"Stay a while, stay....forever!"

 The data-lich has destabilized the orbit of OSS DRB MR-997S/a¹ and it is hurtling in-system.    The mining robots, the maintenance droids and the sentinels have all been repurposed, retasked, and where needed, reprogrammed entirely.   The asteroid has been cleared of all other personnel. (he believes) and it is under lockdown.

Send in the Legionnaires.

 This situation presents itself as especially suited to a mixed group game – one where only one or two Legionnaires are available and must make do in a co-opted civilian system ship surrounded by randomly involved imperial subjects; the PCs vessel can be the one coopted, or they can be aboard station when the emergency starts.

At this point, you may as well just go whole hog and rip the original game completely off (if you have a copy of GDWs ASTEROID! Go Get It Right Now)  For the rest of you, you will need maps. Four to eight depending on party size and how long the Judge wishes to drag this out.  Somewhere on one of these maps exists the physical architecture for the station computer hosting at least -part- of the Datalich’s consciousness. 

There are many handy map resources available on the the Wireless Fabric but I will suggest from (playtesting) experience that  Dyson’s  index card maps are especially useful for this. 

Download Asteroid OSS DRBMR-997S/a here. 

More (a LOT more) about the Imperial Legions can be found in the latest issue of Sub-ether, a special military SF issue. 

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BOUNCE! Rules for small tactical wargame-looking engagements just like mom used to make

BOUNCE!

 rules for small tactical wargame looking engagements just like mom used to make

Each armor gets assigned a movement rate in hexes.  This is it’s “bounce” rating.  Lit.  rapid high end movement in armor.   Each major weapon gets assigned a range…in hexes.  Provide a hex map with stuff on it.  Go. They are playing GEV before they know it

Terrain rules should be super simple. 

Mountains imperial forces – Light bounce rating reduced by one; Jump ignores terrain 

PL 4-6 forces bounce reduced to 1.  All forces AV increased by one. 

Hills ignorable terrain by imperial forces, reduces bounce rating of PL 4-6 forces by half. 

Organic Wet (Bog, Swamp, Marsh) bounce rating reduced by 1; AV increased by 1 

Heavy High Vegetation (Forest, Jungle, AgBramble) bounce rating reduced by 1 

Road imperial units increase bounce rating by 1. PL 4-6 armor/infantry double bounce

Urban bounce rating halved save to evacuate out of Urban hex, AV increased by 1

Vac rules (which mean little unless a suit breach happens)

-Light (Imperial) troops have an effective bounce rating of 1 in Vac.  Jump troops have their full bounce rating. 

Liquid rules

- Imperial units can choose to traverse over the water or underneath it.

- over water increases movement by 1

- under water movement and bounce rating decreased by 1; AV effectively increased by 1

Unit type (by armor, assumes Zero level) 

Light

Garrison AV 1 DV 3 bounce 2

Scout AV 3 DV 3 bounce 4

Attack Infantry AV 2 DV 4 bounce 3

Jump

Battle armor troops AV 3 DV 4 bounce 5

Tact Assault      AV 3 DV 5 bounce 6

Command Armor AV 4       DV 5 bounce 6

Attack Value – derived from bab+1.

Defense Value – derived from AC

Those with force fields or death countermeasures will have a second DV

Bounce rating – by armor, in hexes per turn 

Each hex = 1 mile or so Each turn = 1 minute or so

When using with actual leveled characters.  

The BAB addition will make them gross.

Those with multiple action dice take second action, section action =AV-1, a third action die also but at AV-2 

Other armor DV = AC/6, round up. 

Click here to get the full PDF including three pages of statistics for sample opponents.

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Sub-ether 04 is live. Legions of the Imperium are now available.

Don’t mind those sonic booms rolling through the upper atmosphere. Everything is under control. Imperial Control. The Legions are here.

Sub-ether 04

Special Military Sci Fi issue!

Diverting a bit from Galaxy Black’s usual criminal hijinx, we explore an alternative to normal gameplay – the Imperial Legions.

Special Legionnaire chargen, see if you can survive boot camp at the Dour Yard.

Legion organization, history, orders of battle, culture, traditions, slang, and Legion scenarios – from one line suggestions all the way up to whole military campaigns.

Full military mission & campaign generators.

More Black Angels references than you can possibly stand!

Military weapons and armor; military tech; many examples of Imperial Legions at a variety of scales, aaaaaand we do horrible horrible weepy things to DCC combat.

In non-Legion content we have a deeper dive into the pervasive reach of the elder space gods, the Angels of Man. Here also, one of their abandoned creations, a full character class – the Muzikatauri

Brightly coloured genecrafted centaurs and masters of song and the magic of the noosphere; a unique take on Bards and other music-magic based classes.

Inspired in good measure by the Titan books by John Varley and at least somewhat, My Little Pony (yes you read that correctly).

We have First Contact! Tables in the Space Alphabet, and a marvelous little tourist destination, a Saurid planet in the Satrapies in Worlds of the Imperium. Travel to Korvell and get a stylish hole drilled in your head at Zonder’s Trepanation Parlour.

Throw tacnukes at Designated Targets. Study your World Invasion Protocols. Eat a faceful of CF.

151 pages of tongue in cheek anti-colonial action. For Galaxy Black and any DCC RPG characters you are even less attached to than usual.

Come join the Imperial Legions, heroes. Come and die. 

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FUNGICIDE - a Legions of the Imperium article (for Sub-ether 04)

\\\FUNGICIDE!!! 

A sweep and clear of some minor consequence for three to five fire teams of Imperial Legionnaires, levels 0-2

Background

An old, nay ancient threat now but seldom encountered.

First contact it is said occurred early and again late in the First Empire.  Many wars.  As with the progression of time and the collapse of the universe, the pace of change for some civilizations is too much.  Sometimes even elder civilizations fall.

Their kind scattered too well.  Throughout the local group they came seeking mineral and material resources while bringing their fell gods and eldritch science-sorceries. They archeologie’d upon the Primordial Ones, much as the Imperium would later do.   They made war on their many enemies. But for many many millions of years, the star fungi, once commonly called the Migoh (once, the Migoux Plague; there were many wars) are threadbare.  No longer mighty empires spanning many galaxies, so much as many increasingly isolated settlements, running down, pondering the swelling of the stars and the end of times. Increasingly their religious proclivities demand their attentions. 

Many of that which they once served was long ago freed to Stalk the Galaxies once more.   Their own civilization weathered the experience, but it was a destructive period. The eldest brains of the modern era’s star flung settlements are led by councils of brains from this time. 

An Imperial deep survey vessel charting the Rim detected the telltale signs of gravitational lensing in a nearby star cluster.  Investigation led to an unmitigated fail of a  first contact situation.  Unlike most, this one ended in the disintegration of an imperial vessel.

You are the first responders. 

In some imperial variations, the Great Fungal War is about to begin……

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