Deep-Wired Street Rat

The Deep-Wired Street Rat is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

Tricked into a deadly street doc scam, a Delta Wire and combat kit was spliced into you to set you up as a fighter in underground fight pits to the death. When you discovered your sister had died on the operating table you took your revenge in a bloody haze.

+5 Reaction, +3 Strength, +2 Will, +25 Hit Points, +10% Kinetic Dmg and +3% Evasion

Source

This Warmachine can be recruited through the Underworld Hub. The name is randomly generated.

Starting Attributes

These Attributes come from the character Backstory and may be modified by the Starting Traits.

• Reaction: 5
• Strength: 3
• Will: 2
• Tech: 0

Starting Traits

The Warmachine will start with the following Traits:

• Cyber-Scarred 1: +1 Will, +25 Hit Points, +10% Wound Res and +20% Extra Stress when undergoing Cyber Surgery

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose another Trait from the following:

• Agile1: +1 Reaction, +0.2 Move Points and +5% Move Speed
• Fearsome 1: +1 Will, +2% of Kinetic as extra Pure Dmg
• Cold Killer 1: +1 Will and +5% Crit Chance

Tags

The Warmachine will start with the following Tags:

• Faction of Origin: Faction of Origin is Indie.
• Indie: Faction: Indie
• Street Tech: Scrappy, patch-it-together style of tech work
• Faction Insider: Due to your connections and history, you are capable of executing Legwork inside Los Zagales territory without undue attantion.
• Hates Traitors: Does not make any attempt to hide it, has great contempt and hatred for those who turn against their own.
• Respects: Has professional respect for <merc with military history> (member of team). You and <merc> met through shared ex-military circles and you look up to <merc> as someone who knows what they are doing and where they are trying to go.
• Sibling: Has a sister, Tavia (MIA contact). Tavia died during the same splicing operation that gave you this Delta Wire.

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose an additional option from the following:

• Wronged: Has done wrong to <syndicate boss> (Syndicate Boss contact) that will not be forgotten or forgiven. Chasing Dr. Allgood you cut into <D-Cartel boss>'s Syndicate turf and started something you could not finish.
• Wronged: Has done wrong to <Jupiter VP> (Corporate VP contact) that will not be forgotten or forgiven. Wiping out the Red Diamond Syndicate was an act of personal revenge, but made a lifelong enemy of <Jupiter VP>.
• Wronged: Has done wrong to <Blue Ox boss> (Gang Boss contact) that will not be forgotten or forgiven. In the aftermath of the operation, your need for violence put you up against one of <Blue Ox boss>'s paramilitary squads and started something you could not finish.

Starting Cybernetic

The Warmachine will start with the following Cybernetics:

• Delta Wire 2: grants Warmachine class
• Ripper Blades 2: Attack an enemy within 2m with your Ripper Blades 2 at base 65% Accuracy, causing 172 Kinetic Damage for 1 AP. Critical Hits cause +150 Critical Dmg instead of +50%. Attacks are guaranteed to at least score a Glancing Hit.
• Lumen Spear 1: Attack an enemy within 18m with your Lumen Spear 1 at base 75% Accuracy, causing 150 Ballistic Damage for 2 AP. Critical Hits cause +150% Critical Dmg instead of +50%. Attacks are guaranteed to score at least a Glancing Hit and debuff enemy with +10% Crit Vulnerability for the remainder of the Turn but reduce HP by 20. Can attack with final 1 AP.
• Vertifex Pulse Generator: Discharge Pulse Generator to strike all enemies within 8m, canceling enemy Overwatch, causing 250 Kinetic Dmg and debuffing with -40% Evasion for remainder of the Turn. Immediately reduce HP by 25 on use. Does not trigger Overwatch.

Starting Appearance

To return Deep-Wired Street Rat to her default appearance, copy this text to the clipboard and select "import" from her appearance tab:

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Recruitment dialog

(This recruit is introduced by a friendly mercenary)

CK: We've put out the call for a new Warmachine. What did you find?

Face: I didn't have to look far we got a bite within our own team. <Friend> runs in some milsec circles and has heard about an impressive fighter who fits the bill.

Friend: Let me introduce <recruit>. I met <recruit> recently, through some of the ex-milsec channels I keep open. I haven't known her long, but I can vouch that she is deadly and has grit. And she is looking for a new crew.

CK: I have heard a bit about your prowess as a walking weapons platform, <recruit>.

Recruit: It takes a lot to get to this level, but it has cost me a great deal. I didn't know the cost when we accepted this life.

CK: We ...?

Recruit: My sister Tavia and I started this together. We were just street kids back then, looking for a hit, a chance to make a U-Duh. We were stupid enough and desperate enough - not to see the blade between the bills when a street doc offered us some free upgrades.

Friend: It's a common enough hustle below the level - most of the time they just rip your organs and toss you in a dumpster.

Recruit: Trust me, I'd spot it now before walking into the trap. Today, I'd be kicking the door down and torching the whole damn place. And killing every single person in the building ...

Face: All right, so it went badly? But you look like you've got most of your organs, so what happened?

Recruit: The doc wasn't an organ-harvesting front. Instead he was cybering up anyone they could to fight in underground death matches for a Syndicate called the Red Diamond. Tavia wasn't lucky, her body rejected the splice and it killed her. I learned about that later when they were getting me ready for my first fight. It did not go over well.

Friend: What <recruit> is trying to say is that if you're worried about a revenge quest against the Red Diamond, don't be. They're extinct.

Recruit: The doc had gotten a bit too excited, giving me an Ocular Lance he wasn't supposed to. I fried, and maimed and cut my way out of there. The street doc must have realized his mistake just in time. Dr. Allgood escaped and I still haven't found him. I spent the next year hunting down the rest of them. It helped me come to understand my Delta Wire.

CK: At least you don't have a whole Syndicate out looking for you

Recruit: It felt good at the time - it was what I needed to do.

CK: So you're back from your revenge and you're looking for a crew. What makes you worth picking up?

Recruit: ... I need to find something new. A new family, a new start, a reason to keep taking shots.

Make your choice and continue:

• Tavia and I stayed alive by being quick and quiet - staying Agile helped me ambush Syndicate members one by one. (+1 Reaction, +0.2 Move Points and +5% Move Speed)
• I started a street-rat, but I've become a Fearsome fighter. When I go after someone, I go in savage, right in their face. (+1 Will and +2% of Kinetic as extra Pure Dmg)
• I will admit all this has ripped me up inside. I'm not sure if I work right anymore. I'm just a Cold Killer now. (+1 Will and +5% Crit Chance)

Recruit: I started a street-rat, but I've become a Fearsome fighter. When I go after someone, I go in savage, right in their face. Any way it goes, I've been spliced to the nines with cyber - there is no going back from a Delta Wire.

CK: In our line of work, that can be the difference between a score and a disaster. What do you think, <face>?

Face: I've got one more question - I know you wiped out the Red Diamond Syndicate but you didn't do it without making some enemies along the way. You killed a lot of people to get revenge for Tavia - but there is no way they were all clean kills.

CK: Then, let's hear it - if we're going to take you on, we need to know who your enemies are. And before you answer, let me be clear -- if you want in this company, trust is our baseline. So, even if you don't like your own answer, it better be the truth.

Make your choice and continue:

• Dr. Allgood disappeared into the fold of the D-Cartel and I made a Syndicate Boss enemy there before I realized he was long gone.
• I guess the Red Diamond was backed by a powerful Jupiter Corp VP.
• After I escaped, I flailed around for a while. I made a mess Blue Ox territory and gave a Gang Boss a black eye they won't soon forget.

Recruit: I guess the Red Diamond was backed by a powerful Jupiter Corp VP.

Face: Sounds like you went barking up a dangerous tree and it did not take long to make some enemies. So the Jupiter Corporate VP was running a little side racket?

Recruit: When I went up against the Red Diamond I found out they were more into producing designer street drugs. Whatever they were into with Dr. Allgood was their own little secret. Not that Paige Gaunt is blameless. No, we have business, she and I.

CK: Then we will have trouble with the Corporate VP eventually. A private word, <face>? What do you think?

Face: Everyone in this business has something haunting their past. We've got to keep that in mind when weighing a new recruit.