Download or read book Base Raiders written by Ross Payton and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Base Raiders is a superhero role playing game with a unique twist: A cosmic event removed every major superpowered hero and villain on the planet. A few of their secret labs, headquarters, and lairs were raided, but many more remain hidden. The secrets of gaining superpowers began to leak out. A new class of self-empowered "base raiders" emerged. Many abandoned bases still wait to be discovered. Treasures, unique artifacts, and secret knowledge can be found in the bases, prizes worth risking death from the traps and guardians left behind. Superhumans used to keep the world in balance. A small but elite class of heroes and villains wielded power like modern gods, but their greatest legacy was to create a status quo where no one else would threaten their position. They thought it was better to accept a flawed world than risk destruction by changing too much. No longer. Their secrets have spilled out. The next generation of heroes and villains to appear were not government, corporate, or criminally backed soldiers. They were amateurs in the purest sense of the word. They had no fear of experimenting with the new discoveries, had no hesitation with altering themselves and had no shame in proving that they had learned how to become more than human. Most of all, no one thought these amateurs would share what they had learned. They did. The secrets of gaining superpowers began to spread among the fringes of society. Where once there were a few, now there are many. The superhumans of today are not enforcers of an old status quo. They want to change the world in ways that can't be easily categorized as good or evil. They are visionaries, madmen, idealists, fanatics, heroes, villains, and base raiders. Join their ranks. Change yourself. Change the world.
Download or read book Base Raiders written by Ross Payton and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what you fill find in an abandoned super villain base! It could be priceless treasure or it could be a deadly trap or villain. Perhaps you could even find potential allies. From the Underground contains new heroes, villains, traps, super teams, and gear, suitable for use in any campaign. For use with the Base Raiders Role Playing Game and is compatible with most Fate system games.
Download or read book Here There Everywhere a Young Military Life written by Marianne Kelsey Orestis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trails of adventure chart the course of a life. In the case of Marianne Kelsey, she charts a course during a period of history when the world was recovering from the second World War and a Cold War had blanketed the globe. Traveling with her family as they moved from military stations across the U.S. and Europe, she saw up close not only the tumult of the times but the charm and grace of the old world that still glowed as it was transforming into the modern era. The locations, the people, the fun, the tribulations, and her growth into a cosmopolitan beauty are a pleasure to experience over those exciting and formative years. Go back in time and join her as she shares the wonder, glamour, excitement, and challenges of a world that invites us to return and enjoy what once was.
Download or read book City of Villains written by Eric Mylonas and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exclusive City of Villains Artwork • Complete maps for all Zones featuring massive amounts of exclusive info • Strategy for building the ideal Archetypes • Complete power lists with full stats • Strategy covering the all-new Base building elements Includes a Complete Binder System: • Customizable — Color-coded sections for custom organization • Simple — Individual 3-hole-punched pages of clearly organized information make this binder a snap to use • Organized — Keep all of your City of Heroes information in one place for easy reference
Download or read book Hard Corps written by and published by All American Books. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Corps' reputation as the world's premier fighting force was forged on many battlefields by a succession of extraordinary men. Here are their stories. The battles: Belleau Wood, Samar, Makin, Iwo Jima, Hue City, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Marines: O'Bannon, Daly, Basilone, Puller, Boyington, and Chontosh - and much more. If anyone ever asks what makes Marines special, give them a copy of this book!
Download or read book Return of the Star Raiders written by Dietmar Arthur Wehr and published by Dietmar Arthur Wehr. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: fter the collapse of the interstellar Federation, human civilization descended into a new Dark Age as planets, cut off from Earth and each other reverted to a lower tech level. After centuries of struggling to pull themselves back up by their bootstraps, they face a new and terrible threat. Raiders with faster-than-light ships and contra-gravity tanks steal anything they want and kill anyone that gets in their way. This military SF novel is the story of three generations of a family as they fight to protect their planet and loved ones from the forces of chaos. Excerpt: He quickly checked the distance to the mine site and compared that with the missile’s own effective range and the X-12’s speed. There was a slim chance of getting within firing range before the enemy ships got too high. The throttles were already pushed as far forward as they could go, but there was one more thing Strider could try in order to get more speed. He initiated the afterburners, which poured fuel directly into the hot engine exhaust, causing secondary combustion and additional thrust. The sudden surge in speed felt like someone had just kicked him in the back. The enemy ships were starting to gain altitude faster now. The distance between them and the X-12 was dropping faster too, but there was no way to know for sure if it was dropping fast enough. With seconds to go until the enemy ships got within missile range, Strider armed the warhead, opened the weapons bay and lowered the missile’s launch platform. The fuel exhaustion warning light lit up, and he heard the accompanying warning alarm that he was almost out of fuel. Landing without fuel was going to be a bitch, but he couldn’t worry about that now. He had to focus on getting within firing range. Without radar, there was no way to know for sure, but his estimated position relative to the mine site told him that the enemy ships were now within missile range. He activated the Mark 3 warhead’s guidance system, which would begin radar scanning as soon as the missile launched and pressed his thumb down on the red firing button.
Download or read book Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis written by Jared Orsi and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer. The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito—now further threatened by the looming border wall—reemerge in Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to “reclaim” Quitobaquito’s pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the O’odham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of “preservation.” Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with O’odham peoples to restore their rightful heritage. Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks—and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.
Download or read book Marine Raiders written by Carole Engle Avriett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FORGOTTEN NO MORE. The American people revere their elite combat units, but one of these noble bands has been unjustifiably forgotten—until now. At the beginning of World War II, military planners set out to form the most ruthless, skilled, and effective force the world had ever seen. The U.S. Marines were already the world’s greatest fighters, but leadership wanted a select group to conduct special operations at the highest level in the Pacific theater. And so the Marine Raiders were born. These young men, the cream of the crop, received matchless training in the arts of war. Marksmen, brawlers, and tacticians, the Marine Raiders could accomplish their objective before the enemy even knew they were there. These heroes and their exploits should be the stuff of legend. Yet even though one of their commanders was President Roosevelt’s son, they have disappeared into the mists of history—the greatest warriors you’ve never heard of. Carole Engle Avriett’s thorough telling of the Marine Raider story includes: The personal narratives of four men who served as Marine Raiders Frontline accounts of the Raiders’ most important engagements The explanation for their obscurity, despite their earlier fame The Marine Raiders were one of the greatest forces ever to take the field under the American flag. After reading this book, you’ll know why.
Download or read book Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics written by Susan Yoshihara and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destabilizing effects of population decline
Download or read book Byzantium in the Year 1000 written by Paul Magdalino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, the Byzantine Empire was reaching the height of its revival as a medieval state. The ten contributions to this volume by scholars from six European countries re-assess key aspects of the empire's politics and culture in the long reign of the emperor Basil II, whose name has come to symbolise the greatness of Byzantium in the age before the crusades.
Download or read book Official Baseball Annual written by National Baseball Congress of America and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Makin to Bougainville written by Jon T. Hoffman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silo and the Rebel Raiders written by Veronica Peyton and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Silo Zyco hasn’t had the easiest start to life. His father was (probably) ‘Aquinus the Accursed’ - wanted for dog-theft, whereabouts unknown. His relatives all perished in a disaster involving a terrible wave and lots of mud. All he has inherited is the family reputation for thieving, and webbed feet. And his only friend has been killed, tragically mistaken for a large rodent. But Silo does have one thing that others envy. He can see things. Things that will happen in the future. And the people in the Capital are looking to recruit children just like him. An incredible adventure is about to begin . . .
Download or read book Naval Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Star Risk LTD written by Chris Bunch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the right price, they’ll go anywhere in the galaxy. They’ll do anything, fight anyone, face any danger. M’chel Riss was stagnating in the Alliance Marines, assigned to a desolate post in the middle of nowhere. Then a fortuitous chance brought her to the attention of Star Risk, Ltd., a ragtag bunch of misfits struggling to make a living. Their first mission: spring a dangerous super-soldier trapped in a maximum security prison. For money, fame, glory . . . mostly money.
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Download or read book Better to Reign in Hell written by Jim Miller and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silver-and-black-clad Oakland Raiders fans are the most notorious in American professional sports, with a mythic reputation for cursing, drinking, brawling, and generally wreaking mayhem. The devotion of the team's multiracial, largely blue-collar supporters runs deep, creating a profound sense of community. As Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew reveal in this hair-raising and entertaining new book, the self-described Raider Nation, smitten with its outlaw mystique, provides a gritty alternative to California's sunshine-and-granola image. Over the course of the harrowing 2003 season, Miller and Mayhew explored the reality behind the myth and interviewed legions of rabid Raiders fans—from suburban families to bikers—while attending games in the “Black Hole” (the rowdiest section in Oakland's stadium), frequenting sports bars, and crashing tailgate parties. Featuring the extraordinary photography of Joseph A. Blum, Better to Reign in Hell is both a rollicking tale of obsessive fandom and a fascinating study of the intersection of class, race, gender, and community in professional sports.
