A Space-Opera-Western-TTRPG
Bounty hunters...
2031, the first strains of malaria-f (a malaria filovirus variant) created in a lab escaped, and began to rapidly infect the world. Climate change had already warmed the planet by two degrees fahrenheit, the Paris Accord’s goal some years ago. The shifts in environment plunged parts of the middle east, australia, and africa into heat-related draught and famine that displaced millions of refugees.
2050, 5.2 billion people lived with malaria-f or a variant. Wildfires raged out of control, burning five times as far in the draught-hit areas of the western united states. Out-of-control pollution saw the ozone smog increase across america by nearly 70% since the early 2020s.
2100, the population was shrinking as 2.5 billion people breathed in air above safe levels each day. Though many diseases had been cured, medical prices were out of range of many most effected by pollution, plague, famine, draught, and heat. Oceans have now risen ten feet over their 2020 averages, plunging a third of the world’s major cities, power plants, ports, navy bases, farmlands, and fisheries beneath the increasingly acidic seas. A Second Cold War begins as nations begin to isolate themselves, resource-hoarding aggressively. Many smaller countries merge into larger countries. The United States of America splits into the Western Commonwealth, the United States of America, and the Mighty Confederation of Free States.
2170, the Second Cold War ends as the global GDP collapses to less than 20% of current-day. The ultrawealthy corporations and individual interests accelerate investments in space as raw good shortages begin to hit even them. The Age of Exploration had begun! As humanity reached into it’s solar system and beyond, it established Waystations to refuel its ships as they travelled.
2180, first contact was established between the Jacynto Corporation and the Lashunta, a psychically-gifted race that belonged to the galactic community. At once, humanity joined something far larger: The Milky Way.
2185, the governments of the various nations and colonies formed a single government: the United Solari Republic, representing the people of the Solari system around their sun, Sol. With representatives now able to effectively diplomatize with other species and governments, humanity was finally exposed to drift drift technology.
2250, Mosaic, LLC hires its fifth team of bounty hunters, and assigns them the designation Shuttle Team Five. This is their story.
The Party
Gibbs, Ysoki Mystic
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
Gibbs hails from a planet "ruined" by recycling, and seeks to prove that there is value in that which is discarded.
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
As an independent contractor for a courier service, E.C.C.O built up tremendous debt. They join Mosaic Team 5 new to the role of bounty hunter.
Bubbs, Human Soldier
E.C.C.O, aNDROID oPERATIVE
S.H.A.D.E, Android Mechanic
Bubbs spends countless hours searching for answers to the questions that make up his past; he searches for lost family.
S.H.A.D.E, Android Mechanic
S.H.A.D.E, Android Mechanic
S.H.A.D.E, Android Mechanic
The biological components of androids always have their memories wiped clean, but S.H.A.D.E has always felt that something remained...
Spise, Lashunta Envoy
S.H.A.D.E, Android Mechanic
Spise, Lashunta Envoy
After running up a tab in the casinos of the Milky Way, Spise finds herself once more on a different kind of battlefield.
The Mosaic Bounty Hunter Management Firm
About Mosaic
Mosaic currently manages five teams of bounty hunters, with Mosaic Team 5 being the most recently founded. The company believes in bringing together "diverse operators with unique sets of experience" to create "a cohesive team of individual pieces." Payments to operators are based on bounties cleared, while the Mosaic company assumes responsibility for basic incidentals (fuel, ammunition, etc.)
Mission Coordinators
Each team is led by a Mission Coordinator, like Peep the ysoki, Mission Coordinator for MT5, pictured left. They are responsible for tracking down bounties for their assigned team to complete, while gathering intel and coordinating supplies. The Mission Coordinator also connects their assigned team to the support services of Mosaic, LLC.
Mosaic's Support Services
Mosaic has several non-operator departments that work from remote locations around the galaxy. These include: Sentient Resources, who work to process all personnel paperwork, and to help resolve issues between personnel; Public Image Management, a one-person department that helps shape Mosaic's image across media platforms while also attempting to secure sponsors for the company and individual teams; Facilities, which dispatches emergency ships to repair MT5 craft stranded in space; and Research and Development, a fledgling department looking to make its first hire in the coming weeks.