The Booster Pack expansion boxes give us access to elite troops with which to expand options when creating lists and continue with Nomad's collection.
A must-have for your Nomad army!
MOBILE BRIGADA
Mobile Brigadas are the foremost regiment of the Corregidor heavy infantry. These are sturdy, versatile troops who shine both in defensive and offensive missions. Their everyday routine as members of the main assault force in the Nomad Military Force includes taking the brunt of whatever fight they are involved in. Which is just as well, as they might be the only ones with the staying power and tactical know-how to endure constant combat. In addition to the usual tasks given to heavy infantries, Brigadas serve a key purpose as an implied threat to any customers of Corregidor who might be tempted to abuse their newly hired labor. In the past, some of the most brazen breaches of contract against Corregidorian workers have been resolved with a ‘hostile takeover’ in the form of Mobile Brigada units forcefully occupying entire compounds. The infringing companies were forced to buy back their own facilities by settling their debt with Corregidor. Their position as defenders of workers’ rights makes them a treasured institution to Corregidorians, who know these armored heroes have their backs at all times. Naturally, Brigadas are also in the Corregidor product portfolio as mercenary troops. Their technical training, their unquestionable bravery, and the weight of their word make Brigadas some of the most sought-after soldiers in the mercenary market.
TASKMASTERS, BAKUNIN SWAST TEAM
Our home, the place we’re sworn to protect, is Bakunin. Now think for a second about what that must mean. You have VaudeVille, right? Packed with weirdos with exotic implants doing designer drugs, Pupniks who lost their owner—little rascals can be quite dangerous when agitated—, Chimeras high on heck-knows-what… Sounds like a darned pain to police, doesn’t it? Shoot, that’s the easy part. The real nightmare is this place right here, Praxis. This is where you have the Black Laboratories and the real weirdos. This place exists for cutting-edge experiments, for scientific anarchy. ‘Fringe technology means you’re delving into uncharted territory, and sometimes it goes wrong and stops working. Other times, it goes haywire and becomes an almighty problem. When that happens, the Moderator Corps is not going to cut it, so they send us in to find the weirdness and beat the devil out of it until it stops acting up. It’s never easy, but that’s why we’re the Special Weapons and Suppressive Tactics team, we’re elite. When you’re up against freaking mad science, you have to make your own rules and improvise. And if every once in a while that means taking a bunch of Morlocks and throwing them into the fray to buy us a few minutes and some room to maneuver, so be it. It’s not going to keep me up at night, and if you folks object to that, well that’s your problem. As I said, we make the rules here. Tell us what’s the issue and we’ll take care of it, but don’t tell us how to do it, ‘cause that’s our job. And believe me; we’re darned good at it.
Sergeant 1st Class Brad Corrigan, SWAST-4. Rogue ontodroids-related incident in the Celestial Choir of the Cosmic Power module. Praxis. Bakunin.
PERSEUS, ROGUE MYRMIDON
Comments by Thamyris the Aoidos for the Information Service of the SSS: “Perseus, the traitor. Actually, he was never one of us. He was never a warrior from the Iliad, but an individualistic hero brought forward from other myths, an experiment of ALEPH’s whose courage and skill were corrupted by selfishness and fear of death. He should have killed himself instead of letting them take him, prisoner. May now shame and the blade of our swords fall upon him rather than allow him to endanger the whole Sphere with the corruption he could be carried in secret.”
Perseus was a member of the third generation or Myrmidons, which was created to be sent to the front in the Paradiso conflict. During his psychogenesis, he already displayed a courageous but strongly individualistic behavior, which set him apart from his brothers in arms. However, his main differentiating feature was that he always tried to come up with new tactics to deal with the combat situations presented to him in his virtual training. Perseus dismissed the existing tried-and-tested solutions his instructors tried to hammer into him, and he looked for other alternatives that were not in their handbooks. He was a genius of tactics, as unpredictable as he was to kill.
Once in Paradiso, it was precisely this Myrmidon’s lateral thinking capability for tactics that saved the day for his unit on several occasions. His ability to find a solution in the field that other officers had not thought of would earn him some prestige in the Steel Phalanx. He even began to be considered a candidate to be part of Achilles’s Homeridae.
However, during an operation at the Norstralia front, his unit was surrounded and outnumbered, and summarily annihilated by Morat shock troops. Perseus was wounded, captured, and taken to a prison camp of the Supremacy. Once he regained consciousness, Myrmidon should have executed Directive 7: activating his L-gland to disable his Cube and end his life in order to avoid the danger of potential Sepsitorization or his Cube being corrupted.
But suicide was far from Perseus’s mind because he always looked for alternative solutions and new opportunities. Self-diagnostics showed that his Cube did not show signs of corruption, and there was much to learn in the prison camp. Perseus understood his confinement as a unique opportunity to conduct an espionage exercise. After a dangerous data theft in the camp director’s office and a spectacular escape, Perseus managed to reach the lines of the ALEPH forces, only to be greeted with friendly fire as he had been deemed a traitor.
Perseus barely escaped from his former brothers-in-arms and headed towards Nomad lines, where they were happy to do something that would cross the AI. There, he was subjected to a thorough battery of tests, then sent to Praxis, and after a period of time, Tunguska; so, he could get a complete diagnosis and be disconnected from ALEPH—as they were very much looking forward to taking the opportunity to practice some reverse engineering with the technology used by the AI.
Once the experts of the Observance, the Interventors, the Oubliettes, and scientists from several Black Labs in Praxis determined that Perseus did not pose any danger, he was offered a position as a free operative in the Tunguska Jurisdictional Command. This way, the liberation of the former Myrmidon, more than just a challenge to ALEPH, became an outright slap in the face.
However, ALEPH still believes that the danger of corruption continues to be present, as the EI can be very insidious, so it has not withdrawn in its search and execute order against Perseus just yet. This is an order that cannot be activated as long as the former Myrmidon is still operating under Nomad command, but the AI only has to wait for the right time, and if there is something this renegade knows well, it is that ALEPH is very patient.
Nonetheless, this is not something that would daunt Perseus. He considers that being a Myrmidon, he was created to protect humanity and his duty is never to give up in this endeavor. But there is a shadow that haunts him. What if, despite the Nomad check-up, ALEPH is right and his Cube has been compromised? What if he is a time bomb armed by the EI without him being aware of it? Perseus cannot prevent this beyond a shadow of a doubt. All he can do is live a life that compensates for any possible future betrayal. Hence, when he is not operating on Tunguska’s orders, this warrior travels the Sphere ready to fight injustice anywhere, even in the darkest corners that have been forgotten by the O-12. Capable of finding a way out of any situation, Perseus will do whatever needs to be done to change things, and as the good Myrmidon, he is, his solution will most probably be violent. A hero to many, a traitor to some, he is a wanted man for either of those reasons. You can call him an outlaw, a rebel, or even Robin Hood if you want, he does not care about labels. The only thing pushing him forward is his desire to protect people and make the Sphere into the place humanity deserves to live in, regardless of whatever happens to his Cube.
