Machina Areios Scratchpad

Genre
- Mecha
- Grounded War Mystery
- Character Driven
Setting
- Practical Sci-Fi Tech
- Planet-side
- Nuclear Fusion-level Technology
- Colonies on inner planets/gas giant moons
- Terrestrial Terraforming
- Ruined Mars terraforming project - mystery as to why it went wrong
- Ruined Earth - retaliation by Mars colonists
- Disunited Mars/Earth
- Mechs converted from civilian use somewhat recently
- Local research into military mech use
Themes
- Freedom
- Friendship/Unity (keeping things stable)
- Resisting Descent into Anarchy
Tone
- Scrappy
- Sombre
Player Faction - Freilict
- Dome City on Mars - Frelictdom
- Area of marginal homesteads hanging on after terraforming collapse, seeking protection from dome city
- Germanic Culture
- Democratic Republic
- Defense Force to patrol/protect homesteads
- Old terraforming drone hub, re-purposed into a general heavy industries/mech R&D
Player Squad - Freilicht Defense Corps, 1st Mech-Armored Company, 4th Jaeger Lance 'Red Teutons'
- Playbook - Recon
- Direct Superior - Hauptmann Hans Bonheoffer
  - Archtype: Andrew Waltfeld (gamer?)
- Reputation - Resourceful
- Upgrades
  - Training Prowess
  - Hidden FOB
  - Quarters
  - Geographic Intel
  - Storage
- Supply: 0
- Material: 1
- Personnel: 0
- Reputation: 3
Pilots
- Technician (Nick)
- Hacker (Wes)