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BLACK OPS

B L A C K

O P S

By Jeff Koke

and S. John Ross

GURPS System Design by Steve Jackson

Scott Haring, Managing Editor

Sean Punch, GURPS Line Editor

Page Layout & Typography by

Olen Everett Cone

Title-Page Art and

Production by

Gene Seabolt

Print Buying by

Monica Stephens

Art Direction by

Carol Burrell

Gene Seabolt,

Sales Manager

Additional material by

William Barton,

Stephen Dedman,

Mike Hurst,

Steve Jackson,

Thomas Kane,

Scott Paul

Maykrantz,

David Pulver

and Steffan

O’Sullivan

Playtesters: Bryan Adkins,

Sean Barrett, Michael Bowman,

Ray Cochener, Mike DeSanto,

James R. Dunson, John L. Freiler,

Richard Gilson, Robert Gilson,

Paul D. Henrichsen, Bob Huss,

Hunter Johnson, Don Juneau, John Karakash,

M.A. Lloyd, Peter Meilinger, Gary W. Roe,

Scott Rutter, Curtis Shenton, Tim Soholt

and Jonathan Woodward

Edited by

Sean Punch

and Gene

Seabolt

Cover by

Gene Seabolt

S. John Ross would like to extend special

thanks to Sandra Earles, Shawn Fisher, Marty Franklin,

Dan Jasman and Bob Likins.

Illustrated by

Dan Smith

Jeff Koke dedicates this book to the twin joys of his life – Angela, who loves him more than he could

possibly deserve, and Alexandra, who simply loves. S. John Ross would like to dedicate his work on this book

to Tim Driscoll and Clint Gaige, both of whom have inspired and fed his interest in the action-movie genres.

GURPS and the all-seeing pyramid are registered trademarks of Steve Jackson Games Incorporated. GURPS Black Ops, Pyramid,

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or trademarks of Steve Jackson Games Incorporated, or used under license.

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STEVE JACKSON GAMES

CONTENTS

3. T HE C OMPANY . . . 40

The Grey Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Early Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Salad Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

The Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Present Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Combat Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

The Departments . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Intelligence Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Science Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Security Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Technology Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Sponsoring Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

The Agendas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

I NTRODUCTION . . . . . 4

A Note From the Authors . . . 4

Important Players’ Note . . . 4

So It Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

About GURPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Listen Close . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1. T HE S ECRET

E LITE . . . . . . . . . . 6

If You Only Knew

the Half of It . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Argus’ Eyes Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About the Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Interview with General Davis Steele . . 8

Backtracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Birth of Argus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Government

Denies Knowledge . . . . . . . 12

A Combat Op Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Shadow Brokers . . . . . . . 13

An Intelligence Op Speaks . . . . . . . . . 13

Argus: the Top of the Pyramid . . . . . . 14

A Science Op Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Company:

Middle Management . . . . . . . . . . . 15

A Security Op Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The Black Ops: Meat and Potatoes . . 16

A Technology Op Speaks . . . . . . . . . . 16

Blacknet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Taking Care of the Nosy . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Maintaining

the Conspiracy . . . . . . . . . . 19

On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Getting In and Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Life of a Black Op . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Cleaning Up Loose Ends . . . . . . . . . . 20

Black Ops and the Law . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Omicron Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Legitimate Government . . . . . . . . 22

Disavowal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Worst-Case Scenarios . . . . . . 23

Renegades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Argus’ Eyes Only: Renegades . . . . . . 24

Enemies Everywhere . . . . . . . 25

The Cadre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Psi-Ops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Argus’ Eyes Only: Psis . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4. C AMPAIGNS . . . . . 56

Campaign Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

The Everything-Squad Campaign . . . 57

The Modular-Squad Campaign . . . . . 57

Character-Oriented Adventures . . . . . 57

The Cadet Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

The Single-Department Campaign . . . 58

The Flip Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

The Historical Campaign . . . . . . . . . . 58

The Shared World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Mission Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The Capture Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Protect and Serve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

The Clean-Up Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

The Containment Mission . . . . . . . . . 60

The Cover-Up Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Machines of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Theft: the B&E Mission . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Keeping Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

The Discovery Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

The Reconnaissance Mission . . . . . . . 61

Concepts and Reminders . . . 62

Keep the Squad Informed . . . . . . . . . . 62

Keep the Departments Squabbling . . . 62

Quick-and-Dirty Autofire . . . . . . . . . . 62

Keep the Background Busy . . . . . . . . 63

Keep the Competition Hot . . . . . . . . . 63

2. T HE A CADEMY . . . 28

Academy Welcome Speech . . 29

Welcome to Hell . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Spire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Commander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The First Few Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Recruiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Book Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

A Recruit Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

A Drill Sergeant Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The Lay of the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

How They Make You Want to Die . . . 34

The Infirmary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Combat Department Curriculum . . . . 34

Intelligence Department

Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Security Department Curriculum . . . 35

Science Department Curriculum . . . . 36

Technology Department

Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Weeding Drills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Thoughts of Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Argus’ Eyes Only: the Academy . . . . . 38

Graduation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

CONTENTS

Keep the Cameras Rolling . . . . . . . . . 63

Let ’Em Show Off

(The Spotlight Principle) . . . . . . . . 65

Scare Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Torso Blow-Through:

an Optional Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using These Cinematic Rules

in Other Genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

6. T HINGS TO

H UNT & K ILL . . . . 82

Key to Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Tools and Gadgets . . . . . . . . . 117

Communications &

Information Tech . . . . . . 117

Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Medical Tech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Psychotronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Sensors & Measuring

Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Survival Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Thief/Spy Gear

& Countermeasures . . . . . 121

Tools and Personal Gear . 121

Transportation . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Weapon Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Ranged Weapon Table . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Melee Weapon Table . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

G LOSSARY . . . . . . . 125

I NDEX . . . . . . . . . 127

Aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

The Greys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Brainsuckers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The Prima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Wigglers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Big Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Brainsquid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Breederbugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Ice Weasel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Rockworm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Beasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Demon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Dragons and Sea Serpents . . . . . . . . . 98

Gargoyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Ghost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Gullet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Soul Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Vampire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Werewolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

5. C HARACTERS . . . . 66

Background Story . . . . . . . . . 67

Pre-Academy Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Academy Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Basic and Departmental

Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Attribute Minima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Basic Advantages

and Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Basic Cadet Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Departmental Curricula . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Character Types . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Advantages, Disadvantages

and Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

New Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

New Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Martial Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Psychic Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Departmental Templates .76

Combat Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Intelligence Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Science Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Security Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Technology Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Rogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

The Lodge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Ramblers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

7. D ANGEROUS

T OYS . . . . . . . . . 108

Weapons and Armor . . . . . . . . 110

Melee Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Grey Melee Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Ranged Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Grenade Launchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Flamethrower and Incendiaries . . . . 113

Lasers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Grey Ranged Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Explosives, Grenades

and Nukes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Explosives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Grenades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Nukes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Body Armor and

Protective Clothing . . . 116

Grey Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

A Note From the Authors

The first part of this book (up through Chapter 3) and the vignettes beginning

the chapters are adapted from a mysterious, partially burned document found in a

Dumpster behind a Seattle tractor plant. It was edited for clarity and to remove

repetitions; other than that, it’s presented in its entirety. The supposed author of

this document, one Ivan Decker, could not be located to verify its authenticity.

The remainder of this book provides GURPS rules and campaign sugges-

tions for playing in a world that seems ominously like our own.

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Important Players’ Note

A conspiracy wouldn’t be much of a conspiracy if everyone knew every-

thing that was going on. Black Ops contains important yet secret information

meant for Game Masters to read and convey as warranted. This material is in

sidebars with titles beginning Argus’ Eyes Only and the entirety of Chapter 6,

Things to Hunt and Kill . Black ops displaying knowledge of such matters may

draw unwanted Security-department attention, at the GM’s discretion.

So It Begins . . .

“Oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God . . .”

She just won’t shut up. I realize that having the greater part of your arm

removed is painful, but she’s really starting to give me the willies.

“Oh God oh my God oh Jesus oh God oh God oh merciful Christ . . .”

She’s not that light, either. Big girl, thick, like a damn side of beef. A very

loud, freaked-out side of beef. I’m dragging her down the sewer tunnel which,

by the way, seems to be slowly filling with sewage, flashlight’s running low and

she’s squealing like a stuck pig about her friggin’ arm.

So I say, “Shut up, Illy, or I’m putting you in the bag.”

“Okay, okay,” she says. “Okay.” This is only marginally more comforting

than “oh God,” but at least it sounds somewhat positive and I know she doesn’t

want to get frozen. The thing that got her arm is somewhere back in the tunnel,

probably bleeding to death courtesy of my last shotgun shell. Nastiest wiggler I’ve

ever seen. Big as an alligator and segmented like a centipede, with short stubby

legs protruding in all directions and a mouth full of teeth that come out of

nowhere.

I push Illiana up onto a ledge and look at the arm. It’s bad – huge gashes run

vertically from shoulder to elbow, and both bones are snapped and protruding

from the skin below the joint. Her hand is a bloody mess, barely there. I pull off my

bandanna and tie a tourniquet just below the shoulder. She winces as I knot it and

starts mumbling her litany again to herself, “oh God oh God oh God oh Jesus . . .”

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