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===Vehicles===
===Vehicles===
Vehicles are a necessity for getting around in a postmodern city rapidly, as well as getting anywhere with serious hardware. Most vehicles will only be used for transportation, but some can be valuable in a combat situation in their own right.
[[Smoke and Mirrors: Vehicles]]
 
All vehicles have an upkeep cost that must be paid over the specified interval. Military vehicles will generally also require you to purchase the requisite equipment from the black market, or produce it, which makes them very difficult to keep in working order.
 
====Legal====
Civilian Cars (1 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.25 wealth/year): Civilian cars come in many shapes and forms, but all generally are similar enough to be essentially interchangeable. Fuel cell powered, capable of carrying 4 and a driver, with a trunk that's just about the right size to keep a few machine guns or a corpse inside. Civilian cars come with 2 slots for equipment.<br>
 
Sports Cars (5 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.5 wealth/year): Luxury vehicles, sports cars have superior handling but generally sacrifice in trunk size and passenger capacity. Toys for the rich and wealthy, these vehicles are often used when one needs speed and maneuverability-in a car chase, for example. Designed for customizability but often smaller and with lower reliability than normal vehicles, sports cars have 1 upgrade slot.
 
SUVs (2 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.5 wealth/year): SUVs are about as fast as civilian cars and have a lot more room in them, enough to carry a fully armed and loaded squad of soldiers in relative comfort. With tinted windows and some judicious driving to avoid police (or just bribes), nobody will notice the armed and armored assault team until they get out, even. SUVs also make excellent technicals, with 3 upgrade slots.<br>
 
Trucks/Moving Vans (8 wealth per unit, upkeep 1 wealth/year): Fullsize vehicles can carry more personnel and heavier equipment, and if you are bored out of your mind, can be modified with a fairly nasty arsenal of other gear. Trucks have 4 upgrade slots.<br>
 
Hovercars (15 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.5 wealth/month): Another luxury toy, hovercars are cars that fly. Although with less cargo capacity and upgrade capacity than civilian cars, and far less affordable, they are useful for extreme speed of response, capable of making speeds easily triple that of a tweaked sports car, and not having to worry about roads or traffic. They are also, most importantly, legal, making them more useful in many cases than a cargo VTOL. Hovercars can mount 1 upgrade.<br>
 
VIP Sedan (15 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.25 wealth/month): A VIP Sedan is a civilian car, uparmored to give protective qualities, equipped with an overcharged engine, and sometimes with integrated firing ports for the bodyguards inside. The increase in cost is significant-so much so that the authentic leather seats and integrated minifridge pretty much come free. VIP Sedans come with 1 equipment slot.
 
====Illegal====
Police Cars (8 wealth per unit, upkeep 1 wealth/year): Although not as capable of performing as sports cars are, police cars are armored sufficiently to resist light small arms-fire, as well as having reinforced bumpers for ramming. Police cars come with 2 upgrade slots. Police cars are also illegal mainly because of their sirens and the ability to use one to masquerade as legitimate law enforcement. This use is extremely important for many operations.<br>
 
Military Jeeps (10 wealth per unit, upkeep 0.25 wealth/month): Designed with integrated armor, a weapons mount, and overpowered engines, military light vehicles are dangerous but not precisely subtle, although an unarmed one can often be confused with the street-legal kind. Furthermore they aren't exactly maintenance-free, either, and cost a fair amount to keep running in top form. Military Jeeps have 3 upgrade slots and are already equipped with the capability of carrying a light vehicle weapon.<br>
 
Black SUVs (25 wealth per unit, upkeep 1 wealth/month): Sometimes you need a combination of both discreetness, transport capacity, and combat capacity. A Black SUV is what happens when you take a regular SUV, give it the most powerful engine you can, load it with enough armor to stop anything short of an antimateriel rifle, active defense systems, and hidden compartments, as well as a hidden weapons mount for when you absolutely must hose people down with heavy machine gun fire. Black SUVs can carry a light vehicle weapon and have 3 upgrade slots.<br>
 
LAVs (120 wealth per unit, upkeep 6 wealth/month): LAVs are military vehicles, often wheeled but sometimes tracked, designed for times when any semblance of subtlety is completely out the window. LAVs are the most heavily armored and armed units in existence, but are inflexible, unsubtle, expensive, and require specialized training to effectively use. A LAV can deliver a squad of armed infantry to a destination, then support it with heavy weapons. LAVs mount 1 heavy and 1 light vehicle weapon, and have 3 upgrade slots.
 
Cargo VTOLs (100 wealth per unit, upkeep 5 wealth/month): The future equivalent of Black Hawks or Ospreys, Cargo VTOLs can drop a dozen heavily-armed, power-armored specialists wherever you need them, when you need them. Equipped with ballistic armor and active defenses, they're also extremely survivable, although they can be taken down by even fairly cheap firepower. Cargo VTOLs have 2 upgrade slots and can carry a pair of light vehicle weapons.<br>
 
Attack VTOLs (150 wealth per unit, upkeep 10 wealth/month): Most organizations embrace subtlety, but some prefer to have firepower available right now. Attack VTOLs are a perfect blend of speed, survivability, and firepower, but are the worst thing that ever existed when it comes to being subtle. Normally armed with anti-armor smart missiles, a turret mounted cannon, and equipped with AI targeting assistance, an attack VTOL is what you use when you either have no other choice or have utmost certainty that you can explain away what just happened. Attack VTOLs have 2 upgrade slots, but can mount 1 heavy and 1 light vehicle weapon.
 
===Vehicle Enhancements===
Sometimes you want to improve a vehicle's performance, and there's many, many ways to do that. Some are legal, some... less so. Note that placing a legal modification on an illegal vehicle is nevertheless illegal anyways.
 
====Legal====
Supercharged Engine (cost 5): The vehicle has an improved engine that greatly increases speed and handling. This modification can be taken multiple times, but if taken more than once doubles a vehicle's upkeep due to the increased drivetrain stress.
 
Uparmored (cost 10): The vehicle has a reinforced frame, armored doors and windows, a windshield made of ballistic polymer, armored motive systems, and a reinforced fuel tank. A vehicle with this modification is significantly more durable. Although legal, this is a very suspicious modification and may draw attention. This modification can be taken multiple times. Similar to a supercharged engine, taking this modification more than once doubles a vehicle's upkeep.
 
Advanced Sensors Suite (cost 10): The vehicle mounts a powerful sensor suite. Similarly although technically legal, advanced sensors are very suspicious because of the relative lack of uses for them.
 
Cargo Compartment (cost 1): The vehicle mounts additional space for small items.
 
====Illegal====
False ID (cost 1): The vehicle has a false registration and ID, making it harder to trace. Smart paint allows it to change coloration on the fly as well, improving its disguise capacity.
 
Firing Ports (cost 1): The vehicle has ports for its occupants to fire light weapons out of.
 
Weapons Mount (cost 5): The vehicle mounts a hardpoint capable of carrying one light vehicle weapon.
 
Heavy Weapons Mount (cost 10): The vehicle mounts a hardpoint capable of carrying one heavy vehicle weapon. This requires two upgrade slots.
 
Command and Control (cost 20): The vehicle is usable as a mobile HQ. This takes three upgrade slots and eliminates a unit's ability to carry cargo.
 
Active Defense Suite (cost 15): The vehicle mounts a countermeasure suite that gives it the ability to shoot down incoming enemy fire.
 
Stealth Characteristics (cost 25): The vehicle is designed for low radar, visual, and infrared signature.
 
===Vehicle Weapons===
Although rarely used because of how unsubtle they can be, vehicle weapons are still a vital part of an arsenal simply because it is not uncommon to end up facing something that small arms can't stop, while inside a vehicle so one cannot use anti-tank munitions. Firing ports, after all, do not protect from backblast. All of these weapons are notably illegal.
 
====Light====
Heavy Machine Gun (cost 0.5): HMGs are high-caliber rapid-fire weapons for infantry support. A single HMG can cut down hundreds of attackers if properly used (and the attackers are idiots) and can threaten most civilian vehicles with destruction in short bursts.
 
Light Cannon (cost 2): A light cannon fires 40-50mm projectiles at high velocities and moderate rates of fire.
 
Vehicle Coilgun (cost 10): A vehicle coilgun is an advanced vehicle weapon, firing medium-caliber rounds at hypervelocity. Possessed of excellent damage characteristics and high rates of fire, the Vehicle Coilgun's only problem is its absolutely immense price tag.
 
Recoilless Rifle (cost 5): A recoilless rifle fires anti-tank munitions. Effective against hardened targets like heavy vehicles and bunkers, it is however slow-firing and inaccurate.
 
SAM/AAM (cost 5, single-use): Light SAMs or AAMs are air-defense weapons that are effective against low-flying targets like hovercraft or VTOLs. Although most are multi-shot designs, the relative effectiveness of countermeasures means that they are almost always expended after combat. In a pinch, Light SAMs or AAMs can be used against ground targets, in which case their HE warheads and high velocities render them effective, if inefficient, air support.
 
====Heavy====
Anti-Tank Guided Missile (cost 5, single-use): ATGMs are very large high-power missiles that are not intended for shooting down air targets, but busting ground targets instead. A brace of ATGMs is likely to open up just about any ground vehicle like a tin can short of a MBT, no matter how much applique armor it possesses.
 
Rocket Pods (cost 5): Rocket Pods fire dozens of unguided high-explosive rockets, making them an excellent choice for indiscriminate destruction.
 
Tank Railgun (cost 20): A tank railgun is a hypervelocity cannon that is intended for killing tanks. Mounting it on anything short of a LAV is pure folly, due to its immense recoil and power requirements. However some sufficiently insane people have tried it and succeeded.
 
Automortar (cost 10): Indirect fire support. See synonyms: Impractical, insane, collateral damage waiting to happen. Nevertheless, against certain foes you might want heavy weapons that don't need line of sight.


===Facilities===
===Facilities===

Revision as of 07:19, 6 December 2008

Background

The world didn't end in 1968, or 2012, or 2020. Or at any date when it was predicted to end. But always, doomsday seemed to be creeping ever-closer. First it was the threat of nuclear Armageddon, then the threat of bioweapons, and then and most damning, the threat of economic collapse and a depression to end all depressions.

But humanity was strong, and has survived despite the rot at its core, a rot that had been festering for thousands of years. There are those who seek to end the world, and those who seek to preserve it. This shadow war has been fought for uncountable millenia between groups that have stayed hidden in the shadows. But as 2038 draws closer, this battle has finally spilled into the streets. Gangs of cultists duke it out with paramilitary commandoes. Creatures that were once human, enhanced by grafts from extradimensional beings, stalk the streets, fighting to preserve what they have willingly sacrificed, or fighting to destroy what they can no longer have.

The masquerade is wearing thin, and the war is being revealed for all to see.

Choose your side.

Setting

BosWash Conurbation, formerly owned by America, Incorporated. Made of towering skyscrapers and idyllic suburbs, it is sterile and perhaps the closest thing one can get to utopia in this world, but that merely lets the citizens inside ignore the horrible poverty of the outside. Outside the fences and automated guard turrets there are the slums, the secondary economy of criminals, prostitutes, and vagrants who came here to find riches and ended up becoming one of the dregs of society. Although life was never good, rumors of horrible things have been spreading recently, and slum-dwellers have been going missing, one by one. The police don't care, and if anything have gotten more hostile to the poor lately.

It all comes down to the Umbrella, a protective dome being grown over BosWash by experimental nanotech to protect from ultraviolet radiation. Designed to be selectively permeable to most types of radiation, it would mean that people could finally walk out in the open without requiring high-SPF sunscreen or getting horrible cancers and disfigurements. Of course, there is a cloud for every silver lining, and there are prophecies of an "Undying God" which will rise again once "the sun sets forever upon the dead heart of a nation's power". And what is BosWash but a new the capitol of the defunct United States? Vague as the prophecies are, preventing them from coming true is your job.

You are invisible warriors, fighting an invisible war against a foe which seeks nothing less than to resurrect a god.

Conspiracies

Ever since ancient times, men and women have banded together to fight the unknown, the creatures that lurk in the darkness. Over time the knowledge has become codified, these groups have become more effective, and they have disappeared deeper into the shadows, as not to alarm the ones who are unwilling or unable to deal with the reality of the situation. And as this has gone on, they have become ever more like the foe they fight, skulking in the shadows, using unsavory tactics, hiding from a populace which would not be able to tell the difference between destroyer and savior. But protection requires sacrifice, and there are still those who are willing and able to make that sacrifice.

Origins

Smoke and Mirrors: Origins

Mechanics

Smoke and Mirrors: Mechanics

Assets

Agents

Agents are the people in your organization who go far, far above and beyond the call of duty. They are heroic figures who don't die easily and are much more likely to accomplish a mission. Although your personnel can be trained, equipped, and given duties, Agents generally do them far, far better. Agents make better use of equipment, are less likely to be discovered, and far less likely to get killed off than mooks are. Given the expenses of items such as arcanotechnology, relics, and advanced armory equipment, Agents are far more likely to recieve high-end equipment.

Combat Agents

Dutch. John Matrix. Rambo. Jack Bauer. You know combat agents by many names. Every one of them is an investment to be treasured, and will mow down fields of mooks. Combat Agents specialize in kicking ass, whether it's with knives or with a suit of power armor and a rocket launcher in each hand.

Combat Agents can carry up to 2 weapons, 1 armor, and 3 miscellaneous items. They have no limit to implants or specialized training.

Intelligence Agents

James Bond. Sam Fisher. Solid Snake. Altair, even. Intelligence Agents are much better than normal spies at infiltrating enemy hideouts and foiling their plans. However, if caught in a fight most of them can handle themselves fairly well, and have significant combat ability of their own. They make excellent espionage agents, as well as deadly assassins.

Intelligence Agents can be given 1 weapon, 1 armor, and 3 miscellaneous items. They also do not have implant or training limits.

Personnel

Personnel are your lifeblood. Although Agents are far more powerful, they are also much rarer. Personnel can play multiple roles, and a compact without personnel is one that will soon collapse. Personnel can be assigned to duties, each of which has a requisite of support staff-personnel assigned to support staff cannot be assigned to a role.

Combat Jobs

Militant
Training Costs: None
Support Staff Requirement: None
Maximum Implant Limit: 1
Maximum Special Skills: None
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor
Your basic mook with a hoodie, an AK-47, and way too much confidence in their ability. They aren't terribly competent but man they're motivated. Although capable of handling expensive equipment they are generally poor at using them effectively.

Soldier
Training Costs: 1 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 1 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 2
Maximum Special Skills: 1
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor, 1 Other
Soldiers are professionals, well-trained and better equipped, but still a bit overmatched by the enemy. However, they're perfectly good against the vast majority of cultists, who are basically about as competent as Militants.

Elite
Training Costs: 5 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 4 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 3
Maximum Special Skills: 2
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor, 1 Other
Elites are the hardcore soldiers that have a half-decent shot at taking out an eldritch abomination in a one-on-one fight. Generally ex-Marine or ex-Ranger types, or just trained from a young age by the order, they are extremely deadly with anything you give them.

Special Operations
Training Costs: 10 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 9 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 5
Maximum Special Skills: 3
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor, 2 Other
Special Forces aren't much more deadly than elites on the field of battle. Their main additional expense comes from being extremely skilled in unconventional warfare, including assassinations, blending in with locals, and other duties that elites are not trained for. However, they also require an immense staff of assistants out of the field to assist them.

Intelligence Jobs

Spy
Training Costs: 5 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 4 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 2
Maximum Special Skills: 3
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor, 2 Other
Spies are your main way of finding things out. Most are completely combat untrained, although with some additional training they can at least defend themselves, or work as serviceable assassins.

Analyst
Training Costs: 5 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: None
Maximum Implant Limit: 1
Maximum Special Skills: None
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon
Analysts do signals intelligence, poring over documents for hints of the enemy's plans or hideouts. They don't go out in the field and are therefore much more poorly equipped and trained in fieldcraft.

Other Jobs

Cleaner
Training Costs: 2 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 1 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 2
Maximum Special Skills: 1
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor
A "Cleaner" is a PR agent, trained mostly to help cover things up. These are critical to your functioning as a conspiracy instead of a publicly observable organization.

Recruiter
Training Costs: 5 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: 4 per 1
Maximum Implant Limit: 2
Maximum Special Skills: 1
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon, 1 Armor
Recruiters are critical to expansion, as they are skilled at finding the ones who would both be enough to further one's goals and trustworthy enough to allow in on the secret. Each recruiter brings in 1 person per month as additional manpower.

Worker
Training Costs: 1 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: None
Maximum Implant Limit: 1
Maximum Special Skills: None
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon
Workers run your factories. For every production you have, you must have 1 worker.

Businessmen
Training Costs: 1 Wealth
Support Staff Requirement: None
Maximum Implant Limit: 1
Maximum Special Skills: None
Maximum Items: 1 Weapon
Businessmen run your illegal income. You must have 1 per illegal income.

Special Skills

Special skills are specialties that allow personnel to deal with specialized circumstances. Giving a unit a special skill adds an additional surcharge for special training.

Combat-Related

Advanced Combat Training (Cost 1): Primarily available to spies, Advanced Combat Training allows them to defend themselves as competently as a soldier. This is also available to Cleaners and Recruiters. Obviously military types already have combat training and do not require any additional.

Black Ops Training (Cost 3): Black Ops training is only available to spies and allows them to fight about as well as an Elite infantry unit. Black Ops Training requires the spy to have Advanced Combat Training as well, and supercedes that ability.

Combat Engineer (Cost 1): A unit with combat engineer capability is capable of dealing with things like IEDs, booby traps, alarms, and other commonly used deterrence methods. Whether they're planting them or defusing them, they're still experts.

Sniper Training (Cost 5): A unit with this is an expert marksman and has improved accuracy with all weapons.

Defensive Driving (Cost 5): A unit with this capability is an expert in handling a vehicle in a combat situation. This is not a requisite to piloting vehicles in general.

Airborne Infantry (cost 2): A unit with this advantage can rapidly deploy, via parachute drop or fastrope, from VTOLs.

Combat Diver (cost 2): A unit with this advantage can undertake amphibious operations.

Technical

Medical Training (Cost 3): A person with this skill has the ability to use medical equipment to stabilize wounded friendlies or bystanders.

Electronics Training (Cost 3): A person with electronics training can plant bugs, hack computers and otherwise do technical stuff related to electronics.

Observer Training (Cost 3): A person with this training has learned to look for and memorize important details by instinct, like faces, license numbers, and the like.

NBC Training (Cost 5): A person with this skill knows how to deal with nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. Quite useful, really.

Pilot Training (Cost 10): A person with this skill knows how to make effective use of Military Jeeps, LAVs, Cargo VTOLs, and Attack VTOLs. Kiryu-Kai members with this skill are also qualified as GOLEM pilots. This is not the same thing as Defensive Driving.

Full Cyborg Adjustment (Cost 10): A person with this training has fully adjusted to being a full conversion cyborg and can have as one of their implants a full conversion cyborg body.

Illegal Activity Training (Cost 3): This ability allows a person so equipped to deal with criminals more smoothly. This is most commonly found on spies that are used to keep in contact with black market arms dealers.

Interrogation Resistance (Cost 1): A unit with this ability is much more resistant to interrogation methods including torture and will take longer to break.

Zeroed (Cost 5): A person with this does not exist in official databases and is not easily traced back to you.

Equipment

Equipment is used to give your mooks something to fight with. Bare hands versus horrible extradimensional claws is generally not a winning prospect. Equipment can be bought, or it can be produced. 1 Production can produce 1 wealth worth of equipment, however it only costs 2 wealth to use 3 units of production. Therefore, producing your own equipment has a notable cost advantage. Furthermore, equipment that is produced does not suffer from black market markups.

Personal Equipment

Legal

Civilian Pistols (100 units per 1 wealth): Good civilian pistols are cheap and reliable-excellent tools for people who only need minimal self-defense capacity that can be easily concealed. However when I say minimal, I mean minimal.

Civilian Longarms (100 units per 1 wealth): Although not capable of using high-velocity armor piercing ammunition, nor equipping many of the accessories military-grade firearms are, civilian firearms are reasonably useful against weaker enemies like unarmored humans.

Marksman Rifles (10 units per 1 wealth): Highly accurate rifles, these can be used for hunting animals or hunting cultists just fine.

"Elephant Guns" (5 units per 1 wealth): "Elephant Guns" are a broad-ranging category of extremely large-caliber unwieldy weapons. Although difficult to use effectively against eldritch horrors that may shrug off entire magazines of standard rifle fire, they will often be the only legal recourse.

Nonlethal Weapons (20 units per 1 wealth): There are times where you want someone alive, instead of dead. There are times when that person might fight back. These are weapons for those times.

Concealable Body Armor (10 units per 1 wealth): High-grade concealable armor can stop most civilian pistol rounds, edged weapons, and a handful of military AP pistol rounds without being easily visible.

Heavy Body Armor (5 units per 1 wealth): Heavy Body Armor is much more effective at stopping bullets and blades but is not concealable.

Nightvision (5 units per 1 wealth): Nightvision systems make the dark a lot less scary. This just means you have more time to be afraid of what's in it.

Surveillance Equipment (2 units per 1 wealth): Bugs and the like are legal to purchase, if not always legal to use. When the enemy is also hidden, you may want to invest in it.

Paramedic Kit (2 units per 1 wealth): Most agents are going to need patching up, unless they're cybered up to the eyeballs or biotically enhanced. Paramedic kits increase the chances someone will survive long enough to get there.

Illegal

NOTE: Illegal weapons may often be marked up depending on your relation with the black market.

Small IEDs (50 units per 1 wealth, single-use): Generally not purchased, Improvised Explosive Devices are buildable with the contents of a decent chemistry lab and electronics store. These IEDs are generally smaller designs, capable of booby-trapping a room or wounding human-sized foes. However, their backyard engineering makes them not nearly as reliable as military-grade explosives.

Large IEDs (5 units per 1 wealth, single-use): Larger IEDs can be used to destroy vehicles if properly emplaced, as well as kill larger, more dangerous foes.

Very Large IEDs (5 wealth per unit, single-use): When subtlety is completely out the window sometimes the only recourse is a truck bomb. Beware, Very Large IEDs are extremely dangerous to one's own secrecy and are likely to bring the wrath of a god (or at least government special operations groups) down on you.

Machine Pistols (50 units per 1 wealth): Machine pistols are military PDWs, using rounds designed more for armor penetration and low recoil than stopping power. Only truly effective against weak foes, their high rate of fire lets you at least pretend to defend yourself against eldritch horrors.

Assault Rifles (25 units per 1 wealth): With advanced electronics integrated, and normally using high-velocity rounds for maximum armor penetration, ARs are the staple infantry weapon, and excellent general-purpose tools for dealing with enemy combatants when subtlety has gone out the window.

Machine Guns (10 units per 1 wealth): Deadly antipersonnel weapons, machine guns are useful for mowing down hordes or pumping larger creatures full of lead. Either way, they are fairly effective weapons against all sorts of foes.
Grenade Launchers (1 unit per 1 wealth): Advanced grenade launchers can fire a variety of payloads against enemies. Useful against groups, armored enemies, buildings, and the occasional vehicle.

Antimateriel Rifles (2 wealth per unit): Antimateriel Rifles are generally advanced sniper rifles firing large-caliber armor piercing munitions. Normally they might be overkill, but sometimes there are eldritch horrors that just don't quit unless you hit them with a 20mm shell.

Anti-Tank Weapons (1 unit per 3 wealth, single-use): Ranging from advanced rocket-propelled grenades to smart missiles, sometimes you really want to throw subtlety out the window. Usable against tanks and things that take as much punishment as tanks, unless you want to face off some horrible demon spawn with just rifles, you might want to invest in a handful.

Enhanced Imaging (1 unit per wealth): Combining IR, light amplification, lidar, and a host of other senses, EI or "Gargoyle" gear provides a soldier with an impressive view of the battlefield.

Adaptive Camo Systems (10 wealth per unit): Expensive, but well worth it, adaptive camo allows an agent to reduce their visibility. Although still visible to close inspection, especially when not hiding behind cover or shadows, it allows them to stay relatively undetected in many situations.

Combat Armor (5 wealth per unit): Combat Armor uses lightweight polymer plates, combined with ballistic fabric and shear-thickening fluid to create armor that is light and very protective, although extremely difficult to acquire and almost always questionably legal at best.

Powered Armor (15 wealth per 1 unit): Highly expensive, power armor only sees use in the militaries of first world countries. Acquiring one on the black market would be extremely difficult to attempt without good connections. However, its combination of mobility, protection, and ability to wield heavy firepower makes it a very desired device for any hunter.

Augmentations

Augmentations are fairly common in 2038, although they are not ubiquitous. Originally military in use, civilian cybernetics is still an immature field (save for cosmetic enhancement), with most augmentations dealing more towards making someone better in combat. Augmentations are generally a combination of genetic treatments (to prevent rejection and reduce negative side effects) and hardware.

Civilian Augs

Muscle Boosters (2 wealth): A person with muscle boosters is enhanced by grafted synthetic muscle as well as cardiovascular capacity boosters. As cheap strength augmentation, it works well, moderately increasing one's capability in melee combat.

Agility Boosters (5 wealth): A more expensive modification, agility enhancement is a combination of treatments to reduce reaction time, as well as modifications to muscle chemistry. Agility boosters increase one's movement speed and defense.

DNI (5 wealth): A DNI is used for many situations, including interfacing with vehicles and computers. DNI-equipped soldiers make excellent pilots,

Backup Systems (5 wealth): A backup set of vital organs/systems allows one so implanted to survive more grievous harm than normal.

Sense augmentation (5 wealth): Improved senses increase the ability to see things that are "off". They also provide nightvision which allows you to no longer carry around a set of NVGs, freeing up that item slot for something else.

Cosmetic Mods (2 wealth): Cosmetic mods are normally used to look good, but they also have one important use-hiding other cybernetics. Obviously certain full-conversions cannot be hidden (like the Dragoon).

Military-Grade Augs

Wired Reflexes (5 wealth): Adding a second neural net of wiring and implanted computers that take over the body when certain stimuli are met, Wired Reflexes allow a soldier to react extremely quickly to predetermined events.

Myomer Body Augmentation (5 wealth): Myomer artificial muscles are implanted in the user's body, as well as support struts for bone. The end result is a person who is much stronger than normal.

Skul-Gun (5 wealth): You have a gun. In your head. That shoots bullets. You can kill at the speed of thought now, you no longer need to worry about punks that can draw a pistol before you can draw your assault gun. The days of complaining about being a target practice backstop are over!

Dermal Armor (10 wealth): Although extremely expensive the additional protection from dermal armor is well worth it, as it supplements armor. Alone, it is only as protective as concealable body armor but this protection is cumulative with whatever additional armor or warding you have, allowing someone with it to shrug off incredible amounts of punishment.

Talos Full Conversion (20 wealth, maintenance 0.5 wealth/month): The Talos is a full cybernetic body, replacing every organ but the brain and spinal cord. Superior to just building around the flesh (but not superior to esoteric augmentations such as Biotics), the Galatea as it comes is human in size although not necessarily in looks, and masses at a fairly dense 130 or so kilograms. It can be further combined with other augmentations, the most common being cosmetic modifications. Talos bodies are normally used by paramilitary security, as they are far too maintenance-intensive for military special forces teams.

Dragoon Full Conversion (40 wealth, maintenance 1 wealth/month): Full Conversion 'borgs are the deadliest cyborgs of any type, and are exclusively military. The user is literally reduced to little more than a brain in a box, then built into a vehicle. Dragoons are extremely lethal, agile, and deadly, but their size (2.3 meters tall) and mass (2000 kilograms) make them difficult to field. Dragoons can use vehicle-grade weapons and applique armor owing to their powerful limbs, and also have smaller manipulators that allow them to still use personal-scale equipment. The Dragoon prevents the use of other cyberware.

Vehicles

Smoke and Mirrors: Vehicles

Facilities

An organization needs facilities to function. Facilities are bought like just about anything, and house your infrastructure as well as other equipment. Facilities require security, so too many of them will spread you thin. Too few, and you put many eggs in one basket.

Warehouses (cost 10): Warehouses are fairly cheap facilities built on cheap land. They are fairly good places to store things relatively discreetly, although excessive activity inside may cause suspicion.

Workshop (cost 25): A workshop is a place where people work. Workshops are differentiated from factories owned by front companies because they are generally run by people who know that they're hunting monsters for a living.

Business (cost 25): Whether they have a cover story or operate out of a shady alleyway, businesses generally house your illegal wealth infrastructure.

Laboratories (cost 30): Labs are used for R&D, which generally means dissecting live examples of extradimensional beings for fun and profit. Analysts double as lab workers, which is unrealistic but we're already looking at this in very high detail.

Clinics (cost 30): Clinics are useful for recovering agents. You can send them to regular hospitals but most wounds in the line of duty are going to be very unusual and draw attention.

Safehouses (cost 10): A safehouse is a place to stay that'll let you keep yourself from being discovered before the heat dies down.

Special Traits

Smoke and Mirrors: Special Traits

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