Expedition Information

(2) Exploration Vehicle
This “crawler” is equipped for prolonged ventures across hostile landscapes. The extra space is used for miniature labs, samples, and high tech survey equipment.

• Super Heavy Vehicle
• Size 8, Acc/TS 3/5, Toughness 28 (6), Crew 18, Cost $177K, Remaining Mods 3
• Notes: Amphibious, 2×Crew Space, 5×Living Space, Sensor Suite, 3×Reinforced Chassis, Tracked
• Weapons: None

Equipment (divided evenly between the two vehicles):
2× binoculars, 8× camouflage suits, 4× commlinks, 2× medi-gel, 10× energy sheets, 10× energy tents, 1,200× nutribars (20 days’ worth per person), 2× water purification filters, fuel (20 days’ worth), 5× shovels, 5× pick-axes, excavating gear. There are also four survival packs (see page 9) in case of emergency.


(10) Miner
Working in an asteroid belt or a planet rich in minerals but with a deadly atmosphere, miners are grizzled, hardy, and always seeking the big find that will enable them to retire.

• Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4, Spirit d6, Strength d6, Vigor d6
• Skills: Driving d6, Fighting d4, Gambling d6, Intimidation d6, Notice d6, Piloting d4, Shooting d4
• Cha: +0; Pace: 6; Parry: 4; Toughness: 5
• Hindrances: —
• Edges: —
• Gear: Matter remover.

(2) Scientist
Scientists analyze the cosmos and attempt to put order to it. They’re experts in a particular field and most of its related studies as well.

• Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d8, Spirit d8, Strength d6, Vigor d6 
• Skills: Knowledge (Biology and Linguistics) d8, Notice d6, Repair d8, Shooting d6,
• Cha: +0; Pace: 6; Parry: 2; Toughness: 5
• Hindrances: Quirk, Stubborn
• Edges: Mr. Fix It, Scholar
• Gear: Commlink, personal data device. 

Ban Veiale
A middle-aged man with dark brown hair that is starting to gray. He wears a brown felt fedora with a long sleeved jacket, a white undershirt, and khaki tactical pants to go with it. He has a 5'oclock stubble across his face. He keeps a bag with archeologist tools slung around him along with a ballistics sniper rifle. 

• Attributes:  Agility  d6, Smarts  d8,  Spirit  d8, Strength d6, Vigor d8
• Skills: Driving d6, Fighting d4, Knowledge (Archeology), d8, Notice d6, Persuasion d6, Piloting d6, Repair d6, Shooting d6, Survival d8, Tracking d6
• Cha:  +0;  Pace:  6;  Parry:  4; Toughness: 8 (2)
• Hindrances: Curious
• Edges: Woodsman
• Gear: Smart suit, commlink,machete, personal data device, survival gear, sniper rifle, archaeology tools

Tert Auknatt
A dark-haired woman in her late twenties with a skin-tight black and white space suit. She carries a light slugthrower pistol holstered on her hip and has a similar bag as her mentor. Tert Auknatt acts as Ban Veiale's personal assistant in most matters. 

• Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d8, Spirit d8, Strength d6, Vigor d6 
• Skills: Knowledge (Archaeology) d8, Notice d6, Repair d8, Shooting d6,
• Cha: +0; Pace: 6; Parry: 2; Toughness: 5
• Hindrances: Loyal
• Edges: Mr. Fix It, Scholar
• Gear: Commlink, personal data device, Light Slugthrower Pistol

Session 30 - Night's Conclusion

• Remek...
• The engineer managed to give his tails the slip by ditching the two PSE spies with some Weird Science and quick thinking.
• He escorted his date to her hotel where she kissed him good night - thanking him for an exciting night and desiring to see him again.
• She let the standing offer to visit her on Leviathan remain.
• On the ship...
• With the bounty hunter (Crow) having finished his security work, he opted to return to the Last Parsec where he ran into Nikki. 
•  CLINT had been trying to relate to Nikki about her 'family' issues, but the situation seemed above his pay grade. He did talk about R briefly - how she had a 'game' figured out before the first move was made. CLINT shared that R likely had an interest in the research being done at Paragon Science Equipment, and in Nikki.
• Nikki and Crow met on the Last Parsec - the two sharing how their nights went. Remek soon joined them as well.
• With the danger of Nikki's sisters present, the three of them on orders of Allei pulled out of Harmonia Station and went out into spare.
• During the down time, CLINT and Crow watched a movie that CLINT claimed was based partially on Crow's father.
• Remek and Nikki worked on Nikki's secret project.
• While in space, the group ran into a magnetic anomaly that threatened to leave them stranded in space. Through some quick thinking and careful maneuvering, the group was able to escape from the effected area. They hovered outside Harmonia Station; waiting for the rest of the group.
• At the party...
• Allei ran into an old acquaintance of hers from the U.C. Academy. Nicole Portner was a prodigy under the U.C. and trained under Allei's father. She was well known for her tactical planning and environmental awareness. She did a tour with the U.C. before leaving and entering the private sector with JumpCorp where she easily climbed the ranks and became in charge of event planning and finances. Her record is nearly spotless, but she is dogged with rumors of being a member of a religious cult.
• Vela stumbled into the hall where a raffle drawing was being done for the attendants. She was lucky enough to be called down by Rob Rorker, a kalian host who was over-excited, but found it difficult to work with Vela. He offered her a choice of prize and she of course picked the mystery box. She ended up walking away with the frame of a Power Armor which appeared in a HoloPlay.
• AUW after touching base with Horst, ran into a beetle-insectoid called coleopteras. This person was named Koleos and had an interest in AUW since he had never met one of his kind before, but had heard plenty about them and their penchant for cybernetics. Koleos considered himself to be a cutting edge cyber-tech designer and wanted to offer AUW a free enhancement - a pro-bono affair that would allow him to see what it was like to work on an AUW and see how his work fared on the field. AUW agreed and set-up an appointment time. 
• Tamit ran into Ssssal (a will executor for JumpCorp) and his assistant Bigfoot. Tamit decided to engage him in conversation and lured him to his hotel room under the pretense of sex. She was able to learn the following information, but ultimately did not engage in any activities with him - leaving him nursing a potential grudge (if he'll remember it after all the alcohol).
• Ssssal is at Harmonia Station to oversee the clusterfuck that is Horst's estate as he was declared dead and his will was executed. So he is attempting to repair that. He had to attend the charity event out of obligation to the corporation. 
• His personal goal was to drink heavily and get lucky with some action. However, his business goal was to increase his standing among Maruul Soteeg, Nicole Portner, Chanx Oblios, and Horst Tappelkhirre. 
• He didn't seem to know R. personally, but was aware that JumpCorp likely had outstanding interests in her given her history with them if she was in fact still alive.
• Tamit then inquired about various rumors floating around among Ssssal's personal contacts.  

• The group reunites...
• Everyone shared their intel with each other and contemplated how to deal with Nikki and Remek's hunters and which missions to pursue with JumpCorp.
  
• The next task on the dossier is to meet with Horst Tappelkhirre privately and then choose a task to pursue.

Custom Items

Hi everybody!

I try to be flexible and accommodating to my players in all games. This includes all aspects of the game - edges, powers, and what not. If you feel like your character should be able to do something, or you want them to be able to do something, and its not somehow covered in the existing ruleset for Savage Worlds -- well that's what homebrew is for.

With that in mind, I try to keep all my resources and creations on this blog as it maintains a record of it (presuming Blogger never goes down). I'm going to use this blog post to list some custom items I and others have worked on for Savage Worlds.

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Basically, one of the things I've been looking at lately is Power Armor, Walkers, and more because those are all interesting concepts to me and we're getting to the point in the campaign where they may begin to open up for the PCs.

The first concept is a "Super Heavy" power armor -- so a bigger power armor than the ones listed in the book.Several of my players brainstormed this one.

Power Armor - Super Heavy: Size: 4 | Armor: +14 | Mods: 14 | Pace: 8 | Weight: 400 | Cost: 4M
7/14 Mods
 Weapon Mount (2) - 5k x 2 = $10k
Medium Vehicular Laser (2) - 500K
Targeting System (1) - $20k
Propulsion Jets (1) - $5k
Sensor Suite (1) - $5k
Anti-Personal System (1) - $5k
Total Cost - 4.545M

Next, we have a "Very Light" Walker - basically a smaller version of the smallest Walker listed in the book. A player of mine and I brainstormed this.

Chassis: Very Light
Size: 4
Pace: 30
Strength: d12+2
Toughness: 15 (4)
Mods: 9/15
Crew: 1
Base Cost: $500k
Mods:
AMCM (1): $5k x 4 = $20k
Deflector Screens (2): $10k x 4 = $40k
Jump Jets (2): $100k x 4 = $400k
Dual linked Medium Laser (2): $500k x 2 = $1M
Targeting System (1): $10K x 4 = $40k
Sensor Suite (1): $50k
Total Cost: $2.05Mm

Next up, I played around with the sizes again -- this time a Size 3 walker.

Chassis: Very Very Light
Size: 3
Pace: 10/30
Strength: d12+1
Toughness: 16 (5)
Mods: 9/10
Crew: 1
Base Cost: $375,000

Mods:
JumpJets (1): 100,000 x3 = $300,000
Shields (1): 50,000 x3 = $150,000
Targeting System (1): 10,000 x3 = $30,000
Sensor Suite (1): $50,000
Deflector Screens (2): $10,000 x3 = $30,000
Dual Linked Light Lasers (1): $100,000 x2 = $200,000
[1] Armor (1): 10,000 x3 = 30,000 [factored in to above stats]
[1] Reinforce Frame (1): 10,000 x3 = 30,000 [factored in to above stats]

TOTAL COST (W/MODS): $1,195,000

This last one is a credit to one of my players who came up with it on their own - its an attempt on a similar concept, but on a downscale level so that it functions like 'regular armor' instead of Power Armor.

- Armor: +4/+8 vs. Ranged Attacks, Negates up to 4 points of AP from ballistic Weapons.
- Toughness: +4
- Parry: +2
- Weapon: 50/100/200 Range, Ballistic, 2d10 Damage, AP 4, RoF 1, HW
- Raises Shooting by 2 Ranks
- +2 Shooting, Additional +2 against Medium, Long, and Extreme Range targets.
- +2 Notice
- 50x Magnification, Thermal Vision, Low-Light Vision. Additional +2 to Sight-Based Notice. Eliminates illumination penalties.
- +2 Pace, increase Running die by one step.
- Raises Climb by 1 rank, Can climb any surface with no penalty
Total Cost: 110,000 Credits.

That's it for now, but expect more down the line!

Session 29 - Charity Event

REWARDS

• Allei can purchase one ULTRA TECH item 50% off with DM APPROVAL.
• AUW: $2,000 contract bonus.
• TAMIT: Collectible Hoverboard ($3,500)

SESSION NOTES:

• TAMIT
• Continuing to interrogate Cavalry, Tamit ultimately got the girl to question working for Paragon Science Equipment. She revealed what she knew about Remek and Nikki to Tamit in exchange for being able to walk away. At the end, she revealed she possessed psionic abilities like teleportating. Tamit left her information with Cavalry, and took hers as well. 
• CROW
• Crow reached out to Wacha for specific information pertaining to his sister. The two surmised that Cyclops was indeed his sister and that Wacha would do more direct research into her in exchange for a face-to-face meeting with Crow's superior officers. 
• Crow made arrangements through the Marshal to be part of the security at the charity event. He kept to a camera room where he observed protestors - he was able to diffuse the chanting crowd and get the situation back to normal. 
• REMEK
• Opting to go on a date with his companion, Sanaa, Remek left and met up with her at a high profile Kalian restaurant that cooked at tableside for guests. It was on the spicy side.
• Dining at the same table, a Rakashan family that kept to themselves and two young girls roughly Nikki's age. 
• The date went well, though Remek felt a little touchy upon revealing his past employment history. 
• Remek learned that the two girls were spying on him and had connections to Paragon Science Equipment. After eavesdropping on them, he left the restaurant with his date while being tailed by the two girls... 
• NIKKI
• Rather than go with the group, she opted to begin work on a secret project aboard the Last Parsec.
• CLINT was with her and remarked that it felt familiar to be back on the ship.
• Nikki revealed a little bit about herself, and the secret she had unlocked aboard the Last Parsec to CLINT.
• Jewel and Gem, 113 and 114, were experts in gene therapy and sent to track down Nikki and Remek by Paragon Science Equipment.
• Nikki was able to get the upper hand on the two woman by taking control of their drone.
• She gave them a message to take back to the Doctor and his security chief. 
• Allei made contact with Maruul Soteeg. The JumpCorp Internal Affairs Executive agreed to meet the group at a charity event for Void Sickness. 
• Tamit, Vela, AUW, and Allei reached out to their fashionista: Daisy. She provided the group recommendations on what to wear. 
• Crow tagged along, but kept to handling security. See above.
• Upon arriving at the event, their photographs were taken, but they declined an interview.
• Fayt Lannar, the holoplay star, was on the red carpet and pulled the group in for a quick impromptu interview. He seemed pleased that they were willing to participate. 
• He mentioned a new play in the works: Space Cowboy (Out On The Frontier).
• While mingling, Allei made contact with a JumpCorp executive in high level R&D. The two of them struck it off and he made a promise to "hook her up" with something down the line.
• AUW made a pharmacy-tech salesman and made arrangements with his company. He'd receive a bonus from his employers for the lucrative contract he helped seal.
• Vela ran into some bigots, but she was able to scare them off by psionic-muscle flexes. 
• Tamit ran into Pro Hoverboard Skater: Brony Eagle. He seemed to fancy her and provided her with a signed hoverboard.
• Maruul Soteeg would find the group at their dinner table during the event.
• AUW revealed that he had Void Sickness - part of the reason he was interested in attending.
• Allei provided Maruul with the data they had required from Groid's Rock.
• In exchange, Maruul revealed that she would have two more jobs for the group if they were interested:
• Deliver a shipment to the prison planet of Lethe. This would let them get another crack at Groid.
• Go undercover on a JumpCorp Vessel to root out potential saboteurs who plan to blow it up.

Session 28 - Wacha Your Next Step

• The group went to the Kallisti Apple to speak to Wacha in person.
• The group filtered in either two or one at a time through the front door; utilizing their VIP access to get themselves in.
• It seemed that the Apple was on high alert, but the group was not "made" in the sense that the Apple's owner(s) were on the hunt for them.

• A young woman with a punk persona (later identified by the name of Cavalry) seemed to be casing the area for potential bounties.
• She would later realize upon Remek and Nikki as targets her employer was after from a Private Contract which Tamit picked up on. 
• Tamit was able to accost the girl in the restroom and disarm her - later leading her out of the club and into an alley where she interrogated her.
• Tamit has currently learned that Cavalry works as a bounty hunter for Paragon Science Equipment - she's attempting to increase her reputation within the organization. 
• Cavalry and a team was sent to Harmonia Station to find Remek and Nikki after their intel pointed PSE to this area. 
• Cavalry was not actively hunting for them at the club, but found them upon chance - she was merely attempting to practice her bounty hunter skills in her off time while her commanding officer prepared for their 'hunt'.
• Cavalry did get word back to her CO to 'prepare the plan' when she realized that Remek and Nikki were present. 
• At the moment, Tamit is still interrogating her...
• Remek was the other party member who did not opt to go visit Wacha...
• With free drink vouchers, Remek went on the dance floor and discovered the Simian Tourists he last partied with. 
• Sanaa, the girl that Remek hit it off last time, was quick to latch onto Remek again -- having played up his exploits to her friends. Remek had more stories to share, more shots to drink, and more moves to dance. 
• Sanaa and her friends came from rich parents who worked for JumpCorp. Sanaa had just completed her educational studies (a degree in xenobiology and psychology) - her final thesis had been on the limitations of deader's body symbiosis and the psychological effects that came with possessing a new body. 
• Their trip out to Eris Beta V was soon ending and they planned to take a trip to Leviathan next.
• Leviathan was billed as a world with similarities to Earth's Jurassic period. The majority of the world has been left preserved aside from a few resorts that have been built there for tourists and vacationers. 
• Sanaa tried to convince Remek to come with her, but he opted to stay with the crew -- he did say he would express interest going there to the crew when the opportunity arose. 
• The two made plans to get dinner later...
• The rest of the group (sans Tamit and Remek) flagged the special code to go meet with Wacha; who was waiting for them back in her private room.
• Wacha probed the group for recent feelings regarding their missions; mainly their moral feelings on them. She herself was a pacifist as a result of the destructive nature of her species and their homeworld's fate - but knew that in her line of work, somethings were unavoidable with certain clients. 
• Wacha agreed to do what she could to ensure the sale of Groid's Rock and its assets for the group -- she had a buyer lined up that she would be vetting and taking to explore the assets. 
• Allei revealed that notion that there was a conspiracy within JumpCorp's ranks and revealed that Horst's recent arrival and Groid's recent capture likely played roles in it - ultimately, a warning was given to Wacha about Ujun and this area.
• Wacha would make plans to vacate the Apple and establish a new base elsewhere - for the time being, she would focus efforts on Groid's Rock and then likely meet up with the Crew's Ship for a time being, if they allowed.
• Due to the group's recent efforts and work with Wacha, she had deemed them as trustworthy, and shared what information she had on R and her goals...
• R wanted to locate the Scientorium - a massive library that is said to be an artifact of the Primordials (the original and first race to conquer the Known Worlds and the Frontier). 
• She had hoped that the knowledge contained with the location would be able to reveal much - the pinnacle of her life studies.
• Wacha believes the key to getting to the Scientorium is sealed away on the Last Parsec to where the group cannot access it. She believes getting there will require unlocking various pieces of the puzzles -- pieces which she believes R's old contacts possess and were entrusted with. 
• Wacha would compile this list of people, but referenced the first one the group should seek out if Horst Tappelkhirre - an old colleague of R's. 
• Wacha would then make arrangements for Maruul Soteeg and the group to meet to discuss the JumpCorp related information they found -- with Horst's meeting looming afterwards.

Session 27 - The Station and the Sheriff

• The group's approach to Harmonia Station was imminent...
• Vela requested that she viewed the memories of the party in an effort to understand as many experiences as she could to gather information about the Known Worlds and the Frontiers.
• Most of the group agreed - though some had caveats and stipulations for it.
• Vela made plans later to perform her memory readings; she offered to share some of her own memories in exchange. 
• AUW had been contacted by Horst Tappelkhirre - the information which he shared with the group.
• AUW and the party's presence were requested at a meeting tomorrow regarding a potential joint operation and expedition. 
• Horst expressed his gratitude at being rescued from the assassination attempt by Groid's Raiders.
• Crow requested that the first stop the crew make was to the Sheriff on Harmonia Station.
• The party agreed for several reasons...
• They had important information to share they gathered from Groid's Raiders -- Allei wanted to bring this to JumpCorp's internal affairs (Maruul Soteeg).
• They hoped to recruit CLINT, the deputy. 
• Crow wanted to be transparent about his RANGER membership out of concern for the station.
• Allei, while showering and cleaning up, let out a shriek from her bedroom. The group requested if she needed help, but she declined. 
• When she came from her room, it was revealed that she had adopted a femme fatale type persona - she was certainly beautiful and charismatic enough to play the part. 

• Crow and AUW proceeded to the Sheriff's Office ahead of the rest of the Crew.
•  Lynx, Crow's RANGER MENTOR, had been stalking Harmonia Station ever since Crow sent her word that he was done hiding.
• The two had an argument upon the future of the RANGERS. Crow hoped that he touched and convinced Lynx in someway, that the RANGERS needed to act openly and regroup in order to be a symbol of hope to the people. Lynx was worried that it would only get people killed, and themselves destroyed.
• The two did not come to an agreement, but Lynx said she would arrange for Crow to speak with their elders/bosses regarding his ideas.

• The group arrived at the sheriff's office...
• There, they found CLINT who was watching a Space Western movie and miming the actions on the screen. The sheriff agreed to turn him over to the group, but they had to leave his frame behind. As a result, the group opted to load his A.I. onto Nikki's Drone, Kuma, for the time being. The group officially had a new crew member!
• The group saw an experienced looking Yeti Mercenary in the waiting room, but no one was able to identify him - despite his vast reputation in this subsector. He seem interested in Allei, but if that was just due to her increased sex appeal or something else, was undetermined.
• The deader Marshal of Goldpoint Station, Yubukdor Hanz, was seen leaving Marshal Kaine's office. He stopped for a moment to talk to the group; drawn in by Allei's charm. 
• Crow showed off his Ranger's Badge to the Sheriff.
• Kaine ultimately would believe Crow, but was more scared than anything about it. The RANGERS had enough rumors about the death and destruction that followed them and she feared for her people. 
• Kaine took a moment to explain Asimov Circuits and their requirements in the Known Worlds to Tamit who began inquiring about the legalities of it.
• Allei revealed that the subsector would see good news -- she had jumpcorp secrets that were good, but did not share them with the sheriff. 
• Allei also implied that the group would not be staying at Harmonia long -- wanting to lay low. Kaine offered the bounty on Brevin's Gang  as a way for the group to kill two birds with one stone.

• The group makes plan to visit Wacha, who is in the "lion's den" of the Apple (the owner being the JumpCorp "leak" to Groid's Raider) and to see Maruul Soteeg as well -- to say nothing of their appointment with Horst Tappelkhirre. It'll be a day or two of meetings sprinkled in with downtime and personal endeavors...

Session 26 - R&R

• The Last Parsec set an uneventful course back to Harmonia Station.
• The idea was that they could resupply and wrap up any loose ends before possibly making themselves scarce in Eris Beta V.
• The group split some of their spoils from Groid's Rock. You can find more details on the loot blog entry. 
• The group voted to have Wacha, who would take a 10% cut, expend some of her resources to find an appropriate buyer for Groid's Rock and their assets. 

• During their travels, the group spent some time resting and relaxing to bond as a group - recovering from the mental and physical damage of the Raid on Groid's Rock.
• During the down time, Nikki found that the physical rehab with AUW had gotten her to the point where she can walk comfortably again.
• Nikki and Vela played pool with each other.
• Tamit, AUW, and Remek seemed to be working on various things.
• Allei was tucked away somewhere.
• Crow was contemplating the situation before him as a Ranger with his identity revealed. 
• On the side, Remek and Crow had a conversation in which Remek revealed that he and Nikki had bounties on them for the 'escape' that was pulled by them.
• Nikki was technically the property of Paragon Science Equipment and Remek had broken his non-disclosure and work contract. 
• Crow put an SOS out to the rangers for any and all information concerning PSE's activities due to Remek's claims of thousands more like Nikki being held there.

• Crow, with a clearer mind that the night before, decided to broach the group again with the conversation of attempting nonlethal means where possible and avoiding as much brutality as possible.
• The group came to an understanding that they would not attempt such brutality, but Crow had to know that it was possible within the line of duty as killing was sometimes unavoidable. Who can be blamed for what they do when their life is on the line? 

• Crow, in his spare time, opted to test the door that blocked his passage to the secret floor within the Last Parsec. 
• He learned that the door required three passwords. He tried various things to get pass any of the passwords, but none of them worked.
• One password was a verbal phrase.
• One password was DNA related. 
• One password was a material object.