CAPTAIN’S LOG #03 — The Eidolon Protocol
Cycle 2455.[10].[22] | From the Corvus Reach
VEILRUNNERS // NEXUS TRANSMISSION
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“CONFIDENTIAL: REPORT TO SECTOR HUB NODE 9 AT ONCE”
The creation of missions for the mini-campaign “The Eidolon Protocol” has started. I just completed Mission 1: Echoes of Eidolon. Without giving too much away, here just a few snippets from the the mission brief to give you a flavor of the campaign:
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The offices are everything the frontier isn’t: polished white stone, air that tastes filtered and expensive, voices softened to the level of secrets. Twelve-foot Ferra-Glass doors, milky and impenetrable, part without a sound as you approach.
A tall, thin man of indeterminate age stands behind a translucent desk, hands clasped like he’s holding something invisible. A placard reads: Tomas Berezovsky – Regional Security Chief. “This is station Eidolon-9, HV-734. As you can see, it lies on the very edge of the Shroud. Its research focuses on localized anomaly emissions – specifically, the effects of limited Shroud exposure on animal neural tissue. Three days ago, it stopped transmitting. The last burst was a distress call… mostly noise.”
“Your orders are simple: go to Eidolon-9, confirm what happened, recover the data core, and report to me — and only me.”
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This is only a glimpse into the mission brief. The rest unfolds piece by piece as you play, and not everything is what it appears.
The Eidolon Protocol is an eight-to-ten mission mini-campaign exploring corporate deceit, human weakness, and the shadows that watch from the void. What begins as a simple recovery job soon unravels into something much deeper – and far more dangerous.
“It isn’t what we sae that scared us. It’s what we couldn’t see!” – Captain Eric Timor
Next up: Continue work on the campaign and begin the print layout of the manual.
— Dave Ranck, Creator of Veilrunners
“Chart your course. Face the unknown. Run the Veil.”
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