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<blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1755299" data-attributes="member: 6390"><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 18px"><p style="text-align: center">Meat Grinder Campaign</p><p></span></span></p><p>The galaxy is at war. It doesn't matter which galaxy, or who thier fighting. That's up to the GM, not me. The whole basis on this is a war that consumes whole planets. There are vast fleet moving through space to engage one another, assault planets, and sometimes, burn a planet to a cinder.</p><p></p><p>Ground troops are landed, either the huge planetary assault borgs, the Collosal Mecha, and the little crunchies, sometimes even armored in power armor. Dropships are sharded out of the sky by planetary defense batteries, and death comes quickly and often to PC's.</p><p></p><p>How to keep some form of continuity?</p><p></p><p>Three advances:</p><p></p><p>Forcegrowth Clones</p><p>Mental Engram Recording</p><p>Soulchips.</p><p></p><p><strong>Forcegrowth Cloning</strong></p><p>For the last 200 years, the ability to clone humans and other intelligent races had been mastered. From a culture of cells to fully grown adult could be accomplished in mere days through forced growth technology, electrostimulation of the muscles. The procedure, while prefected, is still prohibitively expensive, requiring vast facilities and highly professional technicians.</p><p> This allows a body to be completely regrown, without any ability adjustments due to level, enhancements (excluding genetic engineering) or damage being applied, within 2d4 days.</p><p> The body will be mindless, however.</p><p> Cost: 85</p><p> Restriction: None</p><p></p><p><strong>Memory Engram Recording</strong></p><p> The brain is a highly complex organ. With the furrows and ridges of the brain, as well as stored electrical and chemical charges making up personality, memory and intelligence.</p><p> With advanced tissue mapping and imaging, electrostatic mapping, and nuerochemical tracking, the science of recording the "person" from the brain has been in use for over a century. Sadly, it is hideously expensive, and care must be taken from keeping the recording from awakening. Those recording that wake up usually hit the virtual "panic button" and request either being put back to sleep, or petition for Artifical Sentience Status.</p><p> This keeps all skills, feats, muscle memory, etc at the time of the recording. When combined with the Forcegrowth cloning, this allows a PC to be technologically resurrected if they are killed.</p><p> Cost: 60</p><p> Restriction: Liscensed (+1)</p><p></p><p><strong>Soulchip</strong></p><p> With advances in neural mapping, the Soulchip is a spinoff technology of the Mental Engram Recording (above) science, and represents a massive leap in recovering those who have died.</p><p> In use solely by the military at this time, as the procedure is experimental at best, and the long term psychological effects are unknown, this chip stores the person's memories of whom it is implanted in.</p><p> When the person is killed, the soulchip broadcasts a high powered, highly compressed signal to a nearby "Soul Catcher" via FTL communications wave, where it is recorded. Using this technology, a character would even remember thier own death.</p><p> Combined with Force Growth Cloning, a dead character can be back in action within 2d4 days.</p><p> Cost: HALF the characters current wealth, and 1/3 of thier gained wealth for next 250 years.</p><p> Restriction: Military (+3)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Yes, highly restrictive in the cost sense, but hey, it worked for us. Feel free to adjust the cost if you want.</em></p><p></p><p>"Welcome to the future, meat-sacks. Even if you are killed, I still own you! You are still mine! Not even death gets you out of this contract. And do not think I will hesitate to kill you to prove a point about just how unfit for combat you are!"-Drill Sergeant Alex Hargrave, Confederate Marine Corps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralts Bloodthorne, post: 1755299, member: 6390"] [color=blue][SIZE=5][CENTER]Meat Grinder Campaign[/CENTER][/size][/color] The galaxy is at war. It doesn't matter which galaxy, or who thier fighting. That's up to the GM, not me. The whole basis on this is a war that consumes whole planets. There are vast fleet moving through space to engage one another, assault planets, and sometimes, burn a planet to a cinder. Ground troops are landed, either the huge planetary assault borgs, the Collosal Mecha, and the little crunchies, sometimes even armored in power armor. Dropships are sharded out of the sky by planetary defense batteries, and death comes quickly and often to PC's. How to keep some form of continuity? Three advances: Forcegrowth Clones Mental Engram Recording Soulchips. [b]Forcegrowth Cloning[/b] For the last 200 years, the ability to clone humans and other intelligent races had been mastered. From a culture of cells to fully grown adult could be accomplished in mere days through forced growth technology, electrostimulation of the muscles. The procedure, while prefected, is still prohibitively expensive, requiring vast facilities and highly professional technicians. This allows a body to be completely regrown, without any ability adjustments due to level, enhancements (excluding genetic engineering) or damage being applied, within 2d4 days. The body will be mindless, however. Cost: 85 Restriction: None [b]Memory Engram Recording[/b] The brain is a highly complex organ. With the furrows and ridges of the brain, as well as stored electrical and chemical charges making up personality, memory and intelligence. With advanced tissue mapping and imaging, electrostatic mapping, and nuerochemical tracking, the science of recording the "person" from the brain has been in use for over a century. Sadly, it is hideously expensive, and care must be taken from keeping the recording from awakening. Those recording that wake up usually hit the virtual "panic button" and request either being put back to sleep, or petition for Artifical Sentience Status. This keeps all skills, feats, muscle memory, etc at the time of the recording. When combined with the Forcegrowth cloning, this allows a PC to be technologically resurrected if they are killed. Cost: 60 Restriction: Liscensed (+1) [b]Soulchip[/b] With advances in neural mapping, the Soulchip is a spinoff technology of the Mental Engram Recording (above) science, and represents a massive leap in recovering those who have died. In use solely by the military at this time, as the procedure is experimental at best, and the long term psychological effects are unknown, this chip stores the person's memories of whom it is implanted in. When the person is killed, the soulchip broadcasts a high powered, highly compressed signal to a nearby "Soul Catcher" via FTL communications wave, where it is recorded. Using this technology, a character would even remember thier own death. Combined with Force Growth Cloning, a dead character can be back in action within 2d4 days. Cost: HALF the characters current wealth, and 1/3 of thier gained wealth for next 250 years. Restriction: Military (+3) [i]Yes, highly restrictive in the cost sense, but hey, it worked for us. Feel free to adjust the cost if you want.[/i] "Welcome to the future, meat-sacks. Even if you are killed, I still own you! You are still mine! Not even death gets you out of this contract. And do not think I will hesitate to kill you to prove a point about just how unfit for combat you are!"-Drill Sergeant Alex Hargrave, Confederate Marine Corps [/QUOTE]
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