Jack of Harts Background

by on October 6, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Peloran I created for Jack of Harts are a warrior race who don’t want to fight. Their greatest wish is to live in happy harmony with nature, themselves, and other races. This is both a genetic and cultural imperative. The vast majority of Peloran who live in the middle of Peloran space never see anyone who is not Peloran and they like it that way. Those who live on the edges of Peloran space, on the worlds declared open to outsiders, have generally drifted a bit from that core principle. Their genetic coding is corrupted, and they want to live where they see other people. Trade with them. Talk with them. Maybe even get in a fight. These are an absolute minority of Peloran, but are the only Peloran most people see in or near Peloran space.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on October 5, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I wanted the Peloran to seek peace in all things as their primary genetically encoded mission. They only fight under orders or to defend their life, and since their creators are dead, that leaves defense. The rest of the galaxy is perfectly happy to leave them alone. The trick is that two millennia of genetic drift has caused a slight shift in their genetic imperatives. Some few members of their race are capable of going out in search of someone who wants to start a fight. They are the ones who walk into gang territory and wait for the gang to come deal with them. They did not start a fight. They were just standing on the corner minding their own business.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on October 4, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I designed the Peloran of my Jack of Harts universe to be the typical genetically engineered supersoldiers with an atypical twist. Their creators did not want the Peloran to turn on them and kill them like Berserkers, so they built genetic encoding into their brains that made them incapable of starting a fight without orders from their masters. Or in defense of their own lives. The last order their creators sent was to kill the race wiping them off the face of the galaxy, and the Peloran followed their orders to the letter. They killed the entire race. Every last one. They are the avenging angels of the Jack universe, great and terrible in times of war. But leave them alone, and they are the most peaceful neighbors anyone could ever want.

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Jack of Harts Background

by on October 3, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The Peloran of the Jack of Harts universe are modeled after the Aneerin of my childhood. Old and wise and strong. Immortal defenders. Genetically engineered supersoldiers as I fleshed them out. They actually can die, but old age or disease is never their killer. Their bodies can regrow anything they lose as long as they aren’t killed dead, and that usually takes stopping their heart and mind and otherwise absolutely devastating their core bodily functions. And with mind backups and cloning chambers, even if you do manage to kill them all the way, they always come back. I wanted a relentless force for good in the universe of Jack, and I designed the Peloran to fit that archetype.

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BattleTech Alpha Strike

by on October 2, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Another month, another game of BattleTech Alpha Strike this coming Friday, 5PM, at Gamez and More.

Rochester Minnesota, on the west end of River Center Plaza across from Silver Lake Shopping Center on North Broadway.

Come on over between 5pm and 7pm if you want to play a quick game or two of Alpha Strike.

I bring everything needed to play, so just bring yourself.

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