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ROID RATS FIRST BUILD

The gaming table for Roid Rats is modular and easy to make. Any figures can be used up to 54mm. I have 40mm Russian figures.

Polystyrene with a sealing-protective coat of paint mixed with PVA is the basic material.

Figures are not fully painted. Red are Roid Rats, Blue are MOS and Trogs are green.

MARINES OF SPACE

 The Roid Rats soon discovered they needed protection against the Trogs. The usual cheap answer from DF was to form the Marines of Space.

Marines of Space are a mercenary outfit comprising various misfits unabe to find employment elsewhere.

They are equipped with the standard DF range of almost obsolete or re-purposed gear.

However limited they are, MOS are the front fighters in the continual struggle to keep Trogs away from the precious Viridian.

TROG 'MINDER'

The Trogs have a very plastic set of genes but there are four main castes. The top caste seem to control the others - with pheromones or ultrasound maybe, we do not yet know what.  These are called 'Minders' by the Roid Rats and are fearsome opponents at close quarters.

Trog Minder attacks

Much larger than other Trogs, the Minders are often equipped with crab-claws, a massive bite and added tentacles or talons. Despite the threat they present the MOS know it is worth getting among the Trogs to eliminate these to make any encounter less bloody.

EARLIEST IMAGE OF ROID RATS

From the DF archives we have located the only surviving image from the ill-fated Persimmon-78x expedition which was the first to report occurrences of Viridian in the honeycomb asteroids of that system's many solar rings.

Senior Geologist Leverick Hatt is seen extracting fragments of the newly-found mineral. He is assissted by Aphrodite Meander his doctorate student at that time. The two could be said to be the original 'Roid rats'.

Shortly afterwards Trogs emerged from the asteroid surface and siezed Hatt, who was never seen again. Meander escaped back to their ship but suffered a smashed shoulder from rocks accurately flung by the aliens. The ship, DF-Geoprobe 44, was badly damaged by a hail of thrown fragments but managed to escape and engage its main drive.

It would be 5 years before the true value of Viridian was established and was leaked. Then the first Roid Rats began the mining rush to the Persimmon -78X system.

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