Cybernetically augumented fiends?

[Berselius]

Anyone else think they'd like to play a 2e Starfinder Mega-Adventure focusing on combating malevolent forces producing cybernetically augmented fiends?

[LandSwordBear]

Only if it ties into locations such as Phobos and Deimos and the first adventure is called “Knee Deep in the Dead”.

[Dragonchess Player]

Paizo had a Starfinder 1e AP with a focus on cybernetically augmented fiends... Signal of Screams had a heavy dose of velstracs.

IIRC, velstracs were very much into augmentation tech as part of their "artistic" goals on flesh.

[Christopher#2411504]

Velstrac was my first guess too. They are avid body modders without cyberrnetics.

Is there something like house Thrune/Celiax?
One of them thought "Hellhounds are nice, but what abotu T-Rex?" And that is how the Thrunesaurus Rex was born.

If their heirs are still around, they might have turned to Cybernetics now.

[QuidEst]

What's a "mega-adventure", as opposed to an adventure path?

I'm personally more inclined towards "stuck in a situation" adventures where I have a wider variety of options for characters. Signal of Screams is a good example where you can play a contest winner, celebrity, corporate rep, etc., rather than just someone set on vanquishing a foe. I certainly expect SF2 will have its share of vanquishing, of course.

[Christopher#2411504]

Went looking in the Galaxy Guide for ideas:

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MASKED BACKGROUND

UNCOMMON
You conceal your face with a mask of Embroi, marking yourself as one who congresses with devils. You might have been trapped by a diabolical contract or are a willing minion of fiendish masters.
Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free attribute boost.
You’re trained in the Religion skill and the Devil Lore skill.
You gain the Holy Talisman skill feat.

Apparently hell has whole Material Plane Empire and Embroi is part of it?

Quote:

Hellknight:

After enduring six years of service, a squire qualifies for the Hellknight Test, a grueling examination that culminates in summoning and defeating a fiend of Hell in combat. Armiger is the rank given to those who pass.

Maybe someone wanted to spruce up the challenge and added cybernetics? Or one defeated them, got stranded and had to go cybernetic to survive?

Quote:

Golarian Knights:

The knighthood’s core fleets protect the Pact System, but errantries and quests roam farther afield. Errantries are farreaching crusades that can last for generations. Currently, knights-errant are pursuing Corpse Fleet privateers in Near Space, while others battle Azlanti forces, fiends, jinsuls, and Swarm in the Vast.

I guess you can find everything to fight in the Vast.

[Perpdepog]

Dragonchess Player wrote:

Paizo had a Starfinder 1e AP with a focus on cybernetically augmented fiends... Signal of Screams had a heavy dose of velstracs.

IIRC, velstracs were very much into augmentation tech as part of their "artistic" goals on flesh.

They are, and always have been, yee. They've been into that stuff since Pathfinder's days, with locations such as the Chapple of Rent Flesh in Numeria seeking to "improve" people with cybernetics and more esoteric forms of augmentation.

Quid Est wrote:

What's a "mega-adventure", as opposed to an adventure path?

My guess is an AP, or near AP-length adventure, released in one volume. Kind of like a Pathfinder Adventure, but larger. I think SF2E is going to be operating on this model, as opposed to releasing an AP volume each month like Pathfinder does. I could of swore I heard that from someone at Paizo but I can't for the life of me recall where now to confirm.

[Xenocrat]

The SF2 adventures are single volume but they won’t be nearly as long generally as a PF2 three volume compilation. The latter cover ten levels of advancement, I think the first Guilt of the Graveworld adventure is levels 1-5.

Maybe there will be more backmatter (expect at least one ancestry each for a long time) by proportion but they’re still going to be short. Maybe they’ll standardize on one book covering five levels vs three books covering ten.

[Berselius]

LandSwordBear wrote:

Only if it ties into locations such as Phobos and Deimos and the first adventure is called “Knee Deep in the Dead”.

Well we know Earth's solar system is totally a thing in Pathfinder so maybe that's possible?

[Charabdos, The Tidal King]

Berselius wrote:

LandSwordBear wrote:

Only if it ties into locations such as Phobos and Deimos and the first adventure is called “Knee Deep in the Dead”.

Well we know Earth's solar system is totally a thing in Pathfinder so maybe that's possible?

Isn't it also canonically John Carter of Mars Earth? So Sol is a system with lots of native aliens, incouding native Martians.

[Dragonchess Player]

Charabdos, The Tidal King wrote:

Berselius wrote:

LandSwordBear wrote:

Only if it ties into locations such as Phobos and Deimos and the first adventure is called “Knee Deep in the Dead”.

Well we know Earth's solar system is totally a thing in Pathfinder so maybe that's possible?

Isn't it also canonically John Carter of Mars Earth? So Sol is a system with lots of native aliens, incouding native Martians.

Akiton is the Pathfinder/Starfinder analog of Barsoom ("Mars") from the Edgar Rice Burroughs books.

[Oni Shogun]

Berselius wrote:

Anyone else think they'd like to play a 2e Starfinder Mega-Adventure focusing on combating malevolent forces producing cybernetically augmented fiends?

Only if a certain Marine shows up. ;-) RIP AND TEAR!

[Perpdepog]

Charabdos, The Tidal King wrote:

Berselius wrote:

LandSwordBear wrote:

Only if it ties into locations such as Phobos and Deimos and the first adventure is called “Knee Deep in the Dead”.

Well we know Earth's solar system is totally a thing in Pathfinder so maybe that's possible?

Isn't it also canonically John Carter of Mars Earth? So Sol is a system with lots of native aliens, incouding native Martians.

Paizo did a crossover event with a John Carter of Mars comic, and included some options as player options, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily the same Earth.

Then again, the folks at Paizo love their pulps and such--we had a whole adventure about beating up Rasputin in WWI-erA Russia, for example--so it is entirely possible that they are indeed the same.

Earth is at least one galaxy away, so really it's whatever you want it to be.

[Berselius]

Dragonchess Player wrote:

Paizo had a Starfinder 1e AP with a focus on cybernetically augmented fiends... Signal of Screams had a heavy dose of velstracs.

IIRC, velstracs were very much into augmentation tech as part of their "artistic" goals on flesh.

Saw that and am hoping we get even more species of fiends from the lower planes experimenting with cybernetic augmentation.

I mean, Hell has it's forges in Phlegethon where unsuitable souls are remade into something more desirable.

Maybe the Archdevils could decide to enlist the velstracs to experiment with something more technological via creating new Devils? ;)