Necessary EvilWritten by: Clint Black, Shane Lacy Hensley, and Scott Pyle

Updated By: Clint Black

Art by: Storn Cook, Cheyenne Wright, Gil Formosa, Talisman Studios, and Robin Elliott

Main Cover Art By: Gil Formosa

Cover Design by: Joel Kinstle

Additional Material and Editing by: Piotr Korys, Randy Mosiondz, Shane Lacy Hensley, Zeke Sparkes, Chris Toh, and Matt Cutter

Last Minute Heroics by: Dave Blewer, Butch Curry, Chris Toh, and Brent Wolke

Graphic Design and typesetting by: Joel Kinstle

Proofing by: Piotr Korys and Dennis Mohr

Clint’s Dedication: This book could only be dedicated to those people without whom it would not exist. To my parents, who taught me how to love. To my brother, Gary, who taught me how to

share what you love. To Kay Reid, who taught me that I loved writing. To Trinity and Bethany, whom I love even more. And most of all to Jodi, who is my Love and my Muse, now and forever.

Shane’s Dedication: To my cousin Liz, who fought true evil. You are so greatly missed. The world is much darker without your constant smile.

Playtesters: Ben “Mac” Ansaldo, Adam “Knight Terrors” Black, Jodi “Ice Queen” Black, Mark “Brawler” Francis, Sharon “Night Whisper” Francis, Marguerite “Diving Belle” Frey, Zachary “Gorilla Commando” Kenner,

Wade “Twitch” Lahoda, Chris “Sparky” Lowe, Sean “Blizzard” McAlister, Stu “Speed Round” Miller, Dan “El Xeroxo” Molina, Alan “Nightdemon” Schnell, Amy “Lavinia” Skopik, Duncan “Bob” Squair,

David “Liquid Courage” Chrisley, Rich “Deadguy” Miller, Kyle “Radiation Sucks” Gallagher, Skipper “Coal Mine” Beale, Christopher “Doc Triton” Toh, and Cullen “OH MY BACK!” Rector

© 2004, 2008 Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Necessary Evil, Savage Worlds, Smiling Jack, and all related marks and logos are trademarks of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. All rights reserved.

Produced under license by Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. The Studio 2 logo is a trademark of Studio 2 Publishing, Inc. © 2008. All rights reserved

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Table of ContentsPlayers’ Section

Chapter One: A Necessary Evil� � � � � � � � 1Omega . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Star City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter Two: Making Villains � � � � � � �13Necessary Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Altered Hindrances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16New Hindrances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16New Edges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Setting Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36The Armor-Clad Super . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67The Blaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68The Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69The Gadgeteer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70The Scrapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71The Speedster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72The Stretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73The Sorcerer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Game Master’s Section

Chapter Three: A World of Evil � � � � � � �76The Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76The V’sori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Behind The Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Atlantis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Chapter Four: Secrets of Star City� � � �82Star City Gazetteer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Chapter Five: Adventures � � � � � � � � � 101Savage Tales of the Omegan Resistance 103Episode One: Jail Break! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Episode Two:

The Underground Irregulars . . . . . . . . . . 108Episode Three: The First Family . . . . . . . . . 110Episode Four: The Hanged Man . . . . . . . . 112Episode Five: Crossbreeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Episode Six: Raiders of the Lost Temple 117Episode Seven: Turncoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Episode Eight: Assault On Satellite 15! . . 120Episode Nine:

And A Villain Shall Lead Them! . . . . . . . . 122Episode Ten: Return of the Outsider . . . . 125Episode Eleven:

The Omega Contingency! . . . . . . . . . . . . 128More Savage Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Cult of the Space Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Beware the Sleeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Return of the Monolith! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133The Trouble at Hydrobase 11 . . . . . . . . . . . 135Vendetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Colonel Clone’s Legacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139Pulling the Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Fire from the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Blood Cult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Robotic Doom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Midnight in the Garden

of Dr . Devolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Alien Bloodsport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Parallel Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153A Day in the Life of a Hero . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155The Dogs of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159The Rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160My Enemy’s Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Stalker in Star City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Terror in Tarrytown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164The Return of 4-Star and Lucky . . . . . . . . . 167The Alien Objector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169The Red Cross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171Hunting the Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173The Safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Chapter Six: The Invaders � � � � � � � � � 176The V’sori War Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Generic Villain Hide Out Maps� � � � � 184

Index� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 187

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Players’ Section

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Chapter One: A Necessary Evil

In Necessary Evil, a band of aliens lured the world’s superheroes into a cunning trap and killed or imprisoned the vast majority of them . The player characters are the only enhanced beings left to save the planet — supervillains! As the alien overlords’ policy is to kill anyone exhibiting paranormal powers, the only option open for such individuals is fight or flight! You can guess which option most villains choose…

Setting the Stage

Of course it started on January 1st, 2001 . The first ships appeared over every major city of the planet . There was no prelude and no demands . The aliens just attacked . They were an amphibious race that combined the nastiest aspects of sharks and crocodiles with an aggression matched by neither . They were the stuff of nightmares to most . The people called them “Fins .”

New York became a war zone, Tokyo burned, and even sunken Atlantis was rubbled and its ruler — the legendary Aquarian — slain .

Earth’s superheroes fought back immediately . The fins were terrifying, but no one ever doubted the heroes would win out in the end . After all, aliens had tried to invade Earth three times before, and earth’s defenders had always emerged triumphant .

But the fins possessed advanced technology and savage bloodlust, so the losses were heavy . Earth began to worry .

The V’sori

Then came the turn of the tide the people had come to expect in these epic wars of aliens and supermen . Advance forces of another alien race arrived in earth orbit — the V’sori . They claimed to be the long-lost allies of Atlantis who had been searching for their missing comrades in arms for hundreds of years . During their quest, they had grown to become the defenders of the galaxy .

The V’sori claimed the Fins — or K’tharen as they called themselves — were rampaging mercenaries who ravaged world after world, but the V’sori had fought them before and would help Earth against them now .

The world’s greatest superhero, Champion of Alpha Force, flew into space to meet them . He returned later and gave a stirring speech that called for humanity to hold out for just a bit longer . They did, though the final cost in blood was great .

When the V’sori arrived, the K’tharen fleet rose to fight them . The alien ships fought a titanic battle in space, but the V’sori won out, and even beamed the images of the fleeing Fins to earth .

Humanity cheered their saviours and welcomed the advanced alien protectors with open arms . Anxious youths danced in the streets, proclaiming an era of peace and love . Less trusting commentators were booed and mocked in the national press . And some appeasement-minded governments even offered the aliens the figurative keys to their states .

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Necessary Evil

TreacheryOf course that’s just what the aliens wanted

all along . In every major city, heroes and world leaders joined together to welcome the aliens . The crowds cheered as the V’sori ships appeared overhead . Every superhero, sidekick, president, and even stars of sports, movies, and music attended these grand galas . The people of earth cheered as they watched their heroes greet the alien saviors on the news networks .

The cheers turned to screams when the V’sori ships opened fire on the gathered throngs .

Moments afterward, the K’tharen warships returned — servants of the V’sori .

Champion was standing before the cameras when the V’sori hit . They knew his weakness — radiation — and targeted him with a concentrated beam of energy that turned the hero into a pulpy mass . Massive death rays then swept over the gathered throngs, slaying thousands of heroes, officials, generals, and innocents in moments . Within 30 minutes, the unthinkable had occurred . Earth’s greatest heroes were dead and its leaders vaporized .

The aliens had won .

The stuff of nightmares, the K’tharen are monstrous, slavering aliens—as fearsome as they are savage . Most are well over 7’ tall — every bit of which is muscle . The “fins” have humanoid forms but with a thick crocodile-like hide . Their head has a distinctive shark-like appearance, especially with the fin-ridge that runs along the top of their

skulls and their coal-black eyes . Their coloration runs towards the darker end of the spectrum along their backs, from light greens to blue and violet, while the front is universally pale .

The K’tharen grow darker along their dorsal ridge as they age, and older members of the race can appear pure black .

The V’sori, on the other hand, can best be described

as beautiful . They are tall, thin, but well-muscled, and bear a bluish complexion eerily similar to that of the Atlanteans who have lived among the people of Earth for generations . Their hair is mostly dark brown or black, and is often worn short, but with a single small braid of longer h a i r

off to one side of the face . V’sori are rarely seen in public without their body armor, a tight suit of segmented plates composed of some unknown alien material . In battle, V’sori commanders wear full helmets with mirrored visors .

The Face of the Enemy

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