Operation Solstice Rain

About the adventure

Special: The GM and a couple of Players are new to the game. Therefore there is a slower learning curve. Game will also run for 5 sessions before we as a group decide if we want to continue with Lancer or try a different RPG. Cost of the game is for the time and energy preparing sessions, not for the knowledge of the system. Your mechs are prepped and loaded aboard the dropship, ready for deployment. Through your chassis’ camera feeds, strapped securely into the cockpit, you watch as the hatches slide closed around you and the hangar airlocks open for launch. From up here, Cressidium looks peaceful – a shimmering jewel hanging in space. “Ten seconds to drop.” You take a breath as the pilot counts down. Inhale. Exhale. Then your stomach lurches as the clamps disengage and the dropship’s thrusters kick into full burn. *** For 500 years, the planet Cressidium has been isolated from the wider galaxy. Turned from a fledgling colony into a refuge for those fleeing from the fall of the Second Committee, the people of Cressidium have struggled and fought to build a home for themselves while casting off the shadow of SecComm’s tyranny. Five centuries later, an encounter with a Union exploratory mission has ignited an interest in rejoining the galactic community, but not everyone on Cressidium sees the Third Committee as potential allies, but rather usurpers of humanity’s rightful legacy among the stars. Now, the arrival of a Union diplomatic delegation may be the spark that causes simmering tensions between nations to erupt into all-out war. *** Operation Solstice Rain is a structured mission module for Lancer, written and designed by Kai Tave, and designed to introduce new players and GMs to the game and familiarize them with its blend of tactical combat and narrative challenges. This module will take characters from License Level 0 to LL2 across two missions of pitched urban combat in the city of Nov Elysia. As a squad of rookie Union pilots, the PCs are tasked with undertaking a daring rescue operation when fighting breaks out during tense diplomatic negotiations between two of Cressidium’s largest nations, the Leandric States Alliance and the Vestan Sovereignty. Though this may be their first time in actual combat, they’ll need to use every bit of their training and push their mechs to the limit if they want to survive, but if they can make it through this then they’ll be well on their way to being able to call themselves lancers.