Amazing Deliveries: Knox

Maxim Calder (alias Knox)

Role: Retired Rigger / Mechanic / Ghost of Industry Age: Late 50s Gender: Male Rig Role: Mercy's Mechanic and Systems Overseer

Quote:

"That part's proprietary. I would know—I invented it."

ATTRIBUTES

• Physical (d6)
• Mental (d10)
• Social (d8)

SKILLS

• Fix (d12) – Specialty: Rigs (d6)
• Know (d8) – Specialty: Corporate History (d6)
• Operate (d8)
• Notice (d10)
• Fight (d8)
• Trick (d8) - specialty: Hacking (d6)
• Craft (d8)
• Influence (d6)
• Shoot (d6)

Untrained (d4): Drive, Fly, Focus, Labor, Move, Perform, Shoot, Sneak, Survive, Throw, Treat

DISTINCTIONS

Broken Titan (d8)

• **Highlighted Skills:** Shoot, Fight, Craft
• **Hinder:** Gain 1 PP when your past complicates your present or pride clouds your judgment.
• **FX (Active):** Access Level Red – Spend 1 PP to spoof, bypass, or stall old-world corporate tech using obsolete executive credentials.
• **SFX (Active):** Corporate Drift – Use Mental instead of Social when navigating bureaucracy, legalese, or corporate circles. [Locked]

Refined Mind in a Rusted Frame (d8)

• **Highlighted Skills:** Know, Influence, Trick
• **Hinder:** Gain 1 PP when your refined behavior gives you away.
• **SFX (Active):** "Allow Me to Clarify" – Step up Know (Corporate History, Law, or Rhetoric) when offering insight others missed. [Locked]
• **FX (Inactive):** Iron Recall – Once per session, recall the full background of an NPC or settlement with disturbing accuracy. [Locked]

One Wrench Away From Collapse (d8)

• **Highlighted Skills:** Fix, Notice, Operate
• **Hinder:** Gain 1 PP when your mobility breaks down or limits your options.
• **SFX (Active):** Jury-Rig - use an existing complication, or create a d4 one, related to tech or vehicles as an asset for one roll. Afterwords, step up that complication by one.
• **FX (Active):** Stabilized Loadout – Spend 1 PP to ignore a Complication related to overwork or injury during a repair. [Locked]

SIGNATURE ASSETS

• ExoFrame Work Rig (d8): An industrial-grade exoskeleton with lift assist, winches, and integrated tools. Keeps him moving—barely.
• Corporate-Grade Implants (d8): Once the gold standard for executive augmentation, these now-jury-rigged implants run Knox’s nervous system on borrowed time. Originally built for cognitive enhancement and sensory analysis, they now double as a spinal bridge—keeping his legs moving and his hands steady through a patchwork of neural reroutes, stim-feeds, and grim determination.

BACKGROUND

Once, Maxim Calder ran VectorCore—an energy titan with its claws sunk deep into the infrastructure of half the eastern settlements. Ruthless and visionary, he signed off on enough quiet coups and corporate seizures to be cursed from Appalachia to the Atlantic.

Then came the explosion. An assassination attempt, orchestrated by his own board. They failed.

The blast left him broken—but not finished. He disappeared from the headlines, patched himself together with salvaged tech and ghost-clearance implants no one remembered to revoke. He scrubbed his name, rewrote his past, and reemerged as Knox—a mechanic with a limp, a head full of schematics, and fire behind his eyes.

Now he rides with Mercy, keeping her systems tuned with scorched fingertips and muttered code. His gait is stiff. His body, barely held together by the frame he built. But his mind? Still razor-sharp. He may have lost the suit and tie, but the long game never left him—and behind those grizzled eyes, he's always running the numbers.