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All Unit Data will be displayed at the end of each "turn", in order to ensure freshness.
Unit Data includes information on the current status of all units.

Attempting certain tasks may subject units to a small chance of failure. This chance is 0.33.
When attempting tasks pertaining to the unit's Purpose, this chance is lowered to 0.16.
Research is inconclusive, but results indicate that this chance can also be modified by Multiversal Traits or by the influence of Soul.

Utilization of Soul, while powerful, places a certain strain on the unit's systems.
Using Soul Powers will increase the System Strain meter by a number from 1 to 5, depending on the intended strength of the effect.
If the System Strain meter reaches 10, a Forced Shutdown will ensue.

Using Soul Powers never has a chance of failure.

Thanks to the power of Soul, units may communicate with each other instantly and at unlimited range through Telepathy.

Name:
Description:

Vitality:
Endurance:
Bravery:
Intuition:
Strength:
Luck:

Marksmanship:
CQC:
Control:
Agility:
Stealth:
Persuasion:
Medical:
Technology:

Inventory:
Mony x6

Stats: 1 stat at +3, 2 at +1, 2 at +0, 1 at -2.

Vitality: Modifies max Health (10 at +0). Sometimes rolled to not die (important.)
Endurance: Modifies max Stamina. May be rolled to resist things when appropriate.
Bravery: Modifies max Resolve. Rolled to keep composure.
Intuition: Modifies max Lucidity. General knowledge and intuition. Gives you more information on your surroundings and might reveal hidden paths.
Strength: Determines weight category of weaponry which can be used. Rolled to determine damage for certain melee weapons, or wherever strength is needed.
Luck: Is Luck.

Health: Physical condition of your body. If Health reaches 0, you will die. Taking 4 or more Health damage to the head will also cause death. Regenerates slowly.
Stamina: Ability to keep moving. If Stamina reaches 0, you will be incapacitated. Using magic powers has a chance to use Stamina. Regenerates slowly.
Resolve: Determination to fight on. If Resolve reaches 0, you will be forced to either give up or use up Stamina. This reduces Stamina by 1d6 and increases Resolve by 1d6. Regenerates when outside combat.
Lucidity: Ability to perceive and comprehend the world. If Lucidity reaches 0, you are stunned and cannot do anything until it regenerates. If Lucidity falls to 4 or lower, you are dazed and take a -2 penalty to most actions. Regenerates at a rate of 1 per turn.

Weight categories:
-2: 1 light.
+0: 1 medium + 1 sidearm.
+1: 1 medium + 1 light / 1 heavy + 1 sidearm
+3: 1 medium + 2 light / 1 v. heavy + 1 light

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Skills: Start at -1. 1 point to +0, 2 points to +1, 4 points to +2, 7 points to +3, 11 points to +4. Distribute 15 points.
You may come up with your own skills, so long as they're not too broad. You are not required to list skills you leave at -1.

Marksmanship: Accuracy using firearms and ranged weapons at medium to long range. Usually applicable outside or in very expansive spaces.
CQC: Accuracy using melee or firearms at close range. Usually applicable indoors or in melee.
Control: Ability to control recoil using firearms. Important for dealing damage with automatic firearms.
Agility: Movement, speed, and coordination. Used to move and evade. Rolled for initiative in situations where both parties notice each other simutainiously.
Stealth: Moving silently and avoiding notice.
Persuasion: Convincing, lying, manipulating.
Medical: Medical knowledge and experience.
Technology: Knowledge about any technological things. Necessary for using certain tools such as explosives.

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Gun rules:

There are three different ranges usually engaged at, because I don't feel like I'd actually use more than three of them.
Certain special weapons may have an additional "Extreme" range.
Attacks in close quarters use the CQC skill, which is also used for melee. Other ranges will use the Marksmanship skill.
Rolls use 3d6, with modifiers from -2 to +4.
When the attack roll is higher than the target number for that weapon and range, the attack hits.
Shooting while moving incurs a penalty which increases the target number.
Guns may be fired single-shot, semi-auto, or fully auto. Obviously some guns may not have all three firing modes.
Single shot is simplest, making one attack roll and using one cartridge per turn. Firing single-shot at a target outside of cover rolls twice and takes the higher result.
Semi-auto requires a Control skill roll. If this roll is successful, the attacker may roll for multiple attacks against the same or different targets in the same turn. If the Control skill roll fails, the first shot is rolled for normally, but all the other shots miss. The attacker may specify shooting fewer rounds than the maximum.
Automatic fire also requires a Control roll. On a success, the attack rolls to hit only once, and does more damage. If the control roll fails, the attack is still rolled but damage is normal for a single shot. The rest of the burst is wasted with possibly unintended results.
Attacks may also be specified as Point Shots. These have a penalty to the target number, but can deal damage to specific body parts, or hit small objects. Note that should a human take 4 or more Vitality damage to the head at once, they may die instantly.
Once a gun is out of ammo, it must be reloaded before being used again. This takes one turn.

Guns have the following 13 stats, because this is a simple and runnable system:

Close Accuracy: (Target number to roll at CQC / Melee range, like inside of buildings. This is a CQC roll.)
Medium Accuracy: (Target number to roll at short ranges, like urban warfare. This is a Marksmanship roll.)
Long Accuracy: (Target number to beat at long ranges, from assault rifle to DMR range. This is a Marksmanship roll.)
Semi Stability: (Target number to beat when choosing to fire on semi-auto. This is a Control roll.)
Auto Stability: (Target number to beat when choosing to fire on automatic. This is a Control roll.)
Move Penalty: (Modifier to the target number to hit when firing while moving.)
Point Shot Penalty: (Modifier to the target number to hit when aiming for a specific point or body part.)
Damage: (Damage done by a single successful shot.)
Auto Damage: (Damage done by an automatic burst.)
Semi Shots: (Number of attack rolls that may be made on a successful semi-auto attack.)
Auto Shots: (Amount of ammo expended by an automatic attack.)
Capacity: (Ammo held by the weapon.)
Size: (How large the weapon is, for purposes of being able to carry it.)

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Cover rules:

Unless totally out in the open, characters are assumed to be able to find cover.
Single-shot attacks against a character out of cover have advantage (roll twice and take the better result.)
There is no penalty to point-shot characters out of cover.
On your turn, if you're at close range to an enemy you can move to negate that enemy's cover until the end of your turn. If you do so then you lose the benefit of cover until the end of your turn.
Attacking in melee requires you to move out of cover.
While in cover, you may give up your attack for the turn to overwatch and attack the enemy on their turn if they move out of cover.
Targeting a character with autofire (whether it hits or not) will prevent that character from using overwatch on their next turn, and if they're already overwatching, negates it.
While in cover, you can give up your attack to hunker down. While hunkered down you can't attack or be attacked so long as you have the advantage of cover.
Cover can be targeted by attacks, with results varying by the cover's material.

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Melee Rules:

If you hit an enemy with a melee weapon, you may have to roll Strength to determine how much damage you do, depending on the weapon.
You may choose to attack multiple times in a turn by performing a Flurry. This costs stamina for each attack in the flurry, and each attack is rolled seperately. You may choose to target multiple enemies with different attacks.
If you're holding a weapon with a Parry stat and an enemy attack you in melee, you may roll Control, and if you succeed (get 11 or higher) the enemy gets a penalty to their attack equal to your weapon's Parry stat.


Melee weapons have the following stats:

Melee: (Target number to roll in order to hit. This is a CQC roll.)
Point Stab Penalty: (Modifier to the target number to hit when aiming for a specific point or body part.)
Damage: (Damage done by a successful attack. Separated into damage done on a Strength roll from 1-10, 11-14, and 15+. If only one number is listed then Strength is no rolled for damage.)
Parry: (Modifier applied to enemy's target number to hit after you successfully roll Control to parry.)
Flurry Max: (Maximum number of attacks you can make with a Flurry.)
Flurry Cost: (Stamina cost for each attack in a Flurry.)
Size: (How large the weapon is, for purposes of being able to carry it.)

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Exploration rules:

The world is kept track of as a series of rooms, with each area consisting of one "Hub" room and one or more "spoke" rooms.
When you enter a hub, you immediately know the existance of all spokes connected to that hub. At this point you might roll Intuition to get a more detailed explaination of what each room is. (IE on a successful roll you would know that one Spoke room is an "Armory", but on a failed roll you would just know its a "Metal Door."
Some spoke rooms, once cleared out, will have a path to a subroom. Subrooms can lead to more subrooms, but only in a linear path.
After being cleared out, some rooms can have secrets which are only found on a successful Intuition roll, such as hidden items or secret paths.
Upon the players clearing a room or performing an action which takes a little time, NPCs in other areas might wander around or react to sounds of fighting.

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Misc. rules

Stealth is impacted by the bulk of your equipment. You take a -1 penalty to stealth when wearing armor, and an additional -1 penalty for carrying a Medium or larger weapon. Minimum of -2.
Hand grenades can be used to attack characters who are hunkered down in cover.
You may choose to delay your action to happen at the same time as an ally's action.
Armor reduces damage taken from firearms and explosives. Damage cannot re reduced past 1.
Armor does not affect melee damage.

Pistols

[2 Mony]
N99 "Rabid" Machine Pistol
   CQB / Med / Long: 8 / 15 / 19
   Move Penalty: 1
   Point Shot Penalty: 7
   Damage: 4 (burst)
   Semi Stability: 14
   Semi Shots: 3
   Capacity: 9 (18)
   Size: Sidearm

A very modern take on an age-old design, the N99 is a machine pistol that is only capable of burstfire.  It always fires two shots per trigger pull, at a high rate of fire which fires the second bullet before the barrel has elevated significantly, at least in the hands of a capable soldier.  It isn't perfect--the second shot will usually land several inches high even at close range--but it is effective.  To help keep the pistol in control, and make followup shots easier, the pistol has a folding foregrip built into it--one of the chief reasons it's so heavy, despite firing a relatively small cartridge.

[2 Mony]
N42 "Lone" Pistol
   CQB / Med / Long: 7 / 14 / 18
   Move Penalty: 0
   Point Shot Penalty: 4
   Damage: 3
   Semi Stability: 13
   Semi Shots: 3
   Capacity: 7
   Size: Sidearm

A compact but powerful sidearm with a long history, the N42 is generally considered the standard that other handguns are judged by.  Still, it does show its age; compared to modern designs which largely use a smaller caliber, it has a low capacity, and heavy recoil that makes it difficult to master.

[3 Mony]
N0-P3
   CQB / Med / Long: 8 / 14 / 18
   Move Penalty: 1
   Point Shot Penalty: 5
   Damage: 2
   Semi Stability:  12
   Semi Shots: 5
   Auto Stability: 14
   Auto Damage: 10
   Auto Shots: 20
   Capacity: 45
   Size: Sidearm

After several false starts and failed attempts, the N0's companion machine pistol has finally matured enough to begin testing.  The final design has turned out surprisingly traditional, compared to its chimeric older brother; the only obvious differences from other modern machine pistols are its staggering rate of fire, and its ability to load the same unwieldy casket magazines as the N0.  Really, the only impressive aspect of the design is simply the fact that it can survive its high fire rate as well as it does, especially considering the high chamber pressures of the 4mm round it chambers.

Submachineguns:

[3 Mony]
N5K Submachine Gun
   CQB / Med / Long: 8 / 14 / 18
   Move Penalty: 2
   Point Shot Penalty: 5
   Damage: 3
   Semi Stability: 11
   Semi Shots: 5
   Auto Stability: 13
   Auto Damage: 11
   Auto Shots: 15
   Capacity: 30
   Size: Light

A compact but heavy submachinegun built for automatic fire, the N5K is easy to control, but aggravating to handle.  It's designed much like a metal brick; short, heavy, and all angular corners.  This has made it iconic in movies, but in reality the weapon is just unpleasant to hold, and the sharp recoil doesn't help the issue.  The weapon is quite effective when used properly, though its accuracy leaves something to be desired, but most soldiers opt to use something else simply out of hatred for the weapon's ergonomics.

[4 Mony]
N0
   CQB / Med / Long: 9 / 12 / 15
   CQB Accuracy: 9
   Medium Accuracy: 12
   Long Accuracy: 15
   Move Penalty: 3
   Point Shot Penalty: 3
   Damage: 3
   Semi Stability: 10
   Semi Shots: 5
   Auto Stability: 12
   Auto Damage: 10
   Auto Shots: 15
   Capacity: 45+45
   Size: Light

A particularly strange weapon, the N0--the name is a marketing gimmick, it has yet to be formally adopted by the Acirmenian military--is something of a chimera.  It was developed to be, and marketed as, an end-all solution to small arms logistics.  It's light and mobile, like a submachine gun, but accurate enough to function as an assault rifle.  It is exceptionally controllable despite its high rate of fire, and, like a machine gun, has an extremely high ammunition capacity.  About the only roles that the weapon hasn't been marketed for are sniping and anti-vehicle use, and indeed, on paper it does sound impressively versatile.

For the most part, the only amazing part of the design is the cartridge that it is chambered in.  The high-velocity 4mm rounds it fires are extremely fast, accurate, and light for a pistol round, while still being quite lethal because the high velocity bullets fragment into many pieces on impact.  The bullpup N0 manages to load a total of ninety of these bullets, because it simultaneously feeds from two large casket magazines at the rear of the gun.  The mere fact that it usually doesn't jam before emptying both magazines is the other amazing aspect of the gun.

All that stated, the N0 simply does not live up to all the marketing hype.  Its weak caliber means that it stands no chance of replacing the N13, especially at a time when the military is slowly moving to ever more powerful calibers.  Its unreliable double-mag system makes it laughable to even imagine it being used in a suppressive role.  The only lingering hope for the gun is that it does indeed make a good submachine gun, once the bipod is removed.  If only it weren't so expensive, it would stand a real chance of replacing the much-maligned M5K in standard service.

Shotgun:

[3 Mony]
N73 "Wanton" Combat Shotgun
   CQB / Med: 6 / 15
   Move Penalty: 5
   Point Shot Penalty: 7
   Damage: 7
   Semi Stability: 10
   Semi Shots: 3
   Auto Stability: 12
   Auto Damage: 15
   Auto Shots: 7
   Capacity: 21
   Size: Light

The N73 is a brutal weapon in every sense of the word.  Aesthetically, it's an ugly steel brick with a drum magazine sticking out the bottom.  Tactically, it's as precise and short ranged as you can expect a fully automatic shotgun to be.  In use, it's unpleasant to fire--if surprisingly controllable considering what it is--and it does truly gruesome things to the unfortunate people that it's turned against.  But, it is very effective when properly deployed.

Assault Rifle:

[3 Mony]
N13 "Brave" Assault Rifle
   CQB / Med / Long: 10 / 10 / 13
   Move Penalty: 3
   Point Shot Penalty: 3
   Damage: 5
   Semi Stability: 10
   Semi Shots: 3
   Auto Stability: 11
   Auto Damage: 12
   Auto Shots: 10
   Capacity: 30
   Size: Medium

The latest update to the troubled N1 line of assault rifles, the N13 has performed well beyond most expectations.  It is accurate, lightweight, controllable, and unlike its predecessors, extremely reliable.  The only real flaw with the weapon is that it is somewhat underpowered against well-armored targets.  Considering that the faction which fields the rifle is the only faction to equip *all* of its troops with armor, this is not generally considered to be a large problem.

Sniper Rifle:

[4 Mony]
N3 "Brisk" Sniper Rifle
   CQB / Med / Long: 12 / 8 / 10
   Move Penalty: 6
   Point Shot Penalty: 2
   Damage: 8
   Semi Stability: 13
   Semi Shots: 2
   Auto Stability: 16
   Auto Damage: 18
   Auto Shots: 10
   Capacity: 20
   Size: Large

A proven design that has changed little since it was first introduced, the N3 Brisk is functionally a very simple sniper rifle.  The design is almost identical to the heavy Benjamin hunting rifle so popular among civilians, with the only obvious difference being that the Brisk is capable of fully automatic fire, and issued with a massive 20-round magazine.  Of course, since the rifle was never intended to fire more than one or two shots successively, it's virtually uncontrollable when switched to full auto--but on rare occasions the function has proved useful, and the Brisk is more than effective enough even without, anyway.

Anti-Materiel Rifle:

[4 Mony]
N60 "Prim" Anti-Materiel Rifle
   CQB / Med / Long: 13 / 8 /9
   Move Penalty: 8
   Point Shot Penalty: 2
   Damage: 20
   Semi Stability: 14
   Semi Shots: 2
   Capacity: 10
   Size: Very Large

The heaviest rifle in common usage, the Prim is too unwieldy for effective use as a traditional sniper rifle.  Rather, it is intended to be used by entrenched and well-defended teams who are far behind the front lines.  The massive round it fires--originally designed to penetrate light tank armor--allows it to do extreme damage even from kilometers away.  An entrenched sniper armed with this weapon is virtually unassailable across open ground.

The top brass of the faction seems to have a love affair with the rifle, and they have started issuing it even to traditional sniper teams with increasing regularity.  It's more versatile as a strategic asset than the Brisk is, and somewhat more accurate; the fact that snipers need to be mobile to survive is apparently considered an issue of soldier fitness, and not the weight of their equipment.

Machine Guns:

[4 Mony]
N81 "Parlous" MMG
   CQB / Med / Long: 15 / 12 / 14
   Move Penalty: 9
   Point Shot Penalty: 4
   Damage: 8
   Semi Stability: 6
   Semi Shots: 4
   Auto Stability: 10
   Auto Damage: 20
   Auto Shots: 15
   Capacity: 100
   Size: Very Large

A symbol of Acirema's power, the N8 is the key to their military dominance.  Chambered in the same caliber as the N2 Brisk rifle, this beltfed machine gun is fully capable of mowing down infantry--or even lightly armored vehicles--at long range.  It is extremely controllable despite its high caliber, and virtually anyone can still deliver accurate automatic fire when using it, but this comes at the cost of weight; the Parlous is the heaviest infantry weapon fielded by any military, and even the strongest soldiers struggle with its weight.

[4 Mony]
N22 "Jagged" LMG
   CQB / Med / Long: 14 / 13 / 15
   Move Penalty: 6
   Point Shot Penalty: 5
   Damage: 5
   Semi Stability: 6
   Semi Shots: 6
   Auto Stability: 9
   Auto Damage: 15
   Auto Shots: 20
   Capacity: 200
   Size: Large

The ancestor of the N81, the Jagged LMG is essentially just a smaller, less immobile version.  It is chambered for the same light round as the N13, and is in fact capable of feeding from N13 mags instead of the standard belt, while having a much higher fire rate than the N13 or N82.  This leaves it with more suppressive capability than any other weapon fielded by the faction, but its inaccuracy leaves it somewhat lacking in terms of actually killing enemy troops.

Though it is much lighter, the Jagged has been undergoing a long process of being replaced by the generally superior Parlous.  It only remains in use today because of the sheer cost of replacing every Jagged with Parlous MMGs, and because of the difficult logistics of issuing multiple ammunition types to every squad.  Some special forces units do continue to use the Jagged due to its lighter weight, but most soldiers are forced to suffer the extra fatigue when their machine gun is inevitably replaced.

[1 Mony]
Combat Knife
   Melee: 8
   Point Stab Penalty: 1
   Damage: 3
   [Does 4 damage if attacking an unaware enemy.]
   Parry: 1
   Flurry Max: 5
   Flurry Cost: 2
   Size: None
   
[1 Mony]
Fire Axe
   Melee: 10
   Point Stab Penalty: 3
   Damage: 3 / 4 / 8
   Parry: 2
   Flurry Max: 2
   Flurry Cost: 3
   Size: Sidearm
   
[2 Mony]
Machete
   Melee: 9
   Point Stab Penalty: 3
   Damage: 5
   Parry: 3
   Flurry Max: 3
   Flurry Cost: 3
   Size: Sidearm

[2 Mony]
Spear
   Melee: 7
   Point Stab Penalty: 3
   Damage: 4 / 4 / 5
   Parry: 2
   Flurry Max: 3
   Flurry Cost: 4
   Size: Light
   
[2 Mony]
Sledgehammer
   Melee: 11
   Point Stab Penalty: 4
   Damage: 3 / 8 / 10
   Parry: 1
   Flurry Max: 2
   Flurry Cost: 6
   Size: Large
   
[3 Mony]
Stungun
   Melee: 8
   Damage: 4 Lucidity (Target rolls Bravery. On a failure they cannot act.)
   Flurry Max: 3
   Flurry Cost: 2
   Size: None
   
[3 Mony]
Chainsaw
   Melee: 11
   Point Stab Penalty: 4
   Damage: 3
   Flurry Max: 13
   Flurry Cost: 1
   Size: Large

[1 Mony]
Frag Grenade
   CQC / Med: 11 / 15
   Damage: 7 (Large area. Target rolls Luck. If they fail, damage is applied to the head.)
   Size: None
   
[1 Mony]
High Explosive Grenade
   CQC / Med: 13 / 16
   Damage: 15 (Small area.)
   Size: None

[1 Mony]
Flashbang Grenade
   CQC / Med: 11 / 15
   Damage: (Large area. Target rolls Luck. On a success they take 4 Lucidity damage, on a failure they take 12 Lucidity damage and cannot attack.)
   Size: None
   
[1 Mony]
Smoke Grenade
   (Conceals an area in dense smoke. Can act as cover if none is available. Smoke causes 1 Stamina damage per turn without protection.)
   Size: none
   
[2 Mony]
Breaching Charge
   (Can be used to blow through doors or weak walls.)
   Size: Light

[3 Mony]
Satchel Charge
   (Enough to demolish a small building.)
   Size: Medium
   
[4 Mony]
Specialist V.67 Revolver Grenade Launcher
   CQB / Med / Long: 11 / 12 / 14
   Move Penalty: 4
   Damage: 7 (Frag) / 15 (High Explosive)
   Semi Stability: 14
   Semi Shots: 3
   Capacity: 6 (Reloads only 2/turn)
   Size: Large

[1 Mony]
Light Armor
   Armor: 3

[2 Mony]
Patrol Armor
   Armor: 5

[4 Mony]
Juggernaut Armor
   Armor: 7 (Covers whole body)
   
[1 Mony]
Helmet
   Armor: 3 (Head only)
   
[1 Mony]
Gas Mask
   (Protects from smoke and gases. And is fashionable.)
   
[1 Mony]
Suppressor
   (Attach to any gun, make it less louder.)
   
[0 Mony!]
Radio
   (Allows one to communicate with others who possess a radio.)