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A game of miniature mech combat
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Ash Barker
Table of contents
The story so far............................................................
4
game definitions............................................................
8
getting ready to play................................................
4
weapon systems...........................................................
12
weapon traits..............................................................
13
upgrades........................................................................
14
setting up to play......................................................
16
playing the game..........................................................
18
ending the game............................................................
21
FORM UP
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24
HE-V TEAMS
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31
SECONDARY AGENDAS
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34
Author
Ash Barker
Playtesting
Ash Barker
Chris Holmes
Chase Paterson
Austin Thompson
copyEditing
Hunter Bond
Joe Borawski
Kelly Thompson
Austin Thomspon
Layout
Mike Dickens
Model Concepts
Eldar Safin
Austin Thomson
Painting and Photography
Justin Hall
Austin Thompson
Cover Illustration
Christopher Kallini
Illustrations and Graphics
Mike Dickens
Eldar Safin
Austin Thompson
WE CAME SO CLOSE.
For the briefest of moments, the utopian goal of a Mankind that did not war
over the dwindling supply of energy on Earth came to pass.
Humanity has always been an animal that hungers. Our upright posture,
opposable thumbs, tools, and enlarged brain pans evolved us into better
and more useful machines. In turn, we created even more sophisticated
and efficient machines in our own image. Machines that could think,
make our food, keep us warm and collect our resources. Machines that
would move our bodies or send our voices anywhere we could imagine.
But because they were created in our own image, these machines
also hungered. They gobbled up the energy we had on Earth. In
desperation, we used huge amounts of what was left to fire ourselves
into the stars in search of more. We came up short. The governments
and powers-that-be struck a pact with the lords of commerce and
industry. We would shackle the one god on which we must rely to
grow our crops, and warm our planets. The very god whose body
keeps us tied to terrestrial bonds with spinning gravity.
We would harvest the energy of the Sun.
The corporations struck that bargain and delivered it to us. A mass
swarm of miniature Dyson collectors ringed the Sun like chains
on a slumbering giant. The richest countries down on the Earth
and the corporate overlords now secure on Mars converted their
infrastructures in preparation.
It worked. The swarm drew upon the limitless supply of energy from
the raging nuclear heart of our solar system and sent it cleanly and
efficiently to us. Nations began to plan even more redevelopment.
Massive expansion began for those populations that were somewhat
lagging in progress. The First World on Earth felt their energy
affluence suddenly lift their hard hearts to humanitarian causes.
The powers of both industry and governance thanked the endless
masses of workers and citizens for their accomplishments and spoke
of an endless tomorrow full of new possibilities that would be the next
step in human evolution.
We were so naively hopeful. So brave in our sense of achievement.
But the god we had enslaved didn’t care.
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THE STORY SO FAR // PAGE 5

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