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Warning!Violence, War, Magic & the Supernatural

The fictional worlds of Rifts® are violent, deadly and filled with aliens, war and supernatural mon-sters. Other-dimensional beings often referred to as “demons,” torment, stalk and prey on humans. Alien life forms, monsters, vampires, ghosts, ancient gods and demigods, as well as magic, insanity, psychic powers and combat are all elements in this book. All of it is fiction.

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An epic sourcebook for the Rifts® series.Compatible with the entire Palladium Books® Megaverse®

Rifts® World Book 33:

Northern Gun™ OneRifts® Northern Gun™ One is an epic World Book that contains a wealth of information, characters, locations, O.C.C.s,

robots and weapons from the largest arms dealer and independent manufacturer on the continent: Northern Gun™.! In-depth look at Northern Gun, its robots, stores, politics and operations.! 70+ NG weapons; old and new.! 27 NG giant combat and exploration robots. Described in detail.! Many new robot weapon systems and features, including alternative power supplies, anti-monster gear and experi-

mental weapons.! Northern Gun freighter ships and hovertrains.! Notable cities and people of the Ishpeming Republic/Northern Gun.! NG O.C.C.s, police, specialists and NG Mercenary army.! The NG Bounty Board, the largest collection of bounties and mercenary contracts anywhere on Rifts Earth.! Key locations, people and dangers around Northern Gun.! Northern Gun’s relationship with the CS and other nations.! 224 pages written by Matthew Clements and Kevin Siembieda.

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The cover, by Charles Walton, depicts the immediate aftermath of a battle between a hostile dragon and a Northern Gun mercenary company armed with NG combat robots and power armor. The location, a remote part of Upper Michigan.

First Printing – October 2013

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Dedication from MatthewThis book is dedicated to the people of Michigan; in the past, present, future and all the various realities of the Megaverse. Geography

shaped us like a mitten, politics gave us a beautiful second peninsula, and people have built a state that both Palladium Books and I are proud to call home. It was a privilege to breathe life into such a pivotal player on the world of Rifts Earth, a task that I enjoyed immensely both as a writer and as a fan. I only hope you all have as much fun exploring Northern Gun as I did.

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Palladium Books® Presents:

Rifts® World Book 33:

Northern Gun™ OneConceived by: Matthew Clements

Written by: Matthew Clements & Kevin Siembieda

Additional Writing & Ideas: Carl Gleba Carmen Bellaire Charles Walton

Editors: Alex Marciniszyn Wayne Smith Kevin Siembieda

Proofreader: Julius Rosenstein

Cover Illustration: Charles Walton

Interior Artists: Amy L. Ashbaugh Wayne Breaux Jr. Mark Dudley Kevin Long Allen Manning Brian Manning Michael Mumah Tanya J. Ramsey Benjamin Rodriguez Charles “Chuck” Walton II

Art Direction: Kevin SiembiedaTypography and Layout: Wayne Smith

Based on the RPG rules, writings, characters, settings,concepts and Megaverse® created by Kevin Siembieda.

Special Thanks to Matthew Clements for his ideas and wonderful words, to Carl Gleba and Carmen Bellaire who are always an inspiration, to Chuck Walton whose imagination and artistry sends my own imagination into overdrive, to all of Palladium’s incredible artists, Chuck, Mike, Mark, Brian, Allen, Tanya, Ben, Mike, and Amy, and to the Palladium crew, Alex, Wayne, Kathy, Julius and Jeff, all of whom have made this book, and so many others, a reality.

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James Walker

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Rifts® Northern Gun ContentsNorthern Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8The History of Northern Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Alliance with the CS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Northern Gun, 109 P.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Republic of Ishpeming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Manistique Imperium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10NG’s Current Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Overall Tech Levels in North America . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Additional Tech Manufacturers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Northern Gun Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12NG Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Non-Contract Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Employees of Northern Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Pride and Corporate Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14NG Factories & Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Northern Gun Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Northern Gun’s Policy on Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Techno-Wizardry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Northern Gun Policy on D-Bees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Spies, Theft & Corporate Espionage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Active Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Naruni Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Coalition States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Policy on Reverse-Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18The Reverse-Engineering Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

NG Research and Development Branch . . . . . . . . . . 19The Research & Development Complex . . . . . . . . . . . 19Loss Prevention Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Andrea Callister, Chief LPO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20NG Trade Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Trade Council Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21The NGMI Credit System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Northern Gun Retail Outlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Showrooms and Warehouse Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . 24NG Returns Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Northern Gun Foreign Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Coalition States: Allies or Overlords? . . . . . . . . . . . . 25The Black Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Naruni Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26The Republic of Ishpeming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Cities of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Welcome to Ishpeming, Home of NG . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Secure Storage Bunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31The Parking Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Hovertrain Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31The Safe Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Security Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Defensive Bunkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

The City of Ishpeming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32City Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Corporate District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32NG Headquarters, Ishpeming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Notable Corporate Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Other Areas of Northern Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34A note about building size & security . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Downtown Northern Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35The Mall of Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Ed’s Used Vehicle Emporium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36The Operators’ Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37The Hovertrain Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Vanderman Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39NGMI Central Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Otherworldly Animal Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41The Ishpeming Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Map of Upper Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Fort Sawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Marquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Naval Development Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43The IM Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Trenary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Lake Michigan Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Escanaba – “MercBay” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45The Escanaba Docks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Purchasers and Resellers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46The Discount Docks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Downtown Escanaba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

The Escanaba Robodome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Escanaba Airfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48The Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48NG Bounty Registry: Escanaba Office . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Jailhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Escanaba’s NG Corporate District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50The Escanaba Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Escanaba Coastal Defenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Gladstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Stone Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Menominee, “Pirate’s Point” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Map of Michigan & Surrounding Region . . . . . . . . . 52

Menominee Air Depot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Wisconsin Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53The Iron Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Iron Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Ironwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Iron Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Porcupine Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55The Michigan Lower Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Green Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Plum Island Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Washington Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57The Rest of Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Lake Superior & Northern Ishpeming . . . . . . . . . . . 58Houghton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Keweenaw Peninsula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Apostle Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Ontonagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Task Force X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60IMCN: Ishpeming Military Contract Network . . . . . . 62Monthly Pay Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Common Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Contract Bidding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64IMCN School of Soldiery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Annual Mercenary Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Notable Military Contractors of IMCN . . . . . . . . . . 66Big Money Militia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66The Lakeguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Duckworth’s Marines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69The Patrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71The NG Bounty Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Standard Bounty Registry Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Other Common Bounties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Notable Bounties Wanted Dead or Alive . . . . . . . . . . . 75Northern Gun O.C.C.s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Bush Pilot O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76NG Loss Prevention Officer (LPO) O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . 78Monster Responder O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80NG Police Officer O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Police Interceptor Rocket Bike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Light Police Power Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

NG Robot Control O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86NG Sales Rep O.C.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Freighter Traffic on the Great Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Random Freighter Generation Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Step One: Ship Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Step Two: Shipping Vessel Armaments . . . . . . . . . . 90Step Three: Ship’s Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Step Four: Ship’s Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Step Five: Presence of Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Tugboats & Lake Escorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Northern Gun Hovertrains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Hovertrain Locomotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Hovertrain Boxcars/Flatbed/Passenger Cars . . . . . . . . . 96Hovertrain Weapon Cars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Random Hovertrain Generation Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Northern Gun Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Alphabetical List of NG Combat Robots . . . . . . . . . . 100Standard Features of NG Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Reinforced Pilot Compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Alternative Fuel Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Solid Oxide Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Standard Solid Oxide Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Heavy-Duty Solid Oxide Fuel Cells . . . . . . . . . . . 102Dangers and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Converting Vehicles to Solid Oxide Fuel Cells . . . . . . . 102NG’s Electric Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Beachmaster Amphibious Assault Robot . . . . . . . . 103

Heavy Flamethrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105M.D. Chainsaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Electric Field Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

EX-5 Behemoth Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106EX-9 Behemoth Super-Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Super-X Features of Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Other Notable Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Weapon Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111NG-V50 Bigfoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Weapon Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Special Rapid-Fire Strafing Burst . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Communications and Sensor Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

AX-44 Bison Battler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Light Flamethrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Blocker Combat Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118Blocker Shield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

NG-V32 Bruiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120High-Impact Piston Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

NG-V34 Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123Twin Particle Beam Turrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

EX-20 Bulldog Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Gunbot Robot-Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Grenade Cannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128Gunwolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Dual NG-232 Rail Guns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Special Ammo Rounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Wolf’s Head Weapon Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Wolf’s Howl Anti-Monster System . . . . . . . . . . . 133

NG-V67 Grizzly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Shoulder Flare Chaff Launchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137HEX Grenades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383-D Camera & Holographic Projector . . . . . . . . . . 140Wooden Spike Thrower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Hunter Mobile Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Howitzer Rail Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Hunter Moble Gun, Block IV Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . 143Rail Gun Cannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

‘Big Papa’ Mobile Medical Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Utility Arms & Jaws of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149M.D. Chainsaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Sensor Arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Finger Multi-Medical Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Field Hospital Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Nano-Robot Medical Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

‘Junior’ Mini-Mobile Medical Robot . . . . . . . . . . . 152Clamp Finger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

‘Original’ Multibot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Flying Hovercraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Scissor Launchers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

NG-M57-2N1 Megabot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157M.D.C. of Combat Racer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Statistical Data Megabot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Statistical Data Combat Racer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Heavy Ion Cannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Tactical Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

NG-EXC-17 Ogre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160Pop-Up Mini-Missile Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

EX-11 Okemos Explorer Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163Heavy Machine-Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

NG-EX-V50 Scorpion Battler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Tail Multi-Weapon Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

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