Science Division archive

The Codex

The short version, friends: where we came from, who's out here with us, and what's been trying to eat our Scouts. The rest you'll have to find out on the surface.

History

How humanity got out here.

The Atomic Age

We split the atom, friends, and then we put it in everything. Then we learned to thrive on the glow.

The Launch

Earth became a wasteland of mutant creatures, and thousands of atomic rockets left in every direction.

Chapters

Every mothership has its own colors.

Chapters

Every mothership is a Chapter. They're decentralized, and nowadays each one operates entirely on its own.

Guardians of Radiance

Classical heroes, the kind they put on the recruiting posters.

Breakers of Oblivion

Mysterious and quiet. They keep to themselves, and they keep their reasons too.

Wings of the Maelstrom

Outlaws, and the finest pilots you'll never see coming.

Worlds

All of them full of monsters, so far.

Xelnex

A jungle world, grown clean over whatever used to be there.

Vorrun

Ash badlands over open lava.

Ozzima

Basalt tide pools under mirrored spires.

Kethra

A frozen world of ice shelves, crystal and steaming geysers.

Panok

An eaten-down husk under a blanket of fog. Nothing lands.

Creatures

None of them pleased to see us.

Bio Mutates

The common beasts of a world. Every planet grows its own.

Bio Anomalies

One-of-a-kind beasts, too big and too strange to file with the rest.

Bio Adaptives

Intelligent creatures that mutate to augment themselves with our own atomic tech.

Atomic tech

Applied science, with consequences.

The Split

A surge of atomic energy that either strengthens the Scout or vents radiation into the world.

Contamination

How far a world has been pushed by Fallout, on a scale that stops at 10.

SPELLs

Split Particle Energy Load Localizers: applied atomic science on a cartridge.

The mothership

A city-sized atomic rocket in orbit above the mission planet: home base, armory, laboratory.

Scout culture

The classes and the emblem.

The emblem

A planet with two rings, worn by every Chapter. Never a generic atom.

Classes

Six classes, the same in every Chapter: Captain, Scientist, Engineer, Field Medic, Ranger and Tracker.