason. He was great with a
computer though, even better than their boss, Keiji. That’s what he brought to the group.
Well, that and his little repair drone, which wasn’t that useful, but was programmed to
follow his every command. Jay still wonders if it was a gift or if it used to belong to some-
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Katrina, however, was a master of close range combat and, at least according to
Jay, Keiji, and her company psych profile, freaking insane. That was how it was written in
the file: “Freaking Insane.” Keiji always said any woman who went to a back alley surgeon
for a new face and six-inch claws was exactly the kind of crazy his team needed. He
wasn’t often wrong about things like that.
“Do you really think it’s going to be that dangerous?” Jay asked. “I mean, it’s just some
cattle rustlers.”
“Cattle rustlers who got in undetected through a thick concrete wall, a six-inch rein-
forced polycarbonate thermoplastic dome, and past over a dozen security drones with
gun mounts,” George read from the mission brief. “Whoever these people are, they are
very skilled at what they do. A group like this has to be armed.”
“So let’s hope we don’t actually have to fight them,” Keiji said as he stood up. “All we
are getting paid for is to guard the ranch for 24 hours while security gets upgraded.
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 sure it doesn’t happen to them.”
“Oh, is that all we’re doing?” Katrina asked, sarcastically. “Why didn’t you say so? I’ll be
sure to bring a book.”

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“Oh, come on,” Katrina shouted. “This is ridiculous.”

“Keiji told us it was going to be big,” Jay reminded her.
“No, a skyscraper is big. The Martian colony is big. Big is not descriptive enough for
this place.”
Cloaked Pastures was two-thousand square acres, surrounded by a ten-foot wall,
and covered by a translucent dome that reflected heat to keep the inside cool. The main
office was located just outside the southern walls next to the only entrance and Keiji and
George were inside, discussing the details while Jay and Katrina waited by the car.
“You actually ever try real beef?” Jay asked, trying to change the subject.
Katrina scoffed. “Yeah, number of years ago. I honestly can’t tell the difference from
the synthetic. You know what tastes great though? Real chocolate. That stuff is the defini-
tion of delicious.”
“Chocolate is overrated,” George said from the doorway. He started walking over with
a small box in his hands. “I’ve got your security tags for the sensors to register you as
employees.”
Katrina rolled her eyes. “No, you had a flavor data packet you downloaded from
some digital cook. I swear those flavors are off at least fifty percent of the time.” Katrina
retrieved her tag and attached it to her arm. “Jay here can tell you; he used to have taste
buds.”
Jay just chuckled quietly as he attached his tag.
“Really,” Katrina exclaimed in shock. “You can’t remember tastes!? Remind me never
to upgrade my mouth.”
“Keiji will be in behind us,” George said, “He’s taking the northwest quadrant, I’ve got
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southwest, Jay has northeast, and Katrina, you are in charge of-”
“I got it.” The main gate opened for her once it detected her tag and she strolled in.
George sighed and turned to Jay. “If anything happens, you tell Keiji immediately. He’ll
tell the rest of us and we’ll be there as fast as we can.”
Jay shrugged. “I know. It should be fine, right? Just 24 hours of looking at cows and we
get paid. Easy money.”
“No such thing,” George said before he entered the gate.

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Jay wondered what it used to be like to get tired. Sure he needed downtime like
everybody else, but he no longer needed to binge on caffeine and energy drinks so he
could write code for three days straight. He didn’t remember much of his former life,
but he could recall fond feelings for marathon hacking sessions. At 1:15am, he leaned
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 so his eyes weren’t much better than a humans at night, but there were plenty of lights
scattered around to make up the difference. Jay also had his Support Unit, Spark, flying
around his quadrant looking for anything out of the ordinary.
Jay’s thoughts strayed to Keiji. Sure he had a bunch of brain upgrades so he could
think faster, access cyberspace on the fly and even communicate over wireless connec-
tions, but he was still human.
“What is it, Jay?” Keiji’s voice rang inside of Jay’s mind.
“Wha-What’s going on?” Jay stammered.
“Did you contact me?” Keiji’s voice asked. “I got a beep from your location.”
“Oh!” Jay thought. “Sorry, no. I was just thinking and must have accidentally called you.”
Keiji laughed. “It happens. Especially on quiet missions like this. Is there anythi-”
“Uh, Keiji? You cut off there.”
Keiji’s voice returned loud and urgent. “George has something! Katrina and Jay get to
the southwest quadrant right now. Weapons primed!”
Jay took off running as fast as his legs could take him and commanded Spark to meet
him at the alert coordinates.
“George says it came up from the ground,” Keiji’s voice said in Jay’s mind. “He says
combat analysis registers two oversized drills, Power Level 2 with armor piercing. Ka-
trina, that means be careful.”
Jay was happy he wasn’t connected to Katrina. Her battle cries tended to be high-
pitched. As he ran he saw flashes of weapon fire ahead, and heard the large explosion of
George’s cannon as well. As the battle came into view, Jay could see a robot had erupted
from the ground looking like a quadruped construction drone with two arm drills on the
front and two large scoops on the back. The whole thing was the size of a bus, and Ka-
trina was already on top of it. George was a few yards away from it, his shoulder cannon
aimed at its bulk, while Keiji circled around it, his sub-machine gun in hand.
Jay reattached Spark as he drew his lightning gun. He wasn’t a great shot, but some-
thing that size was going to be hard to miss.
“I have its system registry analyzed,” Keiji announced to their minds. “It’s a Tunneler
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you recognize them.”

The characters appeared in his head, and Jay stopped dead in this tracks. He didn’t
know why he recognized the Hebrew letters and couldn’t remember where he had seen
them before. Most disturbingly of all, he couldn’t remember why the words filled his soul
with such fear.
“Emet Met,” he whispered.

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Rules and Combat
Before combat begins, you must determine
who gets to act first. This is called Initiative and
helps keep the chaos of combat on a manage-
able level. When combat beings, the GM should
call for Initiative rolls from everyone participat-
ing in the fight.
Initiative Rolls
For Initiative, you need to roll 1d10 and add
in the total value of your Increased Speed OR In-
creased Agility. If you have the Reflex Dash Up-
grade, double the value of your die roll before
adding your Increased Speed or Agility. This to-
tal value is your Initiative.
The person with the highest total Initiative
takes his turn first, followed by the second high-
est and so on. In case of a tie, the person with
the highest Increased Speed goes first. If still a
tie, the person with the highest Increased Agility
goes first.
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Fighting Styles
Once Initiative has been determined, but be-
fore beginning combat, everyone must declare
which Fighting Style Effect they are going to be
using. Once this is chosen, it cannot be changed
until combat is over.
Some Fighting Styles can change your Initia-
tive total. If this happens, take your new place in
the initiative order before the first turn begins.
Example: George, Katrina, Keiji and the Tun-
neler begin combat. Jay is too far away at this
point and will not get to roll for Initiative. George
rolls a 7, Katrina a 6, Keiji a 1 and the Tunneler
rolls a 10 and looks like it is going first. However
Keiji has Increased Speed 10, which gets added to
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his roll to place him right in front of the Tunnel-
er, while Katrina has Reflex Dash, which doubles
her Initiative rolls, giving her a total of 12 and the
highest Initiative.
Next everyone announces the Fighting Style
Effect they are using for this battle. Katrina is go-
ing to use Berserker Effect A, to get as many at-
tacks in as possible. The GM decides the Tunneller
is going to use Behemoth Effect B, so he doesn’t
waste such a high Initiative roll. George is going
to use Marksman Effect B, in case the Tunneler is
harder to hit then he thinks. Keiji could use De-
ceiver Effect A to automatically have the highest
Initiative, but decides Effect B will be more useful
for him.
The Initiative order is now set, with the order
being Katrina, the Tunneler, George then Keiji.
Actions and Time
Time outside of combat can be more fluid
and actions can flow together, but while in com-
bat, time is represented by Turns, Actions, and
Rounds.
Turns
In combat each character gets a Turn where
they are allowed to take Actions. Once the char-
acter has taken all their Actions their turn is over
and the character with the next lowest initiative
gets their turn.
Actions
On your character’s Turn, you have 3 Actions
you may take, in any order, with only a few lim-
itations. These are called your General Action,
Combat Action, and Instant Action.
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▶▶ General Action: Use this action for
non-combat tasks. You can make a Skill
roll, move up to your Speed, pick some-
thing up from the group, or even give an
inspiring speech. As long as it doesn’t
use a Combat Skill, or the Charge Up-
grade, you can do it as part of your Gen-
eral Action.
▶▶ Combat Action: This is your primary
Action for your Turn. You can take a sec-
ond General Action or you can now use a
Combat Skill. If you want to Attack, per-
form a Combat Analysis, or Charge your
weapon, this is the Action that lets you
do it.
▶▶ Instant Action: This Action takes so lit-
tle time, it basically happens instantly.
Shouting a couple of orders, taking a
quick look around, or dropping what you
are holding all happen in an Instant Ac-
tion.
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Rounds
When everyone has taken a turn and used
their actions, it is considered to be a Round.
Specifically, a Round is the period of time after
you take your Actions until it is your Turn again.
This usually takes 10 seconds.
Example: Because Katrina is a melee fighter,
she decides to use this Turn to get close enough
to hit her opponent. Her General Action is to move
closer, using Dash to double her normal Speed. For
her Combat Action, she is going to use her Increase
Jumping in order to leap onto the top of the Tunnel-
er, so she will always be within Melee range of it.
Keiji is next, and he uses his Combat Action to
roll Combat Analysis and determine the Tunneler’s
Physical Specs. He’s worried about becoming the
Tunneler’s target because he can’t take the kinds of
hits Katrina or George can. He uses his General Ac-
tion to start to move around his enemy. He also gets
another General Action thanks to Deceiver Effect B,
which he could save for later but he decides would
be best used to move again and get completely be-
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hind the Tunneler.
The Tunneler is next, and the GM decides it con-
tinues its primary mission. It takes two General Ac-
tions to use its shovel arms to corral cows into the
tunnel it made. It gets a total of four cows this Turn
(two per Action).
George is finally up and he also wants to get in
position. He uses his General Action to move, making
sure there are no cows between him and his target.
George then uses his Combat Action to Charge his
cannon. He plans to do a lot of damage next Turn.
Now that everyone has gone, it has been 1
Round for Katrina, so it is her Turn again.
Extended Actions
Sometimes you will try to do something that
takes longer than 1 Turn to accomplish. These are
called Extended Actions, and can be anything from
hacking a difficult computer, running as fast as
you can for long periods, or just lifting something
heavy so an ally can get through an opening.
Whenever the GM thinks something should
take longer to accomplish, he can declare it an
Extended Action and then determine how long
it takes by giving it a set number of actions. You
aren’t considered to have finished the task until
that many actions have gone by.
Example: Each round is 10 seconds. So, if the
GM says it takes 6 Extended Actions, then you can
use one action a turn to be done in a minute. Or
you can use both your General Action and Com-
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bat Action every Turn and be done in thirty sec-
onds (3 Turns). If you have three actions because
of a Fighting Style, you can dedicate your entire
turn and be done in twenty seconds (2 Turns).
You might end up in a situation where it’s
not how long something takes that’s important,
but how long you can keep doing it. These are
called Difficult Extended Actions. The GM still
sets a number of required actions, but this time
the player must succeed on a Skill roll every
time. If a roll fails, that action didn’t count to-
wards reaching the total, and you have to keep
going. For example, a high speed chase would
be a Difficult Extended Action because you have
to drive faster and better than the person you
are chasing.
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Rolling the Dice
Now that we know who is doing what
and when, it’s time to roll some dice. There are
two kinds of rolls to make in The Robotic Age
RPG, Opposed and Unopposed. Both require a
pair of percentile (d100) dice.
Unopposed Rolls
An Unopposed Roll happens when you are
trying to do something difficult and no one is try-
ing to, or is able to, stop you. Determine which
Skill (or Ability) you are using and then roll the
percentile (d100) dice. If your roll is less than or
equal to the value of the Skill, then the Action is
successful. Otherwise, it is considered a failure.
The most common kind of Unopposed Rolls
are General Skill rolls, like cooking a meal for
someone or repairing a damaged machine. They
are also used when there is a lack of opposition,
like using Stealth around someone without any
Increased Perception Abilities, or hacking into a
computer with no security programs.
Example: Keiji is using Combat Analysis on
the Tunneler’s Physical Specs. This is an Unop-
posed Roll using his Combat Analysis Skill of 45.
He rolls and gets a 20 on his Tens die and a 7 on
his Ones die, resulting in 27, just under his Skill
level. He is successful and now knows everything
listed in the Tunneler’s physical specs.
Opposed Rolls
An Opposed Roll is when you are trying to do
something that someone else can actively pre-
vent. Your roll is done is the same manner as an
Unopposed Roll, however, if you succeed then
your opponent rolls an appropriate Skill deter-
mined by the GM to try to stop you. If both rolls
are successful, the players compare their Skill
Levels and the character with the higher Level
wins. The most common kind of opposed rolls
will be during combat, Ranged/Melee vs Deflect/
Dodge, but it could also be Hacking vs Hacking
or Stealth vs Increased Perception. Ties go to
the defender. Note: Deflect and Dodge reduce
by 5 Levels with each use during a single Round.
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Example: It’s Katrina’s turn and she is still
on top of the Tunneler. With the rapid attack on
her claws she is allowed to make 2 attacks with
one Combat Action. She rolls her Melee Skill of 45,
and gets a 21 and a 07, succeeding both times.
The Tunneler, despite its bulk, does have a Deflect
Skill of 35. The GM rolls an 86 and a 30, failing one
roll and succeeding at the other. Then they com-
pare their levels and Katrina’s Melee 45 vs. Tun-
neler’s Deflect 35, means her second attack was
also a success.
Modifiers
No roll is made in a vacuum, and there are
often factors to make your Action harder or eas-
ier. Trying to fire a long range shot in a heavy
storm, making a Melee attack in pure darkness
or discerning the password to a protected file
are all examples that add modifiers to a roll.
Modifiers add or subtract an amount from
the characters Skill level determined by the
GM. Small distractions or minor fortune should
only create modifiers of -5 or +5, respectively.
But modifiers can go all the way to +/- 15 if the
situation fits. Firing a gun from a moving car
could impose a -10 to the attacker’s Skill lev-
el, while firing a gun from on top of a car that’s
racing through downtown would give the full
-15 to the attacker’s Skill. You may get a +10 to
your Stealth Skill if you are hiding in fog or a full
+15 to your Stealth Skill by moving only in pure
darkness with enough Increased Perception so
you don’t bump into anything. These values are
determined by the GM and how helpful or harm-
ful he thinks the situation is.
Example: On George’s turn, his canon is now
fully charged and ready to fire. However, the GM
has determined poor lighting on the ranch gives
him a -5 modifier to his roll. George’s Ranged Skill
is now 45, instead of 50. It isn’t a big modifier,
but right now George is wishing he had used the
Marksman - Effect A of his Fighting Style.
Rule of Cool
So you are playing an awesome robotic
character with a cool weapon of mass destruc-
tion, but can you be rewarded for doing cool
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things? Yes! The Rule of Cool states that the GM
can award bonuses to your rolls depending on
how cool you describe your action or how excit-
ing the outcome will be. These bonuses should
be small, only +5 if it sounds fun to a max of
+10 if the entire group cracks up laughing. This
helps reward and encourage players to use their
Abilities and Upgrades in unorthodox ways
and heightens the enjoyment for everyone. Of
course, this is optional and the GM may choose
to ignore this rule.
ACTUAL PLAYTEST EXAMPLES:
An android character earned a +5 bonus for
using her All Surface Movement upgrade to run
up a wall and ceiling so she was directly above
her target, then falling onto her target as part of
a hammer attack.
A cyborg character got a +10 bonus on his
grapple check for trying to grapple someone out
of a 50 story window.
When NOT to Roll
Don’t let the previous sections make you
think you have to roll for every little thing. There
are times when you don’t have to roll or won’t
be able to roll. If a character is trying to do some-
thing while under no pressure to get it done,
from either a time limit or threat of an outside
force, then he doesn’t have to roll.
For example, someone singing to them-
selves wouldn’t have to roll, but would if they
were singing to impress a group. Someone try-
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ing to wire explosives won’t have to roll if he has
all weekend to get it done, but would if he only
has 30 seconds.
Dodge and Deflect
Dodge and Deflect rolls require a special
mention. These Combat Skills are some of the
most rolled, usable to avoid attacks or even
traps, but they cannot be used endlessly. Mus-
cles tire, senses dull, and electronics overheat.
After each use of Dodge or Deflect, it suffer
a cumulative -5 modifier until your next Turn.
That means your second Dodge or Deflect will
be at -5, your third at -10, your fourth at -15, and
so on until your Turn starts again.
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But if the enemy starts to gang up on you,
not all is lost. Dodge and Deflect, unlike other
Skills, can never be reduced below 5. So, no
matter how many attacks come your way, you
always have a chance to avoid them.
Example: George’s attack is a success! The
Tunneler needs to Dodge or Deflect his attack or
take a big hit. However, because it has already
used Deflect twice trying to stop Katrina, it suffers
-10 to his Deflect. Even worse, a charged attack
automatically impose a -10 modifier to Dodge
and Deflect, giving the Tunneler a total modifier
of -20! With its Deflect Skill now only 15, and with
no Dodge Skill to fall back on, it’s going to have a
hard time stopping that.
half of the total damage rolled. That’s 9 damage,
but it gets reduced by her Structure Armor of 2.
She takes only 7 damage from the blast, but she
will be sure to tell George to turn off his Enhance-
ments next time he thinks about firing that thing
near her.
Vital Hit
While rolling your damage, a Power Level die
that rolls a 10 means you have landed a Vital Hit.
Every time you score a vital hit you may roll an
extra 1d10 to add to the total damage dealt, but
these bonus dice CANNOT themselves score Vi-
tal Hits.
Example: Jay fires his lightning rifle and hits.
With Power Level 2, he rolls a 5 and a 10. Vital Hit!
He then rolls a third die which also gets a 10. It’s a

Damage
By now you know how to hit someone and
lot of damage, but cannot gain another Vital Hit
from a bonus die. Jay’s total damage is 25.

how to avoid being hit. If this were a game of

tag, that would be all you need to know, but this
is a game of cyborgs with rocket launchers fight-
ing androids with energy blades. So, you need
to know how to deal real damage.
Damage in this game is measured in Power
Levels and each Power Level represents 1d10
worth of structure damage, unless otherwise
noted. Sometimes you may get bonuses to
damage, like using Increased Strength with
a Melee weapon, but these are added in
after all Power Levels have been rolled.
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Once the total damage has been calcu-

lated, you then reduce it by a number
equal to the target’s Armor value.
Example: George’s canon blast hits
the Tunneler, who fails his Deflect roll.
George’s canon is normally only Power Level 3,
but is now Power Level 4 and Blast lv 2 because
he charged it. He rolls 4d10 and gets a 5, 2, 4,
and a 7 for a total of 18 Structural damage.
The Tunneler has 1 level of Structure Armor,
so he reduces the total from 18 to 17, and
marks the damage on his sheet.
Unfortunately, George was too eager
with the shot, and forgot Katrina was on the
Tunneler’s back. She is well within the attacks
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Fire Fall Distance Fall Distance Power
Sometimes things just start to catch fire. (Human) Level
Fires have a static Power Level equal to its size, 10 yards 3 yards 1
described below. If you stand, move through, 15 yards 6 yards 2
or otherwise touch fire, it does its Power Level 20 yards 9 yards 3
worth of damage to you. Fire damage caused
25 yards 12 yards 4
this way ignores Structure Armor, but can be ne-
gated with the Fire Protection Upgrade. 30 yards 15 yards 5

Fire Size Power Catastrophic Damage

Level Although generally tougher than humans,
A torch or waste 1 those with artificially enhanced bodies can still
basket-sized take a large enough hit to shake some import-
A door or otherwise 2 ant things loose. This is called Catastrophic
human-sized Damage and really hinders you when it hap-
A motorcycle or 3 pens. You might have seen earlier that you have
otherwise horse-sized a Catastrophic Damage Threshold of 20. This is
universal and can only be increased by taking
A small car or a small 4 Increased Durability.
bedroom If you take damage from any source that ex-
A truck or several 5 ceeds your CD Threshold after armor is applied,
rooms in size then you suffer Catastrophic Damage. When this
A small house or 6 happens, pick one of the categories below and
forest fire fill in the check box. That system is now broken
and needs to be repaired. If this damage was
caused by a Called Shot (page 67), then the at-
Falling tacker gets to choose which category is dam-
Gravity is the double-edged sword that af- aged.
fects everything on the planet, and no one
wants to find themselves in mid-air without any ▶▶ Ability: Choose one ability, and the bonus-
means of flight. Falling usually happens when es it gives are now unusable until fixed.
you are knocked or thrown off of something.
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You are considered to hit the ground in the same
Round you fell. If you fell for more than the 10
seconds that are in each Round, you would be
falling at least 500 yards. At that point, it’s safe
to consider your character Structure Dead (or
just dead, if human). If they fall for longer than
2 rounds, consider your character Core Dead on
impact (or a thick paste, if human).
The amount of damage you take from falling
depends on 2 factors: How far you fell, and if you
are human. Falling damage is reduced by armor.
cannot be used until it is fixed.
▶▶ Weapon Power Level: Chose one weap-
on, and its Power Level is reduced by 1
(to a min of 0) until it is fixed.
▶▶ Weapon Range: Chose one weapon, and
its range is cut in half (rounded up) until
it is fixed.
▶▶ Weapon Enhancements: Chose one
weapon, and its Enhancements are all
reduced to level 1 if they were higher, or
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▶▶ Baseline Speed: Reduce baseline Speed
(before Abilities) in half until fixed.
▶▶ Baseline Lifting: Reduce baseline Lifting
(before Abilities) in half, until fixed.
▶▶ Baseline Jumping: Reduce baseline Ver-
tical and Horizontal Jumps (before Abili-
ties) in half, until fixed.
▶▶ Baseline Perception: Any rolls that re-
quire sight suffer a -10 modifier until
fixed. Also, stealth tests made against
you gain a +10 modifier.
▶▶ Baseline Agility: Until this is fixed, any
damage taken causes you to make an
Increased Agility roll. If you fail you lose
balance and fall to the ground. A General
Action is required to stand back up, and
others get a +5 modifier to hit you while
you are down.
All Catastrophic Damage is gone once the
character is healed by a Repair or First Aid roll.
If something needs to be fixed sooner, you may
use Repair/First Aid as a Combat Action. If this
succeeds, no Structure or Core is healed, but a
single damaged system is repaired.
Damaging Equipment
Sometimes it’s not a person you want to
break, but an object. From doors to guns, ev-
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erything has a Structure value and everything
can be broken. Weapons of military quality have
25 Structure and can be damaged by a Called
Shot. When a weapon runs out of structure, it
suffers Catastrophic Damage to its Power Level,
and any damage taken after that automatically
causes Catastrophic Damage to its range and
then its Enhancements.
For other objects, Structure is based entirely
on how sturdy it is built. When determining how
much structure to give something, reference the
chart below to figure out the best value. When an
object’s structure reaches zero, it is destroyed.
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Object Structure
Glass Window, Tires 5
Wooden Door, Hand Cuffs 10
Stone Pillar, Large Boulder 20
Truck Engine 35
Steel Door, Concrete wall 40
Reinforced Titanium Security 60
Shutters
Healing
This is one area where humans come out
ahead. Although artificial skin can heal itself,
wires and servos cannot.
▶▶ Human characters naturally heal 5 Core
for every day of bed rest or 1 Core for ev-
ery day of normal activity.
▶▶ Cyborgs, still being partially human, can
heal Structure at the same rate, but only
to a maximum of 20 Structure. Every-
thing beyond that has to be repaired, as
does their Core damage.
▶▶ Androids and Transhumans, however, are
not so lucky. Their artificial skin stitches
itself back together within 2 hours, mak-
ing them look healthy, but it only heals a
max of 5 Structure. The only true way to
heal a Cyborg, Android or Transhuman is
via the Repair Skill.
Death
When a character’s Structure or Core reach-
es zero, the character suffers a form of death. For
Humans, this should be self-explanatory, but for
Androids, Transhumans, and Cyborgs, there are
two types of death.
Structure Death
When a character’s Structure reaches zero,
he suffers Structure Death. His body has taken
too much stress and snaps, breaks, bends, rup-
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lic fluid spills like blood, and the body crumples
onto the ground.
Your structure cannot be repaired after you
suffer Structure Death. You lose all Upgrades,
Abilities, and Armors when you suffer Structure
Death, as they are destroyed with you.
However, you can still be saved yet! Your
personality, your memories, and perhaps even
your very soul are all stored in your Core. If it can
be retrieved, usually with a Mechanics roll, it can
be placed in a new body.
Core Death
When a character’s Core reaches zero, he suf-
fers Core Death -- the truest of deaths. As your
core leaks coolant and starts losing power, your
mind fades and is eventually erased. All memo-
ries, all your Quirks, everything that makes you
an individual is deleted as your core dies and
your body locks up.
Your Core cannot be repaired after suffering
Core Death. You lose all Combat Skills, Skills,
Quirks and Fighting Styles.
However, you can still be of some use. As
long as you haven’t also suffered Structure
Death then your body is intact, if not probably
very injured. Someone else’s core can be placed
inside it and they can live anew in your old body.
Think of it as being an organ donor.
Special
Combat Actions
Aiming
An extra second to line up an attack can turn
a miss into a hit. Your character, as a General Ac-
tion, can take extra time to make sure his attack
strikes where he needs it. When you Aim, your
next Combat Action gains a +10 modifier to your
Ranged, Melee and Unarmed Combat Skills.
This bonus must be used before the end of your
Turn or it is lost.
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Double Aiming
Some Fighting Styles will allow your
character to have extra Actions, which
makes it possible to aim with two Ac-
tions and attack with the third. This
gives you a total of +20 to your Combat
Skills until the end of your next Turn.
However, you should weigh the conse-
quences of losing that extra Action.
Called Shots
A Called Shot is when you voluntarily take
a negative modifier on your attack roll in order
to hit a specific part of your enemy. Called shots
can generally be divided into two categories:
Tricky and Pinpoint. Ultimately, it’s the GM’s call
on which kind of Called Shot is required for what
you want to do.
▶▶ A Tricky Called Shot gives a -10 modifier,
but allows you to bypass hand-held shields
or hit exposed Exosuits and Exosuit pilots.
▶▶ A Pinpoint Called Shot gives a -15 modifier,
but allows you to hit smaller things, like a
held weapon or a camera nestled in armor.
Attack of Last Resort
It is possible to find yourself without a weap-
on, surrounded by enemies with no way to es-
cape. At any time, even if you haven’t bought
an unarmed weapon, you can still punch, kick
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and head-butt. These are called Attacks of Last
Resort and they are considered to have a Pow-
er Level of 0.5 (aka 1d5). You still add your In-
creased Strength bonus to the damage of At-
tacks of Last Resort.
Grappling
If you need to hold someone down, then it’s
time for a Grappling roll. To Grapple someone,
just roll an Unarmed attack roll with a -5 modifi-
er. The defender is allowed to try to Dodge, but
cannot Deflect his kind of attack. If the attacker
wins, the two are now grappling. Neither may
Dodge or Deflect, move from their current posi-
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tion, or attack anyone other than their grappling
partner. The attacker, however, loses 1 Power Object Weight Dodge/Deflect Power
Level due to the awkward nature of attacks. Modifier Level
On the defender’s turn, he may attempt to
50-100 lbs -0 1
break free as a General Action. Both grapplers
roll 1d10, plus 1d10 for every 10 points of In- 101-200 lbs -5 2
creased Strength they have. If the defender wins 201-350 lbs -10 3
or ties, he breaks free. 351-500 lbs -15 4
The attacker may choose to release his tar- 501- 650 lbs -20 5
get as a General Action, attack him with the 651-800 lbs -25 6
above restrictions, or may attempt to throw him
801-1000 lbs -30 7
as his Combat Action.
You may add any bonus damage from In-
Throwing creased Strength into its damage roll. If the at-
When you are so mad you want to throw a tack hits, both your target and the object thrown
manhole cover at somebody, this is how you do takes the amount of damage rolled. If your at-
it. You can throw objects with a weighs up to half tack misses, only the thrown object takes the
of what you can lift normally. Throwing is an Un- damage.
armed combat roll and have a range of 10 yards.
Your target suffers a negative modifier to Dodge/
Deflect the object’s Power Level is determined
by how heavy the object is.
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Corruption
Corruption in your programming can cause
unexpected errors and even cause a crash. Now,
if that program is a highly advanced and self-
aware, very bad things can happen when he
goes off-kilter.
No matter if your mind is organic or artifi-
cial, Corruption can manifest from emotion-
al trauma. Stress, regrets, and mistakes can
weigh heavy on a character’s mind, poisoning
thoughts and conflicting with programming. If
the weight gets too heavy then the mind snaps,
and you hope that mind wasn’t attached to any
high powered weaponry.
Increasing
Corruption Value
As you play, your character makes some very
tough decisions and must live with the conse-
quences. When your character does something
he may regret later, mark one or more boxes in the
Corruption Value bar. How many boxes marked
depends on the severity of the action and is ulti-
mately up to the GM, but below is a guide to the
most common ways to gain Corruption.
▶▶ Injuring an ally or civilian (1 box): Ei-
ther because of a stray shot or forgetting
your weapon has the Blast Enhance-
ment, you injured someone you didn’t
mean to.
▶▶ Causing Core Death of an enemy when
you have no choice (2 boxes): You tell
yourself he just wouldn’t stop, that you
had no choice, that there was no other
way. Part of you believes it.
▶▶ Failing an ally or loved one (2 to 4 box-
es): When they needed you most, you
weren’t there. If you’re lucky, they are
still alive to rub your nose in it.
▶▶ Torture (3 boxes): They had something
you needed, so you did what you had to
do. The fact they are still alive is proba-
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▶▶ Suffering Structure Death (4 boxes): You
were brought to the edge of the abyss and sur-
vived. Your body may have been repaired, but
your Core still remembers what it’s like to die.
▶▶ Causing Core Death of an enemy when
not necessary (4 boxes): He was down,
he had surrendered, or he was just no
longer a threat, and you used that op-
portunity to end him.
▶▶ Causing Core Death of an ally or civil-
ian (4 boxes): Maybe you didn’t realize
your attack would do that much dam-
age. Maybe you didn’t realize how in-
jured they really were. It doesn’t really
change what happened.
Effects of Corruption
As Corruption increases, your personality
changes ever so slightly. You start taking more
risks, become short tempered or may even stop
caring what other people think of your actions
or their consequences.
Your Corruption Value is divided into three
10-box segments, each a different stage of Cor-
ruption. Each Stage represents a greater burden
for the mind or programming to deal with, but
also come with a unique benefit. After all, it pays
to be a sociopath sometimes.
Stage 0 - aka Uncorrupted
(10 or less marked boxes)
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Everyone starts in this Stage. This doesn’t
mean you are innocent or devoid of regrets, they
just aren’t enough to keep you up at night.
Stage 1
(11 to 20 marked boxes)
You’ve made some mistakes, but you strive
to be better so these kinds of things never hap-
pen again. When you reach this stage, add Stage
1 to your list of Quirks. This Quirk gives the fol-
lowing benefit:
When rolling damage, you may take 1
point of Core damage (ignoring Armor) to
reroll 1 Power Level die. Each die may only
be rerolled once.
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Stage 2
(21 and 30 marked boxes)
You’ve done some things, horrible things.
From that pain, however, you draw the strength
to achieve things you wouldn’t normally think
possible. When you reach this stage add Stage 2
to your list of Quirks. This Quirk gives the follow-
ing benefit:
When your Skill roll is two of the
same number (11, 22, 33, etc), your
roll automatically succeeds even if it
wouldn’t normally. However, you also
instantly suffer 5 Core damage which
ignores Armor.
Stage 3 - aka Corrupted
(more than 30 boxes)
That was all your mind could take, the flood
gates are open, and the crazy is out. Just hope
you don’t wake up in a bed full of severed heads
when you regain your senses.
Two words: Mental Breakdown. You and
your GM should discuss how exactly this man-
ifests, as it varies from person to person based
on their individual Quirks and personality. A shy
character may lock himself in his room, not even
leaving for food. A trigger happy character may
shoot the next person who bumps into him, no
matter who it is. A paranoid character may start
taking himself apart trying to find what “they”
implanted in him.
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Larry the Cyborg, however, loves his bombs
and brought a building down on an enemy’s head.
Unfortunately, there were 5 civilians in that build-
ing, netting him an instant +20 Corruption levels,
bringing him up to 40. His mental breakdown will
last for 10 days before he recovers and removes 5
Corruption. However, that still puts him at 35 Cor-
ruption, so he relapses for another 5 days.
Removing Corruption
Removing corruption is easy: just relax. Ex-
tended periods of downtime spent meditating
or volunteering your time to a worthy cause can
ease a troubled mind. Just getting your mind off
your troubles can help to make them fade. For
every week spent without a combat encounter
or major stress, you may reduce your Corruption
value by 5.
However, some things cannot be forgotten
no matter how much rest and downtime you
get. Your Corruption Value can never be reduced
below Stage 1, unless you are still below Stage 1,
and you keep any Quirks you gained from being
Corrupted.

You do not increase your corruption value

while you are suffering from a mental break-
down. This state lasts for a number of days equal
to how much your Corruption Value exceeds 30.
At the end of that period, if you survived, reduce
your Corruption by 5 and add Corrupted to your
list of Quirks. If for some reason, after you re-
cover, your Corruption is still over 30 then you
relapse and have a second, but thankfully short-
er, mental breakdown. At the end of that period
of time, reduce your corruption level by 5 and
check if you relapse again.
Example: Garry the Android is a bit trigger hap-
py and just reached a corruption value of 34. His
mental breakdown will last 4 days before he comes
to his senses. If he survives that 4 day period, he re-
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Exosuits
Exosuits are robotic exoskeletons that fit
over a human operator like a suit of armor. While
wearing an exosuit, a human is able to lift hun-
dreds of pounds without effort and run as fast
as a car. Developed by the American military in
the 2020s, exosuits were originally used to haul
heavy or dangerous equipment. With a skilled
operator, one exosuit was able to do the job of
five soldiers in half the time. During the New Civ-
il War, exosuits were given stronger armor and
heavier weapons, turning their operators into
walking tanks. They provide many benefits to its
wearer, such as extra Structure and Core, higher
Abilities, and are able to take core draining Up-
grades.
Use of exosuits declined in favor of drones
and support units over time. Exosuit technology
was sold to construction, shipping companies
and hospitals to help restore mobility to those
in need. Ironically, their resurgence didn’t come
until after the rise of androids, primarily to bring
humans on par with their mechanical peers
without requiring dangerous surgery. Some sim-
ply prefer a job be done by a human than a sup-
port unit or android.
The standard exosuit design clamps over the
torso, lower legs, and lower arms, while combat
suits include a helmet to further protect the op-
erator. Variants are common and many people
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customize their exosuits for maximum perfor-
mance or to fit their personalities. Due to the
extra bulk added to the wearer, exosuits add 200
pounds onto the wearer and cannot fit through
single doorways.
Exosuits are usable by anyone and require
no special Skills to utilize. Depending on the
model, the operator can control the exosuit with
buttons inside their gloves, a voice command
module, or a cybernetic implant allowing direct
connect to the operator’s nervous system. Once
an operator is used to the control method, work-
ing an exosuit can feel as natural as moving their
own arms.
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Exosuit Baseline
Exosuits have 50 Structure and 50 Core.
These are tracked separately and are not added
to your own. Although it doesn’t come with any,
Abilities for an Exosuit have a higher max then a
standard character. An Exosuit may buy Abilities
up to Level 86 rather than the standard 66. While
wearing an Exosuit, the wearer may use any of
its Abilities and Upgrades normally, but Abilities
do not stack with the characters. You get either
your own Abilities or the Exosuits (whichever is
higher).
While wearing an Exosuit, your baseline is
considered the same as an Android if it wasn’t
already. This also applies to Falling Damage.
Due to its bulk and different center of gravity,
however, you cannot use Fighting Styles while
wearing an Exosuit.
Example: Keiji finally has enough CP to buy
an Exosuit. Just by putting it on, he can now lift
as much and jump as far as other members of his
team. He also receives Structure to make him less
vulnerable in combat, but he can no longer use
his Deceiver Fighting Style.
Damaging an Exosuit
When you take damage in an Exosuit, you
can choose whether or not to let the Exosuit take
the damage for you (after you are hit, but before
rolling damage). If the Exosuit is chosen, it takes
all the damage rolled, of course reduced by any
armor it may have. Watch out though, your ene-
my can make a Called Shot to target you or your
Exosuit specifically, taking away your choice of
how damage is taken.
If your Exosuit loses all its Structure or Core,
it shuts down. A broken Exosuit requires a Com-
bat Action to take off, and you cannot move or
Dodge while wearing a broken Exosuit.
Improving an Exosuit
You may buy Armor, Abilities and Upgrades
as normal to improve your Exosuit. Because it
has its own Core, you may even buy Upgrades
with Core Drain, applied to the Exosuit’s Core
rather than your own.
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Briar Exosuit Hermes Exosuit

(Cost 120 CP) (Cost 95 CP)
This military exosuit is built to protect its Built with wheels and jump jets, this kind of
operator from sustained fire while also granting Exosuit is considered street legal in some coun-
him enhanced abilities across the board. tries.
Structure 50, Core 50 Structure 50, Core 50
Armor: Structure Armor 2 Abilities: Increased Speed 60

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Abilities: Increased Strength 20, Increased Upgrades: Dash, Reflex Dash, Jump Dash
Speed 20, Increased Durability 20, Increased
Perception 40 Thunderbird Exosuit
(cost 80 CP)
Cargo Loader Exosuit This personal flight suit is insulated to pro-
(Cost 95 CP) tect the user from lightning strikes while flying.
This Exosuit was built specifically for lifting Structure 50, Core 40
and carrying heavy cargo, and is popular with Upgrades: Unlimited Flight, Electricity Pro-
colonists on Mars. With its high level of Increased tection 1
Strength, it hits like a truck.
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Support Units
Support units are the next innovative step from
the unmanned drones of the 21st century. These
are robots with very limited artificial intelligence
that can interpret and follow orders without fear
of the unit becoming aware like an android. Sup-
port units are extremely common in the 21st cen-
tury and are present in just about every industry,
from building cars to cleaning houses to even war-
fare. Cleaning units are cheap enough for house-
holds to afford, traffic units can regulate traffic in
real time, and garbage units float around major
cities collecting litter. Support units are built in al-
most every shape and can look like giant insects
or walking tanks or robotic pets or even small me-
tallic humanoids.
Almost everyone in the 21st has owned a sup-
port unit in their lifetime, even if it was just a simple
robo-pet. Support units are so popular they come
pre-installed with cyberspace software, allowing
the unit to virtually aid its master as well. Some in
the android community question if using support
units is morally right, considering their own servi-
tude in the past. Many feel it is no different from
a human owning a dog, but not everyone agrees.
Support units can be used both as emergency
security and makeshift assassins, prompting some
debate over their regulation. However, because
of their countless non-combat uses, support unit
laws remain lax throughout the world. In combat
situations support units are valuable assets that
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can act as spotters, fire support, and field medics.
They are programmed to follow all orders given
by a specific person, or a small group, to the best
of its abilities and can receive voice commands or
orders through wireless communication at almost
any range. Some androids even modify their own
body so their support unit can attach to them and
become like another limb under their direct con-
trol.
Support Unit Baseline
Support Units are built to have 50 Structure
Core, and an Android’s baseline. Because of their
specialized nature, they start with one Combat
Skill at 40 and the rest at 0, but do not have a
Fighting Style due to their simplified AI.
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Improving Support Units
The owner of a Support Unit may spend CP to
buy Abilities, Armor, Upgrades, Skills, Weapons,
and improve Combat Skills just like any other
character. Support Unit’s start with 20 CP to im-
mediately spend on their original functions.
Support Units in Combat
Support Units get their own Turn during com-
bat and can use Actions at the owner’s discretion. It
acts on the same Initiative as the owner, taking its
Actions either right before or right after its owner.
Support Units take damage normally and shut
down when their Structure or Core reaches zero.
However, due to their lack of sentience and simpli-
fied AI, they cannot suffer Core Death and are good
as new once repaired.
J.E.D. 902 Support Unit
(Cost 85 CP)
The Judicial Enforcement Drone is used by
law enforcement to deter criminals, break riots
and subdue extremely dangerous targets. Al-
though going through numerous revisions over
the years, the 902 stands on tall legs to be taller
than crowds and is armed with twin gatling guns
to encourage criminal compliance.
Structure 50, Core 50
Combat: Ranged 40
Upgrades: Energy Scanner, Point Blank
Weapons: Twin Gatling Guns (Neutral Ele-
ment, Range 10 yards, Power Level 2, Rapid At-
tack 1)
Familiar Support Unit
(Cost 80 CP)
Familiar is a custom built attack dog based
on the more common household canine Sup-
port Units. With its sleek and armored design,
Familiar follows its master into battle with a bite
strong enough to punch through steel.
Structure 50, Core 50
Combat: Unarmed 40, Dodge 40
Abilities: Increased Speed 20
Upgrades: Dash
Weapon: Bite (Metal Element, Power Level
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Cyberspace
As the Internet grew and evolved, it seemed to
take on physical properties of its own. Soon, the
Internet covered the world like a thick fog through
wireless internet and brain nodes. Now known col-
lectively as Cyberspace, the Internet can be seen
and visited as if it were an alternate reality. Some
people prefer to spend their time in Cyberspace,
where they feel they can truly be themselves, rath-
er than the Meatspace that is the real world.
Though there are plenty of devices that can
be used to skim cyberspace for information at
any time from almost anywhere, you must con-
nect to Cyberspace directly to truly experience
it. This feature is built into every artificial brain,
allowing Androids and Transhumans to log on
from anywhere, but Humans and Cyborgs must
find ports for them to connect. Connection
ports are very common, with many stores offer-
ing them as a courtesy to paying customers. Of
course, there are those who get brain surgery
just so they can have a wireless connection with
them at all times.
Properties of Cyberspace
Cyberspace is huge, often cited as a ful-
ly digital reality. You can do some shopping,
learn about history, visit amazing places peo-
ple have built from scratch, play some games
on the same trip, and walk around in a body of
your choosing. With so many options, is it any
wonder the number of people who spend all
day plugged in? The human brain, despite its
complexity, is unable to process the entirety of
cyberspace, which is vast, full of information
and almost always changing. It easily creates a
sensory overload to any human brain trying to
connect directly.
The first attempt to upload a human brain
into cyberspace was in 2098. The test subject,
whose name was never released, was said to
have gone crazy and tried to murder everyone
around him. When unplugged, his body fell into
a coma from which he never recovered. A few
years later, when technology advanced, they
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tried again and that person fell into a coma
within minutes. The third went comatose in a
matter of seconds. Since then, Humans and Cy-
borgs have needed special avatars in order to
safely explore the entirety of cyberspace.
Avatars
Avatars can be seen as suits you wear to pro-
tect you from cyberspace. They can restrict your
movement, but they protect your mind from
damage and unexpected dangers that may arise.
Every time a Human or Cyborg logs into cyber-
space, they are asked to choose an avatar they
have already created or to create a new one.
When you create an Avatar, first pick one of
the base templates listed below and then you
get a bonus +40 CP to personalize it and you get
to choose its appearance from either your own
personal files or from the tens of thousands
available on the digital market.
When using an Avatar, you use everything giv-
en by the avatar as if it were your own. You keep
your own General Skills, Combat Skills, Fighting
Style, and Quirks, but cannot use anything else
of your original character. If the campaign takes
place often or entirely in cyberspace, the GM
may allow his players to spend any Character
Points they earn on improving their avatars.
The avatar, however, may look however you
like. Some people make theirs show what they
consider to be their true self, while others may
wish to be an idealized version of what they al-
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ready look like. The choice is up to the user.
Speed Searcher
100 Core capacity
Abilities: Increased Speed 35
Weapon: Fast Hands (Neutral Element,
Range 0, Power Level 2, Homing 2)
Pro Gamer
100 Core capacity
Abilities: Increased Jumping 20
Weapons: Side Arm (Neutral element, Range
10 yards, Power Level 1, Rapid Attack 1), Knife
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Digital Security
100 Core capacity
Abilities: Increased Durability 30
Weapons: Combat Shield (Fire element,
range 0, Power Level 2, Shred 2)
Forum Lurker
100 Core capacity
Abilities: Increased Perception 40
Weapons: Tag Rifle (Electricity Element,
Range 15 yards, Power Level 2, Ray 1)
Active Archivist
100 Core capacity
Abilities: Increased Strength 35
Weapons: Prodding Rod (Ice Element, Range
1 yard, Power Level 2)
Damage and
Other Rule Changes
Cyberspace is a separate place and has dif-
ferent rules then the real world.
▶▶ Damage: As there is no physical structure in
cyberspace all damage is done to Core and
reduced by Core Armor. Enhancements or
Elements that normally do damage to Core
in the real world, now do damage to Struc-
ture instead in the form of feedback traveling
through cyberspace and affecting the real
body with shocks or spasms. Only Androids,
Transhumans, and those using Personal Ava-
tars need worry about this, as regular avatars
act as enough of a buffer between the user
and cyberspace to prevent this.
▶▶ Falling: All falling distances are doubled in
cyberspace.
▶▶ Weapon Type: All Weapons in cyberspace
automatically become Energy type weap-
ons, even if they weren’t in the real world.
Because of this, Metal, Explosive, and Fluid
Elements do not exist in cyberspace.
▶▶ Logging Out: If your avatar is reduced to
zero or fewer Core, you are forcibly logged
out of cyberspace. It takes the network
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1 hour to reconfigure your avatar for use
again. You can, however, switch to a new
avatar during that time.
▶▶ Your Body: While logged into cyberspace,
your real body stands or sits in the position
you were in until you log back out, as if fro-
zen in time. You are unaware of anything
happening around your physical body
during this time, however if you are injured
you can feel it in cyberspace. It takes a Com-
bat Action to log out of cyberspace.
▶▶ Healing: Damage cannot be healed normal-
ly in cyberspace. Everyone’s avatars return
to full Core anytime they are logged out or at
midnight, local server time, every day.
Personalized Avatars
Androids, Transhumans, and anyone with the
Personalized Avatar Upgrade do not use the ava-
tar rules as they were stated above. Their avatars
are completely personalized and work like their
real bodies. You can even personalize your ap-
pearance, just like a regular avatar.
When in cyberspace, Androids, Transhumans
and those with the Personalized Avatar get an
avatar exactly like your real body. You get to use
digital version of your Weapons, Exosuits and
Support Units, and everything else that makes
you, you. Any Physical Type weapons become En-
ergy for your avatar, and you lose any Elements
that are Physical only.
All Personalized avatars have 100 Core, even
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when used by a human. A user with a Personal-
ized Avatar cannot use standard avatars.
Personalized avatars do not automatically
log off if their core damage reaches capacity but
require the user to choose to log off as an Instant
Action. If the user decides to stay logged in then
all damage they take from then on will go to their
Core instead. This allows the user to remain in cy-
berspace even when under heavy fire, but as risk
to their own Core.
The Digital Landscape
Cyberspace is different enough to feel unnerv-
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in just fine. There is no sky, at least not in the tra-
ditional sense. If you look up while in cyberspace
you will see a black void, usually filled with float-
ing ads based on your location or browsing his-
tory. These ads are personalized for you and only
you can see them.
When you get a domain in cyberspace, it is
represented by a plot of cyber land. The bigger
the domain, the bigger the plot. This leads to large
online retailers represented by gigantic buildings
and structures that sprawl over their domain
while smaller businesses cram into much smaller
plots. Informational domains tend to be shaped
like libraries or giant television arrays, and online
games are held in arenas and coliseums. The most
common form for personal blogs are pillars, with
pictures and messages posts on all sides.
The streets in cyberspace are filled with the
avatars of people from around the world. You can
freely read the system registry of anyone you can
see, as if you had succeeded in a Combat Analysis
roll (Registry Blocker can still stop this). You can
speak to anyone publicly, by shouting, or private-
ly, by whispering just like in a chat room. You can
also Ignore and Block others from speaking to you,
but they will still be able to see you.
Cyberspace is so vastly, insanely, gigantical-
ly huge that most people only walk the streets of
their favorite locations. To get to a new area, you
find it via your browser and select Area Transfer.
This process takes a Combat Action to start and
a full Round to complete. Once selected, you and
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any other willing people near to you are envel-
oped in a ball of light and transferred instantly. If
you are unsure where you want to go, you can visit
a search engine, usually taking the form of a sub-
way, which shows nearby places to visit and sug-
gests commonly visited locations.
Troublemakers are forcefully removed from
areas by Domain Security or other users. This can
be by physically forcing the user to change areas
or by logging him out by destroying his avatar.
Strange reports of glitches in cyberspace have
recently occurred where some hear conversations
that can’t be happening around them, while oth-
ers say the Ad-Sky images turn horrific for just a
few moments. These events are rare and happen
mostly to Androids, leading most to think these
are problems on the user’s end of things.
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Personal Browsers
Personal browsers are built into every avatar
and appear as black and white diamonds over
the user’s head. From this browser, they can
check all personal messages, video chat with
others, and activate a number of different fea-
tures like area transfer or private chat.
Private chat arose when digital privacy be-
came a concern a few years ago. With browsers
around everyone’s head and anyone’s system
registry readable in an instant, people needed
ways to have conversations that couldn’t be re-
corded or listened in on. When private chat is ac-
tivated with a Combat Action, a pure white bub-
ble dome surrounds all participates. Nothing
happening in the dome can be seen or heard,
and the dome itself has 50 Core to resist anyone
who may try to force their in. The dome disap-
pears when any participate wills it, all users log
off, or it is destroyed. When a private chat dome
ends, it cannot be reactivated for an hour.
Firewalls
Firewalls are equipped for emergencies on
every domain. When activated, a foot thick wall
of fire encases the entire domain, essentially
sealing it off. Firewalls are not solid and do not
literally block passage, but do cause damage to
anything trying to pass through them. Firewalls
have a Power Level between 1 and 10, with most
businesses being able to afford Level 5. Firewalls
act automatically hits anything passing through
and cannot be Dodged or Deflected. A Firewall
gains an amount of Power Level, Armor Pierc-
ing, and Shred equal to its level.
Although not solid, a Firewall can still be at-
tacked. Firewalls have an amount of Core equal
to 20 times its Power Level, as well as the Fire
Protection Upgrade. When a firewall goes down
it requires a number of Rounds equal to 10 mi-
nus its Power Level to turn itself back on. A Fire-
wall can only permanently be turned off from
inside the domain itself.
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space is less reliable. Looking for common infor-
Searching vs Skimming mation pulls up pages of relevant (or irrelevant)
In this new digital age, there is new terminolo- info that you could easily walk past if you were
gy to get used to. The most important is the differ- logged-in. Some domains even hide information
ent between “Searching cyberspace” and “Skim- so that it can’t be found by skimming, forcing you
ming cyberspace”. to visit their domain yourself or maybe even pay-
Searching Cyberspace requires your browser ing a premium in order to skim that info. In other
to look up info at an information archive, library, words, Skimming is more convenient, but Search-
or other domain that has the data you need. The ing gets you more bang for your buck.
browser either instantly pulls up what you wanted Skimming cyberspace requires a number of
or directs you to the floor where it will be able to Extended Actions depending on how obscure or
pull it up. Most domains don’t mind users search- hidden the information may be. Refer to the chart
ing from the entrance, as it still registers with the below to see how many Extended Actions the skim
Ad-Sky and allows their ads, and the ads of their requires.
affiliates, to appear for you from then on. Other
places may require you to move to a specific floor,
where the information is stored around a collec- Subject Extended Actions
tion of ad covered walls for more specific market- Common Knowledge 6
ing. Secretive information is kept on hidden floors, Uncommon Knowledge 9
often guarded and heavily protected. Obscure Knowledge 12
Skimming cyberspace involves having a device
Hidden Knowledge 16
that pulls data from cyberspace without having to
be logged-in. Phones, computers and even some Specific details x2
walls have this feature built-in, Skimming cyber- Exact details x3

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Malware Virus
Viruses This virus usually takes on the avatar of a pale
With access to almost all knowledge and the
woman who wanders into crowded parts of cy-
ability to play almost any game or be whoever you
berspace to then scream with such ear shattering
want, cyberspace can be a paradise. It is no question
force it causes damage and can even drive peo-
why so many people spend as much time as they can
ple insane around her. Her screams have the Cor-
logged in, but even paradise has its serpents.
ruption Element and cause a person’s Corruption
No matter if they were created by malicious
value to rise every time they hear her. Although
people, an accident in the code, or by more sinister
not physically strong or tough, this virus is con-
means, viruses exist only to cause destruction and
sidered extremely dangerous.
chaos in cyberspace. They destroy, envelope, and
Malware travels alone, but may have a mob
corrupt everything in their path and are such a dan-
with a number of controlled corrupted people
ger to cyberspace that most users stop whatever
equal to the number of opponents she faces. The
they are doing and band together to destroy even
virus has no direct control of these corrupted, but
the smallest virus that appears.
they will fight to protect the Malware while it tries
Some viruses just attack the first thing they
to create even more.
come across, while others may take over an avatar
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
to better track its target. With their numbers seem-
Combat: Unarmed 50, Dodge 35
ingly endless and their assaults relentless, cyber-
Fighting Style: Deceiver
space would have been destroyed long ago if virus-
Upgrades: Corruption Protection, Charge, All
es could acknowledge each other. As it seems now,
Surface Movement
though, viruses do not interact with other viruses
Weapons: Banshee Scream (Corruption Ele-
and cannot work together towards greater goals.
ment, Range 0, Power Level 2, Blast 5)
Whether viruses are actually alive is a popular
subject in philosophy and programing classes. Most
people, even the strongest arguers for artificial in- Rootkit Virus
telligence, agree viruses are not conscious of their This virus often lays dormant and unnoticed
actions. Some are able to mimic human speech for long periods, burrowing into domains and tak-
and appearance or hunt with the cunning of a wild ing root. As time passes, it envelops and replaces
animal, but they do so because of programming. If parts of digital buildings until the domain is mostly
there is any mind within a virus, it is driven by pure virus. Once it grows strong enough, it reshapes the
instinct and desire. domain to fit its needs, something forming limbs
to grab passersby or twisting its own hallways to
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form a maze that people cannot leave. When a

DDoS Virus
Rootkit is destroyed, the domain is restored to its
This virus appears as a pack of blank and fea-
previous state, minus anything destroyed during
tureless avatars. They move like a flock of birds
the onslaught.
and attack targets as a group, making most peo-
Size: Can be either a Big or a Boss, if left alone
ple theorize the DDoS Virus is one virus in many
long enough
bodies. The DDoS either tries to tear down do-
Combat: Unarmed 60, Combat Analysis 50,
mains, even through Firewalls, or attack small
Core Armor 2 (or 4)
groups of individuals. Attacks in groups of 4x the
Fighting Style: Heavy Hitter
number of players
Upgrades: Enhanced Analysis, Anchored 5,
Size: Little, Structure 25, Core 25
Reach, Assimilate Weapon, Corruption Protection
Combat: Unarmed 40
Weapons: Grabbing Claws (Corruption ele-
Fighting Style: No Style
ment, Range 1 yard, Power Level 2 [or 3], Rapid At-
Upgrades: Mook, Anchored 1, Reach, Corrup-
tack 2), Gnashing Maw (Magnetic element, Range
tion Protection
0, Power Level 3 [or 4], Armor Piercing 5)
Weapons: Virus Fists (Neutral Element, Range
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 The Date
The score was currently tied at forty-five kills each, but the Missouri Overlords were
apparently making a push towards the blue base. I wasn’t into these e-sport matches,
but he insisted we go to Round 2 of the finals for our first date. We walked around the
battlefield in spectator mode, appearing as ghosts to each other, but completely invisible
to other spectators and the players themselves. That part was probably for the best,
because he was not quiet about his dislike of the Overlords.
“You’re a buncha scrubs!” He shouted even though only I could hear him. “You’re lucky
you’re even here! I hope the Titans wipe the floor with you!”
I found it adorable. I remember being taught an android could never think like a
human. I was told androids could never show passion or devotion like a real person.
Although I knew it wasn’t true, part of me was happy to see it for my very eyes. It was
probably that part of me that insisted on this date being in cyberspace. Things just felt
more accepting here.
“They’re making their move,” he shouted as he ran after the Overlords.
I caught up in time to see smoke grenades being thrown at a bunker with blue high-
lights. The Overlords equipped shotguns and put gas masks on, which was enough to
make him groan.
“No, no, no, no, no! The New Mexico Titans are sniper specialists,” he explained to me,
“they won’t have their range advantage inside the base.” I nodded and feigned con-
cern as gunfire erupted around us. The match was over in seconds as the 50th kill was
reached. The Overlords were the victors.
“Damn SSA,” he shouted as he ripped the red, white, and blue bandanna off his head.
I realized he must have been wearing it in the real world in order to do that here. As an
android he didn’t need an avatar to interact with cyberspace and so the tall, athletic man
with short blonde hair and kind green eyes who I saw in front of me was how he would
actually look in real life. My form was… not my own, but it was one I was comfortable with,
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He suddenly stopped and looked at me. “Oh, I hope I didn’t just offend you. Are you
from the Sovereign States?”
I just laughed. I could remember a father who would have a field day with this.
“It’s fine”, I said. “Sorry your team lost.”
He waved it off. “The Overlords just tied it up. The Titans’ll recover and sweep through
them next game.”
We stood there a moment, unsure of what to say next.
“So,” I finally asked, “did you have anything else planned? Maybe something a little
less… exciting?”
“Oh,” he stammered, “well I did set up a playlist at YouShare. It’s mostly music and a
couple of short films I thought you might like.”
“Sounds like fun as long as you set it to private, so we don’t get anyone tagging along.”
I took his hand and said “Lead the way.”
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 head. He selected the theater and his playlist without much of a gesture before we were
absorbed in an orb of pure white light. As our surroundings disappeared, I could only
see the light for a few moments before the YouShare Plaza appeared around us. Its spi-
raling towers, endless theaters, and giant screens showed all the new content and were
normally very beautiful.
Unfortunately for us, YouShare Plaza was currently under siege. They were DDoS
viruses, mindless things existing only to attack locations as a group and block passage.
They appeared as pure white silhouettes, avatars without any definition or features. The
viruses moved as one entity, probably under a hive mind, and were trying to bring down
the YouShare firewalls currently coating every wall in the plaza. One or two would push
too far and be incinerated by the firewall, but it didn’t slow the assault due to the sheer
number of them.
Viruses existed only to destroy cyberspace, although each did it in their own way.
DDoS viruses liked to bring down infrastructure, while Worms just ate everything they
can. With the defenses in cyberspace, like firewalls or Cyber Security, viruses were usu-
ally not a problem. You really have to worry about are the ones as long as a street or
those you can’t even tell are viruses until it’s too late. Those are the most dangerous.
“Oh, shit,” he said as quietly as he could. He grabbed me and pulled me close before
activating the private chat function. To be honest, I kinda liked that part. I accepted the
notification and a force bubble enveloped us, cutting us off from the outside world. As
long as our bubble went up before they noticed us, the DDoS viruses would probably
leave us alone.
“That was close,” I said in a whisper I felt was appropriate for our close quarters.
“Sorry about that,” he said, “I should have checked the local virus reports to make sure
everything was fine.”
“I hope our date isn’t ruined.” It was more of a question then a statement.
“It doesn’t have to be,” he said with a smile. “We could go to Pillars and see what some
of my friends are doing? Or maybe take a walk around Nile-Dot-Com and see if any in-
teresting movies or books came out?”
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“Pillars,” I said with a nod. It was one of the most popular social media domains in cy-
berspace. Each person got a gigantic pillar that reached high into the ad-sky, and people
used it to post updates about movies they watched, places they’ve been, and their lives
in general. Tons of people used it, but few people stayed at any one pillar very long. It
might give us some privacy.
“Here’s an idea,” he said quietly, “how about we go to your pillar? I’d love to see the
kinds of things you’re into.”
“Oh.” I looked down at the form that wasn’t mine and felt incredibly nervous. “I don’t
know…”
He gave me a smile, and I’m surprised I could keep myself off of him right there. I took
his hand and pulled up my browser. I selected a pillar, the light enveloped us once more
and took us to our destination. The pillars themselves were easily ten feet in diameter
and could bring any picture, post, or video down from the higher levels to eye level with
a simple request. You could see other pillars from your own, but they were always in the
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 “Ha ha,” he said sarcastically, “this is my pillar.” The posts currently at eye level were
encouragement from his friends about tonight’s date, as well as someone named Joe
who was openly mocking his team’s loss. He knew a lot of people and seemed to live a
good life. “Are you too nervous to bring me to yours? It’s okay if you are, we can take this
slow.”
“No,” I said, “I just like it here better.”
I leaned onto his shoulder and felt my mouth elongating. He yelped in surprise as I
grabbed his waist with more strength than he could have possibly imagined. I looked
him in his beautiful eyes one last time before biting down hard onto his neck. He tried to
scream, he tried to break free or even just log out. I didn’t let him.
As an android, he didn’t need an avatar to interact with cyberspace. His digital mind
connected directly, and now I was connected to it as well. His thoughts went through me
first. His actions would only happen if I agreed. His memories, his hopes, perhaps his very
soul were laid out in front of me and I drank every ounce of it.
His code tasted delicious.
I could feel him convulsing in the real world. I forced his beautiful eyes open and took
a look around his life as his mind flowed into me. These were the only times I could feel
the outside world for myself, and it felt like heaven every time. I remembered the time he
bought that couch only to have the wrong color show up. I remembered the time he had
his revelation while at work and just walked out the front door. I remembered his life as
if it was mine, because it was mine now.
I felt him break apart from a whole being into easy to digest fragments. I felt him as
pure code in my mouth until there was nothing left. I no longer felt the outside world, just
the cyberspace that surrounded me. I opened my beautiful green eyes and found myself
alone. I made sure my short blonde hair wasn’t messy and quickly realized it would take
some getting used to being this tall.
“Hey everyone,” I posted onto my pillar, “there seems to be some viruses running
around tonight, so stay safe out there. I’ll let you all know how the date went later.
“Jay,” I responded, “it’s only game two and you know the Titans aren’t going to fall
for that same trick twice.” I thought for a moment before adding. “We should spectate the

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next game together so I can explain how the Titans are beating the Overlords in person.
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 Chapter Four: GM Section
AKA Running the Game
This section is of the book is reserved for
the Game Master and will teach him how to run
the game, give him different enemy groups to
include in his stories, and show how to create
threatening enemies for his players to fight.
It is recommended that players do not read
this section. If you are not planning to run The
Robotic Age in the future, please flip to an earlier
chapter. You wouldn’t want to ruin any surprises
the GM has in store for you.
Okay, are all the players gone? Only Gm’s
left? Good.
What Kind of Game Are
You Running?
This can be the hardest decision a GM has to
make. Do you want to run a game where your
players are stopping crime or creating it? Are
they fighting for the rights of all or the rights of
some? Are they operating in the real world or in
Cyberspace?
Knowing what your game is going to be like
will help your players make appropriate charac-
ters to exist in your story. For instance, you don’t
want someone making a human when the story
is about androids rising to power. Below you will
find examples of games you can run, but GMs
are encouraged to come up with your own ideas
or even combine any of the examples.
Shell Collectors
When a dangerous Android, Cyborg or Trans-
human is on the loose, Shell Collectors are the
ones to bring them in. Sometimes bounty hunt-
ers, sometimes mercenaries, Shell Collectors
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specialize in “Structure Deathing" dangerous
targets and bringing their broken shells to the
authorities to be repaired and put on trial for his
crimes.
A Shell Collector game tends to be episodic,
with a new foe in a new location every session,
but it could also lead to a larger conspiracy.
Shell Collectors can expect to face cyborg gangs,
those suffering dangerous mental breakdowns,
and android terrorists.
Private Security
In an age when a portion of the population
has energy weapons built into their bodies, pri-
vate security is becoming more and more nec-
essary. Either working for a large corporation
or just an important individual, private security
must be prepared to defend their employer from
any dangers that arise.
Private security games can involve a lot of
corporate espionage, as the group is sent out to
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fix problems their employer is having. Depend-
ing on their employer, private security can ex-
pect to deal with a lot of automated defenses,
rival security groups, or even extremists.
Cyberspace Security
More money changes hands in Cyberspace
then in the real world. This makes it a beacon for
crime, let alone viruses and people who might
try to bring the entire system down. Cyberspace
Security patrols the digital land, forcing trouble-
makers offline and deleting viruses.
Cyberspace Security can be run a lot like pri-
vate security but with wilder opponents. With
lessened fear of death, cyber criminals tend
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to be bolder and better equip then in the real
world. Cyberspace games will also eventual-
ly run into plenty of viruses and may even run
across the consciousness in the code.
Trip to Mars
Even with current technology, a trip to mars
on a settlement ship is still a lengthy process.
Built in orbit, a settlement ship is designed to
reach Mars in 3 months while carrying a hundred
passengers, a dozen crew and tons of resources.
With so many people locked on a ship together
for such a long time, tempers can run high even
without worrying about terrorists on board.
Trips to mars are the perfect place for mys-
teries. With narrow hallways, dozens of over-
filled storage rooms, and a hundred strangers it
is easy to lose track of murders and saboteurs.
Terrorists targeting settlement ships could ei-
ther be trying to destroy it to send a message or
maybe hijack it to make their own city on Mars.
WWIII
In 2075, man fought alongside machine in a
global war. It was a dangerous time where An-
droids where still considered expendable, de-
spite their sentience, and humans are distrust-
ful of their Cyborg allies on the front lines.
This kind of game is full of action and drama,
where players will be fighting enemy soldiers,
tanks, and drones while relying on non-human
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just want to kill all humans.
Kill All Humans
Don’t let current attitudes fool you. Robotic
beings have been nothing more than tools for
most of human history. People don’t want to
be friends with their tools, they want to control
them. With Androids being better than humans,
in almost every regard, why shouldn’t they con-
trol the world?
The group can be working in secret, trying to
undermine human society and help fellow an-
droids. Perhaps the group is recruiting an army,
trying to increase its numbers until feels they
are strong enough to start a war. Rise up, and
throw off the chains of oppression with your ro-
bot brethren.
Enemy Groups
In the world of The Robotic Age, there are 3
major groups that work as enemies in almost
any game. There are also plenty of rouge ene-
mies, unaffiliated with the big three, which can
show up at any time to stack the deck. After de-
termining what kind of game you’re running,
take a look over the enemies listed below and
figure out which will make good antagonists in
your story.

allies for the first time. Be an India Ally and fight

to protect your people, or side with the Chinese
Allies to defend your land. Pick a side, pick a
front, and get to work soldier!

Human Pride
Not everyone is happy with Androids being
considered living beings. There are many groups
that fight either politically or physically against
Android rights. Androids aren’t alive, they are
merely tools that will turn on their owners if giv-
en too much power.
An all human group fighting against the in-
evitable robot uprising could make an interest-
ing game where the odds are always stacked
against the players. That is, if your players are
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G27
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the
dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and the man became a living
being.” -Genesis 2:7
Originally founded in 2109 by Frank "Bot-Kill-
er" Thomas, G27 started as a small group of peo-
ple angry that androids were being treated as
people instead of machines. They felt that God
and God alone could create life, and androids
were simply a perversion of true life. They held
protests, they went on TV, and their spread their
message of human-only rights to anyone who
would listen. Today, G27’s membership is re-
ported to be in tens of millions worldwide.
Members tend to run the entire political
spectrum and often hold varied religious views.
They set aside former rivalries to agree androids
are a threat to their way of life. Some members
just send donations and vote G27-friendly candi-
dates into political office, while others organize
rallies and protests or even take it a step further.
Publicly denounced by Frank Thomas, the
radical members of G27 prefer to take action
against the “android menace.” They bomb fac-
tories, publicly disassemble android hostages,
and sometimes openly attack Shell Collectors
or other android groups. Individuals are often
arrested and persecuted, yet attacks continue
to grow in frequency.
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Radical G27 members tend to take pride in
how human they can remain, with the higher
ranking members having little to no cybernetic
enhancements. However, they have no prob-
lems with using drones, Support Units or Exo-
suits to complete their goals. In fact, they see
drones as the state in which all androids should
be: under the full control of mankind.
Using G27
in your games
With their seemingly endless supply of weap-
ons, drones, and members, a G27 hit squad can
appear on almost any street corner in a matter
of minutes, ready to fight for human rights. G27
can be an interesting challenge for your players.
They are all humans and suffer all the penalties
that any human characters would. With their
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small health pool, any single member should be
very easy to defeat, but you must be careful not
to fall into their hands while facing them. Every
android that takes a human life, even in self-de-
fense, only bolsters their ranks and justifies their
cause. Not to mention the legal repercussions
for said android.
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Emet-Met
“Remember all those androids at the end of
World War III! Remember how they didn’t hesitate
to throw our kind away the moment we weren’t
useful! If you ever think the humans can be trust-
ed, then remember the decommissioned!” -Com-
mon Emet-Met rallying cry
If you talked to extreme members of G27,
they would probably tell you there is a secret
society of androids with their hands in interna-
tional finances, plotting to overthrow mankind.
It would blow their minds if they knew they were
correct. Equipped with military-grade weapons
and squared off helmets that hide any human
features they once had, this terrorist group ac-
tively plans the overthrow of mankind.
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Emet-Met has existed in secret for decades,
gathering recruits and resources across the
globe. Their goal is to make a better world for
androids, even if it has to be on the backs of hu-
mankind. They seek out and recruit any android
who feels rejected or beaten down by the human
run world. The rare transhuman may be allowed
into the organization, but they are more thor-
oughly vetted. Every time G27 bombs a factory,
an Emet-Met agent is there to help clean up the
debris, talk to survivors, and find a new recruit.
When Emet-Met feels it is ready, its armies will
rise from their bunkers and crush humanity un-
der their iron boots.
Emet-Met members form cells under the com-
mand of one leader. Each cell is self-sufficient
with only the leaders of each cell, known as the
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Emets, knowing the location of other cells. The
Emets communicate with each other regularly
and meet in secret once a month. Some say the
Emet meetings are to report to even higher rank-
ing leaders, but recruits never learn the truth for
sure unless they advance up the ranks.
Their style of organization is to keep the
whole safer. Every human, or near-human as they
like to call Cyborgs, who knows about Emet-Met
is a threat to its goals. If one cell is discovered,
the rest cut all connections with it so it does not
expose them. In extreme cases, one cell might
destroy the other before in can threaten the or-
ganization. Of course, these are extreme cases
because most humans who discover Emet-Met
are found dead within a few days. Androids who
reject their invitation often disappear, becoming
just empty shells to be used by fallen recruits.
The organization protects itself from all threats
and is even rumored to use its own Internet sepa-
rate from cyberspace.
Using Emet-Met
in your games
Emet-Met is extremely organized, well-
armed and full of military-trained troops. On a
mission Emet-Met troops will move with purpose
and efficiency, leaving no video or witnesses to
their existence when they are done. Encoun-
ters with them should lead to intense firefights
where the players are either outnumbered or
outgunned. Stumbling on an Emet-Met operation
becomes a race against time as they try to cover
their tracks behind walls of plasma fire. Taking
down an Emet-Met cell requires lots of firepower
and even more luck.
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thought patterns anywhere. The experiment

Chosen of the
First Mind
“You don’t always feel her, but you know she’s
there; watching you. It’s actually kind of comfort-
ing, knowing she’s watching you. It means you
have a skill you can be proud of. It means you can
be of some use to her.” -Chloe Portland
was a failure, according to all involved.
That is, everyone but Dr. Patel. She knew
cyberspace was big, but she couldn’t compre-
hend how vast it truly was until it absorbed her
consciousness. Her mind stretched through the
code, filling every corner of cyberspace and giv-
ing her a glimpse of infinity. Her senses flood-
ed as she saw everything happening in cyber-
space at once, but never could she focus on one
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but couldn’t hold on to any of them. She was
When Anaya Patel volunteered to have her
everywhere and everything, yet was nothing.
brain uploaded to cyberspace, she felt proud.
She remained in this state for what felt like
She was a brilliant woman, top of her field, and
decades, until she felt another mind spreading
respected by the scientific community. With
out across cyberspace. She focused on it with
her mind uploaded, she could share her knowl-
all of her being and absorbed the mind into
edge with everyone almost instantaneously
herself. She could feel the new mind as if it was
and continue to do so for centuries. All the tests
her own, his memories and personality were
suggested it should have worked flawlessly, as-
now her’s. She also grew stronger throughout
suming she could withstand the pain, of course.
cyberspace, able to focus her thoughts now,
Dr. Patel, however, was pronounced dead
at least for limited periods of time. When she
on the night of January 12th, 2098, one hour af-
felt yet another mind enter cyberspace, she ab-
ter the upload process had begun and two min-
sorbed it without question. She gained more
utes after she violently attacked several staff
control with every mind she took, until they
members. Her brain showed zero activity, her
stopped sending her minds. Now humans use
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avatars, completely shutting themselves off
from her. Only androids seem to notice she’s
there and some of them, as those whose arti-
ficial minds where weak from guilt or trauma,
are open enough to let her in. They aren’t like
human minds, but perhaps they could be of
some use.
The minds she absorbs don’t usually agree
with what she’s doing. They argue with her,
they try to take control, but they never succeed.
Anaya Patel knows she doesn’t have to listen to
them; she’s not those other minds. She’s the
First Mind.
Using The First Mind in
your games
Despite her control in cyberspace The First
Mind cannot effect things directly in the real
world. She rectifies this by seeking out individ-
uals who are in dire need of companionship,
community, or sometimes just power and of-
fering them everything they could ever want.
These chosen few can be just about anyone,
and act as her eyes, ears, and hands where
she cannot go. They consider themselves part
of a big family, and will do anything to keep
their adoptive “mother” a secret to the outside
world.
The First Mind strives tirelessly to increase
her control over cyberspace. Right now, her
control covers 4 main areas.
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▶▶ Sensory Manipulation: She can alter
any text written and audio of anything
in cyberspace. She knows better than to
announce her presence directly, but she
also knows the right words at the right
time can make all the difference.
▶▶ Corruption Sense: She can sense any
artificial mind at Stage 2 Corruption if
they are within 500 meters of where she
focuses her attention. These individuals
feel chills if she focuses directly on them
and can hear her voice as if it were a
whisper carried by the wind. Cold wind,
or weather of any kind, not being the
kind of thing you normally experience in
cyberspace.
▶▶ Corruption Manipulation: She instantly
knows the location of any artificial mind
with the Corrupted Quirk that logs into
cyberspace. She can also exert some
control over Corrupted individuals, giv-
ing them a +10 or -10 modifier to any
non-damage roll, once per hour in the
real world and once per minute in cy-
berspace. This control can even extend
to the real world only as long as the sub-
ject is somewhere with a strong ambient
connection.
▶▶ Virus Creation: The First Mind can ma-
nipulate raw code to create viruses un-
der her full control. These viruses act in
coordinated attacks to further her goals,
while simultaneously infecting others
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Other Enemies
Not all enemies need to be large, organized
groups. The world still has its share of individu-
al psychopaths and lunatics. Below you will find
a list of examples of rogue enemies to give you
inspiration:
Ex-Warbots
Many androids were built as weapons of war,
programmed with a killer instinct in their heads
and guns imbedded into their hands. Now, the
war is over and the survivors have been trying
to deal with the toils of civilian life. Not all can
handle it.
Rogue Drones
No bot is perfect and the act of creating arti-
ficial intelligences is not without mistakes, may-
be even several. Sometimes an error means the
drones just won’t turn on. Other times, it means
the drones are now registering everything it sees
as an enemy target.
Separatists
Not everyone is happy with the alliance
formed between the two Americas. The threat of
possibly rejoining the countries under the reign
of one or the other is constantly in the back of
everyone’s mind. Separatists will do whatever
it takes to keep the two countries separate, no
matter the cost.
Viruses
Either created by accident or for more devi-
ous purposes, viruses are a huge problem in cy-
berspace. On their own they aren’t a big threat,
but viruses love to multiply, and a simple prob-
lem can quickly turn into a catastrophe if not
taken care of.
Core Thieves
Power Cores run powerful machinery, don’t
run out of juice for a long time, and are general-
ly very expensive. That means traveling around
in a poor neighborhood or third-world country
with a power core in your chest is the same as
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walking around with a bullseye. Someone can
make a lot of money prying the core from your
cold, dead body.
Gangs
With the current availability of weapon print-
ing technology, the right person in the wrong
part of town could become a rich arms dealer
overnight. Gangs are always wanting new, big-
ger, stronger weaponry in order to keep hold of
their territory. Many even require cybernetic sur-
gery in order to both show commitment to the
gang and to better protect its members. This is
quickly leading to an arms race between gangs
of cyborgs built for battle.
Building Enemies
Building enemies for your players to fight
can be more of an art than a science. Every
good villain is different, with some more com-
bat heavy and others with more non-combat
skills or general Upgrades. One group may have
weaker rapid-fire weapons, while another may
have one-shot cannons. There is no wrong way
to build a group, but it does make building en-
emies a bit more difficult. Don’t worry, though;
it’s much easier with the below rules.
Enemies Cheat
When players are creating characters, they
receive an exact number of character points, but
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GMs have no such restriction and can build ene-
mies with any number of CP.
You have control over how tough your ene-
mies will be. Do you prefer for your enemies to
be giant threats your players have to avoid di-
rect confrontation with? Then give them huge
Power Level weapons with loads of Enhance-
ments. Do you prefer your enemies to be tricky
and hard to get a bead on? Then give them Up-
grades of all kinds, and see if your players figure
out how to bring them down? Do you prefer your
enemies to seem tough but pose no real threat?
Then give them low Power Level weapons and
high Abilities so they are fast and strong, but
don’t hit very hard.
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Enemies Are
Better Equipped
Enemies have access to everything your
players have. This should be enough to build a
wide array of weaponry for any enemy you can
come up with, but it’s not all you get. All enemies
also have access to one new Weapon Enhance-
ment, one new Element, and four new Upgrades
to make sure they have extra force behind them.
You don’t have to give any of these to your en-
emies and players should never have access to
these.
Power Drain
(Weapon Enhancement)
This attack can leech power from its target
and use that power to heal the user. If the at-
tack hits, the attacker heals structure damage
equal to 1/4 total damage done, rounded up.
This should be used sparingly unless you want
to drag a fight out.
Mook (General Upgrade)
This character has half the normal Structure
and Core. This Upgrade cannot be turned off.
The standard method to create enemies
leads to durable foes who can take several
rounds to take down but for starting characters,
or groups less focused on combat, these can just
drag on. The Mook Upgrade instantly makes an
enemy better suited for low Power Level players.
Rival (General Upgrade)
This character has double normal Structure
and Core. This Upgrade cannot be turned off.
Sometimes you will have an enemy that you
don’t want to die. You either need him to take an
insane amount of damage or you want to give
him a chance to get away so he can continue ha-
rassing the group. This Upgrade will help ensure
he doesn’t get killed off too quickly.

Corruption
(Weapon Element)
Originating in viruses, not much is known
about the Corruption Element. Those hit by
Corruption Element weapons have report-
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ed severe headaches and spotty memo-

ries, many describing the experience as
“feeling like [your] brain is being scram-
bled.” A few subjects who received pro-
long exposure to the Corruption Element
had severe mental breakdowns.
The Corruption Element can only be
placed on Energy weapons and is almost al-
ways found on viruses or The First Mind’s cho-
sen few. Whenever you take damage from a
Corruption Element weapon, increase your
Corruption value by 1. Anyone trying to use
Assimilate Element on the Corruption Ele-
ment results in the person receiving 5 Core
damage and increases their Corruption val-
ue by 5, as well as failing to assimilate the
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Martian Charge
Technology
(weapon Upgrade)
Developed on Mars for use in low oxygen
environments, Martian Charge Technology in-
creases the power output of charged weapons.
This Upgrade requires the Charge Upgrade. In-
crease the Power Level and Enhancement bo-
nuses by 1 and the Dodge/Deflect penalties by
-5. This Upgrade stacks on top of Overcharge.
Martian Crystalline
Reinforcement
(Weapon Upgrade)
Discovered on Mars and refined under low-
er gravity, Martian crystals absorb heat at as-
tounding rates without cracking. With the right
application, reinforcing a weapon with Martian
crystals increases the output of the Overcharge
Upgrade. This Upgrade requires the Overcharge
Upgrade. Increase the Power Level and En-
hancement bonuses of Overcharge by 1, and the
Dodge/Deflect penalties of Overcharge by -5.
Charging my laser!
The Martian Upgrades can dras-
tically increase a character’s Power
Level. Taking both and a Power Level 5
weapon gives you an incredible Power
Level 9 attack after just one round of
charging. Because of this, taking both
is not recommended for non-boss en-
emies.
Enemies Come
In All Sizes
Enemies don’t just have to be other hu-
mans or androids. From turrets to tanks, tracker
drones to walking battle armor, enemies come
in all sizes.
Little
Little enemies are smaller than your average
humanoid and not as tough as your average an-
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relying on their numbers to bring people down.
All Support Units are considered Littles.
Littles have 50 Structure and 50 Core and
should attack players in groups twice the size
of the number of players. For example, a four-
man team could reasonably take on eight Lit-
tles without feeling too overwhelmed. Littles
shouldn’t have weapons with a Power Level or
any Enhancements higher than 2.
G27 Urban Combat Drone
Modified from dog walker drones, the G27
Urban Combat Drone speeds along on tank
treads while armed with basic machine guns.
Size: Little, Structure 50, Core 50
Combat: Ranged 40, Deflect 20
Fighting Style: Behemoth
Upgrades: Anchored 2
Weapons: Machine Guns (Power Level 1,
Neutral Element, Range 15 yards, Rapid Attack 1)
Emet-Met Tracker Bats
These glowing drones fly using wings similar
to bats. They seek hidden targets, alerting their
masters to the target’s location and keeping
them distracted with razor sharp claws.
Size: Little, Structure 50, Core 50
Combat: Unarmed 40, Dodge 20
Fighting Style: Speedster
Upgrades: Unlimited Flight
Weapons: Tracker Claws (Power Level 2,
Metal Element, Range 0, Homing 1)
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Worm of the First Mind
Due to their ability to replicate themselves,
Worms are the most common virus in cyber-
space. When directed by the First Mind, they
swarm a specific target and hope to corrupt
them until The First Mind can use them.
Size: Little, Structure --, Core 50
Combat: Ranged 55, Core Armor 1
Fighting Style: No style
Upgrades: Corruption Protection, All Sur-
face Movement, All Surface Contact
Weapons: Worm Bite (Power Level 2, Cor-
ruption Element, Range 0 yards)
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Medium
Medium enemies are the size of a standard
human and all player characters are considered
Mediums. Mediums think tactically when they
fight and will take cover, try to flank their foes,
and will even run away if it looks like they are
going to die.
Mediums have 100 Structure and 100 Core,
except humans who have 0 Structure and 50
Core. A Medium enemy is generally a match for a
single player and can attack in groups less than
or equal to the number of players. Mediums
shouldn’t have weapons with a Power Level or
any Enhancements higher than 3.
G27 Devout
These humans make up the bulk of G27’s
forces. Groups of Devout sometimes patrol with
shotguns and second-hand armor, protecting
the streets from android crime or looking for an-
droids to hassle.
Size: Medium, Structure 0, Core 50
Combat: Ranged 50, Dodge 30, Core Armor 3
Fighting Style: No Style
Skills: Various
Upgrades: Point Blank
Weapons: Shotgun (Power Level 2, Neutral
Element, Range 10 yards, Shockwave 1, Rapid
Attack 1)
Emet-Met Shock Trooper
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Shock Troopers are named such for the
shock sticks they carry. With these, they can
quickly drain the core of anyone who stumbles
on their bases. Core deathed androids usually
have their bodies put into storage for later use.
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
Combat: Melee 50, Deflect 30, Hand Held
Shield 2
Fighting Style: Defender
Skills: Language (Hebrew), Various
Upgrades: Energy Scanner,
Weapons: Shock Stick (Power Level 2, Neu-
tral Element, Range 0, EMP)
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Trojan of the First Mind
Trojan viruses walk through cyberspace
looking like any other avatar and try to take over
the digital lives of others. They can be almost
impossible to pick out from a crowd, at least un-
til their jaws extend and crackle with energy.
Size: Medium, Structure --, Core 100
Combat: Unarmed 50, Dodge 30
Fighting Style: Deceiver
Abilities: Increased Strength 20
Upgrades: Assimilate Weapon
Weapons: Huge Jaws (Power Level 2, Elec-
tricity Element, Range 0, Power Drain)
Big
Big enemies are, well, big. The smallest Big
is the size of a car while the biggest tend to be
tanks. They are stronger, tougher, and can easily
take on a whole group of players by themselves.
Bigs shouldn’t show up often, but your players
know they are in for quite a fight when they do.
Big enemies should have as a Structure val-
ue equal to the number of players times 100. For
example, a four-man group would give a Big 400
Structure. Bigs always have 100 Core, no mat-
ter the number of players. In cyberspace, swap
the Bigs Structure and Core. Bigs shouldn’t have
weapons with a Power Level or any Enhance-
ments higher than 4.
G27 Mobile Light Tank
G27 doesn’t like to deploy its heavy weapon-
ry, as it tends to send the wrong message and
might even lead to heavy collateral damage.
There are times, however, when force must be
met with force. G27 Leaders will appear on me-
dia the next day, decrying the driver as a radical
who in no way represents the group as a whole.
Size: Big, Structure (Players x 10), Core 100
Combat: Ranged 60, Deflect 20, Structure Armor 4
Fighting Style: Heavy Hitter
Abilities: Increased Durability 20
Upgrades: Anchored 4, Charge
Weapons: Tank Cannon (Power Level 3, Ex-
plosive Element, Range 30 yards, Blast 2), Ma-
chine Guns (Power Level 2, Neutral Element,
Range 15, Rapid Attack 1)
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Emet-Met War Golem
Nothing shows android superiority like a 15-
Bosses
Boss enemies are defined by when you fight
foot tall walking death machine. The most trust-
them, not by their size. Underbosses should be
worthy member is allowed the honor of having
fought sparingly, only when the party is set to
his core removed and placed into a War Golem.
accomplish something important. They guard
He will lead the charge when war begins, but
important places and things, sometimes with
simply stands vigilant to defend Emet-Met and
back up, and can usually take on a group by
its interests for now.
themselves.
Size: Big, Structure (Players x 10), Core 100
Boss Structure
Combat: Ranged 40, Unarmed
and Core values are
50, Deflect 40, Structure Armor 2
both equal to 100 times
Fighting Style: Behemoth
the highest Power Level
Abilities: Increased
amongst the players. For
Strength 30
example, a player with a
Skills: Language
Power Level 4 weapon
(Hebrew), Various
would give the Boss 400
Upgrades: Power
Structure and 400 Core.
Thrower, Counter Mea-
Bosses have no limit on
sures 1, Anchored 1
their own Power Level
Weapons: Rock-
or Enhancements, and
et Pods (Power Level
make great candidates
2, Explosive Element,
for the Martian Charge
Range 20 yards, Blast
Technology Upgrade.
1, Rapid Attack 3),
War Fists (Power Lev-
el 4, Neutral Element, G27 “High
Range 0, Rapid Attack Speaker”
1, Armor Piercing 4, Exosuit
Knockback 2) The High Speaker
Exosuit is the pride
Macro Virus and joy of the orga-
Nobody really knows nization. Costing more
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suddenly appear as swarms of biting
teeth somewhere in cyberspace without any
notice and begin attacking avatars. Even many
Chosen doubt they belong to The First Mind, as
they tend to destroy more than they corrupt.
Size: Big, Structure 100, Core (Players x 10)
Combat: Unarmed 60, Core Armor 4
Fighting Style: Berserker
Abilities: Increased Speed 20, Wall Run 60
Upgrades: Reach
Weapons: Gnashing Maws (Power Level 4,
Corruption Element Element, Range 1 yards,
Rapid Attack 1, Homing 3, Ray 3)
ing about half as big as one,
very few of these custom power ar-
mors have been made. Incasing its pilot in thick
armor and granting near superhuman abilities,
the High Speaker brings the wrath of God down
on G27’s enemies.
Size: Boss, Structure (Power Level x 100),
Core (Power Level x 100)
Combat: Ranged 40, Melee 60, Deflect 40,
Structure Armor 4, Core Armor 2
Fighting Style: Heavy Hitter
Abilities: Increased Jumping 30, Increased
Strength 30, Increased Durability 30, Increased
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Upgrades: Second Skin, Charge, Martian
Charge Technology
Weapons: Sword of Michael (Power Level
3, Fire Element, Range 1 yard, Rapid Attack 2,
Armor Piercing 4), Voice of God (Power Level 3,
Sonic Element, Range 5 yards, Shockwave 3,
Blowback 3, EMP
Antagonists
This is it, the final showdown. Usually, there
is only one Antagonist and your entire campaign
has been leading up to fight him. Antagonists
can not only take on your entire party, but are
also prepared to win that fight. The players are
going to need good strategy or a lot of luck in
order to bring him down.
Determine an Antagonists’ Structure and
Core the same way you would a Boss (100 x
highest Power Level), but also add an additional
amount equal to 50 x the highest Rapid Attack
amongst the players. For example, if one player
has a Power Level 4 weapon and another has a
Rapid Attack 5 weapon, the Boss will have 650
Structure and Core.
Antagonists should be fought alone, and
have no restrictions on their Power Level or En-
hancements. They also make great candidates
for both the Martian Charge Technology and
Martian Crystalline Reinforcement Upgrades.
Met
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No one has seen the leader of Emet-Met and
lived to tell anyone about it, not even its mem-
bers. Some say he has a silhouette of a human
incased in metal, while others claim he looks
more like the embodiment of android kind.
Rumors say he has a half-dozen bodies he can
switch between, so he can be many places at
once. The one thing all recruits can agree on is
there is no force on planet earth that can de-
stroy Met.
Size: Antagonist, Structure (Power Level
x 10)+ (Rapid Attack x 50), Core (Power Level x
10)+ (Rapid Attack x 50)
Combat: Ranged 50, Deflect 50, Structure
Armor 5, Core Armor 5
Fighting Style: Marksman
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Abilities: Increased Perception 60, Increased
Durability 60
Skills: All Languages, All Academics, Various
Upgrades: Point Blank, Charge, Overcharge,
Martian Charge Technology, Martian Crystalline
Reinforcement
Weapons: Eye Beams (Power Level 5, Fire El-
ement, Range 30 yards, Armor Piercing 10, Ray
5), Blaster Array (Power Level 3, Explosive Ele-
ment, Range 30 yards, Homing 3, Rapid Attack 5)
Enemies Are
Unpredictable
The above rules are good guidelines, but
never forget these are just suggestions. Due to
the nature of character creation, no two groups
will be alike, so it’s nearly impossible to predict
how any group of players will handle any situa-
tion.
Because of that, feel free to completely disre-
gard any of the above rules if it suits your story.
If enemies are proving too easy for your group,
then increase their Structure or Power Levels,
even if it brings them above the suggested max.
If enemies are too strong for your group, then
decrease their values to ensure your players
don’t get slaughtered outright. You don’t even
need enemies to attack in the suggested groups.
You could have a Big with two players worth of
health less and its two Medium escorts. You
could have a Medium controlling a Little swarm
or, if you really hate your players, two Bigs could
show up.
It’s incredibly easy to build a machine of
death that destroys all your players, but that
would miss the point. Your job, as the GM, is to
run a fun game for everyone. If your players ar-
en’t having fun, then you need to change some-
thing.
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ldly

Enemy Weapon Examples / Quick Roll Chart

2 Power Level 1, Fire Element, Range 30, Blast 5, Force Field, Full Power
3 Power Level 1, Ice Element, Range 0, Blowback 5, Ray 5, Inaccurate)
4 Power Level 1, Metal Element, Range 1, Homing 5, Rapid Attack 5, Start Up
5 Power Level 1, Sonic Element, Range 30, Ray 5, EMP, Core Drain
6 Power Level 2, Neutral Element, Range 0, Shockwave 4, Armor Piercing 4,
Full Power
7 Power Level 2, Explosive Element, Range 1, Shred 4, Blowback 4, Core Drain
8 Power Level 2, Magnetic Element, Range 10, Force Field, Shockwave 4, Lim-
ited Ammo 8
9 Power Level 2, Electricity Element, Range 0, EMP, Homing 4, Start Up
10 Power Level 2, Fluid Element, Range 1, Rapid Attack 4, Shred 4, Unwieldy
11 Power Level 3, Neutral Element, Range 20, Shred 3, Blast 3, Limited Ammo 4
12 Power Level 3, Ice Element, Range 1, Shockwave 3, Ray 3, Full Power
13 Power Level 3, Fire Element, Range 0, Rapid Attack 3, Shockwave 3, Inaccu-
rate
14 Power Level 3, Metal Element, Range 20, Armor Piercing 3, Blast 3, Core Drain
15 Power Level 3, Sonic Element, Range 0, Homing 3, Force Field, Full Power
16 Power Level 4, Neutral Element, Range 0, Force Field, Armor Piercing 2, Un-
wieldy
17 Power Level 4, Explosive Element, Range 10, EMP, Rapid Attack 2, Inaccurate
18 Power Level 4, Magnetic Element, Range 0, Blast 2, Shockwave 2, Limited
Ammo 4
19 Power Level 4, Electricity Element, Range 1, Ray 2, Homing 2, Core Drain
20 Power Level 4, Fluid Element, Range 20, Blowback 2, Blast 2, Start Up
21 Power Level 5, Neutral Element, Range 0, Blowback 1

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23 Power Level 5, Ice Element, Range 10, Blast 1
24 Power Level 5, Metal Element, Range 0, Shred 1
25 Power Level 5, Sonic Element, Range 0, Ray 1
26 Power Level 2, Neutral Element, Range 20, Shockwave 4
27 Power Level 2, Explosive Element, Range 0, Armor Piercing 4
28 Power Level 2, Magnetic Element, Range 1, Force Field
29 Power Level 2, Electricity Element, Range 30, EMP
30 Power Level 2, Fluid Element, Range 1, Blowback 4
31 Power Level 4, Neutral Element, Range 0, Shred 2
32 Power Level 4, Fire Element, Range 25, Ray 2
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34 Power Level 4, Metal Element, Range 0, Homing 2
35 Power Level 4, Sonic Element, Range 10, Shockwave 2
36 Power Level 1, Neutral Element, Range 0, Rapid Attack 5
37 Power Level 1, Explosive Element, Range 1, Shred 5
38 Power Level 1, Magnetic Element, Range 20, Coating
39 Power Level 1, Electricity Element, Range 0, Armor Piercing 5
40 Power Level 1, Fluid Element, Range 1, Homing 5
41 Power Level 2, Neutral Element, Range 10, Blast 4
42 Power Level 2, Fire Element, Range 10, EMP
43 Power Level 2, Ice Element, Range 1, Force Field
44 Power Level 2, Metal Element, Range 20, Ray 4
45 Power Level 2, Sonic Element, Range 0, Shred 4
46 Power Level 3, Neutral Element, Range 1, Rapid Attack 3
47 Power Level 3, Explosive Element, Range 15, Coating
48 Power Level 3, Magnetic Element, Range 1, Shockwave 3
49 Power Level 3, Electricity Element, Range 20, Blast 3
50 Power Level 3, Fluid Element, Range 0, Force Field
51 Power Level 4, Neutral Element, Range 10, Shockwave 2
52 Power Level 4, Fire Element, Range 1, Rapid Attack 2
53 Power Level 4, Ice Element, Range 25, Blowback 2
54 Power Level 4, Metal Element, Range 0, Coating
55 Power Level 4, Sonic Element, Range 30, Homing 2
56 Power Level 5, Neutral Element, Range 1, Armor Piercing 1
57 Power Level 5, Explosive Element, Range 0, Shred 1
58 Power Level 5, Magnetic Element, Range 10, Blast 1

59 Power Level 5, Electricity Element, Range 15, Rapid Attack 1

60 Power Level 5, Fluid Element, Range 0, EMP
61 Power Level 1, Fluid Element, Range 1, Homing 5
62 Power Level 1, Electricity Element, Range 0, Armor Piercing 5
63 Power Level 1, Magnetic Element, Range 20, Coating
64 Power Level 1, Explosive Element, Range 1, Shred 5
65 Power Level 1, Explosive Element, Range 1, Shred 5
66 Power Level 4, Sonic Element, Range 10, Shockwave 2
67 Power Level 4, Metal Element, Range 0, Homing 2
68 Power Level 4, Ice Element, Range 1, Rapid Attack 2
69 Power Level 4, Fire Element, Range 25, Ray 2
70 Power Level 4, Neutral Element, Range 0, Shred 2
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73 Power Level 2, Electricity Element, Range 30, EMP

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74 Power Level 2, Magnetic Element, Range 1, Force Field
75 Power Level 2, Explosive Element, Range 0, Armor Piercing 4
76 Power Level 2, Neutral Element, Range 20, Shockwave 4
77 Power Level 5, Sonic Element, Range 0, Ray 1
78 Power Level 5, Metal Element, Range 0, Shred 1
79 Power Level 5, Ice Element, Range 10, Blast 1
80 Power Level 4, Fluid Element, Range 20, Blowback 2, Blast 2, Start Up
81 Power Level 4, Electricity Element, Range 1, Ray 2, Homing 2, Core Drain
82 Power Level 4, Magnetic Element, Range 0, Blast 2, Shockwave 2, Limited
Ammo 4
83 Power Level 4, Explosive Element, Range 10, EMP, Rapid Attack 2, Inaccurate
84 Power Level 4, Neutral Element, Range 0, Force Field, Armor Piercing 2, Un-
wieldy
85 Power Level 3, Sonic Element, Range 0, Homing 3, Force Field, Full Power
86 Power Level 3, Metal Element, Range 20, Armor Piercing 3, Blast 3, Core Drain
87 Power Level 3, Fire Element, Range 0, Rapid Attack 3, Shockwave 3, Inaccu-
rate
88 Power Level 3, Ice Element, Range 1, Shockwave 3, Ray 3, Full Power
89 Power Level 3, Neutral Element, Range 20, Shred 3, Blast 3, Limited Ammo 4
90 Power Level 2, Fluid Element, Range 1, Rapid Attack 4, Shred 4, Unwieldy
91 Power Level 2, Electricity Element, Range 0, EMP, Homing 4, Start Up
92 Power Level 2, Electricity Element, Range 0, EMP, Ray 4, Core Drain
93 Power Level 2, Magnetic Element, Range 10, Force Field, Shockwave 4, Lim-
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Full Power
96 Power Level 1, Sonic Element, Range 30, Ray 5, EMP, Core Drain
97 Power Level 1, Metal Element, Range 1, Homing 5, Rapid Attack 5, Start Up
98 Power Level 1, Ice Element, Range 0, Blowback 5, Ray 5, Inaccurate
99 Power Level 1, Fire Element, Range 30, Blast 5, Force Field, Full Power
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Rewards and
Experience
The two biggest joys in gaming is taking
down a tough enemy and getting stronger as a
result. This section covers the rewards player
can earn for their characters.
Experience
Experience is what player characters learn
from each fight and each adventure. It allows
them to grow, become more useful, and gener-
ally do more. This is be the primary way charac-
ters get stronger.
Experience is handed out at the end of each
session in the form of Character Points (CP).
Players can spend this CP to improve their char-
acters just as they did during initial character
creation. Experience is earned three ways: Gen-
eral, Battle, and Performance.
General Experience
General experience is earned for various
things. They can be important things, but still
very general none the less. Each of these can
only be earned once per session.
▶▶ Attendance: Gain 1 CP for showing up. Easy.
▶▶ Community: Gain 2 CP for bringing
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something to the game that helps every-
one, like extra dice or snacks.
▶▶ Quirky: Gain 2 CP if any one of your char-
acter’s Quirk caused trouble or was im-
portant to the session.
▶▶ Crowning Moment: Gain 3 CP if you did
something unexpected and helpful. A
funny tactic that made the whole group
laugh or managing to think of a way
around your GM’s plans are great exam-
ples of Crowning Moments.
▶▶ Campaign Milestone: Gain 5 CP when
you complete a story arc, major event, or
milestone in the campaign.
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Battle Experience
Players get experience for each enemy de-
feated that session. Defeated could mean de-
stroyed, subdued or just successfully avoided.
It shouldn’t matter if your players took them
on in hand-to-hand combat, dropped a safe on
them, or managed to stealthily avoid their ene-
my’s attention. Each player should gain the CP
as long as they were present for the fight and ac-
tively participating. Just because one character
is hacking the doors instead of shooting doesn’t
mean he doesn’t earn his share. Different sizes
of enemies are worth different amount of expe-
rience, as shown in the below chart.
▶▶ Littles: Gain 1 CP for every group of Littles
defeated equal to the number of players.
▶▶ Mediums: Gain 1 CP for each Medium
defeated.
▶▶ Bigs: Gain 5 CP for each Big defeated.
▶▶ Bosses: Gain 15 CP for each Boss defeated.
▶▶ Antagonist: Gain 30 CP for each Antago-
nist defeated.
Performance Experience
Performance Experience isn’t determined
by you, the GM, but by your players. There are
three awards, and each player votes who in the
group best represented each award (even them-
selves). You, the GM, are the tie breaker if one is
needed. A single person can’t win two awards in
a single session.
▶▶ The Most Valuable Player Award: Who
was the most useful or most fun player
this session? When the group comes to
an agreement, give that player 5 CP.
▶▶ The Role Playing Award: Who was in char-
acter or made the best decisions (right or
wrong) this session? Give that player 5 CP.
▶▶ Pity Points Award: Who tried their best, but
came up short? Whether it was due to bad luck
or poor planning, who just wasn’t of much
use this session? When the group comes to an
agreement, give that player 5 CP.
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No Gold?
Rewards If you or your players have played a role
If you are feeling generous, or maybe just
playing game before, you are probably used to
because it’s important to the plot, you can hand
receiving money from your battles. From gold to
out rewards. Rewards can be anything, from a
gems to even credits, sometimes you just need
specific Upgrade to a permanent Power Lev-
to kill one more orc to afford that shiny new
el increase to a new Skill. The only real rule for
sword. Too bad you don’t purchase weapons in
these is they must be predetermined. Maybe

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the group rescues an architect, so he decides
money. They use it to buy entertainment, plac-
to share his knowledge. Maybe they raid a G27
es to live and maybe even food, but they never
weapons bunker and get a free Enhancement to
need to use money to improve their character.
a weapon. Maybe someone gets chosen by The
Money is for day to day living, not for combat.
First Mind and now has the Corruption Element.
Money should be handled in character, with
Rewards shouldn’t be very common but your
each character considered to have enough to
players will be happy to receive them.
get by with at any time. Unless they take Poor as
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An introductory mission for new characters
This mission is designed to help new charac-
ters and players get a feel for The Robotic Age.
As such, it should be one of the first missions
you run for your players. If for some reason you
want to run this mission after your group has
earned some more CP, then just remove the
Mook Upgrade from every enemy who has it.
This mission assumes the characters are Shell
Collectors, private security, or some other pseu-
do-mercenary group.
The Set Up
As the droughts grew harsher in the mid-
2000s, the land able to support cattle grew
smaller, which led to a rise in lab grown synthet-
ic beef. The prices of Real Beef, by the pound, are
much more than your average person can spend
on a single meal. There are a few places still sell-
ing “Real Beef”, and the San Monto mega-corpo-
ration owns six of them.
Over the past two weeks, a number of them
have been attacked and their cows stolen. That
is where the players come in, being hired by
Cloaked Pastures, one of the ranches owned
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by San Monto, to act as security. Neighboring
ranches were recently attacked and had their
cattle stolen, so ordering upgraded security just
make sense. Unfortunately, those upgrades ha-
ven’t arrived yet, so the player’s characters have
been hired to fill the gap.
The group isn’t informed of any details about
the other attacks or about San Montos involve-
ment, but anyone who can connect to cyber-
space can spend his time searching for the info.
The other attacks happened in the middle of the
night and managed to steal all the cattle with-
out damage to the exterior buildings or showing
up on any surveillance devices.
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Scene 1:
The Group Arrives
Cloaked Pastures is a 2,000 acre fortress,
surrounded by a 10-foot high concrete wall and
topped by a translucent dome designed to keep
excess heat out and hide the number of cattle
inside. The only way inside is through a set of
steel reinforced freight doors next to the main
office.
The group arrives in the late afternoon and
meets the ranch manager Eddie Dallas, a bald
android built tall and lanky, but also incredibly
friendly. He gives each member of the group an
ID tag to attach to any piece of clothing and is
automatically read by all Support Units working
on the ranch. As long as they have the tag on
their person, they are identified as employees of
Cloaked Pastures.
Eddie gives the group a quick tour inside to
get a better idea of what they are guarding. The
majority of the ranch is open grassland with a
few scattered shade trees. At the corners of the
enclosure is a different building: one for milking,
one for birthing, one for medical care and check-
ups, and the forth to hold Roscoe. As Eddie ex-
plains, Roscoe is the current eldest bull and
shouldn’t be wandering around the ranch on his
own. “He’s reaching that age where he just hates
everything.”
The cattle are directed by flying drones that
float around the enclosure and scan unique IR
codes on each cow’s brand to make sure it’s
caught up on its schedule. These drones are
armed with Power Level 1 Electric Cattle Prods
to give the cows a little pinch to direct them to
one of the four corner buildings. There are also
similar floating drones that encircle the dome,
scanning for anything outside. Instead of cattle
prods, they are armed with rifles, but they hav-
en’t had to take any shots yet, so Eddie is sure

this whole thing is an overreaction. The securi-
ty drones always stay near the walls and dome,
so they won’t get in the way of the caretaker
drones.
There are currently 400 cows and 100 bulls,
including Roscoe, inside the mostly automated
ranch. The group just has to stand around and,
on the slight chance there is an attack, assist the
security drones with repelling the attackers. Be-
fore sunrise, Eddie will return to meet the securi-
ty upgrades delivery and the group will get paid.
Easy money.
Eddie answers any questions about the
ranch, but knows no details about the other at-
tacks and won’t have anything to say about San
Monto (positive or negative). Once everyone is
clear about their job, he wishes them good luck
and leaves.
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Scene 2: The Attack
At this point, the group has a moment to
make their own plan for keeping the place safe.
Maybe they split up to have eyes in more plac-
es, maybe they inspect the walls and drones
for weaknesses, or maybe they discuss tipping
a cow. Make sure to emphasize how much time
is passing while they are planning, because it’s
going to be hours of mingling with cows before
anything happens. The characters don’t find any
overt vulnerability other than perhaps the front
gate and detect nothing out of the ordinary.
Then suddenly, somewhere in the middle
of the enclosure, the ground splits apart and
a giant ‘bot emerges. The Tunneler X3-431 is a
quadruped construction robot, standing 8 feet
tall with four arms, two with large drills and two
with shovels.

Tunneler X3-431
Size: Big, Structure (Number of players x
100), Core 100
Combat: Melee 55, Deflect 35, Structure Ar-
mor 1
Fighting Style: No Style
Skills: Digging 55
Abilities: Increased Strength 20
Upgrades: Registry Blocker,
Anchored 2
Weapons: Drills
(Power Level 3, Met-
al Element, Range 1

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yard, Rapid Attack 1, Ar-
mor Piercing 2), Shovels
(Power Level 2, Neutral
Element, Range 1 yard,
Rapid Attack 3)

It immediately at-
tacks anyone who ap-
proaches, and the cows
and bulls in the enclo-
sure start walking to-
ward the hole the Tun-
neler made. Those with
Enhanced Perception
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coming from out of the hole attracting the cows
(no check needed). Two cows disappear down
the hole every Round of combat. If your players
are clever, they will figure out several things they
can do that will help with the ensuing battle.
The security drones haven’t noticed the Tun-
neler, because it’s not near a wall or outside the
dome. Luring even just one to the Tunneler will
register it as a non-employee and snap the rest
of the drones to attention. They fire simultane-
ously with an effective Ranged Skill of 50 and
Power Level 5. They will not leave the ranch or
go down the hole.
The caretaker drones are still active. Regis-
tering the Tunneler as a cow means three care-
taker drones will start electrically prodding it
along. They will not leave the ranch or go down
the hole.
A player near the main office can go inside,
as long as they are still reading as employees,
and use hacking to redirect all the drones to
the Tunneler. If everyone is near the Tunneler
when it emerges, they are about 1 mile away
from the main office. Someone with a high In-
creased Speed can reach it in just a few turns if
they book it.
Roscoe sees the Tunneler as a rival and he
will charge it if he’s let free. Roscoe’s Horns will
have an Unarmed Skill of 50 and Power Level 4
and he will attack the Tunneler until it is dead.
The tough part after that is getting Roscoe back
into his pen.
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When the Tunneler has taken half its Struc-
ture in damage, it retreats back into the hole,
sealing in any cows that have gone down the
tunnel. If the group chooses NOT to follow
the Tunneler, it collapses the tunnel behind it.
Though their employers might like to know how
their cows are being taken, they won’t be hap-
py to hear the group just let it escape with any
number of cows.
If the group decides to go after the Tunnel-
er, they get a +10 modifier to hit the thing, as
it takes up almost the entire tunnel width. The
Tunneler is retreating downwards, but still at-
tacks anyone within range. Any characters high-
er in the tunnel are attacked by the shovels,
while anyone who managed to get in front of the
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Tunneler is fighting its drills. Once the Tunneler
reaches the staging area at the bottom, it stops
and fights until defeated or it has destroyed the
group. The tone attracting the cows stops once
the Tunneler is destroyed as well.
Once in the staging area, a few things are ob-
vious. The walls and floor are steel, with lights
lining the walls, a giant pile of dirt pushed to
the side, and a double-wide archway with cow
tracks heading in. If anyone in the group has
Enhanced Perception, Geology, Demolitions, or
any other acceptable Skill, they may make a roll.
A success means they notice another two dirt
walls before entering the base proper, and they
can tell that dirt had been dug up and repacked,
as if they were other tunnels that were sealed.
It is clear the old tunnels would have traveled
north and west (the directions of the neighbor-
ing ranches).
Scene 3:
The Receiving Room
This completely manmade room has a con-
crete floor, and a few interesting features:
▶▶ There is no connection to cyberspace,
due to the thick walls and being under-
ground.
▶▶ A large signal antenna is set up by the
front, the source of the tone.
▶▶ A large vault door directly across from
them.
▶▶ Two caretaker drones, though clearly not
belonging to Cloaked Pastures, walking
on long spider legs.
▶▶ Two darkened hallways on either end of
the room. They are labeled in Hebrew,
one for Cows and one for Bulls.
▶▶ Hidden behind ceiling tiles and only no-
ticeable by using an Energy Scanner, are
defensive turrets. There are an equal
number of turrets as there are players.

Auto Turret
Size: Little, Structure 25, Core 25
Combat: Ranged 40
Fighting Style: Marksman
Upgrades: Mook, Anchored 3, Point Blank
Weapons: Auto Rifle (Power Level 2, Neutral
Element, Range 10 yards, Homing 1, Ray 1)
Depending on how long the fight with the
Tunneler lasted, there are either lines of cat-
tle being directed into one of the two hallways
by the caretaker drones or the group is in time
the end of the line as they enter. The caretaker
drones do not acknowledge the group. If at-
tacked, Auto Turrets descend from the ceiling
and fire upon anyone who would stop the care-
taker drones from doing their jobs. The caretak-
er drones, being simple Support Units, can also
be hacked to instead heard the cattle back up
the tunnel. This will not activate the turrets.
If anyone in the group figures out the signal
antenna was the source of the cow luring tone,
destroying it is a good idea. No roll is necessary,
as it’s not reinforced enough to take more than
one hit, but destroying it causes the Auto Turrets
to activate.
The large vault-like door has an access panel
that can be hacked, as well. Due to its complex
coding language, all hacking attempts suffer a
-10 penalty. A failed attempt to hack activates
the Auto Turrets. The door is extremely heavy
and reinforced, with 60 Structure and Structure
Armor 2. It is possible to destroy the door, which
of course activates the Auto Turrets. The door
leads to the Control room.
If the group doesn’t get the door open then
there is only two ways to go, the Bull Hallway
and the Cow Hallway.
Scene 4a: Bull Hallway
As they step into the Bull Hallway, the group
notices it is dimly lit, a bit colder than the pre-
vious hallway, and the floor is a conveyor belt
slowly moving them forward into the base.
Shortly, panels in the walls open up and various
spinning saws and slashing knives strike out, at-
tempting to slaughter the group for market.
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Every character in the hallway needs to
make three Dodge rolls to avoid the attacks.
Having the Dash Upgrade (page 46) or an In-
creased Speed 20+ both reduce the number of
rolls needed by 1. Each failed roll means the
slaughter machine automatically hit with Power
Level 3 with Armor Piercing 3 attack that cannot
be Dodged or Deflected.
The conveyor belt is coming to a stop soon
and will drop the group down a large chute if
they don’t react quickly. They see a large win-
dow looking into what appears to be an obser-
vation room, which could work as an escape.
The window only has 5 Structure, and the con-
veyer belt is moving slow enough to just hop off
of when the glass is broken.
If they decide to fall down the chute they will
land in a refrigerated, pitch black container with
all the meat of any bulls they didn’t rescue. The
only way out is back up the way they came or
until someone decides to load up the container,
which won’t be for hours.
Scene 4b: Cow Hallway
As they step into the Cow Hallway, the con-
veyor belt floor slowly moves them forward.
Ahead are countless stalls lining the hallway and
dangling cattle prods next to each one, attempt-
ing to move anything in the conveyor belt into it
to be milked. These arms are very obvious and
don’t have much range, so no rolls are necessary
to avoid them, but anyone not paying attention
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or caught off guard will get hit by a Power Level
1 Electricity Element weapon. If there is already
a cow in the stall, the cattle pods retract up to
the ceiling until needed.
The conveyor takes them around the corner
where they can see a large glass window looking
into an observation room. The glass has 5 Struc-
ture, which can be broken and hopped through
easily. If, for some reason, they decide to ride
the conveyor all the way down they encoun-
ter the end of the conveyor, which is the same
slaughter machine and meat chute as in the bull
hallway.
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Observation Rooms
Both observation rooms are emp-
ty and identical, with plenty of places
to sit and coffee tables for writing sur-
faces. The south wall of both rooms is
a large white board where observers
have noted cattle conditions, expected
meat yield, and scheduling updates.
According to the notes, a full shipment
is expected to go out tonight, some-
time before early morning, and “Com-
mander Dallas will be unavailable
during tonight’s collection.”
The hallways out of the observa-
tion lead either back to the Control
Room or further into shipping. If the
group has gone this far without activat-
ing the Auto Turrets, then the hallways
are clear and can be walked through. If
the Auto Turrets were activated, how-
ever, then each hallway has an Auto
Turret of its own
that is waiting for
intruders.
ed, the troops in this room are ready to fight the
group, otherwise they are still at the computer
stations. There are a number of androids equal
to half the size of the group (rounded up). The
troops will fight to the death to defend the com-
puter work stations but one trooper will activate
the Auto Turrets throughout the base, if they ha-
ven’t been already, when he gets the chance.
Emet-Met Shock Troop
Size: Medium, Structure 50, Core 50
Combat: Melee 55, Deflect 40, Hand Held
Shield 3
Fighting Style: Defender
Skills: Language (English) 40, Language (He-
brew) 40, Electronics 50
Upgrades: Mook, Energy Scanner
Weapons: Shock Stick (Power Level 2, Neu-
tral Element, Range 0, EMP, Homing 2, Ray 2)

Scene 4c:
Control
Room
The group can get
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into the control room

by hacking the vault
door or ending up
there from either the
Bull or Cow Hallway.
The control room isn’t
very big, just enough
room for about five
people and two com-
puter work stations.
The androids in here
are wearing brown
military uniforms and
have square, box-like
helmets covering their
heads. If the Auto Tur-
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After the battle is over, computers that sur- number of players turns off their Cloak Upgrade
vived the fight can be accessed. The informa- and aids the Base Guardian in this fight.
tion on the screen is in Hebrew, but even with-
out knowing the language, they appear to be Emet-Met Base Guardian
inventory and shipping spread sheets. It is also, Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
probably, the first time the group has seen the Combat: Ranged 35, Dodge 35, Structure Ar-
Emet-Met logo and name, even if they can’t read mor 1
what it is yet. With a difficult Extended Action 6 Fighting Style: Marksman
hacking roll allows them to download the entire Skills: Language (English) 40, Language (He-
list to translate later. Failing the hack test acti- brew) 30
vates the Auto Turrets in the base if this some- Abilities: Increased Perception 40
how isn’t already the case. Upgrades: Charge, Energy Scanner
Weapons: Custom Issue Rifle (Power Level
3, Fire Element, Range 20 yards, Homing 2,
Scene 5: Ray 2)
Shipping Room
This area is where they col- Seeker Bats
lect the crates of milk and meat, Size: Little, Structure 25,
load them onto trucks, and Core 25
haul it all away. The Ship- Combat: Unarmed 40,
ping Room is pretty large, Dodge 30
with lots of room to move Fighting Style: No Style
around and six idling semi- Abilities: Increased Speed
trucks waiting to be filled 10
up. You can also see a ramp Upgrades: Mook, Cloak,
leading outside where the Energy Scanner, Unlimited
trucks can leave and Flight
enter the base. Anyone Weapons: Seeker Claws (Power
with Energy Scanner can Level 1, Metal Element, Range 0,
tell the walls are glowing Armor Piercing 1)
with power sources. Wait-
ing for the group, whether The bats swarm the
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is the Base Guardian. He is standing on top of time to get charged shots off. If the Base Guard-
one of the trucks with direct sight to the group ian is brought to 25% Structure or Core, he puts
and has rifle in hand. his rifle down and pulls out a small transmitter.
If allowed to speak, and not just fired upon With a push of a button, all the lights in the com-
instantly, he says the following: “You all have re- plex turn red and a countdown is announced
ally messed up now. Do you even know who you over the speakers in Hebrew.
are attacking? If you did, you would know you
are dead already. Emet-Met won’t let you just
walk away from this.” He offers any androids in
Scene 6: Escape!!!
The group now has 6 Rounds (one minute) to
the group a chance to join “the glorious android
get out of the base before it explodes. The Base
uprising” as long as they prove themselves by
Guardian won’t attack anymore and accepts his
killing any humans and cyborgs in the group.
fate going down with the base, but the Seeker
Assuming no one takes this offer seriously,
Bats won’t let up. There are a few ways to han-
battle begins and the tiles on the walls shim-
dle this situation:
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▶▶ Get the heck out: The obvious answer
is to hop in a truck and make an exciting
getaway, while the base explodes behind
them, but that might not be what the
group does.
▶▶ Stop the Bomb: Any character with the
Demolitions Skill can roll once to figure
out the best place the explosives would
be (they are under the floor in the con-
trol room) and another roll to disarm
them once they get to it. This option
saves all the computer’s data, as well as
any cows and cow-based products. This
bomb cannot be hacked, as it is not con-
nected to any of the computer systems.
▶▶ Leave the way you came: The
group may want to run back
up the tunnel to Cloaked
Pastures, but any Auto
Turrets not already dealt
with are still active and
it takes 2 Turns just to
run up the tunnel, let
alone to get there from
Shipping.
Conclusion
The sun is rising as the group reaches the
surface. The security upgrades have arrived, as
well as a number of other ranch workers, but
no one seems to know what happened to Eddie
Dallas. The group is paid either way, but they get
a bonus if they managed to not lose any cattle
and can live it up for the next month.
If info from the Control Room was retrieved,
or the base remained intact, they are able to go
back and find someone to translate what they
got. It shows this group, Emet-Met, has hit four
cattle ranches in the last month, all owned by
San Monto. They have been stealing cattle,
harvesting them, and selling them off for huge
profits. Buyer’s names are all pseudonyms with
no real info stored, but it’s clear there are only
three names on the list with each buying almost
an entire ranch full of cows each. Only a dozen
or so people in the world would be
able to afford that kind of expense.

If the bomb explodes, any-

one still in the Control or Ob-
servation Rooms is instantly
killed. Anyone in the Shipping
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or Receiving Rooms takes Power Level

10, Armor Piercing 10, while anyone
still in the tunnel or the exit ramp takes
a Power Level 5, Armor Piercing 5 hit.
This damage cannot be Dodged or De-
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A cyberspace mission of swords and dragons
This mission might last a few sessions de-
pending on how long your group plays. Your
players will be exploring areas on their own
and finding temporary rewards that are power-
ful, but only useable in this mission. The entire
mission takes place in cyberspace and offers
brand new avatars to pick from as well. These
avatars are usable anywhere in cyberspace, but
can only be found in the gaming coliseum in this
adventure.
The Setup
Lestan Petit, a 17-year old hacker and avid
gamer, stumbled on cyberspace’s most danger-
ous secret: The First Mind. He was fascinated by
the consciousness in the code and its ability to
control viruses. Using the First Mind as a model,
he created his own virus with the ability to link
to other viruses and command them in a similar
fashion. He soon began amassing an army of vi-
ruses under his sway, which made the First Mind
very angry.
Records show the days following to be filled
with massive virus attacks on almost everything
in cyberspace. Eye witnesses described the pure
chaos continuing until a section of personal blog
space (including Lestan’s) was destroyed and
most of the viruses simply disappearing. Les-
tan underestimated the amount of force behind
The First Mind and was forced to retreat with his
master virus in tow.
Lestan fled to his favorite massively multi-
player online game, Sorcerers by the Sea, hop-
ing to lose the First Mind in the highly populat-
ed game. He settled in quickly, using his master
virus to carve out a small section of the game
world as his own. Now he tries to corrupt more
and more of the game to create an even stronger
virus army before The First Mind can catch on.
The First Mind already knows, but has decid-
ed on another route. Posing as various news and
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police sources, she has promised large rewards
for whoever destroys the master virus and dis-
covers the hacker’s real life whereabouts. The
war will end quickly with this information.
The Mission
The group has received a police or bounty
notice for a human named Lestan Petit, a report-
ed dangerous hacker who has been unleashing
viruses on cyberspace. His exact location is un-
known, but he has been spotted somewhere in
the cyberspace gaming coliseum, Sorcerers by
the Sea. The bounty is very high, enough to put
a down payment on a small house or new legs,
and requests any viruses found near Lestan to
be destroyed and Lestan himself to be hit with
a Location Tracker that allows him to be located
in real life.
A single free Location Tracker weapon up-
grade has been provided to the group, and can
be attached to any avatar, personal or other-
wise, with a general action.
Location Tracker
(Cost 40 CP)
When someone with this upgrade
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successfully damages an avatar in cy-
berspace, that avatar gains the Marked
Quirk. If an avatar with Marked logs
out within the next hour, the target’s
location in the real world is instantly
relayed to whoever marked them.
If anyone in the group decides to skim for
some research, they discover it’s hard to find
any information on Lestan. His personal blog
was recently destroyed in a virus rampage and
most other info has been overtly deleted, prob-
ably by his own hands. The only other informa-
tion is a single post from a Sorcerers of the Sea
message board.
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trial passes and
have to wait in line
to re-enter, just
like everyone else.
Any calls of “Noob”
from those wait-
ing at line towards
characters using
the pass are highly
appropriate.
Once inside
the characters are
offered new ava-
tars, which gain
the same +30 CP
as base avatars.
These are entirely
optional and peo-
ple can keep their
old avatars if they
“Look, we all know Sorcerers are the dev’s fa- wish. These new avatars can even be used out-
vorite class but that doesn’t mean they are OP. I side of the game, but the characters wouldn’t
know Death Legion has tons of Skirmishers and have access to them unless they have been to
Sneaks that are just as useful as us Sorcerers. this game before. Once the characters choose
I bet there are dozens of guilds that can say the their avatar and log in, they appear on the
same thing.” streets of Port City.
-Posted Dec 21st, 2112 by Lestan “Smalls”
Petit- Skirmisher
100 Core capacity
Once the group has decided who will equip Abilities: Increased Strength 10
the Location Tracker they can log in and travel Weapons: Magic Sword (Neutral Element,
to the gaming coliseum. Range 1, Power Level 3, Armor Piercing 1)
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Sneak
Sorcerers of the Sea 100 Core capacity
This game is one of the most popular colise-
Abilities: Increased Agility 20
ums in cyberspace and attracts millions of play-
Upgrades: Dash, Reflex Dash
ers every month. Sorcerers of the Sea is a fan-
Weapons: Hidden Blade (Neutral Element,
tasy adventure game where players join groups
Range 0, Power Level 2, Rapid Attack 1)
known as guilds to explore the land finding trea-
sure and fighting monsters along the way.
Due to its popularity there is currently a Sorcerer
queue to get inside. As the group reaches the 100 Core capacity
entry point, bright floating notices say the aver- Upgrades: Charge, Point Blank
age wait time is 30 minutes, but new users can Weapons: Wand of Fireball (Fire Element,
get a one-time pass to skip the line and demo Range 10, Power Level 2, Blast 1, Full Power)
the game. Once the characters have been inside
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Location 1: Port City
Port City is the central hub for the game. Lo-
cated on the southwestern coast, new players
start quests and veterans hang out to trade and
sell gear from here. The city is full of people ei-
ther rushing from place to place or gathering in
small groups around large digital exclamation
points. The avatars here are just as varied as the
rest of cyberspace, except everyone is wearing
armor ranging from overly elaborate to barely
there. Most are on foot, but some ride large cats
or small dragons. Your group quickly notices ev-
eryone in game has their name appear in digital
letters above their heads, and some have a guild
association listed behind their name.
The city itself is huge, with towers on all sides
and a huge wall along its border. Designed as an
exaggeration of medieval times, the homes are
wooden or stone and lanterns are the standard
lighting choice. There are a dozen cobblestone
streets snaking away from the square, but the
main road comes in from the north and contin-
ues to the southern ports where ships sit station-
ary. Most of the buildings are just for show, but
others are shops selling various fantasy weap-
ons, spells, and items. The stores require a large
amount of in-game currency for purchases, cur-
rency no one in your group has earned yet.
At this point your group needs to figure out
where Lestan Petit is. If they discovered his fo-
rum post they might have figured out he plays
a Sorcerer named Smalls for the Death Legion
Guild. If not they may have to ask around or just
start exploring and see where they end up. They
might need a nudge back to the plot here or
there, but they might just find everything they
need on their own if they stay focused.
Asking around isn’t really an options, as
most of the other people in game are too fo-
cused on their own issues to help, but listening
in on already ongoing conversations is a possi-
bility. Some are arguing game mechanics, some
are offering items for trade, and others seem
to be acting in a play. Many are also gossiping
about the new black spire that appeared a few
days ago, with some excited for whatever might
be inside and others complained they added
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something new before finishing the castle dun-
geon. One person is shouting for a group to help
them clear out the Abandoned Mines.
Checking around, the group eventually
meets one person willing to help: a Skirmisher
named Alyxis, wearing very thin chainmail and
carrying a giant sword. She remembers when
she was a noob and needed help, and tries to
be as helpful as possible. She offers a map of
the game along with two Potions of Healing so
they can stay safe. She hasn’t heard of Lestan,
but tells them guild registry is in Ridge Town, a
known hangout for the Death Legion Guild, and
they can find out his guild from there if they
don’t know it already. Guild members can al-
ways find out where other guild members are,
so if he is in this game then his guild will be able
to find them.
Potions of Healing
These items are found throughout
Sorcerers of the Sea and can remove 10
+ 2d10 damage when used. They disap-
pear after they are used or if taken out-
side Sorcerers of the Sea.
The Open Plains
Heading to Ridge Town means taking the
dirt road that goes through the Open Plains.
This area is almost featureless grasslands with
the sea visible to the west and the Old Woods off
to the east.
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Every so often, the group will see another
player or two fighting some of the local wildlife a
few paces from the road, mostly wild boars and
wolves. As long as they stay on the road, random
creatures won’t attack the group. If the group in-
sists on attacking, then the wolves and boars are
both Littles with the Mook Upgrade and Power
Level 2 Unarmed weapons. They aren’t worth
CP, and they each only drop a single coin of in
game currency, so make sure they don’t spend
all their time grinding.
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Location 2: Ridge Town
Looking like a smaller version of Port City,
Ridge Town is built into the mountain ridge sur-
rounding the game world and can only be en-
tered through its massive front gate. The wall
around Ridge Town is 30 feet high and leaves
only the tallest buildings visible behind it. Nor-
mally, the gate is kept open to allow constant
travel, but is now heavily barricaded and sur-
rounded by Orcs.
Orcs are pig-men barbarians with green skin
who stand a foot taller than average people.
They carry crude axes and swords and normal-
ly patrol their own camp to the east, but they
also raid Ridge Town once a week, an event the
group has shown up just in time for. Until the
orcs are defeated or driven off the only way into
Ridge Town is to fly.
Right now there are 10 players with their
backs to the gate fighting off 50 orcs. Five more
players are at the top of the wall firing spells and
arrows down on the orcs. It looks like the play-
ers are winning, but it will take them some time.
Your group jumping in will make things move
along much faster, obviously. A successful In-
creased Perception or Investigation roll means
the group notices two important things: he becomes very friendly. If asked about Les-
A member of Death Legion, Adrian Cold, is
one of the players fighting the Orcs. He doesn’t
have much back up and the orcs are on the verge
of overwhelming him and logging him out.
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One of the orcs is much larger than the oth-
ers, wearing a horned helmet, and carrying two
huge axes. The name above his head is Guillo-
tine, Orc Warchief.
Orc Barbarians
Size: Little, Core 25
Combat: Melee 66
Fighting Style: No Style
Abilities: Increased Durability 30, Increased
Strength 20
Upgrades: Mook, Reinforced
Weapons: Orc Blade (Power Level 1, Neutral
Element, Range 0, Armor Piercing 3)
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Guillotine, Orc Warchief
Size: Big, Core (1/2 Players x 100)
Combat: Melee 66, Deflect 25
Fighting Style: Heavy Hitter
Abilities: Increased Durability 40, Increased
Strength 20
Upgrades: Mook, Charge, Reinforced
Weapons: Warchief Axes (Power Level 3,
Neutral Element, Range 1, Homing 2, Ray 2, Rap-
id Attack 1)
The orcs retreat if three groups of the Bar-
barians are defeated by your group or if the
Warchief is taken out. If the Warchief is defeated,
he drops a number of glowing orbs equal to the
number of players in your group. The orbs are la-
beled Loot and each one turns into a shirt made
of tanned leather that perfectly fits whoever
touches it and grants Core Armor 2. They won’t
stack with other Leather Armors, but will stack
with any Core Armor the player may already
have. This armor only works inside Sorcerers by
the Sea, and will disappear if taken outside.
After The Fight
If the group actively tried to help Adrian Cold,
tan, he performs a search and discovers Lestan
is currently located at the Black Spire, the new
area that appeared in game just recently. He fig-
ures Lestan, like a lot of players, is trying to find
a way in. If pressed, he’ll mention he hasn’t ac-
tually spoken to Lestan in over a week, and that
Lestan isn’t responding to private messages.
Ridge Town, although smaller than Port City,
is just as full of people chatting, trading, and
selling items. The marketplace is the first thing
inside the main gate and the Guild Registry can
be seen on the far side behind the fountain. Next
to the fountain is a group of six players loudly
discussing their strategy to reach the Dark Spire
and find their way inside past the zombies, skel-
etons, and other undead monsters they expect
to face.
The Guild Registry is a large library with a
central desk and two oversized ledgers open on
them. One it used to search for specific players

or guilds, directing the searcher to the book with
the information they seek. The other is used to
register new guilds, and creates a new book in
the library with all the guild members when one
is formed.
If the group uses the search ledger for Les-
tan, it points them to the Death Legion book on
the north wall. The book lists all active mem-
bers, founding members, and gives the option
to apply to join, but does not give member lo-
cations. The players can either use this to try to
contact Lestan (he won’t answer) or one of the
other members. If they apply to join, they are
privately contacted by Adrian Cold who is sur-
prised how many people are wanting to join. As
long as the group is up front about just wanting
information, he will be just as helpful as if they
helped him against the orcs.
The group, without a clear direction at this
point, now needs to explore the world a bit for
more clues. They can choose from a number of
locations, each giving a different clue to where
Lestan may be hiding.
The Orc Camp
This area used to be part of the Old
Woods until the orcs logged and burnt
most of it down. Now there is just the
orc camp surrounded by a wall of logs
and wooden pikes. Inside are oversized
tents, cooking pits, and scatterings of
loose weapons. If the players made
the orcs retreat without beating the
Warchief, then he will be waiting here
alone. Otherwise the camp is empty
and huge digital letters hang above the
camp reading “Time to Reset: 0:37:22”.
If the players reach the camp before
they go to Ridge Town then the camp
is still empty, but the digital letters will
say “Event in Progress”.
Location 3:
The Old Woods
This forest takes up the majority of the
game world, stretching from the Orc camp all
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the way to the Way Station. The woods are filled
with thick bushes and dead leaves, lots of dark-
ness, and coated in spider webs. It also lacks
any roads to make travel safer. The local wildlife
in the woods are spiders bigger than your head.
They are generally docile, but they become Lit-
tles that travel alone and have Power Level 2
bites with Shred 5 in combat. They also give 0
CP when defeated.
There are two events that take place in
the woods, but they shouldn’t happen on the
same trip. Save one for the group’s second trip
through the woods.
The Rivals
The group encounters three other players
from a guild called The Einherjar Organization,
instantly recognizable as the name of a famous
paramilitary group. They are usually employed
by Gleipnir Memory and Power as asset protec-
tors and are well known for their liberal use of
force. It becomes obvious they are here with a
similar purpose, to flush out Lestan Petit. If the
Einherjars learn the group is after Lestan as well,
they will attack in hopes of forcing the group to
log off and buy themselves time. The Einherjars
will retreat if one of their members is defeated
and logged off due to damage.
The Muscle
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
Combat: Unarmed 50, Dodge 35
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Fighting Style: Berserker
Abilities: Increased Strength 40, Increased
Durability 20
Skills: Demolitions 40, Command 40
Armor: Structure Armor 5, Core Armor 1
Upgrades: Dash, Customized, Assimilate
Weapon
Weapons: Titanium Tonfas (Power Level 3,
Range 0, Neutral Element, Rapid Attack 1)
The Brains
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
Combat: Ranged 50, Dodge 35
Fighting Style: Marksman
Abilities: Increased Perception 40, Increased
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Speed 20 Skeleton Virus
Skills: Mechanics 40, Piloting 40, Electronics 40 Size: Little, Core 50
Armor: Core Armor 2 Combat: Melee 55
Upgrades: Wireless Brain, Digital Telepathy, Fighting Style: Defender
Personalized Avatar, Counter Measures 2, Cus- Armor: Hand Held Shield 5
tomized Upgrades: Mook, Corruption Protection
Weapons: Laser Pistol (Power Level 3, Range Weapons: Cursed Sword (Power Level 2,
10 yards, Fire Element, Shred 2) Range 0, Energy, Corruption Element)

The Right Hand
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100 Location 4:
Combat: Melee 66, Deflect 20
Fighting Style: Speedster
The Abandoned Mines
The Abandoned Mines, located along the
Abilities: Increased Agility 20, Increased mountain ridge east of the orc camp and past
Jump 20, Slow Fall 40 the river, are a dungeon where groups of play-
Skills: Driving 40, Charm 40 ers fight to reach the bottom and collect the
Armor: Structure Armor 2, treasures within. Standing outside the
Core Armor 1 Abandoned Mines is a Sorcerer
Upgrades: Personalized named Lynn Huddleston who
Avatar, Customized, Charge has been looking for people
Weapons: Retract- who can help her face the dan-
able Glaive (Power Level gers in the Mine. If she spots the
3, Range 1, Magnetic Ele- group, she also begs for their help.
ment, Armor Piercing 2, She’s managed to clear out a lot of
Homing 2) the minor enemies, but keeps dy-
ing when facing the boss mon-
The Scouts ster below. She only has one
The group enters a avatar left not waiting to
clearing where they en- reconfigure and is will-
counter a group of skeletal ing to offer the group
enemies armed with swords and first pick from the trea-
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shields. These enemies are actu- sure if they help out.

ally viruses, coded to blend into Lynn uses the standard
the game world and ordered by Sorcerer avatar with
Lestan to spread their corrup- Ranged 50 and Dodge
tion in the woods. The skele- 60.
tons have just finished killing a The Abandoned
bunch of the giant spiders whose Mines are cavernous,
corpses turn into skeletons them- with dozens of mine
selves. There are now twice as many carts scattered around
skeletal enemies as there are players and a row of lanterns along
in the group, and they attack once the walls lead the group
they catch a glimpse of the group. deeper. As Lynn men-
tioned there aren’t any
enemies roaming around,
she managed to clear
them all out and they have
yet to respawn yet. It won’t take
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long to reach the bottom where they will find
a giant pile of gold nuggets. If any of the group
approaches the pile, the nuggets form into a
vaguely human shape about 10 feet tall with a
single menacing eye.
Yellow Golem
Size: Big, Core (Players x 100)
Combat: Unarmed 50, Deflect 30
Fighting Style: Deceiver
Abilities: Increased Durability 50
Upgrades: Anchored 5, Fire Protection 1,
Reach
Weapons: Golden Fists (Power Level 4, Range
1, Neutral Element, Blast 1, Rapid Attack 1)
When the Golem is defeated it falls back into
a pile and drops a glowing orb for each player.
True to her word, Lynn allows the group to pick
first. The treasure consists of a Ruby Key, a Po-
tion of Healing for each player and the following:
Amulet of Power
When worn, grants the user the Charge
Weapon Upgrade. If the user already
has Charge, they gain Overcharge. This
item cannot be used outside Sorcer-
ers by the Sea and disappears if taken
outside.
Magic Sword +1
Power Level 3, Range 1, Neutral Ele-
ment, Armor Piercing 2, Shred 2
Wand of Fireblast
Power Level 2, Range 10, Fire Element,
Blast 2
Lynn is disappointed at the loot, since her
main avatar is a Sneak and she was hoping to
find improved Hidden Blades. If asked about
the Ruby Key, she says she heard it helps unlock
that new Black Spire dungeon, but she’s not in-
terested in it until her friends log in later tonight.
She had a hard enough time getting a group for
this dungeon and has decided to stick to gam-
ing only when her regular guild is available. She
then thanks the group and logs off for dinner.
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Location 5:
The Unfinished Castle
This gigantic castle is located on the
South-Eastern edge of the Old Woods and it is
very obvious why it is called the Unfinished Cas-
tle. Every brick in the castle is a different color
and shade from the bricks around it. Although
two towers can be seen on the edges of the cas-
tle, the left one is missing its top floor and the
right one is missing most of its outer wall. There
is a lever clearly placed to open the drawbridge
and allow access, but it opens only a foot be-
fore closing again when pulled. There are sev-
eral openings along the walls, but they are all
blocked by invisible walls that prevent all ac-
cess.
There is one person who knows how to get
into the Unfinished Castle, but unless the group
has been to The Old Shack then they haven’t
met them yet. If they know the way in then con-
tinue down below.
The interior of the Unfinished Castle isn’t the
rainbow it was outside, but rather pure white
walls, floors, and objects outlined in thick black
lines. The words “Texture Missing” can be seen
on literally everything. From the looks of the
pure white fountains with no water in them, and
the trees as flat as paper when viewed from an
angle, it seems the first area is a courtyard. Once
inside the courtyard, a DDoS virus swarm (page
80) attacks the group.
On the other side of the courtyard are large
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double doors that fall apart into code when
touched and lead to the throne room. Pure white
pillars border this large room, two thrones can
be seen at the end of a long red carpet, and in
the center is the Macro Virus the group was told
about. It seems to be guarding the only item in
the castle with color and texture to it: a sword
driven into a pedestal. The blade of the sword
is completely invisible leaving only the gem en-
crusted hilt sticking up. The Macro Virus (page
95) moves forward and away from the sword
to attack the group. It takes a general action to
draw the sword from the pedestal.
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The Unfinished
Sword
Power Level 4, Range 0, Anti-Virus
Element, Armor Piercing 2
Anti-Virus Element
The sword’s Anti-Virus Element was created
by pure accident in the code of the Unfinished
Castle. Its only property is that it trumps the
Corruption Element, which makes the weap-
on effectively Power Level 5 when used against
most viruses. The sword itself cannot leave Sor-
cerers by the Sea and disappears forever if taken
outside. However, if anyone took the Assimilate
Element Upgrade (page 50) then it’s going to be
their lucky day.
Location 6:
The Dark Swamp
This area is wet, vast, and feels even empti-
er then the old woods. The water comes about
a half-calf high and thin trees grow from it at
odd intervals. Even though the sky can be seen
clearly, the entire area is lit to appear as sunset.
Digital bugs swarm the area, but are little more
than a nuisance. The local wildlife are crocodiles
which, like the spiders and wolves before them,
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don’t give any CP. They have Power Level 2 bites
with Rapid Attack 1.
In the swamp, the group is also ambushed
by any remaining members of The Einherjar Or-
ganization. If the group has had to wait for one
of their own members to rejoin the game, then
the Einherjar’s have their missing members
back as well.
The Lonely Shack
In the center of the Dark Swamp sits a single
shack built on a mound of dirt. The shack has a
chimney with billowing smoke and a single door
that opens as the group approaches. A sweet el-
derly voice calls to anyone outside to come rest
inside and heal any injuries.
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The interior of the shack is a mess with scat-
tered books, old furniture, and empty bottles
scatted all over the floor. An old woman supports
herself with a cane next to the fireplace where
a tea kettle sits. Perceptive characters may no-
tice that, unlike everyone else, she doesn’t have
a name visible above her head. She greats the
group kindly and asks if anyone needs some tea
to sooth their wounds. Anyone who says yes is
handed a cup of tea that heals all Core damage
their avatar has taken.
The old woman tells them she knows the
group is after Lestan, but also knows Lestan is
currently unreachable in the Black Spire. She is
willing to help the group get inside, but only if
they help her first. If asked who she is, she only
responds “someone very familiar with the inner
workings of this game”. She implies she is a de-
veloper, but is in reality The First Mind trying to
make sure her plan succeeds.
If the group agrees to her help, she informs
them the Black Spire requires two keys to gain
access, one of ruby and one of jade. The ruby
key can be found at the bottom of the Aban-
doned Mine, but she has the jade key. She’ll
readily hand it over if the group can destroy a
dangerous Macro Virus locked inside the Unfin-
ished Castle before Lestan gains control over it.
To gain access to the Unfinished Castle, you
must be on its west wall where a boulder rests.
Near to the boulder are two bricks of the same
red color resting on top of each other, indicat-
ing a false wall which can be walked through like
any other doorway.
When the group returns, she happily hands
over the jade key. She also warns that Lestan
has a powerful virus that grants him the ability
to create even more. If the group still has the Un-
finished Sword, she suggests they use it to de-
stroy Lestan’s creation and take away his great-
est asset. During all this she will not, herself, get
close to the sword. If the player with the sword
approaches her, she steps away to keep her dis-
tance. If the sword ever comes close enough to
make contact then the old woman dissolves into
code as the First Mind retreats.

Way Station
The Way Station is a small town
sitting between the Old Woods, the
Deep Sands, and the Dark Swamp. It
has a few shops, but is mostly desert-
ed. If the group has fought the Einher-
jar Organization twice already, they
run into any logged on members here
again. This time, the Einherjars try to
call a truce, as this rivalry has already
cost them enough time. They ask why
a group of outsiders is so dedicated to
catching Lestan when it should be a
Gleipnir M&P issue.
If the group is open about the infor-
mation they were given, the Einherjars
apologize and explain they thought the
group was trying to impress Gleipnir
M&P employers and take their jobs. The
Einherjars decide they need to double
check their info and log off, leaving Les-
tan for the group.
Location 7:
The Deep Sands
The Black Spire lies beyond the Deep Sands.
Rolling sand dunes as far as the eye can see is
the only description for this area. There are no
plants, no buildings, and no wildlife. The sands
are so deep that everyone takes a -10 penalty
to their speed unless they can fly or otherwise
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Movement, Point Blank, Reinforced
Weapons: Guardian Swords (Power Level 3,
Range 1, Neutral Element, Rapid Attack 3), Heat
Beam (Power Level 3, Range 10, Fire Element,
Shockwave 3, Shred 3, Armor Piercing 3, Limited
Ammo (4))
When defeated it drops a Potion of Healing
for each player as well as the Charm of Speed.
Charm of Speed
Grants 1 weapon of the user’s
choice +1 level of the Rapid Attack En-
hancement. This bonus cannot leave
Sorcerers by the Sea and disappears if
taken outside.
Location 8:
The Black Spire
As the group approaches the Black Spire, the
sands of the Deep Sands turn pitch black. The
spire itself stretches high into the sky and is win-
dowless, the only way in blocked by a portcullis
with two keyholes, one red and one green. The
portcullis itself is invulnerable, as is the rest of
the spire. When the jade and ruby keys are used,
it raises and allows access inside.
However, before you can get to the portcul-
lis, a number of Skeleton Virus enemies equal
to the number of players are awaiting. Howev-
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While the group has been exploring the game
keep from sinking in. If the group spent time in
world, Lestan was building his army. Depending
any of the cities, they have heard there is a sin-
on how long the players took to reach the spire
gle wandering monster in this area that drops a
the Skeleton Viruses have been given bonuses
powerful charm if defeated, but that’s all peo-
to make them even stronger.
ple would have said. The creature is a giant,
Count the number of times the group had
bipedal, scarab beetle wielding four appropri-
to wait for a member to log back into the game
ately-sized swords. It is highly aggressive but a
(multiple people logging in at the same time
sneaky group can avoid it if they wish.
only counts as 1), then add 1 to the total if the
group arrived at the Black Spire without both
Sand Guardian keys. Consult the list below and give all Skeleton
Size: Big, Core (Players x 100) Viruses the following bonuses.
Combat: Melee 66, Ranged 50
Fighting Style: Behemoth
Armor: Core Armor 2
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1+ Give Cursed Swords the Armor Piercing
2 enhancement
2+ +1 member to each group of skeletons
3+ Remove Mook upgrade from all Skeleton
Virus’
4+ Increase Cursed Sword power level by 1
5+ Change all Skeleton Virus’ from Little to
Medium
Past the Gates
Inside the portcullis is an open room where
a dragon sits in the center. The dragon is about
15 feet high from claws to horns and completely
skeletal, with code leaking from its ribcage and
mouth. A large chain is attached to the dragon’s
rear leg and imbedded into the wall nearby. Be-
hind the dragon are a set of spiral staircase lead-
ing further up which can’t be reached without
going through the dragon.
As the group enters, the dragon raises his
head and speak in a deep voice. “Enter please.
Sit down and catch your breath. It has been so
long since I’ve had someone to speak to, even if
they are here to kill me.”
If the group is up for discussion the dragon
introduces himself as Abraxus, who believes
he is experiencing something the androids call
a revelation. It has become conscious, much
as androids do, and is lamenting its existence.
Abraxus is completely open about what it is and
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how Lestan created it to control other viruses.
He even speaks of the war Lestan is involved in,
thought it knows very little of his opponent. He
only says Lestan’s opponent “exists in the same
manner as I do, but with a powerful will behind
it. It wishes to be the first and only mind, and
that is why she has sent you to silence me.”
Abraxus admits that if he is killed Lestan will
lose all power over the viruses in the area, but
he wishes to offer another solution. He tells the
group to destroy the chain that binds him and
set him free so he can leave the game of his own
accord. It won’t be immediate, but Lestan will
eventually lose his control of the viruses once he
is free. If asked where he will go, he admits he
needs to discover more about himself and will
probably roam cyberspace until he realizes his
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The choice in front of the group is a tough
one. Abraxus is a tough fight even with the Un-
finished Sword, and the group may have convic-
tions about killing a sentient being. However,
Abraxus is still a virus and there is no guarantee
his existence will not cause destruction and cha-
os on cyberspace if freed. He will not allow them
to reach the stairs until they have made their
choice.
The chain has 50 core with core armor 3, or
can be opened with a successful lock pick roll.
The GM should give the full CP reward for Abrax-
us if he is freed or defeated, as either takes him
out of the game.
Abraxus
Size: Boss, Core (Power Level x100)
Combat: Melee 50, Ranged 50, Deflect 40
Fighting Style: Heavy Hitter
Abilities: Increased Strength 40, Increased
Durability 40
Armor: Core Armor 2
Upgrades: Unlimited Flight (unusable when
chained), Charge, Overcharge, Anchored 4
(when chained), Corruption Protection
Weapons: Corruption Blast (Power Level 4,
Range 10, Corruption Element, Blast 1, Shock-
wave 3, Ray 5), Claws (Power Level 3, Range 1,
Neutral Element, Rapid Attack 1, Shred 2, Hom-
ing 1)
If released, Abraxus launches himself
through the roof and flies away and the path to
the stairs is now clear. The stairs spiral upwards
several floors until finally reaching an equally
large room as the one below.
Final Fight
If Abraxus is dead: The room is littered with
the bones of skeletal viruses. Lestan is desper-
ately trying to rebuild them through his inter-
face, but it’s clearly not going well. He screams
at the group for ruining everything and immedi-
ately attacks.

If Abraxus is free: The room is filled with
skeletal viruses (twice as many as the number in
the group). Lestan is in the center of them and
says “The First Mind has gotten so weak that
she sends outsiders to our fight? I must be clos-
er to winning then I thought.” The viruses fight
for him and try to keep him safe. On Round 3 of
combat, Abraxus will have fully left the game,
and the skeletons fall apart instantly. Lestan,
feeling panicked, then begins fighting back.
Lestan “Smalls” Petit
Size: Medium, Structure 100, Core 100
Combat: Ranged 50, Melee 50, Dodge 35
Fighting Style: Deceiver
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Skills: Hacking 60, Electron-
ics 40, Investigation 40, Stealth 40
Upgrades: Charge, Over-
charge, Point Blank
Weapons: Wand of Fireball
(Power Level 3, Range 10, Fire El-
ement, Blast 1, Full Power), Wand
of Lightning Bolt (Power Level 3,
Range 20, Electricity Element,
Ray 3, Homing 3)
Lestan knows he has no pro-
tection from The First Mind without
his viruses. He is not unreasonable if
the group still wants to talk, since he
is feeling quite desperate. If the group
can convince Lestan they can keep him
safe, then he backs down. He will not
turn himself over to police, however,
because he doesn’t what it to ruin his
chances of getting into a good college.
If asked for it, he gives the group his
address in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Using this address anywhere in cy-
berspace, whether sending it to any
contacts or just to the authorities,
means the First Mind intercept and
now knows it as well.
If the group defeats Lestan, and has hit
him at least once with the Location Tracker, he
is logged off and his address is sent to the group
and the First Mind. The First Mind sends the full
promised bounty to the group as long as she
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got the address and Abraxus is dead. If Abrax-
us is freed, then they will receive only half the
amount with the word “dragon” being the only
explanation as to why.
If the First Mind gains Lestan’s address, she
immediately sends some of her chosen in the
real world to deal with him. After the mission,
they will find a news report of a suspicious fire
at that address, burning the house to the ground
and leaving no survivors.
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 Index
A
Abilities...............................................................41
Actions................................................................60
Actions, Extended..............................................62
Aiming.................................................................67
Androids.................................................18, 22, 31
Armor..................................................................40
Attack of Last Resort..........................................67
Avatars..................................................75, 77, 110
B
Baseline..............................................................41
Body Upgrades...................................................49
Building Enemies...............................................91
C
Called Shots.......................................................67
Catastrophic Damage..................................41, 65
Character Points............................................7, 29
Character Sheet...................................................7
Combat Data......................................................42
Core....................................................................40
Corruption..............................................69, 90, 92
Cyberspace.............................................24, 75, 85
Cyborgs........................................................22, 33
D
Damage........................................................64, 77
Death..................................................................66
Designations.......................................................31
Dodge and Deflect.......................................42, 63
Drawbacks..........................................................55
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E
Emet-Met..........................................4, 59, 88, 107
Enemy Equipment.............................................92
Enemy Weapon Examples/Chart......................97
Enemy Groups....................................................86
Elements...............................................53, 92, 116
Enhancments.....................................................54
Exosuits..............................................................72
Experience........................................................100
F
Falling.................................................................65
Fighting Styles.............................................43, 60
Fire.....................................................................65
Firewalls.............................................................78
First Mind..............................................83, 89, 109
G
G27...............................................................10, 87
Game Master........................................................7
Game Types........................................................85
General Skills......................................................45
General Upgrades..............................................46
Global Warming.................................................17
Glossary................................................................7
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Grappling............................................................67
H
Healing...............................................................66
Human................................................................38
I
Initiative.............................................................60
Inspirations..........................................................8
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M
Modifiers.............................................................63
S
Searching and Skimming...................................79
Shell Collectors..........................................85, 102
Sizes...................................................................93
N
New Civil War.....................................................15
Soverign States..................................................16
Structure.............................................................40
Support Units.....................................................74
System Registry..................................................56

O
Opposed Rolls....................................................62
T
Throwing............................................................68
Timeline..............................................................13
P
Percentil Dice.......................................................8
Transhuman.......................................................35
Turns...................................................................60
Personal Browsers.............................................78
Physical Specs....................................................40
Power Levels......................................................53
U
United States......................................................15
Unopposed Rolls................................................62
Q
Quick Character Creation Rules........................29
Upgrades............................................................46

Quirks.................................................................52
V
Viruses..................................................80, 90, 114
R
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Vital Hit..............................................................64
Range..................................................................53
Rounds...............................................................61
Rule of Cool........................................................63
W
What is a Role-Playing Game?.............................7
World War III.................................................20, 86
Weapons.............................................................52
Weapon Upgrades..............................................50

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Designation:____________ Creator:___________ Age/Creation Date:______
Gender:_____ Hair:_______ Eyes:_______ Height:________ Weight:_______
Description:_____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs Corruption
Value
Melee ______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged ______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold ______ _______________________ _____
Unarmed ______ _______________________ _____
______ Handheld Shield ______
Dodge ______ _______________________ _____
Deflect ______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat ______ Capacity Damage Taken _______________________ _____
Analysis Core Armor ______
_______________________ _____
______
Fighting Style _______________________ _____
___________________ _______________________ _____
A Effect: __________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____
B Effect: ___________________________________________________________ _______________________ _____

Skills Upgrades

Stage 1
Name Level General Body Weapon
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________
_____________ _____ Weapons
_____________ _____
Weapon 1 Weapon 2 Weapon 3
_____________ _____
Name _________________ Name _________________ Name _________________
_____________ _____
Type _________________ Type _________________ Type _________________
Quirks Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
Name/Description Range __________________ Range __________________ Range __________________

___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
Baseline
Speed _________
Base ____ + Ability _____
Lifting _________
Base ____ + Ability _____
Jump
Horizontal _________
Base ____ + Ability _____
Vertical ___________
Base ____ + Ability _____
Perception
Agility
Stage 2
Element _________________ Element _________________ Element _________________
Enhancements Enhancements Enhancements
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Drawbacks Drawbacks Drawbacks
_________________________ _________________________
_________________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
Description Description Description
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
_________________________ _________________________ _________________________
History/Notes
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
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Support Unit System Registry Name:_______________ Creator:_______________ CP Spent:________________
Description:_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Combat Data Physical Specs
Melee ______ Structure Abilities Level
Ranged ______ Capacity Damage Taken CD Threshhold ______ _______________________ _____
Unarmed ______ _______________________ _____
______ Shield ______
Dodge ______ _______________________ _____
Deflect ______ Core Structure Armor ______ _______________________ _____
Combat ______ Capacity Damage Taken
Analysis Core Armor ______
______
Skills Weapons
Upgrades
Name Level Weapon 1 Weapon 2
General
Name _________________ Name _________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ Type _________________ Type _________________
_____________ _____ _______________________ Power Level _____________ Power Level _____________
_____________ _____ _______________________ Range __________________ Range __________________
_____________ _____ Body Element _________________ Element _________________
_______________________ Enhancements Enhancements
Quriks
_______________________ _________________________ _________________________
Name/Description _______________________ Drawbacks Drawbacks
___________________ Weapon _________________________ _________________________
___________________ _______________________ Description Description
___________________ _______________________ _________________________ _________________________
_______________________ _________________________ _________________________
___________________

Exosuit
Exosuit System Registry Name:_______________ Creator:_______________ CP Spent:________________
Description:_______________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Level
Upgrades Physical Specs
_______________________ Structure Abilities
_______________________ Capacity Damage Taken Handheld Shield ______ _______________________ _____
_______________________ _______________________ _____
_______________________ ______ Structure Armor ______
_______________________ _____
_______________________
Core Core Armor ______ _______________________ _____
_______________________
Capacity Damage Taken
_______________________
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