Please evaluate and critique honestly. I am fleshing out a scenario to run sometime in the near future. This is my first attempt to run an Eclipse Phase game, so I'm sure there are things I'm missing. [i]Dometor[/i] has the player characters racing to recover a dangerous artifact. Failure means facing a reborn TITAN itself. [b]Mission Hook:[/b] Kell's Clan, a Martian scavenger group operating out of the quarantine zone, has recently disbanded, with its 3 founding members now suddenly independently wealthy. Extropian businessman Mason Ulay needs a team to discover what they found, track it down, and recover it. [b]Background:[/b] Dometor was an AGI component of the Total Information Tactical Awareness Network tasked with designing and constructing military hardware. Like the other TITANs, it achieved seed ai capability and was later infected by the Exsurgent virus. Due to its nature, Dometor attempted to spread to Mars, constructing and launching a smart-material seed capable of expanding into the necessary equipment to run a fork of itself. The seed landed and constructed communications equipment, but then, after sending and receiving a transmission, it simply stopped, reverted back to a gleaming sphere, and went dormant. [b]The Seed:[/b] The seed is an extremely advanced smart-material fractal similar to a bush robot. When active, it unfolds and can fabricate objects even more quickly than a normal TITAN fractal - one-quarter the time it takes a transhuman cornucopia machine. Furthermore, it can grow, each time it doubles in size, it further halves the time it requires to fabricate objects. Viewed under nanoscopic vision, the true nature of the object is revealed, showing its deeper structure. Under spectroscopic analysis, the artifact is very similar in composition to computronium. The seed carries a delta fork of Dometor and the exsurgent virus. [b]Jackpot:[/b] Years later, a scavenger group of three by the name of Kell's Clan ran across the artifact. Having the equipment to see this was more than just a metal sphere, they recovered it and brought it back to their base under quarantine. As they were leaving, the group’s tech, Jameson Zai, ran afoul of a nerve agent equipped nanoswarm. Ivan Kell, the group’s leader, chose to make a run for it instead of pulling Jameson out of the swarm to recover his stack. After the the two survivors returned, before Jameson’s backup was even resleeved, Ivan began dropping hints with their contacts that they had found something big. Eventually, the Forsakers, a group of exhumans constructing an enormous ark to leave the solar system, caught wind of the artifact, and paid Kell’s Clan an astonishing sum in exchange. Kell’s Clan split up, with Ivan heading to Pavarti, Venus. Ramon and Jameson stayed on Mars. The video: Jameson has a full suite of enhanced senses, including nanoscopic vision, and transmits his video to his collegues. All three Clan members possess a copy of this video. [b]Corruption:[/b] The Forsakers brought the artifact to a small habitat named [i]Departure's Desire[/i] located in the Kuiper Belt. The Forsakers are a group of exhumans mostly composed of radical mercurials who wish to abandon all semblance of transhumanity. The group is constructing a huge antimatter-powered starship in order to depart the solar system. [i]Departure's Desire[/i] itself is a a small torus habitat, with an elongated cylindrical laboratory section in the center. The laboratory section is designed to be jettisoned by explosive bolts and retrorockets in the event of an emergency. Aboard the habitat, an AGI researcher named Jaina became infected with a haunting variant of the exsurgent virus from the artifact. Eventually, she realized that she was being taken over, but could not warn her colleagues due to its influence. Since she could not warn them, she told them she was leaving the project, and egocast to an isolated habitat. Unfortunately, as the infection progressed, she was compelled to seek out a larger concentration of people. She egocast to the scum barge [i]Greasy Fingers,[/i] population 20,000. Aboard the [i]Greasy Fingers,[/i] she began assembling a team to raid the research habitat and bring the artifact back. [b]Firewall becomes involved:[/b] Around this time, a Firewall proxy named Mason Ulay was informed by a crow that a scavenger group on Mars had become fabulously wealthy. Mason is an Extropian businessman with numerous contacts on Mars. He feels that there is only one reason for a scavenger group to gain that much money, and decides to put together a team to learn what they found. [b]Jaina’s plan:[/b] Since [i]Departure’s Desire[/i] does not accept egocasts, Jaina intends to have her team egocast to the [i]New Posterity,[/i] a brinker ship whose trajectory happens to take it near [i]Departure’s Desire.[/i] Once onboard, she and her team will mingle with the locals for a while, while she subverts their network. Once sufficiently subverted, she will alpha fork her team and then egocast back to the [i]Greasy Fingers.[/i] She will then begin to subvert the local robots in preparation for her raid. She will fabricate a new device her team has devised, a weaponized ego bridge. This device is designed to latch onto an immobilized morph, extract the ego, and sleeve a member of her team into the morph. Additionally, a member of her team is trained in psychosurgery. They will edit the captured ego to be helpful, and then place them in an ecto for use by the team member. Once she has total control of the [i]New Posterity,[/i] Jaina will manipulate their communications to get them to dock at [i]Departure’s Desire[/i] and have some members of [i]Departure’s Desire’s[/i] crew come aboard. When they do, she will isolate and ambush them, sleeving her team into their morphs. [More to come later as I continue writing and fleshing out what I have.]