Adrian Voss — GURPS Special Forces

Note: Session play notes recorded this character as “Andrew Voss,” but the canonical name is Adrian Voss per player confirmation.

Note: Session play notes recorded this character as “Andrew Voss,” but the canonical name is Adrian Voss per player confirmation. “Andrew” is listed as an alias for cross-reference.

Summary

CEO of Voss Dynamics, the defense contractor the PCs are assigned to. Named in press coverage as the head of the company that secured a federal contract to investigate the meteor.

In Session 01, Voss personally briefed the team in a second-floor conference room at the Voss Campus. He was measured and direct, explaining the emergence of super-powered individuals following the meteor event and showing the team surveillance footage of The Exploding Man — a young man who could detonate like a suicide bomber and survive. He introduced Major Jenkins and the Voss Combat Suit program, laid out the mission parameters for the Afghanistan capture operation, and mentioned two other known supers: The Dragon and The Regenerator.

He offered $100,000 per person as a bonus for the target’s live capture, on top of the team’s $250,000 annual salary and $50,000 signing advance.

Needs

Physical description, age, nationality
Background and history
Motivations and goals beyond profit
Personality and management style beyond “measured and direct”

Session 05 — Terra Briefing

In the pre-mission briefing, Voss revealed significant new intelligence about Terra:

Terra was a civilization much like Earth that had been visited by meteors and gained powers
Terra was then attacked by a massive flying space creature — described as something like a whale crossed with a squid
The creature’s bones have been found on Terra’s surface — enormous, roughly 100 feet long
The Terrans appear to have killed it by siphoning all their meteor-granted powers into a single individual, effectively creating something close to a god
This is the working theory for how the Terrans defeated the creature

This revelation connects directly to the “Hungry God” folder discovered by Guy LeFleur in Session 04. If a similar creature is approaching Earth, Voss may be planning the same defence: channel all fragment powers into one individual.

Voss also briefed both teams on the North Atlantic fragment retrieval mission, deploying Team Jenkins for the shallow fragment and the PC team for the deeper ones.

Appearances

National Daily - 2019-03-18 - Mystery Meteor
[Session 01 - Operation Living Bomb](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - Living Bomb/Sessions/session-01-operation-living-bomb.html)
[Session 05 - Deep Sea Fragments and Desert Swarms](…/…/chapters/Chapter 1 - Living Bomb/Sessions/session-05-deep-sea-fragments-and-desert-swarms.html) — Terra briefing (space whale revelation, power-channeling theory); ocean mission deployment

Relationships

Leads Voss Dynamics — CEO of Voss Dynamics — the PCs' employer
Involved in The Meteor Event — Leading corporate investigation into the meteor
Commands Major Jenkins — Jenkins is the first operative in the combat suit program Voss oversees
Employs Yi Jiangku — Yi Jiangku heads the R&D division under Voss
Employs The Team — The PC team works under Voss Dynamics' authority