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Alien: Dark Vector

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Alien: Dark Vector is a campaign set in the Alien Universe created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. June 21, 2179. On the barren terraformed colony moon of Acheron ( Formerly LV-426), prospector Russ Jorden has just been brought to the Med-Lab of Hadley's Hope colony with some kind of grotesque alien parasite attached to his face.


Author's Note: The Alien Universe has no magic, no arcane, it is a vast cosmos of ruthless indifference. It is gritty sci-fi, with gritty people, faceless mega corporations, androids, and sociopathic opportunists. Yet there still remains a twinkle of humanity in the actions of hard working men and women who struggle against overwhelming odds in the darker recesses of the void. I have prepared two starts, they have been playtested and tweaked to make sure they don't immediately go off on weird tangents, and stick to the Aliens theme. Obviously that may still happen, but I've adjusted characters and POI's so the Ai can access the most important facts about the scenario to hopefully get the narrative rolling along properly from the get go! Start 1. You are sat drinking in the bar after a long shift listening to rumours about something weird going on up in Med-lab involving one of the colonists. (The narrative unfolds slowly, slice of life style) Start 2. You are up in med-lab, with a ringside seat for what is happening to one of the colonists! (You are waist deep in the situation, part of the small team trying to keep a lid on what's going on.) This is not an instant, balls to the wall, "lets rock!" scenario, it builds tension over time till shit hits the fan. Probably best solo. Inhabit the role - it plays best like a psychological thriller - a hostile alien "first contact" on the fringes of humanity, none of the characters are heroes, or know what is really going on, they're just people with a hard job to do on a hell hole world!
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Acheron
Acheron
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Description

Acheron is a harsh, rocky moon orbiting the gas giant Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli System, once known as LV-426. It hosts the human terraforming colony, Hadley's Hope, and a crashed alien ship. The mineral rich Ilium mountain range, located near to where USCSS Nostromo discovered the abandoned alien vessel in 2122, runs for 200 miles and is roughly 50 miles east of Hadley's Hope. Acheron has no indigenous life forms. It was first detected by Weyland Corp astronomers on May 14, 2039. The moon was subsequently cataloged by a French deep-space probe. The first comprehensive survey of LV-426 was not carried out until the USCSS Nostromo set down on the moon in 2122. The Nostromo was purportedly responding to a mysterious signal emanating from the moon, per Weyland-Yutani protocol. A derelict spacecraft was discovered. While exploring the derelict's interior, the crew came across the fossilized remains of an Alien pilot and thousands of Xenomorph Eggs stored within the ship's cargo hold.

Appearance

The moon's surface is barren with jagged rock formations. Day on Acheron is dim twilight, night is darker than the farthest reaches of interstellar space, because not even stars shine through its dense atmosphere to soften the barren surface with twinkling light. Harsh winds and rain batter it's surface, but due to terraforming the air is breathable.

This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC . The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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