NECESSARY EVIL in Freedom City SPOILER PAGE

Star Knight DIES

The Star Knight, called to the Star Knight homeworld, could only watch helplessly as the Star Khan pierced Earth's defenses.
"We are sorry MariaMontoya-star-knight-initiate, but he has the right," Mentor said, his words of comfort useless to Maria.
" I should be helping them!" she screamed.
"Star Knights are bound not intefere. Star Khan has legitimate grievances with Earth and its inhbitants. He has broken no intergalactic sanctions in his actions," repeated Mentor.
"Then Damn your laws! And Damn You! Send me back!" she cried.
"Very well," said Mentor sadly.
Maria Montoya found herself back on earth and made her way to the freedom league headquarters. She didn't have star knight armour anymore but she was still a crack shot and Bowman elected her his second in command. She was by his side, her rifle empty and plinking away uselessly at a Nova-class assualt rig with her pistol when the final plasma blast came.

IDEAS TO USE

• SUGGESTION - putting in an article on the Khanate performing some sort of atrocity, like gathering up 200 civilians in New Orleans and shooting them, or tearing up some huge portion of the Amazon Rainforest, or stealing the brains from children to use in biocomputers - something that has already happened, that we can't stop - will bring the WSAR tone down right quick.
• The MEGAS is a very powerful weapon. Surely, if the invaders were able to retrieve any of it, they'd want to analyze it.
• Farside City sells out to earth, making lady lunar their rep to the khanate. the twist, well, when all hell broke loose chase made it to farside, and got in a psi-war with aunty. now, one of them is functionally lobotomized, while nobody's quite sure if the smart one's mind is lunar's, chase's, or some machiavellian hybrid of the two. this gives the pc's the "do we trust them or not" Npc, somebody the khan knows could cause trouble, but could equally be more trouble than it's worth to simply remove them
• Lady liberty went down swining, but she was most certainly killed. and then an hour later she died again. two conflicting reports of her death came 15 minutes apart. even now, after the invasion's shattering success, there are reports of a powered terran female aiding the resistance, no matter how many times they kill her. the spirit of freedom lives on, despite the sisyphean task before the latest martyr to be... the Spirit of Freedom thing could be cool... in fact... given the Earth's scenario... it wouldn't be too unlikely for the Spirit to possess a female villainess. After seeing her brother (Rant) die fighting the Star Khan's forces... Rave becomes the new Lady Liberty... Lady Liberty is in many ways the personification of freedom and liberty. So what happens if she's locked in an alien super-prison? If you allow the possibility of some sort of sympathetic magic going on (like a voodoo doll writ large) then maybe the very concept of freedom itself is going to take a hit. Perfect for creating an alien controlled dictatorship. Lady Liberty is, essentially, the spirit of freedom and liberty. If you confine the spirit of freedom, he is saying that freedom at large would suffer. Pretty much spot on. It's a touch metaphysical I know, but it makes sense in a comic-book sort of way. A symbol of a thing can be used to influence the original thing itself (like a voodoo doll can influence the person it represents). So while Liberty is in chains, people are less likely to rise up and free themselves, more willing to accept the domination of the alien police-state and knuckle under. The very concept of being free is somehow harder for most people to grasp, less important. Nasty, Necessary Evil type thought: If the still living body* of Beth Walton-Wright is being held captive in order to enslave the Spirit of Liberty. then freeing her would be a coup for the resistance. But there's more than one way to ... free the spirit, so to speak. If Beth is killed, the spirit could be released (to posess others as another poster has suggested), but presenting such a stark choice to PCs who are on the verge of turning from villains into heroes could be an interesting opportunity for roleplaying. (*"still living body" could mean anything from a completely intact young woman to a brain in a jar, depending on how dark you want to be.)
• Dr Metropolis meanwhile is the embodied spirit of Freedom City itself. So what happens if he's brainwashed and kept under alien control? Applying the same principles, maybe Freedom City starts getting a little darker, roads & infrastructure aren't repaired as quickly as they used to be and everything is getting a little run down. (Interesting side point, could Doc Metro actually be killed while the city exists? Or when his current incarnation died would his replacement be spawned somewhere hidden in the city. Again finding the newly reborn Doc Metro could make an excellent plot point, especially if he was feral or childlike in his new incarnation requiring the PCs to help him develop an actual personality & sense of self.)
• Foreshadow, it would be really cool if he's left messages for them in the form of recordings, or videos, or Cd Roms, or something. Kind of like how an X-men team is searching for the "Books of Destiny"

HINTS to upcoming events

• "CULT of the ATOM" (p100 NE), hint that Centurion is possible with Chase Atom being a young tech/zombie thing following this NE storyline...
  • Centurion is actually being made nito a zombie thing by the Khanate! He'll burst out when the power goes down.
• Other SHADOW cells being slaughtered.
  • the Sleeper invades from within (p101 NE)
  • Hammer of Justice is killing Shadow Cells (p104 NE) he also has human gang to back him. (Golden Marvel?)
  • Serial Killings 30+ that the authorities know of. The killer is a hybrid killing human resistance cells and traitors alike.
• Khanate shut down Liberty Park to begin digging excavations. They're looking for rumor of an Omega giant Cosmic Robot from the Terminus Invasion.
• FIGHT CLUB... the Khan Darb and 10 other Khan run this secret operation in Southpoint.
• Talos in the monestary (p102 NE)
• Fin Revolution: Sugot (Grue) and his squad of 15 elite Grue are peeved for never being rewarded. Sugot apparently will be taking some. (p123 NE)
• Fire from the Sky (p109 NE) an orbital death ray, hinting at space/satelite and the Lighthouse crashed on the moon.

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

• update Overshadow's speech
• find an image for the array
• sewer system map
• G'roks [1-4]
• Valerie Ramirez leads a group of human/moleoids.
• Terminal Chamber
  • in the sewer system, impossible to find without Ramirez's help.
  • guarding the relay array is an 8' Tall guardian robot (fearless, scythes, Weakness: deactivation diable device after grappled)
• AFTERMATH off camera
  • the Freedom League computers come online, as do the computers on their Lighthouse (now crashed on the moon).
  • Overshadow "pings" the dimensional appature that leads to the Terminus
  • from this he learns that their is an appature located in FC and one in the satelite!
    • Dr. Sin has the device at Claremont Academy where he's taken up leadership.

WHERE

• where is the jail the PCs busted people out of?
• where is the compound the PCs attacked?

AUTHORITIES

SOCorp

Mayor created law enforcement of Khan rule within the city.

ALIENS & FRIENDS

the Dregs

• human gang on drugs to give them power "EZ"

Southpoint Slashers

• earned Khan acceptance by ratting out any supers
• in return they get weapons
• they carve out their area on the streets

KHAN BASES

the Aquarium

• Khan rest and relaxation spot
• "the Aquarium Project" - Khan scientists taking unrestricted experiments on humans to creat a new hybrid of aquatic slave race.

Conversion Camp=

• Drone making camp
• in a remote country side campus
• airfield

the Doghouse

• secret Khan laboratory
• focus on genetically engineered canines (other animals?)
• Canines: sniff out super energy signatures

Hybrobase 11

• p. 103
• a Khan Naval facility

Innov-8 Research

• A'Den a Khan scientist who wants out of the Khan regime. Doesn't believe in the Khan plans.

Rolling Hills Country Club

• Warlord Grypon's home
• secret remains of Cosmic Robot (p. 112)

RESISTANCE

East Point Insurgents

• Richard Lyons
• Khan fear if they kill him after having waited so long Eastpoint will explode in rebellion as a martyr.
• Benny's Pub & Pool: a secret meeting place of the Eastpoint Insurgents.

Cult of the Red Moon

• an Atlantean cult
• ritual spilling of blood of enemies to raise the Red God
• Red God is a spirit of vengence to clense the earth of alien
• led by an insane powerful Atlantean Magician called Samor
• Overshadow wants to examine him for possible use
• main contact is through: FC Library - Donald Wentworth
• there is also a hidden base under the Nautical Museaum

Neighborhood Watch

• in Tempest
• a minor super Jenna Jakes "the Watcher" leads and protects them
• "the Inventor", secret aka. Overshadow

the FAMILY

• Murder Man
• they "own" southpoint
• stockpiled with pre-alien Weapons
• they've had their fill of supers

RED CROSS

• Hippocratic Oath: a hospical that secretly helps aid the rebellion and injured supers

FARMER'S MARKET

• near the docks, fresh shipments
• Willy the Fish: smuggler of Farmer's Market is secretly a Grue that came to Earth long ago.
• Fish is the most prolific smuggler in FC
• Fish's office is hidden in a literal maze of docks, equipment, boxes, etc...
• deals have been cut with the Mayor and Khan Warlords to get by easy
• Hardcore: female superhuman enforcer for Fish. Black Marketeer and occasional Freedom Fighter

the Handyman store

• owned and operated by Dorthy Summers
• the store aids rebels with supplies, weapons, explosives, and captured alien technology
• "the Handyman" store: Dorthy's trademark is the S.H.A.D.O.W. communication systems

Heroes

• Mitch Powers, aka. "Hippocratic Oath" a one time super hero, now crippled.

Chick's Cafe

• Chick Abel runs this club
• neutral to customers
• allows resistance to meet but does NOT allow contraband trade

Trading Post

• the downtown Black Market
• ran by Morrie Smalls

SUPERS

the Hammer of Justice

• 1993 (??), trapped in the Terminus by Overshadow
• went insane / psychotic
• just got free a few months ago
• blames villains for the alien take over
• hunts and kills Super Villains and S.H.A.D.O.W. Cells
• has a group of fanatics that follow him

the American Anvil

• former sidekick of the Hammer
• now old and retired in a highrise living on his stock portfolio

the Watcher

• a minor super Jenna Jakes "the Watcher" of the Neighborhood Watch, leads and protects them

the Sleeper

• a double agent traitor
• aka. Edwin Rawls
• aka. the Chameleon former villain
• aka. the Shifter
• Longarm & Glaive (Cutter) were once in a S.H.A.D.O.W. Cell, when the cell was wiped out by Sleeper

Colonel Clone

• former villain
• in his secret identity he is a slumlord with an underground lair in his apt building

Longarm & Glaive

• Glaive, aka. the Cutter
• they are mercenary supers
• Longarm & Glaive (Cutter) were once in a S.H.A.D.O.W. Cell, when the cell was wiped out by Sleeper

Hardcore and the Fish

• Willy the Fish: smuggler of Farmer's Market is secretly a Grue that came to Earth long ago.
• Hardcore: female superhuman enforcer for Fish. Black Marketeer and occasional Freedom Fighter

Hippocratic Oath

• Mitch Powers, aka. "Hippocratic Oath" a one time super hero, now crippled.

Cosmic Robot

• Rolling Hills Country Club: Warlord Grypon's home
• secret remains of the Cosmic Robot are here

the Revenger

• maintains a network of resistance fighters on the FCU college campus

OTHER

Fight Club

• Alien Bloodsport
• illegal in Khan eyes
• Warlord D'arb created this low powered supers arena
• "Inside Man" is a double agent helping the Khan, working for S.H.A.D.O.W.

LOCATIONS

• Benny's Pub & Pool: a secret meeting place of the Eastpoint Insurgents.
• Warehouse 23: on a little used pier, it houses a pair of mothballed Atlantean mini-submarines.

S.H.A.D.O.W.

• Overshadow is really: Dr. Atom or Daedelus (??)
• "the Inventor", secret aka. Overshadow
• Ching Cho's Chinese Restaraunt: a secret entrance to the SHADOW complex
• "Inside Man" is a double agent helping the Khan, working for S.H.A.D.O.W. with the Fight Club
• Longarm & Glaive (Cutter) were once in a S.H.A.D.O.W. Cell, when the cell was wiped out by Sleeper
• "the Handyman" store: Dorthy's trademark is the S.H.A.D.O.W. communication systems

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NECESSARY EVIL in FREEDOM CITY