Dead Static

THIS PROJECT IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT - RELEASE IS EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER
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It's like a flash-bang. No, no your eyes adjust, blinking. It's the stage lights, roasting you alive in the eyes of those watching, waiting, anticipating. Funny how earlier you were like a can of sardines, all squeezed together in the elevator going up. Thrown out onto the floor and told to pick a mech withing ten minutes and now you're here. In one of the most famous arenas in the universe. On the most popular show to have existed for at least a century.  There are scratch marks and burns in this arena that have more history than you.

Now you feel even more like the sardine. Billions of people are waiting to see you be opened up in a way very similar to that old can.

Time to show the world what this sardine can do.
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Out in the ___ Ring is Station 451. It is owned by GBN, and is the broadcasting central of Steel State, the Universe's premiere mech bloodsport. Here lives are lost to the entertainment of the masses, merch of your favourite fighter is sold on masse, and storylines are built and destroyed. To some, it is an idiotic display of talent that leaves the universe less rich with each life lost. To most, it's the perfect way to decompress after a hard day's work.

Yet as with any show business, there is politics. Those on top want to stay on top. Those beneath wish to rise and depose the rulers. For some it is not even a fight about being on top but legacy. For others there is no other way of living than in the limelight. And darker still within the deep boundaries of the system there are those looking to purge the entire system. Choices are going to have to be made and secrets found - For there is but one rule to remember: The system itself is alive, all are pawns to it. 

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Dead Static is an enclosed adventure for newcomers to Lancer and experienced played alike. It offers the GM a cavalcade of choices in who to interact with and scenes to play out, focusing specifically on the players choices and actions inside the combats, adding layers of mechanics on top of the combats. Caught in a hopeless media trap, PCs will encounter other gladiators, executives and the hopeless in a desperate attempt to survive everything boiling over on Station 451.

This adventure requires no other modules such as the Field Guides or other Adventures and only requires the Lancer core rulebook. This book includes all of the relevant setting information needed to run the game.

In addition to the adventure, the book contains:

• Setting primer to give to your players, for them to learn all about Station 451, the grand media company GBN, it's premiere fighting sport Steel State and humanity's expansion on the Omninet
• Beautiful Illustrations from artists GreenNGreen, P90, WamiArts, N0nsense and Valka.png
• A brand new mech from the SSC, the SSC Glasswing, being used on Steel State for prototyping and promotion
• New exotic systems
• Tactical Maps designed by Kyle Hutton and illustrated by Rafael Sewa for your virtual tabletop, with hex and square versions

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Steel State exists not just as a show, but an overbearing influence to all who watch. It is their news, their way of life, their belief system. You are but a piece of flotsam being pulled along by the systems currents. There is but one thing you can do:

Take hold of the story.