How much you wanna bet that an omnipotent AI or Great Dragon is responsible...just like EVERYTHING else it seems like...

I wouldn't rule out malicious space spirits or inhuman Martian lifeforms.

And they can't hold an electric candle to the CIA or the
Supreme
Headquarters
Alien
Defense
Force

and if you know what I am referencing there boys and girls, you'll know all of a sudden that could be what is going on. The only question is who holds the reins?

Where's the nearest film studio?

On who's pulling the strings, probably the Corporate Court IMO. They're the only group with enough clout and resources to finance an operation like that and also keep it under wraps.

that it?

Woah, that's pretty dang significant. I don't recall reading it anywhere, though. Could I get a reference to convince my players? Is it in Missions?

Some of us are really old. Hands up who has seen this on it's first run or at least was around and old enough?

Well, at least being tracked by those guys is better than facing the agents from the

United
Network
Command for
Law and
Enforcement


Birdy

Missions, p52. The planetfall was in July of 2011, and was successful. It was the return voyage that had disaster, with a major malfunction and crash landing occurring on Dec 24, 2011, the same date that Daniel Howling Coyote left Abilene and Ryumyo is sighted.

I missed the signifigance of this the last time round, but whoa! Has anyone noticed that there is a huge number of lgitches going on with RL Mars probes? OK Bad landings on planets. No problem there. robots landing on an unknown terrain could go wrong but there seems to be a huge number of provable/preventable glitches. Most infamously was the case of a probe that crashed because the rocket scientists failed to convert meters to yards. now a probe that we're told turns itself off.

Just to be touch paranoid, what if there are NO glitches? What if they have worked perfectly? Think about it.


To get back to the topic. We have been kicking around who might really know what's going on. To recap from a year ago, there was speculation that the dragon bones on Mars were a group from the last age of maic who fled the Enemy. suppose we had itbackwards. Suppose the dragons now on earth came from somewhere else and Mars was their stepping stone to earth. The secrets there might be the sources of Dragonic powers.

There would be an interest in human powers to find out what there are and the dragons in keeping it secret. If the IA's oppose the Dragons they might want the knowledge as a leverage.

I see 5 potential groups who migfht all be trying to get/block the knowledge. We can rule out policlubs and AA's, not enough resources but IA's, Dragons, AAA's, Corporate Court and Civil Governments. All could have a hand in this and this could lead to some fabulous runs with never leaving the surface of earth.

supply lines, probes up,affect bases, grab the info, intercept the info, corrupt info, protect the info, destroy the info,

You are a bad, bad man.

In Real Life, most of these glitches can be attributed to the fact that pretty much all of these vehicles are untested prototypes, since there is no way of testing them short of actually using them for their intended mission. No other kind of device has to deal with something like tha - even nuclear weapons were tested before they were used in war (and to the relief of the builders, the nuclear chain reaction did not ignite the atmosphere and end all life on Earth as some of them expected...).

But it's certainly that kind of thing that the Lone Gunman would obsess about.

Are you working on what I'm working on? Un-Veil-ing the mysteries of the (SR) universe?

Expect a research file (inspired by your style ) about space development, space settlements and space-related mysteries within two days. Tomorrow is Yom Kippur, and I'm not religious, so the only thing left for me to do is dig into old, dusty Shadowrun tomes in search of snippets of space lore.

Care to compare notes?

three options: classic
"Look! up there in the sky."
"It's a bird"
"It's a plane"

obscure: "Red Alert! I have positive identification of UFO"

or more likely in this setting

"Raise all yer hands over your head and move away from your punk ass broken vehical."

Nice.

Last time I checked, adepts can't get Immunity to Normal Weapons, flight, Innate Spell (Laser), or X-ray Vision.