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Mon, 2013-09-02 21:16

DiploRaptor DiploRaptor's picture

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-Jovians So what would an Ultimate spy sent into the Jovian Republic be loaded down skill, software, and gear wise. What can he expect, opposition wise? Would a Brain-scan that the Jovians use detect Asyncs. Are the Jovians even good at policing outside of the fact they are highly militant and basically everyone is bio-conservative and has no actual ability to fight in any way shape of form What about the Witch Hunters? Could someone have a Fake EGO ID saying they are a Cop/Witch Hunter/Military person and would it work reliably without someone discovering who one really is Do the Jovians have any healing vats What are the laws and restrictions on Jovian habitats besides the obvious, in nano-machines. Also medichines not allowed. And does the upper class of the Jovian Junta cheat these laws and have that stuff, this would also go for the military meaning. Would they pull out nanoswarms to check a crime scene -Scum Swarm The guy that acts as a face of a Scum Swarm(and if need be the deciding vote on situations) for certain situations what would he have as guards and general skill/stat level -Ultimate Squads The ranking of the Ultimate member followed by the amount in the group Low Level Aspirants(2 to 5) and Exemplar(1) Aspirants(2 to 3), Initiates(1 to 2), and Exemplar(1) Initiates(1 to 3) and Exemplar(1) Medium Level Initiates(3 to 5) and Exemplar(1) or Ducti(1) Exemplars(2 to 4) Initiates(2 to 3), and Exemplar(2 to 3) Initiate(1), Exemplar(1), and Ducti(1) High Class Initiate(2), Exemplar(3), and Ducti(1) Exemplar(3 to 4) and Ducti(1) Ducti(3) Demiurge Personal Team Ducti(4), Autarchs(1) Agree/Disagree, suggestions opinions this is obviously for military teams of various sorts that could be encountered and looking for things that could added upon that. *Link to Liquid Cobalt Ultimate Team, once I post it in homebrew* -Epsilon PSI A guy has Casimir Repulsion sleight and is using it too hurl spears, rocks by repulsing them at a target what should I use for damage. For what reason would an exsurgent have the Repulsion. More general chaos or massive destruction or more subtle things by pinning and stealth kills Peoples thoughts on a Epsilon PSI user that is not crazy exsurgent infected but more like a Watts Mcleod individual... As a NPC -Fraying Full Defenses +30 applies before or after the /2 for ranged attacks. Same with Specialization Same with the Psi Sleight that boosts it Can one buy specialization in just ranged in general, or ranged attack from medium or longer range -The Boxer Does this work Psychic Stab + Potent Mind Brain Box + Pneumatic Limbs + Synthmorph Eelware + Cyberclaws + Something to gain additional mental complex action Ambidextrous X(Amount + 1) + Cyber/Additional Limbs X(Amount) All added together on a character. One what would their damage be. 2d10 + 5 + 1d10 per limb used + Shock + SOM/10 + Psychic Stab(2d10 + WIL/10) or 2d10 + 5 + 1d10 per limb used + pneumatic limb bonus again for the additional limbs or pneumatic limb bonus again for each additional limb + Shock + SOM/10 + Psychic Stab(2d10 + WIL/10) Two would it work. Melee Attack delivers Psychic Stab as a physical complex action. The Psychic action is a mental complex action. So it should work, but does it

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Tue, 2013-09-03 02:47

thezombiekat thezombiekat's picture

Lots of questions there. I

Lots of questions there. I can only answer some. Ultimate spying on Jovian’s “my body, my beautiful body is gone” Ok he is working on ego enhancement in a challenging arena. What he brings depends on his focus. An ultimate hacker will try to smuggle in hacking software, even restricted cornucopia machines are very hard to get access to making weapon and tool schematics of limited value, although they could be traded to criminal elements for favours. Crypto cred, anonymous credit accounts or an additional fake id with lots of cred would also be very usfull. Advantage of working in an old economy, people can be bribed. The more useful combat skills will be kinetic weapons and blades or clubs because that is what you can most likely acquire. If you’re going to specialise make it in something small and concealable. Obviously you need fray. Fake law enforcement id would be expensive and hard to get, it won’t hold up unless it is on the system, but if you can get one it would be gold. Just make shore your from a department with wide jurisdiction and don’t ask anything that will have them calling your boss to complain. Detecting Asyncs with a brain scan is difficult and most jovians would not know what to look for anyway. Only come special groups in there military would have a chance. Healing vats are relatively mature implementations of nanotech, they are rare among the Jovian’s requiring special licenses, there are not a lot to go around, money or military rank would be needed to access one. The upper class don’t so much break the laws in Jovian space, they get procedures performed while on holiday, or secure a permit for the highly restricted items. Relatively little is outright banned just restricted to military essential use and for the right price (in influence and cash) you can get on the list. For example a handful of jovian police would be authorised to use pre set up nanoswarms to investigate important cases but they would be using approved factory set up swarms with short life spans and little or no customisations. If you can make the crime scene look small time then the nanoswarm doesn’t get used. A guy throwing spears with psy Epsilon, why not. Lacking specific rules to the contrary I would use standard damage for the spear replacing the som component with will. Your “safe” Epsilon PSI NPC depends on handling. If he is the first user of Epsilon PSI they encounter he strips some of the terror from it. I would get the party good and scared of Epsilon PSI then introduce him.

Tue, 2013-09-03 04:24

DiploRaptor DiploRaptor's picture

Thanks

Hmmm that helps with the Ultimate. I'm about to start a campaign like that which in the Homebrew I'll be posting up a campaign journal. I'm in 2 Eclipse Phase campaigns running one on Mars and playing in one in the Junta! No real points for a good Fake EGO ID unless someone has a suggestion for a good flaw, as I needed to get several skills ready to go to 60 for rank up to Docti rank within the Ultimates Kinetic and Unarmed for shock gloves or deniplast gloves or grapples etc. Hmm smuggling in a cornucopia machine. No Fake EGO ID's with access to weapons sadly. For in general purposes something like that I agree with especially for someone like an Ultimate. Sadly a lot of my points went to having high skills, 55 in anything that a spy would use regularity So no proper training but could realize something is up Yeah that seems about right when it comes to nano-swarms and Jovians So would they use those swarms for say a guy that got shot? Or a guy beaten to death? Would these increase for a potential cop? What is the guys head was gone like someone used say thermite or a explosive or a hollow point round at close range She the "safe" Epsilon NPC identifies as a she. The guy with the spears is a person who tried a street drug she made which is to induce Epsilon in Asyncs. PSI gamma in non-aysncs. Its kind of a working model. Think the Haunting Virus + Watts Mcleod removing the whole becoming an exsurgent monster factor. I plan for them to meet her once she's made a "safe" version, before that they will have encountered Spearman. A Variation of the Boxer using the exsurgent's variation of Psychic Stab causing stress instead of actual damage. among other things

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Thu, 2013-09-05 05:20

DiploRaptor DiploRaptor's picture

I keep

I keep thinking their is a group called the Witch Hunters or some such thing in Jovian space or something similar. A satellite with a bunch of people modded out the wazoo maybe even to Ex-human levels working for or apart of the Jovian republic. Is their something similar too this? Also any good ideas for a fast acting virus/poison/something that can past Biomods, spreads quickly covers a large area and is fast/effective and/or really hard to cure. So as to kill a whole cylinder

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Thu, 2013-09-05 05:47

Baalbamoth Baalbamoth's picture

I kind of dissagree with Zombiekat...

I think asyncs are pretty well understood by governments and clandestine orgs, heck there are drugs that you can take that will give you psi temporarily, and if there wasnt a way to pick up on who is or isnt psi active, all you'd need is to get somebody with suggestion near a semi weak minded or drunk president or CEO and you'd kill hypercorps and take out governments overnight... that seems a little too powerful for a 5pt ability with no means of countering it.

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Thu, 2013-09-05 07:28

thezombiekat thezombiekat's picture

Oh, the Jovian republic is

Oh, the Jovian republic is aware of asyncs, but it doesn’t tell the general population, or the grunt security guards. They want it kept secret and its not a secret if you tell the entire police force. If they are scanned by some groups within the Jovian military they may be detected but station immigration isn’t going to know. There are rules for this in transuman. It is very difficult to detect, and impossible if the operator does not know what to look for. also most There is also a section in one of the books (sunward I think but could be wrong) written from the point of a firewall proxy. On a resent op they prevented a bunch of asyncs from using mental reading and control to rob the lunar banks. If firewall had not intervened it would have worked because those institutions have know knowledge of and thus no defence from psi. As to the drugs, yes they exist but you don’t get them from your local dealer. You get them from the likes of firewall higly specific corerat R&D groups (most corps don’t have access) project orsma maybe one of the larger criminal cartels but they are not advertising, they don’t want that kind of heat.

Thu, 2013-09-05 15:57

nerdnumber1 nerdnumber1's picture

I would not give entirely

I would not give entirely "safe" epsilon sleights to the players. I might give something that *might* be safe... for a while... probably, but it is a miracle that Watts Macleod works as safely as it does. There will likely be some misguided research project to make a haunting/WM hybrid strain, but I'd have it give penalties like WM cranked up to 11. As for the Jovians, yes they have most of the tech you find elsewhere, but they restrict it heavily so fewer people have access. Detecting asyncs by brain-scan is tricky even when you know what you're looking for (iirc -30 check to get a "maybe" result), and considering how secret it is they are unlikely to get scanned by someone who knows unless they have attracted SERIOUS attention. The existence of asyncs is known to most major governments, but knowledge of it is strictly "need-to-know", so while there are quite a few targets that are completely defenseless, it is hard to tell who knows.

Thu, 2013-09-05 16:12

DiploRaptor DiploRaptor's picture

Never

I would never give the PC's access to this drug that would just be silly. And it appears safe, does not mean it is or will be. Also thanks for all the help with the Asyncs and Jovian stuff. But is their some group of modded people the general public is aware of unlike the secret society Think Tank that is actually really dangerous --------------------------------------------------------------- Also have they given a map for every type of habitat. Trojan, Bee-hive, Cylinders, etc.

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