ATTRIBUTES Base Race Mod Total Essence: 4.08 Magic: 6 (13) Body 1 - - 1 Reaction: 5 Rigged Reaction: 9 Quickness 3 +1 - 4 Initiative: 1d6 Rigged Initiative: 2d6 Strength 1 - - 1 Combat Pool: 8d6 Control Pool: 9d6 Intelligence 6 - - 6 Total Karma 160 Spell Pool: 6d6 Willpower 6 +1 - 7 Good Karma 2 Power Foci Pool: 7d6 Charisma 5 +2 - 7 Karma Pool 10d6 Totem: Bat Environement: Anywhere Description: Bat is well-traveled, rarely staying in one place. A seeker, she sets far-reaching goals and gets restless when not moving. She is adaptable and can make herself at home anywhere. Bat shamans get distracted and irritable if forced to stay in one place for more than a week. Advantages: +2 dice for detection & manipulation spells, +1 die for spirits of the skies. Disadvantages: +2 to all magical TNs when in direct sunlight. Initiate Grade: 3 Metamagic Ordeal Karma Grade 1 Masking Oath 9 Grade 2 Centering Familiar 10 Grade 3 Invoking Meditation 12 Geasa: Condition Geas - Lying Down Light Moderate Serious Deadly Damage Overflow +1 TN -1 init +2 TN -2 init +3 TN -3 init +4 TN -4 init

Active Skills (50) Sorcery Conjuring Enchanting Etiquette/Magical Pilot: Vectored Thrust /Helix* Electronics Electronics B/R Pilot: Anthroform Computer* Small Unit Tactics/Vehicles* Vectored Thrust B/R /Helix B/R* Gunnery Gunnery B/R* Anthroform B/R Centering Rating (30) 6(8) 6(7) 6 1/3 4/6 4 4 6 3 4/6 3/6 4 4 4 4 (3 Karma) (3 Karma) (8 Karma) (8 Karma) (6 Karma)

Knowledge Skills Aeronautic Eng. Physics Chemistry Metallurgy Electrical Eng. Spell Design /Manipiulation Spirits Vectored-Thrust Design/Helix Graphic Design Language Skills German Polynesian English Japanese Portugese Rating 6(7) 3(4) 3(4) 4(5) 4(5) 4/6(7) 6(7) 3/6(7) 6(7) 2(5) 2(5) 3(6) 1(4) 1(4) (6 karma)

Edges & Flaws Mild Allergy-Sunlight Night Blindness Paraplegic Short of Breath Infirm Double Jointed Shy Vindictive Magical Loner Agoraphobia College Education Connected (Buyer) Rating Racial Racial -3 -2 -5 +1 -1 -2 -2 -4 +1 +3 +1 TN +2 TN in Full Darkness or Minimal Light conditions Paralyzed waist down Exertion, Body(4) Test -4 Max Physical Attributes +2 Social TNs No Group Ritual Magic Common, Moderate, WILL(4) Valkyrie - Vehicle parts

Clothing & Armor (Owned)		     Conceal Ballistic Impact	Weight	Price (¥)
6 Backpack Carriers
Kevlar Bandages (6m)
Second Skin Form-Fit Body Armor		12	4	1	1.25	2,000
Lined Coat (Synthleather Duster)		13	4	2	2.0	1,500
Load Bearing Harness				6				65



Magical Gear
Item								Force	Karma	Cost
Shamanic Lodge Materials					9		4,500
Red-Kohl Eyeliner Expendable Fetish
Nipple Rings			
Breastbone spiked bar piercings (Shape Change)
Helix Seal - Spell Sustaining Focus (Blast Barrier)		8	8	130,000
	- Used to be a shield
	- incorporated into the Rigger Tank hatch
4 Sustaining Focii - Marionette Dolls - Porcelain/Stone		2	(2)x4	Handmade Virgin Telesma

Ally Spirits
Inanna(Isis) Force: 4 Karma Cost: 20 SP Karma Pool: 1d6 15+2 Karma Forms: Materialized girl, Hair & Bandage wrapping, Emblem on Helix Appearance: Idealized creator's form with prehensile tail, slightly curved lynx-like ears and tiger striping Immunity Normal Weapons Attributes Rating Powers Body 4 Materialization, Sorcery, Sense Link Quickness 4 Telepathy, Movement, Aid Power Strength 4 8 Intelligence 6 Willpower 6 Skills Rating Charisma 6 Sorcery 6 Light Moderate Serious Deadly +1 TN -1 init +2 TN -2 init +3 TN -3 init +4 TN -4 init Spells Type Target Drain Force Armor P 6 Detect Enemies P +1M 3 Telekinetic Blade 6 +2(S) 3 Smoke Cloud P +1S 3 +4 Perception, AOE=Force		Ereshkigal(Nephthys) Force: 2 Karma Cost: 17 Karma Pool: 1d6 Forms: Stone Homonculii Focus Force 4 Appearance: Doll-like puppet with prehensile tail and 4 retracting tentacles Attributes Rating Powers Body 4 Sorcery, Telepathy, Aid Power Quickness 4 Armor: 6 Strength 4 Intelligence 6 Skills Rating Willpower 6 Sorcery 6 Charisma 6 Athroform B/R 6 Light Moderate Serious Deadly +1 TN -1 init +2 TN -2 init +3 TN -3 init +4 TN -4 init Spells Type Target Drain Force Animate Puppet P OR +1(M) 4 Fix M 6 Mass Tractor P 4 +1(M) 6
Drones
Serqet Echo Anthroform Drone Cost: 47,000 Appearance: Scorpion Woman Prime Directive: Acquire Information - Serquet is the spy, tasked with intelligence gathering. Whether it is jacked into the Helix operating its sensors and EW systems, or out in the field shadowing a target or clambering up a building for recon. Serquet was designed as the natural spotter complement to Neith. Handling Body Armor Strength Speed 3 2 0 6 24 Quickness/Accel 4 Init 6+4d6 Pilot Sensors Sig Adaptation Pool: 6d6 3 1 5 IVIS Pool: * Light Moderate Serious Deadly +1 TN -1 init +2 TN -2 init +3 TN -3 init +4 TN -4 init		Neith (Artemis) Echo Anthroform Drone Cost: 328,300 Appearance: Scorpion Woman Prime Directive: Enemy Neutralization - Neith is the sniper and gunslinger - tasked with taking out designated enemy targets. Once selected as a valid target, Neith uses all of her programming to the efficient elimination of said targets, whether it be plugged into the Gunnery systems of the Helix or on the ground with whatever firearm is handy. Handling Body Armor Strength Speed 3 2 0 6 24 Quickness/Accel 4 Init 6+4d6 Pilot Sensors Sig Adaptation Pool: 6d6 3 1 5 IVIS Pool: * Light Moderate Serious Deadly +1 TN -1 init +2 TN -2 init +3 TN -3 init +4 TN -4 init
Component Cost Robotic Pilot 3 135,000 nY Improved Neural Network Level 3 67,500 nY Robotic Reflexes 3 30,000 nY BattleTac IVIS Receiver Module 25,000 nY RCEM Rating 6 30,000 nY Autosoft System 3 ports, Rating 6 3,000 nY EW Autosoft Rating 3 9,000 nY Clearsight Autosoft Rating 3 13,500 nY Cyberware ECU Cost 4 Replacement Mounts 12 5,500 3 Fixed Mounts 9 3,750 Smart Material Wings 10,000 Ruthenium Coating 2 sq meters 10,000 8 Imaging Cameras +8 Perception TN 10,000 Prehensile Tail - 2 Dermal Sheath - 2		Component Cost Robotic Pilot 3 135,000 nY Improved Neural Network Level 3 67,500 nY Robotic Reflexes 3 30,000 nY BattleTac IVIS Receiver Module 25,000 nY RCEM Rating 6 30,000 nY Autosoft System 3 ports, Rating 6 3,000 nY Sharpshooter Autosoft Rating 3 18,000 nY Clearsight Autosoft Rating 3 13,500 nY Cyberware ECU Cost Magnetic Cyberlimb System(4) 3x4 5,600 Weapons & Gear Damage Cost Norinco Gong 9S 900nY

A T T    E c h o - C l a s s    A n t h r o f o r m    D r o n e

The Echo drones were released early in the early 2050s as limited social-interaction drones - essentially pleasure drones. Built around a female form, the body was highly modifiable and many aftermarket kits were offered - making them very popular with a certain, moderately wealthy segment of society. Model Hand Speed Accel Sig ECU Cargo Load Cost Echo Anthroform 3 10 - 6 10* 1 10 51,850 n´ Body Armor(B/I) Quickness Strength Pilot Sensor Avail Index 2 3(8)/3(8) 6 6 1 1 8/2 wks 2 The Echo drone is a 'stripped' cybernetic body, and can accept any customization or option available as a cyberlimb or cybertorso option. Limbs and torso have approximately the same ECU volume for modification as the equivalent obvious cybernetic kind. Module/Components Description Load Cost Impact Body Plating 4 2 ECU/limb arms & legs 16,000 Ballistic Body Plating 4 2 ECU/limb arms & legs 10,000 Armored Vest w/ Plates B/I: 4/3 2 kgs 600 Helmet B/I: +1/+2 1 kg 250

Mark VI Helix LAV - Sekhmet

The Helix is a custom T-bird designed & built by Seraphix and constructed using both mundane and magical techniques. The main airframe of the Helix is a twin-boom arrangement - each boom houses an engine, smart-material variable inlets, front & rear retracting landing gear, batteries, jet-fuel tanks, blended wing glove for the retracting variable geometry wings, and canted tail control surfaces. The two booms are connected together by a superstructure that contains a large pass-through drone-rack in the rear, electronics bays for the sensors, avionics, retrans unit and power amplifiers, and mounted smart-material panels that can alter the lifting-body characteristics of the airframe. The booms and central superstructure were magically constructed as a single-piece of honeycombed titanium rendering great strength for a quarter the weight of a comparable steel frame. Tolerances have been magically adjusted everywhere, and most fittings and airfoil/control surfaces are piezoelectric smart material, giving the craft an almost organic flex outside of the titanium skeleton.

The Helix has several movement modes - in it's primary mode, it is a vectored thrust T-bird propelled by two massive Olympus Rolls-Royce vectored jet turbines wrapped around a lifting body shape. Two wings retract flush against the sides of the body, but can be extended for airfoil flight as swept wings - giving the Helix the capabilities of a vectored thrust fighter jet. The landing gear for the Helix is outsized, and consists of a pair of linked motorcycle Y-armed wheels in front and a pair of hub-driven electric wheels in back that descend and rotate down into a wide, combined single wheel in back for stealthy ground maneuvering.

The hull and engines of the Helix are all envirosealed against water, so the Helix can also land on water. The main cargo area is sealed from the rest of the Helix's systems and has custom ballast tanks consisting of compressed air tanks and valves to the outside of the hull both connected to large flexible myomer-encased cellular bladders normally stowed inside panels, allowing the Helix to ballast itself with water, control its trim and submerge to a depth of 160 meters. When on water or submerged, the Helix seals off its air-breathing turbines and runs on the electric motors housed in the rear wheels - which disengage from the outer wheel rims and spin ducted props on the articulated wheel arms, allowing it to travel at half speed beneath the surface of the water.

The Helix has no cockpit, but incorporates a pass-through drone rack in the aft body structure between the tail booms that houses a spherical vectored thrust drone. The cargo area of this drone has been converted to house an armored rigger tank. Seraphix is so slight, the tank easily holds her and Erishkigal (Nephthys) allowing them to crew the Helix as pilot & co-pilot.

The cargo area of the Helix is forward between the two vectored thrust engines and has a front-opening ramp, as well as a bottom bay door that double as internal missile racks. A winch over the bottom bay doors enables the loading of cargo while the Helix hovers - though the hot jetwash can cause damage. The cargo area has folding bench seats on either side - with room for 10+ passengers. Each bench has jackpoints so that the passengers may observe through the Helix's sensors. The ceiling has racks for 12 Echo Drones or the magically animated marionettes that Seraphix commands. These racks secure the folded-up drones and dolls compactly. The rear two racks are for Serquet and Neith - whom can jack in to assist in controlling the Helix's sensors, weapons and electronics.

The outside skin of the Helix has ornate polynesian carving (similar to tribal tattoos) that from a distance marks the Helix in some kind of pointed predatory striping - breaking up it's profile. This carving forms a depression that Inanna lays herself into in her latest form, completely encircling the Helix. The hatch of the small mated drone holds an enchanted shield with a rampant lion. This magical shield can project a Force 8 blast barrier spell in a 10-meter diameter dome above the Helix. The drone rack can rotate the drone such that this hemispherical barrier can be positioned to face any direction.

MODEL HELIX Multi-mode Vectored-Thrust Transport Cost 250,000 nY Body Armor Cargo Hand Speed Accel Sig Fuel Econ Load 6 12(26) 168 Vectored-Thrust 2/3 400/1000 32/78 3/4 2500 L 0.4/0.8 km/l 16,000 Pilot Sensor Flux Electric-Ground 4/4 100 4 5 250 PF 0.8 km/PF 20,000 1 6 11 Electric-Water 4 30 2 5 250 PF 0.4 km/PF - * 32 km Sensor / EW Range Module/Components Description Load Cost Twin-Boom Chassis Frame 120 CF, Titanium honeycomb construction 750 kgs Lifting Body Airframe +25% lift, Applied to all modules - Drive-By-Wire 3 Handling-3, 30% Accel/Speed/Load, costx1.25x3 Structural Agility 3 +3 Reaction, quad-redundant computers 90,000 Smart Materials Handling -1, -15% weight, max spd, accel, load +15% 90,000 Batteries (250 PF) 5 CF 50 kgs 800 Jet Fuel Tanks (2,500 L) 50CF 2,021 kgs 25,000 Sensors 6 2 CF, Increase Sensors 3-6 50 kgs 20,000 Rigger Adaptation 1 CF 2,800 Remote Control Interface 15,000 Rating 6 CMC Ignore 6 boxes damage modifiers 30,000 x2 Launch Control Systems 2CF 20 kgs 2,000 x2 External Missile Mount Brackets Power Amplifiers Rating 8 2 CF, +8 Flux 8 kgs 2,000 Engine Frame Mount (x2 P/S) Rolls Royce Olympus Turbine 8,000 kgs Thrust (x2), Sig: 2 1,320 kgs 320,000 Variable Bypass Turbine x1 to x1.15 Thrust/x0.75 Speed, +1/+2 Sig 320 kgs 120,000 Thrust Vectoring Nozzles x1 Vertical Lift Enviroseal-Engine 0 kg 6,000 Cargo Module (2x5x7 meters) 70 cu-m, 560 CF, Airfoil cross-section. Lifting Body Airframe *x1.25 Lift, -187 CF Jet Fuel Tanks (2,500 L) 50CF 2,021 kgs 25,000 Front-Opening Ramp 8 CF Bottom Bay Doors 2CF, 4 internal missile mounts (12 CF) 10 kg 5,000 Saab-Saaker AAM 3CFx2 (6CF) 180 kg 50,000 x2 Internal Hardpoints 8 CF 20 kgs 3,000 nY Enviroseal-Water, Overpressure 1 CF 10 kgs 34,500 Ballast Tanks 72 CF 900 kgs 36,000 Cargo Winch 20,000 kgs capacity, 1 CF 13 kgs 10,000 4 Folding Bench Seats 24 CF(8 CF when folded), 2 on either side 200 kgs 10,000 8 RCD Hitcher Jacks 5 kgs 2,000 12 Drone/Doll Storage Racks 24 CF, 2 rows on Ceiling 24 kgs 1,200 Drone Rack 8 CF+2 CF 45 kgs Body x 12 Cyberspace Designs Wolfhound 750 kgs Electronics Bay 1,000 Tactical Communications Gear Master Unit Rating 6, 2.0 CF 2.5 kgs 30,000 Trideo Display 0.6 CF 80cm screen 1 kgs 200 Portable Satellite Dish 2 CF 5 kgs 25,000 Remote Control Deck Rating 8, 0.25 CF 3 kgs 40,000 Drone Rack MCT/CAT V-Ball Drone 27=CF+2 CF 45 kgs Body x 12 MCT-CAT V-Ball Adds +750 Lift when flying 750 kgs Retractable Rear Wheel Mount (x2) (6 CF) x 2 75 kgs Active Suspension Averages Handling/Off-Road Handling 20 kgs B x Load Hub-Mount Electric Motor (x2) 2 CF (included) 140 kgs 71,400 Amphibious Modificaton Level 2 Speed 30 in Water 20 kgs 7,500 Retractable Front Wheel Mount (x2) (3 CF)x2 50 kgs Retractable Variable Geometry Wings 12 CF, x3 Lift, +10% speed over 1/2 speed Armor 12 2160 kgs Total: 10,665.5 kgs 2x External Mount Missile Pack Total Weight: 255 kgs Cost: 30,500 nY (+1 Handling, Signature -1) Weight CF Cost 20 AVMs (Int 4, 16D, -8/m Blast, 3.25 kgs each) 65 kgs 40 CF 100,000 nY 19 Launch Control Systems (10 kgs, 1CF each) 190 kgs 19 CF 14,250 nY

M C T   -   C A T    V - B a l l    D r o n e " W a d j e t " This large slightly oblong spherical cargo drone is normally used for courier services, with a large central cargo area flanked by two jet turbines mounted inside rotating segments on both sides for vectored thrust. Both microturbines can be rotated 360 degrees, and the central section stays vertical by means of gyroscopes fore and aft. Steering is accomplished by rotating the gyroscopes and turbines for tilt and yaw. Seraphix's V-Ball drone has had armor added to it, with a stylized sunburst engraved across its top, a hooded cobra at the front with its coils wrapped around the bottom. Model Hand Speed Accel Body Armor Cost Ares Redball Express 4 300 35 3 4(12) 80,500n´ Fuel Econ Sig Sensor Pilot Cargo Load Availability Index J(250 L) 0.4 km/l 4 3 2 16 435 4/4 days 1 Customizations Description Load Cost Armor 4 180 kgs 4000 Rigger Tank 6CF, +6 Dice for DR, 1/2 Crash Power 200 kgs 5,000 Life-Support Systems 10 man-hours, 1 CF 25 kgs 1,500 Rigger Adaptation standard Remote Control Interface standard Electronics Bay 1,000 Remote Control Deck Rating 8, 0.25 CF 3 kgs 40,000 Battletac IVIS Master 1 kg 75,000 Biofeedback Filter Rating 5 0.5 kg 50,000 Remote Control Encryption Module Rating 6 0.5 kg 30,000 Cyberdeck 0.15 CF 2 kgs 40,000 Personal Comm Unit Rating 6, 0.3 CF, Flux 4 1 kg 12,000 Engine Customization 2 Load +300 kgs +10% Enviroseal-Engine 0 kg 3,000 Remote Micro-Turret 1CF 10 kgs 2,500 Gyro-stabilized MageSight Fiberoptic scope Rating 4 Gyro-stabilization 0.5 kgs 2,000 Remote AA Small-Turret 5CF 100 kgs 13,500 2 Steyr AAG CSL LMGs DU-AV Rounds 9S, Range: LMG, -5 Recoil 13.6 kgs 7,200 Smartlink Integration Kit -2 to TNs from Gunmount Smartlink II 900 x2 Gunnery Recoil Adjustor Rating 5 2CF, 5pts Recoil Comp ea gun 58 kgs 5,000 Ammo Bins 0.4 CF 2,050 AV rnds each 1kg 100 Total: 403.6 kgs * Searching fire gives +6 dice to Attack Test C y b e r s p a c e    D e s i g n s    W o l f h o u n d " N e k h b e t " The Wolfhound reconnaissance UAV drone is one of the best vectored-thrust recon drones on the market. It has incredible acceleration & speed and employs an improved robotic pilot system programmed with detection-avoidance manuevers which lets it evade trouble in a hurry. Model Hand Speed Accel Body Armor Cost C-D Wolfhound 3 210 12 2 4 60,000n¥ Fuel Econ Sig Pilot Sensor Cargo Load Avail Index 300 L 0.75 km/L 6 2 1 3 95 3/72 hrs 1 Adaptation Pool: 2d6 Customizations Description Load Cost Engine Customization 1 Load +100 kgs 3,000 Armor 4 80 kgs 3,750 Battletac FDDM 35,000 Retrans Unit 1.5 CF 5 kgs 25,000

History

Arista was born premature and albino to young elven parents in 2036 (parents born in 2011 - 25 years old?) but she survived her difficult birth, and exhibited exceptional mental attributes as she grew up. By 2049 at age 13 she had passed all the tests and was enrolled into MIT&T. A prodigy there, she undertook Aeronautical Engineering and Robotics - two fields that interested her greatly. Her rapid advancement in both those fields led her senior design team (3 years later) to develop the first AI driven anthroform drone capable of fooling humans with its facial expressions - with a face sculpted on her delicate, elfin beauty. Arista's team coined the drone Echo in homage to the Echo Mirage teams that had beaten off the Crash of '29, and in reference to the Greek nymph - Echo.

Arista's other love was flying, and as her senior design team was completing their drone senior project, Arista was completing her own project - a lifting body plane that combined WIG-effect for STOL with extending wings for higher-altitude aerobatics. Arista loved pushing her small jet-powered testbed to the limits - a fact which her instructors disciplined her for again and again, and which a certain rival of Arista's took note of.

Close to her graduation in 2052, Arista's rival replaced a vital component in a new engine Arista had installed. When Arista took the plane up, she goaded Arista into following her in ever more dangerous maneuvers. The engine failed catastrophically during an Immelman Loop, a piece of the engine flying through the cockpit and embedding itself into the back of Arista's ejection seat. Unable to eject and suffering an injury, Arista's latent magical talent awoke, and she rode her little aircraft down to the ground in a magical trance.

When she came to, she found herself deep underground in a cave. Her slight movement caused the bats that lined the ceiling to panic and flutter around her. An old woman bent over her tending to her injuries and chanting softly. This bat shaman did not know that rescuers were searching for Arista, and she tended Arista for over a week while the slim elf clung to her life, and dreamed.

Arista was paralyzed from the waist down, and couldn't leave the cave. The bat shaman tended her, cleaned her, and once Arista awakened - began to teach her about Bat. She claimed that Bat had brought Arista to her and that Bat would be the only one that would help Arista to leave the cave. Arista's mind was voracious as ever and devoured everything the woman could teach her.

It took months, as Arista mastered her magic, but when the day came that she learned the shapechange spell from the old woman, she at last left the cave, shapechanged into a large bat. She returned to her school, and spying on her old schoolmates, discovered after several weeks how her rival had sabotaged her plane's engine. Overcome with murderous rage, she used her magic to kill the girl gruesomely and fled back to the cave in the wilderness.

Another month passed, and she at last bid farewell to the woman, she was surprised when the old woman gathered up her possessions and insisted that Arista accompany her to a gathering. The old shaman summoned a powerful storm spirit to descend and carry the both of them. The storm spirit carried the two women far across the ocean at blinding speed - which left Arista exhilarated even as she was filled with foreboding.

Arista was brought to a lonely mansion. An elegant butler ushered them in, and an imposing, elegant elf greeted the old woman formally. Arista was formally brought into Clannad B‡s Dorcha - a secret order of the Bat, the elven guardians to the Underworld. This was the last that Arista ever saw of the old woman, and she finally noticed as the woman turned to leave, that despite her wrinkled skin and apparent age, she too had the pointed ears and grace of an elf. Her training intensified, and as B‡s Dorcha carried out assassinations, Arista began creating puppets that she could animate with her magic as well as modifying anthroform drones which she could use to kill for the Order.

Arista began her shadowrunning career with her ally spirit, a single Echo-class Anthroform drone, and a vectored-thrust MCT-CAT V-Ball Drone modified with electronics racks and a rigger tank into her mobile rigger command.

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