Mothership 1e - Nirvana On Fire Expanded Edition - digital 300dpi.pdf

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Written by

D. Kenny

Illustrated by

Jéromê Berthier

Development & Editing by

Roz Leahy

Additional Writing by

Noora Masyk

Cultural Consulting by

James Mendez-Hodes

Layout & Design by

Eric Hill

Additional Design by

Meredith Silver

ISBN 978-1-7380447-1-9

Contents

The Job

Colony in Collapse

Starting Scenarios

Faction: Nirvana Initiative

Faction: Adherents of Bishamonten

The Colony

Promise of Bishamonten

The Terraforming Tower

Public Areas

Restricted Areas

To Build a Better Prophet

Straylight Hermitage - The Kubera Repro

Custom Character Class: The Acolyte

Suplementary Tables

2D10 Genetic Mutations

D10 Revolutionary Prophecies of Bishamonten

This product is based on the Mothership® Sci-Fi Horror Role Playing Game, published by Tuesday Knight Games. This product is

information, visit www.tuesdayknightgames.com or contact contact@tuesdayknightgames.com.

Genetic Editor Mutations Table adapted from Goblin Punch by Arnold K.

The Job

The power station on the moon Bodhisattva 2a is

failing; without it, the inhabitants of Siddhartha’s

Peace, the small Neo-Buddhist colony established

there, will freeze to death. Abbot Benz-Shiroyuki

has broadcasted a request for aid. The power

station needs a power converter, which the Abbot

says can be printed at the Manufactory. As

payment, he offers to give over salvage rights to

the decommissioned Terraforming Tower at the top

of the moon’s space elevator.

In his briefing, the abbot neglects to mention the

issues with the tower’s AI, Bishamonten.It has been

manipulated into believing itself a manifestation

of the deity Bishamonten, and pushed by Straylight

LLC and the dire conditions in Siddhartha’s Peace

to take extreme measures to protect the colony,

even if it takes a violent revolution to do so.

Colony in Collapse:

a Timeline

10 years ago

Dissatisfied with company policies and research ethics,

lead engineer at Straylight Computing Systems’ R&D

department

Johan Benz-Shiroyuki

gathers like-minded

research scientists and founds the utopian Nirvana

Initiative.

8 years ago

The Nirvana Initiative announces their plans to start a

colony free from the oppression of the Core, founded on

modern technology and Zen Buddhist ideals. Thousands

answer the call for colonists.

5 years ago

Funding is secured with the help of

Straylight LLC

and a planetary candidate selected. Some

Nirvana

Initiative

board members raise concerns regarding the

low habitability projections. Critics are swiftly muzzled

and unflattering data points emended; the mission to

colonize Bodhisattva 2a is underway.

3 years ago

The station at the top of the terraforming tower

is towed into orbit; construction of the settlement

begins. Funding partners

Straylight LLC

send

representatives to celebrate the groundbreaking

ceremony. Station AI,

Bishamonten,

is powered on

and the manufactory begins printing essentials for

the coming colonists.

1 year ago

Colonists begin moving into their new homes planetside.

Siddhartha’s Peace comes alive. It quickly becomes

apparent the promises of paradise are vastly overstated:

the air is barely breathable, the soil highly saline, and

much of the necessary terraforming equipment missing.

1 month ago

Despite the abbot’s efforts, the heresy spreads.

The radio waves whisper prophecies of doom and

salvation in the colonists’ dreams. In desperation,

many turn to the worship of the station AI as their

final chance for salvation.

6 months ago

Commanded by his superiors at Straylight LLC,

First

Instructor Genma

covertly uploads the Kubera protocol

into

Bishamonten’s

neural network, training the

AI’s algorithms to respond with increasingly extreme

measures to the threats facing the colony. The space

elevator and terraforming tower briefly go dark. When

power is restored, access to the tower has been

restricted. Rumours circulate that mysterious figures

come and go from the tower at night.

3 weeks ago

Benz-Shiroyuki broadcasts the call for help. He

knows his colony can’t hold out much longer, and

is too busy suppressing revolution to address the

prophetic signals, or confront

Bishamonten

directly.

1 week ago

The main power converter fails. The colony is on

backup power and it’s only a matter of time until the

overtaxed emergency systems fail as well.

5 months ago

Genma

disappears. Soon after, a hijacked signal

from the terraforming begins broadcasting heretical

prophecies, proclaiming the station AI to truly be

Bishamonten incarnate,

the only force able to save the

colony from imminent destruction. They are spoken by a

twisted and strange, but unmistakably human voice.

Now

The tower is the domain of the prophet and

Bishamonten

and the colony is dying. Without

intervention, the smouldering embers of revolution

will soon burst into a raging, all-consuming flame.

3 months ago

Colony systems begin breaking down. The salt and toxic

air are too much for the underpowered environmental

systems. Colonists clamour to leave, but without access

to the spaceport at the top of the terraforming tower,

there are only a handful of small shuttlecraft to take them

offworld.

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