Welcome to G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N.net

Hi.

Allow me to welcome you to the galaxy's finest training and improvement center for exceptional beings, welcome to the Gordon Universal Academy for Refinement and Development of unexploited potential of extraordinary Individuals And Neutralization of planetary threats. G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N, exists with the purpose of recruiting only the finest of what we call "extraordinary individuals": Individuals rare in the galaxy for their exceptional courage, valor, and might... people like you.

At this point of your life your abilities are at a very early stage but, with the proper guidance and tuition we can (and want, and WILL) help you reach the pinnacle of your potential. Our instalations provide all the facilites needed for just the finest training aviable: from seamless VR to actual combat. All with one purpose, the safety and well being of YOUR home.

G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N is also part of one of the biggest alliances in the galaxy for mutual protection counting with treaties with more than 30 planets all over the galaxy to recruit any promising exceptional being for tuition on the mastery of his abilities and the better defense of his own home planet (and others as well).

And... "How does the alliance works?" You may ask: Simple, your planet has troubles? 72 hours (mars time) passed and proved the local inhabitants can't handle it, we send the best qualified team for the job.

So c'mon! Don't think of it as an abduction... think of it as a CHALLENGE! Believe me that no place in your planet can offer you what we will: Enjoy the BEST training, travel all along the galaxy, face the strongest oponents this corner of the universe has to offer (friend AND foe); plus, know interesting people... and kill 'em (just kidding here)

I say farewell to thee, but not before remembering you of the great responsibility all of our members have, for our future now rests on your shoulders. Good luck, we have our hopes on you.

Jhor A Mistalak, primus
Third lunar cycle, Space year 2070

So, you actually DO think that little defenseless bums or no-good monsters whose butt you kick on a weekly basis makes you special, huh?. Well kid, let me tell you something... they don't. So, you have the habit of poking your snotty little nose where you weren't called and always manage to get out somehow, well, so what?. Think yourself THAT good just because you beat the pulp of that big-mouthed clown or because you just managed to make it trough that encounter with that smart-ass energy being that proclaimed himself a GOD?? <--*Insert sarcastical laugh here*.

Well kid, let me tell you something... from now on, forget about all of you past meaningless victories, the worthles trophies on your shelf, the beastly skulls on your wall, or what you think you knew... because from now on, all that means d*ck.

Welcome to the big leagues kid! Ever fought an extradimensional entity? Ever been in space? Ever piloted spacecraft while warping for dear life away from a supernova? Want me to hand you the keys?.

Ok, ok, I'm cutting the crap. As you may have already guessed. G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N is the setting of my Thrash campaign.

To be sincere, the idea of G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N started primarily because I suddenly wanted to run a Ninja High School-like campaing. Second, because this idea of the campaing reminded me of several ideas that were floating in a corner of my head for a long time but didn't pay much attention to, mainly because I had no interested players anyway (hard to live in a population of vampire-junkies only): ideas like hi-tech as a weird power, the introduction of superpowers, and the revision of a LOT of rules. By the time this netbook is in your Hard drive all this ideas will already be on the net (and, hopefully, in the joined effort of the Thrash 3rd. edition). Then, this idea of a setting became my personal playtest campaing for 1) The new rules and 2) Seeing in action my new weird powers in a setting were ALL the weird (and non-weird) powers are present and with absolutely NO restrictions... a free-for-all-anything-goes campaing.

As the brainstorm kept coming and coming, I also started thinking a story for my setting, a story that I liked quite much, and so, I decided that G.U.A.R.D.I.A.N would be a finite (if long) story, a story that I liked that much to share with all of you (and that's the main reason you're reading this right now). This is just the setting, but according to how well the campaing gets I may publish its progress. Oh, and BTW, as you continue reading, you may realize (as I myself did after a while of writing) that, even if I wanted at first a NHS-esque setting, I ended up pretty much with a pretty weird mix between Star Control, Dragonball-GT, Heroes Unlimited (a LOT of Heroes Unlimited) and whatever crossed my deranged mind at the moment I guess (well, guess it's better if it is ME who states it FIRST before the critics do, isn't it? ^_^U).

ROMeo

(AKA Israel Reyes, formerly The Learning Lich, formerly Nice Ghoul, and still one mean SOB)

Well, all I have to say, hope you like this setting as much as I liked writing it.

Special Thanx to:

Montalve: For all the material on space situations, generating the character with the most fun background, and serving as a great crack-driver in those unforgettable 4 romantic days with my girlfriend.... oh and for being the only human alive who, instead of getting a red face when embarassed, only gets red ears.
Octavio "Chaperon del infierno" Granillo: For showing me he cares about my work... and being the only person I kown that can make inoportune interruptions during romantic moments and be fun about it.
Elisa: For making of me the luckiest bastard on the face of earth... and learning so fast to blame it on Baruch.
Ben Dunn: For drawing stories as silly, funny, and parodius as they can get.
Soufle: For creating such august personage as Cheff Peppin.
Antinimicus: For being the dirty old archmagus we all know and love... to get pissed.
Betsy&Gracia: For the Alternity � books. Also, for being quite the coolest Wraith � and Mage � players I know, and for introducing me to all the nutritional traits of the dinochicken.

And, of course, my gaming troupe, for this I wrote for them.

What's Thrash?: A quick introduction

GM's Troubleshooting: Tips for GM's

Revised Rules, Home Rules, and New Material:
        Soak rolls, Styles, Luck, Combos, Counter
        Maneuvers Table, Called Shots,
        Point-Blank, Critical Strikes, New
        Advantages & Disadvantages

Other Sourcebooks: [Saint Seiya]

Miscellaneous: [DB-Z to Thrash] [Thrash conversions to Palladium]

New Weird Powers: Hi-Tech & Superhumans

http://www.blackbird.nu/thrash/: The Thrash Official Homepage. Our main Headquarters

Daishinaga's Homepage

SteelFalcon.net : Another Sci-Fi setting for Thrash. We ought to stick together after all.

Mecha Thrash: THE mecha sourcebook for Thrash. A MUST for building battleships and Power Armor
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