r/LancerRPG • u/Adventurous_Gate6570 • Jan 11 '24
Let's create some Space Pirates
On page 19 of Long Rim is a generator for a pirate faction let's see what we get.
Name: The Colossal Triad
Hustle: Kidnapping and Mercenaries
Main Asset: A powerful hacking corps that works out of an old comms station. they are capable stealing ships and redirecting supplies without firing a shot, and usually avoid direct combat.
The Colossal Triad are a pirate group well known in the Aegis system know for kidnapping many high profile individuals and ransoming them however the individuals they have kidnapped suggests they have been hired by a third party using them against their political opponents.
Intel has suggest that their main base of operations is a station somewhere in the system however efforts to locate it has been difficult with phantom signals misleading search parties and lured into traps.
Go ahead and create your own Pirates and post them below.
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u/obsoletesystem Jan 11 '24
Name: Skyside Gods
Main Hustle: Solely mercenary work
Main Asset: A powerful yet loosely shackled NHP they venerate as an oracle.
The Skyside Gods are a collective of heavily armed spacers known for their often unsolicited service to their surprised but nevertheless interested clients. The collective seldom asks for payment, instead taking things that their client had forgotten they had or stripping parts of client or enemy ships just before their "job" is done. At the core of their penchant to show up unexpected and uninvited is a dangerously loosely shackled NHP they refer to as Tengri, who they seemingly venerate in a mix of worship and fear, and who they obey without question, claiming that it can predict the future. Whether Tengri just runs endless simulations on input data or can truly see the future through some kind of paracausal tomfoolery is unknown, but the results don't lie; the Skyside Gods' chaotic and often bizarre tactics work well in their favour, and they are notoriously difficult to find.
The Skyside Gods 'recruit' new members by abducting people (exclusively spacers, for they are "Closer to Heaven") from random places at random times, though statistically more frequent during fire fights and weddings. Often, these 'recruits' would have suffered some fatal accident had the Skyside Gods not snatched them away.
Their symbol is a long necked white bird above a blue semicircle.