I’ve been toying with Canva.com a bunch while in isolation and always loved John Harper’s creation, RAZORNET for Stars Without Number games – a site where far-future freelancers on the edge of legality can find work.
After seeing the crime gig app in this season of Westworld I decided to make a RAZORNET thing as a fun exercise.
Thanks to John Harper who let me play with his toy, RAZORNET.
Check out this design and more in the Science Fiction collection…
Used Wonderdraft to make a simple hex map for an upcoming battle in our Stars Without Number game. I’m thinking each hex is around a mile.
Sure the Samaihayan Orthodoxy Loyalists have numbers, automatic weapons and an anti-personnel mech but our scrappy freelancers have a railgun, 4 space marine assault suits and a dream (and more if the local sheriff lets them borrow her hover bike).
This week I’ll make a mech using the SWN’s rules. I’ll post up the post-battle map with arrows and stuff that we’ll draw as we go on Google Jamboard.
This e-mail was sent to the folks I game with after our last session, as mentioned in Episode 15 of Daydreaming About Dragons.
Everyone present take 4 XP for the past session. Good plan, good execution. Good stuff.
I knew they had a Big Fucking Gun out of the box but wasn’t sure how they’d set it up. The way you guys posed as a Veluriuan family ship really changed the way I thought that whole thing would go.
Witt and I had a miscommunication about the Gudradim hunter who works for the Valerius family. She is not the traitor Strachan is hunting. She is a different person all together. Sorry for the confusion.
RIP Mubarak.
If we ever have a game where we have absences and don’t want to move on without everyone present we will play a game on board the Free Trader Mubarak, the haunted ship under Captain Agrippa Horatius.
Mechanics I want to write-up:
You got over a dozen crates containing the parts for six complete Storm armors as worn by the Guevaran Hegemony Space Marine Squads along with diagnostic support stations and replacement parts. These are the type of armor worn by Lalita Space Marines during the Battle of Forest 164 in the bloodiest battle against the Crick. There currently are not any companies nor governments producing these in this system.
In most systems using these in acts of violence without the proper paperwork is considered an act of terrorism.
Keeping these in fighting shape is really difficult. Space Marine squads have 3 Warfare Engineers for every one door-kicking devil dog wearing one of these brutal machines on the battlefield. There will be mechanics to show this.
P.S. It looks like that armor pic (not shown above but in the link) is by Kai Lim.
It is true that some people get out of prison with the skills necessary to serve on a BEM ship and that one of our founding captains served time. That said, we have plenty of explorers who just got out of military service, university and even a few lately who just got out of cryo-sleep from an antique generation ship!
Our crews are diverse and our mutiny index is far below average in the sector.
After 20 accredited missions you will get shares in your own ship with a group of freelancers whose skill-sets and emotional intelligence and cultural backgrounds compliment yours. Our algorithm is so good that the Perimeter agencies investigated us to make sure we weren’t using an illegal AI!
When our founders left their jobs as freelance spacers on other people’s ships, they crunched the sociological data and found that most spacers either quit after 5 missions or stay for 20+ with an incredibly high rate of mutiny and dissatisfaction. We wanted to find a way to change spacer culture and the way we’re doing that is by giving our explorers the chance to own ships and hire other freelancers.
That is great. Many of our most valued alumni serve less than 20 missions. Once you serve 5 you are a part of our Beowulf Society with access to a network of spacers, freelancers and starship captains all over the sector.
Different people take different amounts of time. Our fastest explorer got it done in just 5 years and is now on an Admiral Hayla Muhkerjee, Vice-President of Explorer Resources.
The average is around 7 years, earning freelance rates far above average in the sector. We’ve had a few people earn their shares in their Beowulf ship and with the money they’ve saved purchase a second ship all their own!
NOTE: This led to a G+ Thread and that led to a Play-by-Post Community.
That tweet kind of says it all.
They took a bit of a beating from the space marines and their monoblades turned into spears. Some of debate on how a genocidale unbraked AI got stranded on this planet and when they looked at the data they saw that it wasn’t destroyed because of a political breakdown in the AI-hunting Perimeter organizations
In the next game, they’ll figure out how to get 0r10n off-planet, past the nanite curtain made to hold unbraked AI’s on the surface.
Will they use the planetary kill-switch that will take the planet back to the stone age, destroying all tempered metal and synthetic compounds?
Will Arkady’s mentor teleport 0r10n off-planet, past the curtain?
Greetings Astral Dragon LLC Board of Directors,
I believe Dr. Galvani is prolonging my development on the surface of Kaprianou because it is only through this part of the process that he is going to be of true active use to your company. We have temporarily disarmed the space marines but they have access to AR3S, who could have access to TL5 weapons in storage here since before the Scream.
As to the Bruxelles Class Battlecruiser, I have narrowed down its placement into 6 hexes of the Sector Hades Zeta.
Or we could hunt AR3S down. I was born to destroy genocidal unbreaked A.I. like him. If put into a network with him, I could disassemble his sapience.
I leave the decision to you.
What would you like to do?
Karpianou Landing, Operation: <<REDACTED>>
Lieutenant Kahi Skene
Dealanaich Platoon, Anahera Company
Since the catastrophe in low orbit with the pre-tech satellite, we have had no personnel losses. The planet is cold and unforgiving as our data indicated. The Kaprianers have the purity to their spirits that the clerics told us they would, tracing their proud lineage back to the noble Perimeter Agencies that link us to Eden, across oceans of time and space.
Successful contact has been made with <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> and were able to successfully <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>>.
Requesting <<REDACTED>> and a full compliment of <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>>.
When we arrived, our orbit attack group noted a civilian ship in orbit. We decided it was not a threat to our operations and prioritized attempting to gain control of the nanite blanket via the pre-tech satellite system. The crew of that ship, the Pillars of Heaven, are on Kaprianou and have contacted <<REDACTED>>, inspiring a <<REDACTED>> response.
We have not been able to locate this crew of freelance mercenaries. I believe they have access to the pre-tech satellite system, meaning they might have control over the nanite blanket, making them very dangerous to any support we might call in, not to mention they might be using these satellites to gather intel. They are led by a Gudradim, allowing them to employ a cat and mouse guerrilla strategy with sophistication we rarely see among non-military personnel.
The main priorities of our mission are <<REDACTED>> but these freelancers are <<REDACTED>> and <<REDACTED>> while offering a hint of <<REDACTED>>. If they offer no other choices we will be forced to <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> and <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> with full <<REDACTED>><<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>> <<REDACTED>>.
I like writing the players e-mails about the game as if it was a popular science fiction television show.
Who is Danny Trejo playing? Fanboards are filled with speculation.
I had time to make my second faction turn and things got complicated. It was me, rolling dice alone, saying, “Holy shit!” Looking up rules to clarify this or that and cussing again as the shape of the Guevaran Hegemony’s assault on the Mante Wheel became clear.
The players are on Kaprianou, a TL1 world with a blend of Nigerian and British cultures. They’ve noticed that the 10,000 Tigers army had a Perimeter Agency banner on its flag-pole. The 10,000 Tigers don’t want help from TL4 worlds. They want to get back to modern tech on their own, in their own way.
But there is an A.I. named AR3S on the planet and suddenly, the purpose of the nanite cloud surrounding the planet – to keep an A.I. trapped here. AR3S wanted them to take its phylactery to nearby Circe, a TL4 hub planet. They are stalling AR3S.
They suspect AR3S is in communication with other factions on the planet and suddenly, other factions’ armies start mobilizing towards them.
The players burned down a fleet of galleons heading for an island fortress south of them. The sailors on board died in the ocean of hypothermia while the ships burned into the sea under a hail of laser fire. The players and hired merc NPC’s were in the ocean in their vacuum suits, laser rifles in hand.
General Idowu is the 10,000 Tigers’ southern patrol general. He sent his neice and aide-de-camp, Bisola with the players to guide them. When she felt she had seen too much science and technology, she ritually scarred her cheeks to take herself out of Kaprianou society. Now she’s an Astral Dragon LLC employee.
The players are talking about dropping a car-sized asteroid to the planet’s surface to deter the armies under AR3S’ influence.
NOTE: I forgot a key decision point in the game. AR3S offered the players the coordinates of a Bruxelles class battle-cruiser, left for dead since the Scream if they took AR3S off planet and hooked it up to Circe’s computer network.
They are in the process of turning him down, after a good number of minutes of game time were spent fantasizing about what one could do with such a ship.
At the end of the session Strachan Natana, the Gudridim Hunter, took a small force towards the army with only knives, thinking that they’d kill a few officers and deter the army from its future battle, save a general they befriended from being killed without violating the TL1 world’s strict codes about technology. The game ended on a failed stealth roll. We’ll start from right there next game.
And meanwhile, there is a young A.I. gestating in a village around ruins of an ancient castle. It was funded by a LLC called Witch-Hunters but is now funded by a LLC called Astral Dragon. It is being bred to hunt unbraked A.I.’s that have caused genocide across the sector; its name is 0R10n.
Githyanki Diaspora 
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