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The Morrow Project is a tabletop science fiction role-playing game created by Kevin Dockery, Robert Sadler and Richard Tucholka and published by TimeLine Ltd set after a devastating nuclear war. It was first released in the 1980s and still has a loyal following.

The game is based around the idea that a group of industrialists predict the coming of an apocalyptic nuclear war and begin to create a plan for an infrastructure that will survive it. This plan is the eponymous "Morrow Project". A number of volunteers are cryogenically frozen in hidden bunkers (Called "Boltholes") along with a variety of equipment that will allow them to rebuild civilisation after the war has finished and the resulting nuclear fallout diminished to acceptable levels.

The central Morrow Project base "Prime" awakens its inhabitants on schedule but is attacked and badly damaged. The initial Morrow Project members are wiped out. One hundred and fifty years after the end of the war the malfunctioning Prime computer finally issues the wakeup signal that revives all of the Morrow Project bases.

The players take on the roles of these members of the Project who have awakened late. Is the Project fatally compromised or can the scattered outposts reconnect and replace the missing headquarters?

Initial Scenario

The initial scenario may be played with nothing other than the game book, dice, paper and pencil, Expansion sets are available introducing further scenarios, weapons and equipment.

One hundred and fifty years after the Third World War, the members of the Morrow Project wake to a strange world. Instead of being part of an organized plan to rebuild their civilization, they find themselves isolated in a world where the War is only a distant legend, the people are ignorant of anything but the struggle to survive and strange mutated animals haunt their footsteps.

Players of the Morrow Project must not only survive but must carry out their original mission: to rebuild the world. To do this they have their equipment and training, their team and their own guts and imagination. Together with their teammates they must try to do alone a job that thousands were trained to do.

Included in the game book is targeting information for the missiles that fell, full details on Morrow Project teams, vehicles and equipment, modern weapons, complete medical details, the people and creatures living in the post-holocaust world.

MARS, Recon, Scientific and Specialty

While each team is equipped to survive on its own it proved impossible to equip the all the teams for every post-war contingency, Some Recon teams are almost as heavily armed as the MARS units while others are more specially oriented then others.

Below is a general summary of the Project groups:

Recon: The general purpose and most numerous teams of the Project, The teams are equipped with varying types of weapons ranging from Cadillac Gage Commando armored cars to the SK-5 hovercraft. Their orders are to reconnoiter the countryside and advise Prime Base to which teams should be awakend next to support the rebuilding process.

MARS: The military arm of the Project, MARS unitss are equipped with heavy weapons such as man portable lasers and heavy vehicles such as the MARS ONE which is a heavily armed and armored truck/command post, Powered armor and Gyrocopters. Their orders are to support and defend the other groups. A large portion of MARS teams are ex-Military, MARS stands for Mobile Assault, Rescue and Strike forces.

Scientific: The Scientific teams are non-specialized groups designed to be able to cope with just about any situation such as helping survivors rebuild or dealing with an outbreak. The groups have knowlage ranging from Biology to Nuclear Physics and the crews are trained scientists and technicians. Their armament is second only to that of the MARS teams.

Specialty: This is a broad term applied to Project groups that have a specific function in regard to their equipment and personnel. Specialty groups generally consist of teams frozen and ordered to meet at a predesignated point. Most Specialty teams are not as heavily armed as the Recon or MARS teams as it was felt that they could not operate to their full extent if survivors felt threatened by them. Specialty groups assigned to the Project include:

:Engineering: Building, construction, repair and maintenance of Project equipment. :Agricultural: Farming and livestock. Equipped to assist farming communities. :Psychological: Formed to handle extremist groups and riots.

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