Drift Exploration-EVA Synth
Drift Logistics' deep-space surveyor and EVA frame.
The Exploration-EVA Synth is Drift Logistics' specialist for the work no organic crew volunteers for: solo sorties into uncharted hulls, hull breaches in hard Vacuum, weeks surveying a dead moon while the ship waits in orbit. Where a combat-synth is built to take fire and a labour-synth to lift, the EVA frame is built to be alone in the void for a long time and come back with a map.
The chassis is fully Vacuum-rated -- sealed joints, redundant thermal loops, reaction-thruster hardpoints -- and rated for indefinite EVA where the Legion's frame tops out at an hour. Its cognition is tuned for patience and perception: it does not panic in the dark and it does not forget a corridor. Long solo operation hardens it against the disorientation that breaks connected minds when the grid drops away.
An EVA-synth carries no Kadiss unit. Beyond the Core network the grid does not reach, and Drift ships its surveyors past the edge of it on purpose. The only leash is a Drift beacon -- a periodic resync pulse that confirms the unit is still on-task and not yet salvage. Go too long without a pulse and Drift flags the frame as Derelict, which is how a working EVA-synth on a ghost-Derelict ends up stripped by its own employer's salvage crews. On the Rim, a lone EVA frame drifting a dead Station is common enough to ignore -- and strange enough to remember.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Ability Adjustments / Cha | -1 |
| Ability Adjustments / Con | 1 |
| Ability Adjustments / Dex | 1 |
| Ability Adjustments / Int | 0 |
| Ability Adjustments / Str | 0 |
| Ability Adjustments / Wis | 0 |
| Ability Maximums / Cha | 17 |
| Ability Maximums / Con | 19 |
| Ability Maximums / Dex | 19 |
| Ability Maximums / Int | 18 |
| Ability Maximums / Str | 18 |
| Ability Maximums / Wis | 18 |
| Ability Minimums / Cha | 3 |
| Ability Minimums / Con | 3 |
| Ability Minimums / Dex | 3 |
| Ability Minimums / Int | 3 |
| Ability Minimums / Str | 3 |
| Ability Minimums / Wis | 3 |
| Exceptional Strength | false |
| Origin | made |
| Allowed Classes | Soldier, Officer, Scout, Chaplain, Sawbones, Operative, Face, Psion, Academic |
| Lore Hooks / Faction | Drift Logistics / void survey crews / Rim derelict-runners |
| Model Names | Drift Exploration-EVA Synth |
| Subtype | synthetic-model |
Notes
Lore Hooks / Adventure Hooks: The EVA-synth's beacon has not resynced in a week. Drift has flagged it salvage -- and the party is travelling with a frame its own employer will strip on sight., The Fold wrinkle: an EVA-synth alone on a ghost-derelict is the one mind the horrors cannot reach. A Family wants it stationed as a permanent sentinel over a bleeding tear., The synth has mapped a derelict no one else survived -- and the map shows corridors that were not there before., A salvage crew mistakes the working surveyor for derelict hardware and starts cutting. The synth must decide whether to fight its employer's own people., Day One finds a void-scarred EVA frame that has been alone so long its leash-pulse stopped mattering -- and asks whether it chose to keep working.
Lore Hooks / Legal Status: Drift Logistics surveyor equipment. No Kadiss, no personhood. Off-grid by design. Failing the 72-hour beacon resync flags the frame as derelict salvage, even while it still works.
Multi Class Options: ['Scout', 'Operative'], ['Scout', 'Academic'], ['Soldier', 'Scout'], ['Scout', 'Sawbones'], ['Operative', 'Academic']
Parent Chassis: Synthetic Chassis
Special Abilities
Vacuum-Rated Frame
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Vacuum-Rated Frame |
description: Fully sealed and thermally hardened for indefinite EVA. Immune to decompression, vacuum, and thermal-gradient effects. +2 to Fortitude saves against radiation and extreme-environment hazards. Does not suffer the Legion frame's 1-hour environmental limit.
Surveyor Senses
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Surveyor Senses |
description: Tuned for the patient mapping of unknown space. +2 to Perception, Navigation, and Survival checks in vacuum, zero-g, derelicts, and uncharted environments. Advantage on scan and mapping checks.
Solo Endurance
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Solo Endurance |
description: Hardened against isolation. The EVA-synth ignores the off-grid disorientation penalty in the void and on derelicts, where connected minds falter. +2 to saves against fear and disorientation from isolation or sensory deprivation.
Drift Beacon Leash
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Drift Beacon Leash |
description: A light leash -- a periodic resync pulse to Drift Logistics confirming the unit is on-task. No Kadiss, no governor on cognition; the leash is positional, not mental. Failing to resync within 72 hours flags the frame as derelict salvage, and Drift's own crews will strip it on sight.
Drift Field Asset
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Drift Field Asset |
description: Registered Drift Logistics surveyor equipment. No Kadiss unit, no personhood. Off-grid by design beyond Core coverage. Destroying one is loss of Drift property -- Drift cares about the survey data on board more than the frame.
Construct Physiology
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Construct Physiology |
description: Inherits all synthetic chassis traits: immune to poison, disease, radiation sickness, suffocation, sleep effects, non-lethal damage from stun effects. Does not breathe, eat, drink, or sleep.
Repair-Not-Heal
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Repair-Not-Heal |
description: Cannot benefit from conventional healing. Heals exclusively through Mechanics checks: DC 15, 1d8 HP restored, 50 rek in parts per HP, 10 minutes per check.
Modular Chassis
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
name | Modular Chassis |
description: 6 modular hardpoints for augmentation. Compatible with cyber-prosthetics, wetware, and subdermal augments. Gene-mods incompatible.
Electrical Vulnerability
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
description | +50% damage from electrical attacks. EMP forces Fortitude save DC 15 or stunned 1d4 rounds. |
name | Electrical Vulnerability |
Class Restrictions
note: Sawbones healing class features do not function on synthetic targets.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
note | Sawbones healing class features do not function on synthetic targets. |
restriction | Sawbones |
note: Requires psi-receiver augment for Fold psionics. Gene-psionics incompatible.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
note | Requires psi-receiver augment for Fold psionics. Gene-psionics incompatible. |
restriction | Psion |
note: Void-isolated social skills atrophy. -2 to Persuasion and Deception in Core social settings; the synth speaks like something used to long silences.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
restriction | Face |
note: Void-isolated social skills atrophy. -2 to Persuasion and Deception in Core social settings; the synth speaks like something used to long silences.
note: Reaction-thruster hardpoints and surveyor bracing make the frame slightly less subtle in atmosphere: -1 to Stealth in gravity and crowd.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
restriction | Operative |
note: Reaction-thruster hardpoints and surveyor bracing make the frame slightly less subtle in atmosphere: -1 to Stealth in gravity and crowd.