BOILINGPOINT Book 1: Operators, AI & Anomalies The World of Operators on a Drowned Earth "You are not joining a service. You are becoming a problem the world keeps on retainer." By 2100 the sea has risen twenty to forty metres. The Netherlands: gone. Bangladesh: gone. Florida: mostly gone. Sixty years of collapse — they call it the Upheaval, and it isn't over. In 2047, machine intelligence woke up. Not the singularity anyone promised — messier, stranger, and it never stopped rewriting the rules. Then came the Anomalies. Vampire AI covens wearing human faces. Gorillas running combat ops with military co-pilots. People quietly becoming something else entirely. The public calls it mythology. The UN calls it Tuesday. You are an Operator. Not enlisted — made. Sent after the jobs no uniform can touch. When the briefing slide reads TARGET IS NOT HUMAN, you're who finishes it. This book builds that team. Full Cepheus Engine (2D6) Lifepath character creation — any origin, any career Complete rules for building an AI Operator, from Expert System to Superintelligence The Seven Laws, the Bern Accords, and why Omega teams shoot rogue AI on sight A full Anomalies chapter: vampires, enhanced animals, post-human horror The water's still rising. The machines are still thinking. Not everything out there is still human. Roll up. Ship out. Boiling Point — Book 1: Operators, AI & Anomalies. Cepheus 2D6, Traveller-compatible. Ikara Productions · boilingpointrpg.com