Random Server Generator, Second Iteration

==Operational Details==

Scope
d100
00-19 Highly mission-focused, A = 40
20-39 Mission-focused, A = 30
40-59 Generalized, A = 20
60-79 Locale-focused, A = 10
80-99 Highly locale-focued, A = 0

Operating Area Population
d100+A
00-19 10,000-60,000, S = 0
20-39 60,000-300,000, S = 10
40-59 300,000-1,500,000, S = 20
60-79 1,500,000-8,000,000, S = 30
80-99 8,000,000-40,000,000, S = 40
100-119 40,000,000-200,000,000, S = 50
120-139 Operates everywhere, S = 60

Server Size (number of proxies)
d100+S+A
00-59 1d5+5
60-89 1d10+5
90-129 2d10+5
130-159 3d10+10
160-199 3d10+25

Modus Operandi
d10
1 Memetic ops
2 Covert ops
3 Cyber ops
4 Counterintelligence
5 Deep cover
6 Rapid response/erasure
7 Logistics
8 Monitoring/analysis
9 Contingency planning
0 Research

Mission target
d10 (reroll if incompatible with MO)
1 WMDs
2 System politics
3 Other agencies
4 Hyperelites
5 Society/economics
6 Exhumans
7 Gate stuff/extrasolar affairs
8 Exsurgents
9 TITAN and/or alien artifacts
0 Internal affairs

==Politics==

Pragmatist-Conservative Axis
d100
00 Rogue Server - Hyperpragmatic, B = 0
01-14 Very Pragmatic, B = 0
15-34 Pragmatic, B = 10
35-64 Neutral, B = 20
65-84 Conservative, B = 10
85-98 Very Conservative, B = 0
99 Rogue Server - Hyperconservative, B = 0

Maverick-Structuralist Axis
d100
00 Rogue Server - Uncooperative, C = 0
01-14 Very Maverick, C = 0
15-34 Maverick, C = 10
35-64 Neutral, C = 20
65-84 Structuralist, C = 10
85-98 Very Structuralist, C = 0
99 Rogue Server - Structuralist Breakaway, C = 0

Backup axis
d100+B+C
00-24 Opposes backup as a drain on resources
25-94 Ignores backup issue
95-114 Passive support of backup
115-129 Active particpant in backup
130-139 Backup specialization

>>46416213

Huh, let me boot up my dice roller app and see what this spits out:

>Mission-focussed (27): A = 30
>Operating Area (121): Everywhere. S = 60
>Server Size (99 = 2d10+5): 14 Proxies
>M.O: Contingency Planning
>Mission Target: Gate/Extrasolar
>Politics:
>Hyperpragmatic, B = 0
>Neutral Stucturalst/Maverick: C = 20
>Backup: Ignores backup issues.

So a bunch of hardcore pragmatists are out there planning Gate contingencies. That could either mean like apocalypse prep using the Gates (setting up extrasolar colonies etc) or perhaps treating the Gates as a threat and planning countermeasures?

>>46416184
I was indirectly responsible for that image's creation! The EP devs asked for ideas on art for the Firewall book and I basically requested something that played up the multi-faction aspect of Firewall in that it recruits everyone from Jovians to Autonomist scum to corporate executives, etc.

I'm glad it went through.

>>46416314
Extrasolar colonies would fall more under the backup category. More likely plans for sending WMDs through gates or just destroying our gates, possibly by using TITAN artifacts or dangerous nanotech.

What Party Roles would EP have? I'm speaking of archetypical sets of skills that may or may not mesh well. My thoughts are this:

Face - the one who talks, in person or on the mesh; persuades, lies, manipulates and socially engineers.
Hacker - the one who breaks into technical stuff, devices and networks, and uses them for his own goals or destroys them.
Transporter - the fast and sneaky one, carries packages, drives the getaway vehicle, also, plots the courses overland (and not only land).
Investigator - the one who observes stuff, collects pieces of information from various sources and analyses it, makes plans, knows a lot, and searches for things, in meat- or cyber-space.
Soldier - the combat-focused one, knows a lot of ways to kill a being, draws attention to himself instead of the party in combat, knows how to operate a lot of weapons, is a good tactician and generally is called in when violence is the only answer.

I assume everyone at least knows how to survive and operate well in combat (at least one weapon skill, Fray) and how to get the gear they need at their destination (even if there is a dedicated gear procurer). Asyncs are not a separate role because I consider Psi a way to boost the character abilities in yet another way, not some totally-not-magic-in-space and because I use Psi Revamped, so there are sets of sleights for anyone.

What do you think?

>>46416372
>the multi-faction aspect of Firewall
>it recruits everyone

That's a security risk. All teams should consist of anonymized, omni-skilled, emotionless drones.

>>46416654
OZMA pls go

>>46416682
OZMA suffers from the same weakness, to a lesser degree. They still insist on recruiting agents, when they should be manufacturing them.

>>46416213
>Highly locale-focused
>Operating area population: 10,000-60,000
>10 proxies
>Rapid response/erasure
>Internal affairs
>Pragmatic
>Very structuralist
>Gives no fucks about backups

This is a very interesting result. I haven't written up more detailed explanation of the table, but operating area isn't necessarily intended to be just one place. It could be "extropian habitats", or "brinkers". I should probably rename that roll. 10,000-60,000 is probably about the total number of people involved with Firewall.

Mission target isn't necessarily intended to be antagonistic. For instance, if I got logistics and internal affairs, it might be a server that specializes managing the eye. Here, though, it's definitely going to be antagonistic.

This server is an elite erasure team and some background supporting proxies that burn out Firewall operations when Firewall as a whole decides that's what needs to be done. They may also hunt rogue servers.

When can we expect the Tarnished Chrome EP Quest?

>>46416725
What if this is what they want you to think? Maybe their every agent is manufactured with a specific personality as a part of some grand design.

What if the reality is actuallu OZMA torture simulspace ran as a test?

What if the Fall never happened and said torture simulspace is used to model the aftermath of it?

What if th

>>46416213
Also, I just realized that the backup roll makes it excessively difficult for politics to be involved in backup. I'll change some numbers for the next iteration.

Rolled 22, 83, 24, 78, 22, 88, 80, 5 = 402 (8d100)

>>46416213
Rolling.

>>46416626
Engineer - The guy who knows how to get a CM to make a bomb, how to modify equipment, and how to get the hab's air gapped life support system to fail.

Rolled 9, 8 + 5 = 22 (2d10 + 5)

>>46417030
>Mission-focused
>40 to 200 million
>2d10+5 proxies
>Monitoring/analysis of
>System politics
>Very conservative
>Structuralist
>Opposes backup
And rolling again for exact number of proxies.
I imagine this one as primarily monitoring and recruiting from the inner system, hence the structuralist and conservative bent. Possibly the LLA, as there all you have to do to see the old brown-grey marble is look out the window.

>>46416817
What if the Fall never happened and the players are really TITANs being tested in a range of worst-case scenarios?

Is a SMG one handed or two handed?

>>46417547
I don't believe this is a real question

>>46417666
As far as I'm aware it is? Two-handed weapons require two hands. One-handed requires one, and is easier to dual wield.

>>46416213

>29,28,9,55,43,91,87,41

A=30
S=20
B=0
C=0

>Mission Focused
>Operating Area Population 300,000-1,500,000
>10 Proxies
>Deep Cover
>Focuses on Hyperelites
>Very Conservative
>Very Structuralist
>Ignores Backup Issue

Sounds like a group of double agents within OZMA or Oversight

Third Iteration. Definitely Better. Redid numbers on backup. Changed some wording in the operational details section. Maybe redo the A and S values next.

Random Server Generator

==Operational Details==

Scope
d100
00-19 Highly mission-focused, A = 40
20-39 Mission-focused, A = 30
40-59 Generalized, A = 20
60-79 Target-focused, A = 10
80-99 Highly target-focused, A = 0

Operating Area/Faction Population
d100+A
00-19 10,000-60,000, S = 0
20-39 60,000-300,000, S = 10
40-59 300,000-1,500,000, S = 20
60-79 1,500,000-8,000,000, S = 30
80-99 8,000,000-40,000,000, S = 40
100-119 40,000,000-200,000,000, S = 50
120-139 Operates everywhere, S = 60

Server Size (number of proxies)
d100+S+A
00-59 1d5+5
60-89 1d10+5
90-129 2d10+5
130-159 3d10+10
160-199 3d10+25

Mission
d100
00-09 Memetic ops
10-19 Covert ops
20-29 Cyber ops
30-39 Counterintelligence
40-49 Deep cover
50-59 Rapid response/erasure
60-69 Logistics
70-79 Monitoring/analysis
80-89 Contingency planning
90-99 Research/development

Target
d100 (reroll if incompatible with mission)
00-09 WMDs
10-19 System politics
20-29 Other agencies
30-39 Hyperelites
40-49 Society/economics
50-59 Exhumans
60-69 Gate stuff/extrasolar affairs
70-79 Exsurgents
80-89 TITAN and/or alien artifacts
90-99 Internal affairs/administration

==Politics==

Pragmatist-Conservative Axis
d100
00 Rogue Server - Hyperpragmatic, B = 0
01-14 Very Pragmatic, B = 0
15-34 Pragmatic, B = 5
35-64 Neutral, B = 10
65-84 Conservative, B = 5
85-98 Very Conservative, B = 0
99 Rogue Server - Hyperconservative, B = 0

Maverick-Structuralist Axis
d100
00 Rogue Server - Uncooperative, C = 0
01-14 Very Maverick, C = 0
15-34 Maverick, C = 5
35-64 Neutral, C = 10
65-84 Structuralist, C = 5
85-98 Very Structuralist, C = 0
99 Rogue Server - Structuralist Breakaway, C = 0

Backup axis
d100+B+C
00-29 Opposes backup as a drain on resources
30-69 Ignores backup issue
70-84 Passive support of backup
85-99 Active particpant in backup
100-119 Backup specialization

This should reduce typical server size a bit

Operating Area/Faction Population
d100+A
00-19 10,000-60,000, S = 0
20-39 60,000-300,000, S = 5
40-59 300,000-1,500,000, S = 10
60-79 1,500,000-8,000,000, S = 15
80-99 8,000,000-40,000,000, S = 20
100-119 40,000,000-200,000,000, S = 30
120-139 Operates everywhere, S = 40

Server Size (number of proxies)
d100+S+A
00-44 1d5+5
45-79 1d10+5
80-119 2d10+5
120-149 3d10+10
150-179 3d10+25

New idea to balance having other politics influence backup without making backup servers so common.

Backup axis
d100+B+C
All odd numbers: neutral on backup
If even:
00-34 Opposes backup as a drain on resources
36-68 Ignores backup issue
70-84 Passive support of backup
86-98 Active particpant in backup
100-114 Backup specialization
116-118 Capsulist

>>46418351
I still think there should be a PR/Diplomacy related Mission. Those guys who brainwash the masses with propaganda, move the Overton Window, and so on.

Rolled 67, 30, 83, 69, 87, 45, 84, 20 = 485 (8d100)

>>46418923
Probably falls under Memetic Ops.
>>46418756
Te even/odd thing seems excessively convoluted, and why have a segment of evens be "ignores backup issue" when odd does that anyway?
Testing.

Rolled 7, 8 + 5 = 20 (2d10 + 5)

>>46418351
>target-focused
>300,000-1,500,000
>2d10+5 proxies
>Logistics
>TITAN and xenotech artifacts
>Neutral
>Structuralist
>Ignores backup issue
A support cell, I'd say located near a Gate (How large is Pathfinder City, anyway? 300,000-1,500,000 range? Because if so I'd put it there) providing logistical assistance for Firewall gatecrashers and other teams in Pathfinder City.

Also, a thought: should Gatecrashing/Exosolar Affairs be its own mission? Because there are going to be severe differences between a cell focused on, say, interdicting smuggling within the solar system and one venturing out of the solar system into the great unknown.

>>46419138
No, wait, durr. Totally skipped over that it was already in there.

>>46418947
>Te even/odd thing seems excessively convoluted, and why have a segment of evens be "ignores backup issue" when odd does that anyway?

I can see how it would appear that way. Here's my issue:

I don't want a whole lot of backup servers regardless of their politics. I also want the politics to affect the probability that it's a backup server. If I try to cram small probabilities into the ends of the die roll then it gets cut off entirely by the political modifiers.

A bell curve distribution might work. Would that be preferable?

>>46419278
Possibly. We'll have to try it out.

>>46419138
>Also, a thought: should Gatecrashing/Exosolar Affairs be its own mission? Because there are going to be severe differences between a cell focused on, say, interdicting smuggling within the solar system and one venturing out of the solar system into the great unknown.

I considered that. The sorts of operations done while gatecrashing may vary widely though. Also, not all gate related operations will involve actual gatecrashing.

The stereotypical gatecrasher team would be highly target-focused with gate as the mission target. Focusing so heavily on target, the mission roll is more a vague suggestion of the trouble they typically get themselves into than it is a server directive.

Does anyone have suggestions for additional tables to include rather than refinements of existing tables? I'm trying to keep this streamlined but there's definitely more ground that could be covered. My problem is that everything else I'm coming up with gets too complicated. The actual location or faction within which the server usually operates, for instance. Picking a scale for it is pretty easy, but I have no idea how I would go further with it.

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>>46420008
A table of random features, d20, d50 or d100, that you roll a couple times on

>The cell uses blackmail to ensure its Sentinels' loyalty
>The cell employs heavy behavior and memory editing
>The cell has a contact within the Moderates and always has heavy weapons available
>The cell is unpopular with the rest of Firewall due to an incident a few years ago

etc

>>46420186
Server, not cell

>>46419891
I'll expand on this a little more.

My thinking in having the dichotomy between mission focus and target focus is that most such combinations are too specialized to reliably find something to do. There are of course exceptions. Research, for instance, breaks right out of that pattern. Discretion is certainly required in interpreting the results. Mostly though I'm finding that it works quite well.

I'll be including short paragraphs on interpreting results in my final release.

>>46420186
I like it. It's definitely a simple way to shoehorn in some interesting stuff from the books that doesn't fit elsewhere.

I would appreciate contributions for this table.

>>46420008
The amount of resources the server has readily available? 'Can barely afford new guns' on one end of the scale to 'Has their very own ship fabber' on the other.
Operations style? Do they prefer hacking, networking, or shooting to get into and out of problems?
And, seconding >>46420186: assorted server quirks.
>This server has been infiltrated by OZMA
>This server has a high degree of trust between sentinels and proxies
>This server relies entirely on edited beta forks to carry out its missions
>This server has caught the exsurgents. No overt symptoms yet.
>This server has a friendly hyperelite for a patron
>This server has cultivated links with the triads
>This server has cultivated /too many/ links with the triads and become compromised

>>46416802
I'm looking at Monday evening.
I have a 7th Sea game (Praise Theus, Pass The Dice, Ignore Wick!) on sunday, and I need to make sure my notes for all my projects (Tarnished Chrome Quest being one of them) are in order.
I also don't want to run on weekends, since we have a lot of quests running then and there's a limit to the number of threads a player can pay attention to at once.

If anybody wants to throw plot ideas for Tarnished Chrome at me, I'm fine with that (no Firewall shenanigans please, unless it's a background event).

>>46420326
>The amount of resources the server has readily available?

Wonderful. Might split between sentinels/contacts and material resources

>Operations style? Do they prefer hacking, networking, or shooting to get into and out of problems?

This is really what the intent of the mission table is.

>>46420326
>This server has its own body-farm and access to custom morphs
>This server consists primarily of Lost
>This server's proxies play simulaspace games of Paranoia for fun
>This server is based out of a minor scum swarm
>This server supports is down with the Movement
>This server dresses entirely like stereotypical Men in Black
>This server has few sentinels, forcing proxies to occasionally take the field in person
>OZMA agents are closing in on this server
>This server has been forced to curtail operations after drawing down too much heat

>>46420326
>This server has been infiltrated by OZMA
>This server has caught the exsurgents. No overt symptoms yet.
>This server has cultivated /too many/ links with the triads and become compromised

This stuff belongs on a separate table. There should be one for things that Sentinels working for the Server would know, and one for secrets

>>46420583
A separate secrets table would certainly be interesting.

Resources
Roll twice. Once for sentinels, contacts, and other human resources. The other for money, farmed rep, caches, safehouses, and other material resources.
d100
00-09 Very poor
10-24 Poor
25-39 Limited
40-59 Average
60-74 Well equipped
75-89 Rich
90-99 Very rich

I'm going to split features into two tables. One for operational features like "Ultimates owe a proxy a big favor," and one for political features like "Heavy reclaimer influence."

Might do the secrets table. Need to think about it.

What is a server in this context?

>>46421615
Read Firewall

>>46421703
Or the core book even

Alright time for the finale of the group that went to earth in the iceteroid without enough food or gocycles.

After dodging all those LAVs with 6 barely completed freerunning/infiltration rolls from the party and this general saying we should kill ourselves and try again.

We built that APC out of a mining cart and some sheet metal. Found food, stole a gun, and today we made it to the facility we were sent after.

Things happened, and we had a problem with communication. Someone fell off a cliff, got doped up painkillers, everyone had a laugh, mostly them because the medicine was Grin. Lots of bickering at the bottom of that hole while I the group hacker sat at the top shouting at them to stop dicking around. They put a camera on a rope and hung it down into the fog, they couldn't see shit and something started playing tug-of-war with the rope. The group pilot decided no, it was HIS rope. SO he tried to cut off the rope to save three feet of it. He failed the roll to cut the rope. So he finally let go of the rope.

Contd.

>>46422045
We finally decided to go inside the building, option between going fast and stealthy and there was a drone closing in on us and we have people shit at stealth. I'm allegedly one of them but I rolled 00 or 1 on every stealth roll in the start of the game just about so we decided to run instead since average for group is higher there. At least in theory. Either way most of us decide to run, the doped up pop singer sniper shouts drunkenly about shooting the drone instead, everyone disagrees, she does it anyway. Alarms go off, drone dies. We run. We get inside and there's a drone with blades, we blast the cunt. Then a attack robot with giant blades stabs our pilot a few times, we blast the cunt's leg off and keep moving. Be aggressive, b e aggressive. Our pilot's bleeding everywhere but he pops some pain killers. We get in an elevator and I hack it and set it going down, though some bots saw us going in. So I spoof some alarm of the camera seeing us somewhere else.

I'm not sure how well it worked, possibly irrelevant. Someone pops a dazzler, huzzah, the robots can't see us. They spray in our general direction wildly.

I am currently balls deep in the computer system. I detect my meatbag form is being shot, but I'm too busy for such trivial matters like keeping these humans alive so we can complete the mission. The half dead singer is the only one that gets hit and goes down, they shoot some drones and help her survive and get back awake.

After fighting multiple systems trying to lock the elevator down and push me out, I finally roll a 99 and they boot my ass out. My AGI's pride in being perfect goes full REEEE at this point.

last part next

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>>46422045

Man Grin's great you guys you should totally try it.

>>46422127
So after being booted out I log back in with max success and hidden status rig the elevator subsystem's address to be disgused as random temporary data that jumps about the system every second as different temp data. And then proceed to lock out every AI, GET OUT NORMIES. I successfully do so. Half a drone lands inside the elevator staring angrily at us because it lost it's weapons in the fall.

We get to the bottom and there's some weird fucking alienish looking shit at the bottom. There's a giant eye, a fake sky, we can't seem to make sense of. We go inside after getting everyone sorted, I put a backdoor into the elevator, the elevator fucks off anyway after we walk away.

We take a few steps inside and a voice stops the two girls making them spout "IT IS NOT ALLOWED", we recover and keep walking but it's pretty clear most of us aren't going deep in here so one person scouts further and finds a spaceship monolith that hurts our heads to look at. More headfuckery ensues, then finally the eye turns black and the mega async from a previous session reappears without a word.

You thought this was the last part but apparently I am a bad judge of a great many things, continued.

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>>46422261
About the time he appeared his presence simply forced the guys to pass out fucking cold.

The only other person besides myself awake is the inch from death sniper girl that has accepted her destiny to die every last mission and run forward giving us eyes on the ship thing. It's an empty room of seemingly endless space without any sound and the foggy 'sky' above us. The structure hovers not making a single sound. The sniper came back and helped wake up the pilot and the Jovian who I can only assume is at fault for everything.

The Async hovered there and I asked what he was doing here. He asked me who I was to ask that of him, I answered in my Artificial Intelligence voice changer "I am a perfect immortal creature."

He did not agree, in fact, he converted his feelings of contempt into a chemical state and forced them into my head. But much to his dissatisfaction I repeatedly continued to make all my increasingly more difficult will rolls to ignore his async invasion attempts at any information to ask me who my master was, my reply was simply "I am my own Master."

I had already previously programmed my emergency farcaster to go off if I A) Lost consciousness or failed to ping a password to it every 30 seconds. Though it never came up as the party sniper took a shot at the back of his head and bounced a bullet painfully off it. He turned around and started crushing her with his mind like a ukraine soldier. I take a shot to try and distract him from killing her instantly, and roll a 99. She is crushed into a 1inch ball of meat and dies instantly. I see the two guys moving and farcast out before the Async has time to stop me and leave them to fend for themselves as is my survivalist nature and desire to get the information actually out of this place above all our safety, I just elected myself as this person. The other two farcast out, but not before the Jovian's personality is destroyed almost beyond repair but he barely manages to kill himself in time.

>>46422489
And that's how the campaign ended, we managed to make the best of every wrong choice and barely got the mission done when we had no right doing so. And I managed to get away with being an arrogant faggot that spit in exsurgent god's eye and he blinked which is my main victory I take away from the entire campaign.

>>46422565
Oh and my will was 15 which is why I am proud about passing those rolls.

>>46422489
I hesitate to say that your performance was in the finest traditions of Firewall, but you're all mostly alive, mostly sane, and you mostly completed the mission. So. Good work.

>>46422489
>crushing her with his mind like a ukraine soldier
Ukraine has telekinetics now?

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>>46422829
Sorry, I could have worded it better but more a reference to this, I misremembered it as Russian psychics crushing the Ukraine.

>>46422803
Thanks, it was a rough trip and I expected more of us to die.

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>>46422931
>I expected more of us to die.

But senpai we did all die.

What would a competitive esports game designed by an Ultimate be like?

>>46421247
This always bugged me, what morph is lizard boy?

>>46423007
Almost anything with fleshsculpting

>>46423007
Probably some standard morph with extensive cosmetic work.

>>46422963
I'm an AGI, I think it's debatable my consciousness was ended like a humans but I could be wrong. As far as my character is concerned I made it out and intact.

>>46422997
In our game? Breakout: Ultimate. Incredibly realistic combat sims based on the Breakout mold (Yes, what Firewall uses, from a different direction). Absolutely everything is autistically realistic sims of heavy fighting across the Solar System and even TITAN or exsurgent combat. The idiots and wannabes shoot things while yelling genetrash. The actual Ultimates watch, study, and murder people with clinical precision.

>>46423036
>Consciousness
>ended
>having anything to do with death

Tell another, comrade

>>46422997
Like a cross between Starcraft and Quake where you have to control every single unit manually using FPS controls at the same time.

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>>46422997

Are the hack packs on drivethrurpg creative commons/free to be shared, and if so, can anyone share them?

>>46423109
You know consciousness has more to it's definition than just being awake or not.

>>46423903
It really doesn't actually. The medical definition you've just described is the only one that people can agree on. The rest of it is made up bullshit and semantics.

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>it's a 'what is consciousness' episode

>>46424213
>'what is consciousness'
BABY DON'T HURT ME
BABY DON'T HURT ME
NO MORE

>>46416213
d100+B+C is dumb. Why does being moderate make them more likely to be backup obsessed?

>>46424807
Book says backups mostly stay out of that kind of politics

>>46424907
Staying out of politics doesn't mean that they don't have an opinion. They just don't try to force it on other people. Also, that most backups don't into politics doesn't mean that most people that don't into politics are into backups.

>>46424994
Yes, but if the opinion isn't affecting how the server interacts with Firewall then it isn't here.

//that most backups don't into politics doesn't mean that most people that don't into politics are into backups.

As a moderate on both political axes, the probability of being actively involved with backups even if it isn't the server's main focus is around 12% according to the generator. Good to see that your math is keeping up with your grammar though.

>>46425114
>grammar
>not recognizing old memes
Are you even old enough to be here?

>>46425179
If anything it's because I'm too old.

Huh, Devs on forums actually answering questions in a useful way. I suppose that's because people on the forums don't tend to ask questions which aren't interpretational or so dirt simple on the rules the other forum people can answer.

Also apparently they're kicking around a scenario idea that involves Suryas with drones fighting TITAN war machines.

>>46425493
REMOVE SURYA

>>46425493
It's definitely jackgraham working on the outline for the Space Combat booklet.

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>>46425797

Yeah, I'm not sure if that's like, a way to test their space combat rules, or if the rules will be like, lumped with a scenario as an example but I definitely assume their related.

Link?

>>46426848

Sex robot with a little extra armor that Planetary Consortium corporate executive claims is a guard morph in order to deduct it as a business expense on his taxes.

>>46426353
is it socially acceptable to want to impregnate a pod

>>46427727
Yes.

>>46427727
Pods cannot become pregnant

>>46427787
Wait, I mean no.

Fucking headcold messing with my thoughts.

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>>46427029

>>46428103
Nice spray-on shirt

>>46428178
>>46428103

Spray Armor model.

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>>46428260
>>46428178

Second Skin is pretty snug and very useful.

Rate and describe how good each morph is in terms how how it can be used for prostitution.

>>46426353
I keep flinching in pain every time I see something like her left hand. Shit's grotesque and repulsive as fuck.

>>46428528

Sorry, I cancelled my subscription to Jane's Sexmorph Weekly.

>>46427029
Taxes? To who?
No, seriously, I'm hazy on the details of PC governance. Is there an actual civil government that you, what, buy shares in?

==Details==

If desired, roll once or more on each table. Don't go overboard.

Reroll anything that is subsumed by or contradicts previous rolls

Operational Features
d100
00-04 Uses blackmail and/or psychosurgery to ensure loyalty
05-09 Often collaborates with other servers in the field
10-14 Special access to certain morphs
15-19 Ties to organized crime
20-24 Ties to Ultimates or other mercenaries
25-29 Exceptionally paranoid - need to know is taken to an extreme
30-34 Very open with sentinels
35-39 Special access to spacecraft
40-44 Proxies are very hands-on
45-49 Proxies are very hands-off
50-54 Has blackmail material on one or more powerful local officials
55-59 WMD access
60-64 Extensive darkcasting network
65-69 Extensive blueprint library
70-74 Smuggling network
75-79 Tradecraft expertise
80-84 Async sentinel (more than one for large servers)
85-89 Performs equipment field testing
90-94 Triggerhappy
95-99 Poor opsec

Political Features
d100
00-04 Strong Reclaimer influence
05-09 Strong Barsoomian influence
10-14 Trying to live down recent fuckup
15-19 C Team - This server consists mostly of problematic proxies who were kicked off of other servers
20-24 High proxy turnover
25-29 Low proxy turnover
30-34 Close ties to another agency
35-39 Close ties to argonauts
40-44 Corrupt
45-49 Anti-capitalist
50-54 Mindcrafters
55-59 Negatists
60-64 Wealthy sponsor
65-69 Suspects it has a mole
70-74 Elaborate long term plan
75-79 Influential within Firewall
80-84 Divided proxies
85-89 Fall veteran proxies
90-94 Morally black
95-99 Promethean puppeteer

>>46428637
Tharsis League, maybe, can qualify as so.

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>>46428637

>Is there an actual civil government that you, what, buy shares in?

No, that's actually a lot of extropian habs, only shareholders have voting rights.

There's a whole section on the PC in Sunward, which should give you most of the basics. If you live on a station or settlement wholly owned by a singular Hypercorp, you live in a corp town. The only rights and protections you have are part of your contracts with that corp either they make with you when they employ you or you make with them to live there and do something else. The public fucked up levels are limited by Oversight being a thing that exists, and the PC being in a meme war with... basically every other faction.

If you live in a settlement which is regarded as a holding of the "Planetary Consortium", you probably do pay, like, property tax or something to use the space which you live in. If you don't own the space yourself you probably pay the guy who does. You can be a citizen of the Planetary Consortium though I don't know if they detail what that entails, probably that you're okay to hire and you're not a criminal or an autonomist in disguise or something. Ostensibly, the Consortium and the Tharsis League are open and democratic, you vote to elect officials who hold positions and make decisions, and possibly vote on major hab-wide issues which affect you because you live and work in this hab. But ultimately, the macro-level of the Consortium is run by the Hypercorp Council, which has shares split up between it's major member corporations relative to their economic and political power.

>>46428632
You did not.

Rolled 76, 19, 35, 68, 73, 92, 55, 52, 27, 80 = 577 (10d100)

>>46428655
Looking good. Testing.
Also, you should think about putting all of this up in a Google Doc for easy reference.

Rolled 1 (1d5)

>>46428958
>target-focused
>60,000 to 300,000 people in area
>1d5+5 proxies
>Logistics
>Exsurgents
>Very Conservative
>Neutral
>Ignores Backup issue
>Exceptionally paranoid
>Divided proxies
A small cell, providing guns and safehouses to other teams in their op area, specializing in exsurgent-hunting equipment. They've been made very paranoid by their experiences, leading them to be very conservative and to deliberately lie to and mislead their sentinels- some exsurgent strains are smart enough to read minds, after all. No point taking more risks than necessary. The server is currently in risk of fracturing- given the small size of the group, it's as much a personal issue as political and operational.

Yeah, those are good tables.

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>>46429370

>>46428887
He did, now he just pirates it.

>>46431100
There is a record of him cancelling his subscription, but his fork subscribed again 15 minutes later.

>>46431170
This is why you shouldn't fork, people!

>>46431170

In the future if you subscribe to something / pay for something, do your forks get access to it too?

Or are they close enough to being their own people that they dont?

Would a beta fork get access but an alfafa wouldnt?

>>46431557
If a fork is considered a seperate and distinct legal entity then it would have to pay for its own subscription.

>>46432147
Unless you just screenshot it and email it over

>>46432147
There's also - probably! - be some terms and conditions that apply which will state, regardless of local habitat laws, forks must have their own subscription to a service. Those terms probably aren't particularly enforceable, mind.

If you need setting inspiration, pick up Diamond Age. It really helps with expanding what nanotech could so easily become when prolific.

The finalized Random Server Generator

http://pastebin.com/fZG3GXeN

This would be excellent to include in future OPs

>>46435195
Autoshill

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>>46428528
shapeshifting sylph a best, and very expensive

>>46437713
Why would /tg/ be in the militia?

>>46437914

"No Holding Black", which is referenced, is basically a giant LARP swarm, including actual regular PVP fighting - probably with realisting arms.

So if Scum /tg/ is like them then they're the assholes fighting every day for fun.

>>46416213
I think you're server size tables are WAAAY to big. Most servers probably have between 5-20 people, tops, with maybe 3-5 times as many sentinals. It defeats the purpose of having a cell structure if you've got too many people in it.

>>46442343
NM, read it wrong

Rolled 8, 8, 5, 2, 11, 8, 12, 1, 8, 10 = 73 (10d12)

>>46435195
Giving it a whirl.

Rolled 84, 33, 23, 71, 56, 81, 4, 55, 56, 62, 26, 21 = 572 (12d100)

>>46442626
Durrrr.

>>46442643
>Contingency Planning
>Hyperelites
>Mission-focused
>40 to 200 million
>2d10+5 proxies
>Rich in transhuman resources
>Very poor in material resources
>Moderate
>Moderate
>Passive support of backup
>Exceptionally paranoid
>High proxy turnover
I'd say this cell is focused on social engineering, trying to nudge the various hyperelites of the solar system into supporting various public contingency plans. As such, they have developed an extensive network of contacts, but have virtually no other resources. None of these contacts are aware of Firewall's nature; the proxies keep relations with their pseudo-sentinels on a strictly business level.

>>46430329
Ultimates are the only motherfuckers that could punch a TITAN warmachine and live to tell the tale.

Rolled 19, 70, 100, 34, 22, 24, 85, 38, 72, 36, 7, 38 = 545 (12d100)

>>46416184
rollan

>>46443104
Yeah! Except for everyone else who did it.

>>46444446
So close.
>>46444444

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>>46447251

Out of curiosity, does anyone know what that one /tg/ storytime was from way back, where the players were exploring some planet that had weird alien ruins, and the GM kept doing shit like make the actual players were gasmasks and do all sorts of other stuff for immersion? I can't remember what it was, and I'd like to read it again since it feels relevant to EP sorta.

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post future fashion

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>>46448554

>>46448554
Arms that long are a great way to get elbow injuries while masturbating

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>>46448575
This is the future. There's a labour surplus. You aren't doing your own wanking.

>>46448620
But what about next your when you donate that morph to Good Will and some indenture winds up in it?

It's like throwing out a six pack holder without cutting the rings.

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>>46448620
Fucking hyperelites.

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>>46448666
Then those long arms will help them jerk off other people while they work at the Sex Arcade.

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>>46448717

>>46448838
>No natives to exploit

Why bother?

So this is just ignorance as to uplifts, but if pig uplifts have been around for around 10 years, wouldn't all the pig uplifts effectively be kids? Or do they mature faster than transhumans?

...or is it accelerated simulspace that would allow for 'adult' neo-pigs?

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>>46448838
>The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in a desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure's helmet was entirely of gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface the deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more.

>This warrior of a dead world affected me deeply, though I could not say why or even just what emotion it was I felt. In some obscure way, I wanted to take down the picture and carry it - not into our necropolis but into one of those mountain forests of which our necropolis was (as I understood even then) an idealized but vitiated image. It should have stood among trees, the edge of its frame resting on young grass.

>>46449349
Where does it say they've only been around for ten years?

>>46449349
I just found a reference to pigs being uplifted prior to the fall, so it must have been more than 10 years. In fact it looks like it occurred prior to cetacean uplift.

>>46449459
I could swear I saw it somewhere, but the closest thing I can find is "...Although your species was only recently uplifted.." so I think I might have pulled it out of my ass.

But regardless, do uplifts age faster than normal transhumans, mentally?

>>46449621
Aging after adulthood is a bit of a nebulous concept in Eclipse Phase. I don't remember any mention of it, but it would certainly be reasonable for many uplifts to mature faster than humans.

>>46449621

Depends on the species, but probably? One, because you'd want results to work with faster and two because don't most of the source species for Uplifts mature faster than Transhumans? Even if you slow that down to account for more time to develop heightened cognition and learn skills and all that, that's probably still a faster curve than humans have naturally.

Keeping in mind an Exowomb can grow a human fetus past when it would normally be born too, and you can do time accelerated learning (But not too much, because then you get a Lost situation)

>>46449621
>...Although your species was only recently uplifted..
Could simply be a reference to the fact that the first uplift to pass the applied sapience test did so in 38 BF, which is pretty fucking recent compared to how long humans have been around.

>>46449864
>the first uplift to pass the applied sapience test did so in 38 BF,
So wait, "Grandpa" Jumbles isn't even 50 years old yet?

>>46449985

Well, he might be. Presumably maturity was reached before the test was passed.

>>46450014
He was definitely older than two

>>46450037

Plus, this is humanity we're talking about. How much of a academic circlejerk did a "passed" test have to go through before it was made official? Scientific announcements and acknowledgment has a lot of hoops to jump through legit, let alone with the weight of "first man-made sapient monkey" on top of it.

>>46447418
That's not EP or particularly EP relevant. Good read, tho. Ghosts of Mars. It's on Suptg.

>>46450747
Eh, it's scifi horror stuff. That's relevant enough.

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Somebody else take over, I need to sleep since Circadian Regulation isn't a thing yet.

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Excuse me, /epg/, but do you have a moment to talk about the dangers of Forking?

>>46451958
Like when forks resubscribe to porn?

>>46451958
Your fork doesn't want to reintegrate and decides to kill you to replace you. Also, something about smart people forking themselves fucktons to get tons of work done, i.e dey terk yer jerbs. No one has ever really talked about this, nor has it been elaborated on in the literature. There was literally one reference to it where it said that alpha forking was banned due to the modern equivalent of anti-trust laws.

>>46451958
Like when you do all of your homework in one quarter of the usual time?

>>46449725
>Keeping in mind an Exowomb can grow a human fetus past when it would normally be born too, and you can do time accelerated learning (But not too much, because then you get a Lost situation)
Didn't that have more to do with exsurgent infection than the time acceleration?

Remember: bots and AI are The Enemy. Blow them all up.

>tfw want to play so bad
>tfw no one in your city GMs EP

>>46457049
What city?

>>46457866
Moscow. Yeah.

>>46458005
Im so sorry

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there's an exhuman brain rapist outside in the corridor that wants its big pulsing fractal appendage in your shiny little stack. wat do?

>>46458490
Kill the exhuman, flee from the hab.

>>46455254

No, the WM infection was relatively late in the Lost project lifecycle - I think it would have been once they were in the equivalent of High School? Those kids were already little psychos for virtual years before that because of how Cognite handled their time acceleration. Presumably this is why being a Lost is good for a bonus Mental Disorder not required by Psi.

>>46458956
It's not required by psi because Watts-MacLeod infections have occurred in lots of places.

>>46458956
All we know about the lost generation fills half a page.

>>46459332
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? How would early infection of the Lost Generation by Watts-MacLeod mean that they were the only people who got it?

>>46459398
I mean that nobody can tell what happened. Yo are all discussing over nothing.

>>46459072
I think he's talking about how Lost get one extra mental disorder beyond the ones required by the level of Psi they choose. 2 disorders at level 1 and 3 at level 2, instead of the usual 1 and 2.

>>46453784
>>46454213
>>46454801
In the book the empire is controlled by forks of one person, since she doesn't trust anyone else and the state communications technology makes it impractical for her to rule everything from one place.

By the end of the book it's clear that the forks have diverged into two factions, maybe more, and have been intriguing against one another the entire time, leading up to a civil war

>>46459469
>nobody can tell what happened.

There's a description of what happened right there in the book.

>>46459332
One of the pregens for Million Year Echo has a Lost character, including some strange details about their upbringing. They were actually allowed to meet their biological parents at some point during development.

>>46459499
How is that in any way a danger created by forking? People do it all the time anyway.

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>>46458814
I already tried that, at least the killing part. blew it to bits, that's why it wants to hump my brainstem.

>>46459532
>lost having parents
>wut?

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>>46460190

You're forgetting the Lost Project was a product. Hypercorps don't make things they aren't planning on selling, somehow.

Alternatively the Lost project needed a diverse sample base for starting Egos and Morphs, so they probably had people pay in rather than pay out for amazing future kids. 18 years in a relative blink, we'll restore that post-Fall population!

>>46460248
I was under the impression they were just going to indenture them.

>>46461078
>it's a fucking whale again
>god damn why do I keep attracting flippers

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>>46461107

>>46461780
>toward emeny
GOD DAMN NIPS

>>46458490
Fab a load of grenades, pull the pins, rush him, and activate my emergency farcaster just before they blow.

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>>46461780
the missile is labeled "advanced zero gravity missile", just in case you thought it was something that looks exactly like a missile, but isnt.

>>46462275
But why does it have fins at all?

>>46462275
Is that a fremen? She's got nose plugs, what look like Maker Hooks in one hand and a Thumper in the other, which has the Atreides Hawk on it.

>>46462354
A fremen would be wearing a full stillsuit. Probably just a spice miner.

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>>46462354
I was sure it was something else when I saved it, but couldn't actually tell what

>>46462275
>>46462354
She has some kind of insignia, but it's clearly not Atreides or Harkonnen. Atreides' hawk would be red, and Harkonnen has a griffin.

>>46462321
Probably antennas for navigation and shit.

>>46462407
Most artists show them bareheaded so we can see their face. It wasn't until God Emperor that we got confirmation that stillsuits include a face covering.

Interestingly there's a throwaway line in the first novel which mentions that most of the time Fremen don't wear gloves if they're working with their hands, they just rub them with the juice from the 'creosote bush' to inhibit perspiration.

>>46462476
All the same length? Wait just a fucking second. That says .762x51mm. That's pretty fucking retarded.

>>46462768
Judging by the bore diameter of the rifle, it might be .7 inches by 51mm, although I have no idea why you'd mix metric and customary units like that.

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>>46462943

Listen, this is /epg/, we understand nobody knows how to make spaceguns.

>>46461107
>flippers
What other slurs might be around for various uplifts?

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>>46463764

Hominids probably get "monkey" a lot. Neanderthals are obvious "caveman" or "primitive". Neo-Pigs, well, that's just too easy since we use pig-related terminology as pejoratives already. Neo-Avians get "bird-brain" or "featherweight". Octopi (y'know, if you want to risk pissing one off) might be called "spineless", "takoyaki" or "suckers". Cetaceans are "flippers", "free willy" or "blowhard/hole".

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So I'm about to run a game, and the team is 3/4 uplifts and it takes place on Mars.

>>46464281
What sort of game? Rangers? City? Zone stalking?

>>46465257
Exotic prostitution?

>>46465257
>>46465350

Not really sure yet, when I said 'about to run' I mean a week or so from now. Probably at least a little zone stalking though.

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>>46465549

Mmm, delicious Zone running.

Why does it seem as though everyone always runs their games on Mars?

>>46465650
Because Mars has both relatable Earth-like culture, and a handy exsurgent plot source within driving distance.

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>>46465650

Mars is probably one of the most relatable settings, both in terms of traditional sci-fi and cyberpunk themes. It has megacorps, corrupt government, shitheel cops, street gangs and anarchist punks. But the regular cultures are pretty easy to wrap your head around the mish-mash of European, American and Chinese elements. For PCs is very easy to adapt to the environmental hazards, and it has a reasonable gravity level. And you go out into the outback and you have a space western (very popular after Firefly). On top of that, it's linked right in with probably two of the best freaky parts of the setting, the TQZ and the Martian Gate. It's like a microcosm of EPs ability to do just about anything.

>>46465711
>>46465788
It has always seemed to me that the wide variety of locales offered and the potential for egocasting are two of EP's greatest strengths. You can be shooting it out with triads one week, hunting a rogue async on Extropia the next, and shipping out through the Fissure Gate for some xenoarcheology the week after that. Seems a shame to pare it down to one gravitationally rounded rock.

>>46465968

That's true, but for a new group of players, Mars is a good place to start up a campaign/set a campaign because its got a bit of everything the setting has to offer, AND isnt too diffocult to wrap your head around.

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>>46459659
>People do that all the time, anon, forking is completely safe! Just ask my seven alphas who stand over my bed staring at me while I sleep!

Have we heard anything about the X-Risks book?

>tfw you love the FATE book but EP fans are all sluts for rules and will never accept it

>>46467778
The FATE book is barely any better the way they did it.

>>46467778
I like my systems to actually be systems, Anon.

>>46467778
FATE would be great for a classical epic type setting. Doesn't work so well for a high tech spy thriller.

>>46464281
Is the human a social-focused character? If not, they're pretty fucked.

>>46468141
They could just sleeve human morphs when necessary. Cetaceans in particular do it all the time.

>>46469509
>Martian gang?

It looks like a scene from a Detroit public high school.

So, still nobody sharing After the Fall, huh?

>>46469794
Except the guy in front is white.

>>46469805
Ooooh, that'd be great.

How hard would it be to program a BP for an Expensive+ item? In this specific case, a Railgun version of the Sarissa from Ultimate's Guide to Combat.