Lancer - Quick Reaction Force

Run by Echo

Content warnings

This game may include the following:

• fire
• gore
• military violence
• terrorism
• violence against children
• violence against elders

About this game

Welcome, pilot, to the world of Lancer; A mud and lasers tactical RPG set in humanity's far (far) future where galactic wars are fought and won from the cockpit of a giant robot.

Rulebook (Free ver.) We'll be running a quick one-shot, starting at License Level 0. We will be focusing primarily on combat, though there may be opportunities to use the rules for pilot-interactions in-session. Character Builder

I will not be using the default lore of Lancer (not that lore is going to matter much in this one-shot). This will have no mechanical implications.

Adventure Pitch: "Listen up, pilots! 22 hours ago, communications with the Arcas Extraction and Refining Station, a SolPact mining outpost on the surface of Callisto, went dark. Due to an ongoing solar storm, the blackout was considered benign and communications were expected to resume within the next two days, once the storm had subsided.

7 hours ago, SolACO sattelites within the JCC picked up on unusual thermal signatures emenating from the Arcas crater. Our spooks ID'd them as three freighters on an approach burn near to the crater's eastern side, where the mining outpost is situated. Normally, this wouldn't be unusual, considering how much raw material gets pulled out of Callisto on the daily. Problem is, SolPact swears they don't have anything scheduled and Jupiter Orbital hasn't issued any clearance for any vessels matching their description to enter the Arcas airspace. Our spooks say they're not in the area, so we can rule out Black-Ops.

4 hours ago, during an unexpected solar lull, every comms relay in the system got slammed with an automated distress beacon emenating from the Arcas Station. It lasted all of 10 second before the storm picked back up again and comms once again went dark. The contents of the distress call were garbled, but it's message was clear enough. The station is under attack.

Pilots, Arcas Station is home to over 2000 people, many of which are the families of the workers who live there. Most of them are civiliians and the station has a limited security force that we already believe to have been overwhelmed. Enemy numbers and composition are unknown. SolACO have issued a general order for all local Lancer teams to mobilize. We're already under-way and expect to be over Arcas Crater within the next 30 minutes. Our primary tasking is to locate and extract any survivors we can from the station with the secondary objective of eliminating any hostlie fighters in the area. We suspect the enemy to have heard the broadcasted distress beacon and have likely set for our arrival, meaning this will be a hot insert. Your frames are already being outfitted as we speak.

Good luck, and Godspeed. Dimissed."

You'll be playing as Lancers for the SolPACT - Quick Reaction Force. Deploying from the SC Zephyr, you'll be dropped into enemy territory to secure a friendly mining outpost currently under attack by an unknown hostile force.

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