So a story problem I see with this set up, is that if no one is returning, there no means to know how old the station is. If no one is returning then there arent many avenue to know that folks have even gone missing. There a certain sect of Transhumanity, that is exploring the Pandora gates on their own. They dont announce thier destinations, or have a good means to record where they've been. Its a none trivial issue to ID the star or celestial body the pandora gate is on. If these have been failed gatecrashing mission from one of the polities, these are secrets. Probably closer to open secrets. None one talks about where the new missions are, but a couple of level 4 favors could probably get you the scuttle butt. Remember, that Gate Time, is the most expensive, and most scarce thing in Sol. So there are easier, less deadly alien sites available via the pandora gates. Which would get priority. Alien sites are a gamble. Most of them are right now purely academic exercise in pure knowledgeable seeking. Lots of things can be killing those folks going to that Hab. The internal environment maybe extremely caustic, it may be filled with a nanoplauge, it may be extremely radioactive, it may be self defense satellites not seeing a proper IFF tag and just blasting the shit out of stuff. So this hab has to be made into a treasure box. It has to be providing a lot of return on investment in the now, instead of the yet or possibly never. Folks had to have come back, with findings. I would make it huge. It doesn't need to be Dyson sphere huge or anything. Remember that volume is cubic.. So something with the dimensions of Babylon 5 gives a lot of internal volume, the size of several sprawling metropolis. It being old doesn't really matter. Old, new, in-between, all of that is as interesting. Its an alien structure. Aliens aren't star wars or star trek aliens. The 2? 3? ETI known to Transhumanity have nothing in common with Transhumanity. The folks that inhabit the Egg, are sapient collection of mold and fungus, to put it simply. They use smells, and spores to communicate, and interact with their environment. Meaning that Transhumanity cannot interface with their tech, at least not without a substantial middlemen. (The other being giant spider folks, that communicate like the magic system in the old adventure game, Loom.) This hab should be a series of puzzle boxes. Is that a door? Is that a fire suppression system, a dumbwaiter for food? This is where some information about the hab comes into play, it gives a story reason why the sentiels can do something as silly, as know what doors are, and how to open them. Hardware skills are useless, various academic skills are useless too. Depending what they are. As for the Monster. It sounds like you're describing the xenomorph over the predator but that neither here or there. It can do whatever you want. It shouldnt be a morph obtainable by the player characters. It actually cant be. Alien brains are well alien. The short list of capability, arent anything beyond transhumans. Might be a bit tough to do all in one morph but not impossible. Prehensile feet, grip pads. Shaper morph. Feel free to go over 40+ on its stats. As what make it more combat deadly. Thats a high wound threshold, armor rating, and at least 3 speed. The other thing to do, is to restrict what the PC can bring. Its hard to make something that can stand a couple AM seekers.

GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU BITCH! That morph street date can't be broken, so dont put it out on display.

The Pandora Gates are Hellraiser Puzzleboxes powered by Cosmic Horror. How they, or even if they are working, is left up the GM. They could be killing folks and making quantum teleportation copies, they could be sending folks into similated realities, or breaking this simulated reality. They're forth or even higher physical dimensional objects that we can see and interact with, which shouldnt be possible. Most folks report gate travel as being instantaneous. For some, it lasts centuries. Sometime folks never return. Sometime they end up on the other side, inside out. With that side. FTL is intrinsically time travel. Literally its arriving someplace before you left. Its possible to travel faster then c, make your trip to where ever, arrive back before you start. Bad stuff happens to causality when you go faster then c. The universe breaks. time travel.

No, melee attacks and ranged attacks both use a complex action, so it can use one weapon per Action Phase, for three weapon uses per Action Turn, which could be the same weapon 3 times, or three separate weapons. A TITAN swarm should be able to do that, but it would be as though the morph was afflicted by a TITAN nanoplague, because that's pretty much what is happening.

*Cough* *Cough again.* *Cough ow my chest* ...Soooo, if you want a Predator-esque beastie, focus on Hit-And-Run tactics and psychological warfare: It turns up to launch a High-Damage attack or two then initiates GTFO to avoid reprisals, creates traps and strews micro-mines like dander. The key is to make it attack in ways that create stress and can't be effectively countered, ideally because it isn't actually there. If you watch Predator again, the Atmosphere and 'feel' of the Monster comes from the Meatsicles being Hunted - attacks could come from anywhere without warning. The stress of being constantly Alert arguably does more damage to the group than the Predator does - the only time the Predator gets into an actual fight is at the end, and it loses.

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masterdrom wrote:

Maybe its because iev seen what the flexbots are supposed to look like but.... I'm trying to go for a T-2000' vibe here. Liquid metal, near unshootable, can shape into and mimic people etc. Titans ever make anything like that?

Option 1: Use the rules for linking flexbots to make a giant flexbot with tons of Durability (see _Transhuman_). Then give all of the non-weapon-carrying modules swarm composition. (We never say you can't do this). Have some weapon platform modules in there with maxed armor. The swarmy modules specialize in hacking. Your boss is a swarm-voltron-netrunner. Option 2: Use morph aptitude maximums, augmentations, and armor to max Durability and Armor. Then provide lots of combat drugs that further up numbers. Max SPD and increase SOM. (Toughness trait, skeletal enhancement, neurachem/reflex boosters, and armor augmentations all help with the above). Then give it melee attacks comparable to a diamond axe that inject substances (see the toxins/neurotoxins link). Even with all of the above, though, it's hard to make something solo using this option, because guns. 2-3 of them could threaten a well-equipped sentinel team if they rush them immediately.

Is it bad that I've built characters using both of these options. They are terrifying effective when combined with high moxie.