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NPC character portrait illustration drawn for an RPG campaign in the Interface Zero 2.0 setting by Gun Metal Games ( www.gunmetalgames.com ) for the Savage Worlds RPG (Pinnacle Entertainment Group -- www.peginc.com ).

For a futuristic cyberpunk/sci-fi/horror campaign set in space, our heroes were assorted corporate employees and freelancers brought by various circumstances to a remote asteroid mining base on the dwarf planet of Ceres. In this dystopian future, asteroid mining was commonplace, but the resources required to maintain life in space were still substantial enough that most of the mining was done by robots -- and when more finesse was required that couldn't be handled by current-level AI, the pressure was on miners to take radical steps to adapt themselves to long-term survival in space. This largely involved full-body cyborg conversions, with durable endoskeletons and largely superficial synth-skin coverings. Owing to the expense of maintaining the illusion of life in such harsh circumstances, many miners would just forego bothering with the synth-skin coverings -- earning users of one of the more widely-used cyborg endoframes the nickname of "skelebot."

Murray was one such skelebot miner -- originally just an incidental character (the picture was more meant as a general image of the typical cyborg miner), but once things started going haywire on the base, events just turned out that he ended up with the heroes, using "weaponized" tools to help fight off the horrors they encountered. I gave him the name of "Murray" on a lark, as an obscure reference to a very old (and very fun) LucasArts game series. Fortunately for Murray, though, he was never deprived of the rest of his endoframe or reduced to just being a skull.

Description
NPC character portrait illustration drawn for an RPG campaign in the Interface Zero 2.0 setting by Gun Metal Games ( www.gunmetalgames.com ) for the Savage Worlds RPG (Pinnacle Entertainment Group -- www.peginc.com ).

For a futuristic cyberpunk/sci-fi/horror campaign set in space, our heroes were assorted corporate employees and freelancers brought by various circumstances to a remote asteroid mining base on the dwarf planet of Ceres. In this dystopian future, asteroid mining was commonplace, but the resources required to maintain life in space were still substantial enough that most of the mining was done by robots -- and when more finesse was required that couldn't be handled by current-level AI, the pressure was on miners to take radical steps to adapt themselves to long-term survival in space. This largely involved full-body cyborg conversions, with durable endoskeletons and largely superficial synth-skin coverings. Owing to the expense of maintaining the illusion of life in such harsh circumstances, many miners would just forego bothering with the synth-skin coverings -- earning users of one of the more widely-used cyborg endoframes the nickname of "skelebot."

Murray was one such skelebot miner -- originally just an incidental character (the picture was more meant as a general image of the typical cyborg miner), but once things started going haywire on the base, events just turned out that he ended up with the heroes, using "weaponized" tools to help fight off the horrors they encountered. I gave him the name of "Murray" on a lark, as an obscure reference to a very old (and very fun) LucasArts game series. Fortunately for Murray, though, he was never deprived of the rest of his endoframe or reduced to just being a skull.