Terminal Retrovirus

Terminal Retrovirus is a potential recruit for the mercenary squad.

Backstory

After being diagnosed with terminal retrovirus R-892, your milsec unit dropped you like a hot rock. Put out to pasture with little support, you found your way to a shadowy clinic that promised a cure but their uncertified fork of CRISPR 17.2 nearly killed you. Out of options, you bargained your way into an experimental Chem-Hive implant. So far, your Hive's specialized nanites may be the one thing keeping you alive.

-4 Strength, +6 Will, +6 Tech, +60 Hit Points, -15% Stress Res, -15 Wound Res and +6 Built-in Armor

Source

This Scourge 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 during the recruitment process.

• Reaction: 6
• Strength: -4
• Will: 6
• Tech: 0

Starting Traits

The Scourge will start with the following Trait:

• Not Much Time 1: +1 Will, +1 Initiative, +5% XP Gained and 10% chance to gain Stress if left behind on a mission if Ready status, 5% to gain double Hype on mission completion

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

• Agile 1: +1 Reaction, +0.2 Move Points and +5% Move Speed
• Bull-Built 1: +2 Strength and +30 Hit Points
• Careful Precision 1: +1 Will, +5% All Ranged Accuracy, -2 Initiative and +2% Legwork Success

Tags

The Scourge will start with the following Tags:

• Faction Insider: Due to your connections and history, you are capable of executing Legwork inside Arrowhead Security territory without undue attention.
• Faction-Ex: Left Arrowhead Security without burning bridges and is still able to operate within their territory.
• Gambler: Gravitates toward the high-stakes tables, gambling backrooms and Syndicate-owned casinos of the zone.
• Retrovirus R-892: One of the 2000 known and catalogued retroviruses active within the human genome, R-892 is incurable and highly unpredictable. Researchers have classified R-892 as a 'chimeric activator,' as it often interacts with other latent retroviruses in the genome, amplifying its effects or creating entirely new pathogenic behaviors.
• Milsec Protocols: Well-informed and practiced at the rules and channels used for milsec escalations.
• Trusts: Has established a lasting trust with <member of squad with milsec background>. Back in your early years with milsec, <squad member> was a friend who made the grinder bearable - a good laugh and a steady hand when the pressure hit hard.
• Suspicious: Is suspicious of <random street splicer Contact>. <Contact> did save your life but you still can't bring yourself to trust the Street Splicer.

Recruitment Dialog allows the player to choose an additional relationship with a Contact from the following:

• Wronged: Has done wrong to <random Gang Boss Contact> that will not be forgotten or forgiven. An expensive and risky raid against <Contact>'s drug lab earned you a custom Chem-Hive.
• Wronged: Has done wrong to <random Dockmaster Contact> that will not be forgotten or forgiven. A risky and rough intimdating run against <Contact> earned you a custom Chem-Hive.
• Obligations: <Scourge> owes 2 Obligations to the street splicer who implanted the Chem-Hive.

Starting Cybernetic

The Scourge will start with the following Cybernetic:

• XTAAN Chem-Hive [unique implant]: grants Scourge class, +3 Strength, +50 HP and -15 Wound Res