Prologue to a New Setting

Many moons ago, I earned the D&D Basic Red Box by selling greeting cards from one of those promotions off the back of "Boy's Life" magazine. Oh, I realize how much that dates me. A short time later, I discovered Robotech. As I was, by this time, no longer allowed to play D&D due to it's "satanic influences", I spent time dreaming of flying veritechs, and shooting down Invid.

When I got a little older, I got $30 dollars for my birthday. I was allowed to get anything I wanted. With that carte blanche, I quickly sprinted through the Mall to the gaming store in the Northridge Fashion Center, a store, sadly no longer there since the Northridge quake. I grabbed the Invid Invasion and the REF Field Guide. My Father started to protest, but when I explained that it was sci-fi/anime, he let things slide. Palladium Books, ever since, has been one of my go to systems. 

While, at this point, Palladium Books and I are on the outs due to... things... I still love the tech aspect of things. I have always loved the crisp clean, anime appearance of Kevin Long's art. I've enjoyed the various ideas presented for Rifts, but I've never been overly keen on magic. It seemed to be very, uneven. There was magic that was like a nuke in your hands, then there was magic that was like a sparkler, but with a huge PPE cost. I ran Rifts multiple times over the years. I even bought a number of World Books while I was on my LDS Mission, serving in Ohio. When my Mission President made the comment to "Do what makes you happy.", I ran straight to the local gaming store. (Yes, I know that's not what he meant, but oh did I milk that one sentence!)

I have, though, for years, off and on, designed a number of Robotech games, using some of the tech from Rifts. Unfortunately, I've never really had the chance to run a game. I've run some fantasy games, using Palladium Fantasy. I've run a few Rifts games. I have never had the chance to run a Robotech/Rifts game. That is, until, recently. I was asked to start running a sci-fi game. So... now I get to run a game that combined a lot of elements from my favorite Palladium games. Fortunately, I got to use mostly the books I already have. You know, since I'm still waiting for Wave II, and I can only buy used books, from Palladium. 

I've started working on the basics of the setting. I'm going to start posting the information here, as I get each section built. 

I hope you enjoy what I put together.