Naruni Wave 2

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

article reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=751

Two things. Is there a Naruni Wave 1 that we should be familiar with?

Also, I thought I'd explain my Uncle Albert reference, since to my knowledge, none of you play Car Wars. All the "catalog" style books released in the 80s full of new kit for your car were disguised as sales brochures from Uncle Albert. Most of the items eventually made it to the Compendium though, so apparently they stopped doing the Uncle Albert books. Fell's description of the Naruni sales catalog reminded me of it. Sorry for being so obscure.

[Prometheus]

If there was a group that *ought* to understand random, obscure references, we'd be it. I'm not big on Palladium, but Naruni Wave is a cool name.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

I want to say the Naruni were first introduced in Rifts Phaseworld along with a huge amount of power creep back in 96 or 97. But it could have been Rifts South America. I always took them as a foil to the Splugorth (introduced in Rifts Atlantis) and their magic based tech.

The problem is that Palladium didnt need to power these things up so much to begin with to add them to the "multiverse" in a cool way.
Its part of my problem with Rifts, too much power in each successive book for my taste.

Rifts underseas was the end of the line for me, even though it had a lot of cool stuff.

[Fellfrosch]

I was going to include a "history of the Naruni" section in my review, I guess I'll go back and add one. Jeffe is close, though--their weapons actually debuted in Rifts Mercenaries, though the Naruni themselves didn't appear until Phase World. And yes, they (or rather C.J. Carella, who wrote both of those books) have been responsible for a lot of the power creep in the Rifts line.

[Spriggan]

Ah, Rifts mercenarys, one of the few RIFTs book I still own.  Ok book, but it could have been done much better in my opinion.  I.E. not having half the book being NPCs.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

the creep is sad... Triax and the NGR almost relevelled the playing field and then....