You've earned the right to wear the Concord's colors. Not just red and black, but living color—armor that bleeds emotion, weapons that sing, tech that makes every moment a statement.
The Concord doesn't sell to tourists. Their artisan-engineers—half weaponsmith, half sculptor—craft each piece as both tool and installation art, and they only work for those who understand. You proved yourself worthy. Maybe you painted a plaza with fire during a festival. Maybe you turned a protest into a movement. Maybe you just refused to apologize for feeling something real.
Now the forges are open to you. The workshops where reactive pigments are grown in emotion-baths. The arsenals where plasma projectors are tuned to write poetry on enemy hulls. The augmentation clinics where your voice can be wired to shake walls or your skin can broadcast your heart's truth in living light.
In the neon-soaked undercities and rooftop carnivals of Concord-aligned worlds, your gear announces who you are before you speak. Reactive pigments flare with your rage. Plasma signatures leave graffiti-poems on your enemies' hulls. Sonic disruptors double as concert instruments, turning firefights into performances that crowds will rewatch for cycles.
When you walk into a cantina wearing Concord colors, people don't just see a mercenary. They see a performer. A walking manifesto. A promise that wherever you go, something unforgettable is about to happen.
Concord Colors is the foundational equipment boon for the Crimson Concord, unlocking access to the faction's uncommon signature gear at the Liked reputation tier (5-14 RP). This boon grants characters the right to purchase, commission, or requisition uncommon equipment engineered for spectacle, emotional expression, and Performance Warfare—gear that transforms combat, social encounters, and daily life into unforgettable art.
Like similar boons from other factions (such as the Chronologists Guild's Chronologist's Tools), this represents privileged access to specialized, faction-restricted technology unavailable on the open market. Without this boon, Concord signature gear remains inaccessible regardless of wealth—the faction's artisan-engineers only serve those who've earned their trust through demonstrated passion.
Unlike mass-market weapons and armor, Concord gear is over-engineered for impact: sacrificing minor efficiency for visual and auditory magnificence, ensuring every action becomes a statement. This equipment is essential for characters embracing the Concord's philosophy of Emotional Sovereignty and serves as a visible marker of faction allegiance in a galaxy that prizes intensity over conformity.
Concord Colors Boon
Faction: Crimson Concord
Reputation Tier: Liked (5 to 1 4 Favor)
Cost: 4 Favor, Equipment is then paid for.
You gain access to purchase or commission uncommon Crimson Concord signature gear from affiliated armorers, tech-artists, and weapon-sculptors. This includes unique weapons, armor, cybernetics, and accessories engineered for Performance Warfare and Aesthetic combat. Without this boon, such equipment cannot be purchased regardless of available credits.
Critical Success (when making a request/purchase):
The armorer or tech-artist is impressed by your reputation or recent exploits. You receive:
Discounted pricing (10-25% off, GM discretion)
Bonus customization (unique paint scheme, embedded personal symbol, signature sound profile)
Priority access to limited-run or experimental designs
Success:
Equipment is available for standard, uncommon pricing and delivery timeframe. Customization options are available at an additional cost.
Failure:
The artisan is busy, distracted, or unconvinced of your recent commitment. Equipment availability is delayed, or only generic versions (minimal customization) are offered.
Critical Failure:
The artisan questions your Concord allegiance or suspects you're an infiltrator. Access is temporarily denied; you must perform a Minor Favor or publicly demonstrate passion to restore trust.
Special Considerations
Uncommon Rarity:
All Concord Colors gear is at minimum uncommon. Characters without this boon cannot purchase, craft, or commission this equipment through normal means. This restriction reflects the faction's exclusivity and the specialized nature of their aesthetic warfare technology.
Over-Engineered for Spectacle:
Concord gear often trades minor tactical efficiency for visual and auditory impact. GMs may impose situational penalties (e.g., +1 to enemy Perception checks to locate you due to noise/light) balanced by social and morale advantages.
Public Visibility:
Using Concord colors in public increases social visibility. In Concord-aligned regions, this grants an advantage; in rival Devotion territories or repressive regimes, it may attract hostile attention or surveillance.
Faction Sanctions:
If reputation drops below Liked tier or active sanctions are imposed, access to new purchases is revoked. Existing gear remains functional but cannot be repaired, upgraded, or replaced through Concord channels until standing is restored.
Customization Culture:
Concord artisans expect personalization. Characters who refuse customization or request "standard issue" gear may be viewed with suspicion or disdain. Embracing individual aesthetic expression is part of Concord's core philosophy.
Non-Combat Applications
Concord Colors equipment extends far beyond combat utility:
Cultural Protests: Reactive armor and graffiti projectors turn peaceful demonstrations into emotionally charged spectacles that resist dispersal through sheer memetic power.
Performance Art: Sonic instruments enable characters to contribute to festivals, concerts, and public rituals, building local influence in Concord.
Propaganda Creation: Passion-wired cybernetics enable real-time broadcast of emotionally authentic content, turning every encounter into viral media.
Diplomatic Statements: Wearing Concord colors to negotiations signals commitment to Emotional Sovereignty, intimidating bureaucrats, and inspiring populist allies.
Underground Markets: Characters can broker access for allies or sell customization services, building secondary income streams and faction connections.
Societal Impact
Where Concord Colors proliferate, fashion becomes ideology:
Identity Politics: Populations adopt Concord aesthetics as symbols of resistance against emotional repression, turning clothing and gear into acts of defiance.
Economic Disruption: Demand for Concord-style gear fuels underground markets, artisan collectives, and tech-duelist workshops, often at odds with corporate manufacturers.
Memetic Warfare: Images and footage of Concord-geared combatants spread virally, inspiring copycat movements and recruiting new Embers.
Faction Tensions: Rival Devotions (especially White and Blue) view Concord Colors as visual pollution and moral corruption, often banning or regulating such equipment in their territories.
Adventure Hooks
The Artisan's Test:
A legendary Concord weapon-sculptor agrees to craft gear for the party—but only if they stage a Performance Warfare operation worthy of immortalization. Success earns masterwork equipment; failure earns public mockery.Counterfeit Crisis:
A black-market operation floods the sector with fake Concord gear—visually identical but mechanically inferior. Real Concord artisans demand the party track down and destroy the counterfeiters to protect the brand.Banned Exhibition:
A repressive regime outlaws Reactive Pigment Armor, claiming it incites riots. The party must smuggle gear to underground Creative Cells or stage a public demonstration that forces policy reversal.The Duelist's Challenge:
A rival faction warrior challenges the party's most flamboyant member to a tech-duel: combat where victory is judged not by kills, but by style. Concord Colors gear is essential, but creativity is, too.
Concord Colors transforms equipment access from a simple transaction into a privilege earned through passion. Like the Chronologists Guild's specialized temporal tools or other faction-exclusive gear, Concord equipment represents both mechanical advantage and narrative identity.
Armor that bleeds emotion, weapons that compose symphonies, cybernetics that broadcast truth—these uncommon tools are the instruments of a faction that refuses to live quietly. In the Crimson Concord, how you fight matters as much as whether you win.
This boon ensures that every character Liked or higher can dress for the revolution and turn every encounter into performance art—but only those who've proven their commitment to Emotional Sovereignty earn the right to burn this bright.
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