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Glory is a starter scenario for Eclipse Phase. It sets seed AI capability and was later infected by the Ex- the player characters on the path of a missing person surgent virus. It is of particular interest to Firewall and leads them into a twisted den of horrors. It in- because some of the hardware from its primary locus, cludes numerous tips for gamemasters new to running a military satellite in an Earth-Moon Lagrange orbit, Eclipse Phase. was known to have survived the Battle of L4. Myrmidon was recovered by the Yokyai Kong, a Thai-led southeast Asian evac fleet. The Kong hoped Mission Hook to gain an edge in the desperate war against the Professor Magnus Qiao-sen Ming needs a team to TITANs by studying it. The hardware, including the investigate the fate of Tara Yu, who is both a colleague storage modules, was taken to the Thai government- of Ming’s at Titan Autonomous University (TAU) and a in-exile onboard Vishnukam, the Yokyai Kong’s main Firewall proxy. Yu was a crow (an investigator into po- habitat, under control of Air Marshal Viprakasit. tential x-risks; see p. 358, EP). She was last heard from Before the hardware could be studied, however, it while on the trail of a set of hardware memory modules was lost during an infamous incident known as the thought to contain a partial archive of Myrmidon, a Oxygen Deck Riots. pre-Fall military AGI that became one of the TITANs. The Oxygen Deck Riots were a minor but tragic Studying its code might provide important clues as to incident sparked by the Thai government’s controver- the origin of the TITANs—and possibly their fate. sial decision to forcibly upload a significant number of In the course of their investigation, the characters refugees in order to relieve the resource pressures that will be able to accomplish most of their research via were threatening the habitat’s functioning and existence. the mesh. Their leads will eventually steer them to raid Due to massive overcrowding, the station’s life support the ship of a criminal group that has been infected by systems were in danger of failure and thousands faced a rogue strain of the Exsurgent virus. starvation and lack of basic amenities. For people who had only just escaped Earth with Not Yet Firewall? bodies intact, this was too much. They gladly heeded This scenario assumes that the characters are already the call made by a group of hardline Lao Buddhist agents of Firewall. If the characters are not yet sentinels, monks to band together and take action. A flash mob this adventure may be used to introduce them to the of refugees detained in docked ships cut through the organization. In this case, Prof. Ming will approach the airlocks of the axial docking facility, boarded Vish- characters about a clandestine job, saying only that they nukam, and stormed through to occupy the habitat came recommended for their unique skill sets. He will life support facilities. They barricaded themselves not initially reveal the nature of Firewall or its mission. in and and demanded the fleet officers abandon As the characters learn more about the TITANs and the the plan. The government responded by sending in Exsurgent virus, however, Ming will feed them tidbits troops who slaughtered the protesters. This sparked about some of the secret history. Once the mission is days of riots and conflict aboard the habitat and concluded, Ming will debrief the characters and invite refugee ships, fueled by rumors and fears among them to join Firewall (see Stage 5: Debriefing, p. 20). the refugees that the Air Marshal had ordered them liquidated. Thousands died. Starting Setting Locus (p. 100, EP) is a good location to start in, as many key NPCs either have ties to the anarchist habi- Enter the Wolves tat or reside in or near it. Titan (p. 105, EP) is also a One of the many nationality-based criminal gangs good starting point, as it allows the initial meeting with that muscled their way into evacuee status during the Professor Ming (p. 21) to occur face to face. The player Fall, the White Khanhs started out as a Hanoi triad. characters may start from anywhere in the solar system, They had a controlling interest in several of the larger however, as the initial meeting and much of the early scum barges and refugee ships that accreted from research can be conducted via the mesh. In this case, the the flotsam of the nascent Vietnamese, Laotian, and gamemaster may wish to relocate some of the NPCs to Cambodian orbital colonization efforts. During the make meeting the player characters easier. chaos of the riots, the White Khanhs pillaged a dozen separate caches of military and government hardware Background and supplies—Myrmidon’s recovered hardware frag- Myrmidon was an AGI component of the US military’s ments among them—before melting back into the Total Information Tactical Awareness Network. Like populace when order was restored. The White Khanhs the other AGIs in this network, Myrmidon achieved quickly sold off the most valuable items and tech and,

2 Yokyai Kong officers. They would act as informants as act would Yokyaiofficers. They Kong White Khanhs to leave the ship, though the nesting the though ship, the leave to Khanhs White The White Khanhs became the subject of numerous numerous of subject the became Khanhs White The Flower, discovered the cache containing the Myrmidon were in regular contact with other White Khanhs cells cells Khanhs other White with contact regular in were on attempts recent several avoided narrowly who’d virus (p. 362, reactor and volatiles of supply healthy a and vats, Nearly a decade later, Phuong Lê, a tech aboard the aboard later,tech decade a Lê,a Phuong Nearly finally ceased communication with other members of of members other with communication ceased finally brought back to the fashion. Slightly over a year ago, Dexter Vo engineered a porary storage on the ship.the on storage porary The path, but they did not have the resources to construct jority of the White Khanhs in the system succumbed system the in Khanhs the White of jority judicial cadre. however, and degradation mental slow a suffered they his life by Vasquez & Associates, a freelance Extropian the so inventoried, been never had They hardware. rumors as their infected members began exhibiting exhibiting began members infected their as rumors infection outside of the all spurred now has infection the by instilled instinct including Dexter Vo, a prominent White Khanhs boss Exsurgent the of variant (p.19),a Glory by infected identified as having any use and was stored in a series the gangaboutamonthpriorto thisscenario. virus’sGlory cycle,the life of phase terminal the tered to thevirus, withonlyafew(unwittingly)escaping. year,past the infected.Over became too they ma- the virus’sthe programming,however, ac them of many ticular exsurgent strain works, they did not spread the a as use weird,in went been things already had it but tem- or transit in were who members gang other the tech had no idea what she was unleashing. Lê became they outfitted the egos for relay darkcasting and haven safe a up set to to head off future riots if allowed to continue their continue to allowed if riots future off head to other White Khanhs members egocasted to the ship,the to egocasted members Khanhs White other quired or abducted “mates,” which they uploaded and par this way the to Luckily,return.due to them of on the lam. They wanted a location well off the beaten of crates on a small freighter, the now heavily armed, made a protection pact with the the with pact protection a armed,made heavily now mass, then launched it toward the outer system using system outer the toward it mass,launched then a stolennuclearelectricbooster. a habitat of their own in the outer system. Instead system. outer the in own their of habitat a initially not was hardware activities.Myrmidon The expanding their operations, the White Khanhs decided strange behaviors and acting in a bizarre, cult-like cult-like bizarre, a in acting and behaviors strange scattered around the system. As the infected egos en- egos infected the system.As the around scattered safehouse for years. There were dozens of egos aboard when point L4 Jovian-Sun the from out year a still Firewall Attention Glory Reborn The Until quite recently, the exsurgent White Khanhs White exsurgent recently,the quite Until In an act of astonishing foresight, and as an aid to aid an foresight,astonishingas of and act an In egocasting facilities allowed infected allowed Flower’sfacilities egocasting EP), and quickly spread the infection to Song Cai Flower with reactors, food Flower for infection. Similarly, as Song Cai Flower. According to Song Cai Flowerwas Cai Song Song Cai Flower. - - bu a ot ao te xugn ht Khanhs White exsurgent the ago, month a About Wang, a Martian AI hardware wünderkind,Yu hardware infil- Wang,AI Martian a White Khanhs and their transformation from violent from transformation their and Khanhs White This opened the door for other gangs to move in on their sidebar, p. 4). In this case, however,case,her sidebar,this given Glory In 4). p. The CurrentSituation what active, to the point of directing one of their other other their of one active,directing what of point the to Marshal’sthe staffers,toward White former pointing (p. 21), the hacker who assisted Yu. Of late, though,late, Yu. assisted Of who hacker the 21),(p. immolat - for plan novel a developed has Lê) (Phuong Khanhs as a possible culprit for the theft of the Myr the of theft the for culprit possible a as Khanhs preparing for their dive into the sun. This gives the PCs power plants from two other spacecraft, adding them help of other exsurgent members. Infected gang members her newbody, whichlackedacorticalstack. rendered unconscious. The exsurgent White Khanhs White exsurgent unconscious.The rendered ing herself and dispersing her seeds. cannibalized and morph another to her resleeved ibly to be spread to other worlds on the solar winds via winds solar the on worlds other to spread be to trated the trated to the Glory virus in the process. Thanks to her - precau herself.hardware Though Myrmidon the recover to territory and so their influence waned. the exsurgents have lost most of their faculty for tran- for faculty their of most lost have exsurgents the or planets any from far ecliptic, the of plane the to the to was but hack the of effects full the resisted tions,she of successfullyboarding theFlower. directed panspermia. seeds their leaving but up sun,burning the into dive tiate a burn about two weeks from the start of the of start the from weeks two about burn a tiate to lucidity her.the captured Lacking and discovered midon hardware. member and operative of Firewall, got wind of the of wind got Firewall, of operative and member attempted to copy the data from them, exposing herself Mason by built hardware recovery specialized and atrocities rather than tending to their traditional rackets. violent committing in interested increasingly grew also a much better chance than they might otherwise have have otherwise might they than chance better much a cells to launch a retributive strike against Morteza Bey custom AIs asbackup. the with leadership over took and gang the within coup gang to weird cult about a year ago. Her interest Her ago. year a about cult weird to gang gravity assist, then spiraling sunward at a steep angle steep a assist,at gravity sunward spiraling then effectively interrogate her,interrogate effectively however, forc- instead they entered the terminal phase of their lifecycle (see the (see lifecycle their of phase terminal the entered situation aboard a spacecraft, the Mother exsurgent Mother spacecraft,the a aboard situation she had assistance from a hacker named Morteza Bey shuman reason, devoting themselves completely to completely themselves devoting reason, shuman ships. Withoutinterference, will colony exsurgent the scenario that will take them once around Saturn for a stemmed from a lead provided by one of the Air the of one by provided lead a from stemmed Yu discovered the Myrmidon memory modules and and modules memory YuMyrmidon the discovered The exsurgents have cannibalized the engines and engines the cannibalized have exsurgents The Prior to this time, the White Khanhs were still some- still time,were this the Khanhs to White Prior In an unfortunate show of overconfidence, Yu tried Programmer-archeologistTara Yu,TAU a faculty Song Cai Flower.Cai Song with only a bot and two and bot a only with Flower Cai Song These rockets are set to ini- to set are rockets These -

3 glory glory Glory is a unique strain of the Exsurgent virus carried the host population has been converted or devoured, by the TITAN Myrmidon. Glory works as an “Apple the breeder immolators enter the breeding phase of Knowledge” (AOK) hack—a type of long-acting of their life cycle. In this stage, the male exsurgents mind hack, not unlike a basilisk hack, that mentally inseminate their female partners. These females then rewrites its host. Glory requires that its victims both incubate their developing zygotes in the immolator perceive and comprehend the vector message, how- colony’s many-wombed Mother (using a retractable ever, which is a monkey puzzle—a schematic for an ovipositor). The Mother typically swells and bloats incredibly advanced exotech nanohive. The hack cre- during this period, consuming the other immolators ates a deep-seated obsession with fabricating a copy and filling herself with billions of embryos in the of the hive. form of nanocrystalline spores. To absorb Glory fully, one must have sufficient Once a critical mass of embryos reach maturity, technical background to understand the message. the Mother and her colony sacrifice themselves and Phuong Lê became infected because she was skilled distribute these alien seeds within a new target host in programming and nanofabrication; someone else population. This is typically accomplished when the might have been unaffected. Once Glory finds a car- Mother self-immolates within a targeted area; the rier—someone with enough technical skill to create a nanocrystal seeds are hardy enough to survive the Glory nanobot hive—then the virus may be spread via fire and small and light enough to be distributed by nanobots, and so direct physical infection becomes winds over a wide area, where they will then hatch possible. into nanobot swarms to infect new subjects. If nec- The first person to become infected by Glory nano- essary, more manual measures can be taken, such as bots becomes the “Mother” and immediately seeks physically blowing up the Mother or even cutting the to infect a mate. The initial carrier’s infection is trans- Mother into little pieces (each containing nanocrystal mitted via blood, saliva, or other bodily fluids. Once seeds) that are hand-delivered by suicidal immolators these nanobots enter another person’s bloodstream, across a targeted area (such as a habitat). they also become infected. Before the physical exsurgent transformation takes Glory nanobot infection induces numerous psy- place, however, the infection first modifies the victim’s chological and physiological changes in the subject, behavior, turning them into a cunning and aggressive eventually transforming them into a specific type of sociopath with a yen for cannibalism. It also instills exsurgent life form known as immolators. Immola- infected hosts with a nesting instinct and a strong tors are further divided into two sub-types: breed- desire to infect a potential mate, either by seduction ers and drones. Immolator exsurgents are based on or force. The subject’s personality and lucidity are a parasitic alien life form with a distinct life cycle. slowly eroded over time, pushing them down a slow This parasite infects a target population, establishes descent into madness. Glory-infected exsurgents will a nest within this host population, and then slowly cooperate with other immolators, but everyone else consumes its host both by infection (creating other in the universe is prey. exsurgents) and anthropophagy (cannibalism). When For rules on exposure to the Glory virus, see p. 19.

upping the ante Gamemasters who wish to make this scenario more capacity for rational action. This should spur the challenging may adapt it in one of the following group to be more pro-active, such as siccing White ways: Khanhs hackers to actively track and investigate characters who make inquiries about them. This n The nesting instinct of the exsurgent immo- could result in the White Khanhs attacking the lators can be eliminated, making the infected player characters while they are still in the investi- White Khanhs more likely—perhaps even actively gatory phase of the scenario. attempting—to spread the infection to new habi- n Dexter Vo can be treated as a more capable and tats. The scenario could in fact start with one such dangerous leader. This version of Dexter may have outbreak, which investigators could then trace back backed up an (infected) version of himself else- to the source. where in the system, giving the gamemaster the n Rather than suffering mental degradation, the option of making him a recurring villain, as well as exsurgent White Khanhs may be given a greater seeding the possibility of a new Glory outbreak.

4 TAU professor, Firewallcrow T chilles & Achilles Allies Ant Ji: DexterVo’s protege(p.23) former associateofYu (pp.8and21) University, Firewallrouter(p.21) Here’s a brief synopsis of the main characters that appear inthisscenario: S and pairedAIusedbyYu (pp.7and21) Lê’s lover(p.23) others Anarchist hacker and reclaimer, and hacker Anarchist Bey: Morteza Wang:hacker,Mason Anarchist associate former Magnus Dexter Vo: WhiteKhanhsboss(pp.3and24) Myrmidon: ArchivedTITAN enforcer (pp.10and22) of Yu (pp.7and21) important characters Nia Zheng (aka cum exsurgentcolonyqueen(pp.16and24) Patrona Vasquez: AgentofNomic(pp.10and22) Phuong ara it: Argonauts, an influential faculty member at TAU, and Titan, atoffice his to them invite will Ming TAU’s De - (see PCs are on Titan, the initial meeting will take place in the among researcher respected a is Ming Professor unknown alien species’ virtual reality sensorium,and reality virtual species’ alien unknown likely need to attend the meeting by sending a fork a sending by meeting the attend to need likely partment of Computational of partmentArcheology, turns which ing within the next 24 hours. Unless some or all of the initially reveal the nature of Firewall or its mission. acters who are not in not Titan’sare who acters most will neighborhood simulspacemesh. The the on space virtual private a meet- a to them channels,calling Firewall secure and is he figure, public fairly a Firewall.As for router a cautious in his role as a Firewall proxy and will not will and proxy Firewall a as role his in cautious environment is an abstract attempt to replicate an replicate to attempt abstract an is environment should come across as strange and unsettling. Char unsettling. and strange as across come should Stage 1:MeetingMing White Khanhs technician, formerly Phuong formerly technician, Khanhs White Ming will contact the characters through encrypted agonists Y p.273,Merging, and Forking Programmer-archeologist, (deceased): u White Khanhs technician Khanhs White (“Mother”): Lê Professor at Titan Autonomous Titan at Professor Ming: T A custom robot AI robot custom A (disabled): ortoise Sammy Li): Former White Khanhs ). If they are on are they EP).If - will make it clear at the outset that recovering the recovering that outset the at clear it make will know not does He out. further leads following was she so and system inner the in longer no was ware the recovering to close come they if PCs the with Ming will start the meeting by having the sentinels the having by meeting the start will Ming Ming has no wish to send investigators ignorant of ignorant investigators send to wish no has Ming (see below), nor does he know the White Khanhs are Khanhs the White know he does below),nor (see benevolent figure. If investigators prove their skill and unheard of for someone doing dangerous long-haul dangerous doing someone for of unheard further work and a useful contact.useful Ming’sa and work stats further game fragments from a TITAN known as Myrmidon for Myrmidon as known TITANa from fragments hardware for looking was Yuthat explains further provision the group with morphs roughly equivalent reinstanced. This is longer than customary but not but customary than longer is This reinstanced. read thisaloud): interview her—whenshegetsoutofpsych. infection.Exsurgent their about anything or involved ings, other than that she believed the Myrmidon hard- introduce themselves to each other. He will then will other.He each to themselves introduce tion by chasing down leads via the mesh, but Mingmesh, but the via leads down chasing by tion insurer,her to her,reinstance they’ll can PCs the and the Myrmidonhardware. them on some necessary precautions when recovering instruct will and deaths their to threat Exsurgent the out to be a clearing in a shielded garden dome on the on dome garden shielded a in clearing a be to out memory modules will likely require physical travel or modules. Ming knows nothing else about Yu’sabout find- else nothing knows Ming modules. about her work with Mason Wang or Morteza Bey Morteza WangMason or with work her about ance policy specifies her life timeout at six months; six at timeout life her specifies policy ance can befoundonp. 21. good intentions on this mission, he can be a source of explain the mission (gamemasters are encouraged to to encouraged are (gamemasters mission the explain egocasting. In case of travel, Firewall will attempt to exploratory work. If proof of her death is provided is death her of proof If work.exploratory she must be missing for at least that long before she’sbefore long that least at for missing be must she study.information this share only will Otherwise,he shore of Titan’s methaneseas.

Yu’s backup cannot be reached because her insur her because reached be Yu’scannot backup The PCs can do most of their initial investiga- initial their of most do can PCs The To the best of our knowledge, Yu was most recently Yu has been missing for over a month now. month Long a over for missing been Yuhas Ming is, and should come across as, a generally a as, across come should and is, Ming If this adventure is used to bring the PCs together,PCs the bring to used is adventure this If If the characters are experienced sentinels, Ming sentinels, experienced are characters the If the missinghardware. the BattleofL4. Earth orbit that was destroyed during the Fall,the in during destroyed was that orbit Earth Locus. We need you to track her down,ascertain her track Locus.to you need We Firewall needs you to find a missing agent, Tara Yu. computer hardware recovered from a station in station a from recovered hardware computer and if necessary continue or assist her search for search her assist or continue necessary if and silences are not unusual during some of her un- her of some during unusual not are silences investigating the current whereabouts of military of whereabouts current the investigating her status if alive, recover her cortical stack if dead, dercover research missions, but she missed her missed she but missions, research dercover last scheduled check-in. Last we knew, she was on READ ALOUD READ -

5 glory to those the PCs have now and appropriate insur- Checking Social Networks ance policies (see Morph Brokerage, p. 276, EP). Characters who successfully use their Networking Ming won’t cover costs for egocasting or supplying skill and social networks (see pp. 287-291, EP) to dig morphs if he believes the PCs are on a wild good into Yu can find out more: chase. He will ask to review the leads and evidence n @-rep and r-rep (Moderate favor): Yu received big they’ve gathered and discuss their reasons for ego- favors from both Mason Wang (p. 7) and Morteza casting beforehand. Bey (p. 8) in the past two months (using Yu’s list Other than this support, the PCs will largely be on of associates will provide a +10 modifier on these their own. Firewall will not cover other costs unless tests). Specifically inquiring about Yu’s departure the characters make a particularly good case for it, from Locus will reveal that she egocast to Casa and the assignment isn’t important enough for Fire- Arturo a month ago (see p. 11; this is a separate wall to prioritize any further resources on it (though if Moderate favor). Likewise, successful social net- the PCs supply evidence of an active Exsurgent infec- working on Casa Arturo (another Moderate favor) tion, this will rapidly change). will uncover that Yu pulled a major favor to borrow a small spacecraft called the Kesyrah, which is now several weeks overdue. Where she took this shuttle Stage 2: Pursuing Leads is unknown, but its limited fuel capacity and range The sentinels have several options for investigat- indicate it is likely she traveled somewhere in the ing Yu’s disappearance. These involve researching Jovian Greeks. Yu online (using the Research skill) and via social n C-rep (Low favor): Investigating Yu’s activities networks (using Reputation). These methods on the Vishnukam station will discover that she in- should turn up several leads, including two of Yu’s terviewed the Air Marshall and several government contacts, Mason Wang and Morteza Bey. Once the officials and researched the White Khanhs crime characters discover that Yu was looking into the gang there (inquiries not focused on Vishnukam White Khanhs, further efforts should lead them to suffer a -30 modifier, however). Nia Zheng. All of this digging may bring the PCs n G-rep (Moderate favor): Checking criminal con- to the attention of Patrona Vasquez. Each of these nections will uncover that Yu used her networking options is covered below. connections to track down and talk to someone How direct to be in providing the characters with named Nia Zheng (p. 10) and was investigating leads is left to the discretion of the GM. Some GMs White Khanhs activities in the outer system. An may wish to make the PCs work harder in the leg- Excellent Success here will reveal that Yu took a work phase of the adventure, in which case throwing special interest in the gang’s Song Cai Flower craft. in some misdirection is appropriate. GMs who wish n I-rep (Low favor): As with @-rep, above. to minimize this phase and get to the infiltration of the ship may opt to provide positive modifiers on Researching the White Khanhs the Research/Networking rolls, or simply have Ming Mesh research into the White Khanhs will uncover a provide more information up front. decent amount of information, reports, and rumors on this gang and their activities and history. To isolate ResearchIng Tara Yu the key facts, a second Research Test to analyze the Yu’s activities as a Firewall agent made her uncom- data is necessary (see p. 249, EP); an appropriate skill monly cautious. She has no publicly accessible lifelog (such as Interest: Triads) can serve as a complemen- and maintains a fairly low mesh profile. Likewise, tary skill to this test (p. 173, EP). The gamemaster can inquiries into Yu’s activities and associates largely adapt and supply any information provided in this draw blanks—she’s put a wall between her normal scenario’s background (p. 2) that would be known life and the things she does for Firewall. With the outside the gang. For example, the characters may exception of Ming, her associates from TAU believe learn about the group’s recent switch to violent and she was on sabbatical. Nevertheless, successful Re- cult-like behavior, Dexter Vo’s coup, their decline and search Tests (see p. 249, EP) will turn up the follow- the fact that they’ve lost ground to other gangs, etc. As a rule of thumb, every 10 points of MoS on the second ing information: Research Test will reveal a new insight. n A list of Yu’s associates. Networking Tests can If any character successfully exercises their g-rep reveal which ones are actually important (see and Guanxi socnet connections, they can determine below). that the White Khanhs has a secret hideout with a n Yu’s recent travels. In the past several months, Yu Moderate (Level 3) favor. Finding out any details has sent several forks to the Vishnukam station in about the Song Cai Flower, such as where to find it, Earth orbit, to interview people and research the counts as a High (Level 4) favor. missing Myrmidon hardware. Slightly over a month If the characters attempt to track down any still ago, she egocast to Locus. active White Khanhs members, they will have a dif- ficult time. All of the infected gang members have returned to the nest. The few who remain are laying 6 Yu was interested in recruiting Wang into Firewall, not Vasquez (p. 10) may hear about their interest and con- There is a lot of information on Wang publicly available, The GM should take note of any efforts the characters p. 289, p. Quiet, Keeping years on typical corp AI projects. Later he felt the felt he Later projects. AI corp typical on years where he founded a software company and spent five spent and company software a founded he where where he was briefly a student of both Ming and Yu. If hrces h lan fWn’ fvr o u (see Yu for Wang’s favor of learn who Characters Locus. Game stats for Wang can be found on p. 21. up to, or wary of attacks by other gangs who sense who gangs other by attacks of wary or to, up ful of people know,people of ful Wang time Yu’swas a for lover last last two years, participating in projects with a number are compatriots strangely-behaving their what of fear outfit’s collapse, in their effective at confusion in low less cautious and more interested in finding evidence finding in interested more and cautious less protecting humanity—and their methods reflect this.reflect methods their humanity—and protecting profit, hand- sex. self-promotion, a and only Though pull of the outer system again and sold his business his sold and again system outer the of pull knowing Blue Pod’s true nature, and confided some confided and nature,Pod’s true Blue knowing research. The group has a large module on Locus on module large a has group The research. recently disappearedandisassumedtohavedefected. in which they regularly throw @-list parties and art and parties @-list throw regularly they which in they believe that it had to do with the Pandora Gates Pandora the with do to had it that believe they that the TITANs ran afoul of alien technology, though call they “the Vector”).guessed correctly have They tact afterward(discoverablewith@-rep, Highfavor). that he was “talented but not terribly serious.” chance, to this leave can gamemaster them.The tact during his studies at TAU and they remained in con- at TAUin studies remained his they during and to finance construction of a private habitat in the in habitat private a of construction finance to of alien technology and taking advantage of it than in fair a him netted has pods,which research Locus of of her suspicions about Myrmidon to him. (At the (At him. to Myrmidon about suspicions her of neighborhood of Locus. He’s been living there for the no Research Test required. Wang is a Martian who did make to keep their inquiries into the gang quiet (see quiet gang the into inquiries their keep to make making a Networking: Criminal TestNetworking: a for Vasquezmaking to and havenoideaabouttheBracewell probe. amount of positive reputation. His major motives are say to except little remembers him,Ming about asked above) can easily track the anarchist hacker down on as someone who used to be involved with the gang but an opportunity. A Minor (Level 2) favor acquired with acters are in need of more information and/or allies. group interested in the intersection of art and art of intersection the in interested group AI/AGI programmer-archeologistat TAU,a as work graduate g-rep will put the characters on Sammy Li’s trail (p. 10), events. Their true (secret) interest, however, lies in however,interest,lies (secret) true Their events. studying the TITANs and the Exsurgent virus (which the virus TITANsstudying Exsurgent the and see if she finds out, or simply introduce her if the char Researching Wang Mason Wang Outside Help After taking a doctorate, Wang returned to Mars, to doctorate,Wang returned a taking After Wang is part of Blue Pod, a Locus-based affinity Locus-based a Pod, Blue of part Wangis Unlike Firewall,Unlike much Wangare associates his and ). If they don’t, Patrona don’t, they If EP). - Achilles, for the task of infiltrating the White Khanhs’s Wang will cooperate to a limited extent with anyone with extent limited a Wangto cooperate will Wangabout Yu’sguilt-wracked is but disappearance @-rep of at least 20 or prove that they work for Ming. with limited interfaces and a simple covert ops expert synth,typical a than advanced less considerably was won’t willingly come clean with the full story. He will who approaches him about Yu, as long as they have an Casa Arturo habitat (see habitat Arturo Casa base that required utmost concentration.” Digging any be ascertainedwithan@-repHighfavor). used for. The last he heard from her, she was on theher, on from for.was heard used she he last The friends on Locus—he will provide the full story.full the Yu provide will Locus—he on friends programming project: “Deep issues with the code the with issues “Deep project: programming height but with an incredibly thin,build.incredibly whip-likean It with but height hardware. The robotic shell, dubbed Achilles, was Achilles, dubbed shell, robotic The hardware. reveals that sequestered Wangreveals month entire an spent robot and two pre-sapient AIs, dubbed Tortoise& dubbed AIs, pre-sapient two and robot Song Cai Flower, p. 11). inner ones. How well this design actually works is a is works actually design this wellones. innerHow travel from Locus by rocket. The habitat is a conspicu - tions—a lifetimeforsomeonelikehim. tically dropped out of sight for a month, only recently ture Wang—a risky proposition given his many new many his ture given Wang—aproposition risky their movements, andkeepitselfconcealed. ously novel design—a novel hab,”ously “matrioshka as designed communica- outside any to responding not and one no seeing Locus,apparently near hab private his on @-rep using favor Moderate a difficult, but is deeper quarantine itself with an air gap in emergencies.Basi- in gap air an with itself quarantine structures,data and hardware exotic scan to designed matter of debate; old sundogs generally deem it too it deem generally sundogs old debate; of matter also designed to transmit (via QE comm; p.315,comm; QE (via transmit to designed also are able to reuse some of the waste energy from the from energy waste the of some reuse to able are layers outer the that spheres,such nested of series a time the around Yudisappeared, Wanguncharacteris- assessments (suchasdetecting telltalesignsofknown be to were they what saying without Achilles, and Tortoiseboth on details providing package, AI and a zero-G anthroform of roughly human shape and shape human roughly of anthroform zero-G a approached Wang to program and design a custom a design and program Wangapproached to clever byhalf. cally, Tortoiseprogrammer-archeologista was expert copy the resulting output, perform rudimentary threat carry Tortoise,sophisticated more AI considerably a gamemaster’s discretion, Blue Pod’s real agenda cangamemaster’s Pod’sagenda discretion,Blue real emerging again. Publicly, he cited a problem with a with problem a Publicly,again.cited emerging he encounters with nastyExsurgentsoftware. system in a box,a in system help to intended Yudirect any avoid and virus), Exsurgent the of strains software-based Myrmidon the from data retrieving and station system AI designed to follow a human infiltrator,human a follow to system designed AI ape simply say that Yu asked him to build a custom robot Contacting Wang Wang Industries—his private hab—is a few days’ few a hab—is private WangIndustries—his h pae caatr cn lo er ta right that learn also can characters player The The bot was also equipped with a rider module to module rider a with equipped also was bot The nenws t u otie n cils were Achilles and Yu,Tortoise to Unbeknownst f h caatr bie trae, r kidnap/tor or threaten, bribe, characters the If Stage 3: Investigating the Investigating 3: Stage EP) -

7 glory whatever data they captured back to a storage facil- Any cursory lookup of Xiu’s Greenhouse, however, ity Wang had set up. Unfortunately, Wang wasn’t very will note some startling recent news (if the characters cautious and overestimated his skills relative to the fail to notice this, have a muse make the correlation). dangers of the Exsurgent virus. Tortoise managed to Just a few weeks ago, the garden hab was assaulted send off the data retrieved in Yu’s recovery attempt—as by a small group of unknown assailants who slaugh- well as a copy of the Glory virus. This infected the fork tered most of the inhabitants, apparently as some sort of himself Wang had set up to analyze the data. Luck- of warning. The local autonomist defense council is ily, his pre-merge diagnostics sniffed out the problem still looking into the matter and will share what info before he reintegrated the fork. He sequestered the they have with any PCs who have @-rep of 20+. This corrupt fork for later analysis, interested in the pos- data includes footage of immolator exsurgents (both sible applications of such an aggressive virus. The close breeders and drones), whom the anarchists assume call left Wang shaken, however, so he spent the past are exhumans. If the sentinels circulate this footage, month carefully scanning his systems and personal data inquiring about exotic morphs, Patrona Vasquez (p. for signs of infection. He found nothing, but remains 10) will hear of it and contact them. worried that he might have missed something. (He did Xiu’s inhabitants lack the will to pursue vengeance not, but this fear strongly affects his actions). at present. Most are too shell-shocked from the expe- Wang knows nothing significant about the White rience and recovering via psychosurgery. A successful Khanhs or Myrmidon beyond what was required to Research Test will note that Bey is listed among those design Tortoise and Achilles and doesn’t know any- killed—in fact, his decapitated and mutilated body thing about Zheng, Vasquez, or Bey. was left impaled in the greenhouse. Wang’s Watchfulness Contacting Bey Wang is curious to know Yu’s fate, but more curious Bey is difficult to get a hold of and will refuse to about Myrmidon and the virus he has quarantined. meet the investigators in person. He fears provoking He will also try to gather information from the in- another attack from the White Khanhs if he renders vestigators. Yu hinted at an organization behind her aid or provides information and is wracked with guilt efforts and Wang wants to know more about it. He about bringing the gangsters down on his roommates. will attempt to track the sentinels from the point of Someone with substantial @-rep or e-rep (40+) can contact onward, both to cover up anything they learn talk him into a simulspace meeting, however, provided that might incriminate him and to learn more about they succeed in a Persuasion Test or otherwise con- the prize Yu was searching for. He will use both his vince/coerce him. own considerable hacking skills and his social net- If questioned, Bey will reveal that he met Yu works to do this, and he will attempt to cover his own through Saul, and that she recruited him to pursue tracks in the process (applying a –20 modifier to keep infosec and infiltration research prior to and during it quiet; see p. 288, EP). her run on the White Khanhs hideout, the Song Cai Flower. In fact, Bey sent a beta level fork of himself, Morteza Bey sleeved in a synthmorph, along on her mission, over- Characters who learn of Yu’s link to Morteza Bey can seeing her progress from the Kesyrah, the shuttle Yu find the hacker on Xiu’s Greenhouse (“Home of Famous was using. Beyond this, he knows nothing, having Trojans Bok Choy!”), an anarchist hydroponics outfit been restored from an earlier backup (the White near Locus. Bey’s game stats can be found on p. 21. Khanhs raiders stole and consumed his head, spacing his cortical stack). He assumes the gang found the Ke- Researching Bey and Xiu’s Greenhouse syrah and his fork, traced it back to him, and raided Bey is young (22) and his main public presence is Xiu’s Greenhouse as retribution. He knows nothing a gardening blog dealing largely with his work on about Wang or Vasquez. various cultivars of broccoli. Anyone using their Bey is very polite but firm in wanting to avoid any @-rep or e-rep to investigate Bey can find out, as a further involvement. His interest in the mission was Level 2 favor, that Bey is a brilliant hacker and until based in his Variegationist Reclaimer interests. Yu told recently was in a romantic liaison with Antoin Saul, him nothing about Firewall, pitching it as a Reclaimer a resident of Locus. If they research Saul, he is iden- op. While he knew it could be dangerous, he feels used tifiable as a noteworthy technician, Reclaimer activ- and misled. He will therefore pose a number of direct ist, and associate of Tara Yu. An additional Level 3 questions to the sentinels that they probably can’t— favor with @-rep or e-rep can ascertain that Saul is a or shouldn’t—answer (e.g., who are they working for, Variegationist—a group of outer system Reclaimers what really happened to the White Khanhs, what’s the who study TITAN relics, such as the dead matrioshka real story with Myrmidon, and so on). brain at Iapetus, hoping to learn defenses against the The player characters’ responses and their general TITAN technologies still active on Earth. (Antoin trustworthiness will impact how much helpful info Saul isn’t a useful lead in this scenario, though GMs Bey will hand over. If they succeed in a Persuasion may find him useful him as a lead into Reclaimer- Test (modified by -10 to -30 depending on the oriented plotlines of their own.) sentinels’ responses), he will reveal the location 8 and transmitted back to Xiu’sto Greenhouseback Kesyrah,transmitted and with a former White Khanhs member,ZhengKhanhs Nia White former a with (many of the modules are so old that they aren’t they that old so are modules the of (many (p. 10), last seen on Locus, but were rebuffed. With o atr h otoe By il lo hr two share also will Bey outcome, the matter No bonus on all Infosec and Infiltration rolls on the on rolls Infiltration and Infosec all on bonus for safekeeping. lost touch with Yu too early in the mission to amass two-dimensional shot of a mass of wet noodles being noodles wet of mass a of shot two-dimensional spies dust smart and Taraby Yu’sbot tured speck daily routine and physical security procedures.Hesecurity physical and routine daily the on the of nanobug footage. After that he maintained radio maintained he that footage.After nanobug mustache framing it drips with broth. Red, curvilinRed,broth. with drips it framing mustache messily slurped into an immense mouth.immense an into slurped messily scraggly The also reveal that he and Yu tried to make contact make to tried Yuand he that reveal also aboard the and photos external than other information any work Infosec his of all share 30+,he’ll of MoS an a protuberant mole partially obscured by a dangling a by obscured partially mole protuberant a ear graphics in a translucent AR frame swirl around swirl frame translucent AR a in graphics ear surveillance clips with the sentinels.cap- the were with These clips surveillance silence, waitingtohearfromher. stationthe of schematic a station.is lacks he What efdcmnig ad nweg o te gang’s the of knowledge and self-documenting) Bey’s VideoClips Clip 1: Clip With a MoS of 20+, he’ll20+, Flower.of Cai MoS Song a With which gives the PCs a +20 +20 a PCs the gives Flower,Cai Song which The smart dust camera cuts in on a close a on in cuts camera dust smart The Flower, relayed back to Bey’s fork on the -

visual showing the owner of the giant mouth and his and mouth giant the of owner the showing visual Nia Zheng (formerly known as Sammy Li) is a very a is Li) Sammy as known (formerly Zheng Nia but never spots never but Yu.room the through passes then He bots spread out and assemble an interior view of some useful source for inside intel on the White Khanhs, but footage from Yu’s actual infiltration attempt. The attempt. infiltration Yu’sactual from footage freighter are immediately apparent. The person in the lock accompanied by a thin bot (Achilles). Both are Both (Achilles). bot thin a by accompanied lock parts of the ship, including the utility bay (Area 2), (Area bay utility the including ship, the of parts he is unfortunately hard to track down. room, stops and looks around as if smelling the air,the smelling if as around looks and stops room, move- her mirrors eerily bot open.The hisses room into anothermodule. the feed silhouettes their positions. Yu cases the room, then flattens against a wall as the door from another from door the as wall a against flattens then torus, including the medical bay (Area 9a). The specks online, and the scene dissolves into a better three-D better a into dissolves scene the and online, noodle. At last the noodle is sucked into the mouth,the into sucked is noodle the last noodle.At machine shop (Area 8), and a few parts of the crew the of parts few a and 8), (Area shop machine ments. A male breeder exsurgent (Quang) enters the enters (Quang) exsurgentments. breeder male A and the graphics blink twice. A positive ID.twice.positive blink A graphics is the There and also catch shots of Yu emerging from the service air service the of Yufrom shots emerging catch also come spies nanobot more as recalibration of flicker a cloaked in chameleon material, but an AR overlay on scene isDexter Vo. surroundings. The dimly lit, cramped quarters of a of quarters cramped lit, dimly surroundings.The Nia Zheng/Sammy Li This is actually a collection of speck bot speck of collection a actually is This 2: Clip -

9 glory Researching Zheng/Li fairly standard salvage and retrieval contract admin- Sammy Li was a former White Khanhs enforcer and istered by Nomic, the Mutualist contract law AI on the gang’s man on Locus. When he realized something Extropia. If PCs won’t agree to this and won’t give was seriously wrong with the White Khanhs, he cut him some other convincing assurance, he’ll refuse to ties with the gang and resleeved to avoid reprisals. speak with them any further. As Nia Zheng (a female morph and identity), he is If the sentinels get Zheng talking, though, their ef- a minor red market operator in the Barrows, the forts will be rewarded. Sammy Li actually spent time beehive Guanxi neighborhood dug into one of the aboard the Song Cai Flower a few months prior to Patroclus asteroids rotating around Locus. Given the the outbreak of Glory. He can describe the security lack of laws, crime isn’t terribly profitable on Locus, procedures on board and give the PCs a rough idea so Zheng stacks cred by sourcing red tech and sell- of how many gang members were present when he ing the designs to inner system triads. He is fearful of was there (8). His description of the station person- discovery but lacks the funds to egocast off Locus and nel includes Dexter Vo, Phuong Lê, and six other resleeve in the inner system—his eventual goal. White Khanhs members, four of whom are danger- Player characters who learn both Li’s and Zheng’s ous in a fight. Best of all, he can provide a schematic of the station, including the likely location of the names may not initially realize they are the same cufflinks, which he left in a duffel bag in the crew person. Mesh research into Sammy Li easily reveals quarters with a few other personal effects. Unlike that he was a White Khanhs operative on Locus (no most of the White Khanhs aboard, he arrived by ship, test required), originally from Vishnukam, who went rendezvousing with the Flower while it was still en missing about four months ago. This is right around route. He assures the PCs that the station itself is the time that Nia Zheng seems to have appeared on not armed, though the inhabitants definitely are. He Locus (no Research Test required). Characters who doesn’t know about the engines the White Khanhs put the clues together and ask the right people on are adding to the station. Locus (a High g-rep favor) can verify that Zheng is Li’s new identity. Patrona Vasquez Vasquez is a freelance magistrate who takes contract work from Nomic, the pre-sapient contract law AI a note on npc based on Extropia (p. 97, EP). Vasquez became in- volved with the White Khanhs during a routine col- gender identity lections operation. The gang had failed to deliver on a promised lot of kidnapped personality forks. Vasquez For generic pronouns, Eclipse Phase uses the and her team went to Olympus on Mars to enforce Singular They rule (p. 114, EP). In the case the contract and found themselves in a fight to the of specific characters, however, we use the death with a group of (Glory-infected) gang members. gender pronoun (he or she—or it for neu- Of her team, three were captured and eaten. She now ters) that is “preferred” by the character, no has a special grudge against the gang and has made a matter the sex of the morph they are in. This hobby of monitoring their activity. can sometimes be confusing, such as when Vasquez has an open request within her social net- they are in a morph of the opposite sex, but working to be informed of anyone asking about the unfortunately the English language isn’t well- White Khanhs. She will contact the sentinels if she finds equipped to handle this in any better way. out about their inquiries (see p. 7). She has no interest in meeting them in person but offers to exchange infor- mation. She is currently located on Extropia and will either exchange text messages or agree to a simulspace Contacting Zheng meet-up via beta fork. Vasquez is a tad theatrical; her If contacted, Zheng won’t talk without an exorbitant simulspace avatar looks like a dominatrix kitted out trade of cred or rep favors—enough for a one-way for house-to-house urban warfare. egocast to Mars and a ruster morph. Short of hit- Use Vasquez to narrow the characters’ search if ting Zheng over the head with a shovel and forcibly they seem lost or have cast too wide a net. She knows uploading him to an interrogation simulspace, there about the Song Cai Flower, and while she’s unsure is one way the PCs can get him to drop his facade of its exact location—somewhere in the Greeks, she and talk about the White Khanhs. Hardened gangster believes—she’s sure it is their center of operations. he may be, but like many people, he suffers from the She hasn’t gone after it herself because she has more longing for Earth. Among the effects he left on the profitable work, but helping other people out will Song Cai Flower were his father’s cufflinks, which he help settle her score with the White Khanhs. She can and will describe down to the tiniest scratch. If warns the agents that the White Khanhs are savage the PCs reveal that their investigation will take them and dangerous combatants, but she doesn’t know to the Flower, Li will share everything he knows, pro- about Glory. Rather, she believes that White Khanhs vided the PCs attempt to retrieve the cufflinks. He will have turned into a narcoalgorithm cult or are pos- want to seal the deal by having the PCs agree to a sibly taking part in some form of singularity-seeking 10 Yu’s trail should eventually point the sentinels to the to sentinels Yu’sthe point eventually should trail White Khanhs members, and no longer establishes longer no and members, Khanhs White The Casa Arturo cluster hab is the most likely jump- likely most the is hab Casa cluster The Arturo Morph Acquisition, p. 277, 349, which trails it by about 100,000 km in the in km 100,000 about by Flower,it trails which the 4 favor). If the characters fail here and call upon call and here fail characters the If favor). 4 will want to know which gang members they encoun- they members gang which know to want will whom are fanatical rocket geeks. Most Arturistas Most geeks. rocket fanatical are whom eldvlpd o a ouain f hs ie Full size. this of population a for well-developed very common here (+20 on Networking Tests; seeTests; Networking on (+20 here common very (requiring a successful Networking Test and a Level hrces ih oi @rp hud e be to able be should @-rep solid with Characters Firewall’s information containment protocols. She protocols. containment information Firewall’s Firewall for help, Ming will pull some strings to strings some pull will Ming help, for Firewall Song Cai Flower.Cai Song The Dexter Vo andSammyLi. find them transportation out to the to out transportation them find best launching point for that is Casa Arturo—the same borrow or hire a small spacecraft at Casa ArturoCasa at spacecraft small a hire or borrow larger, with a population of about 1200, most of most 1200, about of population a larger,with onr, n sibidn fclte hr ae very are here facilities shipbuilding and foundry, n of on fr n xeiin o the to expedition an for point off ing the Jovian Greeks. Casa Arturo is anchored to the to anchored is Arturo Casa Greeks. Jovian the ter,a as functional still is Khanhs the White whether only real choice is to investigate it physically,it investigate to is choice real only the and name, a rare, dark, metal-rich body. The hab has abody. has metal-rich dark,rare,hab a name,The mesh connections with other habitats. The characters’ mission (seeDebriefing,p. 20). with well sit not might which down, goes mission many visitors come to see rocket designs firsthand designs rocket see to come visitors many seod rm hc te egbrod ae its takes neighborhood the which from asteroid a reasonable period of time after they complete their complete they after time of period reasonable a names,includingfew a drop can mind.She group a and participate in races—and bouncer morphs are morphs bouncer races—and in participate and a successful underworld organization to a wacko a to organization underworld successful a from them turn to happened what particular in and cult. She will expect an update from the PCs within PCs the from update an expect will cult.She cepting farcast links from anyone any more,any anyone from links farcast cepting even not crew the PCs have hired. characters are most likely to acquire a SLOTV (p.SLOTV a acquire to likely most are characters gamemaster to introduce other NPCs here who can have, still they strength fighting of kind group,what experiment gone bad—perhaps an attempt to form to attempt an bad—perhaps gone experiment egocasting and resleeving facilities are available— are facilities resleeving and egocasting sparsely-inhabited Paloma Negra neighborhood of neighborhood Negra Paloma sparsely-inhabited serve as potential backup, under the guise of ship of guise the under backup, potential as serve Spanish,Mandarin.English,speak andmining, The (p.102,49 Lot to plan similar station from which Yu initiated her operation. S Getting tothe C asa Arturo tage 3: 3: tage In return,In VasquezPCs’ the how know to want will ). This is also a good opportunity for the for opportunity good a also is EP).This C ong S I nvestigating nvestigating ai Flower ai Flower is not in the habit of ac- of habit the in not Floweris EP). ) but is somewhat somewhat is but EP) Flower.

og Cai Song The Aerospace Test. The only markings are double Xs in Xs Aerospace Test.double are markings only The Test to detect power emissions from the shuttle. The The with larger than normal engines for its class. The fuse- On the approach to the to approach the On Except for its rotating toroid habitation ring, the by how many people they can hold while the lock is lock the while hold can they people many how by been shot, and the synthmorph equivalent of the corti- been sacrificed for larger engines, powerful cold gas cold engines, powerful larger for sacrificed been from the Arturistas for their mission. The ship is an- is ship mission.The their for Arturistas the from lage is matte black, with some strange angles thrown angles strange black,some matte with is lage forming the axle green, both colors dulled by vacuum vacuum by dulled colors green,both axle the forming spar,panels,docking solar long a extend which from from theoutsidewithaplasmatorch. rockets have been attached to the ship’sthe to attached beenframe. have Closerockets it blends in so well that it would never be visible from in to foil radar.foil to in powerful unusually notice geeks Ship impacts. The overall effect is gaudy gone sinister.gone gaudy is effect impacts. overall The The sec- rotating freighters.the pre-Fall-era At of typical is Bey’sMorteza morph. It’sof flexbot wreckage the is the ship’s sensors to make an Interfacing or Perception tion’s axis is a chain of long, cylindrical modules, from SLOTV. tostandard difficult a also than is ship The spe higher a them gives design nozzle innovative the more).or (-5 @-rep The lose certainly most will they to the Arturistas for a reward of @-rep (+5). They may thrusters, and more fuel.thrusters,more and Yu Bey’s andev floats gear discover the discover dark gray on the port and starboard engine pods. The or Technical skill can tell that several additional fusion on the other. In the center is a big, blocky utility module, on InterfacingorPerception Tests tospot). (-20 only thrusters cold on maneuvering when detect more than a kilometer away, and its power systems power away,its kilometer and a than more are still active. The gamemaster may make this discov- and arenotyet complete(thoughtheywillbe soon). microasteroid by there and here scarred ablation,and and a reactor. The torus is painted red and the modules center ops the to end one on greenhouse windowed a about theirstateofmind. out,find ever the Arturistas if it,but claim/keep also cold gas maneuvering jets on a successful Hardware: successful a on jets maneuvering gas cold asteroid,where ice small, dust-blackened a to chored cific impulse, generating about 0.2 g more acceleration cal stackhasbeenpopped. erywhere; theshiphasbeenransacked. Inthecockpit watching PC any allow instead may or automatic ery examination will reveal that these additions are recent entire station except for the torus is in microgravity. but rockets, hydrogen-oxygen standard are engines starboard airlock has been blown,open been cut has probably airlock starboard simply left it out here should tell the PCs something PCs the tell should here out it left simply Anyone who succeeds in an appropriate Knowledge The There are three sizes of airlocks in the hab, rated hab, the in airlocks of sizes three are There it return may functional.PCs otherwise is ship The On the outside,the On the Inside, the ship is cramped, interior space having space interior cramped, is ship the Inside, es K C ong S Kesyrah is a nice prize. That the White Khanhs h ra y the SLOTV Yu and Bey hired Bey SLOTVYuand Kesyrah,the ai Flower ai Kesyrahsleek,a is ship stealthy the characters may characters Flower,the Flower - -

11 glory cycling: small (one person), standard (four people), (using the rules for hacking and subversion given on and service (up to ten people or a small vehicle). pp. 254-261, EP). The mesh is actively monitored by Airlocks take four Action Turns to open, close, cycle, Wei, Dexter Vo’s muse. and open again on the other side. (A character may Wei was a fairly expensive custom security muse move into the airlock on the first turn and out on the who doubled as a simulspace lovedoll, but Vo’s ex- last.) Airlocks leading to and from pressurized areas posure to Glory warped her as well. Her heuristics on the ship work as normal doors unless a module is for dealing with security threats are seriously out depressurized, in which case they kick in as airlocks. of whack, overestimating the dangers of some situ- All have safety features to prevent them closing on ations while occasionally ignoring clear threats. Her people or objects passing through, though these can personal interaction agents also react inappropriately. be disabled with a Hardware: Industrial Test at -10. When making threats, delivering warnings, or reacting to crises, she behaves as if she’s on an exceptionally Ship Security large dose of hither (p. 321, EP). Use the stats for a Luckily for the sentinels, the Flower’s various security security AI (p. 332, EP), but apply a -10 penalty on measures are operating below standard efficiency due all attempts to detect intruders and ignore critical suc- to the effects of the Glory virus on the crew. Some cesses. Her avatar in AR or simulspace is a tall, sultry systems—including most of the ship’s exterior hull Chinese woman. sensor systems—have simply fallen into disrepair or Electronic infiltration of the ship is a risky endeavor are not monitored because the exsurgents are preoc- as the hacker risks exposure to the Glory virus. Any cupied with reproduction and uniformly deranged. Any intruder who obtains Locked status immediate is ex- characters who exercise stealth in approaching the Song posed to the AOK hack (see Glory Infection, p. 19). Cai Flower from a distance are certain to succeed—the Wei’s job is also to monitor the ship’s internal exsurgents simply aren’t watching. Exterior airlocks surveillance and spime sensor feeds, alerting Vo to are electronically locked, but may be opened using any anything unusual, but the AI is distracted and careless of the methods described under Electronic Locks, pp. and many of the feeds are disabled. The gamemaster 291-293, EP. They may also be cut through with ap- should roll Perception Tests for the AI (with the -10 propriate tools (DUR 100, Armor 50, WT 25). modifier noted above) whenever the characters act The ship’s local wireless mesh network may be in- without subtlety inside the ship or if they enter the ops filtrated by anyone who comes within close proximity center (Area 7), which Wei watches closely. Alternately

12 “Left” and “right” directions are relative to a character Area descriptions use the side of the ship from which from ship the of side the use descriptions Area This section houses a well-equipped but poorly-kept poorly-kept but well-equipped a houses section This The spar is an open truss with a standard docking ring 4. These are linked to the thrusters in the ops center ops the in thrusters the to linked 4.are These will need to stay in their suits. A standard airlock leads way this enter towon’t pressurize.trying Characters well to extended exposure to space.to exposure ring extended docking to The well vice airlocks to the greenhouse (Area 6) and machine and 6) (Area greenhouse the to airlocks vice (Area 7), but the ops center has its own fuel supply,fuel own its has center ops the but 7), (Area (This was originally done with boosters that have long (+10) that the trickle of power from the solar array (Area 3). Left and right of the docking airlock are ser are airlock 3).docking (Area the of right and Left Characters with Profession skills relating to space to relating skills Profession with Characters but not to move the ship any significant distance. significant any ship the move to not but by micro-asteroids in many places along its length and utility shop. On the “up” wall above, where the where above, wall “up”the On shop. utility fuel tanks. Fuel lines run from these to attitudinal to these from run lines Fuel tanks. fuel from here to the utility bay (Area 2). looking into the area from a given entrance. lead to the docking spar (Area 1) and reactor module reactor and 1) (Area spar docking the to lead reac more or onetherefore, sun; the from out far pods (Area4). power supplieshastily(andsloppily)removed. plot. Note that Wei is unlikely to alert the intruders to house (Area6)ormachineshop8). 2. UtilityBa response—most likely an ambush in either the green- the either in ambush an likely response—most is totally insufficient to operate a ship this size this this size this ship a operate to insufficient totally is holed been has umbilicus the functional,but is itself thrusters on the outside of the utility bay and Area and bay utility the of outside the on thrusters thrusters. The attitudinal thrusters are sufficient for sufficient are thrusters attitudinal thrusters.The tors must still be online. the solar panel extends as the arbitrary “up” direction. their discovery, giving Vo enough time to coordinate a the sentinels whenever it is most advantageous for the the gamemaster can simply have the AI roll to discover on one end attached to a heavy plastic umbilicus two umbilicus plastic heavy a to attached end one on meters wide. It’s a cheap solution that hasn’t stood up as well as the manual controls for all of the station’sthe of all for controls manual the as well as and monitoring gear. A small airlock on this wall this on gear.airlock monitoring small and A and a service crawlway leading to the life support life the to leading crawlway service a and check the power readings realize on an Easy TestEasy an on realize readings power the check gives easy access to the solar panel spar (Area 5).(Area spar panel solar the to access easy gives C ong S station keeping and spinning or stopping the torus, the stopping or spinning and keeping station solar panel connects, are banks of power storage power of banks are connects, panel solar since beenbroken downforparts). space to opens that meters) 3 (about airlock service recessed deeply a has 8).below (Area wall shop The whomaintenance or administration station or ship spar. Both have been recently gutted, with engines and 1. DockingSp Just inside the bottom service lock are three large three are lock service bottom the inside Just Two standard airlocks on opposite sides of the bay the of sides Twoopposite on airlocks standard the of length the along docked Twoare LLOTVs The droneSitis oftenworkinghere. ai Flower ai ar MapKey - - - + 12 [28] DV,armor).[28] Energy 12 with + resisted -10, AP The entire module is also flooded with heavy radia- heavy with flooded also is module entire The ). If the donut takes enough damage to exceed its its exceed to damage enough takes donut the If EP). welded shut. (above and below from the viewpoint of the door the of viewpoint the from below and (above From outside, the reactor module looks like a wide, a like looks module reactor the outside, From From outside, the life support pod is a blocky, heavily Durability or suffers a wound, a superheated jet of jet superheated wound,a a suffers or Durability flattened donut with no hole in the middle. For char middle. For the in hole no with donut flattened better maintained modules on the on modules maintained better by four heavy,four hatches.Inside,by it’sservice circular an below). The containment torus is self-healing (p. 292, four outward-curving surfaces that suggest cylindrical plasma escapes the magnetic containment and burns burns and containment magnetic the escapes plasma 3. ReactorModule results. If a character discharges any kind of firearm of kind any discharges results.character a If rupt the magnetic containment field, with dangerous of any with overcome be can but locked, is reactor recessed, while along the top side there is a row of row a is there side top the along while recessed, it looks seriously overdue for a visit from mainte- from visit a for overdue seriously looks it into space. The space inside is cramped, with lots with cramped, is inside space space.The into to Area 2) would give access to space but have been been have but space to access give would 2) Area to processor,fuel equipment,designs,a monitoring tor the methods described on pp. 291-292, the room are purple UV tubes (to characters who can in vats.lights oxygen The algal equipment,and tion edge its at capped are and module the of width the run surfaces sort.part-cylindrical some The of tanks gamemaster; by determined be to effects (exact tion difficulty modifier. orderly but tightly packed maze of condensers,filtra- of maze packed tightly but orderly with target their misses and area this in seeker or of handholds, and the air is hot. This is one of the of one is hot.This is air the and handholds, of only see in the visible spectrum) for the algae. nance personnel. Two small airlocks on the flat sides 4. LifeS and possibly damaged the reactor wall (see stats (see wall reactor the damaged possibly and struck has attack 30+),their (MoF Failure Severe a and conduits for venting spent fuel and waste heat waste and fuel spent venting for conduits and around or on time of lot a spent have who acters anyone within 10 meters who fails a Fray Test (3d10 connects it to the utility bay (Area 2). The door to the containment chamber common to most fusion reac- fusion most to common chamber containment spaceships, it’s easily recognizable. A standard airlock shapes continuing inside the module, possibly storage see p. 201, EP). shielded box. Some of the planes along its surface are Armor Damage to the reactor walls can temporarily dis temporarily can walls reactor the to Damage Inside, the donut contains the toroidal magnetic toroidal the contains donut the Inside, 50 upport Pod reactor stats containment wall durability 200 threshold wound Flower,even but EP, 50 with a -10 - -

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14 The first 20 meters of the module are walled off from off walled are module the of meters 20 first The meters 100 nearly modulehuge, cylindrical a is This The water, and nutrient feeds. This conduit connects the connects conduit feeds.water,This nutrient and who spend more than a minute in this room without room this in minute a than more spend who transform- walls, module the into cut were windows 2) back to the new engineering section (Area 6d) is 6d) (Area section engineering new the to back 2) vats, catalyzer units, and the like) to the life support life the to like) the units,and vats,catalyzer (but not destroyed) remains of Achilles, the custom the Achilles,of remains destroyed) not (but Conductive materials in the panel have been wired to wired been have panel the in materials Conductive byproducts from a foul slurry into drinkable water,drinkable into slurry foul a from byproducts growth meat and condensation, waste, biological basic maintenance. habitat or ship any with PCs equipment). breathing o ta acmaid aa u Te exsurgents The Yu. Tara accompanied that bot for egocasting. lent of airplane safety equipment. At some point, great four diameter,into in separated meters 20 and long fertilizer, andtrace elementsforthefabricators. ligible amount of power to the station, close examina- recycling vats (Area 6a) to the plant beds (Area 6b) (Area beds plant the to 6a) (Area vats recycling is working below capacity and suffers from a lack of lack a from suffers and capacity below working is ize that the recycling system here, while still functional, of center the along greenhouse.Running a into it ing evacuations for used rockets heavy-lift immense, if theyfailtotakeprecautions. into a massive antenna array with enough bandwidth h rs ad ae fu, etc ek apy -10 a (apply reek septic foul, a have and rest the (Area bay utility the to hatch the from module the the like are still present, as well as the pre-Fall equiva- the of one on module passenger the once was it that the to hack exposed AOK themselves find may techs the solar panel and the utility bay will find the broken itstation’s systems,transforming the communication purpose. another to put been has it that reveals tion top of the utility bay (Area 2). Adjacent to it is a small operations-related Knowledge skill immediately real- immediately skill Knowledge operations-related and couches acceleration for Fall.Fittings the during of the Myrmidon data—and the Glory virus. Careless dumped it here for spacing, but never got around to around got never spacing,but for here it dumped modifier to all physical and social tests for characters for tests social and physical all to modifier the Tortoisecarrying still is repaired.It be may in AI wide,the meters from 7.5 projecting and long meters 5. SolarPanel and meat vats (Area 6c). copy a carrying also is which module, ghostrider a airlock. Though the solar panel provides a nearly neg- a one-meter diameter utility conduit with recycling, with conduit utility diameter one-meter a and the rest of the greenhouse.converts the system of This rest the and (large equipment recycling connecting conduits and cycling the airlock.bot damaged,the the heavily cycling Though system, utility bay, machine shop, station plumbing,bay, station shop,utility system, machine separate areas (see below). Close inspection reveals inspection Close below). (see areas separate 6. Greenhouse/Recycling 6a. RecyclingVats Anyone entering or checking the airlock between airlock the checking or entering Anyone The walls here are crammed with a maze of pipes of maze a with crammed are here walls The solar panel is a single array about 80 about array single a is panel Flower’ssolar White Khanhs manage to get it under acceleration. under it get to manage Khanhs White h pat es cuy h nx 5 mtr o the of meters 50 next the occupy beds plant The The equipment here is the best maintained that the that maintained best the is here equipment The The builders didn’t put much effort into radiation into effort much put didn’t builders The windows toward the utility conduit. The plants grow with virtually no fruits or vegetables. Most of the of Most vegetables. or fruits no virtually with (Area 6c). This wall has two hatches giving access to to access giving hatches two has 6c). wall (Area This PCs have encountered so far. The walls are lined with flesh—mostly thigh muscle tissue, with a few organ few a with tissue, muscle thigh flesh—mostly bay (Area 2). They end in a translucent wall of heavy of wall translucent 2).a (Area in bay end They biomorph who spends more than five minutes in this in minutes five than more spends who biomorph food on space stations will notice that almost the almost that notice will stations space on food from comes illumination the of outside.Most from plastic, separating them from the carniculture vats carniculture the from them separating plastic, room loses 5 SOM and other radiation effects the effects radiation other and SOM 5 loses room realized; all of the vats are growing cultured human cultured growing are vats the of all realized; Separated from the vats (Area 6c) by a hastily-con- a by 6c) (Area vats the from Separated in tangles, with only a fleet of five or six small flying flying small six or five of fleet a only with tangles, in it, the engine room occupies the last 10 meters of the of meters 10 last the occupies room engine it,the the far end of the plant beds, into the next section next the into beds, plant the of end far the tion averages three meters “deep,” moving from the the from “deep,”meters moving three averages tion vegeta- the and lighting, own its has plants of tier three or four tiers from the axial utility conduit. Each the vats on opposite sides of the axial utility conduit. tanks. Instead, thrust mass comes from two large water the rockets cannibalized from the other spacecraft and tending totheplants. moderate having as them among hiding targets treat though the windows are dingy and in many places many in and dingy are windows the though window,mostly are module this of walls outer the drones maintaining them. PCs familiar with growing of themodule. module, moving outward from the hatch to the utility medical attention in a healing vat. the should ship the of rear the be will module—what meats thrown in for variety. form.edible an in it extrude and meat the Examining cultured grow to designed vats green-lit massive, attached outside here are nuclear,are here fuel outside no attached are there so ambush spotduetotheamplecover. at hatch the beyond runs that line nutrient thick a connected to the utility conduit. The processor feeds crop is being auto-harvested and fed into a processor starlight faint only in dirt-caked,letting completely contents confirms what the PCs may already have already may PCs the what confirms contents an as this choose may exsurgents The (-20). cover gamemaster desires (p. 201, (p. desires gamemaster entire crop here is high-yield cereal grains and soy,and grains cereal high-yield is here crop entire shielding. Any character sleeved in an unprotected an in sleeved character Any shielding. stacks of hydroponic plant trays radiating out in out radiating trays plant hydroponic of stacks structed metal bulkhead with a single large hatch in hatch large single a with bulkhead metal structed 6b. PlantBeds 6d. EngineRoom 6c. C The tangles of vegetation afford good concealment; Originally designed for use in stronger sunlight, stronger in use for designed Originally Unlike the attitudinal drives elsewhere on the ship, the on elsewhere drives attitudinal the Unlike Diên, one of the exsurgent drones, is usually here usually is drones, exsurgent the of one Diên, arniculture Vats EP ) until they receive they until )

15 glory pipes running from the utility conduit in 6c. Apparently the designer’s plan was to pull thruster mass directly from the station’s water supply—a suicidal plan, on the face of it, as it would exhaust all of the station’s water, as a Hardware: Aerospace or appropriate Knowledge skill will discern. The dormant Mother, however, would survive long enough to be immolated by the sun. 7. Ops Center From the outside, ops resembles the bridge module found on any bulk freighter, implying that it probably contains sensor systems, emergency thrusters and life support, and a lot of computing power. The inside, however, is far different than expected. The walls, windows, and equipment here are all covered in a 40 centimeter-thick layer of pinkish-gray human flesh— the transmogrified form of Phuong Lê, the exsurgent Mother (discovering this fact inflicts mental stress; see p. 24). The flesh is thicker in some places where Phuong Lê’s many wombs swell with embryos. Every surface moves gently to the slow rhythm of respiration and the flesh occasionally shifts from the pre-natal stirrings of exsurgent brood. Here and there, manual instrument banks, designed to operate the station in case the ship’s mesh fails, protrude from the flesh. The room is lit only by instrument panels. Lê’s bloated face peers up from a hump of flesh, surrounded by six spiky maws opening on what used to be her throat. When not chomping on raw meat fed to them by Sit, all seven mouths inces- santly sing a soft lullaby. Drifting slightly above and behind Lê’s face are her arms, which have metamor- phosed into a pair of 3 meter-long prehensile tentacles with stubby grasping digits at their tips. Wei, Dexter Vo’s muse, pays close attention to surveillance feeds coming from this module, and any detected intruders will be attacked soon after. Char- acters exposed to Lê’s body fluids (which could easily happen in a firefight) have the standard chance of contracting Glory (p. 19). Lê will initially ignore PCs, but if they try to damage her, she will lash out with her tentacles and psi sleights. Lê’s breeder mate, Bian, is usually found here, in- seminating the Mother. One of the drones, Wu, is typi- cally here as well, feeding and caring for Phuong Lê. 8. Machine Shop/Drone Bay The station’s fleet of harvester drones are still opera- tional, and PCs may occasionally see them entering or leaving the station alone or in small groups. There are ten drones in all, and at any time half of them will be away from the ship harvesting water and other materials from nearby rocks. The machine shop contains a large-format cornuco- pia machine, a number of smaller makers, materials storage, tools, and a pair of repair tender rocket sleds designed to move heavy equipment out to docked shuttles. Two flexbots (p. 144, EP) are racked on one wall; neither is occupied, but they’re in working condition. There are two large service airlocks, one of which is occupied by a rocket sled, and a bank of 16 Access is obtained via spokes leading to the machine the to leading spokes via obtained is Access The rec area is a maze of couches and padded chairs,padded and couches of maze a is area rec The (p.326,vats healing four includes area This The rotating crew torus is 250 meters in diameter, with workbench. They are relatively easy to find, as they as find, to easy relatively are They workbench. ware skill. If any character powers the fragments up up fragments the powers character any If skill. ware Myrmidon fragments is the Glory nanobot hive built hive nanobot Glory the is fragments Myrmidon vacsuits. In the center of the room is the immense joint by Phuong Lê. From the outside, it doesn’t look like doesn’toutside,look it the Lê. From Phuong by up, it releases a mist of Glory nanobots that expands that nanobots Glory of mist a releases up,it long, while the largest is over 2 meters. The very size size meters.very 2 The over is largest the long,while military slightly-charred of chunks large like look location fortheexsurgentstosetupanambush. foosball table, a board game table, a sound-proofed a table, game board a table, foosball hazardly stacked in a series of bins shoved under a under shoved bins of series a in stacked hazardly hard cover (-10 to -30 modifiers), this is another likely rungs runningalongtheirsides. Such systems are illegal in most places. are most pieces in The illegal are systems Such is Mars standard (0.36 g). Large portions of the torus TurntoAction per meter 1 of rate a at sphere a in tracting Gloryfromphysicalexposure(p. 19). the while shafts, lift contain spokes torus’sfour the of them should make PCs nervous, as the amount of of amount the as nervous, PCs make should them of the AOK hackeffectoftheGloryvirus(p. 19). them is a simple matter for any character with Hard- with character any for matter simple a is them over 750 meters of floor space. Gravity at floor level floor at space. Gravity floor of meters 750 over of an old perimeter defense drone fuselage. If powered operational examination and surgical setup. other two have dimly lit open floatways with ladder with floatways open lit dimly have two other most of which face a huge holovid screen.pres- holovid Also huge a face which of most making and disposing of medical supplies, and a fully exsurgents),an immolator into transformed morphs by occupied are which of (half tanks storage morph con- of chance standard the has character the means way.Fray the Testa of make out must get to Failure 9b. RecArea/Kitchen 9a. MedBay/ResleevingCenter 9. CrewTorus a maximum volume of 5 meters across. Characters across. meters 5 of volume maximum a are unused space, filled with junk or simply empty. simply or junk with filled space, unused are to subject documentation,are their they examines and the TITANs. seed AI—like a birth to sufficient almost around which the station’s crew torus rotates. Two of and a racquetball court. The kitchen has two huge two has kitchen The court. racquetball a and chamber containing a well-equipped S&M dungeon,S&M well-equipped a containing chamber computing computing power in a 2 meter-long processing block is ego bridge (p. 328, (p. bridge ego ent are the smashed wreckage of a three-dimensional a of wreckage smashed the are ent ends of the torus. inside part alien-looking the built Lê tech; exsurgent standing in the area of effect as the swarm expands swarm the as effect of area the in standing satellite. The smallest piece is about 20 centimeters 20 about is piece smallest The satellite. shop (Area 8), or by two small airlocks on opposite on airlocks small two by 8),or (Area shop to supply power a connecting and self-documenting, The Myrmidon hardware fragments are here, hap- here, are fragments hardware Myrmidon The Because the machinery in this room provides a lot of Sitting innocuously on the workbench above the above workbench the on innocuously Sitting ), a fabber (p. 327, (p. fabber a EP), EP),ten ) for EP) When not on alert, the breeders spend most of their of most spend breeders the alert, on not When The crew quarters contain twenty rooms of various of rooms twenty contain quarters crew The Thanh—are usuallyhere, alongwithDexter Vo andJi. hr ae doe o bad h si, h rest the ship, the board on drones 8 are There the of crew remaining The The Exsurgents who were long ago eaten. Sammy Li’s personal effects, traditional makers, food units, refrigeration walk-in while the drones mount a frontal assault. (a fact which may cause confusion among the sen the among confusion cause may which fact (a Breeders have undergone the most extensive somatic extensive most the undergone have Breeders Dexter Vo, who remains the de facto leader.An- facto de the remains Vo,who Dexter but rather tacky crime lord pimp den with an immense by Dexter Vo, they will attempt to flank the oppo- the flank to attempt will Vo,they Dexter by frantically. If called into action to confront intruders intruders confront to action frantically. into called If Mother,in the come from exsurgents Lê,the Phuong primary threat aboard the ship. As a group, they’re group, a ship.As the aboard threat primary ouain a nt ag eog t ssan more. sustain to enough large not was population aig en ae. n o toe tl peet is present still those of One eaten. been having romantic comedies from the 2020s and copulating and 2020s the from comedies romantic rooms on the station, the kitchen is curiously—almost recognizably human. In contrast to many of the other rice-derived paste to extrude udon noodles. Almost all including the cufflinks, canbe found in a duffel bag in people to belong or unoccupied either are rooms ing other is Ji, who is sleeved in Tarasleeved is Ji,who Yu’sis other morph old theirs from before their transformations.their remainbefore Thefrom theirs tending to various tasks. tinels). These drones can be found around the ship, fortu- but alien, turning essentially transformations, two forms: breeders and drones. All are mutated from time in the rec area (Area 9b), watching Taiwanesewatching 9b), (Area area rec the in time to tell). See p. 22 for exsurgent stats and descriptions. of the food in the refrigeration unit is meat, some of it numerous opportunities to divide and conquer.and divide to opportunities numerous Aside nately for the agents there are only five aboard the aboard five only are there agents the for nately 9c. CrewQuarters an otherwise empty room here, just as he described. are herewhennotattendingtovarioustasks. art. The breeders don’t sleep anymore, but anyone but anymore, sleep don’t breeders The art. okn eupet ad hg, laig meat gleaming huge, a and equipment, cooking circular bed, mirrored ceiling, and lots of bad erotic bad of lots ceiling,and bed,mirrored circular clinically—clean and tidy. grinder designed to combine flesh with a glutinous a with flesh combine to designed grinder except for Dexter Vo and Ji, who sleep in a sumptuous ethnic characteristics (when they look human enough extremely dangerous, but the sentinels should have should sentinels the but dangerous, extremely sition (using airlocks and rocket packs if necessary) if packs rocket and airlocks (using sition sizes. The drones share small rooms with a bunk beds, ship (two mated pairs and Phuong Lê’sthePhuong mate),as and pairs mated (two ship Asian southeast with morphs transhuman standard searching these rooms will find personal effects of effects personal find will rooms these searching Drones (8) Breeders (5) The remaining 3 drones—Quy,3 remaining The Nong— Smith,and or f h bedr—u, un, ag and Sang, Quang, breeders—Bui, the of Four are the are Flower Cai Song - -

17 glory The drones’ primary purpose is to serve and have it, and they will offer no explanation for this. protect the breeders, meaning that they do all the The best they can do acknowledge her death, though work to maintain and prepare the ship. They will they will offer no proof or confirmation. generally avoid confrontation and only fight if cor- nered, but they will throw themselves into action to Infiltration protect the breeders or Mother, or if ordered by Vo. A combination of electronic and physical infiltration Sit will never be sent into a confrontation, however, might allow the characters to locate the hardware as his expertise is needed to ready the ship for its and information they need. Details for both are listed journey to the sun. under Ship Security, p. 12. Characters who success- fully hack the ship’s network can locate the Myrmidon fragments through internal surveillance/spime feeds, Stage 4: Resolution uncover the Flower’s future trajectory (into the sun), How the characters choose to resolve the scenario is spy on the exsurgents, and discover the video clip entirely up to them. Several possible courses of action that details Tara Yu’s final moments (p. 19). A quiet are outlined below. Additionally, information on the and focused physical intrusion offers the best chance Glory virus is provided here should the characters for retrieving the Myrmidon modules with minimal risk infection. confrontations with the exsurgents. Possible Approaches Sabotage The sentinels have a choice in how to approach the The team may decide that the best way of deal- White Khanhs and the Song Cai Flower. A few of the ing with the White Khanhs is to sabotage critical more likely options are detailed below, but the game- systems on the ship and then either let them die or master will need to improvise any other courses of force them to negotiate. A determined group with a action given the information provided. good plan should be able to succeed at this, but the GM should not make it easy. The obvious targets Assault are the life support system and the reactor, both of An all-out attack against the White Khanhs is a danger- which are adjacent to the utility bay (Area 2) and ous proposition, as the gang is heavily armed, ruthless, the fuel storage tanks, which are on the outside of and will probably smash the agents’ cortical stacks with the machine shop (Area 8). Characters who make a pneumatic hammer before cooking their morphs for appropriate Knowledge skill tests can determine supper should they go down in a fight. However, for a that all three of these weak points are milspec combat-oriented group, success is possible with careful hardware, heavily shielded against kinetic attacks planning and preparation. PCs who simply pick a fight and radiation. All three were acquired during the upon contact with the gang should probably end up in Oxygen Deck Riots and bolted on to the ship when new morphs for their trouble. Charitable gamemasters the White Khanhs assembled it. will make this evident from the start. Getting the reactor to melt down is almost im- possible, but determined hackers can take it offline, Bargaining leaving the station with about eight hours of reserve Socially-oriented groups may simply try to open power (the trickle coming in from the solar panel is negotiations with the White Khanhs to buy the negligible). Doing so requires an Infosec Test with a Myrmidon hardware and Tara Yu’s cortical stack. difficulty of -30. Once initiated, the shutdown pro- If consulted, Ming will caution against this, but it cess takes 10 minutes. During this time, Wei receives might actually work. Having already been infected, an Infosec Test every two minutes to notice the pro- the White Khanhs no longer care about the TITAN cess, unless the hacker intentionally seeks to disable fragments, and would actually see selling it as a way the alerts (requiring a separate Infosec Test at -30). to spread the virus. While Dexter Vo is still lucid If she succeeds, Wei will first attempt to reverse the enough to carry on negotiations, the gang as a whole process. This will succeed automatically unless the will be very erratic when dealing with outsiders. Vo hacker is actively guiding the shutdown; in this case will make a good show of driving a hard bargain make an Opposed Infosec Test between the hacker for the memory modules, demanding nanofabricator and Wei. If the hacker succeeds, Wei cannot stop the plans to improve the ship’s fusion rockets or cold, reactor going offline, but the intruder is immediately hard credits, depending upon what he thinks he can upgraded to Spotted status. get out of the PCs. They will seek to conceal the Even if Wei successfully keeps the reactor from Glory virus and its effects, and will keep all physi- going offline, she will suspect an infiltration attempt, cally transformed exsurgents out of sight. If the PCs inform Dexter Vo (who will initiate a physical search can be lured aboard or into some sort of physical of the ship), and trigger a Passive Alert (p. 257, EP). meeting, the White Khanhs will attempt to infect Upgrade the hacker to Spotted status and make an them by triggering the Glory nanobot hive in their Opposed Infosec Test as Wei attempts to zero in on presence. Where negotiations may fail, however, is the intruder (see Zeroing In, p. 256, EP). If she suc- over Yu’s stack. The White Khanhs simply no longer ceeds, the hacker is elevated to Locked status (p. 256, 18 Vo (p. 9) can make a COG x 3 Testx VoCOG these a recognize make to can (p. 9) Anyone who has seen the surveillance clip of Dexter Dexter of clip surveillance the seen has who Anyone Wei will attempt first to infect them with the Glory the with them infect to first attempt Weiwill EP), the system goes on Active Alert (p. 257, while the thugs force Yu, who has been temporarily been has Yu,who force thugs the while with eidetic memory or mnemonic augmentation auto- augmentation mnemonic or memory eidetic with without breathable air, though Dexter Vo and the Voand air,Dexter breathable though without virus AOK hack and then, failing that, to lock them lock that,to then,failing and virus AOKhack Dexter Vo sits on a kitchen stool just out of splat- of out just stool kitchen a on VoDexter sits Kinesics Test can guess from the woman’scarriagethe from guess TestKinesics can bladed apparatus on a stainless steel kitchen counter. eid i, ad o hs hudr ad leaning and shoulders his on hands him, behind unbreathable and remain so for 48 hours, until thehours, until 48 for so remain and unbreathable from neck to toe in sheets of a translucent,a organic of sheets in toe to neck from lowing scene: likely sleeved in the naked man’s body, from naked the judging in sleeved likely from the greenhouse. Phuong and the breeders are breeders the and greenhouse.Phuong the from punch through the station’s hull at one spot along spot one at station’shull the through punch butotherwise is slower and infiltration physical primarily to enrage the ship’s occupants without doing known morph, inadditiontolocatingJi(in Tara Yu’s Should a hacker infiltrate the ship’s mesh and perform into the grinder. Yu screams herself raw as droplets as raw grinder.herself the screams Yu into to his moll, who begins eating them with chopsticks chopsticks with them eating begins who moll, his to bowl a passes and sauce fish with them seasons then the lookonprisoner’s face. (p.pierced,13).wall If they containment reactor the only superficialdamagetothestation. ter distance. Tara Yu’s morph (actually Ji) stands Ji) (actually Taradistance.Yu’s morph ter the only White Khanhs who can survive this long this survive can who Khanhs White only the be will station the in atmosphere the breach, a of drone (Diên)—hold a naked, hairless man wrapped man naked,hairless a (Diên)—hold drone old morph), they will find only a single video clip with drones canbuysometimebydonningvacsuits. out (seeLockout, p. 257, EP). of blood spatter the counter. At the other end of the the of end counter.other the the spatter At blood of matically make the connection). There is a pause in the material that looks like a cross between a sausage a between cross a like looks that material as the same type of noodles he was eating (characters (characters eating was he noodles of type same the as and accent that she is not actually Yu, and that Yu is fol- the Test.presents Research clip successful The a last Yu’s Tara using search recognition image an as stats same the have tanks damage.The real any anesthetized, to watch. The footage fades out as the the as out fades footage watch.The to anesthetized, carnage while Vo flash fries some of the noodles in oil, in noodles while the Vocarnage of some fries flash casing and cling film over the mouth of a gleaming, a of mouth the over film cling and casing grinding andscreamsbegin anew. grinder,noodles.perfect,smooth extrudes machine the explode, but the explosion is directed outward, doing each of the algae tanks, the medium inside vents into simpler. If the sentinels can do enough damage to damage enough do can sentinels simpler.the If slightly against him. Anyone who makes a successful material recycled of intake with recovers system hours eight Withinalgae. the drying freeze space, Footage ofTaraYu Attacking the fuel tanks is a mistake, as it will serve Without further ado, the thugs begin feeding Yu feeding begin thugs the ado, further Without Three White Khanhs thugs—two breeders and a and breeders thugs—two Khanhs White Three aoaig h lf spot Ae 4 demands 4) (Area support life the Sabotaging EP), and AR,exposedfeeds.the data If sensory VR,other or mod- Myrmidon the with meshes who character Any xenomorph virus (p. 368, (p. virus xenomorph vectors: an AOK hack or physical infection. virus, which in this phase manifests as an overpower victim still suffers 1d10 mental stress +1 per minute per +1 stress mental 1d10 suffers still victim Characters may be exposed to the Glory virus via two Glory hive are considered infected. If the gamemaster infected.the considered If are hive Glory example, via (for fluids bodily to exposed Characters If this test fails, they become catatonic and paralyzed fier for every 10 full points their skill(s) exceeds 60. exceeds skill(s) their points full 10 every for fier flicts 1d10 SV on the viewer if they fail a Willpower fail they if viewer the on 1d10 SV flicts but this should only be allowed in cases where ex- where cases in allowed be only should this but ules (or the copies held by Tortoise and Wang),an Tortoiseand by held copies the (or ules full points of MoF. At the end of this period, they period, this of MoF.end of the points At full 10 per minute 1 minus minutes, 5 of period a for friends will put them out of their misery so they can they so misery their of out them put will friends permits, a Fray Test may be made to avoid infection,avoid toFray permits,Testmadea be may posure is not certain (for example, the character is character the example, (for certain not is posure hack sensory feed before its duration completes,the duration its before feed sensory hack risks exposure to this variant basilisk hack.basilisk Weivariant this may to exposure risks resleeve from a backup. requires a Hardware: Electronics (with access to ma- reduces at the rate of 10 per minute. Similarly,an minute. per 10 of rate the at reduces Stress Test (p. 214, EP). infected character who is treated with successful psy- successful with treated is who character infected basic beyond anything and hygiene basic including infected character will literally ignore everything else, ing obsession to build a Glory nanobot hive and start there is very little that can be done for them. Merciful shaken,mentally remain they exposed,and were they timeframe.a Taskweek is 1 Thethis a with Action terials) or Programming Test (and access to a fabber); of nanobots). Once a character is physically infected,physically is character a nanobots).Once of etl leain. hr i a 05 cac of chance 50/50 a is There alterations. mental make a COG + INT + SAV+ INT + COG a make Test.modi- –10 a Apply are mentally reprogrammed and “infected” with the the with and “infected” reprogrammed mentally are also deploy this hack on any Locked intruders. a new immolator colony. Constructing such a hive colony.a immolator such new Constructing a character/exsurgent or exposed to nanobots from a from nanobots to exposed or character/exsurgent character possesses Hardware: Electronics or Pro- or Electronics Hardware: possesses character chosurgery within 3 days can be cured of the compul- the of cured be can days 3 within chosurgery gramming skill at 60 or more, they must immediately exsurgent’s cortical stack, or any other infected system stress, acquiring psi, and undergoing physical and physical undergoing and psi, acquiring stress, spattered in blood or briefly caught within a cloud a within caught briefly or blood in spattered sexual contact or swapping spit) from an infected an from spit) swapping or contact sexual actions. all modifier to This modifier –30 a suffering sustenance, untilthehiveisbuilt. sion tobuildahive, atthecostof1d10SV. Physical Infection AOK Hack Glory Infection Watching this clip of torture and cannibalism in- cannibalism and torture of clip Watchingthis This hack is experienced as a prolonged burst of burst prolonged a as experienced is hack This Glory transforms the victim in stages, just like the like stages,just in victim the transforms Glory If an exposed character is broken off from the AOK ) in terms of mental of terms in EP) -

19 glory becoming a breeder or drone, unless the colony has the Flower), Firewall’s response will be more effective. already reached its capacity on breeders (if no colony In this case, another Firewall team will succeed where yet exists, the victim will become the Mother and the characters failed, destroying the White Khanhs start one). Breeders eventually transform into full im- and capturing the Myrmidon fragments. If the game- molator exsurgents, whereas drones do not physically master is feeling generous, the players may be given a transform beyond stage 2, and never acquire the Psi second shot to finish the mission as the characters in trait. At stage 1, both types acquire sociopathic, cal- this new Firewall team. lous, and nesting tendencies and become devoted to the colony; at stage 2, the urge to engage in cannibal- Dealing with Vasquez ism is overwhelming (WIL Test to resist). If the characters made a deal with Vasquez (p. 10), she will expect an update within a reasonable period Resleeving and Backups of time after they complete the mission. Vasquez will Resleeving does nothing to reverse the psychological send a beta fork in a bot shell for the exchange of changes inflicted by Glory, but it does stop the char- information. Allow her Kinesics Tests on each PC to acter from physically infecting anyone else (unless the whom she speaks. If she thinks any of them are lying new morph also becomes nanobot-infested). Resleeved or holding out on her, she will not award them @-rep Glory carriers seek to fabricate a Glory hive and rein- as noted below (but the characters will still lose –1 fect themselves physically as soon as possible. i-rep if they divulge too much). If a character is allowed to back up after being in- fected, their backups become compromised as well. Rez and Rep Awards Depending on how well the characters did, they will walk Stage 5: Debriefing away with some Rez Points and Reputation awards: This section deals with various matters that arise when the mission is completed (or failed). rez & rep Aftermath outcome award If the characters successfully complete the mission Character participated in mission 1 RP, + 2 i-rep (that is, they retrieve the Myrmidon modules), they 1 RP, Tara Yu’s fate was uncovered will be complimented by Ming and Firewall for neu- + 5 @-rep or i-rep tralizing a dangerous threat. Ming is likely to seek out The Myrmidon hardware was 1 RP, +10 i-rep the characters for future Firewall ops. Firewall is likely retrieved or destroyed to give the characters’ egos a thorough scanning and Team failed but Firewall was alerted to 1 RP, +2 i-rep psychosurgery check to ensure none of them were Song Cai Flower and/or Glory virus infected by Glory before egocasting them to wher- Team failed without finding Glory virus 1 RP, –2 i-rep ever they like for resleeving. Any characters who were Xiu’s Greenhouse alerted that their killed will be restored from their stack (if retrieved +5 @-rep attackers were found and eliminated and uninfected) or backup storage. Tara Yu will also be revived from storage, though Kesyrah returned to Casa Arturo +5 @-rep she will remember nothing of her fate, having been re- Kesyrah kept and Casa Arturo finds out –5 @-rep vived from storage. Ming will fill her in on the basics, Team shares info on White Khanhs with +2 @-rep, –1 i-rep and she will thank the sentinels for investigating what Patrona Vasquez happened to her and finishing the mission. Character contributed to achieving 1 RP success in a significant way If the Mission Fails The character achieved a 1 RP If the Firewall agents fail the mission (presumably motivational goal (p. 121, EP) captured/killed by the White Khanhs), all is not lost. The player engaged in good roleplaying 1RP After 6 months of being missing with no check-in, they will be declared dead and resleeved according to their The player significantly contributed backup insurance policy. Firewall will have attempted to the session’s drama, humor 1 RP or fun with roleplaying to pick up their trail, but by the time they go look- ing for the Song Cai Flower, the ship is already on its way toward the sun. In five years it will dive into the corona and be consumed, leaving the Mother’s nano- Follow-Up crystal seeds to be dispersed by the solar winds across There are several follow-up plots that the characters the solar system, perhaps leading to new outbreaks in may become entangled in: years to come. If the sentinels left important information with Fire- Wang’s Virus wall before their disappearance, however (such as the As noted on p. 8, Wang has a quarantined copy of the involvement of the White Khanhs and the location of Myrmidon data—and the Glory virus. Eventually he 20 Wang, p. 7). +Hacking Wang to assist Tara Yu on her mission (see hs eto lss ae tt ad hr dtis on details short and stats game lists section This may sentinels by Yuthe made and investigations The work effectively(GMdiscretion). was. Alternately,the acquire may groups these of one Project dangerous and mysterious the weaknesses,or will either investigate it and become infected, starting Myrmidon data from Firewall, prompting Ming to Ming prompting Firewall, from data Myrmidon (exploit, sniffer, spoof) that apply a +10 bonus to bonus +10 a apply that sniffer,spoof) (exploit, Ozma. These groups may pursue the player characters Ecologist 40, Perception 30, Pilot: Spacecraft 60,Pro- Spacecraft 30,Pilot: 40,Perception Ecologist Interfacing 80, Investigation 40, Kinesics 20, Naviga- 20, Kinesics 40, Investigation 80, Interfacing 90, Infosec 30, Infiltration 70, Electronics Hardware: Infiltration skill at 40. When found in the fier for filtering the effects of AOK or basilisk hacks, basilisk of or effects AOK the filtering for fier by a standard muse (p. 332,(p. muse standard a by interested other of attention the to Myrmidon bring Wangcheck to sent be may bidder.characters The parties—hypercorps or singularity seekers who want who seekers singularity or parties—hypercorps ity 30 and Wound Threshold of 7. It is equipped with a though these defenses are imperfect and do not always interest their what and know they what out find to TITAN for looking are who reclaimers tech, the the deal, or contain a new outbreak before it gets it before outbreak new a contain or deal, the tion: 60, Networking: Autonomist 60, Networking: 60, Autonomist Networking: 60, tion: out of hand. out (on suspicion that he has these copies), to stop copies),to these has he that suspicion (on out major NPCs. appropriate tests. Tortoise also receives a +20 modi- +20 tests.a Tortoise appropriate receives also tools software customized of set a carries also and a new outbreak on Locus, or he will sell it the highest chameleon coating and ghostrider module and piloted piloted and module ghostrider and coating chameleon guage: Farsi 80, Language: Mandarin 70, Profession: gramming 80, Research60, Scrounging 30 suffered 2woundsand40pointsofdamage. send the sentinels to retrieve it. Morteza Bey Interest inM Achilles &Tortoise Characters COG INIT Anarchist Hacker andHorticulturist Achilles is a synth (p.synth 143,a is Achilles Active Skills: Beam Weapons 30, Fray 25, Freefall 70, Tortoise(p.security 332,AIs for stats the uses This bot AI and rider AI pair was created by Mason Infiltration Botand AI Team Hriutr +eliig Earth +Reclaiming +Horticulture Motivation: Morph: Bouncer agae Aai 6, Lan- 60, Arabic Language: Skills: Knowledge 80 20 COO SPD 15 1 yrmidon LUC INT 30 20 REF TT 20 6 SA ) variant with Durabil- with variant EP) 60 15 IR ) that also possesses also that EP) V SOM DUR 35 10 Flower, it has WIL WT Contacting Contacting 15 7 MO DR 53 ), EP), 3 X +Hacking Augmentation, Multitasking Titan Autonomous University; Firewall Router TITAN Rumors 60, Interest: Firewall Scuttlebutt 70, Scuttlebutt Firewall Interest: 60, TITANRumors Titanian Commonwealth and has a fatherly figure fatherly a has and Commonwealth Titanian 90, Protocol:Firewall70, Research80 80, Investigation 70, Kinesics 70, Networking: Auton- Gunnery 30, Hardware: Robotics 70, Infosec 70, Inter Exploit, Sniffer, Spoof, Tracking), Utilitool Firewall 80, Networking: Scientists 80, Perception 60, Reserve, PrehensileFeet, Skinlink, Vacuum Sealing Language: French 60, Language: Mandarin 80, Lan 80, Mandarin Language: 60, French Language: Progressivism Inserts, Cortical Stack, Grip Pads, Multitasking, Oxygen Profession: Profession: 80, (Broccoli) Horticulture Interest: Titanian Wilderness 70, Language: English 60, Persuasion 70, Profession: Educator 70, Programming facing 70, Kinesics 40, Networking: Autonomists 60,40,Networking: Autonomists 70,Kinesics facing Security Ops70 type—not yourtypicaleliteinfosechackerpersona. demeanor. Hefrequentlytossesout badpuns. Interest: 80, Science Computer 80, Academics: ology Networking: 60, Ecologists Networking: 80, omists ming), Hyper-Linguist, Math Wiz, PsiDefense1 cal Stack, Eidetic Memory, Math Boost, MnemonicMemory, Boost, Eidetic Math Stack, cal guage: Norwegian80 earth tones, and comes off as a gentle, earthy-crunchy Professor Magnus Qiao-SenMing Mason Wang COG COG INIT INIT roat Car f opttoa Archeology, Computational of Chair Argonaut; Anarchist Hacker Deception 70, Fray 60, Freefall 60, Freefall 60, Fray 70, Deception Skills: Active 80,60,ActiveInterfacingInfosec Deception Skills: Traits: Expert(Infosec), Limber, Oblivious, Timid Traits: Allies (Titanian Founders), Expert (Program- Motivation: +Firewall +TITANs Research +Techno- Morph: Menton Hriutr +eliig Earth +Reclaiming +Horticulture Motivation: Morph: Hibernoid Reputation: @-rep40, e-rep20 Reputation: @-rep50, e-rep30, i-rep70, r-rep 80 Roleplaying: Bey speaks with an Arab accent, favors Roleplaying: Ming is a respected older figure in the Knowledge Skills: Academics: Computational Arche - Gear: Light Vacsuit, Quantum Computer (Software: Gear: QuantumComputer Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Corti- Access Jacks, Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Mesh Basic Biomods, Basic Jacks, Access Implants: 80 30 70 25 COO COO SPD SPD 15 15 1 1 LUC LUC INT INT 50 25 20 20 REF REF TT TT 10 15 15 4 SA SA 100 20 40 20 IR IR V V SOM SOM DUR DUR 35 35 10 10 WIL WIL WT WT 25 10 7 7 MO MO DR DR 53 53 5 1 X X - -

21 glory Networking: Hypercorps 50, Networking: Scientists Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts (Software: 80, Perception 50, Pilot: Groundcraft 25, Program- Facial Recognition, Security AI, Tactical Network), Corti- ming 80, Unarmed Combat 40 cal Stack, Endocrine Control, Hyper-Linguist, Mnemonic Knowledge Skills: Academics: Computer Science Augmentation, Multitasking, Oracles 70, Interest: Locus Society 60, Language: English 70, Roleplaying: Patrona is all business, with a stark lack Language: Mandarin 80, Profession: Engineering 70, of any sense of humor. She is very, very sharp at reading Profession: Viral Marketing 40 people, and will not hesitate to point out anything she Reputation: @-rep 50, c-rep 30, r-rep 60 discerns about a person’s actions or personality. Traits: Addiction (Sex, Minor), First Impression, Math Wiz, Striking Looks Nia Zheng/Sammy Li Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Circa- Former White Khanhs Criminal dian Regulation, Cortical Stack, Electrical Sense, Emer- Morph: Pleasure Pod gency Farcaster, Enhanced Pheromones, Hibernation, Motivation: +Hedonism +Technology +Wealth

Mnemonic Augmentation, Multitasking, Skinlink COG COO INT REF SAV SOM WIL MOX Gear: Nanodetectors, Quantum Computer (Soft- 15 15 20 20 30 20 20 2

ware: AR Illusions, Exploit, Facial/Image Recogni- INIT SPD LUC TT IR DUR WT DR tion, Tracking), Smart Vac Clothing, Specs, Wrist- 80 1 40 8 80 35 7 53 mounted Tools Roleplaying: Wang is doing the outer system anar- Active Skills: Beam Weapons 70, Blades 80, Clubs 60, chist lifestyle like he just invented it, which can make Deception 60, Fray 70, Free Fall 60, Impersonation 70, him come off as an insufferable douchebag to real Infiltration 60, Infosec 30, Intimidation 35, Investiga- anarchists, scumborn, and others born outsystem. tion 40, Kinesics 60, Kinetic Weapons 60, Network- Nonetheless, he’s a hot commodity in Locus at pres- ing: Guanxi 65, Perception 60, Persuasion 60, Pilot: ent, with substantial rep; his prodigious programming Groundcraft 30, Research 50, Unarmed Combat 80 skills and apparent sincerity are sufficient to redeem Knowledge Skills: Interest: Locus Syndicates 60, him in some quarters. He is an extremely sharp and Interest: Martian Triads 40, Language: English 50, ambitious businessman, but will often ask disarm- Language: Cantonese 85, Language Russian: 65, Lan- ingly naive and seemingly irrelevant questions. Some guage: Vietnamese 70, Profession: Cool Hunter 60, of his naiveté is calculated, and some is genuine, born Profession: Tech Trader 60 of deep immaturity and insecurity. Wang is essen- Reputation: @-rep 20, g-rep 40 tially selfish, ruthless, and calculating, but desperately Traits: Social Stigma (Pleasure Pod) trait wants to believe otherwise of himself. Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Clean Metabolism, Cortical Stack, Cyber Brain, Enhanced Patrona Vasquez Pheromones, Mnemonic Augmentation, Puppet Sock, Freelance Magistrate, Agent of Nomic Sex Switch Morph: Exalt Roleplaying: Sammy is quite fearful that the Khanhs Motivation: -Crime +Justice +Libertarianism will track him down. He’s a tough guy, though, and an

COG COO INT REF SAV SOM WIL MOX experienced thug, so he’ll face any threats head on. In 25 15 20 15 30 15 25 4 the meantime, however, he’s quite enjoying his new

INIT SPD LUC TT IR DUR WT DR sex and lifestyle and won’t be afraid to flaunt it. 70 1 50 10 100 35 7 53 The White Khanhs Active Skills: Beam Weapons 80, Clubs 60, Fray 80, These are the exsurgent gang members and crew of Freerunning 60, Gunnery 60, Infiltration 70, Infosec the Song Cai Flower. Many of them wear disturbingly 80, Intimidation 70, Investigation 80, Kinesics 90, incongruous knit items that Lê made for them before Kinetic Weapons 60, Navigation 30, Networking: Au- she went completely mad and transformed into a tonomists 80, Networking: Guanxi 80, Networking: many-wombed growth of wall meat. Hypercorps 60, Perception 60, Persuasion 40, Pilot: Groundcraft 40, Pilot: Spacecraft 60, Programming Breeders 35, Protocol 60, Research 80, Unarmed Combat 70 The five immolator exsurgent breeders (Bian, Bui, Knowledge Skills: Academics: Jurisprudence 80, In- Quang, Sang, and Thanh) are obviously alien and terest: Criminal Syndicates 80, Language: Arabic 60, only barely resemble their original human forms. Language: English: 60, Language: French 60, Lan- Though bipedal and roughly anthropomorphic, their guage: Italian 95, Language: German 40, Language: skin is dull gray in color and obviously thicker and Mandarin 70, Language: Portuguese: 40, Language: more leathery. Their jaws and teeth are enlarged Spanish 80, Language: Thai 40, Profession: Lawyer 80, and extended, with jagged protruding canines, and Profession: Police Procedures 80, Profession: Squad powerful muscles to allow for dangerous bites. They Tactics 60 have lost all hair but possess patches of short, conical Reputation: @-rep 90, c-rep 60, g-rep 40 spines that protrude through the skin (often ripping Traits: Expert (Kinesics) their clothing, if they’re bothering to wear any). Their 22 1), OxygenReserve, PrehensileFeet, Vacuum Sealing 1d10 +3SV. Wu) are sleeved in standard bouncer morphs (the other Thermite, Plasma Gun (AP -10, DV 3d10 + 12, Mode (Jamming 55), Intimidation 20,Kinetic Weapons55),Intimidation (Jamming 35, Control, Grip Pads,Control,(RatingMedichines,Grip Neurachem Navigation 35 (Astrogation 45), Perception 60,45),Pilot: Perception (Astrogation 35 Navigation Unarmed Combat55 Bioweave Armor (Light), Chameleon Skin (+20 In (+20 Skin Chameleon (Light), Armor Bioweave Deception 20,Deception80,45, 80,DemolitionsFall Fray Free Infiltration 80, Infosec 35 (Security 45), Interfacing 45 filitration), Claws (1d10 + 3 3 DV, + Endocrine -1), (1d10 AP Claws filitration), breeding, though they will attack and eat any non- any eat and attack will they though breeding, feet much like hands. Females exhibit an ovipositor,an exhibit hands.Females like much feet fused together into hands/feet with three digits. Their forts ontheimmolatorbreeding regime. having descended into madness and focusing their ef- their focusing and madness into descended having rather than vertical slit. Their fingers and toes have toes and slit.fingers vertical Their than rather Spacecraft 60,50,50,60,Psi Spacecraft Sense Research Assault SS), RocketPack, Utilitool ing), Light Vac Suit (Chameleon Coating), Liquid Coating), (Chameleon Suit Vac Light ing), ism, OCD:breeding, nesting), Psi(Level2), PsiDefense teristics they desire and to add more psi sleights to sleights psi more add to and desire they teristics two being Dexter and Ji; see below). Though exsur below).Though see Ji; and Dexter being two nails have hardened and elongated so that they pos- they that so elongated and hardened have nails make a Willpower Stress TestStress 214,Willpower(p.a make make themmorechallengingifnecessary. appearances in slight but unnerving ways.unnerving have but They slight in appearances charac- alien other any them give to encouraged are prehensile their use to bouncers,able like limber are chic Stab, SenseBlock growing from their stomach, that is used to deposit to used is stomach,that their from growing given up to tending to their personal hygiene, however, gents, the Glory virus has only modified their physical guage: Vietnamese 70 exsurgents onsight. embryos within the immolator Mother. Gamemasters horizontal a cat-like,with and apart wider are eyes sess dangerous claws on both hands and feet.They and hands both on claws dangerous sess Drones COG COG INIT INIT Active Skills: Beam Weapons 80, Blades 70, Control 50, Traits:(Cannibal- Disorder 1),Mental (Level Limber Characters who encounter these exsurgents must exsurgents these encounter who Characters Roleplaying: Breeders are primarily concerned with Language: Cantonese 40, Lan- 40, Cantonese Language: Skills: Knowledge Armor Clothing (6/7, with Chameleon Coat- Chameleon (6/7,with Clothing Gear: Armor ai Boos Bsc eh Inserts, Mesh Basic BioMods, Basic Implants: Deep Scan, Ego Sense, Psi Shield,Psy- Sense,Psi Scan,Ego Deep Sleights: Psi Six of the drones (Diên, Nong, Quy, Sit, Smith, and 60 80 15 15 COO COO SPD SPD 15 25 1 2 LUC LUC INT INT — — 15 15 REF REF — — TT TT 25 25 SA SA — — 15 10 IR IR V V SOM SOM DUR DUR 35 40 15 25 ) or suffer or EP) WIL WIL WT WT 10 20 7 8 MO MO DR DR — — 53 60 X X - -

Academics: Nanotechnology 60,Hardware: Nanotechnology Aerospace Academics: Though the Glory virus transformed Vovirus drone,Glory a the into Though Mesh Inserts, Chameleon Skin, Clean Metabolism, Clean Skin, Chameleon Inserts, Mesh (Seduction 60), Protocol50 Quantum Computer (Software: Exploit,(Software: Computer Quantum Facial/Image OCD), Uncanny Valley 35,Pilot:Medicine General 70,Medicine: Cantonese 60,60,Electronics Hardware: 70, Industrial Hardware: Cortical Stack, Enhanced Vision, Grip Pads Networking: Guanxi 70, Perception 40, Persuasion 50 Utilitool Language: Thai 80, Navigation 50 (Astrogation 60), (Astrogation 50 Navigation 80, Thai Language: Recognition, Tracking), RepairSpray, Skinlink, Tools Ji Impersonation 70, Infosec 30, Investigation 60 (Logi- 60 30,70,Investigation Infosec Impersonation Profession: Station Ops 70, Programming 50 (Nano- 50 Programming 70, Ops Station Profession: brought his syndicate to space through clever deal- clever through space to syndicate his brought fabrication 60), Research60 from Dexter, Mother, orthebreeders. lucidity. Vo is 114 years old, an Earth survivor who survivor Earth lucidity.an old, years 114 Vo is hensile Feet he remains the functional boss of the gang and is the is and gang the of boss functional the remains he Spacecraft 45, Profession: Station Ops 30, Program- 30, Ops Station Profession: 45, Spacecraft Spray Armor (Armor2/2), Utilitool in the striking ghost morph ghost Tarastriking the in Yuinfiltrate to used transhumans, and will follow any instructions coming the station. only one who still retains a semblance of sanity and sanity of semblance a retains still who one only netic Weapons 50, Perception40 ming 60(Nanofabrication70) making and ruthless brutality. accompanying himeverywhere. cal Deduction 70), Kinesics 70,Kinetic Weapons70),Kinesics Deduction 50,cal with socializing or interaction functional of capable guage: Vietnamese 70 guage: Mandarin60, Language: Vietnamese 70 Dexter V COG INIT Deception 70, Language: 70, Deception Skills: Wu’sAdditional Fray 60, Free Fall 60, Infosec 30,- Ki 60,Infosec Fall 60,Free Fray ActiveSkills: Deception 60, Fray 60, Free Fall 60, Fall Free 60, Fray 60, Deception Skills: Active The drone formerly known as Ji has been resleeved been has Ji as known formerly drone The Traits: StrikingLooks(Level2), Uncanny Valley Limber (1), Mental Disorder (Cannibalism,Traits:Disorder (1),Mental Limber Roleplaying: Ji generally plays the role of Vo’s moll, Roleplaying: Drones are for the most part no longer Language: Cantonese 40, Lan - 40, Cantonese Language: Skills: Knowledge Language: Cantonese 40, Lan- 40, Cantonese Language: Skills: Knowledge Armor Clothing (6/7),Light VacClothing Gear: Armor Suit,Specs, Armor Clothing (6/7),Light VacClothing Gear: Armor Suit,Specs, Basic BioMods, Basic Mesh Inserts,Pre - Mesh BioMods,Basic Basic Implants: Arnl os, ai Boos Basic BioMods, Basic Boost, Adrenal Implants: urin Nanoswarm, Guardian Gear: Additional Sit’s 40, Engineering Academics: Skills: Sit’sAdditional 80 15 COO SPD 25 o 1 LUC INT 15 20 REF TT 20 5 SA 30 15 IR V SOM DUR 45 20 WIL WT 15 9 MO DR — 68 X

23 glory Vo was the second-ranked boss in the White Phuong Lê (“Mother”) Khanhs before he became infected with Glory and or- Lê was the ship’s primary tech. Now she’s a bloated chestrated a series of bloody betrayals that eliminated mass of uteruses and mouths, the incubator in which all of the other significant bosses. Vo is one of the the other female White Khanhs implant fertilized few exsurgent Khanhs retaining a cortical stack and zygotes. Lê’s body now covers most of the inside of maintaining regular backups. Gamemasters who wish the Ops Center (Area 7), except in spots where it has to use him as a recurring villain can equip him with been trimmed back to expose display terminals or an emergency farcaster system (p. 306, EP). Dexter’s other equipment. teeth have been filed sharper to better accommodate Lê is no longer lucid, nor is she able to commu- his cannibalistic diet. nicate in any normal fashion. If attacked, she will

COG COO INT REF SAV SOM WIL MOX lash out with a Psychic Stab against any character 20 15 20 15 25 10 30 5 touching her, bludgeon or grapple characters with

INIT SPD LUC TT IR DUR WT DR tentacles, or deliver a nasty bite to grappled char- 70 1 30 6 60 40 8 60 acters or anyone foolish enough to come within 30 centimeters of her mouth. Active Skills: Beam Weapons 60, Blades 30, Decep- Lê’s exsurgent form is able to survive for decades in tion 80, Fray 80, Free Fall 70, Impersonation 80, Infil- hibernation if life support is lost—even in vacuum. tration 40, Infosec 70, Intimidation 70, Investigation 70 Characters who encounter Lê must make a Will- (Logical Deduction), Kinesics 80, Kinetic Weapons 70, power Stress Test (p. 214, EP) or suffer 1d10 + 5 SV.

Networking: Guanxi 50, Perception 70, Persuasion 80, COG COO INT REF SAV SOM WIL MOX Pilot: Spacecraft 65, Protocol 60, Research 40, 5 5 5 5 5 30 30 1

Unarmed Combat 60 INIT SPD LUC TT IR DUR WT DR Knowledge Skills: Language: Cantonese 50, Lan- 20 1 — — — 100 20 150 guage: Thai 60, Language: Vietnamese 80 Traits: Eidetic Memory, Mental Disorder (Cannibal- Active Skills: Psi Assault 60, Sense 40, Unarmed ism), Uncanny Valley Combat 70 Implants: Basic BioMods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Traits: Psi Defense 2 Bioweave Armor (Light), Cortical Stack, Medichines, Psi Sleights: Ego Sense, Psi Shield, Psychic Stab Oxygen Reserve Implants: Medichines Gear: Armor Clothing (6/7), Light Vac Suit, Plasma Attacks: Bite (DV 2d10+3, AP -1), Tentacles Gun (AP -10, DV 3d10 + 12, Mode SS), Specs (1d10+3, AP 0) Roleplaying: Vo is ruthless, bloodthirsty, and psy- chopathic. He will use any means at his disposal to eliminate the characters, even sacrificing drones.

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