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

The Glassenheim Foundation is a relict of the Petroleum Era, a technological hold out and a holder of terrible secrets.

Starting at the end, part of a seven section submission series.

The team is the functional core of a story, and as such, team building is vital to the flow of the story.

Aerospace Capitol Ships of the Atlantic Federation

The dark side of the ubiquitous skeletron, corrupted from within by it's own basic technology.

In the years before the advent of arcanotechnology and dimensional fatigue events, teratology was the study of abnormalities and biological deformations. In the wake of the second renaissance, it became the study of exomorphs, extradimensional entities, and most prominently, teratomorphs, more commonly and vulgarly known as kaiju.

The 228th Mountain Lion battalion faced a situation not entirely unlike General Custer some 500 years before. Like Custer's men, the 228th was almost completely destroyed, despite their laser cannons and drop ships.