Hounds of War: Eclipse Phase Campaign
Backstory
Many habitats exist, some are held by giant corporations and tycoons bent on using the population of those place as workers, guinea pigs, and whatever else they please. Others are ruled by the Jovian Republic, who see robots, AIs, and all advanced forms of technology that contain some form of knowledge as threats to trans-humanity, and that they must be watched over so mankind can not come to harm. Of course there are other places where life isn't lived inside the confined walls of a station, some semblance of mankind still live on the surfaces of Luna, and Mars looking out at the devastated corpse of Earth, its surface bleak and deserted of all life. A place that reminds mankind of its failure yet is still ignored.
July Ninth, one of three habitats owned by the leader of the Hypercorp, True Steel Star, Dan Smiths, it has a population of approximately 30,000 trans-humans, and is a focal point of trade in this region of space. Due to recent events on the station Dan Smiths has began hiring mercenaries to keep order in the city and ensure the safety of his company, you six are new hires, chosen for you history and skills he thought you would bring. Of course each of you may have your own agendas, and other factors for your coming to July Ninth, but to earn your keep you must carry out the orders of your Contractor, and carry out whatever goals you may have of your own.
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Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic horror RPG based around humanity after an event called the
Fall, now known as
Trans-humanity for their advancements in technology have freed them from mortality, and brought about changes far beyond what we could have expected. It's entirely free, and the game designer himself posted free downloads to all the PDFs in his
blog, we'll be using the core rulebook and most likely all of the supplements though for now Panopticon is the only one we'll be using for sure. I am taking six players, though if there is enough interest I may bump the player limit to eight. For now it'll most likely be hosted over the internet on maptools, but if players want we'll do it as play by post, the PbP method will be far slower then maptools sessions of course, and the days we'll have session are undecided though they will most likely happen somewhere from Friday to Sunday according to people's timezones.
The focus of the campaign is to create a mysterious conspiracy theory revolving around that single habitat and your lives on it, you'll find clues that will lead to more clues, and will search for a truth behind the veil of lies a conspiracy theory entails. You'll face everything from an unknown organization to everyday gangs in your search to find the truth, or whatever goal you choose to seek in its place. The question is can your character retain his sanity and achieve his goals or will you go insane, or die in the process?
You six will be mercenaries, as stated in backstory, and will be working from within the Habitat itself, though you may sometimes venture out of it through the story most of the campaign, or at-least this first arc, will take part within it. The players will have a base which will start off with very little in it, and can be upgraded via Merc Funds gained from missions or via your own personal funds if you wish to use them. Throughout the game you will be able to add on and expand the base, buying vehicles, robots, building machines, workshops, etc., it will also be where most non-session stuff happens. Your NPC allies will stay here, your Non-session actions will usually occur here, and so on and so forth. If your interested you can pick up the core rulebook and give it a look through and if there is anything you don't understand you can ask me and we can try to figure things out, keep in mind I'm new to this system as well
Campaign Info
This will be filled with things like session summary links, base information, current mission, etc. as we go along.
Disallowed Backgrounds: Hyperelite
Disallowed Morphs: Pods (except novacrabs), and Swarmnoids
Note: More may be added as we go.
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