The Ark Class ship formed part of the three-fold survival plan of the wealthy and powerful of the Petroleum Age. The other two legs of the plan were the arcologies, and space habitats.

The objective of Operation Flycatcher was to collect samples of aphasic lifeforms for study in a lab. The project was black listed as a failure, with a high rate of personnel loss, and cost overruns.

This was not the truth.

Airborne assault, drop pods, and vertical insertion are common tactics for power armor combat. The inherent flaw is that the forces can only bring the weaponry they carry with them, and are reliant on air or space craft for fire support. The Perimeter Pod is a mobile insertion static weapon (MISW).

Dwarven Assassin

The Anunnaki are a secret society in the Cosmic Era

Psychtronics is a field of arcanotechnology that deals with using machines to emulate the mentalist parapsychic realms such as as telepathy, mind control, memory manipulation, and emotional manipulation.

Equipment listing for the Cosmic Era Setting.

Continuous Work in Progress

The holovids are full of stories about mecha garrisons bravely battling dastardly pirate raiders. It's a pretty picture for the propaganda films, but its a long way from the truth of the pirate raids.

Extracted from the 30 Mecha Design Flaws submission. Edited and reconfigured as a setting neutral piece for use in military aspected settings and most if not all flaws can be used on any vehicle or large piece of hardware.

A cul-de-sac in arcanotechnology, the Singularity Plant is a power station that is more dangerous than it is valuable.

Governments and mega-corporations have found a way to cheat the the system, the Dream Tanks are their most valuable assets.

One of the most common and well recognized SimSense parlors of the Cosmic Era

The fearsome horror of the Drow-Beholder-Liche!

The Totem of Nehual is something of a Maltese Falcon. Many have spent long periods of their life searching for it, spending vast sums of money, and in the end never finding it, or only finding it long enough to lose it.

A city of immense wealth, stark poverty, violent crime, and cyclopean architecture

Breakdown of large civilian craft in the Cosmic Era

The Admiral of the Fleet, an exemplary commander, peerless in skill, ruthless in execution.

Also happens to be a 14 year old girl.

It's always the creepy little kids

A mad scientist, a cyborg, a visionary, a man of god

The legacies of a pre-human civilization in the Cosmic Era