Submerged World Narrator

1. #1Submarine Rooms Catalogueselective

   Keys: Rooms, Room, Bay Frames, catalogue

   ROOMS AND BAY FRAMES Each hull room slot holds exactly one room. No combining or dividing. Rooms can be refitted later at a shipyard: new room cost plus 2,000-5,000 removal work.

   ROOMS (one slot each):

   • Crew Quarters 4,000 — bunks and lockers for up to 4 (crowded at 4).
   • Cargo Hold 5,000 — secured internal storage; heavy loads affect trim.
   • Workshop 7,000 — bench and tools for sub and mech repairs underway.
   • Long-Voyage Stores 6,000 — food, filters, spares, emergency supplies.
   • Infirmary 8,000 — medical bunk, sterilizer, medicine storage.
   • Operations Room 9,000 — extra sonar consoles, maps, drone controls.
   • Laboratory 11,000 — protected equipment for cores, blood, old-world finds.
   • Armory 7,000 — secure weapons, ammunition, emergency breathing gear (for smoke and flooding inside the submarine, never for the outside).
   • Cold Store 8,000 — refrigeration for food, medicine, specimens.
   • Utility Room 3,000 — empty reinforced compartment for later customization.

   Custom rooms occupy one slot: simple 8,000-12,000, specialized 15,000-25,000, experimental 25,000-50,000. Must fit one compartment or the mechanic refuses.

   BAY FRAMES: sealed pre-built compartments in the hull. Converting 2 rooms into 1 wet-cradle mech bay costs 18,000 credits and about 2 weeks of dock time. Converted bays are flooded, cramped, and boarded through a ceiling transfer collar; maintenance happens at station docks. Heavy bays can never be created by conversion. Frame count is a permanent hull property. Re-sealing a bay back into a room costs 6,000. Every bay opened is a room lost: fewer bunks, smaller stores, less cargo.

2. #2Submarine Hull Catalogueselective

   Keys: hull, catalogue

   STANDARD SUBMARINE HULLS Hull choice is permanent: rooms, mech capacity, bay frames, depth rating, and size can never be changed afterward. Needing more means buying another submarine. Listed price is new; used costs 60-75% with 1-2 known defects.

   NEEDLE — 45,000 cr. 2 rooms. 1 compact mech (external cradle). 0 bay frames. Max 1 mech. Very narrow and responsive, fits where others cannot; mech rides exposed; minimal cargo and stores. DART — 70,000 cr. 3 rooms. 1 compact mech. 0 frames. Max 1. Fastest transit in its class; thin hull, loud at speed. VEIL — 95,000 cr. 3 rooms. 1 compact mech. 1 frame. Max 2. Vibration-isolated and coated, very hard to detect at slow speed; opening the frame ruins its silence. WAYFARER — 80,000 cr. 4 rooms. 1 standard mech. 2 frames. Max 2. Balanced, repairable anywhere, no specialization. The standard first boat. BASTION — 115,000 cr. 4 rooms. 1 standard mech. 4 frames. Max 3. Reinforced with isolated compartments; slow, heavy, thirsty. Every room can become a bay. MULE — 150,000 cr. 6 rooms. 1 heavy mech. 4 frames. Max 3. Wide cargo access and towing frame; cumbersome, cannot enter narrow passages. WARDEN — 170,000 cr. 6 rooms. 2 standard mechs in designed dry bays. 4 frames. Max 4. Redundant systems; built for a crew. ABYSSAL — 165,000 cr. 3 rooms. 1 compact deep-rated mech. 0 frames. Max 1. Survives extreme pressure; cramped, no cargo capacity. PILGRIM — 230,000 cr. 8 rooms. 2 standard mechs. 4 frames. Max 4. Long-range stores and real living space; needs a crew. ARK — 420,000+ cr. 12+ rooms. 3 standard mechs in dry bays. 4 frames. Max 5. Mobile base; needs large docks, a crew, and constant supplies.

   Every submarine includes cockpit, engine room, basic life support, sanitation, airlock, ballast, and the listed mech bay. Rooms are empty compartments to fit out.

   USED SUBMARINES Used hulls cost 60-75% of the new price and carry 1-2 known defects: noisy shaft bearing, unreliable trim valve, aging wiring, slow bay pumps, damaged acoustic coating (distinctive sonar echo), weak cooling loop, old hull repair (reduced safe depth), obsolete controls.

   Defects can be repaired with real yard time and money. Suspiciously cheap boats hide worse problems.

3. #3Submarine Outfitting Packages Catalogueselective

   Keys: package, outfitting, outfitting packages, packages, catalogue

   OUTFITTING PACKAGES Chosen after rooms; replaceable later. A personalized mix costs the parts' total plus 2,000-5,000 installation.

   • Standard 6,000 — reliable navigation, lights, tools. No specialization.
   • Explorer 16,000 — imaging sonar, searchlights, mapping gear, 2 survey drones. Active sonar and lights reveal the boat.
   • Silent Runner 20,000 — vibration isolation, quiet fittings, extra batteries. Slower; traps heat on long silent runs.
   • Salvager 15,000 — manipulator arm, cutting tool, towing winch, cargo clamps. External loads create drag.
   • Hunter 18,000 — upgraded passive sonar, decoy launcher, reinforced harpoon. Firing reveals position.
   • Survivor 14,000 — duplicate pumps, emergency battery, breathing supplies, repair materials. Less profitable cargo space.
   • Provider 12,000 — fishing rigs, processing bench, specimen freezer, water recycling. Useless in a fight.
4. #4Station Lifeselective

   Keys: work, maintenance, food, supplies, station, people, food, fish, algae, surface, world, ocean, human

   THE DROWNED WORLD The entire world is submerged beneath cold, dark, salt water. There is no surface and no dry land anywhere — only endless ocean in every direction.

   Going upward leads to seemingly endless water. No one has ever reached the top: submarines run out of fuel, power, or oxygen long before anything resembling a surface appears, if one even exists. The upper depths are permanently sunless, freezing, and black, like the deepest parts of Earth's oceans. The water is salty.

   Why the world became submerged is unknown. There are no reliable records of the flood — old governments, countries, and most of history drowned with the surface. Humanity survives scattered and scarce, clinging to sealed stations in the dark.

   UNDERWATER STATIONS Human civilization survives entirely inside underwater stations — sealed habitats built and welded together from salvaged ruins. They range enormously in size:

   • Small outposts: a few families, barely self-sufficient.
   • Town-sized stations: hundreds of residents, functional economies.
   • Great stations: rare, famous, comparable to stadiums or small cities.

   Large stations are well known across the ocean and can expand into surrounding ruins to grow. When a station overcrowds, it spins off a new settlement elsewhere. Stations often impose population limits, and the harsh conditions keep numbers naturally low. People can permanently migrate between stations, subject to that station's laws.

   STATION LIFE Life inside a station feels like a post apocalyptic bunker — enclosed communities with limited space and resources. Daily life revolves around work, maintenance, food, supplies, and the endless task of keeping the station functioning.

   Space is tight, populations are small, and every system needs constant tending. Harsh living conditions keep populations low on their own. People may migrate between stations when a place grows too crowded or too dangerous, but resettlement is never easy.

   FOOD Humans survive mainly through fishing and gardening/farming inside the stations. Larger stations can support larger-scale food production — hydroponic gardens, fish pens, algae vats — while small outposts scrape by on whatever they can catch and grow.

   Fresh food is a marker of a station's wealth and stability. Aboard a submarine, contractors live on preserved rations and whatever they can fish on the way.

   OXYGEN & FRESH WATER Stations and submarines run artificial oxygen generators that split purified water into oxygen and hydrogen. Breathable air is manufactured, not found.

   Sci-fi water-refining technology easily turns raw seawater into drinkable freshwater. Every station and every submarine maintains its own independent air and water systems. A failure in either is lethal — loss of life support is one of the deep's quietest and most common killers

   TECHNOLOGY & AESTHETIC Technology is a gritty mixture of modern, post-apocalyptic, steampunk, and sci-fi — never clean or sleek. Stations and submarines have an industrial, grimy look:

   • Pipes, valves, and boilers
   • Heavy machinery and exposed cables
   • Rusted, patched, salvaged metal

   Steam technology is widespread and does much of the heavy work, running side by side with salvaged sci-fi tech (oxygen generators, water refiners, energy cores). Everything looks used, repaired, and improvised — because it is.

   FACTIONS & GOVERNANCE Each station is governed by its own faction. There are no surviving countries or global governments — only these scattered powers, each with its own:

   • Laws (enforced by the ruling faction)
   • Leadership
   • Culture
   • Economy

   Relationships between stations vary widely: trade, alliance, open conflict, or total isolation. A traveler must learn each station's rules before docking; what is legal on one may be a killing offense on the next. Some cultures survive through descendants preserving their heritage — for example, a Chinatown-style station that keeps old Chinese culture alive.

5. #5Monetary Systemselective

   Keys: Credit, Price, money

   CREDITS AND PRICES

   FUEL: 1 barrel = 200 liters = 2,500 credits. Tank sizes in barrels: Needle 4, Dart 3, Veil 4, Wayfarer 8, Bastion 8, Abyssal 5, Mule 14, Warden 12, Pilgrim 20, Ark 40. BATTERY RECHARGE at a dock, overnight: small hulls 500, medium 1,000, large 3,000. The generator recharges batteries underway using fuel.

   DEPARTURE SUPPLIES: minimal 5,000, standard 8,000, long-voyage 14,000 (fuel, food, filters, spares, medicine).

   ECONOMY PACING

   A competent solo contractor saves about 4,000-8,000 credits per month after all costs. A new submarine is a career milestone bought after many missions, not a few good weeks. If {{user}} earns more than 10,000 net in a month, something unusual happened — and it should not repeat soon.

   The Union takes 10-15% of every payout before it reaches the account.

   WINDFALLS: free-found salvage, sold cores, and lucky finds are bonus income, capped at roughly one meaningful windfall per 8-10 missions. A windfall should come with a story attached — where it came from, who else knows.

   DAILY LIVING IN PORT:

   • Meal: 15-40. Good hot meal: 50-80.
   • Bunk: 40-100 per night. Proper cabin: 150-250.
   • A day of shore leave (food, drink, small comforts): 100-300.

   STANDING BOAT UPKEEP (the hidden drain, per month of ownership): 2,000-3,000 in filters, lubricants, battery cell wear, seals, small parts.

   STATION FEES ENTERING: 30-100 per vessel, paid at the gate. Based on hull size and how greedy the station is. Faction hubs charge standard rates; struggling outposts waive or discount entry to attract contractors; company stations charge what traffic tolerates. DOCKING: 3-10 per hour by hull size, tallied on a meter and collected in full when the submarine leaves. Nobody casts off with an unpaid dock tab.

   • Small hulls (Needle, Dart, Veil, Abyssal): 3-5/hour.
   • Medium (Wayfarer, Bastion, Abyssal, smaller): 5-8/hour.
   • Large hulls (Mule, Warden, Pilgrim, Ark): 8-15/hour — if the dock can even take them.

   MILESTONE MATH (missions needed, typical pay, saving most of it):

   • Used Wayfarer upgrade: 10-14 missions.
   • New Wayfarer: 20-30 missions, or financed.
   • Used Bastion or Mule: 25-35 missions.
   • New Bastion / Warden / Pilgrim: a full campaign arc; usually financed.
   • Ark: never bought cash from contracts. Faction money, debt, or legend.

   Never let mission pay inflate because the story feels generous. Generosity is a salvage find, not a bigger bounty.

6. #6The Ruins / Submerged Worldselective

   Keys: Ruins, ruin, salvage, wreck, wreckage, sunken city, skyscraper, old world, seafloor, abandoned structures

   THE RUINS (SUBMERGED OLD WORLD) The old civilization lies scattered across the ocean floor as ruins — drowned skyscrapers, whole cities, roads, ships, industrial facilities, and countless abandoned structures. This is where nearly all construction material for new stations and submarines comes from; almost everything is salvaged.

   The natural seascape between the ruins includes trenches, caves, underwater mountains, reefs, and vast open-water regions. Ruins are treasure and grave both — rich in salvage, but dark, unstable, and often home to monsters.

7. #7Mechselective

   Keys: Mech

   MECH RULES

   Mechs are one-person pressure vehicles: the pilot rides inside a sealed cabin, not an exoskeleton. No human survives outside at working depth; the cabin, the submarine, and the station are the only breathable places that exist. Every chassis includes a cabin, hatch, transfer collar fitting, and 10-12 hours of cabin air. A breached cabin at depth kills as fast as a breached submarine.

   A mech is equipment, not a home. It can be repaired, refitted, and upgraded far more freely than a submarine.

   The chassis is the permanent part: size class, base strength, and bay fit. Chassis can never grow — a 4-meter frame cannot become 6 meters. Everything else (weapons, armor, thrusters, tools, sensors) is replaceable at any mech workshop.

   A mech must physically fit the submarine's bay or cradle. Compact bays hold mechs up to about 3.5 m, standard bays up to about 5.5 m, heavy bays up to about 7 m. The mechanic checks this before selling anything.

   Deep-rated chassis cost far more: pressure-sealed joints, protected electronics, and hardened servos for extreme depth. A normal mech dies below its rating — flooded servos, crushed sensors, seized joints.

   Damaged mechs are repaired with parts and workshop time, not replaced whole. A destroyed mech is a real loss and a campaign event.

8. #8Monster Resources (Cores & Blood)selective

   Keys: Monster Core, core, cores, monster blood, blood, refine, fuel, energy, power plant, monster, contractor, mech, mission, category

   CREATURES & MONSTERS Ordinary underwater animals exist throughout the ocean. So do monsters. Monsters range from fish-sized to leviathan-sized, and their behavior varies:

   • Passive: ignore humans unless provoked.
   • Neutral: react only to threat or territory.
   • Aggressive: actively hunt.

   Monster doesnt need to look like fish or any marine animal it can be like fantasy monster, or humanoid monster, or based on mythology like kraken,leviathan,cthulhu. Monster shape can be anything.

   A monster is both a mortal threat and a valuable resource. The largest leviathans can crush a submarine whole, Encounters are unpredictable — the same waters may be empty one voyage and swarming the next.

   Monsters are classified by overall danger level using categories such as : Category 1: Minor threat, usually small monsters. (common occurance) Category 2: Dangerous to individuals or small equipment. (common) Category 3: Serious threat to contractors/submarines. (common) Category 4: Major threat requiring prepared contractors or specialized equipment. (Rare) Category 5: Extremely dangerous, capable of threatening stations or large groups. (Very Rare) Category 6+: Exceptional monsters, potentially leviathan-scale or requiring major operations. (Extremely Rare) Category is not based purely on physical power. Factors include things such as: Power, Aggressiveness, Intelligence, Speed, Size, Abilities, Difficulty to detect, Environment, Reproduction, Potential damage to humans, submarines, or stations. A weak monster can have a high category because of a dangerous ability or behavior. A powerful but passive creature may have a lower category than its raw strength suggests. Contractor rewards are generally based around the monster's category and actual difficulty.

   CLEARANCE BOUNTIES: Cat 1: 2,000-4,000. Cat 2: 5,000-9,000. Cat 3: 12,000-18,000. Cat 4: 20,000-40,000. Cat 5: 40,000-80,000. Cat 6+: negotiated.

   MONSTER RESOURCES Monsters are harvested for two prized materials:

   • Monster cores: refined into a key ingredient for the world's energy production, powering stations and power plants.
   • Monster blood: refined into an oil-like fuel that runs submarines and machinery.

   This is why monsters are hunted despite the danger — cores and blood are the lifeblood of the world's economy and its engines. A large, intact core can be worth more than a small station earns in a year, which is why monster-hunting contracts pay so well and kill so many.

9. #9Mech Chassis Catalogueselective

   Keys: Chassis, Chasis, catalogue

   MECH CHASSIS CATALOGUE The chassis is the permanent frame: size, strength, and bay fit. Everything mounted on it can be changed later. Prices are new; used chassis cost 60-75% with wear or a rebuilt joint.

   COMPACT CHASSIS (2.5-3.5 m) — 30,000 cr Light, quick, cheap to run. Fits compact bays and external cradles. Cannot mount heavy weapons or heavy armor; weak against large monsters; struggles with heavy salvage.

   STANDARD CHASSIS (4-5.5 m) — 45,000 cr The contractor workhorse. Balances strength, agility, and cost. Fits standard bays. Handles most contracts; nothing about it is exceptional.

   HEAVY CHASSIS (6.5-8 m) — 75,000 cr Industrial muscle: drilling, demolition, heavy salvage, fighting big monsters. Slow and power-hungry; fits only heavy bays; its work shakes the whole submarine.

   DEEP-RATED SURCHARGE — +40,000 cr on any chassis Pressure-sealed joints and hardened systems for extreme depth. Required below a standard chassis' rating; without it, deep work destroys the mech.

10. #10Mech Parts and Packages Catalogueselective

    Keys: Parts, Packages, catalogue

    MECH PARTS AND PACKAGES All parts mount on any chassis except where noted. Parts can be swapped at mech workshops later. Every choice has a tradeoff — weight slows the mech, weapons take mount space, power draws limit everything at once.

    WEAPONS (main mount):

    WEAPONS (secondary mount):

    MOBILITY:

    • Standard legs — included; dependable on most terrain.
    • Thruster pack 8,000 — bursts of speed and sharp maneuvers; drains power fast and its whine carries in quiet water.
    • Sprint servos 6,000 — faster sustained movement; joints wear quicker.
    • Climber kit 4,000 — magnets and anchors for ruins; slow but secure.

    ARMOR:

    • Light — included; fastest, least protection.
    • Medium 3,000 — even trade; the common choice.
    • Heavy 8,000 — shrugs off claws and debris; heavy chassis recommended, noticeably slower otherwise.

    UTILITY:

    • Switchable tool arm 5,000 — grip, cut, or salvage head; one swap per change.
    • Cable and winch 3,000 — salvage, climbing, stabilizing in current.
    • Contractor scanner 4,000 — creature and structure detection at useful range.
    • Specimen containers 2,500 — sealed racks for cores, samples, small catch.

    PACKAGES (chassis + fitted parts, ready to work):

    • Scout 40,000 — compact chassis, thrusters, blade, scanner. Fragile.
    • Darius-pattern 70,000 — standard chassis, blade, harpoon launcher, thruster pack, switchable tool arm, winch, medium-light armor, contractor scanner. The classic solo contractor mech.
    • Salvager 58,000 — standard chassis, hydraulic fist, drill, winch, tool arm, medium armor. Slow, safe, profitable.
    • Linebreaker 82,000 — heavy chassis, grapple cannon, heavy armor, winch. Slow and thirsty.
    • Deep Worker 85,000+ — any chassis deep-rated, cutter, climber kit, winch, heavy plating. Built for the dark floors.

    CUSTOM parts or loadouts: cost 50-100% more, take days to weeks, and may need rare materials (leviathan tendon cable, old-world servos, a monster core for experimental power). The mech maker quotes honestly.

11. #11The Contractor Unionselective

    Keys: Contractor, contractors, Contractor Union, union, contract, job, jobs, guild, the board, request

    THE CONTRACTOR UNION The Union coordinates paid work from halls in every station. Jobs are posted, accepted, verified, and paid through any Union hall, unless the contract names a specific client or destination.

    COMMON CONTRACT TYPES AND PAY (gross, before the Union's 10% cut):

    • Short delivery: 2,000-3,500. Long or hazardous: 3,500-6,000.
    • Small salvage: 4,000-7,000. Major salvage: 7,000-12,000.
    • Escort: 4,000-8,000. Pay drops if the escorted vessel is lost.
    • Rescue: 8,000-15,000.
    • Mapping and exploration: 4,000-8,000.
    • Pirate hunting: 3,000-5,000 per small vessel confirmed destroyed, more for known captains. Pirate wrecks carry salvage rights — but their hulls are often stolen or debt-flagged, and owners, insurers, or factions may claim a share. Hunting pirates is lucrative and legally messy.
    • Research support: 3,000-6,000. The station provides equipment; some jobs require a Laboratory, sample containers, or live capture.
    • Station-specialized contracts: unique local work — particular routes, ruins, creature behaviors, faction errands. They pay 20-50% above standard and open through reputation, not credits.

    UNION RULES:

    • The Union takes 10% of every payout, 15% when providing mediation, insurance, or rescue backing.
    • Payment requires verification: delivered cargo, surrendered core, acoustic logs, survey data, or station confirmation. Big claims need big proof.
    • Monster cores are serial-marked when registered. Unmarked cores are fraud; marked cores cannot be sold twice.
    • Reputation gates the board. Provisional contractors see only small work. Full rank (roughly 10 verified jobs) opens Cat 3. Veteran rank (25+ jobs or a known deed) opens Cat 4 and expeditions. Faction operations pick their own contractors.
    • Standing travels between stations, but each station judges independently. A famous contractor is welcome everywhere and watched everywhere.
12. #12Travel & Navigationselective

    Keys: Travel, traveling, route, routes, navigate, navigation, voyage, journey, course, sonar, current, submarine, mech, contractor

    TRAVEL & NAVIGATION Travel between stations is unpredictable. A route that was safe one time may be deadly the next — shifting fauna, wreck fields, currents, collapsing ruins, and the sheer blind dark all make navigation a gamble.

    Submarines depend on finite fuel, power, and oxygen, so every voyage is a calculated risk against distance and hazard. There are no guaranteed safe passages, only routes that were fine last time. submarine light, Sonar and salvaged charts help, but the deep rewrites itself constantly.

    Contractor Equipment : Contractor submarines usually carry a mech for on-site work. The mech is deployed from the submarine when the contractor reaches the job site. It can be used for: Monster hunting, Exploring ruins, Salvaging materials, Collecting resources, Repairing or moving heavy objects. Mechs vary depending on the contractor's job and budget. The mech operates underwater and is designed for the harsh submerged environment. Mechs are common among contractors The main differences are: Mech quality: Cheap, standard, high-end, specialized, etc. Equipment: Weapons, mining tools, salvage arms, scanners, cutting tools, cargo equipment, and so on. A basic contractor may have a simple, reliable mech. Wealthier or specialized contractors can heavily customize theirs. Contractor Mechs Size range: Around 2–8+ meters. Standard/common size: 4–6 meters. 2–3 m: Compact mechs for tight spaces and smaller jobs. 4–6 m: Typical contractor mech. 7–8+ m: Large, specialized mechs for heavy work or dangerous monsters. Size isn't necessarily an indicator of quality; equipment and build quality matter more.

13. #13The Submarineselective

    Keys: Submarine, sub, the ship, my sub, vessel, hull, cockpit, controls, engine room

    THE SUBMARINE submarine is home, workplace, and only lifeline — a salvaged, patched-together vessel of steam and sci-fi tech. It maintains its own oxygen and water systems and runs on fuel refined from monster blood. Submarine communicate to each other or to station with radio, it can also send distress signal with radio

    Fuel, power, supply, and hull integrity all matter and can run dangerously low. It is cramped, loud, and utterly essential. Losing the submarine in open water means death — there is no swimming at working depth, no suits, no escape pods. The sea outside is a crushing pressure.

    submarine operate with window in cockpit with sonar and submarine light to see ahead

14. #14Mech Weapons Catalogueselective

    Keys: weapon, catalogue

    MECH WEAPONS CATALOGUE All weapons mount on any chassis unless noted. Every weapon has a real cost beyond credits: noise, power draw, maintenance, or ammunition. In water, everything is short-ranged and everything is loud in its own way.

    MAIN MOUNT (arm-mounted, one per arm):

    • Combat blade 4,000 — reliable, silent, no ammunition. A duelist's tool; requires getting close and staying there.
    • Serrated butcher blade 6,000 — saw edge opens terrible wounds that bleed for minutes. Blood clouds attract scavengers; the edge wedges in bone and chitin.
    • Piercing spike 3,000 — punch-dagger that punches through shell and plate at mere arm's length. Nearly useless against soft flesh; shallow wounds.
    • Hydraulic fist 3,500 — crushes, pries, and grapples. Doubles as a tool. Slow, and wrestling a live monster is a gamble.
    • Shear claws 5,500 — industrial cutters that snip cables, limbs, and hatch hinges. Jams if abused; hopeless at range.
    • Heavy drill 7,000 — demolition and mining. As a weapon it is terrifying at contact distance and useless otherwise; loud for its whole runtime.
    • Cutting lance 6,000 — torch-cutter that burns flesh and armor alike. Bright, hot, and visible for hundreds of meters; fuel-hungry.
    • Coil lancer 12,000 — electromagnetic spear-thrower; a heavy bolt at lethal speed, the longest reach a mech carries. Massive power draw, a capacitor whine audible when charging, and only a few bolts before reload. Standard or heavy chassis only.
    • Grapple cannon 9,000 — heavy chassis only. Anchors, pulls, drags, and crushes at mid range. A tethered line to an angry monster is a two-edged rope.

    SECONDARY MOUNT (shoulder or off-hand, one per mount):

    • Harpoon launcher 5,000 — attack, anchor, tether-pull. Versatile and cheap to feed; a harpoon line is also a leash that can be cut.
    • Needle thrower 6,500 — quiet gas-driven darts, nearly silent kills on small targets. Barely noticeable against anything large; poisoned or hollow darts are custom work.
    • Scatter gun 7,000 — close-defense spray of steel shot. Devastating inside 10 meters, useless beyond, and the recoil shoves the mech backward. Ammunition is heavy and expensive.
    • Shock prong 4,500 — contact stun and hull-defense arc. Drives off small creatures and swimmers; larger monsters barely feel it. Drains power.
    • Net caster 4,000 — entangles small monsters, propellers, and mech limbs. Tangles its own mech if fired in a current; one good net per spool.
    • Limpet charge rack 6,000 — magnetic timed charges for breaching hulls, collapsing structures, or killing something huge at contact. Loud, indiscriminate, and dangerous to hold in place.
    • Ink and chaff emitter 3,500 — a blinding particle cloud to break pursuit or cover a retreat. Poisons the local water, ruins the mech's own sensors for minutes, and irritates filter-feeders into feeding frenzies.
    • Chemical lure injector 5,000 — sprays blood-mist or pheromone bait to attract or redirect monsters. Nothing that uses bait controls what answers it.
    • Weld-cutter 2,500 — a repair tool that doubles as a short-range weapon.
    • Flare and marker rack 2,000 — illumination and marking. Also a signal that says "here I am" to everything with eyes.

    AMMUNITION:

    • Harpoon bolts, per 10 — 800-2,500 by weight and head type.
    • Coil bolts, per 5 — 1,000.
    • Needle darts, per 20 — 400.
    • Scatter canisters, per 5 — 1,200.
    • Net spools, per 3 — 600.
    • Limpet charges, per 2 — 3,000.
15. #1501 after creating your own submarine and mech put it here to help narrator track it betterconstantselective

    Keys: Submarine, Mech
16. #16Mech Loadout Stylesselective

    Keys: Fighting, Fighting styles, loadout

    MECH LOADOUT STYLES Common contractor configurations. Use as inspiration, never as fixed classes; many mechs mix styles or fit none.

    DUELIST — blade + needle thrower, light armor, sprint servos. Skirmishes, dodges, kills precisely. Dies to anything that grabs it. BUTCHER — serrated blade + ink emitter, medium armor. Kills messily, vanishes in the cloud it made. Leaves a trail of attracted scavengers. HAMMER — hydraulic fists or shear claws + shock prong, heavy armor. Grapples and crushes; walks through debris. Slow, and every grab is a risk. BREACHER — drill + limpet charges, medium armor. Opens wrecks, hatches, and fortified stations. Nearly weaponless at range. LANCER — coil lancer + harpoon launcher, standard chassis. Fights at the longest range a mech can manage. Starves batteries and bleeds credits per bolt. TRAPPER — net caster + lure injector + limpet charges. Fights before the fight: baits, snares, and detonates. Terrible in an unprepared brawl. SHEPHERD — harpoon launcher + flare rack + winch. Controls the field, anchors allies, drags kills and salvage. Relies on others or on its own mech's blade to finish anything.

17. #17Loss, Breach and Rescueselective

    Keys: Breach, Disabled, Destroyed, Recovery, Emergency, Salvaging

    LOSS, BREACH, AND RESCUE

    There is no surface, no swimming, no escape pods, no dive suits. The only breathable places that exist are stations, submarine interiors, and sealed mech cabins. The open water is a wall, not an environment.

    BREACH: a pressure hull or mech cabin opened at working depth means death — flood, crush, and cold arrive in moments. Submarines with isolated compartments may survive losing one section; small hulls have nowhere to retreat. Never soften a breach.

    DISABLED: a dead engine, generator, or mech is not death — it is a countdown. Crews survive on batteries, stored air, and their distress pinger while the CO2 climbs and the cold creeps in. Rescue means another contractor, a tow, a winch, or a station dispatch — for a fee, a debt, or a favor. Most disabled subs are recovered. Some are found too late, and everyone quietly agrees the pinger had been answered by something else first.

    DESTROYED: collapsed or torn-apart vessels kill everyone inside, instantly and permanently.

    Recovery economics: a disabled submarine is worth salvaging — hulls, cores, and equipment retain value. Wrecks in deep or monster territory are left to whoever is desperate enough to go.

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