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Ah, a scrapper. Human only?
Yes.
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Ah, a scrapper. Human only?
Sci-fi Slash & Rescue. Sounds fun. Conventional warfare - slug-firing weapons, grenades, technicals improvised fighting vehicles, that sort of thing? Or do we get lasers, plasma guns, tangler grenades, AI vehicles, contragrav bikes?
I'm absolutely down for gritty Sci fi mercenary shenanigans.
For a character I'm thinking older guy looking for one last job to pad out his retirement. A real "kids these days" type. Like if your chain smoking, twice divorced 50yo uncle who complains about how millennials don't want to work was wanted by space interpol instead of just the sheriff in the next county over and could shoot the tick off a deer's ass from 100 yards away (or could when his eyes were a bit better).
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So we should stick to mundane humans for our characters, no special powers or crazy augments or anything?
This has big Scum & Villainy vibes and I'm here for it. Sign me up.
Is there an element of the supernatural here? Xenologic lifeforms? Advanced sci-fi tech? Any form of magic or "the force" adjacent stuff? Or is it all down-to-earth gritty gunplay?
Life on the frontier was never what you expected, poverty, corruption, death and sometimes something even a little bit worse. It's what we all have really known, you fight for every cred in your pocket and every meal at your table.
The story is always the same, except on Godfrey-VI. A colony world just like any other, except a civil war has broken the ripe grounds of capitalist fortune. Rebels fight with the corporation that holds the keys to the planet, all the while innocent people get caught in the crossfire. This isn't a story about saving the world or bringing the corrupt to face justice, things are more personal than that when it comes to this conflict.
Julia Meyer was a rich kid, one who got liked to stick her middle finger up to the establishment this included her own father. She found herself in a sticky situation, fighting with rebels on Godfrey-VI against a corporate machine that would surely crush them. If anything mattered in the world, it was Julia and while she was a rebel she was still loved by someone.
You're a mercenary, perhaps an outlaw or someone with a past. While bountys and jobs were sometimes one in the same, this one spoke to you.
Was it the money, the opportunity, or something else? All you knew is Julia Meyer had to get off Godfrey.
And it sure as hell wasn't going to be easy.