[15mm] Ockman's Sci-fi, update 250121: Children of Thunder

[Ockman]

I have been a little slow to get around to things, that is a great write up!

Thanks for the kind words, I hope you spotted my reference to you in the community part 

[zrunelord]

Hello again Ockman.
Great work as usual.
To add to your words.
I think space where to store & play is the telling factor.
6mm would be even better but too small.
Z

[Ockman]

Children of Thunder by Oscar Falk, on Flickr

Sometimes the worst things happen. The colony fails. The experimental reactor explodes spectacularly. The world gets invaded by hostile forces. The tech archeaologists release unspeakable horrors from forgotten vaults. But humans exhibit an extreme survival instinct, and as long as a smaller group survives even a 'lost world' can harbour human life perpetually.

Sometimes the survivors can reclaim most of what was lost, other times the world regresses to a lower level of technology which can be sustained on its own. Sometimes, there is nothing to reclaim, the former colony is wiped out, or the hostile invaders drive the survivors into the wild. That's when humans usually return to their origins. In ancient times, humans were hunters and gatherers. In the ruins, they tend to turn into raiders or scavengers, either fighting and stealing to survive, or sifting through wreckage and ruins for usable things.

Bands of scavengers and raiders have been sighted in the Badlands of Golgotha Prime. While some kind of cataclysmic event wiped out everyone from the first colonization millennia ago, rumours speak of the loss of an enormous colony ship during the first modern colonization attempt of Golgotha Prime. Supposedly the remains of that ship can be found in the Badlands, but its exact position is only known by a group of raiders calling themselves "Children of Thunder". As a rite of passage, anyone joining the Children of Thunder must travel to the wreckage of the colonization ship, traverse the labyrinthine corridors and reach the reactor, where they shall submerge their heads in coolant. The stories say that they gain mystic powers after this, but the only thing that has ever been confirmed is that they all gain electric blue hair...

Children of Thunder by Oscar Falk, on Flickr

Children of Thunder by Oscar Falk, on Flickr

[LouieN]

He is back!  Awesome

[tomrommel1]

very nice indeed

[306prairiegirl]

Looks terrific!

[Ockman]

He is back!  Awesome

2024 was a year without much painting, but I managed to play through my first full Five Parsecs campaign.

very nice indeed

Looks terrific!

Thanks, friends!

[Ragsta]

Lovely work sir! Is there somewhere I can read your campaign?