Campaign Overview

Premise

The year is 2019. Around March 11, a meteor fragment struck a remote region. Initially dismissed as routine, the impact site revealed environmental anomalies — power disruptions, unexplained heat signatures — and within days, individuals who came into contact with fragments began displaying superhuman abilities: rapid healing, increased strength, heightened sensory perception.

The world’s governments are scrambling to respond. Voss Dynamics, led by CEO Adrian Voss, has secured a major federal contract to investigate the meteor. Known for advanced energy systems and experimental technologies, Voss Dynamics is now developing technology and tactics to allow conventional forces to compete with fragment-empowered individuals. NASA failed to detect the object before impact, citing its “small size and unusual trajectory.”

NATO nations have assigned their most elite special operations personnel — Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, SAS, KSK, and other tier-one operators — to Voss Dynamics for this purpose.

You do NOT have a fragment. You are the sharp end of the spear — highly trained, well-equipped, but fundamentally human.

Campaign Parameters

• Point Total: 200 points
• Character Type: Elite military special operators (Ranger/SEAL tier)
• Tech Level: TL9 with experimental TL9+ equipment from Voss Dynamics
• Tone: Military thriller with escalating supernatural/superhuman elements

Key Themes

• Human ingenuity vs. superhuman power
• Military chain of command vs. corporate interests
• The ethics of weaponizing meteor technology
• Asymmetric warfare against empowered individuals

Key Organizations

• Voss Dynamics — The PCs’ employer. Corporation with federal meteor research contract; developing counter-fragment tech (CEO: Adrian Voss).
• NATO — Overarching governmental authority assigning operators to Voss Dynamics.
• NASA — Failed to detect the meteor; under political pressure.

Key Individuals

• Ronnie Vint — PC. British SAS, Mobility Troop, CQB specialist (201 pts). Played by Ant.
• Guy LeFleur — PC. Canadian JTF 2, demolitions/combat engineer (200 pts). Played by Timmah.
• Jens Hartmann — PC. German KSK, Kampfschwimmer/combat engineer (201 pts). Played by Sean.
• Sammy Castaneda — PC. US Navy SEAL, dual-wielding pistoleer (200 pts). Played by Jay S.
• Adrian Voss — CEO of Voss Dynamics. Effectively the PCs’ ultimate employer.
• Major Jenkins — First Voss Combat Suit operative. Former Army Ranger.
• Yi Jiangku — Head of Voss R&D. Deeply unsettling researcher who knows too much about the operators.
• Major William Cage — Military attaché for Voss Dynamics.
• Dr. Elaine Porter — Biophysics researcher studying the meteor’s effects.
• Jordan Hale — Market analyst who hinted Voss has prior history with exotic materials.
• Dave Crockett — Cpl, Royal Logistic Corps; Ronnie’s military underworld Contact.

Chapters

• [Chapter 1 - The Hungry God](…/chapters/Chapter 1 - The Hungry God/chapter-1-overview.html) — Sessions 01–09 (complete): what begins as the capture of a single self-detonating “living bomb” in Afghanistan becomes the story of a cosmic world-eater, The Hungry God, that harvests powered planets. The Voss Combat Suit program and the Terra portal; Vegas R&R; the Second Meteor Event fragment recovery (Greenland to Russia, the Fragment Bear) and the North Atlantic deep-sea retrieval; the Terran Insectoid swarm at Medieval Times; the Los Angeles Zombie Outbreak and the Regenerator’s plague; the destruction of the Vegas hive; and the finale at the RD3 facility, where the team unwinds time (The Timeline Rewind) to destroy the entity at its origin on Terra (The Sacrifice on Terra) before it can ever reach Earth. Canon ruling: past preserved, future changed.

Key References

• GURPS Basic Set (Characters + Campaigns)
• GURPS Action 1: Heroes (military/action templates)
• GURPS Action 2: Exploits (action mechanics)
• GURPS High-Tech (modern weapons and gear)
• GURPS Tactical Shooting (firearms detail)
• GURPS Powers / Supers (for understanding fragment abilities)
• GURPS Gun Fu (cinematic combat options, if permitted)

GM Handouts

• National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor — First batch of newspaper clippings establishing the setting

Known Fragment-Empowered Individuals

• The Exploding Man — Self-detonation, tough skin, gas resistance. Captured in Session 01; held by Voss. Likely source of the extracted Power Juice.
• The Dragon — Flight, invulnerability, super strength, fire-breathing. State Farm–sponsored public hero. Subdued Mayhem in LA; brought the Regenerator and Patient Zero to the team. Now moving freely at Voss Campus.
• The Regenerator — Extraordinary healing. Caused the zombie plague by trying to resurrect his dead wife Jane Garcetti (Patient Zero). Now at Voss Campus, seeking a fragment cure.
• Patient Zero — The reanimated Jane Garcetti; feral undead, source of the zombie plague. Contained at Voss Campus.
• Mayhem — Probability manipulation / cascading bad luck. Captured by The Dragon in LA.
• Brittany — Self-duplication (8+ clones). Voss operative on Jenkins’ team.
• Tan Jiang — Chinese scientist, suspected powered individual. Found captive in the Vegas hive; escaped without a trace. At large.

PC note: The PCs began with no fragments. As of Session 07, Sammy is the first operator to receive transferable Power Juice (size-alteration); Voss intends to spread power across the team to meet the incoming entity. Ronnie manifested an involuntary energy-drain ability (Session 04) and Jens can open portals via a personal fragment.