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by [[Ashley Raburn]]

''Editor’s note: This adventure assumes the characters begin on a starship. If they’re starting-level characters, this could mean they work as crew on some ship owned by a mega-corp of your choosing. If they’re advanced characters, they may be pilots, engineers, or gunners working for a starship owner. They might even have their own ship.''

The crew are on their return trip home from a long
stint on the job and are asked to check out a
distress call that has recently been picked up. The
call is a faint “help me” and has been traced to an
archeology mission that lost contact several days
before. As the crew finds the ship and boards, they
are greeted with a strong stench and a dim red
emergency light. As they begin to explore the ship
they find body parts of the crew. Further exploration
will find service robots that appear to have been
killing the crew off.

In a small closet there is a crew member who has
hidden himself away and is now suffering from a
fear of robots. In the bridge the image is more
grizzly than even the rest of the ship: there is a
body of a young female (the captain of the ship)
with her head opened up. On the control panel of
the ship near the body there is a sealed container
with a brain. The container is wired into the control
console.

Why are the robots killing the crew? Who is
controlling the robots? What were the archeologists
looking for?

The Archeologists were investigating an early
robotics factory that had long been lost due to war
and destruction on the particular planet 200 years
earlier (in 94PF, during the “Age of Adventure” when
many corporations raced to explore the stars – often
in direct conflict with one another!). It had taken
200 years for the atmosphere to once again become
hospitable. The society of the planet had long been
the subject of debate as the center of a cult. A cult
of robotics so to speak, people who worshiped
robots. Alistair Crom had long been said to have
been a high lord in the cult. Alistair lived a long
lonely existence; with the help of robotics he was
now no more than a robot with a hand full of organic
parts – a Cyborg of the highest form. As the
Archeologists began to make noise he woke. He
programmed the ship robots to kill the crew and
make sure their findings never reached civilization.
He also ordered them to bring the brain of the
captain of the expedition.

What did the Archeologists find?

The cult had not only been a cult of robots, but were
also practicing self perseverance with the assistance
of robotics. They were practicing a complete rebuild
of humanity into cyborgs to survive what they called
“the downfall of humanity.” Their research had been
based on an ancient civilization known only as the
Cys who had long been thought extinct. The
archeologists found the ordinance to their resting
place.

Crom’s Return - Revision history

Terl obar at 20:06, 10 March 2010

Terl obar: Created page with 'by Ashley Raburn ''Editor’s note: This adventure assumes the characters begin on a starship. If they’re starting-level characters, this could mean they work as crew on s…'