Terra-Corp combat pilots

Description:

«You approached a highly skilled Terracorp researcher who took you aside and explained that they were working on a secret project to improve the performance of pilots. They had recently moved to the stage of testing on live subjects, and in their search for interested candidates they had begun to contact an underground organisation called the Earth Fetish Organisation, which provided volunteers for the project, with their own oddities, but undoubtedly the best candidates for the process, brave, dedicated and a little crazy. The process is irreversible, the pilot was ‘integrated’ into a special capsule that completely encased him, the pilot’s nervous system was directly linked to all the ship’s systems to reduce time delays and improve the ship’s functionality. The resulting ‘organism’ could be moved from one ship to another, but these pilots could no longer walk, run, sleep or generally behave like normal living beings. They became part of the ship, and the ship became their home.

The researcher explained that the first tests had shown terrible results, but they were now ready to move on to phase #2… combat skills testing. He told you that if you wanted to see these new pilots in combat, you would have to order your M5 class ship to ‘Hire a new pilot’. As research programmes are poorly funded, the process of integrating a new pilot into your ship will cost you 100,000 credits, although this will increase the ship’s performance (speed, manoeuvrability, cargo bay size) to the maximum, meaning you can save some money on the initial model. The primary integration procedure will be #3, which will introduce ‘3-state’ quantum processors into the pilot. They work well in groups of 3, each supporting the others.»