Campaign Objective: Defend

Defending and object, location, person, or item may be a short-term assignment or an entire campaign. If for example you are hired as a security force to protect a corporation you could be employed for years. Or you could be assigned to protect a caravan or transport vehicle from attack until it reaches its final destination. The defend table further expands the possibilities for a campaign, but like all the optional objective tables the items listed here can be ignored or selected instead or rolled.

Friendly Forces: Your mission is to defend a friendly force (s). They maybe retreating troops or civilian refugees. Either way your mission is to ensure there continued survival. You could be stationed as a garrison force in a village or to protect a convoy of transports. The successful completion of your mission means that the friendly force (s) survive, or reach their destination, etc.

Corporations: You have been hired/assigned to protect a select corporation from attack and or espionage. You may be working for a defense contractor to help defend a new prototype weapon, or a computer firm researching new technologies. Perhaps you have been assigned to a medical corporation developing a new vaccine or disease. Whatever the business, you are assigned its protection for as long as needed or until re-assigned. The successful completion of this mission is hard to determine, a long tem assignment (campaign) could last a very long time, and depending on the type of corporation, very eventful.

Important Personnel: You have been assigned bodyguard duties to a VIP; this could be a diplomat, double agent, government official, scientist, engineer, etc. Whatever the person’s job, someone feels that they are important enough to need protection, and important enough that the enemy would like to see them dead, or worse. Your duties will be complete when the danger to that person has passed or they have reached their final destination.

Vital Equipment/Systems: You have been assigned to protect a vital system from attack or sabotage. The equipment or system may belong to a telecommunications set up, or perhaps to a power generator. The equipments continued function is vital to the success of an operation, or the survival of a group. You have the responsibility to both protect and maintain the operation of the system. Detection of sabotage or preventative maintenance is all part of the job. You must be on your toes; if the equipment fails you could be putting a lot of people at risk.

Base: You are on guard duty at a military base or other instillation. Equipment, aircraft, trucks, trains or other transport vehicles are coming and going at all hours of the day and night so you must be ever vigilant against sabotage and espionage. Perhaps the base you are protecting is a weapons test facility, missile launch base, air base, transport hub, staging area, repair facility or bio-chemical weapon manufacturing and storage facility. Whatever the purpose of the base, it must not be damaged, fall to enemy troops or be compromised.

Terrain: Your mission is to defend a specific location (terrain) from enemy encroachment. Strategically important terrains that could be used to give the enemy a tactical advantage are high priority targets that you could be assigned to protect. Other terrains that could be assigned are fresh water sources, mines, mineral deposits, damn, hydroelectric facility, or other infrastructure item. Whatever the terrain, it has been determined that its continued protection is vital or at least very important to someone.