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« Reply #15 on: <06-08-13/0520:06> »
Eagles are specificaly Magic branch of AZT Security forces. Almost exclusively Combat mages. Nasty and fun to play :)

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« Reply #16 on: <06-08-13/0547:01> »
Here's a mural of the guys SR guys were based on.

http://www.colonial-mexico.com/Central%20Mexico/ixm.html

Also, Medieval Total War Americas (the Cortes campaign) has really great depictions of the various Aztec warriors, including the jaguar warriors. You might try looking at them on Youtube, but I found them a bit hard to make out on there. It looks pretty awsome in the actual game though. Their costumes are ridiculously bright.

Here's another depiction, there's various depictions of them on here:

http://photobucket.com/images/Aztec+jaguar+warrior/?page=1
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« Reply #17 on: <08-05-13/2331:01> »
I thought I'd let everyone know how it went, and thank you all for your help.

The team basically crapped bricks when the Leopard Guards dropped down. One of the Runners (female ork sammie) had been seducing the middle aged security guard when they showed up and shot up her AND her paramour (on the "leave no evidence or witnesses" plan). She was horribly wounded and the hapless security guard was bleeding out. This left the rest of the team trapped inside the warehouse (and since the initial invasion involved landing directly ON the roof, they were technically still on Aztech property).

The guards jumped down and... I must admit, I waffled. My greatest failing as a GM is my difficulty in trying to kill the PCs. So I reasoned that two of them would fan out to look for others, while the other two dealt with the runners in the warehouse (the fifth one staying on the roof because that ork sammie is, as always, quite tough to kill).

The mage was left seriously injured by their HVARs. He tried using an overcast stunball on them... except I had them all using combat drugs that let them ignore stun damage completely (it was amusing to watch the player's reaction :p ). This also annoyed the Rigger when she used her own weapon of choice - a custom drone that was also a cyberpunk two handed equivalent to Mjolner, Thor's hammer. Hurl it and do physical damage plus the electrical damage, then the drone pilot guides it back to her hand (but only one throw per combat turn). They were forced to use other methods...

But the team persevered. The sammie managed to get halfway to the bus before being met by the drone made for her to churn out arrows (i.e. plenty of regular, stick-n-shock, and explosive tipped arrows, at normal cost but automatically available), bringing her bow with it. Now she had her firepower. The team's hackers, one an elf and one an AI, managed to brain burn the rigger pilot of the overhead VTOL, while four of the leopard guards were finally defeated (the fifth jumping into the harbor to escape, and their unit's support mage flying away before he could be killed as well).

This left them with a helicopter and four suits of slightly used powered armor. These were relocated to a safe place while the sammie and the mage and the security guard were all taken to Seattle General - where Doctor Martha Lowell was waiting and ready. The Lowells being a family of wolf shifters who had had multiple dealings with the Runners in the past; to Martha these runners were primarilly known as "the darlings who rescued my puppies from the research facility where they'd been taken for experimentation." The sammie and mage woke up to find old Ernest Lowell himself playing solitare while watching them (Ernest being a veteran Runner and Adept who can kill with thrown playing cards, coins, whatever), and the representative from one of their two employers showing up to tell them to turn on the news. Aztechnology was announcing a renovation of the docks in an attractive and environmentally friendly update (and carefully not mentioning that they'd been caught leaking poisons into the water).

I know a lot of this sounds high powered (The hammer in particular). But... that was the end of the campaign. The Runners are retired (at least for now); the rigger and her elven hacker boyfriend are likely to get day jobs with lucrative salaries, given their accomplishments. The team acquired a reputation for getting jobs done while keeping the killing to an absolute minimum, and kept on the right side of the law for the most part. And best of all, new campaigns have started - with my players now acting as GM and I get to be a player! (and the same rulings I made for their benefit are being applied towards... my characters. What goes around comes around, chummers...)

Thanks again to everyone for the assistance with setting up for my adventures! ^.^