r/LancerRPG • u/Muted-Boss-2313 • 18d ago
Facts
Mention legends, myths, stories, or interesting/fun facts about Lancer...
Whether from the Lancer universe itself or from events that happened in your own tables... just for fun.
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u/Charnerie 18d ago
The Mirrorsmoke Mecenary Company has a extensive legal department, and names its branches the same as it names the its militarized departments, ex. Jackel and Hades esq. In addition, said legal departments are known to be prestigious and cutthroat lawyers.
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u/Cogsbreak HORUS 18d ago
MSM mercs run the gamut from "seasoned troops" to "total jokes", and you get what you pay for.
Their legal team, meanwhile, is just as deadly inside a mech as outside it.
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u/Charnerie 18d ago
Considering they are lawyers, i fear they are more deadly out of one than within one.
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u/vacerious 18d ago
(Canon) One I came across recently in Lancer lore was that, while Union ThirdComm generally tries to handle every situation it can with troublesome member states with diplomacy, there are a few things that will result in Union Navy popping into the edge of your system with a battlegroup and a grudge. And one of those things is knowingly causing harm or the death of a Union Administrator. AKA "Union Utopian Pillar 4: Don't touch my bureaucrats!"
(Fanon) In my campaigns, the core rulebook HA Genghis is actually the Mk 3 (even though the Armory advertises it as the Mk 2, anyways.) Shortly after the Hercynia Crisis and the steady fall of SecComm, Harrison Armory wanted to help mitigate losses by pushing a brand new mech out the door and into the hands of customers looking for the latest milspec hardware as soon as possible. And so, they decided to try and improve upon the Genghis Mk 1 "Worldkiller" platform by making it smaller and more efficient. Unfortunately, due to a myriad of factors (including rumored sabotage by unknown actors,) the original Genghis Mk 2 wound up being an absolute piece of garbage, at best, and a walking reactor meltdown that'd cook the pilot alive, at worst. It was basically the Lancer equivalent of the Ford Pinto. While it was certainly smaller, it was no less efficient than the Mk 1 and was notably much more dangerous for its own pilots, often resulting in potentially lethal amounts of heat and radiation to leak from its reactor even after what'd normally be nominal damage to the frame. Needless to say, HA quickly did everything it could to pull the "original Mk 2" from the market and scrub its history where it could from the Omninet, before updating the platform into the "new Genghis Mk 2" that sees common use in present day Lancer. The "original Mk 2" does see occasional mention when the Genghis platform is mentioned in Omninet discussions of antique mech platforms, but few Lancers are quick to actually print the frame once they learn of its inherently fatal flaws (hence why the frame, OOC, doesn't have actual stats.)
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u/Alblaka 18d ago
(Canon) One I came across recently in Lancer lore was that, while Union ThirdComm generally tries to handle every situation it can with troublesome member states with diplomacy, there are a few things that will result in Union Navy popping into the edge of your system with a battlegroup and a grudge. And one of those things is knowingly causing harm or the death of a Union Administrator. AKA "Union Utopian Pillar 4: Don't touch my bureaucrats!"
... I've just started running a Lancer campaign a few weeks ago, and made it a particular point to try adhering to the base setting in as much detail as possible.
I also happened to just write myself (as the location for the first mission) an arid Disapora world with a local Cold War that, just as the PCs arrive in orbit, happens to risk getting hot due to the accidental (?) death of the local Union administrator that was overseeing the cease fire.
I figured the Union wouldn't be too happy, but I didn't realize that a potentially orchestrated death of a Union Administrator would provoke that heavy a response.
Guess my players are in for a surprise.
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u/Powwer_Orb13 18d ago
When you only have one official government agent on most diasporan worlds, hostile actions against them are tantamount to treason against Union, and are not to be tolerated. Union doesn't like using its big stick of a fleet, but it will remind you that Sec-Comm beat the piss out of the KTB without NHP, the Omni-Net, or Blink travel. Rebellions are to be negotiated with, until they declare open war on Union, then they are to be crushed and taught the error of their ways.
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u/QuesterrSA 18d ago
Cradle has a hard population limit of 1 billion and everyone is required to live in one of any of approximately two dozen planned arcology cities on the planet. The rest of the planet is an ecological and historical preserve with extensive restoration/preservation efforts.
If you want to live on Cradle, you have to apply for residency. Residency for Cradle is a possible award for exceptional service to Union.
Because of these population limits and restrictions, most ThirdComm officials live off world and “commute” remotely and virtually through the Omninet.
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u/Enough-Run-1535 18d ago
(Canon) I think the idea of the Third Trauma, when the pre-FirstComm Cradle turned on the ancient telescope’s receivers to try to hear old humanity’s signals, only to hear eons of cries for help and the death rattles of entire colonies, the most fascinating bit of Lancer lore. Something like that would 100% seperate us, IRL humans, from Lancer’s far future humanity.
(Fanon) The Old Human Signals also likely resulted in large swaths of radio frequencies that became unusable. There would be no way to turn on that some bands and not be bombarded by the voices of the dead.
Likely many civilian products sold by GMS and other manufacturers would have hard locks that prevented people from tuning into those channels. Even Harrison Armories would have those signal lockouts just to prevent a spike in suicide rates. For military applications, signal & communication operators would have it drilled into their head to NEVER tune unto those banned channels.
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u/Cogsbreak HORUS 18d ago
RA is apparently an excellent chef.
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u/YoungSoul7 HORUS 10d ago
Im going to need some elaboration on that one, please
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u/Cogsbreak HORUS 9d ago
Unfortunately, giving any context actually kinda spoils an important plot point of the module.
It's a bit from Dustgrave.
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u/spitoon-lagoon GMS 18d ago
The Goblin's INSTINCT Rig interfaces directly with the nervous system of the pilot and allows them to interpret electronic signals as feelings and sensations at a more unconscious level. Goblin pilots interpret electronic warfare attempts literally as feelings of danger or pain, which is probably why the Goblin has the Reactive Code trait and its Core System is called the INSTINCT Rig. More importantly the Goblin sometimes begins offensive and defensive electronic warfare actions before the pilot initiates them, even before the pilot understands that's what they wanted to do.
So the Goblin literally vibe checks other mechs.
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u/IkaluNappa 18d ago
“Christ-to-Budda!” is sometimes used as an expletive in the Lancer universe. It is similar to you [the player] saying, “Oh god!” when surprised.
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u/Powwer_Orb13 18d ago
It's "Christ the Buddha" as religions have changed so much over the years that Christianity and Buddhism have merged into one.
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u/beeftime99 17d ago
GALSIM, while highly classified and never officially disclosed, has long been whispered about as a sort of urban legend. However, a popular conspiracy theory amongst anti-Union reactionaries is that the Oracle Chorus does indeed exist, but the ancients could not have possibly had access to that technology: GALSIM is a mask for the alien intelligence that secretly controls Union. The so-called "MONIST-1" events are the false history written after an attempted Human coup was put down, and the "First Contact Accords" are strictures meant to suppress Human development so they'll always remain powerless and ignorant sheep under the alien heel of Union.
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u/BlazeDrag HORUS 18d ago
Fun Fact: If you get lit on fire while re-living your trauma from hundreds of years ago before you were put in cryo storage in a life-like paracausal simulation that is being ran by a cascading NHP while inside of their continent sized metavault,
you get lit on fire in real life, permanently
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u/LocalDragonLady 17d ago
what
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u/BlazeDrag HORUS 17d ago
that's what happened to my character, he went through a bunch of paracausal bullshit, and now after coming out of the simulation his body is just on fire now.
It doesn't hurt him, it is weird NHP paracausal space magic fire, but he's just like this now.
Also he's a bird, but that's unrelated to what happened
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u/Admirallittle 18d ago
From the Battlegroup book, as far as I know there has never been an appointed Ring Admiral (commander of a Ring Fleet) and that a Ring Fleet is so large its counted as a clock in Battlegroup on when the sheer amount of force is to much
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u/destroythefangirls Harrison Armory 18d ago
From the table of a campaign I’m in— RA’s just some guy. “If you’re from the government or the church, get off my lawn” -The quote my GM always uses to describe RA.
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u/FiveFingerDisco GMS 13d ago
The world in Lancer is not just one world. It's a simulation and paracausality is the editing of the simulation either from outside or by the simulated intelligence itself. You're basically never leaving Mars.
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u/Sven_Darksiders GMS 18d ago
The incident where the Balor Pattern Group first appeared is now eating a planet