Dice Robotech - Southern Cross Adventure - Characters

[Psychie]

Character Thread here.

 

[Psychie]

Ok, here is some of the info you will need for your characters.

All Attributes will be rolled in the OOC thread. Each one is a base 4d6 roll, take the top three. If you get a 16-18, you add another 1d6. Re-roll 1's. If that bonus die comes up with a '6', you add another 1d6. That gives you the possibility of a 28-30 on the dice roll before adding any skills in. Roll eight times, and take the top seven for your Attributes.

I will also allow you to start out with one Attribute at a 30 before any skill bonuses.

You get to add a new skill with each level you go up.

Taking a page from Pathfinder and DnD, every three levels you get to add one to any single attribute of your choice.

You do not have to take the ATAC OCC, but if you go with another class, you have to be able to pilot the Spartas Hover Tank with the MECT for it.

For your Natural Aptitude bonus, I will let you select the one you want.

We will not be using the martial art styles from Ninjas and Superspies.

Starting out, make your character rank as a Corporal. A player may be able to volunteer for the position of squad leader, and that person will be a Sergeant. If no one wants to lead this mis-mash team, I'll have my NPC do it. Up to you guys.

Master Skill List here. Check with me when you pick a skill to make sure it will be approved in the game.

http://home.wtal.de/marcorubert/SkilList.pdf

Here is the Xp Chart we are using.

Xp Chart
1 0,000 - 2,120
2 2,121 - 4,240
3 4,241 - 8,480
4 8,481 - 16,960
5 16,961 - 24,960
6 24,961 - 34,960
7 34,961 - 49,960
8 49,961 - 69,960 <==== 55,000
9 69,961 - 94,960
10 94,961 - 129.960
11 129,961 - 179,960
12 179,961 - 229,960
13 229,961 - 279,960
14 279,961 - 329,960
15 329,961 +

 

[Sherwood]

• Attributes and Bonuses
• Skills
• HtH Martial Arts and XP Chart
• Equipment
• Spartas Hover Tank

• 
  Name: Deunan Conway
  Rank: 1st Lieutenant
  MOS: GMP
  Gender: Female
  Age: 19
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  
  Iq: 31 +18% to all Skills, +8 to Perception rolls
  Me: 14
  Ma: 16 40% to inspire Trust/Intimidate
  Ps: 20 +5 to HtH damage
  Pp: 31 +8 to Strike, Parry and Dodge, +1 to Initiative
  Pe: 19
  Pb: 14
  Spd: 28
  
  Level: 8
  Xp: 55,000
  
  HIt Points: 42
  SDC: 82
  
  Natural Aptitude Bonus: Jack of all Trades - +1 MOS package
  
  On Foot:
  Number of Attacks: 6
  Strike: +10
  Parry: +13 - +17 with Heavy Combat Shield
  Dodge: +14
  Roll: +8
  Perception: +12
  Initiative: +2
  Damage: +2 from Ps
  Critical Strike on a natural 18-20
  
  In the Hover Tank:
  Number of Attacks: 9 - +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14
  Strike: +12 with Cannons, +13 to HtH, +14 with EU-11 (+2)
  Parry: +17 (+1)
  Dodge: +17 (+1)
  Roll: +11
  Perception: +12
  Initiative: +4 (+2)
  Critical Strike on a natural 18-20
  
  
• 
  Common Skills
  Language - English: 98%
  Literacy - English: 98%
  Computer Operation: 98%
  Mathematics - Basic: 98%
  Pilot Automobile: 98%
  Pilot Hovercycle and Hover Vehicles: 98%
  
  OCC Skills
  Intelligence: 98%
  Language - Zentraedi: 98%
  Lore - Tirolians: 88% +5%
  Lore - Zentraedi: 98%
  Military Etiquette: 98%
  Radio - Basic: 98%
  Recognize Weapon Quality: 93% +5%
  WP Blunt +1 at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12
  WP Sword +1 at levels 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15
  WP Handguns +1 at levels 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14
  HtH Expert - Upgraded to Martial Arts
  
  Information Specialist MOS
  Basic Electronics: 93% +5%
  Computer Hacking: 98%
  Computer Programming: 98%
  Cryptography: 98%
  Electronic Countermeasures: 98%
  Laser Communications: 98%
  Research: 98%
  Sensory Equipment: 98%
  TV/Video: 93% +5%
  
  Secondary MOS: Police Tactical Officer/SWAT
  Climbing: 98%
  Demolitions: 98%
  Demolitions Disposal: 98%
  Detect Ambush: 98%
  Sniper: +2 to Aimed Shot
  WP Rifles +1 at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13
  WP Shield +1 to Parry at levels 1, 3, 7, 10 and 13
  WP Energy Pistol +1 at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15
  Upgrade to HtH Martial Arts
  
  Tertiary MOS: Scout/Reconnaissance
  Land Navigation: 98%
  MECT Ground Veritechs
  Pilot Ground Veritechs: 98%
  Prowl: 98%
  Running
  Surveillance: 98%
  Tracking (People): 98%
  Track and Trap Wild Animals: 88% +5%
  Wilderness Survival: 98%
  
  Secondary Skills
  Gymnastics
  --Sense of Balance: 98%
  --Work Parallel Bars and Rings: 98%
  --Back Flip: 98%
  --Climb Rope/Rappel: 90% +2%
  Boxing
  WP Energy Rifle +1 at levels 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14
  Level 2: Wrestling
  Level 3: Military Tactics: 78% +5%
  Level 4: Detect Concealment: 78% +5%
  Level 5: Boarding Spaceships: 73% +5%
  Level 6: Photography: 63% +5%
  Level 7: Athletics
  Level 8: Forced March
  
  
• 
  1: Starts with four attacks/actions per melee. +3 to pull punch, and +3 to roll with punch, fall or impact, and Body Flip/Throw does 1d6 damage, victim loses initiative and one attack.
  2: +3 to parry and dodge, +2 to strike, and may perform Karate and any hand strike/punch.
  3: +1 on initiative, and may perform a Karate style kick that does 2d6 damage and any foot strike except Leap Kick.
  4: +1 additional attack per melee.
  5: Leap Kick does 3d8 damage but counts as two attacks, +2 to entangle.
  6: Critical Strike on a natural 18-20.
  7: WP Paired Weapons, can perform Holds, and is +2 to disarm.
  8: Back Flip and Back Flip Escape.
  9: +1 additional attack per melee.
  10: Back Flip Attack and +2 to disarm.
  11: +4 to damage, and +1 to initiative.
  12: +2 to parry and dodge.
  13: Knockout/Stun on a natural 18-20.
  14: +1 additional attack per melee.
  15: Death Blow on a natural 20.
  
  
  Xp Chart
  1 0,000 - 2,120
  2 2,121 - 4,240
  3 4,241 - 8,480
  4 8,481 - 16,960
  5 16,961 - 24,960
  6 24,961 - 34,960
  7 34,961 - 49,960
  8 49,961 - 69,960
  9 69,961 - 94,960
  10 94,961 - 129.960
  11 129,961 - 179,960
  12 179,961 - 229,960
  13 229,961 - 279,960
  14 279,961 - 329,960
  15 329,961 +
  
  
• 
  LP-09 9mm Laser Pistol
  The newly designed LP-09 is becoming the standard energy side arm of the ASC. Made of lightweight polymers and ceramics, this weapon is accurate, reliable, and easy to care for.
  Weight: 2lbs
  Range: 1,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4+1 M.D.
  Payload: 24 blasts per rechargeable energy magazine
  
  LAR-10 7.62mm Laser Assault Rifle
  The LAR-10 is the infantry standard battle rifle of the ASC ground and aerospace forces. It comes standard with a built-in 4x magnification scope with integrated red-dot sight, a telescoping butt stock and a high strength tactical sling.
  Weight: 9lbs
  Range: 2,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 3d6 MD for a single blast, 1d4x10+6 for a three round burst
  Payload: 40 single blasts or 14 pulse bursts per magazine
  
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Combat Armor Environmental Hardsuit
  CBR environmental hardsuits are descended from the UEDF's CHR-1 Hazardous Environment suit. Advances in materials as well as environmental systems have allowed the ASC to capitalize on the fully sealed armor idea, providing a sturdy, relatively lightweight suit that fully protects the wearer from hostile environments. Worn by aerospace pilots, combat divers, and TSC naval infantry, these suits consist of a fully articulated, positively pressurized hardsuit that is worn much like a spacesuit or hard diving suit. The suits are made primarily of ceramic composite plates that lock together with flexible joints that provide the wearer with both flexibility and protection. Environmental suits do not utilize a unisuit, but instead have all the standard features integrated into a built-in lining. Mk. 2E environmental hardsuits come in light and heavy varieties and vary in style and color depending on service branch.
  
  Features of All CBR Environmental Armor:
  1. Full Environmental Shielding: CBR full environmental hardsuits are positively pressurized and proofed against radiation, chemical and biological agents. These suits have an internal computer that runs the life support systems and a built-in oxygen tank good for two hours of use fully buttoned up. The oxygen supply can be extended indefinitely by drawing in outside air and filtering it through the integral scrubbers, or with external oxygen packs.
  2. Heat and Fire Resistance. CBR hardsuits are nearly impervious to extremes of temperature up to 2,000 degrees F (1,093 degrees C) and down to -300 degrees F (-184.4 degrees C). These suits are also fireproof and take no damage from normal fires (campfires, bonfires, house fires, vehicle fires, etc.). Nuclear fires, napalm and plasma fires all deal normal damage.
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Heavy Armor
  M.D.C. by Location:
  Helmet - 45
  Arms (2) - 30 each
  Legs (2) - 50 each
  Main Body - 105
  Weight: 25 pounds (11.25 kg).
  Movement Penalties: -15% penalty on skills requiring flexibility and mobility such as Swimming, Climbing, Acrobatics, Escape Artist, etc., and reduces running speed by 10%.
  Service: Used primarily by the ASC Tactical Space Corps, Global Military Police and Navy Division.
  
  CB-S Tactical Shields
  Made of the same ceramic alloys as the CBR body armors, the CB-S shields give a soldier an extra level of protection against both melee and ranged attacks. Used by a number of branches within the ASC, these shields come in light, medium and heavy types, and vary in color and style to match the armor they come with. CB-S Tactical Shields are used by most of the ASC, with the exception of the Navy Division, Tactical Air Force, Civil Defense Flying Corps, and the Tactical Corps Mountain Division.
  
  Heavy Shield: 55 M.D.C. Weight: 15 pounds (6.75 kg), -10% to skills that require manual dexterity (Pick Locks, Demolitions, Field Surgery, etc.) +2 to parry.
  
  High Resolution Digital Video Camera
  
  
• 
  Spartas Hover Tank
  M.D.C. by location:
  Sensor Head – 85
  Arms (2) – 150 each
  Hands (2) – 50 each
  *Arm Shields (2) – 500 each
  Legs (2) – 260 each
  Main Vectored Thruster – 120
  **Outboard Thrusters (2) – 75 each
  Main Cannon – 150
  Triple Barreled Ion Cannon – 100
  EU-11 Gun Pod – 100
  ****Reinforced Pilot’s Compartment – 150
  ***Main Body – 475
  
  *Destroying an arm shield renders the weapon housed inside it inactive and exposes the arm to damage.
  
  **The outboard thrusters are only deployed in Transport mode. Destroying one reduces speed and bonuses to dodge in transport mode by one third. Destroying both reduces speed by 66% leaves the Hover Tank uncontrollable (-70% to piloting skill), and the vehicle cannot be operated in transport mode until the outboard thrusters are repaired or replaced.
  
  ***Destroying the main body renders the mecha completely inoperable.
  
  ****Unavailable on VHT-A1 version.
  
  Speed
  Transport Mode: 100 mph (161 kph)
  Tank/Guardian Mode: 8 mph (13 kph)
  Battloid Mode: 70 mph (112 kph)
  Leaping: 80 feet (24.4 m) straight up in all modes. 100 feet (30.5 m) lengthwise in Battloid and Guardian modes.
  Flight: Can hover in the air up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high in Battloid and Tank/Guardian modes, and lands on its feet without damage when dropped from a height up to 500 feet (152 m). Typical altitude in Transport mode is 2-15 feet (0.6 to 4.6 m) off the ground, with thruster assisted “leap” up to 80 feet (24.4 m) high.
  
  Statistical Data
  Transport Mode
  Height: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  Length: 19.6 feet (6m)
  Width: 9 feet (2.7m)
  
  Tank/Guardian Mode
  Height: 14.7 feet (4.5m)
  Length: 25.4 feet (7.75m)
  Width: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  
  Battloid Mode
  Height: 20.3 feet (6.2m)
  Length: 6.5 feet (2m)
  Width: 14.4 feet (4.4m)
  Weight: 26.4 tons dry
  
  Physical Strength: Robotic P.S. of 42
  Cargo: Just enough for a rifle and survival pack
  
  Weapon Systems
  1. MCR-68A1 105mm Cannon
  Mounted in a retractable housing in the right arm shield, the 68A1 served well as the main weapon of the Hover Tank for years. While it is recommended that this weapon only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode, it can also fire in Battloid mode. Using the cannon in Battloid mode is awkward (no bonuses to strike) and requires the Battloid to be braced against the recoil It was eventually replaced by the HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon on the VHT-1A1 variant.
  
  Range: varies by ammunition as described below.
  Mega-Damage: varies by ammunition. The cannon can fire the following kinds of rounds:
  Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS). A round that uses a dart made of depleted uranium or tungsten to pierce enemy armor.
  Range: 4 miles (6.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 3d6x10 M.D.
  
  High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT). A shell with a shaped charge warhead.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 M.D.
  
  Multi-Purpose Anti-Tank (MPAT). A HEAT round with an added proximity fuse to allow it to engage slow, low flying aircraft such as helicopters and for air bursts over targets.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 to a 50 foot (15.2m) radius
  
  Canister. A shell filled with tungsten shot that acts like a giant shotgun shell for use against building, dug-in infantry, and thin-skinned vehicles.
  Range: 2,500 feet (762m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8x10 M.D. to everything within a 25 foot (7.62m) area up to half range, 1d4x10 to everything within 50 feet (15.24m) area at full range.
  
  High Yield Incendiary (Plasma). An extremely lethal anti-personnel round filled with super heated plasma.
  Range: 1.5 miles (2.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d8x10 M.D. to everything in a 25 foot (7.6m) area from the initial blast. Sets all combustible substances ablaze and continues to burn, doing an additional 4d8 M.D. per minute for 1d6+1 minutes.
  
  Smoke. These shells emit billowing clouds of thick smoke and are used primarily for cover and to mark target zones. They come in black, white, red, green, and yellow, and make a cloud big enough to obscure an area 100 feet (30.5m) across.
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Damage: none
  
  Rate of Fire: Twice per melee round
  Payload: 48 rounds
  Note: Typical loadout for the Hover Tank is nine shells of each kind except for the smoke rounds. Those have three rounds, unless something different is required for the mission.
  
  1a. HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon (VHT-1A1, VHT-1A3 variants).
  This is the 125mm particle cannon that replaced the 105mm cannon in later model Hover Tanks. It fires a stream of charged particles over long distances and delivers a massive amount of kinetic, armor piercing damage. While not as versatile as the old cannon, the 125A1 performs extremely well against armored opponents. It also has the added advantage of not needing to carry ammunition, which reduces the operating weight of the Hover Tank. The main drawback of the weapon is that it is an energy hog, and reduces the Hover Tank’s speed by ten percent when active due to massive energy consumption.
  Range: 8,000 feet (2,438.4m)
  Mega-Damage: 2d10x10+20 M.D. per blast
  Rate of Fire: Three times per melee round.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  Note: The Plasma Cannon delivers a massive stream of particles. The gun hits like a wrecking ball, and any mecha under 50 tons hit by a blast has a chance of being knocked down. When hit, the pilot must make a roll on the appropriate mecha piloting skill to keep his footing. Mecha that are knocked down lose initiative and one attack while they return to their feet.
  
  2. MIW-20 Triple Barreled Ion Pulse Cannon. The MIW-20 is a 20mm, rapid fire ion pulse cannon. It is hard hitting and very accurate over short distances. This weapon is used as a close defense weapon to keep infantry and other mecha at bay, and can only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode.
  Range: 1,800 feet (548.6m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d6x10 M.D. per three blast pulse.
  Rate of Fire: Each pulse blast counts as one attack
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  Removed for the new power capacitor for the modified Eu-11.
  
  3. EU-11 Gun Pod. The EU-11 is a 30mm high-intensity, selective fire laser gun pod capable of firing a single shot or five round burst. It has an integral laser targeting system and a collapsible stock and is powered by an internal capacitor that is charged by the Spartas’ engine. This weapon is accurate at very long ranges. The weapon is fixed forward in transport mode and carried in Battloid mode.
  Weight: 250 pounds (112.5kg)
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8 M.D. per single blast, 1d4x10 M.D. for a five round burst. New damage listed below for the higher powered burst:
  
  Option two of the modified weapon replaces the Tri-Laser that is used in Tank/Guardian modes with the extra power pack, giving the weapon a larger power generator. This refit will give the Eu-11 the same two modes to fire in, but with the extra power, it increases the range of the standard mode to 6,000 feet, and the high-powered burst is now usable out to 2,500 feet. Damage is now 1d6x10+10 for the high powered burst.
  
  Rate of Fire: Each single blast or five round burst counts as one attack
  Note: the EU-11 enjoys a +2 bonus to strike (in addition to other bonuses) thanks to its laser targeting system.
  
  4. Hand to Hand Combat.
  Restrained Punch/Forearm Shield: 1d6 M.D.
  Full-Strength Punch or Shield Strike: 3d6 M.D.
  Power Punch: 1d6x10 M.D. Counts as two attacks.
  Tear/Pry/Crush with Hands: 1d8 M.D.
  Stomp: 2d6 M.D. against targets less than 10 feet (3m) tall
  Kick: 5d8 M.D.
  Leap Kick: 1d8x10. Counts as two attacks.
  Body Block/Ram: 2d6 M.D. per 20 mph (32km) of speed. Uses two attacks and has a 60% chance of knockdown against targets up to 50% bigger. Victims of a successful knockdown lose initiative and two melee attacks.
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14, +2 on initiative, +2 to strike with cannon and long-range weapons, +3 to strike (applies to punches and kicks), +4 to parry, +3 to dodge, +3 to disarm, +4 to pull punch, and +3 to roll with impact. The pilot’s own number of hand to hand attacks and bonuses (if any) are combined with these when piloting the mecha.
  
  VHT-1S Command Variant
  Enhanced sensors in this model of tank provide the following additional bonuses to the squadron:
  +1 to initiative, +2 to strike, and +1 to parry and dodge for all members of the squadron within one mile (1.6km). This roll requires a roll on the Sensory Equipment skill at a -10% penalty due to the chaos of combat.
  
  Sensors and Abilities
  1. Radar that can track airborne targets to a range of 40 miles and ground targets out to 10 miles depending on terrain. The radar can track up to 25 targets at once.
  2. Combat computer
  3. Communications suite with a powerful encrypted military band radio. Has both wide band and directional signals with a range up to 200 miles.
  4. Passive nightvision with a range up to 1,200 feet
  5. Thermal imager with a range of 800 feet
  6. Infrared sensor that allows the mecha to se in the IR spectrum. Range is 500 feet.
  7. Tactical camera that can record up to 180 minutes of video
  8. Motion sensor detects objects within 1500 feet.
  9. Headlights that works in the visible light band.
  10. Distress beacon with a range of 250 miles
  11. Smoke dispenser that has six charges and make a cloud of thick, white smoke 60 feet across.
  12. Chaff/Flare dispenser with six charges. Has a 75% chance to confuse both heat seeking and radar guided missiles.
  
  

 

[Rykon]

• Attributes and Bonuses
• Profile
• Skills
• Hand To Hand Combat: Martial Arts
• Equipment
• Spartas Hover Tank

• 
  Name: Samuel Alan McGregor "Alan"
  Age: 22
  Rank: Staff Sergeant
  OCC: ATAC
  Gender: Male
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  
  IQ: 30 +16% All Skills; +8 Perception
  ME: 15
  MA: 11
  PS: 32 HTH Dmg+17
  PP: 26 +6 Strike, Parry, and Dodge
  PE: 30 +8 against poisons, +30% to coma/death saves
  PB: 10
  Spd: 42
  
  
  Spoiler: Attribute Calculations

  IQ: 30
  ME: 15
  MA: 11
  PS: 19 +2Boxing +2Physical Labor +4OCC +2Gymnastics +2Track and Field +1Athletics= 32
  PP: 21 +1Level + 1Gymnastics +2Track and Field = 25
  PE: 21 +1Running +2Forced March +1Physical Labor +1OCC +2Gymnastics +2Track and Field = 30
  PB: 10
  Spd: 14 +13Running +3Forced March +10Track and Field +2Athletics= 42
  
  SDC: +13Running +6Forced March +4Boxing +15Physical Labor +27OCC +6Gymnastics +7Athletics
  
  Level: 8
  Xp: 55000
  
  Hit Points: 51
  SDC: 78
  Weight Capacity: 640
  Lift: 1280 for 90s
  Run Speed: Roughly 27mph
  
  Natural Aptitude Bonus: Jack of All Trades
  
  On Foot:
  Number of Attacks: 6
  Strike: +8 (+6PP +2Martial Arts)
  Parry: +12 (+6PP +2Boxing +3Martial Arts +1Athletics)
  Dodge: +12 (+6PP +1Boxing +3Martial Arts +1Athletics)
  Roll: +7 (+3HTH +1Boxing +2Gymnastics +1Athletics)
  Perception: +9 (+8IQ +1Demolitions)
  Initiative: +1
  Damage: +12 (+12PS)
  Horror Save: +3 (+3OCC)
  
  In the Spartas:
  Number of Attacks: 9 (6Base +3MECT)
  Strike: +12 with Cannons, +11 to HtH, +14 with EU-11 (+2 Ranged, +3 HtH, +2Eu-11 Stacked with Ranged)
  Parry: +16 (MECT +4)
  Dodge: +14 (MECT +3)
  Roll: +10 (MECT+3)
  Perception: +9
  Initiative: +3
  
• 
  Parents
  Walter C. McGregor - Profession: Managerial Accountant
  Barbara J. McGregor - Profession: Clothing store clerk
  
  Siblings
  Tom C. McGregor - 27 - Profession: Cook, Incarcerated for Aggravated Assault
  Jane M. Cobbler - 25 - Profession: Nurse, Married to Brandon R. Cobbler
  Wade B. McGregor - 24 - Profession: Mechanical Engineer
  Lisa D. McGregor - 17 - Student
  
  Reason for Enlisting
  Alan was raised in what was once the state of Montana. He came from a respected family in a quiet suburb, fully expecting to mature into a man much like his father and find respectable work locally. It was a while after Jane got married, that her spouse got into hard drug habits. To his credit, Walter had done everything he could to help the man rehabilitate, but his constant relapses and mounting unreliability attracted significant abuse from an oddly well-connected group of thugs. Jane was horrified. They came and beat Brandon relentlessly, on more than one occasion to motivate him to pay his debts. One day, they attempted to do so while Walter and Barbara were present. When the couple tried to intervene, tensions escalated and they were shot in Jane's own home.
  
  Tom, Wade, and Alan answered the call from their sister, just in time to prevent further damage to the family. Wade and Alan gunned two of armed thugs down, blowing them away without hesitation. The boss, unarmed, was beaten to a bloody pulp by Tom before law enforcement peeled the young man off the would-be crime lord. Both Walter and Barbara, survived barely after weeks in intensive care. Given the connections and wounded pride of this jumped-up street thug, Tom was embroiled in assault charges. However, even though Tom was convicted, Walter's employers held enough regard for the family to push through on murder convictions for the criminal, and their operation has since become a thing of the past.
  
  Since that incident unfolded, Tom's been serving his time, Wade's been back to work assembling heavy vehicles, and Alan left for the UEEF to clear the whole ordeal from his mind. To this day their family portrait still lies in his locker, faced down.
  
• 
  Common Skills
  
  Spoiler: Language: English (98%)

  The character has a very good to excellent understanding of his native language. It is not, however, an absolute and total understanding, because there are always words, scientific terms, slang, and fancy or outdated words, and terms a character may not know. Thus, the necessity for dictionaries, thesauruses, grammar guides, and computer spelling programs.
  Base Skill: 88% +1% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 90%start +16%iq
  Spoiler: Literacy: English (98%)

  The character can read and write the language of his culture, typically where he was born and grew up, or has lived most of his life. Humans born in deep space or in a colony away from Earth typically speak, read, and write American English. English is the predominant language, though Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese are also fairly common but probably considered a "second language" (or "Literacy: Other" in the context of the game). This skill has no bearing on creative writing.
  Base Skill: 80% +2% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 90%start +16%iq
  Spoiler: Computer Operation (98%)

  Knowledge of how computers work, along with the skills to operate peripherals like keyboards, printers, and network interfaces, etc. The character can follow computer directions, enter and retrieve information, install programs, games, and software, use the web/internet and similar basic computer operations. Does not include Repair, Programming or Hacking.
  Base Skill: 67% +3% per level of experience.
  Requires: Literacy
  Calculation: 80%start +16%iq +3%level
  Spoiler: Mathematics: Basic (98%)

  Knowledge of basic math, including the ability to count, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.
  Base Skill: 72% +3% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 80%start +16%iq +3%level
  Spoiler: Pilot: Automobile (98%)

  Manual and automatic transmission; includes dune buggies, jeeps, and small trucks.
  Base Skill: 60% +2% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 88%start +16%iq
  Spoiler: Pilot: Hovercycles and Hover Vehicles (98%)

  Can pilot all types of hover vehicles used for ground transport, cargo hauling, trucking, and hovercycles. These vehicles can be tricky, and hovercycles can attain great speeds.
  Note: -20% to piloting skill rolls when pulling jumps, tricks, dodging gunfire and stunt driving.
  Base Skill: 60% +4% per level of experience
  Calculation: 90%start +16%Iq
  
  OCC - ATAC
  
  Spoiler: Combat Driving

  This skill supplements other driving skills by helping to make the character a master of the roads when driving automobiles, jeeps, trucks, motorcycles and other ground vehicles. It helps to turn the character into an aggressive road-hog and cool-headed "chicken" player. In fact, tricks, dangerous maneuvers and high-speed car chases are challenging and fun for this daredevil, although his passengers are likely to fear for their lives.
  
  In game mechanics, skill penalties for tricks, vehicular attacks (ram, sideswipe, etc.) and evasive maneuvers are reduced by half when this character is at the wheel, plus he is +2 to dodge when driving, +2 to survive a crash/impact, can fire a weapon from a moving vehicle at only a -2 penalty, and can even make an Aimed or "Called Shot" (at a -2 to strike) while on a moving vehicle (or talk, or engage in some other activity while driving without penalty). This is a supplemental piloting skill applicable only to ground vehicles, including Cyclones and Hurricane mecha, and does not have a base skill or level of progression other than reducing penalties an additional one point per level of the driver's experience.
  Spoiler: Land Navigation (98%)

  To stay on course while traveling over land by means of observation and memorization. It includes mentally marking/recognizing geographic landmarks, estimating distance and movement, recognizing sounds, night travel marking a trail and other navigation tricks. The player should roll once for approximately every three miles (4.8km) traveled. A failed roll means the character is drifting off course by 2d10x100 yards/meters. Consecutive failed rolls means the individual does not realize that he's off course and continues in the wrong direction. Note: A group of average men can cover about five miles (8km) an hour at a brisk, but relaxed pace through grassland, along dirt roads or pavement. Travel through dense forest, thicket or jungle at a cautious pace is about one mile (1.6) an hour. Heavy rain or snow, dense fog, swamps, and other environmental conditions will also reduce speed to a mile or less an hour. Map reading is done by looking at symbols (not words) and is -20%. The use of navigational instruments is not part of this skill. Literacy and Math are not required for this skill.
  Base Skill: 36% +4% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 36%start +16%iq +12%OCC+10%MOS1&3 +24%level = 98%
  Spoiler: MECT: Ground Veritechs (all)

  The ability to pilot mecha means the character can operate it and use all sensors, features, and weapons of the mecha. However, the pilot does so without the benefit of bonuses; straight, unmodified die rolls and the number of attacks is the same as the pilot's own, and his own Hand to Hand bonuses do NOT combine with those of the mecha.
  
  Mecha Elite Combat Training provides the pilot with many advantages. Most mecha descriptions end with Bonuses for Elite Combat Training, under Hand to Hand Combat. These additional attacks and bonuses are added to the pilot's own number of attacks and bonuses whenever he is piloting the specific type of mecha in which he has had Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT). Thus, a Veritech pilot with Mecha: Elite Combat Training "Alpha" gets the extra attacks and bonuses described at the end of the Alpha. Other types of Veritechs in the UEEF include the Beta, Cyclone, and Silverback, but to get Elite Combat bonuses for each, the pilot would have to take each type as a separate Elite Combat skill selection. Each type selected counts as one MECT skill (i.e. Mecha Elite Combat Training: Beta, MECT: Cyclone, MECT: Silverback, MECT: Condor. MECT: Bioroid Interceptor, and so on). Without MECT the pilot has only basic fighting skills.
  
  Note: If there are no Bonuses for Elite Combat Training listed at the end of a mecha description then it is as follows: +1 attack per melee round at levels 2, 5, 8, 12, and 15. +1 on initiative, +2 to strike, +1 to parry, +2 to dodge, +2 to pull punch, +1 to roll with impact.
  
  This is a supplemental piloting skill applicable only to mecha, including Battloids and Veritechs, and does not have a base skill or level of progression other than reducing penalties an additional one point per level of the pilot's experience.
  Spoiler: Military Etiquette (98%)

  A clear understanding of the way the military works, including rules of behavior (when to salute, how to address superiors and subalterns, etc.), military procedures and routines, standard issue of equipment, special ordering procedures, proper display of rank and medals, advancement in rank ( and the duties that come with it), proper troop formations, how to deal with military bureaucracy, the chain of command, proper channels, who to contact to get things done, and other useful information in matters of military protocol, military law and bureaucracy. Note: All soldiers have a fundamental knowledge of military etiquette (base skill 30% with no improvement), but this skill is much more expansive and by the book knowledge.
  Base Skill: 35% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 35%start +16%iq+10%OCC +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Pilot: Ground Veritechs (all) (98%)

  Limited knowledge and training to pilot only the Cyclone motorcycle mecha or Silverback Veritech 4-wheeled vehicle.
  
  Piloting Bonus & Penalties: A 10% skill bonus to one area of Piloting Specialty. In the UEEF, that is usually a particular series/type of Cyclone (VR-030, VR-040, VR-050 series) or the Silverback. Characters with this skill can NOT pilot a Veritech Fighter or Battloid, and are subject to a -40% skill penalty and -2 attacks per melee round should they try.
  Base Skill: 55% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 55%start +16%iq +14%OCC +15%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Pilot: Tanks & APCS (98%)

  Military vehicles often have unconventional controls and handle differently from conventional vehicles, especially the many ton, armored combat vehicles such as tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs). Thus, special training is required to pilot them.
  Base Skill: 52% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 52%start +16%iq +20%OCC +10%level = 98%
  Note: Those with this skill can also pilot other types of "tracked vehicles"
  Spoiler: Radio: Basic (98%)

  Rudimentary knowledge in the operation and maintenance of all sorts of radio equipment, including military radio systems, field radios, and walkie-talkies, audio recording devices, wire laying, installation, radio procedure, communication security, and Morse code. It does not include the ability to make repairs nor operate video equipment.
  Base Skill: 45% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 45%start +16%iq +10%OCC +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Running

  A routine of running and exercise to build speed and endurance. For game purposes, the character is able to run at an even pace (half speed) for a half mile (0.8 km) for every one point of PE without undue fatigue. If pushing oneself to the limit and running at maximum speed, the character can run one third that distance before collapsing.
  Bonuses: +1 to PE, +4d4 to Spd, and +1d6 to SDC
  Spoiler: Weapon Systems (98%)

  This is the complete understanding of weapon units and systems incorporated into military vehicles, mecha, robot vehicles, and spacecraft. It includes lasers, particle beams, rail guns, missile and grenade launchers, cannons, turrets, and vehicle/robot weapon systems.
  Bonus: +1 to strike when using these types of weapons; does not include handheld weapons.
  Base Skill: 40% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 40%start +16%iq +15%OCC +10%MOS1&2 +20%level = 98%
  Spoiler: WP Energy Pistol (+4)

  Includes lasers, ion blasters, and all types of energy firing small arms.
  
  Mega-Damage: Varies with weapon type.
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15
  Spoiler: WP Energy Rifle (+4)

  Includes all long-range energy firing rifles.
  
  Mega-Damage: Varies with weapon type.
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14
  Spoiler: Hand To Hand: Expert/Martial Arts

  See Hand To Hand Combat Tab for notes.
  
  Primary MOS - SERE Specialist
  
  Spoiler: Basic Electronics (96%)

  This is a rudimentary understanding of the principles of electricity, simple circuits, wiring, and so on. This character can do basic wiring, repair appliances, and read schematics as well as assist electrical engineers. the character can attempt to hot-wire a commercial or military vehicle but has a -20% skill penalty and it takes 1d4+2 melee rounds (45-90 seconds) to do so.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +10%MOS1 +40%level = 96%
  Spoiler: Climbing (98%)

  Knowledge of the tools and techniques for climbing up sheer surfaces. Players should roll once for every 20 feet (6m) of a vertical climb. If the roll fails, it means he is losing his grip, however, every "skilled" climber gets a chance to regain his grip, roll again. Two consecutive failed rolls means the character fails (takes 1d6 damage per 10 feet/3m of a fall).
  Base Skill: 40% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 40%start +16%iq +10%MOS1 +5%Gymnastics +30%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Excavation & Rescue (98%)

  A mixed bag of abilities that includes finding one's direction underground or in the belly of a spaceship without power or filled with debris., estimating one's approximate depth and location. "digging out" and identifying like areas that might hold survivors, identifying salvage and equipment from debris, finding and removing survivors from debris safely, digging out and securing /repairing collapsed tunnels and passageways, where to place support beams, etc., and all without any major setbacks or further structural damage.
  Note: Tunnels and excavation sites that are made quickly are not permanent, and can be collapsed by gunfire, combat, impact, earthquakes, etc. Trying excavations without this skill is just asking for trouble and is performed on pure luck.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +20%MOS1 +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Escape Artist (98%)

  The methods, principles, and tricks of escape artists. The character can try slipping out of handcuffs, ropes, straightjacket, etc., using techniques that include hand positioning, tensing and relaxing muscles, keeping hand and wrist joints flexible, popping joints in and out, the study of knots, and one or more hidden lock picking tools concealed on his body, Note: Pick Locks is a separate and distinct skill.
  Bonus: +5% to the Pick Locks Skill
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +20%MOS1 +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Locksmith (98%)

  The study of lock designs and the ability to repair, build, modify and open locks. The methods, techniques, and tools of lock picking include the old-style key and tumbler, combination, and modern electrical locking systems. Time Requirements: 1d4 melees to open an antiquated key type lock or simple tumbler/combination type, 1d4 minutes to open an elaborate tumbler type, 2d4 minutes to open a simple electronic lock (usually by patching in a bypass system), and 1d4 hours to break a complex, state-of-the-art electronic lock system such as those used in high security and restricted areas. Super high-tech systems, such as those used by militaries and governments, will require 3d4 hours and have a skill penalty of -20%.
  
  If an unsuccessful skill roll is made, the lock is not opened and the process must be repeated. If an attempt to open an electronic lock fails, roll again. A second failed roll means that the lock is irreparably damaged and can not be opened!
  Base Skill: 25% +5% per level of experience.
  Requires: At least the Basic Electronics skill (but such minimal skill imposes a -10% penalty when working on complex or high-tech locks) or Electrical Engineer (+5% bonus on such locks)
  Calculation: 25%start +16%iq +20%MOS1 +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Paramedic (98%)

  An advanced form of emergency medical treatment which includes all first aid techniques, the setting of broken bones, suturing of wounds, use of oxygen and emergency medical equipment, administering of drugs, knowledge of how to move a critically injured person, and other life-saving techniques.
  
  A failed roll means the patient has not responded to treatment or that the treatment has been improperly administered. Note: For serious injury or coma roll three times, consecutively, on percentile dice. A roll of two successes out of three means the wound has been properly treated or that the patient's condition has been stabilized. Failure means the patient's condition is not improved and getting worse. Another character can immediately attempt to apply medical aid or the same player can try again, but the first character must spend 1d6 minutes of reexamination and/or concentration on the problem before he can try again.
  Base Skill: 40% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 40%start +16%iq +10%MOS1 +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Pick Locks (98%)

  The methods and tools for picking/opening key and basic tumbler type locks. This does not include sophisticated computer or electronic locks. It takes 1d6 melee rounds for each attempt to pick a lock. A failed roll means the lock holds; try again.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +20%MOS1 +5%Escape Artist +30%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Prowl (98%)

  This skill helps the character to move with stealth; quietly, slowly, and carefully. Techniques include balance and footing, short steps and pacing, weapon positioning, prone positions for low visibility, and crawling. A failed Prowl roll means that the character has been seen or heard. If the Prowl roll is successful, then the character is not seen or heard and may make a sneak attack.
  Base Skill: 25% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 25%start +16%iq +15%MOS1 +5%Gymnastics +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Tracking (People) (98%)

  Visual tracking is the identification of tracks, and following the paths of men, aliens, cyborgs, robots, and animals by the signs they leave on the ground and vegetation. Tracking is a precise art, requiring much practice. The skill includes the evaluation of tracks, indicating whether the subject being tracked is loaded down with equipment, running, moving slowly (by measuring the space between steps), and so on. By this means, the tracker can estimate the subject's rate of movement, apparent direction, the number of people/robots in the party, and whether the person or machine appears to know he is being followed. Depending on the shape of the being's feet and footwear, the tracker may also be able to determine the subject's race or species and whether it is an adult or juvenile. Other methods of tracking include recognizing telltale signs such as blood and other stains, broken and displaced vegetation, overturned rocks, litter (such as cigarette butts, food wrappers, soiled bandages, campfire remains, etc.), and even odors carried by the wind. Likewise; the tire tracks of vehicles and the footprints from mecha can reveal the size and type of vehicle, the weight of its load, and sometimes, even its make and year. Note: includes humans, aliens, and robots. Tracking requires focus, concentration, and time to examine the trail. It will require at least one full melee round (15 seconds) of observation to pick up a trail and cannot be used in the midst of combat where the character is distracted with staying out of the line of fire, finding cover and staying alive.
  
  Counter-tracking techniques are also known, and include covering one's trail; misdirection, parallel trails, avoiding obvious pitfalls like littering and others.
  
  A failed tracking roll means that the signs are inconclusive, vague or misleading. Additional signs must be found to verify or clarify (roll again). Three consecutive failed rolls means the tracker has completely lost the trail. Roll once every 40 yards/meters when following a trail, unless it is very obvious, like that made by a caravan of wagons, a giant robot or company of soldiers (30 or more troops). Characters attempting to follow a skilled tracker who is deliberately trying to conceal his trail suffer a penalty of -25% to stay on him. However, the character engaged in counter-tracking techniques travels at slow speeds, about half that of a casual rate of speed or 25% his maximum speed.
  
  Base Skill: 25% +5% per level of experience for both the tracking and counter-tracking abilities. A character training in tracking humans may attempt to track animals but does so at half his normal skill ability
  Calculation: 25%start +16%iq +15%MOS1 +5%MOS3 +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Wilderness Survival (98%)

  Techniques for living off the land, getting water, food, shelter, and help when stranded in wild forests, deserts, or mountains. Characters without this skill will not be able to stay healthy for more than a few days in the wilderness once their supplies run out.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +15%MOS1 +5%MOS3 +35%level = 98%
  
  Secondary MOS - Heavy Weapons Specialist
  
  Spoiler: Field Armorer/Munition Expert (98%)

  A somewhat simplistic and basic version of the Weapons Engineer as it applies to infantry weapons. The character can maintain, unjam, fix, modify, mount, reload ammunition, recharge E-Clips, reload missiles and ammo drums, install/mount "hardpoints," and place machine-guns and rocket-launchers on a vehicle, and figure out most small arms (conventional and energy pistols and rifles). Can also repair minor damage to body armor (20MDC maximum), as well as sharpen blades, make arrows and arrowheads, make horseshoes and basic metal items (nails, spikes, and chain links). A major overhaul is not possible.
  Note: Automatically gets the Basic Mechanics skill at 30% +5% per level as part of this package.
  Base Skill: 40% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 40%start +16%iq +20%MOS2 +25%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Optic Systems (96%)

  Provides expert training in the use of special optical enhancement equipment such as telescopic lenses, laser targeting, thermal imagers, passive light intensifiers, infrared and ultraviolet systems, polarization, light filters, optical scanners, video and digital cameras, holograms, and related devices.
  Bonus: +5% to the T.V./Video skill if both are selected.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +10%MOS2 +40%level = 96%
  Spoiler: Forced March

  Practiced training in uniform marching with a full field pack and weapons. This is done at an even pace and rhythm that enables the marchers to cover great distances on foot at a faster than normal pace. Increase the normal Physical Endurance rate as to how long an activity like marching can be maintained by five times; applicable only to forced marches/traveling. Maximum speed on a forced march is roughly 60% of one's Spd attribute, which enables a large group of dozens to hundreds of soldiers to travel at the same consistent pace, suitable for everybody in the group (never less than a Speed of 8). Likewise, this skill trains soldiers to make coordinated charges and maneuvers, including spear runs, spear and shield placement, and so on.
  Bonuses: +2 to Pe, 1d4 to Spd, 2d6 to SDC.
  Spoiler: Recognize Weapon Quality (98%)

  The ability to accurately determine a weapon's durability, reliability, quality, signs of wear or misuse, and any necessary repairs by physically examining it. This includes knowing the manufacturer and their reputation, and so on. The character can also recognize if the weapon is stolen (serial numbers filed away, etc.), new, old, and if it has been customized, as well as fair market value.
  Note: Reduce the skill ability by half if the item is seen, but not physically examined.
  Base Skill: 25% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 25%start +16%iq +20%MOS2 +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Vehicle Armorer (98%)

  A specialized skill with which the character can do more than just tinker with the mechanics of a vehicle.
  
  Extra Armor: Replace SDC body with MDC body or add more MDC to MDC armor at 12 MDC per level of experience to military/combat vehicles, full-sized vans, and large trucks; 5 MDC per level on commercial non-combat vehicles. Add a ram prow (does an extra 2d6 MD on ram attacks, plus 1d5 MD for every 40 mph/64 km of speed; ram prow has 1d4x10 MDC +7 MDC per level of experience). Reduce speed by 5% for every extra 24 MDC of armor on military vehicles or every 10 MDC added to commercial vehicles. Reduce speed 10% for ram prow.
  
  Custom Body Modifications: Repaint, modify, or completely reconfigure the body of a vehicle to change or disguise its original appearance, or to make it look innocent, old, new, scary, or sleek. Can turn the interior into a sealed, environmental compartment and/or add a reinforced pilot or crew compartment (1d4x10 MDC, +5 MDC per level of experience) inside the vehicle, move the location of the engine and/or gas tank, add an extra gas tank, soup-up with heavy-duty shock absorbers (in effect adds 10 MDC to reinforced pilot crew compartment), extend and shorten wheelbases, and similar changes.
  
  Replace SDC components and parts with MDC equivalents. May include such things as adding handgrips (1d4 MDC each) and railings (1d6+3 MDC each), extra (or fewer) headlights (1d4 MDC), adding a spotlight (small; 1d6 MDC), or searchlight (medium to large; 2d4+4 MDC to 2d6+6 MDC), removing doors and replacing them with locking hatches (1d6x10 MDC, +5 MDC per level of experience), changing glass windows to slits with armored glass (1d6+6 MD), adding a roof mounted turret (with 1d4x10+15 MDC), adding or repair weapon mounts for heavy vehicle-mounted weapons (rail guns, machine-guns, mini-missile launchers, heavy lasers, flame throwers, etc.), but cannot hook up the weapon or ammo drum or modify the actual weapons unless he also has the Weapon Systems skill. The Vehicle Armorer can also drive/operate military vehicles and trucks at the Base Skill for that Vehicle type.
  Note: Automatically gets the Basic Mechanics skill at +20% as part of this skill.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%Iq +20%MOS2 +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: WP Shotgun (+3)

  Familiarity with the classic double-barrel shotgun and police and military versions of shotguns with ammo drums.
  
  Damage:
  Buckshot 2d6 SDC (half damage for rock salt) to a 10 foot (3m) radius: two SDC (stings like the dickens) for riot control rubber bullets.
  Light Shot 3d6 SDC
  Medium Shot 4d6 SDC
  Note: in all examples listed above, damage is for a single round. double the damage if both barrels are fired simultaneously.
  
  Average Range:
  Sawed-Off: 60 feet(18.3m)
  Hunting: 200 feet(61m)
  Police/Military: 300feet(91.5m)
  
  Typical Payload:
  2-6 in common shotguns, 20, 50, and 100 round ammo drums for police and military style (each single blast counts as one melee attack; can't fire two simultaneous blasts but has rapid-fire and larger payload).
  
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 1, 3, 6 ,10, and 14
  Spoiler: WP Heavy Military Weapons (+3)

  Familiarity with military hardware, including grenade launchers, mortars, machine-guns, mini-guns, and SDC and equivalent light MD weapon turrets.
  
  Damage:
  Light or Medium Caliber Machine-Gun: 5d6 SDC per single round or 1d6x10 per short burst (12 rounds/bullets fired; counts as one melee attack) or 2d6x10 +20 per long burst (36 rounds fires), but counts as three melee attacks. Note: Can only fire bursts.
  
  Heavy Caliber Machine-Gun: 7d6 SDC per single bullet, or 1d8 x10 SDC per short burst (10 rounds/bullets fired; counts as one melee attack) or 2d8x10+20 SDC per long burst (30 rounds fired), but counts as three melee attacks. Note: Can only fire bursts and is so large, bulky, and heavy that it must be mounted on a tripod, vehicle or supported on a stone or other strong support to use.
  
  Grenade Launcher Rifle: 1d6x10 SDC per grenade to everything in a 10 foot (3m) radius. can only fire one at a time, each shot counts as one melee attack/action. A grenade launcher may also be mounted on an assault rifle, but has a reduced range and ammo capacity; pump action.
  
  Portable Mortar/Rocket Launcher: 2d4x10 SDC per explosive round to everything in a 15 foot (4.6m) radius, but each shot counts as two melee attacks.
  
  Average Range: Light Machine-Guns: 3000 feet (914m) and Heavy Machine-Guns: 5000 feet (1524m). Grenade Launcher: 1200 feet (366m), but only 800 (244m) when part of an over and under assault rifle. Mortar or Rocket Launcher: 4000 feet (1219m).
  
  Typical Payload: Machine-Guns: 300 short bursts (3000-3600 round belts). Grenade Launcher Rifles: 2 hand-loaded or 24 grenade drum or six shot, pump-action loaded on a rifle. Mortar: One hand-loaded round at a time.
  
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14
  Spoiler: WP Heavy MD Weapons (+3)

  Includes plasma ejectors, MD rail guns, rocket launchers, mini-missile launchers, and weapon turrets and cannons built into or which are a key part of giant robots, tanks, aircraft, and other combat vehicles. A common skill of designated gunners. Damage varies with the type of weapon and manufacturer.
  
  Mega-Damage: Varies with weapon type.
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 2, 4, 7, 10, and 13
  
  Tertiary MOS - Guerilla Warfare Specialist
  
  Spoiler: Camouflage (98%)

  The skill of concealing a fixed base position, vehicle, equipment or individual, using natural and/or artificial materials. A fair amount of time is involved in the preparation of a larger position. Large cargo nets, cut branches, and underbrush are used most often in camouflage. This skill is also used to conceal traps.
  Base Skill: 20% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 20%start +16%iq +25%MOS3 +40%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Demolitions (98%)

  An advanced knowledge in the use and workings of explosives and detonation devices for the purpose of blowing up structures (bridges, buildings, barriers, fortifications), boarding space vessels and sabotage. This includes all types of explosives, from grenades and mines to plastique, missiles, and bombs. It also includes a basic understanding of the strategic placement of mines and booby traps. This skill increases the character's awareness of suspicious rope, string, and wire.
  Bonus: +1 to Perception Rolls
  Base Skill: 60% +3% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 60%start +16%iq +20%MOS3 +12%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Detect Concealment (96%)

  This skill enables the individual to spot and recognize camouflage, hunting blinds, trip wires, concealed structures/buildings and vehicles, secret doors and compartments, as well as confers the ability to construct unobtrusive shelters, use camouflage, and blend into the environment. The Detect Concealment skill is specifically designed to help a character to spot things that are deliberately hidden. For spotting "normal" things, the character can use the rules for Perception Rolls.
  Bonuses: +5% to the Camouflage skill
  Base Skill: 25% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 25%start +16%iq +15%MOS3 +40%level = 96%
  Spoiler: Detect Ambush (96%)

  Training that develops an eye for spotting locations and terrains suitable for ambushes and being ambushed. It also provides a rudimentary knowledge of guerilla tactics used by the enemy. The Detect Ambush skill gives its user the ability to spot potential ambush sites based on terrain and possible modes attack. It is not specific enough to detect individuals prowling.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +10%MOS3 +30%level = 96%
  Spoiler: Field Surgery (74%)

  Training in emergency, life-saving surgical procedures that can be performed "in the field" to keep criticially wounded individuals alive. Given the proper equipment, the field surgeon can perform amputations, suture torn arteries, check internal bleeding, cauterize wounds, and give blood transfusions. Field expedient surgery is a dangerous proposition that all too often results in the death of the patient. Because of the risk involved, field surgery is attempted only as a last resort, otherwise the injured is stabilized and evacuated to a hospital or field clinic. A failed roll means the character dies of his injuries in a matter of minutes. See Surviving Mega-Damage in the Rules Section for details.
  Base Skill: 16% +4% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 16%start +16%iq +10%MOS3 +32%level = 74%
  Spoiler: Trap/Mine Detection (91%)

  Knowledge of the strategic placement of booby traps and mines, the telltale trademarks and indications of traps and mines, how to avoid them, and the use of mine and explosive detection equipment. The character has been trained to watch for suspicious objects, dirt mounds, trip wires, and camouflaging materials that may denote the presence of a trap. Simple snare traps and trip wires can be easily disarmed by the character, but the Demolitions Disposal skill is required to disarm mines, explosives, or complex traps.
  Base Skill: 20% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 20%start +16%iq +10%MOS3 +40%level = 91%
  Spoiler: WP Axe (+3)

  Training with all types of large axe weapons, including single blade and double-headed axes, battle axe and picks.
  
  Damage: 2D6 or 2D8 damage depending on the size and style of the battle axe (small axes and hatchets do 1D6 damage).
  
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike and parry at levels 2, 5, 8, 12, and 15. +1 to strike when thrown or to parry at levels 5, 8, and 12
  Spoiler: WP Knife (+3)

  Training with all types of daggers and knives.
  
  Damage: Very Small; 1D4 Damage, but a typical sized blade does 1D6 damage.
  
  WP Bonuses: +1 to strike at levels 2, 4, 7, 10, and 13. +1 to parry at levels 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, and 13. +1 to strike when thrown at levels 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, and 13
  
  Secondary Skills
  
  Spoiler: Gymnastics

  Learning to do falls, rolls, tumbles, cartwheels, somersaults and to work the parallel bars and rings. This sport builds great upper body strength, grace, and balance.
  
  Provides all of the following:
  An automatic kick attack at first level 2d4 damage,
  Sense of balance (50% 3% per level | 74%),
  Work parallel bars & rings (60% +3% per level | 84%)
  Back Flip (70% +2% per level | 86%)
  Basic Prowl ability (30%' or adds a +5% to Prowl skill).
  Basic Climb ability (25%; or adds a +5% to Climbing skill).
  Climb Rope/Rappel (60% +2% per level | 76%).
  Spoiler: Boxing

  Classic art of fighting with fists. Training helps build the body and reflexes. Skilled boxers will automatically knockout opponents on a roll of a Natural Twenty. The victim of a knockout will remain unconscious for 1d6 melees. Unlike normal knockout/stun, the player does not have to announce that he is trying to knockout his opponent before making a roll to strike.
  Bonuses: +1 additional attack per melee round. +2 to parry and dodge. +1 to roll with impact/punch. +2 to P.S. and +3d6 to SDC.
  Spoiler: Physical Labor

  Not all strength and conditioning comes from deliberate training or sports, some comes from old-fashioned hard work. This skill represents the strength and endurance gained from hard physical labor either due to a physical occupation (such as construction, ditch digging, warehouse work loading and unloading boxes, etc.) or really demanding chores at home such as chopping wood, bailing hay, mending fences, etc.
  Bonuses: Add +2 to P.S., + 1 to P.E and 2D8 to S.D.C
  Spoiler: Basic Mechanics (98%)

  A general familiarity with and understanding of basic mechanics. This character can fix a toaster, repair a bicycle, replace a belt on a motor, repair or replace a switch, handle, or knob, replace a spark plug, change oil, assist in automobile repairs, maintain machinery, read a schematic and similar fundamental tasks.
  Special Note: Obtained through Field Armorer/Munition Expert
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +20%Vehicle Armorer +35%level = 98%
  Spoiler: Computer Programming (91%)

  Advanced computer knowledge that includes designing, programming, debugging, and testing computer programs and software. Hacking is possible, but at a penalty of =40% unless the character also has the Computer Hacking Skill.
  Base Skill: 50% +4% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 50%start +16%iq +5%AI +20%level = 91%
  Requires: Computer Operation and Literacy.
  Spoiler: Artificial Intelligence (58%)

  Specialization in robot/cybernetic brains and the many principles and theories behind advanced artificial intelligences, how they "think" and "understand" the world around them, how to communicate with them and how to reprogram them, either directly or by argument. True artificial intelligences (A.I.s) can think and learn for themselves, and are incredibly rare in the UEEF. A.I.s range from "thinking" computers and devices with problem-solving capabilities and the abilities to learn and think independent of a human operator, to devices modeled on the neural network of the human brain which can think, learn, solve problems, create and even imagine independent of their programming.
  Requires: Computer Operation.
  Bonus: +5% to all other Computer Skills including Programming and Hacking.
  Base Skill: 30% +3% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 30%start +16%iq +12%level = 58%
  Requires: Computer Operation and Literacy.
  Spoiler: Track and Field

  This relates to the sport track and field and relies basically on the running and other such sports of that sort. This is increasing the characters speed and agility. (See Generic Palladium SkillsList.pdf)
  Bonuses: +10 Spd, +2P.P., +2P.E., +2P.S. +1 to throw object
  Spoiler: Spelunking 66%

  The art and practice of exploring underground caves. Spelunking is the knowledge of caves and cave types and their individual characteristics as well as training in climbing and navigating caves, caverns, and underground cave networks, while retaining a sense of direction (including up and down), having a sense of the cave's depth, knowing how to make subtle markings and note formations to find his way out and to better navigate the cave(s) at a later date, as well as rock climbing
  Bonus: +5% to this skill if the character also has Climbing.
  Base Skill: 35% +5% per level of experience.
  Calculation: 35%start +16%iq + 5%Climbing + 10%level = 66%
  Spoiler: Athletics General

  Training in, and enjoyment of, vigorous exertion for non-professional, competitive sports, exercises, and contests of strength, endurance, and agility. Includes sports and hobbies such as tennis, track and field, skateboarding, bicycling, golf, skiing, swimming, bowling, baseball, basketball, and similar activities.
  Bonuses: +1 to parry and dodge, +1 to roll with impact, +1 to P.S, + 1D6 to Spd and 1D8 to S.D.C.
  Spoiler: Computer Hacking

  This is a computer skill similar to Computer Programming, however, the emphasis of this skill is breaking computer access codes to gain illegal access to other computer systems and steal or sabotage their data. The character is an expert in tracing computer data, bypassing defense systems, and breaking ("hacking") codes; add a one time bonus of 5% to the Cyptography, Surveillance, and Locksmith (electronic and computer controlled locks only) skills if the character is a hacker.
  Requires: Literacy, Computer Operation, Computer Programming, Basic Mathematics.
  Base Skill: 30% +5% per level of experience
  Calculation: 30%start + 16%iq + 5%AI = 51%
  

  Spoiler

  Spoiler: Wishlist

  2-Upgrade to Martial Arts
  3-Computer Programming +PP
  4-Artificial Intelligence
  5-Track and Field
  6-Spelunking +PP
  7-Athletics General
  8-Computer Hacking
  9-Mechanical Engineer +PP
  10-Mecha Engineering
  11-Cook (from here down is far less certain)
  12-Fishing +PP
  13-Carpentry
  14-Boatbuilding
  15-Wrestling +PP
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  1: Starts with four attacks/actions per melee. +3 to pull punch, and +3 to roll with punch, fall or impact, and Body Flip/Throw does 1d6 damage, victim loses initiative and one attack.
  2: +3 to parry and dodge, +2 to strike, and may perform Karate and any hand strike/punch.
  3: +1 on initiative, and may perform a Karate style kick that does 2d6 damage and any foot strike except Leap Kick.
  4: +1 additional attack per melee.
  5: Leap Kick does 3d8 damage but counts as two attacks, +2 to entangle.
  6: Critical Strike on a natural 18-20.
  7: WP Paired Weapons, can perform Holds, and is +2 to disarm.
  8: Back Flip and Back Flip Escape.
  9: +1 additional attack per melee.
  10: Back Flip Attack and +2 to disarm.
  11: +4 to damage, and +1 to initiative.
  12: +2 to parry and dodge.
  13: Knockout/Stun on a natural 18-20.
  14: +1 additional attack per melee.
  15: Death Blow on a natural 20.
  
  Xp Chart
  1 0,000 - 2,120
  2 2,121 - 4,240
  3 4,241 - 8,480
  4 8,481 - 16,960
  5 16,961 - 24,960
  6 24,961 - 34,960
  7 34,961 - 49,960
  8 49,961 - 69,960
  9 69,961 - 94,960
  10 94,961 - 129.960
  11 129,961 - 179,960
  12 179,961 - 229,960
  13 229,961 - 279,960
  14 279,961 - 329,960
  15 329,961 +
  
  ATTRIBUTE BONUS CHART
  Attribute Number: 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30
  I.Q. add to all skills . This is a one time bonus +2% / +3% /+4% + 5% / +6% / +7% / +8% / +9% / +10% / +11% / +12% / +13% / +14% / +15% / +16%
  I.Q. bonus to Perception +1 / +1 / +2 / +2 / +3 / +3 / +4 / +4 /+5 / +5 / +6 / +6 /+7 / +7 / +8
  M.E. save v s . psionic attack +1 / +1 / +2 / +2 / +3 / +3 / +4 / +4 /+5 / +5 / +6 / +6 /+7 / +7 / +8
  M.E. save v s . insanity +1 / +1 / + 2 / +2 / +3 / +4 / +5 / +6 / +7 / +8 /+9 / +10 / +11 / +12 / +13
  M.A. trust/intimidate 40% / 45% / 50% / 55% / 60% / 65% / 70% / 75% / 80% / 84% / 88% / 92% / 94% / 96% /97%
  P.S. Hand to Hand combat damage +1 / +2 / +3 / +4 / +5 / +6 / +7 / +8 / +9 / +10 / +11 / +12 / +13 / +14 / +15
  P.P. Strike, Parry and Dodge bonus +1 / +1 / +2 / +2 / +3 / +3 /+4 / +4 / +5 / +5 / +6 / +6 / +7 / +7 / +8
  P.E. save v s . coma/death +4% / +5% / +6% / +8% / +10% / +12% / +14% / +16% / +18% / +20% / +22% / +24% / +26% / +28% / +30%
  P.E. save vs. magic/poison +1 / +1 / +2 / +2 / +3 / +3 / +4 / +4 / +5 / +5 / +6 / +6 / +7 / +7 / +8
  P.B. charm/impress 30% / 35% / 40% / 45% / 50% / 55% / 60% / 65% / 70% / 75% / 80% / 83% / 86% / 90% / 92%
  Spd . No special bonuses other than the raw , natural ability to run .
  
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  Weapons
  
  Spoiler: IPP-5H Heavy Ion Pulse Pistol

  IPP-5H Heavy Ion Pulse Pistol
  With a wider barrel and higher capacity energy regulator than the standard IPP-5, the IPP-5H has nearly twice the penetration and stopping power of its smaller sibling.
  Weight: 7lbs
  Range: 600 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d6 MD for a single blast, 6d6 MD for a three round burst
  Payload: 21 single shots or 7 bursts.
  Spoiler: LAR-10 7.62mm Laser Assault Rifle

  LAR-10 7.62mm Laser Assault Rifle
  The LAR-10 is the infantry standard battle rifle of the ASC ground and aerospace forces. It comes standard with a built-in 4x magnification scope with integrated red-dot sight, a telescoping butt stock and a high strength tactical sling.
  Weight: 9lbs
  Range: 2,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 3d6 MD for a single blast, 1d4x10+6 for a three round burst
  Payload: 40 single blasts or 14 pulse bursts per magazine
  Spoiler: BigBore Automatic Shotgun

  BigBore Automatic Shotgun
  The auto shotgun is a sturdy weapon that can be handled by most people with reasonable effectiveness. This gun uses a pair of alternating side by side barrels to maintain a high rate of fire and give it that intimidating double barrel shotgun look. Its low recoil is achieved with “floating” barrels that partially retract into the gun when fired to absorb some of the impact.
  Weight: 12 lbs
  Range: 300 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4 MD per single shell/bullet, 4d4 MD per double-barreled blast. When using SDC rounds, the damage changes to 4d6 SDC per single shell for buckshot and 5d6 SDC for a solid slug per barrel. Double the damage when firing both barrels at once.
  Rate of Fire: Each single or double barreled shot counts as one attack.
  Payload: 18 round drum magazine.
  Note: A normal PS of 18 or better is required to shoot the Automatic Shotgun. Those with a lower PS shoot with a -3 penalty to strike.
  Spoiler: Mk.25 Automatic 40mm Grenade Launcher

  Mk.25 Automatic 40mm Grenade Launcher
  This is a heavy weapon that can normally be mounted on combat jeeps and trucks as a gunner operated assault weapon.
  Weight: 54 lbs for the launcher; add 25 lbs for a 48 round belt, or 50 lbs for a 96 round belt
  Range: 1,700 feet
  Mega Damage: By grenade type, typical loadouts include:
  AP/F (Antipersonnel/Fragmentation) - 4D6 MD to a 12 foot radius for a single shot, 2d6x10 to a 24 foot radius with a six grenade burst
  HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing) - 6d6 MD to a three foot radius for a single shot, 3d6x10 to an 8 foot radius with a six shot burst
  Payload: 48 or 96 round 4omm grenades in a disintegrating link belt.
  Note: Solders need a P.S. of at least 17 or must have the W.P. Heay M.D. Weapons skill. All others are -3 to strike.
  Armor
  
  Spoiler: CBR Mk. 2E Heavy Armor

  CBR Mk. 2E Combat Armor Environmental Hardsuit
  CBR environmental hardsuits are descended from the UEDF's CHR-1 Hazardous Environment suit. Advances in materials as well as environmental systems have allowed the ASC to capitalize on the fully sealed armor idea, providing a sturdy, relatively lightweight suit that fully protectsthe wearer from hostile environments. Worn by aerospace pilots, combat divers, and TSC naval infantry, these suits consist of a fully articulated, positively pressurized hardsuit that is worn much like a spacesuit or hard diving suit. The suits are made primarily of ceramic composite plates that lock together with flexible joints that provide the wearer with both flexibility and protection. Environmental suits do not utilize a unisuit, but instead have all the standard features integrated into a built-in lining. Mk. 2E environmental hardsuits come in light and heavy varieties and vary in style and color depending on service branch.
  
  Features of All CBR Environmental Armor:
  1. Full Environmental Shielding: CBR full environmental hardsuits are positively pressurized and proofed against radiation, chemical and biological agents. These suits have an internal computer that runs the life support systems and a built-in oxygen tank good for two hours of use fully buttoned up. The oxygen supply can be extended indefinitely by drawing in outside air and filtering it through the integral scrubbers, or with external oxygen packs.
  2. Heat and Fire Resistance. CBR hardsuits are nearly impervious to extremes of temperature up to 2,000 degrees F (1,093 degrees C) and down to -300 degrees F (-184.4 degrees C). These suits are also fireproof and take no damage from normal fires (campfires, bonfires, house fires, vehicle fires, etc.). Nuclear fires, napalm and plasma fires all deal normal damage.
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Heavy Armor
  M.D.C. by Location:
  Helmet - 45
  Arms (2) - 30 each
  Legs (2) - 50 each
  Main Body - 105
  Weight: 25 pounds (11.25 kg).
  Movement Penalties: -15% penalty on skills requiring flexibility and mobility such as Swimming, Climbing, Acrobatics, Escape Artist, etc., and reduces running speed by 10%.
  Service: Used primarily by the ASC Tactical Space Corps, Global Military Police and Navy Division.
  Spoiler: CB-S Heavy Tactical Shield

  CB-S Tactical Shields
  Made of the same ceramic alloys as the CBR body armors, the CB-S shields give a soldier an extra level of protection against both melee and ranged attacks. Used by a number of branches within the ASC, these shields come in light, medium and heavy types, and vary in color and style to match the armor they come with. CB-S Tactical Shields are used by most of the ASC, with the exception of the Navy Division, Tactical Air Force, Civil Defense Flying Corps, and the Tactical Corps Mountain Division.
  
  Heavy Shields: 55 M.D.C. Weight: 15 pounds (6.75 kg), -10% to skills that require manual dexterity (Pick Locks, Demolitions, Field Surgery, etc.) +2 to parry.
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  Spartas Hover Tank
  M.D.C. by location:
  Sensor Head – 85
  Arms (2) – 150 each
  Hands (2) – 50 each
  *Arm Shields (2) – 500 each
  Legs (2) – 260 each
  Main Vectored Thruster – 120
  **Outboard Thrusters (2) – 75 each
  Main Cannon – 150
  Triple Barreled Ion Cannon – 100
  EU-11 Gun Pod – 100
  ****Reinforced Pilot’s Compartment – 150
  ***Main Body – 475
  
  *Destroying an arm shield renders the weapon housed inside it inactive and exposes the arm to damage.
  
  **The outboard thrusters are only deployed in Transport mode. Destroying one reduces speed and bonuses to dodge in transport mode by one third. Destroying both reduces speed by 66% leaves the Hover Tank uncontrollable (-70% to piloting skill), and the vehicle cannot be operated in transport mode until the outboard thrusters are repaired or replaced.
  
  ***Destroying the main body renders the mecha completely inoperable.
  
  ****Unavailable on VHT-A1 version.
  
  Speed
  Transport Mode: 100 mph (161 kph)
  Tank/Guardian Mode: 8 mph (13 kph)
  Battloid Mode: 70 mph (112 kph)
  Leaping: 80 feet (24.4 m) straight up in all modes. 100 feet (30.5 m) lengthwise in Battloid and Guardian modes.
  Flight: Can hover in the air up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high in Battloid and Tank/Guardian modes, and lands on its feet without damage when dropped from a height up to 500 feet (152 m). Typical altitude in Transport mode is 2-15 feet (0.6 to 4.6 m) off the ground, with thruster assisted “leap” up to 80 feet (24.4 m) high.
  
  Statistical Data
  Transport Mode
  Height: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  Length: 19.6 feet (6m)
  Width: 9 feet (2.7m)
  
  Tank/Guardian Mode
  Height: 14.7 feet (4.5m)
  Length: 25.4 feet (7.75m)
  Width: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  
  Battloid Mode
  Height: 20.3 feet (6.2m)
  Length: 6.5 feet (2m)
  Width: 14.4 feet (4.4m)
  Weight: 26.4 tons dry
  
  Physical Strength: Robotic P.S. of 42
  Cargo: Just enough for a rifle and survival pack
  
  Weapon Systems
  1. MCR-68A1 105mm Cannon
  Mounted in a retractable housing in the right arm shield, the 68A1 served well as the main weapon of the Hover Tank for years. While it is recommended that this weapon only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode, it can also fire in Battloid mode. Using the cannon in Battloid mode is awkward (no bonuses to strike) and requires the Battloid to be braced against the recoil It was eventually replaced by the HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon on the VHT-1A1 variant.
  
  Range: varies by ammunition as described below.
  Mega-Damage: varies by ammunition. The cannon can fire the following kinds of rounds:
  Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS). A round that uses a dart made of depleted uranium or tungsten to pierce enemy armor.
  Range: 4 miles (6.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 3d6x10 M.D.
  
  High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT). A shell with a shaped charge warhead.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 M.D.
  
  Multi-Purpose Anti-Tank (MPAT). A HEAT round with an added proximity fuse to allow it to engage slow, low flying aircraft such as helicopters and for air bursts over targets.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 to a 50 foot (15.2m) radius
  
  Canister. A shell filled with tungsten shot that acts like a giant shotgun shell for use against buildings, dug-in infantry, and thin-skinned vehicles.
  Range: 2,500 feet (762m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8x10 M.D. to everything within a 25 foot (7.62m) area up to half range, 1d4x10 to everything within 50 feet (15.24m) area at full range.
  
  High Yield Incendiary (Plasma). An extremely lethal anti-personnel round filled with superheated plasma.
  Range: 1.5 miles (2.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d8x10 M.D. to everything in a 25 foot (7.6m) area from the initial blast. Sets all combustible substances ablaze and continues to burn, doing an additional 4d8 M.D. per minute for 1d6+1 minutes.
  
  Smoke. These shells emit billowing clouds of thick smoke and are used primarily for cover and to mark target zones. They come in black, white, red, green, and yellow, and make a cloud big enough to obscure an area 100 feet (30.5m) across.
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Damage: none
  
  Rate of Fire: Twice per melee round
  Payload: 48 rounds
  Note: Typical loadout for the Hover Tank is nine shells of each kind except for the smoke rounds. Those have three rounds unless something different is required for the mission.
  
  1a. HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon (VHT-1A1, VHT-1A3 variants).
  This is the 125mm particle cannon that replaced the 105mm cannon in later model Hover Tanks. It fires a stream of charged particles over long distances and delivers a massive amount of kinetic, armor piercing damage. While not as versatile as the old cannon, the 125A1 performs extremely well against armored opponents. It also has the added advantage of not needing to carry ammunition, which reduces the operating weight of the Hover Tank. The main drawback of the weapon is that it is an energy hog, and reduces the Hover Tank’s speed by ten percent when active due to massive energy consumption.
  Range: 8,000 feet (2,438.4m)
  Mega-Damage: 2d10x10+20 M.D. per blast
  Rate of Fire: Three times per melee round.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  Note: The Plasma Cannon delivers a massive stream of particles. The gun hits like a wrecking ball, and any mecha under 50 tons hit by a blast has a chance of being knocked down. When hit, the pilot must make a roll on the appropriate mecha piloting skill to keep his footing. Mecha that are knocked down lose initiative and one attack while they return to their feet.
  
  2. MIW-20 Triple Barreled Ion Pulse Cannon. The MIW-20 is a 20mm, rapid-fire ion pulse cannon. It is hard hitting and very accurate over short distances. This weapon is used as a close defense weapon to keep infantry and other mecha at bay, and can only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode.
  Range: 1,800 feet (548.6m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d6x10 M.D. per three blast pulse.
  Rate of Fire: Each pulse blast counts as one attack
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  3. EU-11 Gun Pod. The EU-11 is a 30mm high-intensity, selective fire laser gun pod capable of firing a single shot or five round burst. It has an integral laser targeting system and a collapsible stock and is powered by an internal capacitor that is charged by the Spartas’ engine. This weapon is accurate at very long ranges. The weapon is fixed forward in transport mode and carried in Battloid mode.
  Weight: 250 pounds (112.5kg)
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8 M.D. per single blast, 1d4x10 M.D. for a five round burst
  Rate of Fire: Each single blast or five round burst counts as one attack
  Note: the EU-11 enjoys a +2 bonus to strike (in addition to other bonuses) thanks to its laser targeting system.
  Payload: A fully charged capacitor is good for 140 single shots or 28 five round bursts. The capacitor charges at the rate of one blast every two minutes in its housing and an empty capacitor takes over three hours to charge in full.
  
  4. Hand to Hand Combat.
  Restrained Punch/Forearm Shield: 1d6 M.D.
  Full-Strength Punch or Shield Strike: 3d6 M.D.
  Power Punch: 1d6x10 M.D. Counts as two attacks.
  Tear/Pry/Crush with Hands: 1d8 M.D.
  Stomp: 2d6 M.D. against targets less than 10 feet (3m) tall
  Kick: 5d8 M.D.
  Leap Kick: 1d8x10. Counts as two attacks.
  Body Block/Ram: 2d6 M.D. per 20 mph (32km) of speed. Uses two attacks and has a 60% chance of knockdown against targets up to 50% bigger. Victims of a successful knockdown lose initiative and two melee attacks.
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14, +2 on initiative, +2 to strike with cannon and long-range weapons, +3 to strike (applies to punches and kicks), +4 to parry, +3 to dodge, +3 to disarm, +4 to pull punch, and +3 to roll with impact. The pilot’s own number of hand to hand attacks and bonuses (if any) are combined with these when piloting the mecha.
  
  VHT-1S Command Variant
  Enhanced sensors in this model of tank provide the following additional bonuses to the squadron:
  +1 to initiative, +2 to strike, and +1 to parry and dodge for all members of the squadron within one mile (1.6km). This roll requires a roll on the Sensory Equipment skill at a -10% penalty due to the chaos of combat.
  
  Sensors and Abilities
  1. Radar that can track airborne targets to a range of 40 miles and ground targets out to 10 miles depending on terrain. The radar can track up to 25 targets at once.
  2. Combat computer
  3. Communications suite with a powerful encrypted military band radio. Has both wide band and directional signals with a range up to 200 miles.
  4. Passive night vision with a range up to 1,200 feet
  5. Thermal imager with a range of 800 feet
  6. Infrared sensor that allows the mecha to see in the IR spectrum. Range is 500 feet.
  7. Tactical camera that can record up to 180 minutes of video
  8. Motion sensor detects objects within 1500 feet.
  9. Headlights that works in the visible light band.
  10. Distress beacon with a range of 250 miles
  11. Smoke dispenser that has six charges and make a cloud of thick, white smoke 60 feet across.
  12. Chaff/Flare dispenser with six charges. Has a 75% chance to confuse both heat seeking and radar guided missiles.
  

 

[D. Rex]

• Attributes and Bonuses
• Skills
• HtH Expert
• Equipment
• Spartas Hover Tank

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  Name: Marlon McKinney
  Rank: Sergeant Major
  MOS: ATAC Demolitions/Combat Engineer
  Gender: Male
  Age: 20
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  
  Iq: 30 +16% to all Skill, +8 to perception rolls
  Me: 16 +1 save
  Ma: 12
  Ps: 31
  Pp: 26 +6 strike, dodge, parry
  Pe: 24
  Pb: 13
  Spd: 42
  
  Horror save: +3
  
  Level: 7
  Xp: 50,000/49,960
  
  HIt Points: 61
  SDC: 96
  
  Natural Aptitude Bonus: Jack of all Trades - +1 MOS package
  
  Number of Attacks: 7
  Strike
  Base: +11
  Heavy Weapons: +15
  E. Pistol: +15
  E. Rifle: +16
  Burst: +13
  Aim: +2, (+6 w/ W.P.'s)
  
  Parry: +12
  Dodge: +12
  Roll: +9
  Perception: +9
  Initiative:
  Damage: hth+11
  
  In the Hover Tank:
  Number of Attacks: 9, +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14
  Strike: +13 w/ cannons and LR
  Hth strike: +13, +12 damage
  Parry: +16
  Dodge: +14
  Roll: +11
  Perception: +9
  Initiative: +2
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Common Skills
  Language - English: 98% +5L
  Literacy - English: 98% +5L
  Computer Operation: 98% +5L
  Mathematics - Basic: 98% +5L
  Pilot Automobile: 98% +2L
  Pilot Hovercycle and Hover Vehicles: 98% +4L
  
  O.C.C Skills
  Combat Driving
  Land Navigation 98% +5L
  MECT: Ground Veritechs (All)
  Military Etiquette: 96% +5L
  Pilot: Ground Veritechs 98% (all)+5%L
  Pilot: Tanks and APCs 98% +4%L
  Radio: Basic 98% +5L
  Running
  Weapon Systems 98% +5%L (+1 strike in vehicles/mecha)
  W.P. Energy Pistol +1 at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15
  W.P. Energy Rifle +1 at levels 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14
  HtH Expert
  
  O.C.C related skills (pick three or additional mos)
  
  M.O.S.
  Primary- EOD/Demolitions
  Basic Electronics 98% +5L
  Basic Mechanics 96% +5L
  Demolitions 98% +3L
  Demolitions Disposal 98% +3L
  Demolitions: underwater 98% +3L
  Jury Rig 98% +5L
  Swimming 98% +8
  Trap/Mine detection 91% +5L
  W.P. Heavy Military Weapons (+1 strike L1, 3, 6, 10, 14
  
  Secondary- Combat Engineer
  Basic Electronics
  Carpentry 91% +5
  Electricity generation 98% +5L
  Mechanical Engineer 98% +5L
  Demolitions
  Military Fortification 98% +5L
  Pilot: Tracked and construction vehicles 98% +4%L
  Sensory Equipment
  Trap/mine detection
  Weapons Engineer 86% +5L
  
  Tertiary- Mecha Engineer
  Advanced Mechanics 96% +5L
  Electrical Engineer 96% +5L
  Mecha Engineering 98% +5L
  Mechanical Engineer
  Robot Electronics 96% +5L
  Robotechnology Engineering 98% +5L
  Sensory Equipment 98% +5L
  Vehicle Armorer 91% +5
  Weapon Systems
  
  Secondary Skills (pick 3)
  boxing
  Gymnastics
  --Sense of Balance: 97% +3%
  --Work Parallel Bars and Rings: 97% +3%
  --Back Flip: 98% +2%
  --Prowl: 81% +5%
  --Climb Rope/Rappel: 90% +2%
  Track and Field
  
  
  2nd Level: Salvage: 81 +5%
  3rd level: Physical Labor
  4th level: Athletics +1parry, +1dodge, +1roll, +1PS, +1d6spd, +1d8sdc
  5th level: Language: Zentraedi 75% +3%
  6th Level: Heavy M.D weapons lvl1 (+1 strike at levels 2, 4, 7, 10, 13)
  7th level: Running
  8th level: Wrestling
  
  Wishlist: (skills to consider for level up)
  Hth Commando
  Physical Labor
  Weapons Specialist
  Weapon systems (veritech)
  Fishing
  W.P. Artillery
  Athletics
  Aerobic Athletics
  Literary: Zentraedi
  Lore: Zentraedi
  
  
  
  
  Weapon Proficiencies provide the following bonuses:
  Aimed: +3 to strike.
  Burst: +1 to strike.
  Wild: No bonus or penalty.
  Training also enables the character to easily reload, dis-
  assemble, unjam, clean, and otherwise maintain the
  weapon.
  Recognizes weapon quality: 30% at level one and +6%
  per each additional level of experience.
  Bonus: add a bonus of +1 to strike for every three levels
  of experience beyond level one (levels 4, 7, 10, etc.)
  
  
• 
  1: Starts with four attacks/actions per melee. Kick attack does 1d8 damage, +2 to pull punch, and +2 to roll with punch, fall or impact.
  2: +3 to parry and dodge, +1 to pull punch.
  3: +2 to strike, +2 to disarm, and can perform karate punch.
  4: +1 additional attack per melee round.
  5: Can perform karate kick; does 2d6 damage.
  6: Critical Strike on a natural 18-20.
  7: WP Paired Weapons and backhand strike does 1d4 damage.
  8: Body flip/throw; does 1d6 damage, and victim loses initiative and one attack.
  9: +1 additional attack per melee round.
  10: +3 to damage.
  11: Knockout/stun on a natural 18-20.
  12: +2 to parry and dodge.
  13: Critical Strike or Knockout from behind (triple damage).
  14: +1 additional attack per melee round.
  15: Death Blow on a natural 20.
  
  Boxing:
  Automatic Knockout at natural 20. Victim unconscious for 1d6 melees.
  
  
  
  Xp Chart
  1 0,000 - 2,120
  2 2,121 - 4,240
  3 4,241 - 8,480
  4 8,481 - 16,960
  5 16,961 - 24,960
  6 24,961 - 34,960
  7 34,961 - 49,960
  8 49,961 - 69,960
  9 69,961 - 94,960
  10 94,961 - 129.960
  11 129,961 - 179,960
  12 179,961 - 229,960
  13 229,961 - 279,960
  14 279,961 - 329,960
  15 329,961 +
  
  
• 
  LP-09 9mm Laser Pistol
  The newly designed LP-09 is becoming the standard energy side arm of the ASC. Made of lightweight polymers and ceramics, this weapon is accurate, reliable, and easy to care for.
  Weight: 2lbs
  Range: 1,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4+1 M.D.
  Payload: 24 blasts per rechargeable energy magazine
  
  Mk.25 Automatic 40mm Grenade Launcher
  This is a heavy weapon that can normally be mounted on combat jeeps and trucks as a gunner operated assault weapon.
  Weight: 54 lbs for the launcher; add 25 lbs for a 48 round belt, or 50 lbs for a 96 round belt
  Range: 1,700 feet
  Mega Damage: By grenade type, typical loadouts include:
  AP/F (Antipersonnel/Fragmentation) - 4D6 MD to a 12 foot radius for a single shot, 2d6x10 to a 24 foot radius with a six grenade burst
  HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing) - 6d6 MD to a three foot radius for a single shot, 3d6x10 to an 8 foot radius with a six shot burst
  Payload: 48 or 96 round 4omm grenades in a disintegrating link belt.
  Note: Solders need a P.S. of at least 17 or must have the W.P. Heay M.D. Weapons skill. All others are -3 to strike.
  
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Combat Armor Environmental Hardsuit
  CBR environmental hardsuits are descended from the UEDF's CHR-1 Hazardous Environment suit. Advances in materials as well as environmental systems have allowed the ASC to capitalize on the fully sealed armor idea, providing a sturdy, relatively lightweight suit that fully protects the wearer from hostile environments. Worn by aerospace pilots, combat divers, and TSC naval infantry, these suits consist of a fully articulated, positively pressurized hardsuit that is worn much like a spacesuit or hard diving suit. The suits are made primarily of ceramic composite plates that lock together with flexible joints that provide the wearer with both flexibility and protection. Environmental suits do not utilize a unisuit, but instead have all the standard features integrated into a built-in lining. Mk. 2E environmental hardsuits come in light and heavy varieties and vary in style and color depending on service branch.
  
  Features of All CBR Environmental Armor:
  1. Full Environmental Shielding: CBR full environmental hardsuits are positively pressurized and proofed against radiation, chemical and biological agents. These suits have an internal computer that runs the life support systems and a built-in oxygen tank good for two hours of use fully buttoned up. The oxygen supply can be extended indefinitely by drawing in outside air and filtering it through the integral scrubbers, or with external oxygen packs.
  2. Heat and Fire Resistance. CBR hardsuits are nearly impervious to extremes of temperature up to 2,000 degrees F (1,093 degrees C) and down to -300 degrees F (-184.4 degrees C). These suits are also fireproof and take no damage from normal fires (campfires, bonfires, house fires, vehicle fires, etc.). Nuclear fires, napalm and plasma fires all deal normal damage.
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Heavy Armor
  M.D.C. by Location:
  Helmet - 45
  Arms (2) - 30 each
  Legs (2) - 50 each
  Main Body - 105
  Weight: 25 pounds (11.25 kg).
  Movement Penalties: -15% penalty on skills requiring flexibility and mobility such as Swimming, Climbing, Acrobatics, Escape Artist, etc., and reduces running speed by 10%.
  Service: Used primarily by the ASC Tactical Space Corps, Global Military Police and Navy Division.
  
  CB-S Tactical Shields
  Made of the same ceramic alloys as the CBR body armors, the CB-S shields give a soldier an extra level of protection against both melee and ranged attacks. Used by a number of branches within the ASC, these shields come in light, medium and heavy types, and vary in color and style to match the armor they come with. CB-S Tactical Shields are used by most of the ASC, with the exception of the Navy Division, Tactical Air Force, Civil Defense Flying Corps, and the Tactical Corps Mountain Division.
  
  Medium Shield: 40 M.D.C. Weight: 10 pounds (4.5 kg), -5% to skills that require manual dexterity (Pick Locks, Demolitions, Field Surgery, etc.) +1 to parry
  
  
• 
  Spartas Hover Tank
  M.D.C. by location:
  Sensor Head – 85
  Arms (2) – 150 each
  Hands (2) – 50 each
  *Arm Shields (2) – 500 each
  Legs (2) – 260 each
  Main Vectored Thruster – 120
  **Outboard Thrusters (2) – 75 each
  Main Cannon – 150
  Triple Barreled Ion Cannon – 100
  EU-11 Gun Pod – 100
  ****Reinforced Pilot’s Compartment – 150
  ***Main Body – 475
  
  *Destroying an arm shield renders the weapon housed inside it inactive and exposes the arm to damage.
  
  **The outboard thrusters are only deployed in Transport mode. Destroying one reduces speed and bonuses to dodge in transport mode by one third. Destroying both reduces speed by 66% leaves the Hover Tank uncontrollable (-70% to piloting skill), and the vehicle cannot be operated in transport mode until the outboard thrusters are repaired or replaced.
  
  ***Destroying the main body renders the mecha completely inoperable.
  
  ****Unavailable on VHT-A1 version.
  
  Speed
  Transport Mode: 100 mph (161 kph)
  Tank/Guardian Mode: 8 mph (13 kph)
  Battloid Mode: 70 mph (112 kph)
  Leaping: 80 feet (24.4 m) straight up in all modes. 100 feet (30.5 m) lengthwise in Battloid and Guardian modes.
  Flight: Can hover in the air up to 20 feet (6.1 m) high in Battloid and Tank/Guardian modes, and lands on its feet without damage when dropped from a height up to 500 feet (152 m). Typical altitude in Transport mode is 2-15 feet (0.6 to 4.6 m) off the ground, with thruster assisted “leap” up to 80 feet (24.4 m) high.
  
  Statistical Data
  Transport Mode
  Height: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  Length: 19.6 feet (6m)
  Width: 9 feet (2.7m)
  
  Tank/Guardian Mode
  Height: 14.7 feet (4.5m)
  Length: 25.4 feet (7.75m)
  Width: 7.3 feet (2.25m)
  
  Battloid Mode
  Height: 20.3 feet (6.2m)
  Length: 6.5 feet (2m)
  Width: 14.4 feet (4.4m)
  Weight: 26.4 tons dry
  
  Physical Strength: Robotic P.S. of 42
  Cargo: Just enough for a rifle and survival pack
  
  Weapon Systems
  1. MCR-68A1 105mm Cannon
  Mounted in a retractable housing in the right arm shield, the 68A1 served well as the main weapon of the Hover Tank for years. While it is recommended that this weapon only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode, it can also fire in Battloid mode. Using the cannon in Battloid mode is awkward (no bonuses to strike) and requires the Battloid to be braced against the recoil It was eventually replaced by the HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon on the VHT-1A1 variant.
  
  Range: varies by ammunition as described below.
  Mega-Damage: varies by ammunition. The cannon can fire the following kinds of rounds:
  Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS). A round that uses a dart made of depleted uranium or tungsten to pierce enemy armor.
  Range: 4 miles (6.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 3d6x10 M.D.
  
  High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT). A shell with a shaped charge warhead.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 M.D.
  
  Multi-Purpose Anti-Tank (MPAT). A HEAT round with an added proximity fuse to allow it to engage slow, low flying aircraft such as helicopters and for air bursts over targets.
  Range: 2.2 miles (3.52km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d6x10 to a 50 foot (15.2m) radius
  
  Canister. A shell filled with tungsten shot that acts like a giant shotgun shell for use against building, dug-in infantry, and thin-skinned vehicles.
  Range: 2,500 feet (762m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8x10 M.D. to everything within a 25 foot (7.62m) area up to half range, 1d4x10 to everything within 50 feet (15.24m) area at full range.
  
  High Yield Incendiary (Plasma). An extremely lethal anti-personnel round filled with super heated plasma.
  Range: 1.5 miles (2.4km)
  Mega-Damage: 2d8x10 M.D. to everything in a 25 foot (7.6m) area from the initial blast. Sets all combustible substances ablaze and continues to burn, doing an additional 4d8 M.D. per minute for 1d6+1 minutes.
  
  Smoke. These shells emit billowing clouds of thick smoke and are used primarily for cover and to mark target zones. They come in black, white, red, green, and yellow, and make a cloud big enough to obscure an area 100 feet (30.5m) across.
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Damage: none
  
  Rate of Fire: Twice per melee round
  Payload: 48 rounds
  Note: Typical loadout for the Hover Tank is nine shells of each kind except for the smoke rounds. Those have three rounds, unless something different is required for the mission.
  
  1a. HPW-125A1 Particle Cannon (VHT-1A1, VHT-1A3 variants).
  This is the 125mm particle cannon that replaced the 105mm cannon in later model Hover Tanks. It fires a stream of charged particles over long distances and delivers a massive amount of kinetic, armor piercing damage. While not as versatile as the old cannon, the 125A1 performs extremely well against armored opponents. It also has the added advantage of not needing to carry ammunition, which reduces the operating weight of the Hover Tank. The main drawback of the weapon is that it is an energy hog, and reduces the Hover Tank’s speed by ten percent when active due to massive energy consumption.
  Range: 8,000 feet (2,438.4m)
  Mega-Damage: 2d10x10+20 M.D. per blast
  Rate of Fire: Three times per melee round.
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  Note: The Plasma Cannon delivers a massive stream of particles. The gun hits like a wrecking ball, and any mecha under 50 tons hit by a blast has a chance of being knocked down. When hit, the pilot must make a roll on the appropriate mecha piloting skill to keep his footing. Mecha that are knocked down lose initiative and one attack while they return to their feet.
  
  2. MIW-20 Triple Barreled Ion Pulse Cannon. The MIW-20 is a 20mm, rapid fire ion pulse cannon. It is hard hitting and very accurate over short distances. This weapon is used as a close defense weapon to keep infantry and other mecha at bay, and can only be deployed in Tank/Guardian mode.
  Range: 1,800 feet (548.6m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d6x10 M.D. per three blast pulse.
  Rate of Fire: Each pulse blast counts as one attack
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  3. EU-11 Gun Pod. The EU-11 is a 30mm high-intensity, selective fire laser gun pod capable of firing a single shot or five round burst. It has an integral laser targeting system and a collapsible stock and is powered by an internal capacitor that is charged by the Spartas’ engine. This weapon is accurate at very long ranges. The weapon is fixed forward in transport mode and carried in Battloid mode.
  Weight: 250 pounds (112.5kg)
  Range: 4,000 feet (1,219m)
  Mega-Damage: 1d8 M.D. per single blast, 1d4x10 M.D. for a five round burst
  Rate of Fire: Each single blast or five round burst counts as one attack
  Note: the EU-11 enjoys a +2 bonus to strike (in addition to other bonuses) thanks to its laser targeting system.
  Payload: A fully charged capacitor is good for 140 single shots or 28 five round bursts. The capacitor charges at the rate of one blast every two minutes in its housing, and an empty capacitor takes over three hours to charge in full.
  
  4. Hand to Hand Combat.
  Restrained Punch/Forearm Shield: 1d6 M.D.
  Full-Strength Punch or Shield Strike: 3d6 M.D.
  Power Punch: 1d6x10 M.D. Counts as two attacks.
  Tear/Pry/Crush with Hands: 1d8 M.D.
  Stomp: 2d6 M.D. against targets less than 10 feet (3m) tall
  Kick: 5d8 M.D.
  Leap Kick: 1d8x10. Counts as two attacks.
  Body Block/Ram: 2d6 M.D. per 20 mph (32km) of speed. Uses two attacks and has a 60% chance of knockdown against targets up to 50% bigger. Victims of a successful knockdown lose initiative and two melee attacks.
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee round at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 14, +2 on initiative, +2 to strike with cannon and long-range weapons, +3 to strike (applies to punches and kicks), +4 to parry, +3 to dodge, +3 to disarm, +4 to pull punch, and +3 to roll with impact. The pilot’s own number of hand to hand attacks and bonuses (if any) are combined with these when piloting the mecha.
  
  VHT-1S Command Variant
  Enhanced sensors in this model of tank provide the following additional bonuses to the squadron:
  +1 to initiative, +2 to strike, and +1 to parry and dodge for all members of the squadron within one mile (1.6km). This roll requires a roll on the Sensory Equipment skill at a -10% penalty due to the chaos of combat.
  
  Sensors and Abilities
  1. Radar that can track airborne targets to a range of 40 miles and ground targets out to 10 miles depending on terrain. The radar can track up to 25 targets at once.
  2. Combat computer
  3. Communications suite with a powerful encrypted military band radio. Has both wide band and directional signals with a range up to 200 miles.
  4. Passive nightvision with a range up to 1,200 feet
  5. Thermal imager with a range of 800 feet
  6. Infrared sensor that allows the mecha to se in the IR spectrum. Range is 500 feet.
  7. Tactical camera that can record up to 180 minutes of video
  8. Motion sensor detects objects within 1500 feet.
  9. Headlights that works in the visible light band.
  10. Distress beacon with a range of 250 miles
  11. Smoke dispenser that has six charges and make a cloud of thick, white smoke 60 feet across.
  12. Chaff/Flare dispenser with six charges. Has a 75% chance to confuse both heat seeking and radar guided missiles.
  
  

 

[Psychie]

Neapolitan (Just call me Neo) Kallen is a corporal in the ATAC Signal's Corps. At the young age of only 17, she has never known the world without it being at war. In order to try and protect her home, Neo was quick to volunteer once she was old enough to be accepted into the military. Since that day, she has specialized in being able to electronically link up the various members of the team that she has been assigned, and does her best to wage electronic hell in the sensors of her opponents.

 

[Psychie]

Excellent work, everyone. I'll give you all 800 xp.

WlfSamurai D. Rex Sherwood Rykon

 

[Psychie]

Great work, and some awesome role playing! Another 1,000 xp for all.

WlfSamurai Rykon D. Rex Sherwood

 

[Sherwood]

Thanks! Getting closer to third level.

 

[Psychie]

My goodness. I was not expecting that! Here are some long overdue xp points!

10,000 points.

Sherwood D. Rex Rykon WlfSamurai

 

[Sherwood]

That many points jumps us past level three into level four. Hell, we're almost level five now! Awesome!

 

[D. Rex]

That's a lot of points!

 

[Rykon]

Fortune favors the bold... and stuff.

 

[Purr]

• Attributes and Bonuses
• Skills
• HtH: Commando
• VHT-10A Ajax
• Drones
• Weapons and Gear
• Background
• Riviera '68 =)

• 
  Name: Gabriela Alicia De la Rosa (Gabriela = "God is my strength" in Spanish. Alicia = "Nobility" in Latin. De La Rosa = "Of the Rose" in Spanish.)
  Combat Handle: "Cromo Chamán" ("Chrome Shaman") (Note to self: Alt +0225 for á)
  O.C.C.: Tactical Corps Special Forces (Recon Patrol) (Robotech: Masters Saga, page 28)
  Rank: E-6 Sergeant 1st Class
  Level: 8th
  XP: 53,000/69,960 (using Psychie's list in the top post in this thread - it might be the Military Specialist & Technical Officer table from Shadow Chronicles, page 152).
  
  
  Spoiler: Picture of Gabriela

  This is her on duty (except her skin is sun-tanned and she has Hispanic features)...
  
  (Image credit: www.ogq.me ) (Thanks for finding it, D. Rex!)
  
  ...and this is she when she lets her hair down (this is the face I imagine when I think of this character). =)
  
  (Image credit: www.limetown.com.br)
  
  Species: Half-human, half-Meltrandi (she appears human).
  Ethnic Background: Mexican-American (and proud of it!)
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  Disposition: Loyal and dedicated to the ASC and her friends, honest, hard-working, adventurous, passionate, outspoken, tough-souled, cool under fire, patient, extremely dedicated to her work, professional on the job but free-willed when off the clock. Sometimes easy to anger. Will go to great lengths to right a wrong. Can be "married to her work" at the exclusion of nearly everything else in her life.
  Age: 25
  Gender: Female
  Height: 5 feet, 9 inches (175 cm).
  Weight: "Hey! That's none of your business, pendejo!" ("stupid!") =)
  Hair: Brown and healthy, soft to the touch.
  Eyes: Rich green, full of life.
  Other features: Very fit and able. Clearly an athlete. Tough, military, and feminine. Cat-like features especially her grin. Speaks with a Spanish (Mexican) accent (rapidly when excited). Stylish tattoo on her left shoulder down to her elbow with the Spanish word "fe" ["faith"] combined with a hooded priestess with Lt. Com. Claudia Grant's face. The face has mecha-like facial features and softly-glowing brown eyes holding a silvery cross and a blossoming red rose. Behind her stands the SDF-1 against a bold sky).
  
  I.Q. 30 (+16% to all Skills/+8 to Perception)
  M.E. 13
  M.A. 25 (84% chance to trust or intimidate)
  P.S. 24 (+11 to S.D.C. damage - 2 from Hand to Hand: Commando)
  P.P. 31 (+8 to Strike, Parry, and Dodge, +1 to Initiative)
  P.E. 24 (+18% to Saving Throws vs. coma/death, +5 to Saving Throws vs. Poison and Magic)
  P.B. 18 (40% to Charm/Impress)
  Spd 22 (approximately 15 miles/24 kilometers per hour)
  
  Hit Points: 51/51
  S.D.C.: 74/74
  
  Spoiler: The Math behind the Attributes

  I.Q. 30 (One "30" Attribute from Character Creation)
  M.E. 13 (13 from Dice)
  M.A. 25 (25 from Dice)
  P.S. 24 (14 from Dice) (+4 from O.C.C.) (+2 Boxing) (+2 Gymnastics) (+2 Body Building)
  P.P. 30 (26 from Dice) (+2 from O.C.C.) (+1 from Gymnastics) (+1 from 3rd level)(+1 from 6th level)
  P.E. 24 (20 from Dice) (+2 Forced March) (+1 Gymnastics) (+1 Outdoorsmanship)
  P.B. 18 (18 from Dice)
  Spd 12 (12 from Dice) (+8 Running) (+2 Forced March)
  
  S.D.C. 74 (+21 O.C.C.) (+10 Body Building) (+13 Boxing) (+10 Forced March) (+7 Gymnastics) (+11 Outdoorsmanship) (+2 Running)
  
  Combat Attributes (personal/in Ajax)
  Perception +10/+10
  Initiative +6/+8
  Attacks per Round: 7/10
  Strike +10/+13
  Parry +13/+15
  Dodge +15/+17 (on ground)/+22 (while airborne)
  Roll +8/+13
  Damage:
  Disarm +2/+4
  Pull Punch +3/+5
  Body Flip/Throw: +11
  Horror Factor: +3
  Karate punch does 2d4 S.D.C. damage. Karate kick does 2d6+4 + P.S. bonus S.D.C. damage and is +2 to Strike (5th level HtH: Commando). Jump Kick.
  
  
  Spoiler: The math behind the Combat Statistics

  Combat Attributes
  Perception +1 (+1 from O.C.C.) (+1 from Demolitions)
  Initiative +6 (+1 from O.C.C., +4 from Hand to Hand: Commando)(+1 for P.P. of 31)
  Attacks per Round: 7 (6 from Hand to Hand: Commando) (+1 Boxing)
  Strike +10 (+2 from HtH: Commando)
  Parry +13 (+3 from HtH: Commando) (+2 Boxing)
  Dodge +15 (+5 from HtH: Commando) (+2 Boxing) [+2 Ajax MECT, +3 while airborne, +2 Combat Flying]
  Roll +8 (+5 from HtH: Commando) (+1 Boxing) (+2 Gymnastics)
  Disarm +2 (+2 from HtH: Commando)
  Pull Punch +3 (+3 from HtH: Commando)
  Body Flip/Throw: +11 (+3 from HtH: Commando)
  Horror Factor: +2 (+2 to save from O.C.C.) (+1 HtH: Commando)
  
  Special Bonuses: +1 on initiative, +2 to strike, +2 to parry and dodge, +2 to auto-dodge while flying (the act of dodging does not use up a melee attack), +1 to roll with punch. These bonuses are in addition to those granted by MECT skill.
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 15. +1 on initiative, +1 to strike, +2 to dodge, +1 to auto-dodge while flying, +2 to disarm, +2 to pull punch, and +1 to roll with punch.
• 
  Tactical Corps Special Forces (Recon Patrol) O.C.C. skills (followed by additional percentage per level)
  
  O.C.C. Skills (Common Skill Set for Tactical Corps)
  Language: English: 98%
  Literacy: English: 98%
  Computer Operation: 98%
  Mathematics: Basic: 98%
  Pilot Automobile: 98%
  Pilot Hovercycles and Hover Vehicles: 98%
  
  O.C.C. Skills (Set for Tactical Corps)
  Body Building
  Climbing: 103%/96% (+5% with +5% from Gymnastics)
  Forced March
  Military Etiquette: 101% (+5%)
  Running
  Swimming: 103% (+5%)
  W.P. Energy Pistol +4
  W.P. Energy Rifle +4
  
  Primary M.O.S. (Recon Patrol Special Forces)
  Camouflage: 96% (+5%)
  Intelligence: 96% (+4%)
  Land Navigation: 102% (+4%)
  Outdoorsmanship
  Plot ASC Ground Veritechs: 103% (+5%, Myrmidon)
  MECT: Ground Veritech (Myrmidon)
  Prowl: 101% (+5%, +5% from Gymnastics)
  Surveillance Systems: 96% (+5%)
  Tracking (people): 106% (+5%)
  Wilderness Survival: 103% (+5%, +5% Outdoorsmanship)
  Hand to Hand: Commando (per Psychie, changed at the cost of 1 "Other" skill to Martial Arts)
  
  Other Skills (traded for M.O.S. Mecha Engineer)
  Advanced Mathematics: 100% (+2%)
  Electrical Engineer: 96% (+5%)
  Mecha Engineering: 91% (+5%)
  Mechanical Engineer: 86% (+5%)
  Robot Electronics: 96% (+5%)
  Robotechnology Engineering: 86% (+5%)
  Sensory Equipment: 91% (+5%)
  Vehicle Armorer: 91% (+5%)
  Weapon Systems: 101% (+5%)
  
  Jack of All Trades (M.O.S. with no O.C.C. bonuses - Guerrilla Warfare Specialist - skills in parenthesis are already taken in Recon Patrol O.C.C.)
  (Camouflage)
  Demolitions: 103% (+5%)
  Detect Ambush: 81% (+5%)
  Detect Concealment: 76% (+5%)
  Field Surgery: 60% (+4%)
  (Land Navigation)
  (Tracking: people)
  Trap/Mine Detection: 71% (+5%)
  (Wilderness Survival)
  W.P. Shield +3
  W.P. Heavy M.D. Weapons +3
  
  Additional Skill granted from Hand to Hand: Commando
  W.P. Paired Weapons
  
  Secondary Skills (3 + 1 additional at levels 4, 8, 12, and 15)
  1. (Traded for Hand to Hand: Commando)
  2. Pilot Veritechs: 98% (+5%)
  3. MECT: Ajax
  4. Language/Literacy: Zentraedi: 81% (+5%)
  
  Skills from Level Advancement
  2nd level - Language/Literacy: Spanish: 92% (+5%)
  3rd level - Gymnastics
  4th level - Boxing
  5th level - Robot Mechanics: 51% (+5%)
  6th level - Combat Flying (flying in adverse weather conditions, combat. All aerial maneuvers and stunts are performed at 1/2 penalties. +2 Dodge, +3 Roll)
  7th - Lore: Robotech Masters: 56% (+5% with +5% from O.C.C.)
  8th - Lore: Zentraedi : 61%
  
  Spoiler: Note from Psychie regarding Lore Zentraedi and Tirloian

  Conversation Posted in OOC #2621 on 15 Oct 2020
  I'm thinking that ti would help to remove any penalties to you working on the alien equipment.

  
  Skills desired
  Language: Tirolian?
  
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  Hand to Hand: Commando (Shadow Chronicles, page 158)
  
  Combat Skills
  Attacks per Melee: 4 at start.
  Escape Moves: Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact.
  Basic Defense Moves: Dodge, Parry, Automatic Parry.
  Hand Attacks: Strike (Punch), Elbow, Power Punch.
  Basic Foot Attacks: Knee, Kick Attack, Power Kick, Backward Sweep (only usable against targets behind the martial artist, cannot be parried but can be dodged).
  Special Attacks: Body Block/Tackle, Body Flip/Throw, Disarm, Entangle.
  Weapon Proficiencies: Adds W.P. Paired Weapons.
  
  1st - Starts with 4 attacks/round. W.P. Paired Weapons, Body Flip/Throw, Body Block/Tackle, and +2 to save vs. Horror Factor.
  2nd - +1 to Initiative and Strike, +2 Parry/Dodge, +3 Roll with Punch, +3 to Pull Punch. Backward Sweep.
  3rd - +1 to Initiative and Disarm. Karate Punch does 2d4 damage.
  4th - 1 additional attack per round. Karate Kick does 2d6 damage.
  5th - +2 to automatic dodge and all foot strikes.
  6th - +2 to initiative, +1 to strike, parry, dodge, and Body Flip/Throw.
  7th - +2 to damage, +1 to save vs. Horror Factor, Disarm, and Roll with Punch.
  8th - +1 additional attack per melee, Jump Kick, +2 to Body Flip/Throw, +1 to Roll with Punch.
  9th - Death Blow on a Natural 18-20!
  10th - +2 to save vs. Horror Factor, +1 on initiative and strike.
  11th - +1 to disarm and pull punch. +2 to Body Flip/Throw.
  12th - +2 to damage, +1 to parry and dodge, +2 to automatic dodge.
  13th - +1 additional attack per melee.
  14th - Can perform holds. +1 to initiative.
  15th - Critical Strike on a Natural 17-20.
  
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  (Image credit:Bedroom Furniture [that's not a typo!])
  
  M.D.C. By Location
  *Sensor Head – 95
  *Mast Mounted Radar Pod – 50
  Arms – 100 each
  Hands – 35 each
  Arm Thrusters – 55 each
  Legs – 125 each
  **Tail Section – 150
  **Tail Fins – 45 each
  **NOTAR Thrusters – 55 each
  ***Rotor Blades – 65 each
  ***Rotor Mast – 70
  ****Wings – 125 each
  Main Engines – 140 each
  Arm Mounted Pulse Laser – 50
  Forward/Head Laser – 70
  Reinforced Pilot’s Compartment – 150
  *****Main Body – 400
  *Destroying the Sensor Head or mast mounted radar pod will knock out most of the mecha’s sensors. Radar range is reduced to 10 miles, long range radio and laser communications are lost and the laser targeting system is destroyed. All of this leaves the mecha with no initiative bonuses and it fights at -3 to strike, parry, dodge, disarm and pull punch.
  **Destroying the tail section, the NOTAR thrusters or two or more tail fins sends the mecha out of control and unable to fly in fighter or helicopter mode until repaired.
  ***Destroying two or more rotor blades or the rotor mast itself will send the mecha out of control and unable to fly in helicopter mode until the mast/blades are repaired or replaced.
  ****Destroying one wing reduces all bonuses and speed by half in helicopter mode and the mecha is very unstable in jet mode, but still flyable. Destroying both stabilizers sends the mecha out of control. The mecha is unable to fly until the wings are repaired or replaced.
  NOTE: Items marked by 1-4 asterisks are difficult targets to hit, requiring a “Called Shot” with a penalty of -2 to strike.
  *****Depleting the MDC of the main body destroys the aircraft, rendering it totally useless.
  
  Speed
  Fighter Mode
  Sea Level: 625 mph
  33,000 feet: 1,037 mph or Mach 1.3
  Space: 2,450 or Mach 3.1
  
  Helicopter Mode: 241 mph
  
  Battloid Mode
  Flying: 188 mph
  Running: 35 mph
  Leaping: 75 feet up or across unassisted. 300 feet with jet assistance.
  
  Statistical Data
  Fighter Mode
  Height: 9.8 feet
  Length: 29.5 feet
  Width: 22.6 feet
  
  Helicopter Mode
  Height: 10.5 feet
  Length: 29.5 feet
  Width: 22.6 feet
  Rotor Span: 23.3 feet
  
  Battloid Mode
  Height: 29.2 feet
  Length: 8.2 feet
  Width: 9.2 feet
  Rotor Span: 23.3 feet
  
  Weight: 16.8 tons dry.
  Cargo: There is a small space big enough for a survival pack and a side arm.
  
  Weapon Systems
  1. LLW-20 20mm Pulse Laser: This weapon is mounted beneath the nose in fighter and helicopter mode, and in the head in Battloid mode. It can only be fired in helicopter mode.
  Range: 2000 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4 MD for a single shot, 4d4 MD for a burst
  Rate of Fire: Each blast uses one of the pilot’s melee attacks
  Payload: Effectively unlimited.
  
  2. IWS-40 40mm Ion Pulse Weapon Pod: The Ajax uses this heavy duty, 40mm Ion gun pod as its primary weapon in Battloid mode. It can be attached to either arm per the pilot’s preference, has decent range, and the weapon packs a wallop that gives the Ajax a punch equal to its Bioroid opponents. Two weapons, one on each arm, can be mounted in special circumstances.
  Range: 1,800 feet
  Mega Damage: 1d6x10+10 MD per pulse. Double if two weapons are used and fired at the same target.
  Rate of Fire: Each pulse uses one of the pilot’s melee attacks.
  
  3. Wing Mounted Hardpoints ( 4 ) : Each wing has two hardpoints to carry short- and medium-range missiles, or the multiple launch rocket pods loaded with mini-missiles. Weapons mounted on these points can be fired in any mode.
  Range: By missile type.
  Mega Damage: By missile type.
  Payload: Each hardpoint can carry 3 medium range missile, 5 short range missiles, or 15 mini missiles at a time.
  
  4. Hand to Hand Combat
  Restrained Punch: 1d4 MD
  Full Strength Punch: 1d6 MD
  Power Punch: 4d6 MD; counts as two attacks
  Kick: 3d8 MD
  Leap Kick: 5d8 MD; counts as two attacks
  Stomp: 2d4 MD against targets under 11 feet tall
  
  Special Bonuses: +1 on initiative, +2 to strike, +2 to parry and dodge, +2 to auto-dodge while flying (the act of dodging does not use up a melee attack), +1 to roll with punch. These bonuses are in addition to those granted by MECT skill.
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee at levels 1, 3, 6, 10, and 15. +1 on initiative, +1 to strike, +2 to dodge, +1 to auto-dodge while flying, +2 to disarm, +2 to pull punch, and +1 to roll with punch.
  
  Special Equipment of Note: Sensor Cluster. The VFH-10A flown by the Tactical Corps for close ground support uses a different RADAR system than the B version flown by the TASC. The A variant uses an X-band pulse-doppler radar with a 360-degree field of view optimized for ground attack and infantry support missions. This radar can look down without being confused by ground clutter and can pick out specific targets such as buildings, giant mecha and installations. This radar also allows nap of the earth navigation which gives the Ajax the ability to fly and fight at extremely low altitudes and even hide behind trees and buildings. While being optimized for air-to-ground attack, this radar is also well suited for air-to-air combat and has a range of 125 miles and can track up to 80 targets. The radar can also be focused and used to overload enemy radar. This gives the VFH-10A a limited electronic attack capability. It requires an Electronic Countermeasures roll. If the character doesn't have that skill, he can roll on the Sensory Equipment skill with a -15% penalty.
  
  Electronic Warfare Pod (per Psychie)
  "The skill to get the best use of the EW Pod is Advanced Electronic Combat from the Macros book. You can try a Electronic Countermeasures skill roll instead at a -15%, and a Sensory Equipment skill roll at a -40%.
  
  A successful roll jams one system at a time for 2d6 minutes. One system jammed reduces all combat bonuses of your target by 25% and makes them lose 1 attack action as they struggle to clear their screens. Two systems jammed drops their bonuses by 50% and they lose two attacks. Three or more systems jammed wipes out all combat bonuses, drops the number of actions by half, and reduces the pilot to just visual targeting of what they can see. "
  
  Also comes with 12 additional chaff/flare packets.
  
  
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  Gabi has 2 of each type of drone, 1 pair on duty and the other pair back at base.
  
  "Hummingbird" mini-drone (based off of the Military's Black Hornet Drones).
  Size: Tiny (entire system fits into soldier's pocket)
  Maximum transmitting distance: 1,000 meters from operator (controls with joystick and camera device).
  Maximum speed: 22 miles per hour (35 kph).
  Maximum Flight Time: 25 minutes before requiring recharge (via inside mecha cockpit, preferably by USB-style port or better).
  Vision types: Telescopic (x5 magnification), night vision, thermal vision. Camera takes still images, High Definition video.
  Audio pick-up (1 microphone) duration: 30 minutes. Can transfer data to thumb drives.
  Artificial Intelligence/Autonomy: No AI. No autonomy. Completely operator-controlled.
  Mega-damage of Main Body - 5.
  
  "Dragonfly" spy drone (based off of DJI's Inspire 2 drone)
  Size: Small (entire system fits in vertical pack stored on side of Tactical Jump Pack).
  Maximum transmitting distance: 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) from operator (controls with joystick and camera device or autonomous).
  Maximum speed: 55 miles per hour (89 kph).
  Maximum Flight Time: 45 minutes before requiring recharge (via inside mecha cockpit, preferably by USB-style port or better).
  Vision types: Telescopic (x10 magnification), night vision, thermal vision. Camera takes still images, professional-quality video.
  Audio pick-up (1 microphone) duration: 60 minutes of professional-quality audio. Can transfer data to thumb drives.
  Artificial Intelligence/Autonomy: Some AI or autonomy. Can be completely operator-controlled. Can follow basic commands including voice commands.
  Mega-damage of Main Body - 35.
  Slots for mounting small-sized equipment (can carry a maximum of 5 pounds in a small space like a grenade, mine, noisemaker, or EMP jamming device): 1.
  Equipment slot attachment: Robotic arm (just large enough to swipe a wallet or set of keys).
  
  Qualities in both drones
  Quiet operation (so they can listen in on conversations without being detected).
  Anti-jamming software (so no one stops the drones from transmitting, taking it over, or stops it from returning).
  EMP resistant.
  easy maintenance and repair (swap-in, swap-out technology, plug-and-play style hardware).
  Able to transmit its data via live-feed over coded military frequencies to other friendly units to be used as a spotter (and by friendlies, I mean all of them within its range or back to Gabi where she could show the fire support exactly what she is looking at and where with live data and exact coordinates).
  
  Upgrade ideas
  Small LED flashlight (to improve nightvision and see in darkness).
  USB music player with one loudspeaker (to play emotional music to mess with the Malcontents). =)
  
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  RL-6 60mm Light Repeating Rocket Cannon
  The RL-6 is a light anti-armor weapon that fires 60mm mini-missiles.
  Weight: The weapon weighs 16 pounds. A fully loaded magazine weighs around 8 pounds.
  Range: One mile
  Mega-Damage: By mini-missile type. Standard load is HEAP rounds which deal 1d4x10 per missile, but can be loaded with Plasma that does 1d6x10 MD per missile.
  Rate of Fire: One missile per attack
  Payload: 6 mini-missiles.
  Current load: 12 Plasma mini-missiles.
  
  LAR-10 7.62mm Laser Assault Rifle
  The LAR-10 is the infantry standard battle rifle of the ASC ground and aerospace forces. It comes standard with a built-in 4x magnification scope with integrated red-dot sight, a telescoping butt stock and a high strength tactical sling.
  Weight: 9lbs
  Range: 2,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 3d6 MD for a single blast, 1d4x10+6 for a three round burst
  Payload: 40 single blasts or 14 pulse bursts per magazine. 4/4 E-Clips.
  
  LP-09 9mm Laser Pistol
  The newly designed LP-09 is becoming the standard energy side arm of the ASC. Made of lightweight polymers and ceramics, this weapon is accurate, reliable, and easy to care for.
  Weight: 2lbs
  Range: 1,000 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4+1 M.D.
  Payload: 24 blasts per rechargeable energy magazine. 4/4 E-Clips.
  
  D-30 Cobalt Grenades
  Weight: 0.5 lbs
  Mega Damage: 3d6 MD
  Blast Area: 15 feet
  Number carried: 2.
  
  D-40 Cobalt Limpet Mine
  This explosive mine is very compact, less than a foot long, and includes the explosives, detonator and timer. The timer is digital and can be set from 30 seconds to 60 minutes and can be stopped up to 5 seconds before detonation. The back is coated in a high-powered adhesive with a peel-off cover and will pretty much stick to anything.
  Weight: 5 lbs
  Mega Damage: 1d6x10 MD
  Blast Radius: 20 feet
  Number in case on Ajax: 11/12
  
  Gear
  2 smoke grenades (1 red, 1 green).
  Canteen
  Dress uniform
  Flight suit
  Duty uniform
  Personal clothing and effects
  Survival pack
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Combat Armor Environmental Hardsuit
  CBR environmental hardsuits are descended from the UEDF's CHR-1 Hazardous Environment suit. Advances in materials as well as environmental systems have allowed the ASC to capitalize on the fully sealed armor idea, providing a sturdy, relatively lightweight suit that fully protects the wearer from hostile environments. Worn by aerospace pilots, combat divers, and TSC naval infantry, these suits consist of a fully articulated, positively pressurized hardsuit that is worn much like a spacesuit or hard diving suit. The suits are made primarily of ceramic composite plates that lock together with flexible joints that provide the wearer with both flexibility and protection. Environmental suits do not utilize a unisuit, but instead have all the standard features integrated into a built-in lining. Mk. 2E environmental hardsuits come in light and heavy varieties and vary in style and color depending on service branch.
  
  Features of All CBR Environmental Armor:
  1. Full Environmental Shielding: CBR full environmental hardsuits are positively pressurized and proofed against radiation, chemical and biological agents. These suits have an internal computer that runs the life support systems and a built-in oxygen tank good for two hours of use fully buttoned up. The oxygen supply can be extended indefinitely by drawing in outside air and filtering it through the integral scrubbers, or with external oxygen packs.
  2. Heat and Fire Resistance. CBR hardsuits are nearly impervious to extremes of temperature up to 2,000 degrees F (1,093 degrees C) and down to -300 degrees F (-184.4 degrees C). These suits are also fireproof and take no damage from normal fires (campfires, bonfires, house fires, vehicle fires, etc.). Nuclear fires, napalm and plasma fires all deal normal damage.
  
  CBR Mk. 2E Heavy Armor
  M.D.C. by Location:
  Helmet - 45
  Arms (2) - 30 each
  Legs (2) - 50 each
  Main Body - 105
  Weight: 25 pounds (11.25 kg).
  Movement Penalties: -15% penalty on skills requiring flexibility and mobility such as Swimming, Climbing, Acrobatics, Escape Artist, etc., and reduces running speed by 10%.
  Service: Used primarily by the ASC Tactical Space Corps, Global Military Police and Navy Division.
  
  CB-S Tactical Shields
  Made of the same ceramic alloys as the CBR body armors, the CB-S shields give a soldier an extra level of protection against both melee and ranged attacks. Used by a number of branches within the ASC, these shields come in light, medium and heavy types, and vary in color and style to match the armor they come with. CB-S Tactical Shields are used by most of the ASC, with the exception of the Navy Division, Tactical Air Force, Civil Defense Flying Corps, and the Tactical Corps Mountain Division.
  
  Heavy Shield: 55 M.D.C. Weight: 15 pounds (6.75 kg), -10% to skills that require manual dexterity (Pick Locks, Demolitions, Field Surgery, etc.) +2 to parry.
  
  Credits: 4,950.
  
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  (Note from Dannigan: At best, this story is barely possible given the timelines provided for the First Robotech War. But hey, the way I see it - it's a game and it probably isn't breaking anyone's fun, so why not dream a little?)
  
  Transcript from video interview with Corporal Gabriela De la Rosa on the Charlotte Evans Show.
  
  Charlotte Evans: Thanks for joining us on air here at WMAX Real Military at the Charlotte Evans Show. Today our guest is Corporal Gabriela De la Rosa, the Tactical Corp's newest member of Recon Patrol. But it isn't just her gender or her Hispanic heritage that is the cause for celebration today; Corporal De la Rosa is the very first half-human, half-Meltrandi member of Recon Patrol. Isn't that right?
  
  Cpl. Gabriela De la Rosa: *laughing* Yes! Yes, it is.
  
  CE: Tell the audience, please, what it's like to... be the very first?
  
  GDlR: Well... It's terribly exciting! All my hard effort, my nose in the books, all the studies, exercises, and breaking my back to get this far. I still can't believe it.
  
  CE: Do you feel like you have made a statement for other people of mixed human and alien heritage?
  
  GDlR: Well... if I have, I gotta be honest. It's not what I was setting out for, you know?
  
  CE: What were you setting out for?
  
  GDlR: *pause* My goal was to fulfill my dream. It's a crazy dream and everybody I know used to tell me, "Chica! You're leaving a life like that to go and join the military?! Are you loca?" And I gotta tell them. "Look! I gotta do it! I gotta try for it! Not because I'm a woman or that I'm latina or I come from a successful family or that my Mom came out of a gene-tank and my Dad came outta my Grandma. None of that. I gotta do it... for me.
  
  CE: Why do it at all?
  
  GDlR: 'Cause I gotta put in, you know? I feel like I've been given a lot with a family as great a mine, but... I won't feel so great unless I feel like I'm giving back. And giving back to me means sticking my neck out for the human race.
  
  CE: I appreciate that, corporal. I really do and I can say for certain I'm not the only one. Did you have any hobbies did you have when you were growing up that helped you in your military career?
  
  GDlR: *pauses in thought* I've always liked to keep in shape. So, I like running, lifting weights, and swimming. But there was one part of my life that really gave me an unexpected edge when I tried out for Recon Patrol.
  
  CE: And that was?
  
  GDlR: Drone Racing.
  
  
  Spoiler: The Drone Racing League

  Courtesy of Great Big Story. =)
  
  
  
  CE: Drone racing?
  
  GDIR: Si. Some of us got into a stage where we used drones. I can't get into detail or they'll kill me. *her eyes look up* Or I'll kill me for talking about it. *laughs* Either way I'm dead! But yeah, I scored pretty high. I even got to teach the instructors a few tricks. I have loved drones for years. I love what they can do. They don't talk back. They got no drama. When I'm operating them, it's like they're an extension of me. When they're flying, I'm flying with them.
  
  CE: You don't have any military on your father's side?
  
  GDlR: No.
  
  CE: And would you like to tell us who your father is?
  
  GDIR: *chuckles* Oh, here we go! I can't even tell my own story without his! No, really, I can't. I mean, if you listen to music, you hear that voice, that love, you know who he is.
  
  CE: And your father's name is...?
  
  GDlR: *rolls her eyes and grins* Mi papa... is the "Don or Romance" himself, Don De La Rosa. Everybody knows him for his hits and his style and all that. I mean, when he opens his mouth to sing... you can just forget about it. You can't resist. Your heart doesn't belong to you no more. It's like something in you opens up and you just hand him your heart. Willingly. And you know that cupping-of-the-hands thing he does when he's singing his ballads? It's like... it's like he knows he's got your heart in there and it's the most precious thing in the world to him. He will never let it go. He will never let it come to harm. All those lyrics he wrote? He means every last syllable.
  
  CE: Let's hear an excerpt from "Sogno."
  
  
  Spoiler: Sogno

  "Sogno" by Andrea Bocelli
  
  
  
  CE: And what does "Sogno" mean?
  
  GDlR: It's Italian. It means,"My Dream." It's one hell of a love song. It was the first song he ever sang to her and the first song she had ever heard. He sang it to her right before she flew off on one of her dangerous missions.
  
  CE: And about him falling in love with your mother? The viral videos of him singing to her, courting her like a charming prince from bygone era, every time she leaves and returns from an RDF combat mission? Some people wonder. Are those videos real?
  
  GDlR: *sits up straight* Every moment! To hear him tell it, mi papa was and is a genius. Most people don't know that, but he's a true-to-God genius. And when you're a genius, you're often lonely. You often don't follow society's rules; you make your own, see? So that makes you feel like no one can really know and love the real you. Well, one look at mi mama and that was it. She had his heart. And when you're a De la Rosa, you go after what you want with everything you got.
  
  CE: Is that part of Don De la Rosa's famous wild side?
  
  GDlR: Yes... That man is one part romantic prince, one part lusty devil. Kind of like a Spanish Tom Jones. One moment, you're tender and soft, the next moment, you're screaming and taking off your underwear! Unless you're one of his daughters, of course.
  
  CE: He dedicated this song to her.
  
  
  Spoiler: She's a Lady

  "She's a Lady" by Tom Jones. Check him out especially at the 0:34 mark in the video. =)
  
  
  
  GDlR: So here is this wealthy man, this genius, this famous singer women love so much that when they attend his concerts, they - I swear to God! - they show up wearing like 6 or 7 pairs of panties! And Charlotte! During parts of the show, they just throw them up their along with their phone numbers, hotel room keys, all that stuff. And then he goes and falls for a Zentraedi woman. Ay Dios mio!
  
  CE: I've been to his concerts! But from your point of view, what happened?
  
  GDlR: What do you think, happened? First, the women lost their minds! Then, they hissed and spat! But as time went on and those videos got more and more, they began to understand - he really loved her. And because they loved him, I think they tried to understand. *chuckles* But all these years and kids later, some women want to kill mi mama. Good luck with that. Mi mama is even a better fighter than my instructors.
  
  CE: And why is that?
  
  GDlR: *snickers* Well, I'm the oldest of eleven children. What does that tell you?
  
  CE: Let's have a shot of your mother, Mrs. Iziria "Izzy" De la Rosa, then...
  
  
  Spoiler: Gabi's Meltrandi mother

  This with brunette hair in a Meltrandi flight suit.
  
  (Image credit: Daz 3D )
  
  CE: And your mother now...
  
  
  Spoiler: After having 11 kids

  
  (Image credit:WallpaperUP )
  
  GDlR: *smiles proudly* That's mi mami!
  
  CE: Let's talk about your desire to join the military. It was your birthday party. You were very young, but were already speaking and reading. All of your family and friends were gathered. Your father and mother took their big yacht out into the pacific and there in the background was the SDF-1. And one bright afternoon, you briefly met the legendary Commander Roy Fokker.
  
  GDlR: *nods proudly* Yes.
  
  CE: But meeting him wasn't what made your decision?
  
  GDlR: Oh, no.
  
  CE: How did it all happen?
  
  GDlR: Well, we're all out there staring at the the SDF-1, like, for real! And mi papa raises his glass and says, "Now, I am hoping a big surprise will be here, but I cannot promise anything!" And I'm thinking, "Que?! The SDF-1 out there isn't big enough?!" I mean, it was miles away, but we were seeing it with our own eyes!
  
  CE: And then what happened?
  
  GDlR: Here comes this Valkyrie low across the water in Guardian form, right? And as it gets closer, we see the Skull Squadron motif on her and we just lose our minds, but that wasn't the best part. The Valkyrie lands on mi papi's biggest yacht and out comes Commander Fokker... with Claudia Grant!
  
  
  Spoiler: Commander Fokker and Lt. Commander Grant

  (With Rick Hunter in the background.)
  
  (Image credit: Pinterest )
  
  CE: And she was your hero?
  
  GDIR: Ay yai yai! You better believe it! I loved Miss Grant! I mean, there was a woman on the bridge who was third in command of humanity's most-powerful vessel, right? And she was brainy and beautiful and in all ways professional with a heart so big, only the SDF-1 could hold it, you know?
  
  CE: I have to ask. How did Commander Fokker react when he realized he wasn't your hero?
  
  GDIR: Oh, I don't think he even noticed. He's great, really! But I think he was kinda drunk, you know? All my friends rushed up to him. My dad brought him an acoustic guitar and they had a lot of fun together playing songs and drinking. But me, I ran up to Miss Grant. There she was all by her lonesome letting Commander Fokker soak up all the attention. I just had to tell her what I thought of her and how I wanted to be like her.
  
  CE: How did she reply?
  
  GDlR: She gave me some advice. She said while she was flattered, it was more important for me to find my own way. To make my own dreams. It would take hard work and a lot of study and sacrifice, but she said I looked like a very intelligent little girl and she bet if I really, really put my all into it, I could become the woman of my dreams.
  
  CE: And here you are today - Tactical Corp's very first half-human, half-Meltrandi Recon Patrol soldier.
  
  GDlR: *smiles* Yeah...
  
  CE: If Lt. Commander Grant were here today, what would you say to her?
  
  GDlR: I.. *pauses* I... *takes a deep breath* I'd tell her she was right. I realized years later I didn't really have an interest in being on board a bridge, responsible for tens of thousands of lives or more, working with all that pressure, all that duty. I couldn't be Claudia Grant. As I got older, I knew was happier in the woods and the rain and mud, in the gym, in the mecha hangars, with my drone racing - in short, I was happy being in the Green Berets of the Army of the Southern Cross. Recon Patrol! We're the professionals, you know?
  
  CE: Well, even professionals need dreams.
  
  GDlR: Yeah.
  
  CE: What are you going to do now that you have made it this far?
  
  GDlR: *giggles shyly* Jump right back to my training and never mention this interview to nobody! *gives a big laugh*
  
  CE: I think you've earned the right. *she reaches over and they shake hands* Thank you so much for joining us, Corporal Gabriela De la Rosa. May you have a long and shining career and continue to inspire more young people. *turns to the camera* And thank you all so very much for joining us here at the Charlotte Evans Show. Please support our sponsors here at WMAX Real Military Radio and Video and we'll see you next week. God bless and stay strong.
  
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  Instrumental Mood Music from Billy Idol's legendary guitar rocker, Steve Stevens. "Riviera '68" is the last track on his "Flamenco A Go Go" album. Terrific Flamenco and Gabi's kind of jam!
  
  

 

[Psychie]

For successfully wrapping up this part of the story, here is another large xp award!

7,000 points!

That puts everyone at 25,121 and 6th level. Congratulations! You've earned it!

 

[Gundam Watcher 27]

For successfully wrapping up this part of the story, here is another large xp award!

7,000 points!

That puts everyone at 25,121 and 6th level. Congratulations! You've earned it!

So what happens at 6th level?

 

[Psychie]

You get the following bonuses from your HtH Commando skill:
Level 6 : +2 on initiative, +1 to strike, parry and dodge, and +1 to body flip/throw.

Add one new skill at a level 1 percentage, 1d6 to hit points, and you can add 1 to any of your Attributes you wish.

Edit: Your skills all also go up in percent by one level

 

[Gundam Watcher 27]

You get the following bonuses from your HtH Commando skill:
Level 6 : +2 on initiative, +1 to strike, parry and dodge, and +1 to body flip/throw.

Add one new skill at a level 1 percentage, 1d6 to hit points, and you can add 1 to any of your Attributes you wish.

Edit: Your skills all also go up in percent by one level

What kind of skills can I currently purchase?

 

[Psychie]

There is a link to the Master Skill List at the top of the Character Thread, but some skills will not apply to this setting. If you have the Shadow Chronicles book, that is the one to go with. Any skill in the book you wish to add on is fair game from there.

 

[Gundam Watcher 27]

There is a link to the Master Skill List at the top of the Character Thread, but some skills will not apply to this setting. If you have the Shadow Chronicles book, that is the one to go with. Any skill in the book you wish to add on is fair game from there.

Weapon development

 

[Psychie]

Gundam Watcher 27 Sherwood Rykon Purr D. Rex

Another 1,000 xp for all. That should have you at 26,121. On your way to 7th level, but not there yet.

 

[Psychie]

5,000 xp for all as a early present.

 

[Psychie]

It has been a while since any xp has been awarded, and with the next part of the story we will be advancing ahead several weeks, so I'm putting everyone up to 40,000 xp and 7th level.

Rykon Gundam Watcher 27 D. Rex Sherwood Purr

 

[Psychie]

Here is some wonderful xp!

Another 5,000 points for you, putting you within spitting distance of level 8

Purr Rykon D. Rex Sherwood Gundam Watcher 27

 

[Purr]

• Attributes and Bonuses
• Skills
• HtH: Commando
• Bioroid Interceptor
• Robots
• Weapons and Gear
• Background
• T'kar Development
• Musical Themes
• Game Notes

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  Name: T'kar the Prime Mover (a Prime Mover is a social title I created for a Karbarran who has shown mastery both in Science and Engineering)
  Combat Handle: "Ursa Maker"
  O.C.C.: Marine Technical Officer (Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook, page 32)
  Rank: 2nd Lieutenant (promoted from Warrant Officer)
  Level: 6th
  XP: 30,000/34,960, (using Psychie's list in the top post in this thread - it might be the Military Specialist & Technical Officer table from Shadow Chronicles, page 152).
  
  
  Spoiler: Pictures

  This is the picture I think is closest to T'Kar. =)
  
  (Image credit: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook)
  
  I have the impression Karbarrans commonly use apostrophes in their names as seen below.
  
  (Image credit: Robotech Wiki - Fandom)
  
  Plus, if you're going to play a science/engineering geek, why not have some fun with your favorite "Bit"? Wooo! =)
  
  (Image credit: We Never Should Have Taught the Pandas How to Fly - the impressive Steve Chinhsuan Wang)
  
  Species: Karbarran
  Alignment: Scrupulous
  Disposition: Extremely intelligent, proud, curious, practical, downright goofy. Easily-bored, restless; always at work on some kind of project(s). Good-natured, but also a very determined enemy. Has integrity and expects the same of his allies. A dreamer whose spirit does not rest until his dreams are reality.
  Mannerisms: Often examines things by staring at them. Displays good social manners (from a Karbarran point of view). Likes to name things. Likes to think aloud. Loves a good debate even if his argument loses.
  Age: 585 years old
  Gender: Male
  Height: 8 feet, 9 inches (2.67 m).
  Weight: 720 pounds (327 kg).
  Fur: Brown, thick, Grizzly-like.
  Eyes: Piercing hazel behind which exists an ever-curious mind and a strong will to match.
  Other features: Nasty scar on right shoulder about 6 inches long given to him by an Invid Crann's energy flagela for "disobedience." Calloused paws from long, long years of labor, both in the mines and the Invid shipyards where they put him to work making whatever they wanted.
  Hobbies: Doing science and engineering, studying the stars, keeping up with medical science, gaming (role-playing and video games).
  
  I.Q. 30 (+16% to all Skills/+8 to Perception)
  M.E. 20 (+3 to Saving Throws vs. Insanity)
  M.A. 16 (+55% to Charm/Impress)
  P.S. 34 (Augmented, causes 2D4 Mega-damage with Power Punch. +19 to S.D.C. damage, can lift/throw 2,100 lb/953 kg)
  P.P. 22 (+4 to Strike, Parry, Dodge)
  P.E. 24 (+18% to Saving Throws vs. coma/death, +5 to Saving Throws vs. Poison and Magic)
  P.B. 10
  Spd 24 (approximately 16 miles/26 kilometers per hour)
  
  Hit Points: 71
  S.D.C.: 147
  
  
  Spoiler: The Math behind the Attributes

  Hit Points: 71 (+24 P.E.) (+47 Experience Levels as a Karbarran)
  S.D.C.: 147 (+80 Starting S.D.C.) (+23 Marine Technical Officer) (+7 Athletics S.D.C) (+17 Boxing) (+5 Forced March) (+2 Running) (+13 Wrestling)
  
  I.Q. 30 (One "30" Attribute from Character Creation)
  M.E. 20 (20 from Dice)
  M.A. 19 (16 from Dice) (+3 from O.C.C.)
  P.S. 36 (29 from Dice) (+1 Athletics) (+2 Boxing) (+2 Physical Labor) (+2 Wrestling)
  P.P. 22 (20 from Dice) (+1 from 3rd level)(+1 from 6th level)
  P.E. 24 (20 from Dice) (+2 Forced March) (+1 Role-Playing Game Design) (+1 Wrestling)
  P.B. 10 (10 from Dice)
  Spd 24 (9 from Dice) (+3 Athletics) (+1 Forced March) (+11 Running)
  
  Karbarran Natural Abilities: Engineering Aptitude and Motion Detection (see Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook page 41)
  Karbarran Racial bonuses (+1 to Perception Rolls, +2 to save vs. poison, toxins and gases, +2 to roll with impact).
  
  Combat Attributes (personal/in Bioroid Interceptor)
  Perception +11
  Initiative +4/+6
  Attacks per Round: 6/9
  Strike +6/+9 (melee only; see weapon descriptions)
  Parry +10/+13
  Dodge +12/+14 (on ground)/+15 (while airborne)
  Roll +5/+7
  Damage: +19
  Disarm +5/+7
  Pull Punch +3/+5
  Body Flip/Throw: +5
  Horror Factor: +3
  Karate punch does 2d4 S.D.C. damage. Karate kick does 2d6 + P.S. bonus S.D.C. damage and is +2 to Strike (5th level HtH: Commando). Jump Kick.
  
  
  Spoiler: The math behind the Combat Statistics

  Combat Attributes
  Perception +11 (+8 from I.Q.) (+2 from O.C.C.) (+1 from Karbarran R.C.C.)
  Initiative +4 (+4 from Hand to Hand: Commando)
  Attacks per Round: 6 (5 from Hand to Hand: Commando) (+1 Boxing)
  Strike +6 (+4 P.P.) (+2 from HtH: Commando)
  Parry +10 (+4 P.P.) (+3 from HtH: Commando) (+1 Athletics) (+2 Boxing)
  Dodge +12 (+4 P.P.) (+5 from HtH: Commando) (+1 Athletics) (+2 Boxing)
  Roll +5 (+3 from HtH: Commando) (+1 Athletics) (+1 Boxing)
  Disarm +5 (+4 P.P.) (+1 from HtH: Commando)
  Pull Punch +3 (+3 from HtH: Commando)
  Body Flip/Throw: +5 (+4 P.P.) (+1 from HtH: Commando)
  Horror Factor: +5 (+3 M.E.) (+2 from HtH: Commando)
  
  Bonuses from Mecha Elite Combat Training (MECT): +1 attack per melee at levels 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, and 15. +2 on Initiative, +3 to Strike (melee only), +3 to Parry, +2/+3 to Dodge (ground/air), +2 to Disarm, +2 to Roll with punch.
  
  
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  Universal UEEF Marine Skills/UEEF Marine Technical Officer O.C.C. Skills/Science Officer M.O.S./Mecha Engineer M.O.S./Close Quarter Combat Specialist M.O.S./Other Skills/Secondary Skills/Skills Learned From Experience
  
  Universal Skills for UEEF Marines
  Computer Operation: 103% (+3%)
  Basic Mathematics: 113% (+3%)
  Radio: Basic: 86% (+5%)
  Language: English: 98% (+1%)
  Literacy: English: 98% (+2%)
  W.P. Rifle +4 (Marine Bonus) (+2 strike at 1st, and every 3rd level)
  W.P. Energy Rifle +4 (Marine Bonus) (+2 strike at 1st, and every 3rd level)
  
  O.C.C. Skills
  Basic Electronics: 86% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Climbing: 81%71% (+5%)
  Forced March
  Intelligence: 74% (+4%)
  (Pilot: Select One) Mecha: Pilot Bioroid Interceptor: 106% (+5%)
  Sensory Equipment: 91% (+5%) (+5% from Science Officer M.O.Ss)
  Swimming: 95% (+5%)
  W.P. Energy Pistol (+3 strike at 1st, and every 3rd level)
  W.P. Heavy Mega-Damage Weapons (+3 strike at 1st, and every 3rd level) (Swapped out W.P. Handguns with Psychie's permission)
  Mathematics: Advanced: 107% (+2%) (+5% from M.O.S.)
  Military Etiquette: 96% (+5%)
  Hand to Hand: Expert (upgraded to Hand to Hand: Commando via Close Quarter Combat Specialist M.O.S.)
  
  Primary M.O.S. (Science Officer)
  Computer Programming: 110% (4%) (See Mecha Engineer M.O.S. below)
  Sensory Equipment +15% (5%) (See O.C.C. skills above)
  First Aid: 85% (5%)
  Paramedic: 96% (5%)
  Astrophysics: 101% (5%)
  Chemistry: 86% (5%)
  Botany: 81% (5%)
  Lore: Invid: 71%
  Research: 96%
  Xenobiology: 96%
  Zoology: 91%
  
  Secondary M.O.S. (Mecha Engineer - with a question: why does this M.O.S. lack the Mecha Engineer skill when it's called the Mecha Engineer M.O.S.?)
  Computer Programming: 116% (+4%) (+5 from Science Officer M.O.S.)
  Electrical Engineer: 111% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Advanced Mathematics: % (+2%) (See O.C.C. skills above)
  Mechanical Engineer: 101% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Protoculture Engineer: 106% (5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Reflex System Mechanics: 106% (5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Robot Electronics: 96% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Robot Mechanics: 86% (+10% Karbarran)
  Vehicle Armorer: 106% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  Weapons Engineer: 96% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  
  Jack of All Trades (M.O.S. with no O.C.C. bonuses) - Close Quarters Combat Expert
  Boxing
  Hand to Hand: Commando
  Military Sign Language: 81% (5%)
  Prowl: 66% (5%)
  Wrestling
  W.P. Knife +3
  W.P. Sword +3
  
  Additional Skill granted from Hand to Hand: Commando
  W.P. Paired Weapons
  
  Secondary Skills (3 + 1 additional at levels 3, 6, 9, and 12)
  1. Salvage: 76% (+5%)
  2. Jury-Rig: 66% (+5%)
  3. Athletics
  4. Running
  5. MECT: Bioroid Interceptor
  
  Skills from Level Advancement
  2nd level - Robotechnology Engineer: 81% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  3rd level - Mecha Engineer: 81% (+5%) (+10% Karbarran)
  4th level - Medical Doctor: 66%/86% (5%)
  5th level - Field Armorer/Munitions Expert: 81% (+5%) (+10% Jury-Rig)
  6th level - Role-Playing Game Design (Woo!): 58% (+4%)
  7th level -
  8th level -
  
  Skills desired
  Cooking!
  Holistic Medicine
  Identify Plants & Fruits
  Barter
  Xenological Medicine
  Preserve Food?
  Pressure Point Techniques
  Detect Ambush
  Detect Concealment
  Navigation
  
• 
  Hand to Hand: Commando (Shadow Chronicles, page 158)
  
  Combat Skills
  Attacks per Melee: 4 at start.
  Escape Moves: Roll with Punch/Fall/Impact.
  Basic Defense Moves: Dodge, Parry, Automatic Parry.
  Special Defense Moves: Automatic Dodge
  Hand Attacks: Strike (Punch), Elbow, Power Punch.
  Basic Foot Attacks: Knee, Kick Attack, Power Kick, Backward Sweep (only usable against targets behind the martial artist, cannot be parried but can be dodged).
  Special Attacks: Body Block/Tackle, Body Flip/Throw, Disarm, Entangle.
  Weapon Proficiencies: Adds W.P. Paired Weapons.
  
  1st - Starts with 4 attacks/round. W.P. Paired Weapons, Body Flip/Throw, Body Block/Tackle, and +2 to save vs. Horror Factor.
  2nd - +1 to Initiative and Strike, +2 Parry/Dodge, +3 Roll with Punch, +3 to Pull Punch. Backward Sweep.
  3rd - +1 to Initiative and Disarm. Karate Punch does 2d4 damage.
  4th - 1 additional attack per round. Karate Kick does 2d6 damage.
  5th - +2 to automatic dodge and all foot strikes.
  6th - +2 to initiative, +1 to strike, parry, dodge, and Body Flip/Throw.
  7th - +2 to damage, +1 to save vs. Horror Factor, Disarm, and Roll with Punch.
  8th - +1 additional attack per melee, Jump Kick, +2 to Body Flip/Throw, +1 to Roll with Punch.
  9th - Death Blow on a Natural 18-20!
  10th - +2 to save vs. Horror Factor, +1 on initiative and strike.
  11th - +1 to disarm and pull punch. +2 to Body Flip/Throw.
  12th - +2 to damage, +1 to parry and dodge, +2 to automatic dodge.
  13th - +1 additional attack per melee.
  14th - Can perform holds. +1 to initiative.
  15th - Critical Strike on a Natural 17-20.
  
• 
  
  Spoiler: Bioroid Interceptor

  Name: "Mister Freedom" A black and red Bioroid Interceptor like the one below. Its cockpit has been customized by T'kar for use by Karbarrans.
  
  (Image credit: Robotech Saga Wiki - Fandom)
  
  
  (Image credit: Robotech Research)
  
  
• 
  Name: "Honey"
  
  Spoiler: Honey

  A small and energetic droid that follows T'kar about helping him with his everyday work and gives him someone friendly to talk to. While not intelligent in the sense of A.I., Honey can communicate with but two words - "yes" and "no" (think of Bit from Tron - allegedly the very first CGI character ever made). Honey is lightly-armed and often watches T'kar's back when he's working or sleeping. T'kar doesn't yet realize it, but he relies on Honey quite a... "bit." =)
  
  (Image credit: Grigory Lebidko)
• 
  Weapons
  
  Spoiler: Mk.25 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher

  Mk.25 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher
  Weight: 54 lbs for the weapon unloaded 24.48 lbs for a 48 round belt, 50 lbs for a 96 round belt
  Range: 1,700 feet
  Mega Damage: By grenade type. Common loadouts are here:
  AP/F (Anti Personnel Fragmentation): 4d6 MD to a 12 foot radius for a single shot. 2d6x10 to a 24 foot radius with a six grenade burst.
  HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing): 6d6 MD to a three foot radius for a single shot. 3d6x10 to a 8 foot radius with a six round burst.
  Tear Gas: Victims roll to make a save vs non-lethal poison (16 or higher). A failed roll to save means the victims' eyes water and burn, they lose half their melee attacks and are at a -3 on initiative and -10 to strike, parry, dodge and all other combat bonuses for 3d6 rounds (half that time outdoors with a steady wind). Creates a cloud of tear gas with a 25 foot radius.
  Smoke: Creates a thick cloud of smoke, 40 feet in radius. Smoke grenades come in the colors blue, red, yellow, white and black. Smoke may be used to mark a target or extraction area, or for cover. Enemies shooting into a cloud of smoke where specific targets cannot be seen is the same as shooting wild and has all the same penalties. Those inside the smoke could not protected by environmental body armor, gas masks, or other breathing apparatus suffer a penalty of -5 to strike, parry and dodge, and a -1 on initiative. Note: Infrared and thermal optics cannot penetrate smoke, but passive nightvision scopes and optics do.
  Rate of fire: Each single shot or burst uses one attack
  Payload: 48 or 96 40mm grenades in a disintegrating link belt.
  Note: No picture available.
  Ammunition: Two 96-round belts. AP/F 54, HEAP 128, Smoke 6, Tear Gas 4.
  
  
  Spoiler: BigBore Room Sweeper Belt-Fed Shotgun

  BigBore “Room Sweeper” Belt-Fed Shotgun
  This is a heavy support weapon meant to be used at point blank range for clearing out rooms, caves, trenches, and other close-quarters environments. The shotgun system has three rotating barrels and connects to an ammo belt that allows an unbelievable amount of firepower to be unleashed within a very small area.
  Weight: 20 lbs, plus the ammo pack for an additional 42 lbs usually worn on the user’s back
  Range: 200 feet
  Mega Damage: 2d4 MD for a single shell, 4d6 MD for a short burst of three shells or 6d6 for a long burst of six shells. SDC damage is 4d6 SDC per single shell.
  Rate of Fire: Each burst or single shot counts as one attack
  Payload: Ammo pack carries 180 shells
  Note: A PS of 24 or better is required to operate the Room Sweeper as a two handed weapon without the shooter suffering ill effects himself. Those with a lower PS shoot with a -4 penalty to strike, and are knocked down on their butts each time they fire the weapon. An Augmented PS of 26 or greater is required to fire it one handed.
  Ammunition: Two ammo packs of 180 shells each.
  
  
  Spoiler: Karbarran War Shovel

  Karbarran War Shovel
  Name: "Chewy" (as it "chews up" the rock or whatever it hits, really)
  Source: Expeditionary Force Marines, page 130.
  Weight: 140 pounds (63 kg).
  Mega-Damage: 5D6 S.D.C. + plus any strength bonus unpowered. 3D6 M.D. when powered up.
  Rate of Fire: Melee weapon, equal to the hand to hand attacks of the wielder.
  Note: For use by Karbarrans only.
  M.D.C. of Shovel: 70.
  
  
  Spoiler: Ursa Combat Armor

  Karbarran Ursa Combat Armor
  
  (Image credit: Imgur)
  Name: "My Plate Mail +5"
  Source: Expeditionary Force Marines, page 130.
  Type: Karbarran Flying Combat Armor
  Weight: 240 pounds (108 kg).
  M.D.C. by Location:
  Head - 50
  Arms (2) - 50 each
  Legs (2) - 80 each
  Flight Pack - 60
  Main Body - 170
  
  Speed: Adds +10 to the Karbarrans running speed and the wearer fatigues at only 10% of the normal rate and the wearer can leap 10 feet (3m) high or 20 feet (6.10 m) across:
  Flight: Can hover stationary or fly at speeds of up to 70 mph (112 km) with a maximum altitude of 900 feet (274 m); double the speed in space.
  Underwater: Can swim or walk along the seabed at 10 mph (16 kph) or through the water via the thrusters at a speed of 30 mph (48 kph or 26 knots per hour). Maximum depth is 1,200 feet (366 m).
  Additional Systems of Note: the standard armor includes a radio with a 20 mile (32 km) range, Nightvision and Thermographic vision with a range of 1,300 feet (396 m), a six-hour air supply, radiation and thermal shielding, and full environmental protection as well as small vernier thrusters that make the armor usable to outer space and underwater as well as on land.
  Weapon Systems: None.
  
  Gear:
  A UEEF Survival Pack
  4 Cobalt Grenades
  4 Cobalt Limpet Mines
  Medical Doctor bag (especially made for trauma use)
  Chemistry kit (all manner of chemicals, mixers, microscope, etc.)
  Botany kit (collecting seeds, samples, etc.)
  Engineering kit (tools needed to perform on-the-go mechanical and electrical jobs)
  Portable astrophysics telescope (about the size of a rifle) with tripod, lens covers, cleaning kit, and case.
  Mega-damage tool box holding all of the IDs, dog tags, and what personal mementos he could find from the fallen from the Horizon-T (crew and Destroid pilots from his team who perished in the crash and T'kar buried on Earth).
  
  Standard equipment:
  Two flares
  One smoke grenade (yellow)
  Binoculars
  Two dress uniforms
  Combat utility uniform
  Canteen
  Survival knife
  Personal clothing - rugged and sharp "handyman" outfit with lots of pockets with a leather apron, welding goggles, ear protection, with good strong gloves and boots.
  Personal effects - all manner of small, portable tools (especially folding tools), flashlight, work knives, small hammer, electric welder, personal laptop with hard case and USB drives, two smartphones (1 work, 1 personal), classy sunshades, high-end gaming computer with portable put-together holomonitor with stereo surround sound speakers, headsets (Karbarran and human-sized), 4 controllers, and 50 games. Three hard-copy RPG books (DMG, PHB, MM!) with converted PDFs coming soon (another one of his projects)! 8D
  
  Credits: 4,000 cr
  
• 
  "Blowdown" by Robert Bissell ("Resist" added by someone else)
  
  (Image credit: Mr. Robert Bissell)
  
  T'kar remembers well when the United Earth Expeditionary Force liberated Karbarra. The Invid had long-realized his scientific and engineering potential and used him to help craft all manner of Invid mecha, ships, bases, and machines - as such, he knows them well-enough. Once his shackles as a Sekitan-miner and slave were cut away, T'kar's honor and integrity transformed him back from the creature he was before the Invid had come. He keeps his war shovel, "Chewy," around as a reminder of those times.
  
  A lifelong lover of science, technology, and the stars, T'kar has always been "married to his work" which double as his hobbies. A happy and curious goofball, T'kar also has a love of gaming (role-playing and video games) brought onto him by human gamers from the UEEF. Bitten by the RP bug, T'kar loves to spread his joy of science and gaming! Nicknamed "Ursa Maker," a twist on the Ursa Major constellation, by his UEEF peers for his love of wondering and creating solutions, T'kar loves to keep busy. While he is proud of being a Karbarran and just as proud of everything they stand for, he is relatively easy to get along with as long as he is allowed to be himself. He cannot stand those who make bold claims without evidence and does not suffer fools or cowards gladly. T'kar would much rather hang out with idiots than liars for at least the ignorant have a path to honest destinies. Perhaps as a result of living under Invid rule, T'kar is utterly thorough in his destruction of them. Understanding well the ways of the UEEF and Sentinels' enemies, he tries to leave nothing to chance. He is also a lover of fine quality items and does not rest until each of his creations match his very high standards.
  
  Coming to Earth during the Invid Invasion is both a reminder of sad times on Karbarra and a joyous, refreshing, new challenge! No longer a slave, but a would-be liberator, now he feels the boot is on the other foot! T'kar has come from across the stars to invest himself here. The sole survivor of the Horizon transport he traveled here on, the memory each of the Horizon's dead he has buried further galvanize him to make their bringing him here mean they did not die in vain.
  
  The Invid have done to Earth what they did to T'kar's homeworld and the intrepid Karbarran knows intimately the price of living in a world dominated by alien invaders. While he is eager to join a group to begin to liberate this world and return the favor of the UEEF, T'Kar has his pride. He will not join just any cell or squadron - they must be hard workers like he and back up any good-hearted statements with action equal to their words. Karbarra was liberated by steady hands guided by skilled minds and courageous hearts. Earth deserves no less!
  
  
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  6 Questions to Ask when you create a Character. Taking20 questions.
  
  1. Is this Character a hero? A: He would like to be.
  
  2. Who are his parents? His father is an engineer (like Bill Nye). His mother is a scientist (Astrophysicist like female Neil de Grasse Tyson). They believe deeply in science and technology.
  
  3. Why is T'kar an adventurer? He does what he does to repay the UEEF for their liberation of Karbarra and all of its people. Plus, meeting the UEEF really got T'kar thinking about space travel and other worlds and Earth needs him.
  
  4. What are his immediate goals? Survival, begin making a base of operations with energy, food (hydroponics), ammunition (workshop), and eventually down the road, mecha (preferably with hidden protoculture systems).
  
  5. Is T'kar religious? Not in the slightest. As far as I know, Karbarrans have no deity and T'kar has no idea what a god is much less what to do about having one. He is agnostic (because a god sounds like a cool idea, but if one existed, where was he or she when the Invid invaded Karbarra and all of the other worlds?)
  
  6. Is T'kar merciful? Depends on the situation. He'll kill something he deems is a threat (immediate or down the road). Now, if he turned out to be wrong, he'd be crestfallen.
  
  
  
  6 Things to do for new characters per Great GM Live (Cody).
  
  1.Make a detailed physical description. Add physical descriptors. He is taller-than-average for a Karbarran but tries not to loom over humans. He gets loud when he gets excited.
  
  2. Mannerisms. He rubs the back of one paw when he is nervous. He touches the scar on his right shoulder when he is remembering the cruelty of the Invid. He sounds like a bear when he speaks.
  
  3. World view. How do they view other people in the world? T'kar is usually friendly unless the person(s) are haughty, cowardly, or untrustworthy, then he dismisses them. T'kar is kind of lonely and likes the company of intelligent people who have backbones. He really enjoys people who ask interesting questions.
  
  4. Pain points. What are the points your Character refuses to participate in? Cold-blooded murder (killing for no good reason). Torture, slavery, and the like. He has integrity but he expects integrity from those he groups with. He'll remind people if they don't keep a promise and the like. He won't help people who he cannot handle due to his pride (say, they are pro-Invid or anti-Karbarran, anti-UEEF).
  
  5. Desires. He wants to build a grand library of any kinds of books he can find from what's left of Earth. He wants to put these books onto PDFs so that their contents are not lost, giving the enemies of Earth the ultimate in victories - erasure of the human race and all that they have brought to the Earth.
  
  6. Fears and Phobias. T'kar is scared of the Invid monster-type creatures (Crann, Odeon, etc.). They scarred him. T'kar is not brave nor is he cowardly. He does not like places that could be lairs for creatures (like unexplored caves, deep forests, and the like). He'll ask that someone go with him. He can't stand the idea of being enslaved again, or even incarcerated for a crime.
  
  
  
  6 Questions to create an excellent backstory by Cody Great GM Live
  
  1. Where was the Character born? T'kar was born outside the city of Borran in the subdivision of Clymel, a fine neighborhood filled with learning and opportunity. His family and their friends were all science and technology-makers and Borran was a terrific city for nerds of all kinds. While I have no idea how long the Karbarrans were enslaved by the Invid, I am hoping T'kar is old enough at 585 years old to have been born into a life before the Invid came.
  
  2. Who are T'kar's parents? (Answered above) Are they alive? Yes! Scarred, but grateful to be alive if a bit envious of the UEEF.
  
  3. What was T'kar doing prior to joining the game? He was learning everything he could about UEEF technology and the many cultures of what human people have survived (he's only so interested in the dead). He was experimenting creating ways of poking the Invid in its collective eye on board a UEEF starship prior to its arrival on Earth. T'kar quickly offered to join the UEEF, much to the delight of his parents who wanted him to travel the stars. For T'kar, helping the human race is very important to him.
  
  4. Why did T'kar leave Karbarra? To travel to Earth and simply get away from the bad memories of Karbarra! Put simply, T'kar really wanted something new and his skills and education were in demand. Two of T'kar's siblings stayed, two others joined the UEEF and tried to travel to Earth as he did. He has no idea if they made it (Brother O'pus the pilot and mechanic and Sister K'ral the doctor and medical teacher). T'kar has always been a dreamer and he wanted to freely go to places where he could make a difference especially for humankind.
  
  5. What did T'kar leave behind? His parents (Father A'rus and Mother M'eli) and his two sisters (E'wyr and K'ori).
  
  6. What does T'kar want? He wants to repay his personal debt to humanity for the UEEF's rescue of Karbarra and he wants to make his parents proud by using his science and technology education to bring about good things for those who gave so much to he and his people. He also wants to deliver the dog tags and personal effects of those who died on the crashed Horizon vessel (the UEEF vessel "Daschund") of which he was the sole survivor. He also wants to plant some special Karbarran flowers ("Hapshams" - - flowers that shine in the sunlight and glow in darkness) in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro after one of his favorite human UEEF scientists, Dr. Don Viera - a botanist who encouraged him to join the UEEF and resides back on the SDF-3.
  
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  "Workin' in The Coal Mine" by Devo =) The perfect song for a Sekitan-miner!
  "Looord! I am so tired! How long can this go on?"
  
  
  "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk =) Good music to do science to!
  "Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn." (We drive drive drive on the Autobahn.)
  "Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal." (Before us is a wide valley.)
  "Die Sonne scheint, ein Glitzerstrahl!" (The sun shines with gilttering rays!)
  
  
  "Roam" by B-52s =) This brings out the explorer in T'kar. =)
  (Chorus) "Roam if you want to, roam around the world
  Roam if you want to, without wings without wheels
  Roam if you want to, roam around the world
  Roam if you want to, without anything but the love we feel"
  
  
  "Prime Mover" by Rush =) This is the song of T'kar's life! In a universe as wide and mysterious as this, anything is indeed possible.
  "I set the wheels in motion
  Turn up all the machines
  Activate the programs
  And run behind the scene
  
  I set the clouds in motion
  Turn up light and sound
  Activate the window
  And watch the world go 'round"
  
  
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  Per Post #2,323 - recovered by T'kar from the Horizon-T craft that was sent down by the Bunker Hill.
  One Bioroid Interceptor with only cosmetic damage done to the paint and minor dents (your mecha)
  One Bioroid Interceptor with 50% armor damage to its main body
  One Valiant that has been ripped in two, but its weapons on the upper half of the Destroid are recoverable
  One Valiant with 50% armor damage to the main body
  Two Spartans with 25% damage to the main body
  One Defender with 50% damage to the main body
  
  Eight VR-038 Light Cyclones
  Sixteen VR-052F Heavy Assault Cyclones
  
  30 suits of CVR-3 body armor
  
  200 mini missiles of various warhead types