Morrow Project

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The Morrow Project is a post apocalypse setting based on the premise that a shadowy industrialist, Bruce Edwin Morrow, predicted the time of an upcoming nuclear holocaust and used his influence to gather a small group of the worlds wealthiest people to fund a project to rebuild society following the event. The following link describes the canon:[1]

The proposed campaign will be located at: Evergreen Initiative

Morrow Project Teams

The Morrow Project is made up of the following types of teams: MARS, Recon, Scientific and Specialty

While each team is equipped to survive on its own, it proved impossible to equip all the teams for every postwar contingency. For example, some Recon Teams are almost as heavily armed as MARS Teams, while others are not.

With teams having been put to sleep over a course of several years from the 1960s onwards, there will also be variations in the equipment they have. In some cases, teams may wake to find new equipment they are not yet trained on, and will have to teach themselves from instructional materials.

Project groups

Recon: The general purpose teams of the Project and the most numerous, Recon teams are equipped with varying types of weapons and equipment ranging from V-150 armored cars to SK-5 hovercraft. Their orders are to reconnoiter the countryside, report on local conditions, and provide advice to Prime Base concerning which teams should be awakened next.
MARS: These teams make up the military arm of the Project—they are extremely formidable and heavily armed. In addition to conventional weapons, some of these teams have man-portable laser rifles, and some have an early generation of no-nonsense, minimalist powered armor. The purpose of the MARS teams is to support and defend civilians and other teams. A large portion of MARS team members are ex-military personnel with combat experience. MARS stands for Mobile Assault, Rescue and Strike. Some MARS teams have heavy vehicles such as the Mars One. The Mars One is a large custom-built articulated vehicle with very heavy armor and powerful weapons. It is able to carry troops, employ onboard sensors, provide early warning, and serve as a command post.
Scientific: The Scientific teams are broadly cross-trained scientific and technical units that can cope with a wide range of situations—from complex medical care and epidemiology to understanding unusual hazards and dangerous creatures. Their areas of knowledge range from biology to nuclear physics. They are equipped with a second type of versatile custom-built articulated vehicle, called the Science One, and have armament second only to that of the MARS teams.
Specialty: This is a broad term applied to Project groups that have a non-standard function in regard to their equipment and personnel. Specialty groups generally consist of assets frozen with orders to meet at a predesignated point. Most Specialty teams are not as heavily armed as Recon or MARS teams, because the Project's planners felt that those teams 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 and civilian equipment.
Agricultural: Farming and livestock preserved by using frozen embryos. Equipped to build and assist farming communities.
Psychological: Formed to handle extremist groups, riots, negotiation challenges, and other serious problems caused by stress.
Aviation: Air survey reconnaissance, fire support, and air mobility support for other teams. These missions are done with fixed-wing aircraft including cargo planes, as well as light helicopters, early types of unmanned aerial vehicles, and custom-built autogyros that are modular and man-portable.
Command: Oversight of Combined Group assets, both mobile field teams and fixed installations, generally for a city or limited geographical area such as. Combined Group Seattle.
Frozen Watch: Casualty replacement personnel for the field teams, as well as Morrow Project field police, internal security, and counterintelligence functions.
Power Reception: Reception of electrical power which is scheduled to be transmitted via microwaves, once Morrow Project power satellites have been lofted.
Support: Logistical support such as supply, repair, and replacement operations.
Communications: Restore radio frequency, laser microwave, and eventually even satellite communications. They also maintain the Project's clandestine Extremely Low Frequency systems that very slowly accumulate Prime Base's messages, such as briefings, for teams to read when they awaken—thus counterbalancing the minuscule data rate. For security reasons, ELF systems were not for use until after the war.
Medical: Health care for the general population and for Project assets. Generally equipped with a fixed installation.
Decontamination: Render safe personnel, vehicles and structures contaminated by radiological, biological, or chemical hazards. Also assist in the salvage of equipment and materials recovered from unsafe areas.