MHC INFO: Roswell-Carlsbad Township

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MHC INFO: Roswell-Carlsbad Township

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Series 1, Part 1 & 2 - Manhunt ChIIDA, An Introduction to the Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future

Originally posted 03 Oct 2003, 18:06


The Roswell-Carlsbad Township is situated inside the White City, a fortified compound approx. 1km in diameter built across a creek. There is a waterfall and park on the south side, fed by a stream that runs down from the Guadaloupe Mountains. There is a lot of greenary amongst all the salvage. The cavern complex reaches a depth of about 475m and houses the White City’s manufacturing and power supply.

Population of 466. 310 should be able-bodied. Of these, 150 are wounded and in the infirmary from a Marauder attack the previous month. There are 160 remaining able-bodied persons, only 20 of which are combat trained. Of these, all have cyberware, while six are full conversion borgs (Gemini class).

Garrison is equiped with obsolete Militech Mirage Gear body armour (with reactive camouflage technology) and Militech Ronin Light Assault Rifles. Each rifle has an under-barrel Militech GL. They also have four Militech 20L Autocannons in emplacements around the outer wall.

There is a reserve of Militech High Power-15 personal defence weapons. These have a limited range.

Militech Mirage Gear Body Armour
SP 36 Head
SP 40 Torso
SP 12 Arms, Legs
EV -3

Militech High Power-15 PDW
RIF +2 N P 2D6+4 (9mmL) 180 60 ST 200m

Militech GL
HVY 0 N/A R 7D6 (40mmG) 1 1 ST 200m

Militech 20L Autocannon
HVY 0 N R 8D10 (20mm) 100 10 VR 500m

The outer wall is made of reinforced concrete, 10m high, uniform 1m wide with buttresses. To provide protection against anti-materiel missiles, a layer of salvage has been built around outside.

Automated APEX defence systems protect against incoming missiles, mortor shells and other projectiles. Inside the compound, the main command bunker is protected by hydraulic security doors and turret-mounted Militech Laser Cannons.

Civilians are ordered to retreat to the cavern complex during a battle. The cavern complex is protected by security doors, Militech Laser Cannons and Adrek Max Police Dog cyberforms. Each of these is fitted with dual-firing Militech Mini-GLs.

There are also five Adrek Humanoid 100 cyberforms, often used to operate the Autocannon emplacements.

Most buildings are made out of reinforced concrete, with interconnecting walkways above street level.

The garages are located on the westside of the command bunker.

The garage contains two AV-4 transports (no armament), one AV-6 gunship with 20mm rotary cannon but no missiles or rockets. Also a couple of Bell Spy-Eye 18 helicopters. There are various ground ATVs in garage.

The fastest vehicle in the garage is Hargan's Tetracorp Fei Lien 100 AV-7 aerodyne at over 700km/h (438mph).
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Originally posted posted 03 Oct 2003, 18:06

What is this place?
The White City, NM, we are the Roswell-Carlsbad Township. All that remains of those settlements.

What happened to those settlements?
They were destroyed by the Marauders.

What were these settlements?
They were originally Neo-Luddite settlements. As the Church of the New Epoch became more obsessed with transcendence through cyberpsychosis, a splinter group of Disciples led by Dr. Paradox set out to the Southern Wilderness. Dr. Paradox was convinced that they could start anew in NM, that something awaited them. This group believed, as the Church of the New Epoch originally did, that Enlightenment could only be attained through freeing the mind. Drugs, cyberware and mysticism were all different ways of assisting this.

Having survived the badlands because of their cyberware, this group finally reached the Pecos River and found three Neo-Luddite settlements, Roswell, Artesia and Carlsbad. The Luds in Roswell were survivalists, they wanted to the firepower of the Disciples on their side. They welcomed the group. The Luds in Carlsbad were mostly Apaches and believed in animism, they welcomed the group to share their ideas. In Artesia, the Luds were fanatic isolationists and were hostile to the group, and after they were welcomed by the other settlements, Artesia became hostile to them too.

After the megacorps destroyed the Church of the New Epoch in 2009, some of the heavily-armoured Zealots retreated from Night City, CA, into the Southern Wilderness. They attacked the settlements on the Pecos River. Artesia did not have the firepower to resist them and was captured, and ransacked. Dr. Paradox united Roswell and Carlsbad, forming the Roswell-Carlsbad Township. Dr. Paradox led them south to the ruins of White City and one of the largest cavern complexes in the world. Here they built a fortress town out of salvage.

Who or what are the Marauders?
A rippergang of cyberpsychotic culties. The Zealots went on to attack other settlements in the Southern Wilderness, relying on this for resources. They became known as the Marauders, led by one of the Nine Hierophants of the Church of the New Epoch, the Red Dragon. Those people that they didn’t kill outright were indoctrinated into their ranks. They’d brought supplies of cyberware with them from Night City. Each Marauder is fitted with basic processor, chipware socket and behaviour chips. They were able to procure more cyberware by taking down air transports that were carrying black market SovTech cyberware across the Southern Wilderness.

Where does the Township get all its technology?
Before the Collapse, NM was covered in top secret research and development facilities, from Los Alamos National Lab in the north, to White Sands Test Facility in the south. Dr. Paradox left the White City to get the nanoware to cure the bioplague they were suffering from. He came back with nanite manufacturing equipment. He’d found the White Sands Test Facility and Space Harbour, abandoned since the first bioplague outbreak of 2000. From there the Township scavenged ultramodern technology, including a power source. They were able to produce their own anti-plague nanotech.

What is the power source?
A cold fusion reactor, designated Base Accelerator Unit Beta-Gamma type. BABY. The reactor is free-floating within a bio-nano generator that converts raw energy into electricity. This is all contained by a spherical hard armour shell, with ports at the back and control panel and interface plugs at front. The unit is about the size of a basketball.

Why aren’t you all cyberpsychos?
Dr. Paradox devised a Therapy, based on that used by the megacorps in Night City.

Why is Akeyo here?
Dr. Paradox died and his work remains unfinished. He was developing a course of drugs that alters the perception, making people more succeptable to the spirit world. He is bringing the people into the Dreaming, so that they may connect past, present and future and understand their place in the world. So they might answer the fundamental questions, why are we here? What is the meaning of life?

Memories disappear into the ether, but they can resurface from the subconscious, like in hynpotism. The memories of the Ancestor Spirits live on in their descendents. Akeyo is descended from the First People of the Dreamtime, the Bushmen. Her mother was a Masai, but her father was a Bushman - Dr. Paradox. Within her are the memories of the Dreamtime, back to the very beginning. It is from her that all the people will be able connect with their origins. She must lead them in the Dreaming.

All his files are locked on in a data fortress on the Township’s micro-net. It requires voice recognition to gain access.

What was the spider-like robot?
A custom-designed cyberform. With the help of the Arensnuphites, the Township’s netrunners hacked into an Arasaka factory in Night City. They ran a custom-designed cyberform on the line and had it sent to Akeyo. From there it was remote-controlled by the Township’s AI. It was designed to be carried in the womb. It can secrete an anaesthetic film, allowing it to move in and out without being felt. It is still in Akeyo’s womb.

Who or what are the Arensnuphites?
A netrunning group called the Master Hackers set up the Hunt Club. Each member of the group had a vision that they wanted to make reality. The Hunt Club was set up to share their resources. The Arensnuphites are exotics, all of them have the BigKatt exotics package and inbuilt cybermodems. They’re constantly uplinked to their own micro-net, so that they live in a VR world of a kind of Dark Continent.

Who ambushed us in the mountains?
Artesian Luds. Those that escaped the Marauders have been living wild ever since.

Does the Township have anything they think they should tell us?
They have constructed a 200kt thermo-nuclear device from parts scavenged from the White Sands Missile Range and materials from Echo Canyon, up near the Los Alamos National Lab. It would cause total destruction within a 4km blast radius.
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NPCs

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Originally posted 03 Oct 2003, 18:06

Candice, Madam: DEAD Medtech, very attractive red-haired woman with tanned skin, green eyes. Used to work at a bordello in Night City, caring for the prostitutes. Killed by Zealot while defending wounded.

Dana: Rayanne's mother, nomad. Husband killed by Marauders three years ago. Psychic medium.

Eggbasket aka Runny Eggs: DEAD Netrunner. Slack-jawed, inbred country bumpkin. Practically lives on cyberspace, even if it is the White City's micro-net. Killed when control room was hit by Red Dragon's demolition gun.

Hargan, Chief: DEAD The White City's chief of police. Built like a gorilla, with short blonde hair and goatee beard, wears stetson but carries a Sternmeyer CG-13 assault rifle. Was a well-known street solo in Night City, CA. "The Hargan, who flatlined Ripperjack outside the Slammer in 2019?" He's keeping a low profile in the Southern Wilderness, doesn't know how he ended up in the White City. Seemed almost like he was led there. Killed by Red Dragon while distracting it so team could escape.

Mungary: Old grey-haired Apache and techie. The White City's mechanical engineer.

PV or Parvinder: Indian woman, techie, originally from Night City, CA. The White City's electrical engineer. Used to work for Microtech.

Rayanne: Daughter of Dana, the Township's best scout and full conversion Gemini class borg. Was hit by one of the Marauder's mortar rounds that made passed the APEX close-in weapon systems. Too young to fit cyberware, had to transplant her brain into a biopod.

Salvatore, Father: DEAD Priest in the Church of the New Epoch. The White City's leader since the Vagabond died. Killed by Red Dragon.

Whitey aka White City: The White City's AI. Silent running. No personality as such.
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Route Map

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Originally posted 06 Feb 2004, 20:45

The route map from Night City to the crash site, as determined by Black Webb's co-ordinates.

Session 8 Route Map

Directions
US101 southbound from Night City, CA, to Los Angeles, CA:
225 mi (360km)
I-10 eastbound from Los Angeles, CA, to Phoenix City, AZ:
400 mi (640km)
I-17 northbound from Phoenix City, AZ, to I-40:
175 mi (280km)
I-40 eastbound to Old Albuquerque, NM:
300 mi (480km)
Off-road, south-eastward from Old Albuquerque, NM, to crash site:
150 mi (240km)

Crash site is located in the vacinity of the town of Rosswell, NM.

Distance: 1250 mi (2000km)

Areas of note
Area around Los Alamos, NM, north of Old Albuquerque, NM, is irradiated. Ground water poisoned by radiation as far south as Santa Fe, NM.

Many towns in the area have been destroyed by small-scale tactical nuclear bombardment to prevent the spread of bioplague.

Session 7
The team have passed through Phoenix City, north along the abandoned I-17 freeway towards the state line.

They have turned east at the ruins of Flagstaff and are now travelling eastbound along I-40, approaching New Mexico.

Once across the border, the next settlement of any size is supposed to be Old Abuquerque.

The team are now in territory patrolled by nomad packs.

Session 8
The team have made it to Old Albuquerque and left the I-40, travelling south down the Rio Grande.

They then turned east, passing through the Tularosa Basin and up across the Valley of Fires lava beds into the Sacramento Mountains.

Coming down the other side, the team pass through the remains of the Capitan Mountain Wilderness until they bottom out in the Chihuahuan Desert.

Crash site is approx. 20 mi south of Roswell, NM. Having surveyed the site, team meet mysterious stranger (Rayanne) and she leads them further south along dried Pecos River bed to area of Carlsbad. Location of Roswell-Carlsbad Township, built on the ruins of White City, NM.
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