Sigma Force Hero

[shadowcat1313]

Has anybody else read the Sigma Force books by James Rollins?

there a team of mostly ex special forces folks with advanced science training also. there sorta in the vein of the Da Vinci Code, but are better written IMHO.

 

books in the series so far:

Sandstorm

Map of Bones

Black Order

Judas Strain

The Last Oracle

 

Team members:

Painter Crowe: former Ranger, degree in physics, part native american, speaks 3 languages and an expert horseman/trainer.

 

Grayson Pierce: Ex Ranger, degrees in biology and chemistry. court martialed after striking a superior officer in bosnia, spent a year in Leavenworth. devout catholic whos also studied Buddhism and Taoism

 

Monk Kokkalis: former Green Beret, degrees in biology and forensic medicine

 

Kat Bryant: former Naval Inteligence, degrees in electrical engineering and computer science.

 

Dr Lisa Cummings: MD with training at the CDC and WHO, specializes in infectious diseases.

 

Rachel Verona: Italian Carabineri officer on loan, degrees in art history, psychology, and International Law. specializes in Art Theft and Smuggling.

[bubba smith]

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carabineri?

[shadowcat1313]

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Carabineri are the Italian National Police Force, roughly equivilant to the FBI, I will just use a slightly modified FBI agent package deal for her writeup

[bubba smith]

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thanks

[Killer Shrike]

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...and together, they FIGHT CRIME!

[shadowcat1313]

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More on the books here

 

The Last Oracle:

What if you could bio-engineer the next great world prophet: scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Muhammad, or even the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction with disastrous consequences?

 

The Judas Strain:

From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind—unknown, unstoppable . . . and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.

 

The Black Order:

In Copenhagen . . . a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents—and into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.

 

The Map of Bones:

The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers havent come for the churchs gold and valuable artwork, but for a priceless treasure secreted within: the preserved bones of the Three Magi who once came to pay homage to a newborn savior. As they flee the carnage they have wrought, they carry a prize that could reshape the world.

 

Sandstorm:

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallerys brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. And the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at journeys end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia . . . or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia. NOTE: This is the first Sigma Force Novel, but only involves Painter Crowe directly

[freakboy6117]

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that sounds a lot like the UNIT Combat archeology teams I am planning to write up for my UK hero project.

 

a group of scientist/engineers scholars( historians, occultist linguist archaeologist etc) with some combat training and a security team with some science or academic background sent into investigate strange happenings so mysterious ruins, alien space craft and scientific anomalies.

 

i hope it should make for an interesting dark champions style game. ( something like a 4-6 person core team of PCs and a npc few red shirt soldiers on the security team and a npc few extra scientist to meddle in things man was not meant to know. alternatively you could run it so you play both a science and a security team member simultaneously that might make for an interesting game )