Cybernetics, Bio-mods, & Cloning | LANCER

[@Scholar_of_Lore]

“From the moment I understand the the weakness of my flesh it disgusts me I crave the certainty of steel”

[@NayrAnur]

I aspire to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you.

[@Izayoink_Saccuy]

One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

There is no certainty in flesh except death.

[@khornethebloodgod4155]

@@Izayoink_Saccuy*EVEN IN DEATH I SERVE THE OMNISSIAH*

[@Yacovo]

Star Wars: The Clone Army is morally questionable. Lancer: The Flesh Abomination Flash Clones yearn for the mines. We know because programed that yearning into them. Thanks for the video.

[@morepenguins6247]

Ah, Cybernetic Newtyp- I mean Augmented Huma- I mean LYNXs- I mean Human+ patients- I mean cybernetics!

[@elijahhayter3026]

Preem chrome, my choom.

[@munsterlandr1644]

ah yes, _spares_

[@Extra.Medium]

So what I'm hearing is there's nothing stopping me from writing a distant isolated colony where the "humans" are just the Grineer. Bad copies of bad copies of bad copies degraded to hell being propped up entirely by what should be super soldier cybernetics. They make good antagonists and interesting allies

[@nikoazure5235]

Kahl my BOY

[@jaypax]

@@nikoazure5235 Clem is best boi! also Two Grakata!

[@Zaktact]

Go for it. Well within the bounds of the setting and the Griner are just great.

[@NayrAnur]

Doing an insignificant amount of chicanery on the Origin System with my fellas Clem, Cressa Tal, and Kahl-175 is my favorite pastime.

[@calamitywulf9431]

Absolutely going to use this idea.

[@brianhykes2862]

Yup, sometimes Castigating the Enemies of the Godhead is just the beginning.

[@natanoj16]

My character is from a family Dynasty of Harrison Armory Think-Tank Testers. It is always fun to just make up weird Cybernetics, biomodding and more he has.

[@natanoj16]

... I need to go more extreme :P (Especially since he is also playing with Paracausal stuff now xD )

[@Grizabeebles]

I once made a character with an "ontological" birth defect for a friend. See, he had just become a new dad and had a crazy schedule so he was more likely to miss sessions that attend for the forseeable future. So, I made his character a Lich pilot "who technically did not exist as a countable noun." There was always "some Ted" around, and we were always happy when "a proponderance of Ted" could actually fight beside us. And thank's to the Lich's survivability, we got to make the "only mostly dead" joke from the Princess Bride almost constantly.

[@harrietr.5073]

"Nice arm! What's with its socket? Plugged into your torso." "It's my dead brother's regrown and modified into a Bionic." "Oh, I'm sorry for your lose." "Nah, it was at childbirth. They took some of his old foetal stuff from mum clone #2 and apparently his Right arm would've been better than my arms and his Left arm, so they put some growth stuff into to see what his arm would look like if he got to grow up. Thinking of calling it Hivehand like that old trope of an alien bioweapon."

[@Sorain1]

"The Company provided really comprehensive insurance." "So what, full medical?-" [glances at the very in your face cyberntics] "-Considering the results I think you got screwed over." "Debt insurance is how I got here actually." "How do you ensure against debt?" "Well their logic was pretty simple: The Company invested in training a pilot, a pilot is a control component of a mech. They wanted to get their resources worth, and if you can't win by skill, then you need bigger numbers." "Bigger numbers." "The Company was ultimately ran by spreadsheets, things like 'reaction speed' are a lot easier to quantify than 'good judgement'. Easier to just 'solve the wetware problem' than find the right way to train someone." "Why all the biosculpt for cuteness then?" "Marketing. I asked about it sarcastically, but the marketing guy made some really good points. I kept the longer hair because I liked it."

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

@@Sorain1 that is the kind of mentality SSC desperately search for everywhere, this pilot has a non small chance to become someone really important in their corporation

[@wagz781]

Also, let's be honest, basically all of this also translated to "furries are cannon". I love my biopunk, but that's just kind of the reality that has to be accepted when you include it into things without immediately going full Geiger.

[@maxspecs]

SSC has a whole colony of catgirls

[@Mrpokemon718]

@@maxspecsno way, do you have a reference for that, I need to show my playgroup this info immediately

[@nullpoint3346]

I find some small humor that Geiger style monsters are more acceptable to some people than furries and anthropomorphic animal people.

[@colby1398]

​​@@nullpoint3346because Geiger monsters ARE more acceptable than furries.

[@durarada]

im ngl i would rather deal with a catgirl in the group than someone who’s character farts out of their nose and is covered in eyeball producing anuses

[@Grizabeebles]

"My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?" - Chairman Shen-ji Yang - - Essays on Mind and Matter (Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri)

[@FrostWolfPack]

Oh yes that game is full of good ideas for lancer societies.

[@GlareanLiebertine]

@@FrostWolfPack And good ideas for lancer equipment! Wish I knew what the exact specifications were for chaos guns!

[@Caitlyn3000]

"This is the far future of the Orion Arm, and these are not just humans" is a statement that goes hard. And justly so.

[@toxicslugdispenser1676]

You skimmed very fast through it. But i feel its important to inform that the subjective years cosmopolitans can experience is insane, especially if they constantly travel around alot near the speed of light, since those cosmopolitans experience 1 of their subjective years to 10 real space years (the core book even references this). Given the opportunity for PC's to encounter human being over 1000 years of age in real time, which would be one hell of an interaction.

[@laggyexplosions7560]

Well core worlders and cosmopolitans can live up to 300 years, if I remember correctly, so in theory you could meet someone 3000 years old real time (although 3000 years ago they probably couldn't, so the realistic max is 2000 years.

[@rita6355]

I hope he makes a more Indepth video about it

[@Grizabeebles]

Imagine being someone who fell into a Coma in Weimar Germany in 1932 waking up in West Germany in 1952. That's what being a Cosmopolitan is like.

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Is the issue not time dilation because they're going fast? If so, then nobody is gonna be millennia old because they won't have experienced that time.

[@Grizabeebles]

@@CharliMorganMusic -- It can actually be both. Cosmopolitans that board a ship for a six month trip can miss hundreds of years of history due to relativistic speed. And they have excellent medical care, can upload their minds into younger bodies or even become androids for a while.

[@Bad.Medicine]

Ever since your Balor vid I've wanted to make a Lancer whose conscience was consumed by and integrated into a Balor unit but this info is omitted from his memory so he still thinks he's meat n potatoes. Unintentional/unwanted transhuman elevation through the unceasing hunger of a Hellfire Swarm.

[@toryumau6798]

... Now that is a can of borscht not even a starving Stalker would open. >)':^c

[@theATLASproject]

Hey, that was my first idea while reading the Core Book as well. Person so entirely incapable of recognizing she's not a human being anymore, even if you cut her arm and point at the gray goo where tissue ought to be. "This isn't normal for a human being!" "Well it's normal for ME! Stop trying to freak me out!"

[@redman7775]

Just watch for moons that weren't there before, alright?

[@Sarindanvelor]

@@redman7775 depends on whether or not you determine horus is working against ra or for ra

[@Sarindanvelor]

@@theATLASproject or even scarier the nanomachines have replicated the body so precisely that even cutting off an arm it's hard to tell until you reattach it and it seamlessly comes together like it was nothing at all

[@mobgabriel1767]

"subjectivity override another person" xe... ha... nort... is that you? xeha... nort... XEHANORT!

[@Corvus-Xoriat]

"That other fourth thing" Zaktact, why are you so afraid of RA? Why do you fear it more than normal? HOW DID YOU GET THE ATTENTION OF RA WHAT DID YOU DO?!

[@americankid7782]

He put a person in a computer

[@necktiefox2917]

H K W H D E N H E I O A D W T S -This Message brought to you by RA 'Monist-1' The Spooky Math God

[@bluexdalek1997]

I must make a almost 500 year old dude, who basically uses his Mech Chassie as extra life support, and go full on "Entombed Space Marine" vibes. Either a Ganghis or Drake unit. Either that, or be a "young" 60 year old guy chilling in his fancy Knight-themed mecha looking for adventure.

[@totallynotdelinquent5933]

Just play a dreadnaught that got flung through the warp and into lancer.

[@strionic770]

If I was you I'd make it a size 1 or maybe ½ mech so that he could actually fit through doors

[@toryumau6798]

... [ Grandpa Ghengis having Egregore flashbacks during BBQ season ] D^B(

[@bthsr7113]

@@strionic770 Good thing the (modern) Ghenghis is seize 1.

[@strionic770]

@bthsr7113 Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. One player at the table I'm at uses a worldkiller

[@ThatOneIrishFurry]

My lancer was born on a core world but when she grew up and saw the chaos that was going on in the orian arm she got out there into cosmopolitan space to use her medical training where it was needed SSC ended up hiring her to a space port that offered full repairs for lancers (both in mech and body) she was of course hired for her excellent medical talent ~~and rare metropolitan genetics~~ I ended up using one of the base character arts from the book who has a cybernetic arm And i feel she fits the example you gave in the video of modified arms and eyes for more precise surgery Anyway she eventually became well known enough among the lancers of the station that SSC sponsored her with an orchis to become a lancer herself she wears the stations crest on her sheild (a kitsune fox) Becoming Callsign: DOC (i know very original for my first character)

[@BalthusHomewood]

My first call sign for my medical character in a scifi setting was "Stitch", so no judgement here 😅

[@curiouswind9196]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

[@camramaster]

RA shows up in geosycronus orbit fifty feet above you: WATCH IT

[@Moon-protogen]

@@camramaster come to think of it, since RA tends to operate through machines but forbid the use of decorp, adherents of ra could reasonably come the conclusion that replacing everything but their brain brings them closer to Ra without violating ra's wishes; A literal techpriest is not only possible but probable.

[@schizoidwarrior]

Heh, using augments to turn a Pilot into a Warframe would be funny, especially if the frame used is stronger than the chassis. - “Hey, we brought that Lancer down!” - “YOU FOOLS, THAT MECH WAS MY LIMITER!”

[@americankid7782]

Imagine someone’s Body being on par with or better than an SSC Dusk Wing. “I kill mechs by myself.” “You must be an impressive Pilot.” “By myself” “Oh…” Edit: Also people have 1 hit point. Even a light Anti-Mech weapon is very much overkill against people.

[@Sorain1]

Build a mech that's kind of junky, but has the ejection system that is a smaller mech of size 1/2. Then kit that smaller one out to the max. For bonus fun: Describe the size 1-3 mech as seemingly heavily armored, but many of it's vital components are facing outwards instead of inwards, especially when it comes to the cockpit. Use a little remote to do things when not in your mech. Wait until something manages to down the mech and you eject from it. As the smaller inner mech ripping it's way free, starting from a weakness from the damage the enemy did. Complete with ripping the gun free of it's mounting to use for yourself, if you have the same weapon on both. (IIRC that 1/2 suit has one main mounting.)

[@maxspecs]

@@americankid7782 This is why Pilot suits have armor and hit points, they have very good personal shields.

[@primusstar5995]

this is an optional mechanic in daemon x machina! you have the secondary war machine (your arsenal) and when that's totaled you use the primary one i.e YOU.

[@enderskunk7515]

@@americankid7782 well, normal people have 1 hp, pilots have 6+grit hp, because reasons...

[@berniebroig8745]

I adore your use of Endless Space art.

[@Zaktact]

I love that game and it makes for great sci-fi backgrounds.

[@NayrAnur]

​​@@ZaktactHoratio would probably be an SSC or Harrison Armory project gone independent.

[@damocles7406]

I swear RA the mech I am piloting is only a COPY of the decorped mind within a hoard of all consuming nanites it's perfectly legal.

[@Wanderer_of_Sol]

My first Lancer was an advanced HA flash clone, or a "slow flash" clone, rather. The idea being that they "take their time" hammering out the kinks and they don't grow them quite as fast or sloppy. They take care in their upbringing and social training to ensure the best assassins they can churn out in a reasonable pace, as a long term investment. On a mission in his backstory, J-27 got a taste of freedom, family, and love while integrating into the network of a rebellion run by his new gf's dad. Things went sideways, mission accomplished since gf's dad exploded regardless, and J-27 was assumed kia. Now he's got a new lease on life and is trying to figure out what normal people do with all this free time, other than fight in giant robots that is.

[@Poison_Rat]

I’m so glad you do this stuff, I don’t have a lot of time to read into lore and stuff so you save me so much time and work. Thank you

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Honestly at first I thought the concept of Lancer's human quality of life would make the ideas of plagues and characters with chronic illnesses basically non-existent until I realized you can just come up with *paracausal diseases.* This has led to a homebrew idea I had of my Lancer pilot being from a diasporan colony that exists within close proximity to a Metafold Vault and as a result now must deal with constant incurable cancers that appear literally out of nowhere because they're paracausal in nature, leaving the only recourse left to replace afflicted tissue with cybernetics. Even more interesting a religious sect of the colony has sprung up after they realized the cancerous tissue's DNA isn't just randomly broken like with normal cancer, when decoded by an NHP the cancer's DNA appears to be messages spelling out some sort of omen/fortune to the patient.

[@CopiHuman]

Entombing yourself into a mech... Lancer has Dreadnoughts!!

[@stephenhuelsman7555]

"This is the far future of the Orion Arm, and these are no longer just humans." Is such a stinger.

[@Attaxalotl]

So furries are canon in Lancer? Epic Edit: I will now take the trope of suspiciously wealthy furries and add it to some Smith-Shimano Corporation plot.

[@LexYeen]

as a furry, _yesssss._ this is perfect. do it do it do it. suspiciously wealthy furries exist, and despite the fur they can still fall victim to human flaws and human vices - a fact many in reality ought to be aware of if they aren't already.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@LexYeen SSC Mercenary Foxgirl; her mech's got an audio HUD in additional to a regular one, to take advantage of her directional ears. I'm not sure what the tail would do.

[@Sorain1]

@@Attaxalotl Additional precision aiming for a rear facing weapon. She's got a kinesthetic sense of where her tail is at all times that is just begging to be used. Alternatively, have a built in gimbal turret and the tail is used for that, would take more training but if you've got the limb, you might as well use it. Given SSC's whole 'made specifically for this one person in a bespoke manner' not doing something with the tail would be anathema to them.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@Sorain1 Genius!

[@munsterlandr1644]

The first pilot i played modded themselves to be an anthro fox long before becoming a lancer (digitigrade legs n all). They didn't get the callsign Collateral for having survived a really exclusion zone causing NHP cascade, but because they knock shit over with their big ass tail all the time.

[@thundrakion]

One of those levels of extreme with subcultures that I think about is that furries can literally become their sona in Lancer. Sure, the DM can just rule that other species exist alongside humans in their version of the lore, but in lore, a human can change themselves to their fursona with modifications.

[@munsterlandr1644]

yessssss very this. first character i played had the callsign Collateral not because of tough backstory stuff, but because they keep knocking shit over with their tail on accident.

[@Grizabeebles]

My favourite character idea for Lancer is Cybrids and Bioderms from the Metaltech franchise -- If it's possible to upload minds to and from different bodies, then it should be elementary that an entire mind could be built neuron-by-neuron from scratch and installed in a fully organic body, a cyborg, an android, or a mech. The idea of a character with zero existial angest about being military surplus just amuses me for some reason. "Dave, my brain is an SSD in a titanium case. Just stomp open my head and plug the yellow cable into the serial port in my mech. I'll be fine."

[@rogerramiussergeialexander5541]

While that would be fantastic and extremely useful, that might be impossible/illegal within the setting on account of the big scary eldritch math that told people not to do that.

[@Grizabeebles]

@rogerramiussergeialexander5541 -- I'm pretty sure that NHP characters and pilots from SecCom's "clone army" days are pretty close as is. SSC explicitly makes and sells designer people. What I'm talking about is a lot closer to that than anything paracausal.

[@loreman2803]

Don't tempt me with Lancer Admech. If I must be the change I wanna see then so be it

[@Zaktact]

Be the change. Android cults have already set the table, just gotta fill it.

[@LexYeen]

Something has to be keeping Ra busy.

[@Ajc-ni3xn]

2:43 unrelated but i never realized how goddamn huge Vodyani ships were until it was zoomed in. oh my god.

[@LrdRvrnd]

I took Technophile and made my pilot a super soldier from an experimental program that cloned him from the genetic make up of a few select soldiers and researchers, while at the same time they were trying to craft a new nhp to grow along with him built from coding and programs of other NHPs and AIs they had in their R&D department. Ra made an appearance and shut down the program and very few of the resulting clones were left alive but the ones that survived had cybernetic implants with the nhp inside of them. The mech he is running is being built up to be a hydra and run a bunch of drones and nexus weapons as well as having two NHPs. Dropping drones with 15 hp and just taking over entire zones with nexus and turrets and barricades. William Black and his mech Black Cloud.

[@MrTwistedLizard]

Dang you just gave me an idea for a Penal Colonist character "Prisoner, today....you go Free...but freedom has a high cost. You will carry your prison with you"

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

Limbs cutted of and forcefully entombed in a mech. “Congratulations, you are free, but now you will have to work for us if you want to get out of there” By end of campaign the character has grown so accostumed with their ‘new body’ that instead losing it to return to be a common human, they kidnapp their jailers and forcefully entomb them in other mech chassis to make them feel the glory and purity of steel.

[@soultron4238]

My head cannon is that the Earth of Cyberpunk happened before the fall. So “From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine” survived the fall. The surname Arasaka floats around the SSC a lot… Not directly, more ghosts in the machine.

[@cosmicfails2053]

In my party, got a player whos character is an illegal flash clone, or rather Not quite a "clone" Base genetic template thats randomised just a little to make variety within the product, But when born, he and his siblings then kill each other in wargames to weed out the inferior clones, then record the data of the surviving clones to keep a tally of what gene manipulation they should keep and leave for the next batch. Needless to say he is not okay. My characters first interaction with him was finding him blitzed out of his skull on "spice" having a seizure due to a depressive episode. He then also proceeded to self destruct his mech in the first combat to steal us the win. He did bail out at least but we are all certain he's going to build a manticore.

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

Ah yes, tipical character broken down to the genetic level

[@pyroball602]

Is he a part of R Corp by any chance?

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

@ the what corp?

[@pyroball602]

@@alessiogiovannetti513 Project Moon reference. R Corp is a military corp of the City, which uses almost the exact same methods to train their soldiers. Due to how clones of a person can't exist for more than a week by City law, they use cloning technology and time warp technology lended by T Corp to run clone wargames with every single one of their soldiers cloned a ridiculous number of times. The strongest wins and becomes chosen for the corporate military force.

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

@ oooooh, completely fucked up then

[@PeachyBeins]

The cloning and mind imprinting really remind me of the Devoured Worlds Trilogy by Megan E O’Keefe. Where body printing and consciousness uploading is pretty common but also up to a point

[@raipe125]

can tell moer?

[@regular_user9886]

Made a dude who got into a minotaur and never got out, just stuck, somewhere. Hes still alive i think.

[@kasadeya3754]

I taught my players this lesson in at a fun way humans have 1 health..I have a player who’s currently up to 4 from sheer modification. Cybernetic primarily but also a bit of redundant organs and gene modding for endurance. 4 HP, Armor 1, on a human body..it’s quite something. - I have had enemies much the same, or worse human beings that operate more like 1/2 sized mechs from sheer weight of modification and radical integration.

[@Zaktact]

Oh man I've loved messing with the bio-mods and cybernetics as well. I have a draft manufacturer all about further pilot and mech combinations. Though with enough mods a "human" can go toe to toe with a chassis.

[@kasadeya3754]

@@Zaktact in my case it was generally for the 1/2 sized, horrifying mutants effected by a flesh warping system to flash make chaff soldiers, for their bio mech project. They tested on a world just to show off to investors what it could do..

[@gustavodasilvaprobst890]

At that point that's pretty much a Warframe, isn't it?

[@lukaandersson9592]

hmm, big robits and math gods. Very fun 👍

[@cwdiode4521]

Ra can't stop me, im about to violate the first contact accords >:)

[@cwdiode4521]

My planet has been deleted.

[@be-noble3393]

AKA: The Blue Screen of Death means something very different in the future.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

Damn dude... Didn't even mention the catgirls... I guess you can mention them when you get to ship holographic figureheads.

[@NayrAnur]

Wonder what Rio would look like with cat ears...

[@amanwithnoname-ds6ep]

What was the rock/metal song that was used during the back quarter of the vid? 18:03 being an example

[@hollowBlade329]

I have a character that’s a brain and heart in a jar. He got it because HA made a mistake and he has a family connection to SSC. So he has a custom made Robot body.

[@artisan2906]

oh my god same! I had a character that was literally just a brain in a robot body, and was looking to find the "right" body for them. nothing really fit for them, because SPOILERS they were actually an egregorian brain-pattern copied onto a blank human brain!

[@toryumau6798]

​@@artisan2906 ... Egads, that must've been one hay of a body dysphorea being in a vessel with so few limbs, M8. >):^/

[@artisan2906]

@@toryumau6798 oh it was awful for it, but it did get help! gotta put a character thru the wringer before it can get better!

[@LexYeen]

All I'm hearing is, it is _entirely_ possible for player characters to be furries.

[@toryumau6798]

... Well, all that excess Mana income from Lancering across multiple lives had to go somewhere, eh? [ *Suspiciously Wealthy SSC Investor Intensifies* ] >)X^D

[@warlynx5644]

They specifically mention tails and digitgrade legs as potential options. They absolutely are canon

[@jaypax]

Be a furry in 5016u, meet Black Templars-like HA company with Genghis mechs.... Union adds a new bullet point to its "Things HA is not allowed to do" documents

[@LexYeen]

​@@jaypaxremember kids, the bruise is a pack of foaming ACs just looking for an out-group to dehumanize and use as a scapegoat

[@AzureIV]

SSC Catgirl Lancer Pilot Streamers is definitely something I see a lot of in Lancer in the community.

[@Berathan-dnd]

This was very helpful for running the game. Was confused about a bunch of this. There is so much lore in the DM guide to read through.

[@masterzoroark6664]

A robonihilist integrated with a Barbarossa sounds like a mix of ammusing and scary (and well, someone literally integrating with Balor sounds... like a norm) And well, as someone looking to play Lancer- I thought of playing a guy who has a "black box" and set of jurnals to pass on to their either clone or cyborg, taking quite a lot of inspirations from Exos in Destiny 2 and cycles of Morgan Yu in Pray 2016 And well.... you are giving me more ideas to have another character working like that Tabernacle mech drawn by Keith Thompson (tldr: quadruplegic integrated within a mechsuit) or outright making a fkin CRAVER (because I like their design, and having four arms, plus I like the ammount of Craver images you used here)

[@isaacgraff8288]

so much fun thinking of characters for this setting.

[@PepperBell-oj5e]

Working on one of my goofier lancer characters: Artillery IdolFord aka that time HA’s Think-Tank decided that it was an interesting idea to use their super soldier program to genetically create a corporate idol to rival those of SSC.

[@lechking941]

im getting whiplash from the fact i can do techpriest to possibly furrydom to a combo of both as a possibility i think my spine just got powderized from this possibility. like Shure its proably a risky expensive thing BUT furries... there's a will there SHALL BE DONE with a way.

[@LexYeen]

the furry fandom existed before the internet, do you _really_ think we wouldn't be on the omninet? where did you think the catgirl variant of the blackbeard came from? some weeb?

[@toryumau6798]

​@@LexYeen ... When will the normies learn; that not even the fear of Rah can stop our primordial impulse of finding things to be friend shaped? >)X^D

[@Dokari-l9m]

This thread scares me (prepares my flamer and sharpens my axe)

[@LexYeen]

​@@Dokari-l9mcomrade, the furry fandom is probably older than you, and the mere _concept_ of anthropomorphism is as old as _history itself._ to deny this history is to deny your own humanity.

[@Dokari-l9m]

@@LexYeen from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me. Being a furry is up to them. I just had bad experiences with furries. So I’ll keep my guard up. Got to make sure they are just furries and not space wolves

[@Iymarra]

Great vid! Looking forward to a future video on the Kidd :D

[@mortifidpenguin]

Looking to play a game sometime in the next few months. Seems like the idea for the game is that we're all gonna be on a joint venture from different factions to find something. Had an idea for a character that was a left over from the scientists on Demios during the event and was picked up by SSC. Who had made them into esentially a living NHP casket but is completely unware of any of that and just believes they are a long time agent for SSC dealing mostly in Cyber Security. Will definitely be using this video as a reference for some of the mods that SSC slapped into them.

[@the_gruesom4999]

I have been trying so hard to get people to play this game I dont understand why people wont play this game with me

[@tonk6918]

Are you looking to host or play?

[@the_gruesom4999]

@@tonk6918 I want to hoste

[@itsuko6366]

I'm working on getting a small group together, while I want to play I'll end up hosting

[@tonk6918]

@@the_gruesom4999 Can I join?

[@tonk6918]

@@itsuko6366 How many do you have right now?

[@TheCuriosity8]

I had some fun with this in one of the games I'm running, basically I came up with some techpocalypse race options with minor out-of-mech bonuses. Most of them are ethnic (1st wave colonist, leap-frog colonist, secretly a Horus cultist, noble, city-to-city nomad and so on) but 3 are genetic bullshit, that has been passed on to descendants and society no longer has the tech to undo it. 1: the elite who had all the good shit (photographic memory, slowed aging, glowing natural tattoos, super livers) except had no value in doing physical work and are weak AF, which sucks in a pre-industrial world. 2: street level bio-hackers who changed their genes as fast as their jeans (I'm not apologizing) as different upgrades trended in and out of fashion. GOOD NEWS, they can be faster, stronger, or do cool shit like gecko walk. BAD NEWS, quick and dirty is only ok if you have advanced healthcare, these mods were NOT made with a developing child's body in mind, if your of the 1-in-10 who live to adult hood, you probably have some ongoing issue to deal with. 3: Cats that talk... that it... generation ship got sad so they made their cats talk.. no other changes, they are just regular ass looking cats who can talk, and as a player race. Pilot a mech. =^.^=

[@thealchemist7843]

8:49 talking about "Cybernetics that still look human..." and shows the ONE GUY who didn't use ANY robot enhancements

[@Volcano22207]

The arm

[@obamabiden]

one of the lancer campaigns ive played in was mostly about the illegal flash clome trade, the pcs were all (through various means) being sold by a black market body broker to people who are now making them do various missions for ambiguous reasons my character probably has it among the worst, being not really a proper person but a flash clone being stored by someone else as a "backup" that accidentally got woken up during a serious power outage at the facility, and as a result having a pretty messed up subjectivity imprint held together mostly by the nhp she's constantly bridged with (an idea inspired by the weird lore from long rim about horizon figuring out how to have non-insane unshackled nhps by bridging them woth two people)

[@Okada_Caelun]

Ironically my own mecha-pilot OC, a cyborg catgirl... after watching this video I don't think she'd be able to be imported to Lancer. Short version is she received a near-total cyborg conversion at about the age of 5 (social/economic issues meant her parents had to take a hard bargain to get her medical care at all). Between frequent surgeries to replace cybernetics she's outgrown, the absolute thorough nature of said cybernetics, and being ostracized by her peers for being "a talking calculator", she becomes quite desperate for the validation of her humanity. Validation eventually she find in the cockpit of a mech as a "gladiator," fighting for the entertainment of others and signing autographs from fans. Just... it sounds like cybernetics in Lancer are a bit too commonplace for her to be picked on by her classmates, and genetic modifications too commonplace for such an extreme medical regimen necessary.

[@Zaktact]

One of the fantastic things about the Diaspora is it's many, many, many, many, many..................many worlds. All of which can range widely from each other. On a union Core World the character might be unlikely, but a Diasporan? Works totally fine. Core worlds are were cybernetics are super casual and pervasive, Diasporan they can be as well or extremely rare, loved or hated, new or old. Diasporan worlds are the settings fill in the blank on the galactic map.

[@KOkami03]

7:15 ...You ever hear of the D&D third party setting DragonMech? Because that had a prestige class called the Assimilator that is exactly that concept.

[@Kuziminski]

Hey sweet, a video very relevant to my current Lancer! She's a flash cloned super soldier from a region that is still fighting Union's, well, Union. Heavily SecCom influenced. Been fun playing her problems and expected lifespan compared to everyone else. (❁´◡`❁)

[@johnathan651]

The genetic engineering and cybernetics reminds me of Knights of Sidonia. While I think only one character has cybernetics (an arm and a leg,) the genetic engineering and bio-tech is very common and can get pretty wild at times. It's an interesting look at long-term (1000+ years) travel on a generation ship.

[@vilheimtheunsinkable9646]

My very first character ended up having a swarm limb, a subjectivity enhancement suite and a neural bypass by the end of the campaign. She could literally connect herself into her Balor chassis and Sync her mind up with her nhp and the nanite swarm.

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

I wonder sometimes what an NHP would think seeing their pilots do these things: NHP:”Ok, i kinda understand that I’m am a sort of fetus of a mathematician eldrich god in the making, I can understand why one would see how far they can go with discovering who they can become, BUT MAN, YOU LITTERALY DON’T EVEN LOOK HUMAN ANYMORE, I’M HAPPY THAT RA IS MAKING SURE THAT YOU DONT ATTEMPT DECORPORALIZATION BECAUSE IF NOT I WOULD FEAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF REALITY ITSELF.”

[@ChantillyVenus]

My first character had a genetic mutation that developed on her planet that basically made her a natural contortionist. I thought that was like the far end of genetic modification in Lancer. Then I sat in for another player's session 0 in my current (2nd) campaign and realized he was playing a whole ass dog man.

[@acceptablecasualty5319]

Humans Plus, eh? Reckon they went over budget before becoming those?

[@quickattackfilms7923]

Great breakdown, loved it... Also makes me think a campaign set in the post-apocalyptic universe that this technology will inevitably usher in would be pretty cool.

[@squeethemog213]

Absolutely love this vid. It makes me think of the game Negative Atmosphere and now I want to run dead space with Mecha 🤩 Thanks for another really awesome vid Zack 🙏😃

[@The_Foxymew]

If you haven't decided to already, I think you should consider doing a quick overview of the GMS stuff. I guess it might come up with Everest in this series? But I feel you should maybe do it... Earlier? Because the quicker people can get a quick video for all of the stuff at the start of getting into the system, the better. It's not like it fits into the four companies you have up there, as you go through the list, and it's technically not really going alphabetically, so I don't entirely know where it'd fit in as the list goes on... I just think it'd be nice for players to be able to have a nice video for their very first session, before they get any license levels. And I just want to hear you talk about the Cyclone rifle.

[@camramaster]

RA is always watching,

[@ginnungagaplemniscates1405]

Fantastic content. Fantastic setting and world-building. Fantastic video.

[@Keaton_Ambrose]

8:13 Go on. Talk about the furries.

[@okamiv5]

All Tomorrows in lancer. The pilot is a colony of flesh brick humans

[@NAO-ll2fy]

Great video! It would be nice if you credited the art you sourced, I would love to explore more from these artists and I'm sure they would love to at the very least be have their names known

[@Dragonsage64]

Just had the idea to use some sort of octopus DNA to make a shape-shifting mod. Haven't played yet so idk if this exists bust since octopus dna can alter itself you could probably put it in scifi as future tech figured out how to use this. I'm thinking tentacles can can shift into various limbs.

[@utoro5]

Now, I had a kind of an interesting Lancer. Because he did get decorped, but it was not a "true" decorp, since the continuity was not held, and thus on the other side was a complete mess of inhuman. After a long process of rebuilding he ended up as a gestalt consciousness of a subjectivity-overridden clone and two NHPs you usually get from talents. Plsying that was... An experience hard to forget, since there was also a Lich licence, and they can hack time flow ten thousand ways and then some. And then there was DIDYMOS... Thank RA ir was play-by-post textual RP, because you can't voice DIDYMOS properly. Because that NHP was talking in two voices two different lines at the same time. And I had to build his sentences that both reading each line and alternating phrases made sense.

[@Valerion203]

My character figured out how to basically make a human version of Egregorian adaptability and implanted it into himself and now he can evolve like them (if he survives the hard situations that trigger the evolutions of course).

[@Amelia_of_Brazenwall]

I can imagine all of the absolutely *horrible* ways some player characters could be using these. Its exiting

[@americankid7782]

I’m going to put a storage container in my characters Thigh or Calves to hold a compact PDW as a last resort item. “You took all of my weapons? Well I still have my compact Thigh Machine Gun so have fun with that.”

[@Sorain1]

That'd be a fun signature weapon.

[@LexYeen]

"thick thighs save lives" says nothing about _how_

[@OrbitalRose_01]

One of my favorite bits of lore I cooked up with my friend that exists in the background of our games (hey Tears of Marathon/Our Flag Means Mech Players don't read this) is a SeccComm super soldier program called "Project Draconis" that turned people into 12 foot tall dragon people and then trained them to be unquestioningly obedient. Then everything went wrong and the surviving subjects escaped. Am I being shamelessly scalie on main? yes. But it's fun as hell. Also the reactor tech furry in my game who is just a fluffy little guy.

[@coliimusic]

I know nothing of this setting but I am now interested.

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

My first idea for a Lancer character was a ship crew member dealing with subjective time issues. Relativistic effects mean you have about a ten to one ratio of passage, So basically he would stop at a planet every few years and meet the adult grandchildren of those he met on the last visit. In turn he ran into this existential crisis of how nobody tells their kids about this one random guy you saw for three days at a space port, and thus he was a living ghost whom no one knew aside from others on the crew. After an accident kills a few of his friends, he became a mech pilot to build a legend so that there would actually people who remember him. (And as a bit of humor, his name was Locke, so he called his mech "keymaster". If I ever actually play Lancer, chances are he'll end up with a Horus Lich for even more time tom-foolery)

[@MrRobot-0]

If you want to look at a good comparation for flash clones look to the grinier in Warframe.

[@terrorcooper9476]

Good to know that my SSC Futanaric/Hermaphroditic Anthro Furry/Scalie character idea is actually viable!

[@raipe125]

what is scalie?

[@Dokari-l9m]

@@raipe125reptile furry

[@terrorcooper9476]

@@raipe125 Basically think Furry, but with scales instead of fur. You know, reptiles such as dragons, dinosaurs, chameleons, tortoises, etc, possibly also fish? Though I'm admittedly a wee bit unsure about that last one...

[@berniebroig8745]

I once played a lancer that used to be a journeyman gladiatorial derby pilot. They piloted a modified Charrioteer frame, and with most derbies they'd lose a piece of themselves, eventually leading to them being an android with only their brain left as organic matter. I only got to play them once because scheduling decided to rear its bastard head. I didn't get much of a chance to do any in-character role-playing either, but it was a fun time.

[@KrillAndGrill]

Im surprised there isnt a bio-titan type deal, with all this. Well, im not *surprised* that there isnt a corp selling them, more so that Horus hasnt spat any out yet.

[@Volcano22207]

You clearly haven’t read what’s inside of the teleports behind you meme mech I can’t remember the name of and especially it’s alt the emperor

[@XDarkLordXP]

Wtf is the art used for the android cult from?

[@Zaktact]

The Surge 2: The Kraken dlc.

[@XDarkLordXP]

​@@Zaktact That is so cool looking. lol Thank you!

[@carkos98]

This could easily be warhammer 40k before the AI problem. It's pretty grim even for a reasonably realistic Sci-fi universe

[@SOILBOIL]

Please do "How to make a supersoldier/space marine in Lancer?" Next please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ghrondindustries5136]

My PC started the campaign waking up in his (illegal) flash-clone backup after a botched Albatross job, only to discover that no actually, they accidentally mixed up the bodies and he's running around with the wrong face. (He hasn't realized yet who's face it is: one of Harrison's nephews)

[@Sh1ranu1]

I was literally just asking about whether mech pilots have to interface with lancers

[@mollymcallister1671]

Flash cloning, subjectivity override.... this is reminding me of a furry/post-human/late-stage-capitalism/sci-fi-horror idea I'd been puttering around with. "In a World..." [/movie-trailer-guy] ...where organic intelligence was considered more adaptable and better able to self-maintain and self-operate under limited supervision scenarios, a company mass-produces these cute mouse-people, perfectly non-threatening. They just need that little baseline boost to their 'programming' to be serviceable. So they offer compensation for people willing to have a neural-network engram created based on scans of their own brain. They're not gonna use ALL of it, of course. Just the parts that know how to eat, sleep, put one foot in front of the other etc... But the Whole brain-scan? No-no, never... that would be Illegal.

[@zylo202]

Where did he get these details on nihilist machine-adherents? I found only a small passing mention of them in the book.

[@Simmons8519]

Is all this info in the core book, or in some of the additional materials?

[@Zaktact]

The vast majority of this info is in the paid version of the core book and occasionally scattered in other supplements.

[@Simmons8519]

@@Zaktact ah! Thanks!

[@chaosordeal294]

At sixty, I am certain that I could never have properly "played" a sixty year-old when I was twenty-five. Player "age" may matter in their possessions/talents/knowledge, but I would get really unconfortable being in a room with a twenty-something trying to be a thousand year-old super-wise being. That just can't go well, and it puts all the players in an awkward spot unless you're all playing it for camp (by Vektron!).

[@sinabsentia]

It's too bad we don't have more material (that I know of) on the Voladores, it's hard to say how human they are at all under their suits.

[@Moon-protogen]

As a furry myself I know exactly what's gonna happen when this video blows up.

[@LexYeen]

"Hey GM, can my Lancer's signature weapon be cyberware?" "...You picked an anti-materiel weapon, but okay, where is it?" "Behind my faceplate. It's my head cannon."

[@toryumau6798]

​@@LexYeen ... Ah, so that's what was goin' on in that proto-head. Ya know what? Lore accurate. GG, M8. >)X^D

[@jessamynpratt5068]

Look, he wouldn't have pulled out the nekomimi pic if he didn't know what we were going to do.

[@Moon-protogen]

@@LexYeen come to think of it protos in particular would be laughably easy given established Lancer tech and the fact they're cyborgs

[@aviumstrepitus5158]

Well. Time to make a dreadnought

[@letrying2633]

And Yes Furries are Real in this setting and you cannot evade the truth

[@DeltaCain13]

You should cover degenesis. It's entirely free and soooo much to unpack there.

[@Laikafan02]

19:54 so I can be my Lancer’s Fursona?

[@alessiogiovannetti513]

Yes, yes you can, the books mention that tails, digitigrated limbs etc.. are common body modifications, and it also kinda make sense, in a setting with technology so advanced your body itself can become a fashion statement, why not seeing how far you can go with that, and of course one of the first things someone would think about for modifying their look is becoming a bipedal animal-human thing. It’s maybe the easiest thing a human mind would jump too, along becoming Adam Smasher with the amount of of cybernetics installed on you, when thinking about a radical body sculpturing that they could do.

[@sendaric7540]

Imagine locking yourself into a Balor and then the annoyed just eat your brains and you decorp by accident

[@Volcano22207]

Depending of what the hell Horus is you may be seeing a new moon in the sky

[@HastorPrinceInYellow]

wait, furry lancers possible and even canon!?

[@travislewis5058]

If i was ever gona make a character in this game it would be about a jail broken construct (cyborg with no rights) trying to survive and figure out its self and place in the universe (basically if you read the murderbot diaries you get the vibe)