NG "Reverse Engineered" Items

[Sci-Fi]

In our game, my groups have worked for Northern Gun for years. "Off the books" doing pretty much exactly the jobs that are now covered in the new OOC "Loss Prevention".

Over a number of sessions we acquired a number of items for NG to reverse engineer. I.E. tear apart and see how they work, then put their own touches on, and market. One of the items we acquired for NG was the T-25 "Uber" armor. (Found in Traix 2) It took Northern Gun 2 years of round the clock engineering to tear it down and then recreate it in their labs. Prototype testing and such happened (With our group. As procurement for NG we get new prototypes to test out) and now the armor is being rolled out with "This year's product line." Along with the corresponding weapon.

NG-1000 "Odinson"
Weight: 50lbs
Mobility: Fair to Good: -15% Prowl, Swim, Acrobatics
M.D.C. By Location
     Head/Helmet: 90
     Arms: 80 Each
     Legs: 90 Each
     Main Body: 200
Special NG-1000 "Odinson" Features
     1: All Standard NG Sensors. (Found most recently in NG1 Page 100-101. Previously found elsewhere)
     2: Exoskeleton Augmentation: Robot PS of 18 - 2D6 SDC on a restrained punch, 1 MD on a Full Strength Punch, 1D6 MD on a power punch
         Reduces user Fatigue by 40%
         Can leap 15 feet across or upwards
     3: Combat bonus: +1 Attack Per melee, +1 Inits, +1 Parry, +1 Dodge, +1 to Roll with Impact, and pull punch
     4: Mjolnir: NG B300: (Reverse Engineered TX-H3 Blast hammer) Hammer: 2D6 MD from a blunt attack, 2D6+2 from the spiked end.
                   When the "Blast" Feature is enabled +2D6MD and an 60% likelihood of knocking down opponents 13 feet or smaller, and a 30% chance of knocking down larger opponents.
                    Payload: Hammer can store 10 blasts, Kinetic energy recharges the hammer at a rate of 1 blast per hour under normal conditions or 1 blast per 20 minutes of combat or rapid movement.

Available in male or female variations, (and yes, the female versions are purposefully styled to look more feminine, with out looking stupid. Females can if they choose to wear male versions to hide such things. See page 161 Black Market for 'example' of Male and Female armor that looks different with out being chain-mail bikini type stuff.) Available in any color pattern you want. Over 5,000 camo patterns in the catalog, or even your Merc Company's own personal Camouflage, and any unit designations can be applied free at purchase (From Northern Gun or a licensed Northern Gun Outlet!). Tread of the boots can even be customized to preference (For Desert, woodland, or arctic environs) or personal tread pattern, also can have Unit designation in the tread. (Already available from NG in their BDU's and boots. See Adventures in Dino Swamp two.) Non camouflage colors available as well. Black, Dark gray, Metallic gray, Police Blue being some other possibilities. (Needless to say if you're not buying from a NG outlet or NG direct, you can pick from the colors and styles they have on hand. Or they can place an order. The Black Market, if/when they get these, won't have 5000 camo patterns on hand. It'll be 'What cha see is what I've got buddy".)


(Took the stats of the NG one and downed them a little bit to show that it was reverse engineered by Northern Gun. The stats aren't TOO far down, as it's basically just a suit of heavy armor with mild exo suits built in. CS has them as well as other companies. Needless to say the stylization is 100% different. The helmet looks completely different and the arrangement of stylistic stuff differs so one doesn't just look at it and instantly go 'Hey that's a Traix Umber suit"
Dropped the Standard Issue Rail gun. NG would want you to buy their own rail gun. Put on the hammer as a cheeper alternative, that also goes with the "Odinson" Designation. The use of "Mjolnir" is pretty popular with my group, but if GM's can replace it with the NG-B50 if they so wish. As a side note, the NG-B50.... is nicknamed The Thunderer. lol )

[Jaymz]

Cool *thumbs up*

Though to be honest....it really wouldn't be all that hard for NG to just buy Triax goods through a third party would it?

[Sci-Fi]

Depends. The Umber was 'new' and what not. We swiped it for them PDQ. Technically we were a third party. This was done right after Traix 2 came out so... 3 or 4 years ago? At the time we were sulking around during the NG/CS aggressions in Europe. We acquired a few crates of the armor from infiltrating a combined CS/NG base pretending to be a CS special forces team coming back for resupply and then 'stealing' the armor and a few of the weapons. Plausible deniability and all that. The game was run before NG 1 was even announced. lol When I got the prototype book and saw that this stuff was very much standard for NG it made me laugh.

You're not wrong. They could through third, fourth, fifth and or sixth parties, acquire some of the stuff, "Legally", and at market cost. In this way they have Mercs on retainer that they pay to acquire stuff via a 'bounty'. Vs paying market cost down a chain and then back up a chain, which also leaves a trail and such.

It was just what our group did at the time. Special agents for NG. We acquired items to reverse engineer, be it Traix, CS, Naruni, Bandito Arms, etc, we also ran black ops missions for them. Extractions of scientists, robot and weapon designers from those organizations. Sabotage on competitors weapons and munitions plants, etc. In the case of the armor above, we were tasked with acquiring the armor and weapons and if possible, attempt to sabotage their production facilities. When the group was in Europe, we saw how desperate the fight was with the Gargoyles and what not, so we only stole some and left Traix and NG's production alone. There's "Hurting a Competitor's production" and then there's "Damaging a nation's safty vs demons" Our group, while not a bunch of care bears or girl scouts, didn't want to kill tons of innocents.

Being 100% honest, in the case of the Armor here.... we liked the Armor. Our GM knew we liked the armor. We worked for NG and liked NG as a company. This was a good way for 1) Us to 'get' the armor, 2) For NG to 'get' the armor, and 3) After a few sessions in Europe, we could use the armor and such and play in our preferred location, North America, while still having reason to have access to said armor.

I posted it up here for others, should they wish to use it.

[Jaymz]

Oh I like the idea to be sure, was just curious.