leave the billion dollar company alone (Class: Paladin)

Start with (2d20)...

1. 3d-printed katana (cheap piece of shit)
2. sweat-soaked ankle weights (jump twice as high when they're off)
3. niche extrasolar media fixation (+1 language)
4. predator-tan body pillow (+4 to xenosexual relations)
5. cat ear motorcycle helmet (motorcycle not included)
6. ancap flag (as big stupid cape)
7. 6-pack Political Assassin Purple Rush energy drink
8. RGB keyboard + second monitor + moderator privileges
9. home self-defense video starring Cholk Gratham, inventor of the mantis kick
10. overweight psychopath rodent, pet (disposition as scheming eunuch)
11. ontologically evil funko pop (indestructible, probably cursed)
12. signed headshot of Bigfoot 
13. military camouflage pattern rice cooker
14. nunchaku, shuriken (6x), bō
15. 102% account completion in Gacha Hunter Panic! (high resale value, but traumatic to part with)
16. communist utopia memory implant
17. zero-g gas-powered mamachari + delivery bag
18. 200lbs of exotic birdseed (won in raffle)
19. spirit box vape rig
20. the thing they killed shinzo abe with

You've sworn yourself to one or more megacorporations (see below). Choose any number of vows to swear:

• Poverty - Compulsively spend all your money on worthless merchandise.
• Pseudosilence - Speak only in slogans, taglines, and advertisements.
• Chastity - No kissing, no hand stuff, no bare skin, and no showers.

You're considered armored as long as you keep your vows. You also gain access to the tech tree:

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d20 megacorps to pledge your life to

1. Green Revolution Omega (GRO) – Own 3 fertile moons of the nameless planet.
2. Central Dairy Coalition (CDC) – Jealous wardens of the last cows in existence.
3. Miracle Industries (MIR) – Algae harvesters. Crab owned and operated.
4. Earthwyrm (WYR) – Artificial sucrose barons.
5. Epyrus (PYR) – “Target death guaranteed. Operator survival probable.”
6. Xenograd Solutions (XGR) – Xeno mercenary agency and law firm.
7. Surefire Arms (SFR) – Video casette rental moguls turned arms dealers.
8. Krato Corporation (KCO) – Orbital bombardment investors betting against terrestrial life.
9. Glip (GLP) – Glimpdrive patent-holders. Trying to rebrand it as the Glip™drive.
10. Forward Inc. (FWD) – Thruster manufacturers. Invented planned obsolescence.
11. Horizonline (HZN) – Mass-manufacture sub-FTL citizen-class space-yachts.
12. Zero Point Shielding (ZPT) – Superdense materials conglomerate.
13. The Gordians (GRD) – Prestigious worm academics. More dynasty than company.
14. Fifth Wave Labs (5LB) – Radio technology think tank.
15. C0LL1D3R (COL) – Materials lab-slash-deregulatory super PAC.
16. Ever (EVR) – Publicly-traded secret society dedicated to the quest for immortality.
17. Fifth Wave Entertainment (5WV) – Radio tastemakers.
18. Surefire Video (VCR) – They still do rentals!
19. Central System Preservatory (CSP) – Museum-caretakers-slash-money-lenders.
20. Butters & Sons (BTS) – Corn-based biofuel. Corn-based textiles. Corn-based ship hulls. Corn-based explosives. Corn-based religion.

My default scifi setting

The Centrist Alliance is so named because they occupy the system at the center of the universe. Centrists have known about faster-than-light travel for hundreds of years, but interstellar spaceship travel was just invented today.

Faster-than-light travel involves glimping into glimpspace with a glimpdrive. No one understands this, but it works. The exception are the Yeom, hyperdimensional worm-people from the gas giant Seoun Tri; they describe it as “a little down and to the right, but also left, if that makes sense :)”

Besides FTL, the technology level is pretty low: Laser weaponry doesn’t exist. Everything is powered by rocket fuel, most of which comes from natural deposits of metastable metallic hydrogen and whale blubber. Computers are about on par with the 1970s. AI is basically magic.

The standard unit of currency is a gajillion dollars (1g). 1000g is a katrillion dollars (1k), 1000k is a zillion dollars (1z)

There are four species of centrist. For our purposes, they mostly get along.

• Simian – Four-handed, hairy. Moved to a massive space station after rendering their nameless home planet uninhabitable.
• Yeom – Hyperdimensional parasitic symbiotic mind control very convincing worms. Staunchly aristocratic. Only they understand how faster-than-light travel works.
• Xeno – Sleek, hairless super-predators with extreme prey drives. Psychologically identical to hyper-intelligent tigers.
• Crab – Hard-working, God-fearing, Manifest Destiny extremophiles.

Centrist names sound like this: