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\nCREW EXPENDABLE\n<\/h1>
\nIf you thought the Company was bad\u2026\n<\/div>
\nA corporate cosmic horror roleplaying game of expendable crews, manufactured people, collapsing colonies, and things mankind was not meant to monetize.\n<\/div>
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\nYEAR<\/span> 2190\n<\/div>
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\nWhat Is Crew Expendable?\n<\/h2>
\nCrew Expendable is a science-fiction cosmic horror tabletop roleplaying game set in the year 2190, where corporations dominate human civilization, manufactured beings serve alongside humans, and deep-space research has opened the door to something older than humanity.\n<\/div>
\nCrew Expendable is a science-fiction cosmic horror tabletop roleplaying game set in the year 2190, where corporations dominate human civilization, manufactured beings serve alongside humans, and deep-space research has opened the door to something older than humanity.\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\nThree Pillars\n<\/h2>
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\nPillar 01\n<\/div>

\nCorporate Dystopia\n<\/h3>
\nEight megacorps own the contracts, the medicine, the ships, and the future. The Earth Compact maintains the appearance of law. The corporations maintain everything else.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nManufactured Humanity\n<\/h3>
\nArtificial Persons run the machines humans cannot survive. Biological Persons bleed, dream, remember \u2014 and obey. Many never learn what they are.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nCosmic Contamination\n<\/h3>
\nCorporate research systematically produces Mythos-tier consequences. The horror is not greed alone \u2014 it is the institutional process by which contamination cannot be contained.\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\nBrief defiance, expensively purchased<\/span>, against a backdrop that doesn't change\u2026 or does it?\n<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\nCampaign Modes
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\nOne ruleset, six ways to die. Crew Expendable supports radically different tables \u2014 from marine deployments to noir investigations to lonely frontier survival.
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\nMilitary Horror\n<\/h3>
\nCompact Marine Corps against the unknown. Standardized gear, expendable squads, things the briefing did not mention.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nNoir Investigation
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\nAuditors, Runners and ARAs working rain-slick colonies and corporate facilities where every answer costs more than the question.
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\nFrontier Survival
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\nHomesteaders, junkers and salvage crews living beyond regulated space, where help is never coming.
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\nCorporate Espionage\n<\/h3>
\nInternal security, sabotage and the quiet wars between Tier 1 megacorps that the public is told were \"resolved through negotiation.\"\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nSynthetic Identity\n<\/h3>
\nPlay an AP or Bio uncertain of their own directives. Discover what you are. Decide what to do about it.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nCosmic Horror
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\nAnomalous Knowledge, Drift, and the slow contamination of everyone who studies what the Tottenheim Field really is.\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\nThe Margin & the Tottenheim Field\n<\/h2>
\nBeyond regulated space lies The Margin \u2014 the boundary around the Tottenheim Field, where physics fails, ships disappear, and corporate research continues anyway.\n<\/div>
\nPublicly, the Field is a beautiful astronomical curiosity. The operational reality \u2014 ship losses, anomalous physics, researcher psychological effects, and the Progenitor remains buried at Lothos \u2014 is hidden behind the public framing.\n<\/div>
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\n\u25a3 ICA INTERNAL \/\/ EYES ONLY\n<\/div>
\n\"The wage slaves really do have something to bitch about\u2026 and it is far worse than they know. But there are vastly worse things out there. The corporations are the local face of cosmic indifference.\"\n<\/div>
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