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The crew pushes deeper into Outpost Argentum, and straight into a nightmare. Beyond the blast doors lies a vast storehouse of constructed Cybertronian bodies: unfinished frames, empty shells, and half-assembled forms hanging from gantries or stacked in silent ranks. These aren’t scrap. They aren’t drones. They’re vessels built for something far worse. As the truth becomes clear, the Doctrine of Steel and Synapse reveals its ambition; a covert army meant to be smuggled into Iacon itself, ready to awaken at a single command and tear the city apart from within. Doctrine cultists swarm the chamber, desperate to protect their work and complete the activation sequence. The crew must fight through the defenders, sabotage the production lines, and stop the ritualized synchronization before the bodies can be claimed by stolen minds and fractured sparks. Steel clashes, gantries collapse, and half-finished constructs twitch toward life as the team races against the clock. Every second counts—because if even one shipment leaves this facility, Iacon may already be lost. The Doctrine thought they were building the future. The crew intends to shut it down—permanently.
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Show Notes:
- Intro [0:00:00]
- Chapter 1 – Post Battle Postmortem [0:12:29]
- Chapter 2 – Husk Of Horrors [0:30:35]
- Chapter 3 – Crashing The Cult [0:49:52]
- Closing [1:00:42]
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What is the Empire Of Rust Podcast?
TransMissions Podcast Network presents: the world’s first and only Transformers RPG actual play podcast! Conceived, developed, and run by TransMissions Podcast producer and editor Michael Ordway (@minervion), this podcast combines the tabletop role playing game (RPG) experience (think Dungeons and Dragons) with the setting, universe, and characters of the Transformers into an actual play podcast. Each episode records the gaming sessions as the player characters experience the adventures planned and designed by the game master (GM). The RPG system being used is based on Starfinder, a sci-fi variant of Pathfinder, combined with elements of the Transformers-themed Mechamorphosis d20 system (more info here).
Empire of Rust takes place in the IDW Comics Transformers Universe that ran from 2005 to 2018. It is set at the beginning of the “First Strike” storyline that was published in 2017. But while the starting point is based on the events of the first issue of First Strike – where Earth is being inducted into the Cybertronian Council of Worlds – the story of Empire of Rust will be very different. So if you’ve read the comics, don’t think you know what’s going to happen!
The players have all created original Transformer characters to take part in this adventure, but they’re sure to encounter some familiar faces in their adventures on Cybertron, and beyond.
Cast:
- Game Master, Narrator, & NPCs (Non-Player Characters) – Michael Ordway
- Magnum and Pythagoras – Matthew G
- Spindrift – Mike M
- Carapace – Patrick Finn
- Rough & Tumble – Kevin Carlson
- Additional Voices – Brandon Ouellette
Special Thanks:
- Teletraan 1 Outro – Brandon Ouellette
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- Website transmissionspodcast.com
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- e-mail (rust@transmissionspodcast.com)
