Mech’s Gen Combat

RPG system: LARP Giant Robot (Mech) based
Participants: 15 players

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A Giant Robot (Mech) based LARP for 15 players set in a homebrew LARP system.
Written by Patrick Roche and Lydia Dutton
The Mech Corps speialize in massive robots serving as all-purpose war machines as a military midpoint between the nuke and infantry. However, they spent a long spell in the dog house with Earth’s governments following a little worldwide rebellion over a hundred years ago. The bloody uprising caused massive casualties and all but wiped out whatever credibility that the Corps had. They were banished offworld from Earth, the centralised base being set on Earth’s moon. Other squadrons enjoyed more freedom in the further outposts, generally living better lives than the prospectors on the fringes. Those who joined the Mech Corps in the following years generally either did so after rejection from all other positions or from planets with no other real military power allowed by Earth. This powder keg seemed destined to end in a second rebellion but instead trouble arose with an invasion of a horrifying insect species from the depths of space. In the chaotic battles that followed, the Mech Corps came to be known as heroes, having been the only option that could feasibly combat the insects (their natural radiation resistance crippling nuclear power). The war ended recently after great sacrifice and casualty numbers. Now the various Mech Corps have been brought together for a grand conference, the Mech Unification Meeting. The hope is to tighten the bonds between the various factions now that there is finally an opportunity to fix their long tainted reputations…

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