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''The Mechanoid Invasion'' (and its source books, supplements and sequels) was the first role-playing game from Palladium Books, conceived and written by Kevin Siembieda, with contributions from Erick Wujcik.〔(article: Talking Roleplaying and Computing Careers with Erick Wujcik )〕 ''The Mechanoid Invasion'' centered on a powerful, malevolent, and numerous race of bio-driven machines that had come to invade a planet called Gideon E that was colonized by humans. In its original edition, published in 1981,〔(REVIEW OF THE MECHANOID INVASION TRILOGY )〕 the game was published as a series of three comic-book sized sourcebooks:〔(Monster Robots From Outer Space - Kevin Siembieda - Rifts Sourcebook Two Mechanoids - Epinions.com ).〕 #the first, ''The Mechanoid Invasion'', dealt with the eponymous invasion of Gideon E #the second, ''Journey'', dealt with human survivors living within a mechanoid mothership after the destruction of the Gideon E colony and introduced "minor magic and some psionics",〔(Company Profile ), palladiumbooks.com.〕 #the third, ''Homeworld'', dealt with the Mechanoid homeworld itself. The first book was revised and republished in an expanded form in 1985.〔(The Vortex Rifts Mechanoids ).〕 In Spring 1991 Caliber Comics also produced a 3-book series called "The Mechanoids" which adapted the RPG into comic book stories.〔(History of Caliber )〕 In the early 90s "Sourcebook Two" of Rifts (role-playing game) was released, titled The Mechanoids, and it included MDC conversions for the Mechanoids for use in a Rifts Earth setting, along with a storyline on how they got there.〔(Rifts Sourcebook 2 ) retrieved 20 June 2015〕 In Winter 1998 a Collected Mechanoids RPG was released.〔(The Palladium FAQ Version 4.00: September 1, 2002 Section 11: The Mechanoids on Stan Bundy's Website ) retrieved 20 June 2015: 11.02. When is the Mechanoids RPG going to be reprinted?〕 By 2001 all 3 books were compiled as the Mechanoid Invasion Trilogy〔(9 April 2001 archive of Invasion Trilogy for sale )〕 which is still available.〔(Palladium Books description of the Trilogy compilation )〕 An upcoming RPG called Mechanoids Space was initially promised for December 2002 as late as September 2002.〔 As of 2015 it is still available in the store labelled "coming soon".〔(Mechanoids Space ) retrieved 20 June 2015〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mechanoid Invasion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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