starlight edition

gwendolyn clark
For Sasha, Juno, Rob, Ada, and Aisling.
You keep my turbine spinning.
 Core book
Gwendolyn Clark

cONTRIBUTING PLAYTESTING cONTRIBUTING

WRITERS Aisling Jensen ART
Rachel Stevens Sasha Martin Silhouette-AC
Ada Song Ada Song Unsplash
Rob Ervine Freepik
Rose Skye

Special thanks
The P-Tier crew
Spencer Campbell
Affinity Publisher
Percival
CONTENTS
YOU ARE DRIVES 21
REVOLVER 1
▶ Character Creation 3 WEAPONS 35
▶ Projected Weapons 37
CORE RULES 5 ▶ Focus Arts 42
▶ Checks 5 ▶ Mounted Weapons 43
▶ Phases of Play 6 ▶ Weapon Tag Glossary 44

MISSIONS 7 THE VEIL 45

▶ Ops Play 8 ▶ Chaff Strains 47
▶ Mission Mechanics 8 ▶ Soldier Strains 49
▶ Advancement 10 ▶ Elite Strains 51
▶ Downtime Play 10 ▶ Boss Strains 52
▶ Downtime Moves 12
BEYOND
COMBAT 13 THE VEIL 53
▶ Speed 15
▶ Turns/Rounds/Actions 16 appendix 55
▶ Statuses and Damage 17
▶ Drive Stress/Drive Burn 18
▶ Breaches and Incursion 19
▶ Ending Combat 20
 ALL SYSTEMS TEND TOWARDS ENTROPY.
When times were simpler, easier to explain, this was a universal constant. A
comfort, in a way. No matter how terribly it all went, no matter how many
horrors we visited upon ourselves, our planets, the universe—it would all
return to void in the end. What a relief, right?

R-STATE changed that.

831 years ago a piece of the universe tore open, and our understanding of
thermodynamics went up with it, never to return. We called it ROIL, a
specific alien frequency emanating from certain human beings: untraceable,
incomprehensible, and entirely benign—

At least it was, ‘till desks and doors and consoles and ship controls—
anything and everything a Roiling human touched—started bubbling,
shimmering, sublimating to floating motes of white-hot sparkling radiance:
R-STATE. A personʼs Roil syncs frequency with any existing material on
contact, producing under ideal conditions a pseudostable system that tends
impossibly but undeniably towards ENERGY.

The REVOLVER DRIVE is the apotheosis of our understanding, as it is, of

R-STATE: a ceramic turbine in a custom-molded H-carbide shell, machined
to the nanometer for maximal resonance with a particular Roil. Capable of
producing astounding amounts of usable energy, if you can find something
to handle the constant ever-ascending throughput—

Something like you.

That's the quirk of the Revolver Drives, of R-STATE—they don't turn off, not
really. They can't turn off. Infinitely-escalating resonance is their default;
forcing things in the other direction requires enormous amounts of
thermodynamic effort and even then the best you'll get is a delay. There has
never been a successful case of an R-Drive returning to a lower energy state,
and it's likely there never will be. Every point is a point of no return, every
peak a valley.

It only goes up.

 YOU ARE

Revolver.
SCREAMING through the void
along relativityʼs bleeding edge, clad in
starlight and fire, painting glistered
fractal burntrails in your wake—

piercing the Veil, bright and defiant, a

meteor through dark water, a white-hot
knife carving away the tide of boiling
unlight—

a turbine in your heart, forever

spinning, a bone-deep thrum like
fission up your spine, forever pushing
you HOTTER/QUICKER/BRIGHTER—

Your cannons ROAR

Your missiles HISS
Your blades SING

You are REVOLVER, Humanityʼs last

and greatest hope.

You breathe stardust.

You eat darkness.
You guard dreams.
You bleed light.

Now rev your Drive, and letʼs find out

what that means to you.

[01]
INTRODUCTION
LET’S GET YOU UP TO SPEED
In Infinite Revolution, you play as a
Revolver—a human with a hypersonic
turbine for a heart—and their Revolver
Drive, an infantry-scale exosuit made of
and fueled by the concentrated light of
their hopes, fears, and dreams. Together,
you are sworn to defend your solar system
against the entropic scourge of the Veil.
The interplay between a Revolver, their
Drive, and the Veil—the living, feeling
human, the invincible cosmic protector,
and looming existential threat they both
face—forms the thematic core of Infinite
Revolution, and is central to the types of
stories this game is designed to tell. For
better or worse, your Drive sets you
starkly apart from the rest of humanity—
to most, youʼre a living myth, a symbol
that thereʼs something left to fight for.
This section of the book will walk you
through how to create a new Revolver and
what youʼll need to play. Later sections will
explain the core rules, describe different
types of play, and list various options to
customize your character.
The past
An age of promise
Once, Revolvers were pathfinders: trusted
navigators, talented engineers, and living
power sources, the vanguards of
humanityʼs first eager steps beyond Prima
Sol. They lent the limitless energy of their
implanted Drives to tear breaches in
spacetime, bearing first-gen colony
cruisers safely through to stars unknown,
and helped lay the foundations for the
first Veil Gates. Their turbines burned with
the promise of limitless freedom, a
brilliant new future for Earth and beyond.
Now, the V-Gates lie cold and empty. The
stars have vanished into darkness, and the
ever-swelling tide of the Veil encroaches
further across the Jovian Belt. Prima Sol is
cornered, cut off from its sister systems,
but the fight isnʼt over yet.
The present
HERE AND NOW
The galaxy has gone dark. The Veil—a
legion of bizarre paracausal anti-life,
ruthless predators made of animate
entropy—have swept across the Milky
Way, shrouding the stars themselves in a
curtain of hungry shadow. Their presence
has disrupted both entanglement comms
and V-Gate travel, leaving the fate of the
systems beyond Prima Sol to grim
speculation. Not that you have time to
speculate.
In the decades since their first
appearance, the Veil have covered vast
swathes of stellar space in their shroud of
shimmering darkness, growing stronger
with every planet they consume. Now,
they mass their forces in the Jovian Belt,
preparing to launch a full-scale assault on
the remains of humanity. If the Veil take
Jupiter, Prima Sol is as good as lost. The
gas giantʼs mass will fuel an all-consuming
tide of entropy, strong enough to wipe
away any hope of resistance.
Humanity has drawn their line. Itʼs up to
you to hold it.
Playing the game
LET’S GET STARTED
To play Infinite Revolution, youʼll need 3-5
people, some six-sided dice (also called
d6s, 4-6 per player), a way to track your
characterʼs stats, and, optionally,
something to sketch on.
During play, one person will act as GM—
creating scenarios, describing outcomes,
and playing foes during combat—while
the rest will play as members of a Brace, a
close-knit fireteam of Revolvers that lives,
trains, and fights together.
These roles donʼt have to be set in stone:
some groups might prefer to rotate the
role of GM between missions, or even
between individual sessions of play. Find a
balance that works for you.
[02]
 CHARACTER BASICS
Who are you?
Revolvers are people, and every person is
different. Here are some questions to
keep in mind as you come up with the
basics of your character:
▶ Who were you before the Drive?
The Roil can awaken in anyone,
regardless of age, culture, gender, or
status. Think about the person you
were before you got your turbine: were
you born on Earth, a colony, or another
system entirely? If you arenʼt native to
Prima Sol, how did you get here?
▶ How did your Roil awaken?
Was it painful? Exciting? Scary?
Traumatic? Was it destructive, or
quickly contained? How did those
around you react? How do you
remember the event now?
▶ Do you like being a Revolver?
Was it a lifelong dream? A duty you felt
bound to fulfill? A choice you made
because you didnʼt know what else to
do? Have you grown to enjoy it?
Become jaded or resentful? Or are you
still not sure how you feel, even now?
▶ How do you feel about the Veil?
Do they scare you? Anger you?
Fascinate you? Do you think theyʼre
conquerors? Mindless drones?
Something else entirely? Are you
fighting for Humanity, or is it personal?
▶ What do you want?
In the short-term, the long term, or the
any-term. Do you have a goal youʼre
working towards? Something to push
you forward? Or are you taking things
one mission at a time?
▶ Do you think we can win?
Be honest. No wrong answer.
You donʼt need to answer every question
listed here—theyʼre meant to be a
jumping-off point to help develop your
character and place them within Infinite
Revolutionʼs setting.
[03]
ATTRIBUTES
HOW DO YOU BURN?
Once you have the basics of your
character, assign 3 points between the
attributes below. Each attribute starts at 1
and caps at 3 (for now). Youʼll improve
them past this starting cap as you
complete missions.
HOT—Set your heart ablaze. Be forceful,
intense, and impossible to ignore. Inspire
your friends. Overwhelm your foes. Hold
your ground. Be brave. Love deeply. Defy
all limits.
QUICK—Dance across infinity. Be agile,
alert, and faster than anything. Shoot the
gap. Get there first. Parry and riposte.
Dodge bullets. Flirt. Uplift in your wake.
Keep moving forward.
BRIGHT—Carve truth from darkness. Be
focused, clear, and never without a plan.
See whatʼs missing. Say the right thing.
Keep your cool. Teach. Learn. Defuse
tension. Hit a weak spot. Find the answers.
Building a drive
How do you fight?
After assigning attributes, the next steps
are to choose a Pattern to determine your
Driveʼs starting stats and combat
approach, a Drive Core to define your
playstyle, and some Weapons to help you
battle the Veil. Each of these is covered in
a different section of the book: Drive
Cores and Patterns on page 21, and
Weapons on page 35.
Your chosen Pattern, Core, and Weapons
determine your Drive's mechanical
characteristics, but the other details of its
construction—size, shape, body plan, and
overall appearance—are totally up to
you. Every Drive is a unique, kaleidoscopic
refraction of its Revolver's aspirations,
personal beliefs, and unique aesthetics.
No limits—be as weird, cool, flashy, and
creative as you want.
Finishing touches
Prepare for launch
After youʼve come up with a concept, set
your attributes, and customized your
Drive, youʼre nearly finished with character
creation! All thatʼs left are a few final
steps:

▶ Set starting RPM. Your RPM is a

measure of how fast your Drive Coreʼs
internal turbine is spinning, and also
serves as a (very rough) measure of
your Revolverʼs power. It begins play as
a 5-digit number (between 10,000 and
99,999). You can determine your
starting RPM randomly, choose
arbitrarily, or use a number with
personal meaning to you or your
Revolver—your RPMʼs specific value
has no effect on your advancement
or mechanical ability.

▶ Spend 1 Focus Point. Focus Points are

used to customize your Driveʼs
weapons via Focus Arts. (For more on
Focus Arts, see page 42).

▶ Choose a callsign. In the black or on-

station, most Revolvers donʼt go by
their “real” names. After your first
flight, itʼs tradition to pick a callsign: a
word or short, snappy phrase that
describes some aspect of you. Some
Revolvers choose their own callsigns;
others use a nickname given by their
Brace.

Once youʼve finished up the above, thatʼs

it! Your Revolver is ready to spin up, fly
out, and defend the system.

[04]
CORE RULES
The fundamentals
Checks
KEEP THE ACTION FLOWING
When a Revolver acts, if the stakes would
make a potential failure interesting, cool,
or dramatic, their player makes a check.
A basic check works like this:
▶ First, describe your approach to the
situation. How do you accomplish
what youʼre trying to do?
▶ Then, choose the attribute (HOT/
QUICK/BRIGHT) that you think best
fits your approach. The GM has final
say on whether an attribute makes
sense for a given check, but creativity
should be rewarded!
▶ Roll d6s equal to your chosen attribute,
then note the highest die.
▶ Determine results. If the highest die is…
▶ 1-3: Null. Success is out of reach for
now, and there are consequences.
▶ 4-5: Weak Hit. Success, with a
consequence.
▶ 6: Strong Hit. Success. No strings.
▶ Two or more 6s: Crit. Success, and
then some.
When you roll dice in Infinite Revolution,
itʼll usually be for some form of check. Not
every action requires a check—in fact,
most donʼt. Again, only make a check if
the rules explicitly call for it, or if failure is
potentially interesting, cool, or dramatic.
[05]
CHECK MODIFIERS
RISK AND REWARD
Sometimes, a situation is especially
difficult or advantageous for you. When
this happens (or when the rules call for it),
the GM can apply a plus or minus to the
number of dice you roll for a Check. Here
are some guides for applying minuses
situationally:
▶ -1: A minor complication. Tricky, but
within your reach.
▶ -2: A real challenge. Stay focused.
▶ -3: A major risk. Youʼll need lots of
skill, luck, or both.
▶ -4: Just short of impossible. Whatever
youʼre doing, make sure itʼs worth it.
And the same, for pluses:
▶ +1: A meaningful edge.
▶ +2: An overwhelming advantage.
If a minus would make you roll zero or
fewer dice for a check, roll 2d6 and take
the lowest die instead.
Pluses and minuses generally shouldnʼt go
beyond -4 and +2, respectively—any
further, and you probably shouldnʼt be
making checks at all.
Pluses and minuses should never apply to
the same roll, but if it does come up, they
cancel 1:1. (For example, a roll with a -4
and a +1 would net a -3).
PHASES OF PLAY
OPS, COMBAT, AND DOWNTIME
Infinite Revolution uses three distinct
phases of play:
▶ Ops, where you and your Brace
explore, rescue, sabotage, or advance
other large-scale mission objectives.
Ops play is all about making checks,
managing Tension, and working
together to find creative solutions to
difficult problems.
▶ Combat, where youʼll battle the Veil
directly in high-stakes relativistic
dogfights. Combat play is fast, tactical,
and turn-based, with you and your
allies wielding an arsenal of deadly
weapons and cosmic powers—while
trying not to Burn Up or Zero Out.
▶ Downtime, where your Brace returns
to their home station to rest, recover,
mourn, carouse, or otherwise blow off
steam. Downtime play is a chance to
take a breath—to manage RPM
advancement, refit and customize your
Drive, and bond (or clash) with your
fellow Revolvers.
Each phase has different opportunities for
roleplaying, mechanical expression, and
dramatic narrative moments. Theyʼre
dynamic, descriptive states that should
reflect the events of the game instead of
determining them—think “phase” in the
solid-liquid-gas sense, not the strict
chronological one.
No one combination of phases is the
“right” way to play Infinite Revolution—
every group will find a different mix that
works for them. Theyʼre meant to vary
your experience and help everyone enjoy
the game, not to limit how you play.
PLAY STRUCTURE
MISSIONS AND SCENES
The smallest unit of narrative time in
Infinite Revolution is a scene. Scenes are
“zoomed in”—they focus on one or more
connected events and have clear start and
end points. Some good examples of a
scene are a single skirmish against the
Veil, opening and defusing an antimatter
bomb, and a heated argument that ends
with someone storming off.
Changing scene doesnʼt always mean a
change of phase—in Ops or Downtime
especially, itʼs common to have multiple
scenes in a row—but changing phase
usually means starting a new scene.
A mission is a collection of multiple
scenes that follow the lead-in, action, and
aftermath of a specific objective:
rescuing a friendly Revolver, safely
escorting a colony ship, destroying a V-
Gate so the Veil canʼt use it to open a
massive Breach, and so on.
Infinite Revolution is designed to play well
in both punchy one-shots and
longer-term campaigns. For shorter or
single-session games, focus on Combat
and Ops scenes—longer games should
include a mix of all three, and might
include story arcs composed of multiple
narratively-connected missions. As always,
no limits—play at the scope and pace
that works best for you.
(For more on mission structure and
Ops and Downtime play, see the
following page).
(For more on Combat, see page 13).
[06]
 MISSIONS
UNTO THE BREACH
MISSIONS OVERVIEW
Spin up, fly out, get back
Generally, each mission should be at least
three scenes long, and include a mix of
Ops, Combat, and Downtime play. Very
short missions (2-3 scenes) might not use
all of the phases, but itʼs a good idea to
include at least two.
Within a mission, Combat and Ops scenes
represent key engagements, violent or
otherwise, where success or failure impact
the missionʼs objective both mechanically
(via the missionʼs Tension Clock—more
on that shortly) and narratively. Downtime
scenes, on the other hand, are best used
as prologues or epilogues to the mission
itself: theyʼre the calm before the storm,
or the momentʼs peace after one.
More involved missions might use a
branch structure, where the outcome of
a given scene determines what future
scenes will occur. As a GM, donʼt be afraid
to give your Brace tough choices—and as
a Revolver, donʼt be afraid to make them.
[07]
HAMMER
THE VOICE FROM THE STARS
The GMʼs primary role during a mission, in
addition to playing foes and describing
scenes, is giving voice to Hammer:
Revolver slang for your deploying stationʼs
network of scientists, engineers, and
strategists. Every stationʼs Hammer is
different, with its own hierarchy (or lack
thereof), values, and tactical specialties.
Out in the black, Hammer is your Braceʼs
eyes and ears, a window to the big
picture. Revolvers are incredibly powerful,
but they arenʼt all-knowing—and if thereʼs
one thing the Veil are good at, itʼs using
what you donʼt know to hurt you.
Of course, Hammer isnʼt infallible. Itʼs
just a group of people, and people make
mistakes. Sometimes, the voice on comms
says one thing, but your head or heart or
gut says another—
And when that time comes, youʼll know
what to do.
Ops PLAY
Mission critical
The Ops phase is the glue that connects
the high-velocity Combats of a mission
together—itʼs used for any non-Combat
scene that still carries a risk of failure.
At its core, Ops play is:
▶ Narrative-first. Characters can act
spontaneously, time advances fluidly,
and individual checks can have varying
degrees of impact on the scene.
▶ Open-ended. The GM should clearly
describe the goals and challenges of a
given scene, but the Brace should have
a lot of leeway in how they approach
them. Work with your players and their
ideas, not against them!
▶ Tense. Ops scenes might not have the
same blistering speed as Combat, but
the stakes are just as high—the threat
of the Veil is ever-present, and failing
key checks can have dire consequences
for the mission.
▶ Cinematic. Ops play is great for big,
bombastic moments: outracing a star
before it goes supernova, destroying a
Veil superweapon, and so on. Use it to
build tension throughout the mission,
then let your Brace ride out the payoff!
TENSION
No pressure
Tension is a mechanic used in Ops play,
and functions as both a resource and a
representation of how close the current
mission is to failure. Itʼs tracked using an
8-segment Tension Clock, which
advances and empties as the mission
progresses depending on the Braceʼs
actions.
Whenever a Revolver makes a mission-
relevant check during Ops play, the result
affects the Tension Clock:
▶ Nulls add 2 segments of Tension.
▶ Weak Hits add 1 segment of Tension.
▶ Strong Hits donʼt add any Tension.
▶ Crits empty 1 segment of Tension.
Combat scenes can also advance the
Tension Clock—at the end of each
Combat, the Tension Clock advances by 1
for each Zeroed Out Revolver.
At the start of each Combat or Ops scene,
the GM may introduce a complication
based on the current level of Tension.
Complications can be purely narrative,
purely mechanical, or a mixture of both,
and should make it harder—but not
impossible—for the Brace to succeed
unscathed.
If the Tension Clock ever reaches 8, the
mission fails.
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 Ensemble checks
ALL TOGETHER NOW
Sometimes, a task is too big for a single
Revolver—when that happens, the GM
can call for an Ensemble check, where the
entire Brace coordinates to accomplish a
goal. Ensemble checks work like this:
▶ The GM explains the challenge and the
stakes, then chooses a check total—
the number of points the Brace will
need to succeed at the check. For a
3-person Brace, a check totals should
range from 4 (tricky) to 7 (incredibly
difficult). For larger or smaller Braces,
add or subtract 3 from each end of this
range as needed.
▶ Each member of the Brace describes
their approach, then makes an
individual check.
▶ Each individual check contributes
points to the check total, like so:
▶ Null: 0 points.
▶ Weak Hit: 1 point.
▶ Strong Hit: 2 points.
▶ Crit: 3 points.
▶ If the Braceʼs point total meets or
beats the check total, the Ensemble
check succeeds—otherwise, it fails.
Ensemble checks have higher stakes than
standard ones, but theyʼre a team effort:
the results of individual checks made
during an Ensemble check donʼt affect
the Tension Clock, but failing the overall
Ensemble check adds 3 segments of
Tension.
[09]
PUSHING YOUR LUCK
Exceed all limits
When you make a check during Ops play
(including an Ensemble check), you can try
to push your luck.
When you push your luck, bet up to 2
segments of Tension. For each segment
you bet, you can add +1 die to the check
(or cancel one minus die).
If the check you bet on lands a Weak Hit
or a Null, the Tension Clock advances by
the number of segments you bet, plus the
usual Tension for the check result.
Ending a mission
SUCCESS, FAILURE, ESCALATION
No matter how many twists and turns it
takes to get there, every mission ends in
one of three ways:
▶ SUCCESS. The Brace completes the
mission objective, and humanity wins
the day.
▶ FAILURE. The Tension Clock reaches 8
or the mission objective is otherwise
lost. The Brace recovers what they can
and returns to their home station
(assuming thereʼs a station to return
to).
▶ ESCALATION. The stakes change so
drastically that the original mission
objective is no longer relevant. This is
the “neutral” outcome, but usually
implies a larger and more immediate
threat.
Regardless of outcome, most missions will
end with players choosing an
advancement option, as well as a period
of Downtime play.
ADVANCEMENT
Infinite escalation
As you defend humanity, fight the Veil,
and grow closer with your Brace, your
Drive Coreʼs turbine will continue to
accelerate—and, in turn, youʼll grow
stronger, faster, and more capable as a
Revolver. This process is reflected
narratively by your Revolverʼs RPM, and
mechanically by advancement options.
Each time you complete a mission (or at
the GMʼs discretion), add a digit to your
RPM (you can change the rest of the
value if you want), and then mark off one
of the following three advancement
options that you havenʼt already chosen:
▶ Gain 1 HOT, 1 QUICK, or 1 BRIGHT.
▶ Gain 1 Focus Point.
▶ Work with your GM to establish a
minor non-Combat ability unique to
your Revolver and their Drive. At GM
discretion, this can give you +1 die on
checks where it would be useful. After
you take this option once, you can
choose to upgrade an existing ability
instead, increasing its benefits to a
potential +2.
Once youʼve marked off all three options,
the list resets, and you can choose any
option again, marking them off as before.
Thereʼs no cap on advancement in Infinite
Revolution. The longer a Revolver
survives, the stronger theyʼll get—as long
as they can hold their Drive together.
DOWNTIME PLAY
A moment’s peace
The Downtime phase focuses on the
in-between of life as a Revolver—the
moments that arenʼt all blinding speeds,
shining weapons, and howling turbines.
Downtime play usually takes place in your
Braceʼs home station or a similarly safe
location—somewhere you can relax,
decompress, and prepare for your next
mission.
During Downtime play, each Revolver can
make a single Downtime Move: a
narrative-focused action that represents
how they spend their precious cycles of
freedom. Beyond that, the structure is
flexible: some groups might enjoy long
stretches of freeform roleplay, while
others might stick more strictly to
Downtime Moves and their outcomes.
(For more on Downtime Moves, see the
following page).
[10]
DOWNTIME TIPS
Read ‘em!
Here are some general tips for making
Downtime play fun and engaging:
▶ Put character first. During Downtime,
focus on your Revolvers as people, not
star-chasing heroes. Explore their
hopes, flaws, regrets, and desires—the
tenuous threads that connect them to
their humanity.
▶ Share the spotlight. Donʼt worry
about splitting scenes equally—just
make sure every player has a chance to
act, pursue their goals, and be heard.
▶ Bond with your Brace. Most
Downtime Moves can accommodate
multiple Revolvers in the same scene.
Leverage this! Infinite Revolution works
best when a Brace has strong narrative
connections between its Revolvers—as
diehard friends, bitter rivals, star-
crossed lovers, or anything in between.
▶ Embrace consequences. Downtime
play is the perfect opportunity to
explore the unique challenges of being
a Revolver: the massive pressure of
being humanityʼs only hope, the
existential stresses of relativity and
immortality, and the alienating effects
of Burn Scars and R-Drives in general.
All of the above can provide rich
opportunities for roleplay—donʼt be
afraid to put them front and center.
▶ Remember, itʼs a war. Downtime
should be a brief respite from the
looming threat of the Veil, but it should
never feel quite long enough. Sooner
or later (usually sooner), humanity will
need your Brace again, and youʼll be
spun back up and hurtling through the
black—even if that means leaving
unfinished business stationside.
[11]
Downtime Moves
Killing time stationside
To make a Downtime Move:
▶ Pick a Move. This section lists eight
Downtime Moves, each with its own
unique payoffs and consequences. If
you feel like none of the Moves fit what
you want to do, choose the next best
one, or work with your GM to create a
new Move for your situation.
▶ Describe your approach. Downtime
Moves are intentionally broad—they
describe what you do, but the how is
up to you. Let your Revolverʼs character
shine through!
▶ Make a check. Unlike most checks,
you decide which attribute to use for
Downtime Moves—after all, you know
your Revolver best.
▶ Determine outcomes. Each Downtime
Move has a list of four benefits. How
many you gain (and how many you
lose) depends on the results of your
check:
▶ Null: Choose one benefit to gain,
but lose the rest.
▶ Weak Hit: Choose one benefit to
gain and another to lose.
▶ Strong Hit: Choose one benefit.
▶ Crit: Choose two benefits.
Downtime Moves can have minor
mechanical effects at GM discretion, but
should generally focus on narrative
stakes and outcomes. Many benefits are
intentionally broad—be generous with
your interpretations and lean into
whatever is interesting, cool, or
dramatic.
BROOD SPAR
Mourn, sulk, or otherwise work through Go head-to-head with another Revolver,
emotions. Roll, then gain or lose: for training, coping, or ego. Roll, then
gain or lose:
▶A treasured memento.
▶A friendly rivalry.
▶A chance for closure.
▶A secret technique.
▶Confidence and self-esteem.
▶A winning streak.
▶A clean streak from a bad habit.
▶The last word.

CAROUSE STUDY
Go out, make merry, and maybe find Learn about something complex,
some trouble. Roll, then gain or lose: esoteric. Roll, then gain or lose:
▶A friend (or more-than-friend). ▶Restricted access.
▶Dignity or Reputation. ▶Important notes or information.
▶A favor. ▶Free time.
▶A spot at somewhere exclusive. ▶Insight and clarity.

LABOR
Put yourself to work, around the station
or otherwise. Roll, then gain or lose:
▶Some useful resources.
▶Something you made.
▶Progress towards a larger project.
▶Freedom from a debt.
TINKER
Modify, personalize, or repair your gear
or Drive. Roll, then gain or lose:
▶A non-regulation mod.
▶Hammerʼs approval.
▶A stable system.
▶Something powerful and dangerous.

REST VENT
Take some time to relax, at your own Get rid of some pent-up anger. Roll,
pace. Roll, then gain or lose: then gain or lose:
▶Peace of mind. ▶A strong relationship.
▶Understanding. ▶Something precious.
▶A productive day. ▶Someoneʼs respect.
▶A good cycleʼs sleep. ▶Satisfaction.

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 COMBAT
DANCE ACROSS INFINITY
Itʼs different for everyone.

A DANCE, brutal starswept elegance,

intricate choreography with steps measured
in femtoseconds—

in the warp-weft of thrust vectors and

Einstein–Rosen lensing—

in fragmentary divisions of the speed of

light—

A RACE, supernovae as your starting gun,

the edge of the universe your finish line,
your body a brilliant laser—

a finely-tuned machine—

a relativistic bullet—

A HUNT, chasing the voidʼs hollow heart,

diving the broken-cold expanse, abyss-then-
emergence with proud-worn scars—

with shreds of broken darkness in your

teeth—

with a soul of unquenched fire—

You are heat and speed and light tempered

like a blade, honed to an atomʼs edge—you
were made for this, but what is it for you?

Go, and find your answer.

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STARTING COMBAT
KICK THINGS OFF
Combat in Infinite Revolution requires a
little more setup than Ops or Downtime
play. Hereʼs everything you need to start a
Combat scene:
▶ Establish stakes. The GM should make
sure each member of the Brace knows
what theyʼre fighting, why theyʼre
fighting, and what will happen if they
win or lose the fight.

▶ Explain objectives. Most Combat

scenes only require destroying every
Veil, but some might have more
complex goals: protect a ship or
wounded Revolver, destroy a specific
HVT, and so on.

▶ Assign starting Speeds. Instead of

range bands or a battle grid, Infinite
Revolution uses a relative positioning
system called Speed. Revolvers begin
Combat at 3+QUICK Speed, while foes
start at a specific Speed listed in their
stat block.

▶ Resolve pre-combat effects, if any.

Some foes or mission effects might
cause the starting circumstances of a
Combat to change. Make sure you
resolve those before things begin.

Once youʼve gone through these steps,

have a Revolver take their first turn—and
with that, Combat starts in earnest! The
rest of this section will explain how it
works in depth.

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 SPEED OVERVIEW
RACE the light 8
Revolver combat usually occurs at a
significant fraction of the speed of light.
At those velocities, your specific position
doesnʼt matter—your Speed does. 7
In Infinite Revolution, Speed is:

▶ Numeric. In Combat, every character,

friend and foe, tracks their own Speed
6
as a number from 0 to 8.

▶ Fluid. Speed changes often, as 5

characters Boost, take Impact or Decel
from attacks, or otherwise maneuver
around their enemies.
4
▶ Relative. Higher Speed means youʼre
moving faster, but Speed doesnʼt
measure any specific velocity—just
how quickly youʼre moving compared
3
to everyone else.

▶ Your range. Most weapons and

powers target based on whether the
2
target is faster, slower, or the same
Speed as you—changing Speed to
maximize your hits is an essential part 1
of Combat.

▶ Your life. A Revolver at rest is as good

as dead. If your Speed drops too low,
0
youʼll Zero Out, left drifting in the
black as the battle streaks by—unless
you risk your Coreʼs integrity and Rally.

Itʼs entirely possible to run Combat scenes SPEED BANDS

theatre-of-the-mind style—using
charactersʼ numeric Speeds only—but
doing so can be tricky. For faster and
clearer play, itʼs a good idea to have some
sort of visual aid (like the one to the
right) to track the Speeds and numbers of
Revolvers and their foes.
Leading, trailing, matched
Most weapons and powers require targets
in some combination of three Speed
bands:
▶ Leading. The targetʼs Speed is higher
than yours. (Theyʼre moving faster.)

(For a larger, printable Speed ▶ Trailing. The targetʼs Speed is lower

track, see the appendix on page 57). than yours. (Theyʼre moving slower.)

▶ Matched. You and the target share

the same Speed.

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Effects that target Leading or Trailing
bands will often include a number in
(parentheses). This number is the limit of
the Band—the maximum difference in
Speed allowed for a valid target.
For example: youʼre at Speed 3, and your
weapon has a band of Leading (2). Foes at
Speeds 4 or 5 would both be valid targets,
but foes at Speeds 2, 3, or 6 would not.
Thatʼs almost it for Speed. All thatʼs left
are two important situational rules:
▶ Some effects allow characters to Warp,
instantly transposing them from one
Speed band to another, without
crossing any intervening bands.
▶ Some effects target characters “within
Speed X.” This wording means “all
targets within X Speed of the source,
including Matched targets.”
TURNS AND ROUNDS
THE FLOW OF COMBAT
Combat in Infinite Revolution moves in
rounds, which are divided into turns—
one for each Revolver, and one for the GM.
Most foes donʼt take turns by default—
instead, whenever a Revolver rolls a Weak
Hit or Null on an attack check, the GM
can activate a foe after the attack resolves.
No matter what, every foe only gets a
single activation per round.
Revolvers can take their turns in any order
the group agrees on, but only one
Revolver can act at a time. Once all
Revolvers have acted, the GM takes an
Incursion Turn—a chance to introduce
complications and raise the stakes of the
fight. When the Incursion Turn is over, the
round ends, and a new round immediately
begins.
(For more on Incursion Turns, see
page 19).
REVOLVER ACTIONS
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
As a Revolver, you can take one of the
following actions on each of your turns:
▶ Attack. Choose one or more targets in
the band of one of your weapons,
describe your approach, then make a
check. On a Hit, deal your weaponʼs
Harm and effects to each target (you
only roll once). Crits deal double
Harm to a single target only (your
choice).
▶ Boost. Gain or lose any amount of
Speed up to your Driveʼs Accel, or up
to a number specified after the Boost
(ex: Boost 3) for some effects. You canʼt
Boost less than 1.
▶ Use a power or Overdrive. Powers
never require a check unless they also
require an attack. After you resolve a
power, you take the Drive Stress cost
in [brackets], if any.
SPECIAL ACTIONS
Turbo, seal, OVERDRIVE
In addition to the basic actions listed
earlier, you can also take one or more of
the special actions below before or after
your normal action on your turn:
▶ Turbo. Boost 1, then take 2 Drive
Stress. 2/round only.
▶ Seal up to BRIGHT active Veil Breaches
Matched to you, then clear 2 Drive
Stress. 1/round only.
▶ Activate your Coreʼs Overdrive, then
roll a d6. On a 1 or a 2, you take a point
of Drive Burn. You can choose to fail
this roll. 1/mission only.
(Some Overdrives require your full
action to use instead of the special
action listed here. This will be
noted in their description).
(For more on Overdrives, see page
22).
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 HOSTILE ACTIONS
They’re ready for you
Foes have a similar set of actions to
Revolvers, but use them slightly
differently:
▶ Attack. The GM chooses an attack (if
the foe has multiple), then chooses
targets. Those targets take the attackʼs
Impact and associated effects, no roll
required.
▶ Use a power. Foes donʼt take Drive
Stress for using powers, but some
powers might require a Recharge
before they can be used again.
▶ Recharge. Replenishes all powers that
require Recharging for the foe,
enabling them to be used again next
round.
STATUSES
LOCKED DOWN
Some powers and effects inflict statuses,
powerful conditions that can turn the tide
of Combat. They come in two types: basic
statuses, listed below, and special
statuses, which are unique to the Veil or
Drive Core that applies them.
Unless otherwise specified, statuses never
stack and use the following rules for
duration:
▶ Statuses on Revolvers last until the
end of that Revolverʼs next turn.
▶ Statuses on foes last until that foe is
activated, then clear at the end of that
foeʼs turn.

▶ Fold. The foe gains or loses Speed up BASIC STATUSES

to its Reach. Foes can use this action in Canʼt use Powers or
addition to any other action. ▶Disrupted Special actions.

Canʼt reduce incoming

▶Fractured
DAMAGE Impact/Harm in any way.

IMPACT AND HARM Canʼt Boost or Fold (can

▶Locked still Warp).
Damage in Combat uses two main rules:
Next time target takes
▶ Revolvers deal Harm, which reduces Impact/Harm, it takes +2.
foesʼ Presence. When a foe loses all ▶Primed Lasts until the target
their Presence, theyʼre destroyed. takes any Impact/Harm.
▶ Foes deal Impact, which reduces Accel/Reach becomes 1,
▶Slowed canʼt increase above 1.
Revolversʼ Speed. When a Revolverʼs
Speed drops below 1, they Zero Out.
▶Stunned Canʼt act.
A Driveʼs Weight reduces all incoming
Impact by its value. Massless attacks +1 to all Drive Stress
▶Strained gains.
bypass Weight.
-1 to all Impact/Harm
Some powers and effects grant Inertia, ▶Weakened dealt.
which acts like a buffer for your Speed
that absorbs a set amount of Impact
before disappearing. Multiple effects that
grant Inertia donʼt stack—only the
highest value applies.

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DRIVE STRESS
SYSTEMS RED
When you push your Drive Core beyond
its baseline limits during Combat, certain
effects will cause you to take take Drive
Stress. Drive Stress begins each Combat
scene at 0, and always resets to 0 when
the scene ends.
The best way to clear Drive Stress during
combat is by sealing Veil Breaches—more
about those on the facing page. Certain
Cores also have powers that can clear
Drive Stress, but theyʼre rare and tend to
be situational.
Gaining Drive Stress doesnʼt cause any
problems on its own—until it exceeds (not
meets) your Coreʼs Burn Gate. When this
happens, your Drive Stress resets to 0,
and you take a point of Drive Burn.
DRIVE BURN
TOO HOT, TOO QUICK, TOO BRIGHT
Drive Burn represents permanent
damage to your Drive Coreʼs turbine
housing—the same turbine that spins to
keep your atoms at a stable frequency.
Zeroing out
IT’S NOT OVER YET
Drives make Revolvers near-invulnerable
to physical harm, but the Veil donʼt need
to kill you—they just need you out of the
way. When you Zero Out, youʼve lost
enough Speed to be knocked away from
the fight, left drifting hopelessly off-
course and under-velocity. Youʼll find your
way back to your Brace eventually, but not
before the Combat scene is over—unless
you push your Driveʼs limits and Rally.
While youʼre Zeroed Out, you still get a
turn, but you can only take one action: roll
a HOT check. On a Weak Hit or better,
you Rally: reset your Speed to 5, clear all
Drive Stress, then immediately take
another turn as you rocket back into the
fight.
Whenever you fail a check to Rally, you
get +1 on your next one. This can stack,
and lasts until you successfully Rally or
the scene ends.
You can Rally any number of times per
Combat, but doing so puts extreme strain
on your Drive Core: each time you Rally,
you also take a point of Drive Burn.

Each Drive Core has five unique long-term

consequences for taking Drive Burn,
called Burn Scars. When you take a point
of Drive Burn, choose a Burn Scar (any
one you like) and mark it off. Your
character bears the chosen scarʼs effects
for the rest of the the game, however long
that is.

The last Burn Scar on each Coreʼs list is

special: when you cross it off, your Drive
Core destabilizes and enters an irreversible
positive feedback loop called BURNUP.

While in BURNUP, you gain a massive,

Core-specific boost in power, ignore all
further Drive Stress, and automatically
Rally instead of Zeroing Out—but when
the scene is over, you sublimate into R-
STATE, and your Revolverʼs story ends.

You only get one BURNUP. Make it count.

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 Veil breaches
From the depths
When the Veil are destroyed, they
violently implode back into V-Space,
leaving metaphysical nicks and scratches
in the curvature of spacetime. Sometimes,
this paracausal shrapnel hits a tender
spot, and tears open a gaping wound in
the universe: a Veil Breach.
Veil Breaches are temporary, volatile
portals to V-Space. They have a Speed
(set when theyʼre created and
unchangeable afterwards), but arenʼt
characters and canʼt be targeted by most
powers and attacks.
Once a Veil Breach is opened, it remains
active until the end of the scene, or until a
Revolver equalizes the Breachʼs entropy
and seals it, clearing Drive Stress in the
process.
Left unchecked, Veil Breaches pose a
significant threat: the more active
Breaches remain, the more vulnerable the
battlefield becomes to Incursion from V-
Space.
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INCURSION
THE VEIL HUNGER
Incursion represents the strength of the
Veilʼs forces in a given Combat—the
higher it is, the more dangerous things
get. Itʼs tracked using the Incursion Clock,
which starts each Combat at 0 and has 8
segments total.
Every active Veil Breach has a chance to
advance the Incursion Clock at the end of
a round, and as it advances, the GM
unlocks more powerful and threatening
Incursion Moves to complicate the
Combat.
If the Incursion Clock fills all 8 segments,
Combat immediately ends—the Veil have
overrun local space, and any scene
objectives are lost.
INCURSION TURNS
Watch the clock
Once all Revolvers (and any activated
enemies) have finished acting, the GM
takes their Incursion Turn, as follows:
▶ First, the Incursion Clock advances by
1 for each active Veil Breach, to a max
of +3 in a single round.
▶ Next, the GM rolls a d6 for each foe
destroyed this round. For each roll of
1-3, a new Veil Breach opens
within Speed 1 of an active foe (GMʼs
choice). If there are no active foes, new
Breaches canʼt be opened.
▶ Finally, the GM makes a single
Incursion Move. The moves the GM
has access to depend on the
progression of the Incursion Clock.
INCURSION MOVES
Make things complicated
Hereʼs some example Incursion Moves,
organized by the Incursion Clock
progression required to use them:
▶ 0-1:
▶ Activate 2 Chaff or 1 Standard foe.
▶ Activate a Boss foe.
▶ Create 2 Chaff foes or 1 Soldier foe
at an active Veil Breach.
▶ Introduce a minor complication.
▶ 2-3:
▶ Activate 3 Chaff foes, 2 Soldier foes,
or 1 Elite foe.
▶ Create 2 Soldier or 4 Chaff foes at
an active Veil Breach.
▶ Introduce a moderate complication.
▶ 4-5:
▶ Activate 2 foes of any type.
▶ Create 3 Soldier foes or 1 Elite foe at
an active Veil Breach.
▶ Introduce a major complication.
▶ 6-7:
▶ Create 1 Boss foe at an active Veil
Breach and immediately activate
them.
▶ Introduce a dire complication.
The GM can always use moves that
require lower progression on the
Incursion Clock, but canʼt use the same
move two rounds in a row.
ENDING COMBAT
The finisher
Combat scenes can end under any of the
following conditions:
▶ The Brace completes their Combat
objective. (Success).
▶ All Veil have been destroyed, and there
are no active Veil Breaches. (Success).
▶ All Revolvers in the Brace Zero Out.
(Failure).
▶ The objective becomes unrecoverable
or is destroyed. (Failure).
▶ The Incursion Clock hits 8 filled
segments, and the Veil overrun the
sector. (Failure).
Win or lose, a single Combat scene isnʼt
always the end of the story. Combats can
function as pivotal confrontations within a
mission, but donʼt necessarily determine
that missionʼs outcome on their own—
your priority is always the objective, and
fighting the Veil is just a step to get there.
Remember: At the end of every Combat
scene, Revolvers clear all Drive Stress,
and the Tension Clock advances based on
the ending value of the Incursion Clock:
▶ 0-2 Incursion: +0 Tension
▶ 3-4 Incursion: +1 Tension
▶ 5+ Incursion: +2 Tension
If a Combat ends in failure, the Tension
Clock advances by 3, regardless of
Incursion.
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 Drives
HYPERSONIC heartS
They say everyone is made of stardust—
but not you. Youʼre all starlight.

At the center of your Drive, the center of

you, a shining turbine howls with the
power of a caged sun, waging pitched
battle against universal constants to hold
your particles in a familiar shape.

Without your Core to stabilize your Roil,

your atoms would rapidly shift to R-STATE,
vibrating at infinitely-ascending frequency
‘till the mass that used to be you is so
much dust and scattered light.

This is what it means to be Revolver:

constant escalation, now and forever and
always, until it runs you over, never
stopping because you canʼt—

because you were never given the chance

to.

How do you cope with that? Itʼs different

for everyone, but you wonʼt find the
answer in your head.

Love your turbine like your heart. Feel it

burn. Hear it sing. Lean into the spin, and
let the knifeʼs edge of brilliant annihilation
carry you to victory.

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drives OVERVIEW
THE SPIN AND THE SONG
Each Drive Core config is specialized,
designed to complement a particular
tactical approach and combat style. Many
Revolvers swear that certain Cores also
have specific personality traits, though
whatʼs less certain—and hotly debated—
is whether they actively cause a shift in
demeanor, or just attract a certain type of
person.
Each Drive Core has the following
properties:
▶ Compatible Patterns—not every Core
works with every Drive Pattern. The
entries in this section provide a list of
Patterns each Core can be used with.
▶ Burn Gate—the maximum amount of
Drive Stress your Core can take. When
your Drive Stress exceeds this amount,
it resets to 0 and you take a point of
Drive Burn.
▶ Passive Trait—an always-on ability
that helps define your Coreʼs role.
Drive PATTERNS
Find your shape
Once theyʼve been implanted with their
Drive Core, every Revolver learns to
manifest their Drive with one of four basic
resonance Patterns as a foundation.
Each Pattern has three ratings:
▶ Weight—how much Impact your Drive
can absorb before you start losing
Speed. Negative Weight increases
Impact received. Massless attacks
bypass Weight entirely.
▶ Accel—the highest amount of Speed
your Drive can gain when Boosting.
▶ Weapons—the type and number of
armaments your Drive can wield.
Weapons come in two primary types:
standardized Mounted arms and
customizable Projected weapons.
(For more on Weapons, see page 35)
The four base Drive Patterns and their
ratings are below:

▶ Powers—a set of cosmic abilities

unique to your Core. Using most HEAVY BALANCED
powers generates Drive Stress. WGT: 2 WGT: 1
ACCEL: 2 ACCEL: 3
▶ Overdrive—an incredibly strong power
that pushes your Drive Core to its WPNS: 2 MNTD WPNS: 2 MNTD
limits. You can only use your Overdrive 2 PRJD 1 PRJD
once per mission, and when you do,
roll a d6. On a 1 or 2, you immediately LIGHT ULTRALIGHT
take a point of Drive Burn. You can
choose to fail this roll. WGT: 0 WGT: -1
ACCEL: 4 ACCEL: 5
▶ Burn Scars—a set of permanent WPNS: 1 MNTD WPNS: 1 PRJD
consequences for taking Drive Burn. 1 PRJD
Most of these properties are only
mechanically important in Combat play,
but can also be used to inform narrative
actions and outcomes (Burn Scars are
great for this). Embrace what makes
your Revolver unique—for better and for
worse.

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aries CORE
♈
MASSIVE IMPACTOR
▶ROLE: Vanguard Assault
▶PATTERNS: Heavy, Balanced, Light
▶BURN GATE: 8
▶FIRST IN: Last Out
PASSIVE: RED GIANT
On your very first turn each combat,
enter RED GIANT STANCE until the
start of your next turn. While in RED
GIANT STANCE, you gain +2 Accel, and
your Projected weapons gain +1 Harm,
Massive, and Decel +1.
Once you exit RED GIANT STANCE, you
canʼt enter it again until a full round has
passed.
POWERS
▶PERSEI CHARGE [1]: Boost, then deal
Harm to a Matched foe equal to your
change in Speed this turn. If youʼre in
RED GIANT STANCE, this targets all
Matched foes instead.
▶ANTARES LANCE [2] Deal 3 Harm to
Leading (2) or Trailing (2) foes. If youʼre
in RED GIANT STANCE, this targets all
Leading or Trailing foes instead.
▶CYGNI FUSOR [3]: Enter RED GIANT
STANCE until the end of your next turn.
If youʼre in RED GIANT STANCE, deal 5
Harm to all Matched foes instead.
OVERDRIVE: HYPERGIANT MODE
Spend your action: For the of rest the
scene, whenever you end your turn in
RED GIANT STANCE, Matched foes take
3 Harm. Whenever you destroy a foe,
you may extend the duration of RED
GIANT STANCE by 1 round.
Enter RED GIANT STANCE now, until
the end of your next turn.
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“Hammer-2, Kestrel, VeeBees 10-3-5,
big ones. Locked burn is 3-Spear-
Crystal, say go.”
“No go, Kestrel. Burn on mark.”
Suvi’s Drive growls, thunder in her
chest. She grits her teeth.
“Heard, Hammer. Ready mark.”
A thousand klicks beltward, the Veil
Breaches are shuddering, unfolding,
swallowing the starlight. Suvi
glares into one dead-on, screaming
challenge with her eyes—
“That’s contact. Vees hot, 10-3-5.
Kestrel, mark.”
There. The void takes shape—a
Lotus-Strain writhes into realspace,
petals still rimed with unlight.
Suvi’s Drive ignites, a howling
meteor on a hard collision burn.
She bares her teeth and roars.
BURN SCARS
▶Your skin is ravaged by glowing
fissures, like youʼre burning from within.
▶Your touch conducts enormous force.
Even light contact can crush things and
send people sprawling.
▶Retreating or refusing a challenge
becomes physically painful, like your
organs are being crushed by a fist.
▶When youʼre angry, the world goes
red. You have to fight to stay in control.
▶BURNUP. Enter RED GIANT STANCE
for the rest of the scene, and gain the
following power:
▶CANIS METEOR [9999]: Boost,
then destroy all Matched foes. If you
Boosted more than 4 this turn,
destroy all foes within Speed 1
instead.
At the end of the scene, your Drive
grows to the size of a stellar body, and
explodes into roiling crimson plasma.

TAURUS CORE
absolute EPICENTER
▶ROLE: Battlefield Anchor
▶PATTERNS: Heavy, Balanced
▶BURN GATE: 10
▶CENTER: Of Gravity
PASSIVE: gravity well
At the start of each of your turns, you
can take 2 Drive Stress to activate your
GRAVITY WELL this round. While active,
you gain +2 Weight and are Slowed,
Matched allies gain +1 Weight, and
Matched foes are Locked.
POWERS
▶GREAT ATTRACTOR [2]: Pull all
targets (friend or foe) within Speed 2 to
Match you. Foes pulled take 1 Harm.
▶GRAVITON CRUSH [2]: Deal 2 Harm
to all Matched foes, then Lock them. If
theyʼre already Locked, deal 4 Harm
instead.
▶MASS BUNKER [4]: You and Matched
allies of your choice gain +4 Weight and
are Locked. If an ally changes Speed,
they lose this effect immediately.
OVERDRIVE: event horizon
For the next 3 rounds (including this
round), the effects of your GRAVITY
WELL change to the following:
▶At the end of each of your turns, pull
all foes within Speed 3 to Match you,
then Lock all Matched foes. If a foe is
already Locked, Stun them.
▶Allies within Speed 3 gain +2 Weight.
▶Your Speed canʼt change for any
reason.
With the right setup and careful
♉
focus from its Revolver, a Drive’s
output can be rerouted inward to
rapidly increase its own rest-mass
energy, allowing for enormous—but
precisely controllable—fluctuations
in gravitic force.
The Taurus Core, developed in the
first decade of Veil incursions, was
one of the earliest configs to
successfully leverage this property.
Straightforward and powerful, if
less specialized than its later
counterparts, it remains in use as
an effective battlefield anchor.
Taurus Drives are relatively rare—
their low maneuverability and
demanding focus requirements tend to
attract only a certain stripe of
pilot—but their stable presence and
immense theater-control potential
make them a welcome sight in any
Brace, station, or battlefield.
BURN SCARS
▶Micro-movements like blinking,
swallowing, or facial expressions require
conscious effort. You donʼt need them.
▶Small objects are inexorably drawn
into an orbit around you.
▶Your heart has an escape velocity.
Most emotions donʼt make it out.
▶When you think about someone, they
feel a pull. The closer you are, the
stronger it gets.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
your GRAVITY WELL is always on, and
its effects change to the following:
▶At the start of each of your turns,
pull all foes 3 Speed closer to you,
then destroy all Matched foes.
▶Allies within Speed 3 gain +3
Weight.
▶Your Speed canʼt change for any
reason.
At the end of the scene, your Drive pulls
in all nearby matter and light, and
collapses into a luminous singularity.
[24]

GEMINI CORE
EPHEMERAL DUALITY
▶ROLE: Twin-Strike Harrier
▶PATTERNS: Balanced, Light, Ultralight
▶BURN GATE: 6
▶TWO SIDES: Same Coin
PASSIVE: SUPERPOSITION
You have a QUANTUM DOUBLE, an
intangible copy of your Drive. It has its soon as I could. Or, at least—at
own Speed (tracked separately), ignores
all Impact and effects, and starts each
scene Matched to you.
Whenever you Boost, you may freely
split the Boost between yourself and
your QUANTUM DOUBLE. When you
attack with a Projected weapon or use
its Pattern Trait, you may treat your
QUANTUM DOUBLE as the origin for
the effect. If you Zero Out, your
QUANTUM DOUBLE dissipates. If you
Rally, it rematerializes Matched to you.
POWERS
▶DOUBLE TAKE [1]: Your QUANTUM
DOUBLE may Boost 3, then make a
Projected weapon attack.
▶DOUBLE CROSS [2]: Swap Speeds
with your QUANTUM DOUBLE, then
deal 2 Harm to all foes in the Speed
bands between you.
▶DOUBLE EDGE [2]: Deal 2 Harm to a
foe Matched to you, then 2 Harm to a
foe Matched to your QUANTUM
DOUBLE. If you both hit the same
target, Fracture them (before dealing
Harm).
OVERDRIVE: 3-BODY PROBLEM
For the rest of the scene, you gain a
second QUANTUM DOUBLE, which
materializes at a Speed of your choice.
When a Power or ability references your
QUANTUM DOUBLE, you may choose
either (but not both).
[25]
EXCERPT BEGINS======================
RV [!NAME EXPUNGED!]: Well, as a kid
I always wanted to be a superhero,
y’know? Like in the pre-Roil vids,
swooping in to save the day, my own
theme song—even had a name picked
out, Annie Madder, get it? Like—
PRIMA PRESS: The question, please.
RV: Right, yeah. Anyway, guess
someone up there took the hint, ‘cuz
I melted through my dresser when I
was nine, got rushed to St. Valta’s
Orbital, and that was that. Enlisted
least I think I did.
PP: You think you did?
RV: Forget it. That’s the thing,
right? When I spin up, doesn’t much
matter if it’s me or Annie doing the
driving. The Libras love to yak
about “dual natures”, “the struggle
against the shadow self”, whatever.
I’ve never had time for that shit.
So long as there’s Veil out there,
Annie and I will give ‘em what
they’ve got coming. Hard promise.
EXCERPT ENDS========================
BURN SCARS
▶Your QUANTUM DOUBLE flickers in
and out of visibility around you, acting
out possible short-term futures.
▶Light bends and refracts around you,
as if youʼre in two places at once.
▶When you make a decision, you get a
momentary flash of the other possible
outcomes, good or bad.
▶Youʼre no longer certain all your
memories are actually yours.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
your QUANTUM DOUBLE can Boost 1/
turn without using an action, and
applies DECOHERENCE until end of turn
to foes it passes while Boosting. When
you hit a foe with DECOHERENCE with
a Projected weapon, they instantly
dematerialize as their eigenstate
undergoes irreversible collapse.
At the end of the scene, your Drive
cracks, then shatters, scattering echoes
of you across every possible reality.

CANCER CORE
♋
ONTOLOGIC avenger
▶ROLE: Massive Deterrence
▶PATTERNS: Any
▶BURN GATE: 8
▶LOOK: Donʼt Touch
PASSIVE: ANTIMATTER shell
At the start of your turn, you can take 1
Drive Stress to create an ANTIMATTER
SHELL around your or an allyʼs Drive.
The shell lasts until its target takes any
Impact—then it detonates, reducing the
Impact by 1 and dealing 3 Harm to a
Matched foe. You can have any number
of active ANTIMATTER SHELLS, but
their effects donʼt stack.
POWERS
▶POSITRON INJECTOR [1]: An ally
with an ANTIMATTER SHELL may
immediately Boost 2, then Fracture a
foe Matched to them.
▶GAMMA FLASH [2]: Deal 2 Harm to
all foes Leading (2) or Trailing (2) a single
character with an ANTIMATTER SHELL.
▶ATOM TRAP [3]: The next time an
ANTIMATTER SHELL detonates, it deals
5 Harm, Weakens, and Fractures the
target. You can use this power at any
time, even when itʼs not your turn.
OVERDRIVE: BARYON SYMMETRY
For the rest of the scene, your
ANTIMATTER SHELLS donʼt expire
when they detonate. All allies without an
ANTIMATTER SHELL gain one now.
Records of proposed antimatter
generators exist from as early as
2116 PSc, but these were purely
theoretical—limited by the
prohibitive cost and power of spot-
materializing antimatter and an
incomplete understanding of physics.
With the discovery of the Roil and
the invention of the Revolver Drive,
the greatest bottleneck—energy—was
removed, and work on producing a
functional prototype began in
earnest.
After the Eris disaster, nearly all
AM tech research pivoted to combat-
viable applications. The primary
result of this shift was the Cancer
Core: a closed-loop antiparticle
accelerator platform, with such
precise control over its AM fields
it can shape them into defensive
barriers with minimal risk of
spontaneous annihilation.
BURN SCARS
▶You have a crackling pseudomatter
carapace covered in thorns and barbs.
▶Sometimes, small objects you touch
are spontaneously annihilated. This is
unpredictable, but worsens with stress.
▶Youʼre hypervigilant—even in safe
situations, youʼre always ready to shield
up or lash out.
▶When someone you love is hurt, your
reflexes take over to avenge them.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
your ANTIMATTER SHELLS donʼt expire
when they detonate, reduce Impact by
3, and destroy all foes within Speed 1 on
detonation. Whenever any characterʼs
ANTIMATTER SHELL takes Impact,
detonate all of them.
At the end of the scene, your Driveʼs
stabilizers fail, and it instantly self-
annihilates in a matter-antimatter
flash.
[26]
 ♌
LEO CORE
SHINING inferno
▶ROLE: Maximum Threat Saturation
▶PATTERNS: Any
▶BURN GATE: 10
▶FIRE: Walk With Me
PASSIVE: RADIANCE
Your Projected weapons apply
RADIANCE on hit, which lasts until the
end of the scene. Foes with RADIANCE
take 1 Harm at the end of each round
(ignoring reductions and immunity) and
continue to burn even if you Zero Out
or otherwise leave the encounter.
When a foe with RADIANCE is
destroyed, they explode, applying
RADIANCE to all foes Matched to them.
POWERS
▶SOLAR WIND [X]: Boost X, where X
is the number of foes with RADIANCE,
then take another action.
▶CORONAL FLARE [2]: Deal 1 Harm to
Trailing (5) foes. Foes with RADIANCE
take 3 Harm instead.
▶SUPERNOVA [X+1]: Deal X Harm to
foes within Speed X, where X is the
number of foes with RADIANCE, up to 6.
OVERDRIVE: FUSION CASCADE
For the rest of the scene, RADIANCE
deals 2 Harm instead of 1, and foes with
RADIANCE deal 2 Harm to other
Matched foes when they explode. Apply
RADIANCE to all foes within Speed 3
now.
[27]
BEGIN INCIDENT REPORT===============
Mission: Operation Piercing Stare
Location: Valetudo Line, Jovian Belt
Subject: RV Polly Alvarez
Summary: RV Alvarez prevs’ly applied
and was denied position on DEEP
STRIKE Brace for listed Operation;
accepted alt placement on rearguard.
During Operation, RV Alvarez broke
formation, angled burn for Jovian
interior—on first hail from Hammer-9,
cited concerns with DEEP STRIKE
efficacy. Further hails ignored. On
contact, RV Alvarez engaged in
repeated thermonuclear antagonism of
DEEP STRIKE and surrounding Veil.
Brace members severely disturbed.
Heavy damage to RV Alvarez’s Leo
Core sustained. All Veil destroyed.
Operation successful. Discipline
recommended.
END INCIDENT REPORT=================
BURN SCARS
▶You radiate blistering heat. Weak
materials melt or vaporize in seconds,
and your touch leaves painful burns.
▶You have a mane of golden light. The
more you show off, the brighter it shines.
▶You ambitions burn like hungry
flames. Feed them, or theyʼll devour you.
▶Glory and success feel like waves of
blissful warmth. The sensation is
addictive.
▶BURNUP. Gain the following power:
▶MAGNETAR FISSION [9999]: Each
foe with RADIANCE applies
RADIANCE to all foes within Speed 1.
Then, if every foe has RADIANCE:
destroy all foes, seal all Veil Breaches,
set Incursion to 0, and end the scene.
At the end of the scene, your Drive flares
brighter than any star, and erupts in a
nova visible from Earth.
♌ ♍
VIRGO CORE
REVERENT VEILTENDER
▶ROLE: Spacetime Integrity Specialist
▶PATTERNS: Any
▶BURN GATE: 6
▶REAP: The Harvest
PASSIVE: ENTROPIC HARVEST
Whenever a foe is destroyed, clear 1
Drive Stress. You donʼt clear any Drive
Stress for sealing a Veil Breach.
Whenever the GM rolls to open Veil
Breaches, you may choose to open one
more or one less than the total result.
POWERS
▶GARDENERʼS TOUCH [1]: Choose a
Leading (4) ally. The next time they take
Drive Stress, open a Veil Breach
matched to them.
▶WINNOWERʼS SCYTHE [1]: Choose a
Leading Chaff or Standard foe Matched
to a Veil Breach. Seal the Breach; the
target is instantly destroyed.
▶UNVEILING [3]: Seal up to 3 Veil
Breaches. For each one, you may
Disrupt and Fracture a Leading foe or
clear 2 Drive Stress from a Leading ally.
OVERDRIVE: FLOWERING NIGHT
Spend your action: For the rest of the
scene, Veil Breaches canʼt be opened,
and whenever a foe is destroyed, create
a VOID BLOOM at its Speed. VOID
BLOOMS last until the end of the scene,
count as Veil Breaches for friendly
powers and abilities, and donʼt
contribute to Incursion. Allies that end
their turns Matched to one or more
VOID BLOOMS may clear 3 Drive
Stress.
Roll d6+1. Seal that many open Veil
Breaches and create VOID BLOOMS in
their place now.
“Do you wonder why we give them
those names?”
Vera grunts, not looking up from the
cracked-crabshell spread of the
broken fission cycler. “Which?”
“The Veil,” Nico says, pacing.
“Lotus, Orchid, Sage, Yarrow. All so
botanical.”
Another grunt. “They look the part,
don’t they? Big bastard flowers.”
“I suppose. Visually, you could pick
almost anything spindly and
stellate—deep-sea creatures, maybe.
But there’s more to it, I think.”
Vera looks up, her bushy eyebrows
knitting. “What are you getting at?”
“They’re like plants. Guided by
energy. They find the light and grow
towards it.”
“Then they should go grow somewhere
else,” Vera snorts. “We won’t lose
the system to no goddamn fivedee
shrub.”
“No.” Nico smiles thinly. “We won’t.”
BURN SCARS
▶A strange plant is growing from your
spine. Itʼs bone-white, cold to the touch,
and doesnʼt match any extant species.
▶Your skin, hair, and eyes are faintly
translucent and covered in a sheen of
void rime.
▶When youʼre alone, you hear soft
whispers. You donʼt understand them,
but you know theyʼre from the Veil.
▶You see othersʼ flaws and insecurities
as dark thorns piercing their skin. You
have a constant urge to pull them out.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
the Veil are no longer hostile to you.
Whenever you seal a Veil Breach, it
swallows all foes Matched to it.
At the end of the scene, your Drive
sprouts thousands of void-buds, and is
overgrown with shimmering unlight
flowers. The Veil will tend you for
eternity.
[28]

LIBRA CORE
♎
EQUINOX AEGIS
▶ROLE: Active Defense
▶PATTERNS: Heavy, Balanced, Light
▶BURN GATE: 8
▶TIP: The Scales
PASSIVE: EQUILIBRIUM
Whenever you take Drive Stress, you
gain that much Inertia. This stacks with
other sources of Inertia.
At the end your turn, Matched allies
gain half your current Inertia, rounded
up.
POWERS
▶AEGIS THROW [2]: Deal 3 Harm to a
Leading (2) foe. You can use this power
any number of times in succession, as
long as you target a different foe within
Speed 2 of the previous target each time.
▶LUNAʼS MERCY [2]: 1/round when an
ally within Speed 3 would take Impact or
a status from a hostile source, you can
activate this power, Warping to Match
that ally and taking the effect instead.
▶SOLʼS PRIDE [3]: Until the start of
your next turn, you gain +2 Weight, and
whenever a foe within Speed 3 activates,
they must attack you if able.
OVERDRIVE: EQUINOX WARD
Spend your action: Activate EQUINOX
WARD. While active:
▶Youʼre permanently Locked, and gain
3 Inertia at the start of your turn.
▶Matched allies deal +2 Harm with all
weapons, and gain full Inertia from your
Equilibrium passive instead of half.
▶Attacks and powers from foes that
arenʼt Matched to you have their Impact
reduced by 2 and canʼt apply statuses.
For the rest of the scene, you may
deactivate EQUINOX WARD at any time,
and spend your action to activate it
again.
[29]
The thing I hear most?
‘You were made for this fight. What
are you even going to do after we
pierce through the Veil?’
What I can't tell them is this: if
it was the stars out there instead,
burning everything else in the
firmament to a cinder, I’d be the one
snuffing out the flames.
The full depths of Balance and
Justice are so hard for them to
picture. They can’t imagine anything
but light as goodness, as purity.
Tell that to the man dying of heat
exhaustion at high noon in the
desert.
I believe in both the soothing
blanket of night and the guiding
beacon of light. Equity through
inequality. Justice through
sacrifice. Equilibrium, on my terms.
BURN SCARS
▶Your body is cast in two halves: one
brilliant light, the other deep shadow.
▶Youʼre surrounded by a force barrier,
deflecting objects and physical touch.
You can suppress it, but not for long.
▶You feel the weight of every death the
Veil have caused. It is crushing. You must
bear it.
▶Your sense of justice pulls you like a
lodestone—your Drive will see it served.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
Lunaʼs Mercy has no round or targeting
restrictions, and it gains Parry (as the
weapon tag, but with no attack
restrictions, no per-round trigger limit,
and triggering on a roll of 2+).
At the end of the scene, your Drive
refuses to be destroyed, and reshapes
itself into a shield of frozen starfire.
You are gone, but your light remains.

SCORPIO CORE
♏
DEADSTAR predator
▶ROLE: Hunter-Killer
▶PATTERNS: Balanced, Light, Ultralight
▶BURN GATE: 7
▶SEEK: And Destroy
PASSIVE: sunkiller blades
Your Projected Melee weapons deal +1
Harm for each status on the target,
including special statuses.
At the start of your turn, you may Prime
or Slow a Leading (2) foe until the start
of your next turn.
POWERS
▶NEUTRON POISON [1]: Boost. Your
next 2 hits with Projected Melee
weapons Weaken and Lock their targets
before dealing Harm.
▶SLAG SPASM [2]: Deal 2 Harm to a
foe within 2 Speed, then apply all the
targetʼs active statuses to another foe
within 2 Speed of them.
▶SUNKILLER STRIKE [3]: Choose a
Matched foe. Then, depending on how
many statuses they have—
▶0-1: Deal 2 Harm.
▶2-3: Deal 4 Harm and Stun.
▶4+: Destroy them (Bosses take 5 Harm
and Fracture instead).
OVERDRIVE: DEADSTAR VENOM
Spend your action: Choose a foe. Warp
to Match them, then Prime, Lock,
Weaken, Disrupt, and Fracture them
until the end of the following round.
there is a spark in you that
crackles and howls against its
prison it has always been there it
was starved and mewling but i have
fed it blood and force and fire
you feel the fissionhunger gnawing
at your heart and the maelstrom
surging through your veins you will
bear this all your life until it
ends you but you are more than
fragile unkindled death SO PROVE IT
crack atoms in your jaws like bones
gorge on the marrow of harmony/
stability/dissonance/energy
the universe is yours to take but
THEY WOULD TAKE IT FROM YOU DO NOT
LET THEM
wrench their storm from the black
and swallow it. bleed lightning.
breathe steel. HUNT WITH ME ACROSS
THE FIRE AND VOID AND SHOW THEM EVEN
ENTROPY CAN DIE.
BURN SCARS
▶Your veins run hot with radioactive
venom. Itʼs painful and exhilarating.
▶Your body has natural weapons made
from your own Drivelight: claws, teeth, a
barbed tail, or something more exotic.
▶When you see a living thing, you have
a flash of exactly how to kill it, whether
you want to or not.
▶When someone wrongs you, it hurts
like a knife—until you pull out the blade
and return the favor.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene, at
the start of your turn, apply HEAT
DEATH to a foe of your choice. Foes
with HEAT DEATH have all basic
statuses, bypassing immunity. When a
foe with HEAT DEATH is destroyed, you
may reapply it to a new foe within
Speed 3 of the target.
At the end of the scene, your Driveʼs
kill-impulse turns inward, and
it rips you apart from the inside out.
[30]
 ♐
sagittarius CORE
divine deliverance
▶ROLE: Long-Range Precision
▶PATTERNS: Any
▶BURN GATE: 6
▶ALWAYS: Finds Its Mark
PASSIVE: HEAVEN’s EYE
Your Ranged weapons gain +1 die on
attacks and deal triple Harm on Crits.
Once per turn after you roll to attack,
you can take any amount of Drive Stress
to reroll that many dice.
POWERS
▶ORIONʼS GLARE [1]: Choose a
Leading (6) foe, then deal Harm equal to
your difference in Speed. This power
canʼt target foes less than 4 Speed away.
▶CALLED SHOT [2]: Choose a Leading
(6) foe, then attack them with a Ranged
weapon. If the attack destroys them,
clear 4 Drive Stress.
▶ARTEMIS RUSH [2]: Boost, then
attack with a Ranged weapon. Whenever
you Crit, you can use this power
automatically (you still take Drive Stress
when you do).
OVERDRIVE: starPIERCER
Your next attack with a Ranged weapon
rolls double dice, is an automatic Crit,
and ignores all reductions and
immunity. For each 6 you roll, the attack
deals +1 bonus Harm (before
multipliers).
[31]
Arc twelve-three dash two dash
seven. A bad shot; too wide. Eddy
boosts hard as the Kharos-Strain
spins like a grinding-wheel, rending
a station evac jumper to a twisted
hulk of carbon. He feels a pang
behind his eyes, a turgid heat
threatening to bloom—
No. Focus. Arc nine-eight dash four
dash nine. Closer, but the shot will
glance, probably just piss it off—
There’s an idea. “HEY!” he screams,
and a seeker volley peppers the
Kharos’s writhing extrema. The Veil
shudders, then folds inside-out,
reshaping itself to face him. Eddy
grins, finger slowly squeezing on
Apollo’s massive trigger, careful
and smooth like a lover’s embrace.
Arc oh-four dash one dash five—
BURN SCARS
▶One of your eyes burns with starlight.
Close the other, and you can see infinity.
▶You have minor telekinesis. You canʼt
always control it, even when you try.
▶Your Drive Core feeds you a constant,
dizzying stream of perfect spatial
telemetry—arcs, vectors, paths, and
more.
▶Regardless of proximity, everything
always feels impossibly close.
▶BURNUP. You donʼt gain the normal
bonuses for BURNUP. Gain the
following power:
▶GODSLAYER COREBOLT [9999]:
Choose a foe. They are completely
annihilated—no trace of them
remains in the past, present, or future.
You remain in BURNUP until the
mission ends or you use GODSLAYER
COREBOLT, whichever comes first. You
can otherwise act normally.
When you exit BURNUP, your Drive
jettisons its own Core, and forms the
heart of a new constellation.
 ♑
CAPRICORN CORE
UNLIGHT juggernaut
▶ROLE: Veilspace Interdictor
▶PATTERNS: Balanced, Heavy
▶BURN GATE: 8
▶THE ABYSS: Gazes Back
PASSIVE: veilborn
As long as youʼre Matched to one or
more active Veil Breaches, your
Projected Melee weapons gain +2 Harm
and Massive, and you gain 2 Inertia at
the start of your turn.
Whenever you destroy a foe, you may
open a Veil Breach at the targetʼs Speed.
POWERS
▶ABYSSAL STRIDE [1]: Warp between
two active Veil Breaches, one of which
must be Matched to you.
▶UNLIGHT CRUSHER [3]: Deal 7 Harm
to a Matched foe, ignoring reductions
and immunity. Advance the Incursion
Clock by 2.
▶ENTROPIC MANTLE [X]: Whenever
you would take Impact, you can use this
power to gain that much Drive Stress
instead (before reductions).
OVERDRIVE: dead zone
Spend your action: You and all non-
Boss foes within Speed 3 are removed
from the encounter, reappearing in a
silent, lightless void—the DEAD ZONE.
While in the DEAD ZONE:
▶Characters are always Matched.
▶Foes are permanently Weakened and
Disrupted.
▶Your Veilborn passive is always active.
▶When you would take Impact, you
take that much Drive Stress instead.
The DEAD ZONE lasts until you exceed
your Burn Gate, or until all foes in it are
destroyed.
THERE IS A GREAT SECRET I HAVE
LEARNED: the stars are holes in a
curtain. Behind them burns a fierce
and merciless fire. But the holes are
not distributed equally, and some of
them look out onto darkness. These
are the black holes, and I have made
myself one.
THERE IS A GREAT SECRET I HAVE
LEARNED: the void beyond is not
empty. There is only the suggestion
of emptiness. The curtain folds and
ripples, and this motion creates
anti-geometry. The void flows through
this geometry, and I have learned to
follow it.
THERE IS A GREAT SECRET I HAVE
LEARNED: the curtain conceals an
evil. The evil is myriad, and yearns
to devour us. These are the Veil,
and I will devour them first.
BURN SCARS
▶Your presence saps the heat and light
from your surroundings. The closer you
get, the colder and darker it becomes.
▶You have an aura of warped,
pulsating, flickering space. Like .
▶You canʼt shake the feeling your love
and friendship bring others bad luck.
▶You have vivid recurring nightmares
where you are a Veil, slaughtering
Revolvers youʼve never met.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
gain the following Projected melee
weapon:
VEILSBANE: M, ∞ Targets, Harm equal
to RPM, Massive, Pierce, ignores
immunity. When this destroys a foe,
decrease the Incursion Clock by 2.
At the end of the scene, your Drive tears
open a massive Veil Breach and is
swallowed into V-Space. You will fight
on, but you will never return.
[32]
 ♒
AQUARIUS CORE
OracLE OF discord
▶ROLE: Disruption/Subversion
▶PATTERNS: Balanced, Light
▶BURN GATE: 10
▶FOLLOW: The Leader
PASSIVE: ORACLE SEQUENCING
Whenever you hit with a Projected
weapon, you can choose to deal 0 Harm
to SEQUENCE all targets hit until the
end of the scene instead. SEQUENCED
foes are also Primed (but lose Primed
when they take Harm, as normal).
Whenever a SEQUENCED foe activates,
you may immediately use a power
targeting them, ignoring band
requirements and other restrictions.
When you use a power this way, its
Drive Stress cost is doubled.
POWERS
▶THE FOOL [0]: Any number of foes
lose SEQUENCED. Clear twice that much
Drive Stress. This power can only be
used on your turn.
▶THE HANGED MAN [2]: Slow a
Leading (4) foe and all foes Matched to
them.
▶THE CHARIOT [2]: Force a Leading (4)
foe to Fold 2 in a single direction of
your choice.
▶THE TOWER [3]: Force a Leading (2)
foe to immediately attack another foe of
your choice, dealing all Impact as Harm.
OVERDRIVE: THE WORLD
For the rest of the scene, your powersʼ
base Drive Stress cost is reduced to 1
(unless it was lower). Whenever an allyʼs
turn begins, you may use a power
targeting a SEQUENCED foe within
Speed 3 of that ally.
[33]
...it gets complicated. “Cause and
effect”,that makes sense when you're
moving at typical land speeds.
Meters a second, kilometers a
second, all well and good. But dance
along the line between E, m and c,
and suddenly things aren't so clear
cut.
Laws start to bend. There's a little
margin of error now. Seven
hundredths of a second, if you're
lucky, where the future and the past
get themselves mixed up. Just enough
time for something to happen. Who
can say what?
You, of course. That's why...
BURN SCARS
▶Your eyes are bright and empty, like
windows to a sea of glass.
▶You can hear othersʼ surface thoughts.
If youʼre close, they can hear yours, too.
▶You have visions of the future. Some
are hopeful, some are dire, most are
unsettling. All of them are your fault.
▶Time feels fluid, mutable. If you arenʼt
careful, youʼll lose hours, minutes, days.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
your Drive is Immune to all Impact and
Statuses. Gain the following power,
which is the only action you can take:
▶THE STAR [9999]: Choose three
foes and activate them. You control
their turns this round. While under your
control, they deal all Impact as Harm.
At the end of the scene, your Drive
entwines with every possible past,
present, and future, and unravels into
threads of brilliant light.

PISCES CORE
UNCONDITIONAL ACCELERATOR
▶ROLE: Relativistic Maneuvers
▶PATTERNS: Light, Ultralight
▶BURN GATE: 6
▶NEVER: Look Back
PASSIVE: SUPERFLUIDITY
Whenever you Boost 2 or more, gain 1
FLOW, up to 6. Your Projected weapons
deal +1 Harm for every 2 FLOW you
have. Lose all FLOW whenever you take
Drive Burn or end your turn without
Boosting.
When you would lose Speed, you may
spend any amount of FLOW instead,
reducing the Speed lost one-to-one.
POWERS
▶VORTEX RUSH [1]: Boost, then deal
Harm equal to your FLOW (minimum 1)
to up to three foes you passed.
▶WAVESPLITTER [2]: Boost 2, attack
with a Projected weapon, then Boost 2
again.
▶INERTIA CHARGE [1]: Boost, then
plant an INERTIA CHARGE on one foe
you passed. At the start of each of your
turns, you may detonate all active
charges, dealing Harm to their targets
equal to your current Speed.
The charges last until detonated or until
the end of the scene. You can have any
number of charges active at once.
OVERDRIVE: PERFECT FLOW
For the rest of the encounter, your Accel
becomes 8, you canʼt be Locked,
Slowed, or prevented from Boosting in
any way, and whenever you take an
action, gain 1 FLOW.
♓
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BEGIN MSG CONTENTS=================
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timed this right++Sry for terse++
new deploy in [!EXPUNGED!] so hard
lmts on transm length++might be
while til next but will try++
++Wish I cld slow this down
smtimes++kick relativity in the can
for stling a decade frm us in 2
yrs++guess I shld take own advce++
Look forward not back++Eyes on
horizon++Heart with you always++Be
safe++Be brave++I love you++Mom
END MSG CONTENTS====================
BURN SCARS
▶Youʼre unsettlingly tall, lean, and
angular, every vertex shaped for speed.
▶When you move, you leave a wake of
spatial echoes, like ripples on water.
▶You canʼt stay still. When you try, it
feels like your atoms will rip themselves
apart.
▶You think, move, act, and react
supernaturally fast. The world feels dull
and glacial in comparison.
▶BURNUP. For the rest of the scene,
your Speed is any value you want it to
be—you can change it at any time, in
any amount, no matter what.
At the end of the scene, your Drive
bursts past the speed of light, and
your particles scatter to every corner
of the universe.
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 WEAPONS
STEEL AND STARLIGHT
To be the ring of spears.
To destroy destruction.
To harm, so that others may not be
harmed—but still, to harm.
When the stars still shone, arming a
Revolver was unthinkable—humanity had
already borne the scars of energy-as-
death, and chose the path of compassion.
But then the galaxy went dark, and the
Veil offered another choice: principles or
extinction.
And so.
Now, a Drive is its weapons as much as its
turbine. Now, Prima Solʼs last hope lies in
brilliant and overwhelming force: in blade
and beam and battery, in violence-as-
defiance, in you.
You may never see a star-filled sky, or an
Earth not under siege—but Revolvers
fight for the day when others will.
So fight.
Refuse the inevitable. Defy the odds. Push
back the unlight tide and scour the Veil
from space. Carve a new and brighter
future with arms of steel and starlight, so
that they may be never used again.

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WEAPONS OVERVIEW
TYPES, STATS, AND TAGS
Weapons in Infinite Revolution come in
two basic types: Projected and Mounted.

▶ Projected weapons are powerful arms

of Drive-forged light, shaped and
sharpened by your internal resonance.
They are heavily customizable and
unique to you.

▶ Mounted weapons are terrestrial,

human-manufactured systems
attached to your Drive using specially-
projected resonant hardpoints. What
they lack in cosmic flair they make up
for in versatility, running the gamut
from missile pods to Gauss cannons to
HK drone arrays.

In addition to their type, all weapons are

either Ranged or Melee , denoted by
an icon next to the weaponʼs name or
pattern heading (for Projected weapons).
Each weapon also has four properties that
help describe its function:

Band—The relative Speed bands the

weapon can hit. If a weapon lists multiple
bands, it can freely target one of those
bands (but not more) each time you
attack. (For more on Speed bands, see
page 15).

Targets—How many foes the weapon can

target with each attack. A weapon with 0
or fewer Targets canʼt be used to attack.

Harm—Damage. (See page 17).

Tags—Keywords that grant a weapon

special abilities. Some weapons start with
intrinsic tags, and Projected weapons can
be customized with additional tags via
Projection Focusing. (See page 42).

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 PROJECTED
WEAPONS
Energy-as-death
A dragonʼs head where a Driveʼs should
be, its starry maw belching brilliant
annihilation.
A hammer in silhouette, its shape cast by
grav-lensed light, leaving craters in
spacetime with each swing.
A thousand shining needles moving as
one, flowing like starlings, piercing the
black with threads of searing gold.
A bolt of neon plasma, grasped in hand;
hungry, serpentine, alive.
Made of Drivelight and dreams, defiant of
physical limits, immensely destructive and
shatteringly beautiful—these are a
Revolverʼs Projected arms, weapons to
break gods.
forging A
PROJECTED WEAPON
Cast your light to shape
Projected weapons, like Drives, come in a
variety of Patterns. A Projected weaponʼs
Pattern determines its general stat range,
and also grants a unique Pattern Trait—a
special passive ability that defines that
Patternʼs role in combat.
There are eight Patterns total: four
Ranged (Beams, Cannons, Channels,
and Seekers), and four Melee (Blades,
Breakers, Kata, and Shields). Each Pattern
also has a number of subtypes, which
determine a Projected weaponʼs base stats
and starting Tags.
To create a Projected weapon for your
Drive:
▶ Choose a Pattern and subtype.
▶ Note your subtypeʼs base stats, tags,
and Pattern Trait.
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▶ Customize your weapon with Focus
Arts (see the rules for Projection
Focusing below).
▶ Describe how it looks, sounds, and
functions. Like Drives, Projected
weapons come from the soul,
unrestrained by physics and real-life
feasibility. Whatever you want them to
be, they can be.
▶ Name it. (Optional but recommended).
Projection
focusing
HONING YOUR EDGE
Much like you, a Projected weapon is
anything but static—it grows and changes
as you fight together, shaping itself to
better suit your unique combat style. This
process is called Projection Focusing,
and lets you to customize a Projected
weapon beyond its starting parameters.
A freshly-spooled Revolver begins play
with 1 Focus Point, which you can use to
unlock the first Focus Art of a single
Focus Tree. Each Focus Tree is a package
of abilities and tags that upgrade your
Projected weapon, making it more
effective at a certain fighting style.
There are six total Focus Trees, with three
Arts each. Each Art must be unlocked
sequentially. As you gain more Focus
Points through advancement, you can
spend each one to either unlock the next
Art of a Focus Tree youʼve already invested
in, or the first Art of one you havenʼt.
No matter how Focus Arts you unlock, a
weapon can only benefit from three at
a time. Applying higher-tier Focus Arts to
a weapon also requires applying all
previous Focus Arts in the Tree.
Focus Art unlocks are permanent, but you
may freely reconfigure which Arts are
applied to your weapon during the
Downtime phase.
(For a list of Focus Trees and Focus
Arts, see page 42).
 beams
TYPE: AUGER TYPE: RIPPER TYPE: FLICKER
BAND: L, T (All) BAND: L, T (All) BAND: L, T (All)
TRGTS: ∞ TRGTS: 3 TRGTS: 2
HARM 1 HARM 2 HARM 1
TAGS: Piercing TAGS: None TAGS: Agile

Beams are brilliant arcs of pure,

destructive Drive energy. Theyʼre long-
range, multi-hit weapons that specialize in
damaging large swathes of targets across
multiple Speed bands.

PATTERN TRAIT: Beams donʼt target foes

normally. Instead, on a successful attack, a
Beam deals Harm to the closest X foes in
its Band, where X is its Targets. If there are
multiple foes at the same Speed, choose
only one per Speed value.

CANNONS
TYPE: LIGHT TYPE: HEAVY TYPE: SCATTER
BAND: L4 (L2) BAND: L6 (L3) BAND: L2 (L2)
TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 2
HARM 2 (1) HARM 4 (2) HARM 2 (1)
TAGS: Agile TAGS: Cooldown TAGS: Burst

Cannons encompass a wide variety of

projectile weapons—usually ones that fire
high-velocity R-STATE shells. Theyʼre
reliable mid-range arms that excel at
controlling space.

PATTERN TRAIT: Cannons have a Threat

band, represented by the Speed band in
(parentheses). 1/round when a foe acts
within your Cannonʼs Threat, you may
deal the Harm in (parentheses) to that
target after the action resolves. This is
not an attack, but still applies tags like
Burst and other effects that trigger on
dealing Harm.

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 Channels
CONFIG: BLAST CONFIG: PINPOINT
BAND: M, L1 BAND: L4
TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1
HARM 2 HARM 3
TAGS: Decel 2 TAGS: Precise

CONFIG: SPREAD CONFIG: SCREEN

BAND: L3 BAND: T3
TRGTS: 3 TRGTS: 2
HARM 1 HARM 2
TAGS: None TAGS: Agile

Channels are multiplexed directed-energy PATTERN TRAIT: When you choose a

weapons similar to terrestrial drone arrays,
but respond directly to mental commands
in lieu of an external interface. Under an
experienced Revolver, they are hyper-
adaptable, multifaceted threats, capable
of real-time reconfiguration in response to
a changing battlefield.
Channel as your Projected weapon, pick
two Configs—one active, one reserve.
Your Channel always has the stats and
tags of its active Config. 1/round at any
point during your turn, you can swap your
active and reserve Configs, no action
required.

SEEKERS
TYPE: CHAFF TYPE: SWARM TYPE: WARHEAD
BAND: T4 BAND: L6 BAND: L (All)
TRGTS: [Volley] TRGTS: [Volley*2] TRGTS: [Volley-2]
HARM 2 HARM 1 HARM 6
TAGS: Slow TAGS: None TAGS: Burst

Seekers are self-guided munitions fitted

with a variety of powerful payloads. They
specialize in long-range destruction
against high-saturation massed threats.

PATTERN TRAIT: Seekers have a Volley

Die, a d6 that starts each scene at 1 and
determines their number of Targets. At the
end of each of your turns, add 1 to your
Volley Die, up to 6. After you attack with
a Seeker, the Volley Die resets back to 1.
You can also use your action to increase
the Volley Die by 1, which stacks with the
end-of-turn increase.

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BLADES
TYPE: SABER TYPE: LANCER TYPE: ULTRA
BAND: M BAND: M, L2 BAND: M
TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1
HARM 2 HARM 3 HARM 5
TAGS: Agile, Parry TAGS: Pierce TAGS: Massive,
Taxing

Blades are simple and iconic: edged

melee weapons in an uncountable array of
shapes. They excel at precision strikes
against hardened single targets.

PATTERN TRAIT: Blades have an Edge

Die, a d6 that starts each mission at 6.
After you roll an attack with a Blade, you
can choose to either remove the highest
die from that roll and use it as your new
Edge Die, or add your Edge Die to your
attack pool as if youʼd rolled a die with
that result.

Once you use an Edge Die, itʼs gone until

you create a new one. You can only have
one Edge Die at a time.

BREAKERS
TYPE: FLAIL TYPE: SLEDGE TYPE: STAVE
BAND: M BAND: M BAND: M
TRGTS: 2+2* TRGTS: 1+1* TRGTS: 1
HARM 2+2* HARM 4+2* HARM 2+1*
TAGS: Decel 1 TAGS: Taxing, TAGS: Parry
Massive,
Decel 3
Breakers are heavy, brute-force melee
weapons that thrive at high speeds where
their weight can have maximum effect.
They deal high damage to multiple foes
and can knock them off course with the
Decel tag.

PATTERN TRAIT: As long as you have 5

or more Speed, your attacks with Breakers
gain Decel +1 and all bonus stats marked
with a star* (they donʼt have these
bonuses at Speeds below 5).

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 KATA
STYLE: BLACK HOLE STYLE: NOVA STYLE: PULSAR
BAND: M BAND: M BAND: M
TRGTS: 1-3 TRGTS: 1-3 TRGTS: 1-3
HARM 1/2/3 HARM 1/1/4 HARM 1/2/2
TAGS: Slow / TAGS: None / TAGS: Agile, Parry /
Weaken / None / Agile, Parry /
Stun (Crit) Massive, Agile, Leech
Burst
Kata arenʼt weapons in the traditional
sense—each Style represents training in a
hand-to-hand technique, honed and
passed down by generations of Revolvers.

PATTERN TRAIT: Kata use three separate

attacks (called Strikes) with three different
targets. You still only make one check to
attack with a Kata, but if you hit, you can
perform up to three Strikes sequentially
against different targets, using the stats
and tags in /slashes/ for each. Before you
hit with any Strike, you may also Boost 1
(as long as thereʼs still a valid target where
you end the Boost).

SHIELDS
TYPE: BUCKLER TYPE: HEATER TYPE: PHALANX
BAND: M BAND: M (T1) BAND: M (L1, T1)
TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1 TRGTS: 1
HARM 2 HARM 2 HARM 3
TAGS: Agile, Parry TAGS: Anchor 1 TAGS: Taxing,
Anchor 2

Shields—directed-energy emitters,
coalescent-mag fields, or hunks of impact-
treated carbon steel—specialize in
defense over raw power, but can still be
effective weapons in a trained Revolverʼs
hands.

PATTERN TRAIT: You can use your action

to charge your Shield, projecting a
bastion of Drivelight around you. When
you charge your Shield, you, Matched
allies, and allies within the Speed bands in
(parentheses) gain Inertia equal to your
Shieldʼs Harm until the start of your next
turn.

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FOCUS Arts
FOCUS: ABSTRACTION
▶Your weapon gains the Leech tag. If it
already has the Leech tag, it clears 2
Drive Stress on Leeching instead.
▶When you have over half your Burn
Gate in Drive Stress, your weapon gains
+1 Harm and -1 die on attacks.
▶Your weapon can target Veil Breaches,
instantly sealing them on a Weak Hit or
above. This doesn't clear Drive Stress.
Focus: DISTORTION
▶Your weapon gains your choice of the
Slow, Weaken, or Fracture basic status
tags. If it already has a basic status tag,
you may swap that tag for one of the
options above instead.
▶Your weapon's status tags also apply
on Weak Hits.
▶Your weapon's status tags apply even
on a Null. On a Crit, any statuses it
inflicts are permanent (except Stun).
FOCUS: FRICTION
▶Your weapon gains the Decel 2 tag. If
it already has Decel, increase its value
by 1.
▶After your weapon Decels a target,
one other foe at the target's ending
Speed also takes your weapon's Harm.
▶If your weapon would Decel a non-
Boss foe to 0 Speed, they are destroyed.
FOCUS: PRECISION
▶Your weapon gains the Precise tag. If
it already has Precise, its attacks count
as Strong Hits on a roll of 5 or 6.
▶1/turn after you attack with your
weapon, you may reroll the attack's
lowest die.
▶On a Strong Hit or Crit, your weapon
ignores immunity and Harm reductions.
Focus: PRESERVATION
▶Your weapon gains the Anchor 1 tag.
If it already has Anchor, increase its
value by 1.
▶1/round when a Matched ally would
take Impact, you may reduce it by your
weapon's Anchor value.
▶Inertia granted by your weaponʼs
Anchor tag now stacks with existing
Inertia instead of overriding it.
FOCUS: REACTION
▶Your weapon gains the Parry tag. If it
already has Parry, you can roll 2d6 and
choose either when Parrying.
▶Your weaponʼs successful Parries also
inflict any basic statuses the original
attack or effect would have applied.
▶1/scene, you may Parry automatically,
no roll required.
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 MOUNTED WEAPONS
Prima sol’s FINEST
Mounted weapons are strong in their own
right, but donʼt benefit from most powers,
and canʼt be upgraded via Focus Arts.
The table below lists some popular
choices for terrestrial Drive armaments.
Each model has a storied history, and
many have developed myths or
reputations unto themselves.

MOUNTED weaponS RANGE BAND TARGETS HARM TAGS

Cooldown, Precise,
AHM-88 ANTIMAT RIFLE L6 1 5 Pierce, Taxing
ARC PROJECTOR L2, T2 4 2 Disrupt

AV-99 27MM REVOLVER L3, T1 1 3 Agile

EM-227 MULTICANNON L4 3 3 Slowing

“FUNNELWEB” DRONES L4, T4 2 2 Prime

GD7 RIPPER BLADE M 1 3 Fracture, Weaken

GF14 CHARGED SPEAR M, L1, T1 1 3 Pierce

“ICHIRO” MISSILE PODS L5 4 1 Burst, Cooldown

M-ZETA STORMCASTER L1, T1 2 2 Slow, Weaken

Massive, Pierce,
OMEGA DRILL M 1 4 Taxing
RXM-S8 “LUNA” SHIELD M 1 3 Anchor 1, Parry
Cooldown,
SRW-91 PILEBUNKER M 1 5 Fracture, Pierce
SHK-II HARPOON GUN M, L3 1 3 Decel 3

SGR-1 “DRAGON” AXE M, L2 2 3 None

TERACORE BEAM L(All) 5 2 Cooldown

Stun (Crit only),
THUNDERBOLT CQC RIG M 1 4 Taxing

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WEAPON Tag glossary
Weapon tag EFFECT

▶Agile Can attack before or after taking a normal Boost action.

On a Weak Hit or or better, gain X Inertia until the start of your
▶Anchor X next turn.
Also hits all foes Matched to its target(s). Multiple Burst triggers
▶Burst do not stack damage on the same foe.
▶Cooldown Canʼt make attacks two rounds in a row.

▶Fracture Fractures targets on a Strong Hit or better.

On a Strong Hit, forces targets to lose up to X Speed (you can
▶Decel X choose less, but not 0).
▶Disrupt Disrupts targets on a Strong Hit or better.

▶Leech On destroying a non-Chaff foe, clears 1 Drive Stress.

▶Lock Locks targets on a Strong Hit or better.

▶Massive On a Null, still deals half its total Harm (doesnʼt count as a hit).

▶Massless Ignores Weight, but not Inertia. (Veil only).

1/round when attacked, roll a d6. On a 6, ignore negative effects
▶Parry and reflect all Impact back to its source as Harm. Can only be
used if youʼve attacked with this weapon this round.
▶Pierce Harm dealt canʼt be reduced in any way. (Immunity still applies).

▶Precise +1 die when attacking.

▶Prime Primes targets on a Strong Hit or better.

▶Slowing Slows targets on a Strong Hit or better.

▶Stun Stuns targets on a Strong Hit or better.

Canʼt attack if youʼve Boosted at all this turn. Once youʼve
▶Taxing attacked, you canʼt Boost until the start of your next turn.
▶Weaken Weakens targets on a Strong Hit or better.

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 For hundreds of years, despite best
efforts, Humanity thought itself alone
among the stars.

We were mistaken.

First contact was on Eris, decades ago—a

massacre. They were too fast, too strange,
horrible squirming fractals of warped and
broken space, ever-shifting, petals-
tendrils-spirals-rings and other things we
couldnʼt describe.

Now theyʼve swallowed half the system,

but weʼve learned from every kilo of space
theyʼve gained. The Veil are a terrible
paradox: life from a basis of anti-life, a
species that thrives in the void of absolute
entropy. They move as a tide, devouring
every spark of heat and light—languid
until engaged, then incomprehensibly fast
and brutal.

Our guardian fleets fell first, their

V-Engines unwitting beacons for Veil
reinforcements. Planetary emplacements
were next, blinkered by their own
dimensionality as targets failed to lock
again and again. We were overwhelmed,
desperate, backs against the wall as
untold billions fell—

And then, a glint. A flicker. We found a

new way to fight, fueled by hope and pain
and starfire—and, for the first time, we
pushed back the tide.

The Veil are powerful and alien and vast,

but we know they arenʼt immortal. We
know we have a chance.

Take it.

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VEIL OVERVIEW
The unlight tide
The Veil are the primary antagonists in the
world of Infinite Revolution—a faction of
bizarre and ruthless predators fuelled by
the absence of energy, which they require
in vast amounts.
Like Revolvers, every strain of Veil is
specialized and unique, but they all share
some common properties:
▶ Rank—a rough measure of the foeʼs
power and durability.
▶ Chaff foes are weak, and often fall
in one or two hits. They work best in
large numbers, or as support for
stronger foes.
▶ Standard foes form the backbone
of most encounters with the Veil.
With focus fire, theyʼll fall quickly,
but still pose a danger to careless or
vulnerable Revolvers.
▶ Elite foes are powerful specialists,
requiring several hits or a
coordinated assault to destroy
before they wreak havoc.
▶ Bosses are massive, scene-defining
threats, capable of engaging an
entire Brace alone.
▶ Reach—the maximum Speed the foe
can gain or lose with the Fold action.
The value in (parentheses) is the
highest Speed the foe can begin the
encounter with. A Veilʼs Speed can
never drop below 1.
▶ Armor—reduces all incoming Harm by
its value.
▶ Presence—the foeʼs ability to fight.
Lose it all, and theyʼre destroyed.
▶ Attacks—direct strikes that deal
Impact and statuses. Foes never roll
for their attacks; their effects are
automatic.
▶ Powers—special abilities. Powers with
the [P] tag are passive and always
apply, and powers with the [R] tag
require Recharging between uses.
bosses
Maximum threat
Boss foes work similarly to their lower-
rank counterparts, but also use two
special rules to represent their increased
threat: phases and Counters.
Each Boss has a number of phases, noted
by the number in (parentheses) after their
Presence total. Bosses always begin
Combat in phase 1, and each time they
would be destroyed, they clear all
negative statuses, regain all Presence,
and advance to next phase instead.
(Excess Harm doesnʼt carry over betwee).
When a Boss loses all Presence in their
final phase, theyʼre destroyed for good.
The GM can always use an Incursion Move
to activate a Boss, but they don't activate
normally on Weak Hits or Nulls. Instead,
each Boss has several unique Counters
they can respond with, which can be
triggered any number of times per round.
Each Counter requires the Boss be in a
certain phase before it can be used, noted
by the number in [brackets] next to the
Counterʼs name. Whenever a Boss enters a
new phase, they can immediately use
that phaseʼs Counter. A Boss can always
use a previous phaseʼs Counter instead of
the current one.
USING RANKS
Building combats
As a baseline for an average-difficulty
Combat, the GM can build a force of Veil
by choosing an option below (repeats
okay) for each Revolver in the Brace:
▶ 4-6 Chaff foes
▶ 3-4 Standard foes
▶ 1-2 Elite foes
▶ 1 Boss foe [only 1 per scene]
In general, err the side of more foes, not
less—Revolvers are extremely powerful,
and are built to handle overwhelming
odds. Let them shine!
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 LANTANA-STRAIN YARROW-STRAIN
▶ROLE: M.A.D.
▶RANK: Chaff
▶REACH: 3 (3)
▶ARMOR: 0
▶PRESENCE: 3

attacks
▶PURSUE
1 Target, 2 Impact, M, L1, T1. Can
immediately Warp to targetʼs ending
Speed after use.

POWERS
▶ANTIMATTER BLOOM [P]:
When a Lantana-Strain is destroyed,
Matched Revolvers take 3 Impact.
▶CATALYZE [R]:
Revolvers within Speed 2 make a
BRIGHT check. On a Weak Hit or a
Null, targets are Primed.

TACTICS
Pursues for maximum disruption with
Catalyze and Antimatter Bloom—does
not retreat or self-preserve.

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THISTLE-STRAIN IVY-STRAIN
▶ROLE: Harrier
▶RANK: Chaff
▶REACH: 4 (4)
▶ARMOR: 0
▶PRESENCE: 2

attacks
▶STIPPLE
2 Targets, 1 Impact, T4, Massless
▶PUNCTURE
1 Target, 1 Impact, M, Massless

POWERS
▶EVASIVE [P]:
Ignores Harm from attacks that arenʼt
Strong Hits or Crits.
▶BRISTLE:
For the rest of this round, when a
Revolver targets the Thistle-Strain with
an attack or Power, they are Fractured
until the start of their next turn.

TACTICS
Keeps distance with high Reach and
harasses with Stipple, or Puncture if
forced. Uses Bristle to discourage
attacks and buy time for reinforcements.
Seeks target and uses Embrace to lock
them down, then Constricts them until
destroyed.

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 ORCHID-STRAIN ROSE-STRAIN
▶ROLE: Anti-Drive Specialist
▶RANK: Soldier
▶REACH: 3 (8)
▶ARMOR: 0
▶PRESENCE: 6

attacks
▶SWELTER:
3 Targets, 0 Impact, T5. Targets take
2 Drive Stress.

POWERS
▶COREWORM [R]:
Choose a Revolver. The target is
Strained until the Orchid-Strain is
destroyed or this power is used again.
▶STIGMA BOMB:
Choose a Revolver within Speed 5.
At the end of its next turn, the target
takes Impact equal to its current Drive
Stress (max 5). The bomb expires if
the Orchid-Strain is destroyed.
▶STIGMA SNARE:
Choose a Revolver within Speed 5.
If they use a power before the end of
their next turn, they take 3 Drive
Stress and are Disrupted.

TACTICS
Opens with Coreworm, then attacks
with Swelter build large amounts of
Drive Stress on multiple targets. Uses
Stigma Bomb and Stigma Snare to
punish frequent power usage.

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IRIS-STRAIN SAGE-STRAIN
▶ROLE: Focus Fire
▶RANK: Soldier
▶REACH: 2 (6)
▶ARMOR: 0
▶PRESENCE: 7

attacks
▶GAZE:
1 Target, 2 Impact, L6/T6. FOCUSES the
target until the Iris-Strain attacks a
different one. Against FOCUSED
targets, this gains +2 Impact and Slows.

POWERS
▶GLIMPSE THE THRESHOLD:
Choose a Trailing (8) Revolver. The
target is Slowed, or Locked and
Fractured if theyʼre FOCUSED.

▶CORNEAL SHIELD [R]:

Until the end of this round, the Iris-
Strain takes -2 Harm from Revolvers
that arenʼt FOCUSED.

TACTICS
Chooses a single priority target for Gaze
and ignores all others. Uses Glimpse
The Threshold to lock down its chosen
target (if necessary) and Corneal Shield
if significantly threatened.

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 FOXGLOVE-STRAIN KHAROS-STRAIN
▶ROLE: Assassin
▶RANK: Elite
▶REACH: 3 (8)
▶ARMOR: 0
▶PRESENCE: 7

attacks
▶NULLIFY:
1 Target, 4 Impact, T6. Fractures
targets. Must Recharge between
attacks; starts Combat uncharged.
▶VETO:
1 Hit, 2 Impact, M. Disrupts targets
until the end of their next turn.

POWERS
▶CIPHER CLOAK [R]:
The Foxglove-Strain becomes
untargetable and immune to all
statuses and Harm until the end of
this round. It can immediately activate
this power in response to a Weak Hit
against it, nullifying the attack.
▶NULL STEP:
The Foxglove Warps to any active Veil
Breach, then attacks if able.
▶ZERO POINT:
The Foxglove-Strainʼs next Nullify
attack is Massless and deals 10
Impact. If it takes any Harm, this effect
is canceled.

TACTICS
Keeps to high Speeds, using
Nullify for massive Impact against
vulnerable targets. If threatened at close
range, uses Veto, Cipher Cloak, or Null
Step to disengage.

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LOTUS-STRAIN DAHLIA-STRAIN
▶ROLE: Legion
▶RANK: Boss
▶REACH: 2 (4)
▶ARMOR: 2
▶PRESENCE: 9 (3)

attacks attacks
None
1 Target, 3 Impact, L4, T4, Burst.
POWERS
1 Target, 3 Impact, M, Massless.
▶UMBRAL FLOURISHING [P]:
The Lotus-Strain is immune to Disrupt
and Decel. Other foes within Speed 3 4 Targets, 2 Impact, L8. Slows targets.
have +1 Armor and deal +1 Impact.
▶UNFURL:
Roll a d6. Open that many Veil
Breaches+1, distributed across any
number of Speed bands.
▶VOID TORRENT [R]:
Choose Leading or Trailing. At the
start of the next Incursion Turn, all
Revolvers in the chosen band are
Primed, then take 1 Impact for every
active Veil Breach.

COUNTERS
▶VOID MAW [1]:
Open a Veil Breach Matched to the
Lotus-Strain, then deal 2 Massless
Impact to the triggering Revolver.
▶NEW GROWTH [2]:
Create 2 Chaff or 1 Standard foe at
any active Veil Breach, and
immediately activate them.
▶ABUNDANCE [3]:
Choose two: Recharge Void Torrent,
restore 5 Presence to any foe,
activate two other foes.

TACTICS
Constantly calls reinforcements via
Unfurl and New Growth. Uses Void
Torrent once there is significant Breach
presence, and Abundance as needed to
heal itself and others.

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 BEYOND THE VEIL
THIS IS NOT THE END
One star. Eight planets. One hundred forty
nine million kilometers. The expanse of
Prima Sol is all at once staggeringly vast and
unfathomably small, a miniscule fraction of
our Milky Way.

Have the other systems survived, or were

they swallowed? Do the stars still burn, or
were they snuffed? What else is out there,
past the edges of the Veilʼs umbral curtain
and the fringes of known space?

Finding those answers wonʼt be easy, but

theyʼre within your reach. Humanityʼs not
finished yet. Youʼre living proof of that, with
fire in your soul and a turbine in your heart.
So rev your Drive, and remember always—

Spin free. Spin fast. Spin true.

Good luck, Revolver. The stars await.

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 APPENDIX
THE TENSION TABLE
AND HOW TO USE IT
During Ops play, whenever the Brace
gains one or more segments of Tension
(or whenever the GM feels itʼd be suitably
dramatic), roll a d6. On a 1-2, a
Complication occurs: roll another d6 or
choose a Complication from the
appropriate section of the table based on
the current position of the Tension clock.
The GM can always choose a
Complication from a lower section of the
table if they wish. Complications that
effect Combat scenes can stack with
each other, but donʼt apply more than
once.

If a Complication wouldnʼt make sense

for the narrative or would immediately
cause the mission to fail, discard it! The
outcomes on the table should up the
drama and give players interesting
challenges, not stifle progress or reduce
the outcome of an entire session to a die
roll.

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TENSION complications
1/8 2/8 MINOR
1 Nothing. Lucky break.

Ambush. At the start of the next Combat Scene (before player actions),
2-3 the GM may immediately activate 1 Standard or 2 Chaff foe(s).
Distress Call. An all-bands distress signal pings the Braceʼs comms from
4-5 the edge of the sector. The signature is corrupted—the only way to find
whatʼs sending it is to track it down.

6 Nothing. Rev your Drive. Breathe.

3/8 4/8 MODERATE

Local Instability. The next Combat scene begins with 2 filled segments
1 on the Incursion Clock.
Unlight Lattice. During the next Combat scene, each foe (including
2-3 Breach reinforcements) begins with 1 Inertia.
Entanglement Fracture. The Veil sever the Braceʼs Q-link: for the next
4-5 two scenes, they have no contact with Hammer.
Novel Antigenesis. The Brace encounters an unfamiliar strain of Veil. It
6 keeps to the fringes of their sensors, but seems to be following them.

5/8 6/8 MAJOR

Euclid Cascade. Roll 1d6+1. The next Combat scene begins with that
1 many active Veil Breaches. Donʼt advance Incursion on the first round.
Voidmines. During the next Combat scene, Revolvers that end their turn
2-3 next to an active Veil Breach take 2 Impact and 2 Drive Stress.
Antipolar Echoes. The Brace is harried by distorted dark-matter
4-5 revenants of themselves. The echoes are incorporeal but will stalk,
unsettle, and wreak havoc on signals and electronics.
V-Space Derelict. A large fragment of a once-lost station or ship warps
6 back into realspace. In its time beyond the Veil, it has become something
else: purposeful, corruptive, hungry.

7/8 MASSIVE
Terminal Breach. The next Combat scene has an additional Boss foe.
1 They arrive at the end of the first Incursion Turn.
Cold Burn. During the next Combat scene, Revolvers take 1 Drive Stress
2-3 per elapsed Combat round at the end of each Incursion Turn.
Congruity Collapse. V-Space begins interphasing with the sector,
4-5 warping it along unpercievable axes. Large swathes of space flicker
unpredictably in and out of existence. Navigation is grueling.
Bloomship. Baryon oscillations fuzz and flicker. A supermassive Veil
6 Breach ruptures at its seams—through gauzy shreds of defiled spacetime,
something vast and terrible emerges.

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8

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INFINITE
REV LUTION ▶D r i v e s t r e ss

▶CALLSIGN: ▶WEIGHT:

T
HO
▶player: ▶ACCEL:
▶drive core:
▶drive pattern:
QUICK
▶DRIVE PASSIVE

BR
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HT
▶DRIVE POWERS

Burn scars
▶WEAPONS

▶focus arts

▶NOTES