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mercy of the icons – part 2
the last cyclade
lead designer
Rickard Antroia
project manager and editor
Mattias Johnsson Haake
concept development
Rickard Antroia, Mattias Johnsson Haake, Nils Karlén, Kosta Kostulas
cover art
Martin Grip
illustrations
Martin Grip, Gustaf Ekelund
graphic design
Thomas Deeny, Christian Granath
translation
Tim Persson
maps
Rickard Antroia, Lars Strömqvist
proofreading
Brandon Bowling, Kosta Kostulas
customer support
Daniel Letho
tryck
UAB Balto Print
Kaunas, Litauen 2020
isbn
978-91-89143-13-5
Copyright© 2020 Fria Ligan AB.
CORIOLIS is a registered trademark of Fria Ligan AB. All rights reserved.
THE LAST CYCLADE
1
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
OVERVIEW
GM TIPS
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4
10
12
2
THE UHARAN ECHO
INTRODUCTION
ACT 1 – DEBRIS
STARTING SCENE: BEYOND THE MARTYR’S VEIL
FINDING ZAFIRAH
END OF ACT 1
STARTING SCENE: THE SIGNATURE
THE BUTTERFLY
A CALL FOR HELP
END OF ACT 2
STARTING SCENE: THE HOSPITAL
A DANCE IN THE SKY CITY
END OF ACT 3
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16
24
24
27
33
34
46
57
59
63
70
78
ACT 2 – PHANTOMS
34
ACT 3 – A NEW DAWN
60
3
THE CYCLADE DANCE
INTRODUCTION
MISSION GENERATOR
MINI ADVENTURES
PATRONS
MISSIONS AND EVENTS
THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE
THE TEMPLE CITY OF LOTUS
FORKED TONGUES
THE CITY OF FOREIGNERS
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82
84
109
84
92
109
115
121
130
2
INTRODUCTION
CURSE OF RUSAH
MASAHIR STATION
THE FIRE OF THE ICONS
THE VALLEY OF DEATH
ENDING
137
148
155
166
171
4
IN THE SHADOW OF THE ZENITH
INTRODUCTION
ACT 1 – THE RETURN
STARTING SCENE: A KUAN WELCOME
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
ENDING ACT 1
A FAMILIAR FACE
BREAKING NEWS
ENDING ACT 2
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174
184
184
188
203
205
211
217
219
222
225
234
ACT 2 – THE DEFECTOR
204
ACT 3 – NEW HORIZON
WITHOUT A SHIP
CORIOLIS: THE SAVIORS
KUA: AT THE BASE OF THE MONOLITH
ENDING ACT 3
218
5
EPILOGUE
AFTERMATH
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238
3
THE LAST CYCLADE
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to
The Last Cyclade,
the second installment of the
Mercy of the Icons
campaign. Over the course of the featured
scenarios, the simmering factionary conflicts in the Third
Horizon will intensify as the Nazareem’s Sacrifice re-emerge
from the shadows. Their secret meddling in the politics of the
Third Horizon now threatens to change the cluster for good.
the last cyclade
consists of three parts —
an introductory mission, a series of scenario
locations and short adventures, and a grand
finale that will shake the Third Horizon to its
core. The events in this book take place over
the course of almost a full Coriolis cycle, or one
Kuan year. Unlike the events of
Emissary Lost
—
which unfolded exclusively in the Kua system
and only hinted at the darker days ahead —
The
Last Cyclade
will take the PCs on a journey far
across the Third Horizon and introduce them
to the rapidly escalating proxy war between the
First and Second Horizons.
The Background section below describes
the events and conflicts leading up to the first
adventure. Later in this chapter, you will find
a summary of the three adventures, and also
a section with tips and guidelines meant as a
support for you Game Masters, when planning
and running sessions at the gaming table.
BACKGROUND
The Last Cyclade
begins with the Legion tracking
a strange sensor echo to a moon in the Uharu
system. A volunteer crew is recruited to inves-
tigate it. To give you some necessary context
going forward, this section describes both the
events that set the stage for
The Last Cyclade
and a couple of the powerful players that will
take part in the coming war between the First
and Second Horizons.
The few survivors that managed to make it off
the
Ghazali
carried with them the liner’s emerald
disc, the “black box” containing information
about the ship’s final hours before its destruc-
tion. The dynamically encrypted data on the
disc — unobtainable even for the sharpest data
spider or djinn intelligence — ended up in the
hands of the Consortium’s Special Branch who
managed to extract a detailed sensor data log
of the
Zafirah’s
fate as it disappeared through
the portal.
y
THE EMERALD DISC
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE
GHAZALI
The First Horizon’s strike against the Colonial
Agency’s Tsurabi mining colony in the Taoan
system prompted the rescue mission whose
catastrophic failure is described in
The Last
Voyage of the Ghazali.
The old
Ghazali
liner
itself fell into the Hamura star, and countless
smaller vessels along with the Legion destroyer
Zaf irah
were wrecked by a massive energy
discharge from the portal between Hamura
and Taoan.
THE GHOST IN THE PORTAL
The
Zafirah
went through the portal to Taoan, but
encountered something on the other side. The
retrieved data log describes a couple of seconds
of something that looks like an attack
inside
the portal itself. Several ship sectors are hit by
unknown projectiles — some form of antimatter
torpedoes. A mysterious sensor shadow is also
found in the logs: a signature that appears out of
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