Into the Badlands Sourcebook (1e)
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Jade struggled with her Jäger's controls as she slid down a large slope. Sand billowed around her as autocannon fire ripped into the fine silicate. Darting through smaller dunes¸ she watched in horror as Bart's Elan took a direct hit from a Northern rocket. The buggy exploded in an orange ball of death. She was next.
Spinning on the Gear's foot-mounted wheels¸ she emptied her pack-gun into the Jaguar coming over the crest. Thick smoke started pumping out of the attacker's side and Jade allowed herself a grim smile. It faded as two Hunters appeared to cover their wounded commander. Tracer shells zipped past her viewscreen and she slammed her Gear into a zigzagging run. It wasn't enough.
A high-caliber shell cracked her Jäger's V-engine housing just before Jade got behind cover. Fuel oil poured onto the sand and all her gages slammed into the red¸ but the dry well was right where she remembered. She pulled the manual release¸ grabbed her canteen and rifle¸ slipped out of her Gear and jumped into the fissure in less than a minute. From there¸ she could make it out of the battle unseen.
They may have won the first encounter¸ but the Northern Guard hadn't heard the last of the Desert Wolves.
This Badlands sourcebook provides a wealth of information on the inhabitants of the great desert. A perfect complement to the Terra Nova sourcebook¸ it focuses on people and events¸ including most of the principal actors in the desert setting¸ and emphasizes how their relationships are changing with the move to war. Some highlights of this book include:
- Paxton Arms
- New settlements
- Rover gangs
- The Northern and Southern forces
- The Revisionist Church
- The semi-legendary Sand Riders.