Riss'aad (Sathar second-in-command)

STR/STA 60/60. DEX/RS 40/40, INT/LOG 45/40, PER/LDR 30/50, PS 3, IM 4, RW 20,M: 30

Skills: Projectile 1

Weapons: two auto-pistols        

Equipment: Albedo screen, skeinsuit

Riss'aad has the unusual ability to fire both weapons simultaneously without any minuses to attack number. If captured he will detonate the explosives implanted in his body; they detonate automatically at his death.

Encounter info: (from the remastered module, pg 24, Elevator Lobby description)

(STA 53; RS 55; PS 2; IM 6; RW 25; M 25)

Weapons: laser pistol; 2 auto pistols.

This was an equipment storage and lounge area. The elevator has no walls and its floor is a few feet below the floor of the room. 

Riss'aad is hiding in the elevator. As soon as PCs enter the room he will stick his head up out of the shaft and fire on them. If he is killed, two implanted explosives will detonate, causing 3d10 points of damage to any characters within 2 m.

Sundown on Starmist Continued:

30. OPTIONAL ENCOUNTER

If you wish to continue the game and include the approach of the Sathar warship, the following suggestions may be used.

If you wish to use the Knight Hawks Rules, the approaching ship will be a heavy cruiser. It may or may not be escorted by destroyers as you choose.

The ship may remain in orbit and send down a party of Sathar for full interaction with the player characters. PCs may use both the wartank and the Sathar base against the new forces. If this option is chosen, you will have to delay or eliminate the self-destruct systems of the bunker and tank.

The PCs may fire the bunker's rocket launcher at the approaching warship. This will also require delaying the bunker self-destruct as well as the possibility of the weapons and computers needing extensive repair from damage taken during play.

One method of handling the fire of the rocket launcher is to use acumulative base 10% per round. If a rocket hits the warship (roll as many times as there are missiles maximum of 100% on a tenth missile) then the warship will crash as it would not be prepared for fire from its own base.

To extend the scenario further, characters might hunt down Sathar survivors of the crash.

Sathar Bone Knife

Type: Melee weapon

Melee Mod.: +5

Cost: 100-500 Credits

Weight: 0.5 kg

Damage: 1d10+5

Special Damage: Poison –  S1/T5 versus Core Four, S3/T30 vs. Satharoids

Defense: Inertia (knife), STA check (poison)

Range: N/A

The Sathar bone knife is custom-made (tentacle-crafted, if you will) and carried by Upper Caste Sathar and selected Middle Caste Sathar. Fashioned from a leg bone of an unknown large animal, it is an assassination weapon that is primarily for use against other Satharoids (Sathar, S’sessu, and Rooksha). 

While it has a point for stabbing, its cutting side has a serrated edge that can be used in a sawing motion on flesh. This edge has dagger-like points that break off in the victim’s body in the hopes of causing calcium disease in Satharoids.

Just to ensure the victim dies a painful death, many versions of the bone knife have a reservoir for liquid, which must be filled shortly before use to work. The poison begins to leak out and breakdown after a while (4d10 minutes) after being put into the reservoir.

When the knife strikes a target and the points break off, the poison is released into the victim. This poison is only a S1/T5 to Core Four and most other species, but to a Satharoid it will act as a S3/T30 toxin. Additionally, this toxin causes extreme pain in a Satharoid, halving all ability and skill rolls for 1-5 days unless treated.

Victims can make a Stamina check to avoid the effects of the poison. It cannot be treated with the Frontier’s normal anti-toxin shot. Only a special serum will cure the victim of the poisoning.

This weapon is prone to shattering while in use and becomes useless. Any automatic failure will cause it to break. Additionally, for each successful use, the attacker roll on a 1d10 to avoid having the knife break. On the first check, a roll of 1-9 means the knife is still useful, a result of 10 means it breaks. After that, for each successful use, subtract 2 from the breakage number.

For example, the second time a character makes a successful attack, the chance to avoid breakage is now 1-7; the third time the knife is used, the chance to avoid breakage is 1-5; and so on.

The cost for this weapon is based on how much it would be to obtain in the Frontier. The normal source of supply would come from dead Sathar.