The Glitter Boy Codex is coming soon!
This is the first Rifts sourcebook dedicated to the most recognizable power armor in the Megaverse.
Written by Will Erwin, with additional text by Johnny Roccia, and Sean Owen Roberson as Lead Designer.
Cover - Detail View - Pencils by Kevin Long - Colors by Mike Majestic
GLITTER BOY CODEX
The Ultimate 128-Page Sourcebook for Rifts’ Most Iconic Power Armored Heroes.
Hail Rifters,
It’s time to suit up – the Glitter Boy Codex is coming soon!
This is the first Rifts sourcebook dedicated to the most recognizable power armor in the Megaverse. 128 pages of pure Glitter Boy glory: history, variants, factions, legendary suits, tech – the kind of high-stakes Mega-Damage mayhem only Palladium can deliver.
Whether you’re a wandering Glitter Boy hero, a mercenary pilot living the dream, or a Game Master who wants to drop a chromium legend on your table, this book is for you.
Interior Black & White Artwork by Steven Cummings
The Book
Written by Will Erwin, with additional text by Johnny Roccia, and developed from start to finish by Sean Owen Roberson as Lead Designer, the Glitter Boy Codex is brought to you by experienced and dedicated Rifts authors.
The result is a deep dive into the Glitter Boy’s origins prior to the Great Cataclysm, its role through the two centuries long New Dark Age, and beyond into the Post Apocalyptic era. This book is chock full of exciting content: USA-G10 modification packages and legendary suits like "The Patriot" as seen in Rifter 85, expanded O.C.C. options for pilots, a treasure trove of support gear, all new Glitter Boy lore, Adventure Episodes, and an easy to run Adventure Season that will make your new or ongoing campaign shine brighter than a Boom Gun at high noon.
In progress color sample by Mike Majestic over Steven Cummings inks
Two Historic Editions — A First for Rifts
Standard Perfect Bound Edition
The classic Palladium perfect-bound format with a stunning cover painting featuring dynamic lines by legendary artist Kevin Long, brought to life with painterly colors by Mike Majestic. Packed inside cover to cover are crisp black-and-white illustrations by the phenomenal Steven Cummings.
Premium Hardcover Edition
The same 128-page content, but every single interior illustration is painted in full-color by Mike Majestic. This is the first Rifts sourcebook ever offered in a premium hardcover with full-color interiors. If you want the Glitter Boy to truly shine on your shelf and at the table, this is the one.
Two editions. One mission: give Rifts fans exactly what they’ve been asking for.
B&W to Color - Step by Step
An All-Star Creative Team
We didn’t cut corners, we assembled creators who brought their “A-game” to the Glitter Boy legend:
• Lead Designer & Art Director – Sean Owen Roberson: Palladium’s Creative Director and the driving force behind this project. Sean’s vision, attention to detail, and deep love for Rifts mechanics and lore shine through in every page of this sourcebook.
• Author – Will Erwin: An experienced author, Will’s writing brings the Glitter Boy Codex to life with fresh ideas, rich lore, and highly detailed technical information and gear that capture the soul of the Glitter Boy powersuit and the pilots who dare to strap in.
• Additional Writing – Johnny Roccia: Johnny reveals the Chromium Codex, a unique quantum computer that records and shares every victory and defeat, every ally and enemy, between USA-G10 Glitter Boys, setting them apart from all other models and setting the foundation for the brotherhood of pilots.
• Cover Lines – Kevin Long: The iconic artist whose work helped define the look of Rifts from the very beginning. Palladium has brought one of Long’s “lost” pieces of line art to life for this book’s cover.
• Cover & Interior Colors – Michael Majestic: The celebrated colorist of the Ninja Turtles redux edition books, a veteran artist with comic book and Hollywood experience, Mike’s color work turns the cover painting and every interior illustration into a visual feast.
• Interior Black & White Art – Steven Cummings: A master of intricate detail and high-energy action, his B&W work is some of the best in the industry. Besides Palladium titles, Steven has worked on Marvel Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Ahsoka comics series, as well as DC, Image, and other hit comics.
Interior Full Color- Art & Inks by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Crowdfunding Goodies — Pulled from the Vault
Backing the Glitter Boy Codex on BackerKit also unlocks access to a selection of high-quality physical rewards originally created for the cancelled Rifts Promise of Power Reforged crowdfunder.
We’re talking about a stunning Glitter Boy statue, a new generation Rifts GM screen, premium dice sets, and other killer physical items that were too good to let disappear. These are the kinds of extras that Rifts fans have been clamoring for – and we heard you.
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As Palladium finishes up final writing and editing on Rifts Bestiary 2, we are excited to announce the next Rifts title in secret development behind the scenes.
The Glitter Boy Codex is a celebration of everything that makes Rifts special – over-the-top tech, larger-than-life heroes (and villains), and the freedom to tell insane stories together with your friends and family.
The dual-format approach, the all-star creative team, the premium production values, and the amazing add-on goodies make this crowdfunding campaign a special event you don’t want to miss.
Black and White Art & Inks by Steven Cummings - Color Samples by Mike Majestic
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The Road to the Glitter Boy Codex Unearths Old Legends
The Road to the Glitter Boy Codex Unearths Old Legends
Some Glitter Boy legends are born in a single battle. Others take generations.
This week, the road to the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex takes us north, toward Free Quebec and The Old Guard — veteran pilots, wandering warriors, and families who have carried the traditions of the Glitter Boy from one generation to the next.
Their machines have fought countless battles. Their pilots carry stories learned from those who came before them. And after enough years, history has a way of becoming something else.
Legend.
The Old Guard Insignia - Art by Steven Cummings
The Old Guard
“Our suits walk abroad, but our roots are at home.”
The Old Guard traces its heritage to veterans of Free Quebec's Glitter Boy Legions who continued piloting their magnificent war machines after leaving military service.
Over time, their Glitter Boys were passed to children, apprentices, and worthy successors. What began with veterans became a tradition spanning generations.
For the Old Guard, piloting a Glitter Boy is more than possessing one of the most powerful suits of armor on Rifts Earth. It is heritage and duty.
They prize discipline, service, loyalty, and lineage. Some remain close to Free Quebec, while others wander far from home, but wherever they travel, they carry those traditions with them.
And among all the Glitter Boys associated with the Old Guard, few carry a legend quite like Le Pisteur.
Le Pisteur — The Hunter
Not every Glitter Boy legend begins with the thunder of a Boom Gun. Some begin much more quietly — with an enemy patrol that disappears, a warband walking directly into a trap, or a commander receiving the wrong information at exactly the wrong moment.
And somewhere out there... a Glitter Boy is watching.
Le Pisteur - In Progress - Art and Inks by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Le Pisteur is the most storied Glitter Boy of the Old Guard, passed through the Lapointe family for generations.
Unlike the image of a Glitter Boy standing defiantly on the battlefield and unleashing the devastating power of its Boom Gun, Le Pisteur has built its reputation through patience, reconnaissance, deception, confusion, and striking only when the advantage is its own.
It is an unusual Glitter Boy with secrets dating back to before the Great Cataclysm.
Exactly what makes Le Pisteur different?
That is one secret we're saving for the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex.
When History Becomes Folklore
The Old Guard remembers its history, but not every story passed from Glitter Boy to Glitter Boy can be found in an official record.
Some are told around campfires or whispered between veteran pilots, repeated for so many years that nobody remembers exactly where the truth ends and the legend begins. They tell of impossible battles, strange sightings, and warriors who should not have survived.
And then there are the whispers of something called...
Ol' Chrome Bones - In Progress - Art and Inks by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Every Suit Has a Story
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex isn't simply about the specifications of the legendary USA-G10. It's about everything that has grown around this incredible machine — its pilots and families, competing beliefs and traditions, legendary suits, and generations of stories.
From the Brotherhood and the Chromium Codex to the Minutemen, Riggers, Boomers, and now The Old Guard, each week we've opened another piece of the Glitter Boy's history.
And there are still more secrets waiting inside the Codex.
Rally the Brotherhood: The Road to 2,200
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex launches in just 11 days, and the response from the Palladium community has been incredible.
Now we want to see just how large we can make the Brotherhood before launch day.
OUR PRE-LAUNCH GOAL
2,200 FOLLOWERS
Can we get there before October 20th?
We need your help.
If you're already following the campaign, share the BackerKit page with your gaming group, your fellow Rifts® fans, your social pages and anyone who remembers the first time they saw a Glitter Boy and thought, @#$%, I need to play that.
Recruit another pilot.
Share the campaign, tell a friend, or post it in your gaming group. Help us bring another Rifts® fan into the Brotherhood before October 20th.
2,200 Followers. 11 Days.
Let's see what the Palladium community can do.
And if we reach 2,200 followers before launch, we'll celebrate by unlocking a digital wallpaper pack before October 20th.
What will it be? You'll have to help us get there to find out.
October 20th Is Almost Here
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex launches on BackerKit Tuesday, October 20th!
128 pages packed with Glitter Boy history, factions, legendary suits and personalities, weapons, gear, modifications, adventure ideas, incredible artwork, and new ways to bring the legendary USA-G10 Glitter Boy into your Rifts® campaign.
And you don't have to wait until October 20th to join us.
Follow the campaign. Share it with another Rifts® fan. Help us rally the Brotherhood.
The road is getting shorter. The legends are getting older. And the Boom Gun is getting closer.
The Road to the Glitter Boy Codex Takes a Darker Turn
Cover art by Kevin Long, colors by Mike Majestic.
The Road to the Glitter Boy Codex Takes a Darker Turn.
Not every Glitter Boy legend is a hero.
Not every pilot sees the legendary USA-G10 as a sacred relic, and not every chapter believes its incredible power comes with a duty to protect others. For some, the Glitter Boy is something else entirely – a weapon, a way of life, and a symbol of strength earned on the battlefield.
This week we leave the workshops of the Riggers behind and ride with the Boomers – warriors with a very different relationship with the legendary Chrome war machine. And among their ranks waits one of the strangest and most disturbing Glitter Boys ever to walk Rifts Earth: The Cannibal.
And if that wasn't dangerous enough, something else has returned.
The Mechanoids are coming.
The Boomers Insignia - Art by Steven Cummings
The Boomers
There is nothing subtle about a Boom Gun.
Its thunder announces itself across the battlefield. Its impact can turn the tide of a fight in an instant. And for some Glitter Boy pilots, that raw power is exactly the point.
The Boomers represent a louder, rougher, and more dangerous edge of the Glitter Boy legacy.
These are pilots who embrace the awesome destructive power of the USA-G10 and the reputation that comes with piloting one. They are warriors and survivors who understand that when a Glitter Boy walks onto the battlefield, people notice.
And some Boomers make sure they are never forgotten.
In Progress - Art and Inks by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Where the Minutemen may see a responsibility to protect and the Riggers see a machine to maintain, rebuild, and improve, the Boomers remind us that putting incredible power into human hands does not guarantee what those hands will choose to do with it.
Because not every Glitter Boy story is heroic.
Some become legends for very different reasons.
And few have earned a darker reputation than...
The Cannibal
The Cannibal - Art & Inks by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Even among Glitter Boy pilots, The Cannibal is a name spoken with a mixture of dread and fascination.
This infamous Boomer Glitter Boy has passed through the hands of exceptionally skilled pilots and earned a reputation for being incredibly difficult to put down. But that alone is not what gave the machine its name. The Cannibal is infamous for something much more disturbing:
It consumes other war machines.
Get close enough to The Cannibal and the battle can become something altogether different. Armor, machinery, and M.D.C. metal can become more than wreckage left behind on the battlefield.
They can become food.
And somehow, this ancient Glitter Boy keeps going.
Its pilots come and go.
The machine survives.
Some say there is something inside. Something trapped within the machine. Something that may explain its unnatural ability to survive punishment that should cripple another Glitter Boy. Are the stories true?
For now, we’ll let you wonder.
The Darker Side of the Legend
The Cannibal represents another side of what we want to explore in the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex.
The Glitter Boy has survived for centuries on Rifts Earth, and over that time these machines have become much more than suits of power armor.
They have become heirlooms, symbols, weapons, obsession, and legends.
Some inspire hope.
Some inspire awe.
And some inspire fear.
The Codex explores that full spectrum through the factions, pilots, personalities, legendary suits, history, weapons, gear, modifications, ready to play adventures, and mysteries that have grown around one of the most iconic war machines in the Palladium Megaverse.
And with the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex launching October 20, we still have more Chrome to reveal.
And Speaking of Legends From Palladium’s Past...
Last week, we revealed something else coming as part of the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder.
And judging by the response, a lot of you are as excited as we are.
The Mechanoids® Redux Edition!
Before The Terminator. Before The Matrix. Before Rifts, Phase World, or Aliens Unlimited. There was The Mechanoids.
The Mechanoids® Redux Edition: The Complete RPG Collection is coming as part of the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder and commemorates Palladium’s 45th Anniversary!
This massive 320+ page deluxe, full-color hardcover brings together decades of Mechanoids® history, including:
The Mechanoid Invasion® (1981)
The Journey (1982)
Homeworld (1983)
The new generation of Mechanoids from Rifts® Sourcebook Two: The Mechanoids® (1992)
And the long-forgotten The Mechanoids® RPG (1985), with over 100 pages of additional source material, artwork, characters, vehicles, weapons, gear, and more – out of print for over 35 years, most fans didn't even know all this extra content even existed!
Sean Owen Roberson has called the 1985 Mechanoids® RPG a “lost and forgotten gem,” and The Mechanoids themselves a dark science-fiction setting and cast of characters that were ahead of their time.
Now Kevin and Sean are going back to the beginning to collect and remaster it all in one big Redux Edition with new layout, content updates, modernized Redux rules, and full-color artwork.
The Mechanoids® Redux Edition Highlights:
Written by Kevin Siembieda, with an adventure series by Erick Wujcik.
Redux design, layout, and updatesby Sean Owen Roberson.
Rules Upgrade. The original Mechanoids, Palladium’s first RPG, was a rough prototype of what was to come. Now the popular Redux edition rules upgrade the Mechanoids experience to the classic Palladium Megaversal RPG system – revised and clarified for modern sensibilities.
Expanded vehicle combat rules, including the comprehensive Redux rules for land, sea, and aerospace combat (first featured in TMNT Transdimensional Adventures).
Artwork remastered for modern printing, scanned from the original production boards, this is a huge visual upgrade over what was possible in the early 1980s.
Approximately 80% of the artwork is by Kevin Siembieda, including material many fans have never seen from the 1985 RPG and additional never-before-seen artwork Kevin created back in the day.
Additional artwork by William Messner-Loebs, Newton Ewell, Kevin Long, Mike Gustovich, and James A. Osten.
And for the first time, this classic artwork is being brought to life in color by Luis Antonio Delgado, renowned colorist of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel The Last Ronin, among many other books.
320+ pages. Deluxe hardcover. Full color.
Another dream project for Kevin and Sean – and another piece of Palladium history coming to the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex crowdfunder.
October 20 Is Getting Closer
The Boomers.
The Cannibal.
The Mechanoids® Redux Edition.
And we still have more to reveal.
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex launches Tuesday, October 20 on BackerKit, and you can reserve your place right now.
Each Rifts Surprise Bundle will be hand-curated by the Palladium team with Rifts goodies and surprises.
Follow the campaign. Reserve your spot. Keep watching as we open the vault.
The road to the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex continues.
A Glitter Boy may be one of the most powerful and recognizable war machines on Rifts Earth, but even a legend needs someone who knows how to keep it walking. Armor gets blasted apart. Systems fail. Ammunition runs dry. Replacement parts can be impossible to find. And sometimes, surviving the next battle means doing something the original designers never imagined.
That is where The Riggers come in.
The Riggers Insignia - Art by Steven Cummings
The Riggers
The Riggers are the builders, fixers, salvagers, Operators, pilots, and chrome-obsessed tinkerers of the Glitter Boy Brotherhood. Where others may see the USA-G10 as a nearly sacred piece of Golden Age technology, a Rigger also sees a machine that has to survive in the real world. They repair what is broken, replace what cannot be repaired, improvise when the proper parts no longer exist, and find ways to keep battered suits fighting long after another pilot might have abandoned them.
For the Riggers, knowing how to fire the Boom Gun is only part of understanding a Glitter Boy. You need to know the machine. How it moves. How it sounds. What breaks. What can be rebuilt. And just how far you can push it before something finally gives. Behind the famous pilots and gleaming suits are Operators, support crews, workshops, spare parts, and generations of accumulated knowledge that outsiders rarely see.
That practical streak gives the Riggers a culture all their own. They understand that keeping a Glitter Boy alive sometimes means ignoring what the machine was and concentrating on what it can become. Replacement armor, salvaged components, unconventional repairs, custom weapons, and field modifications are not signs that a suit has lost its glory. To a Rigger, every patch and replacement part can become another chapter in its history.
The Glitter Boy Brotherhood may have its legends, but the Riggers know those legends do not survive on reputation alone.
Rigger Mechanic - In Progress - Black and White Art by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
Suites of Legend:
Franken-Boy
And perhaps no Glitter Boy wears that philosophy more proudly than Franken-Boy.
Franken-Boy is not the pristine Chrome knight people picture when they hear the words "Glitter Boy". It is scarred, patched, rebuilt, and unmistakably pieced together. Mismatched armor and replacement systems tell the story of a machine that has been damaged, repaired, modified, and sent back into battle again and again. Where another suit might hide its scars beneath polished Chrome, Franken-Boy practically wears them as badges of honor.
Every mismatched plate raises another question. Where did that piece come from? What battle destroyed the original? Who rebuilt it? How many pilots, Operators, battlefields, and desperate repairs have contributed to the machine standing before you now?
That is what makes Franken-Boy such a fitting legend for the Riggers. It represents something at the heart of their philosophy: a Glitter Boy does not have to be pristine to be legendary. Sometimes ingenuity, experience, spare parts, and sheer stubbornness are what keep a legend alive.
The Patriot & U.N.C.L.E. S.A.M.
If Franken-Boy represents the Riggers’ refusal to let a battered Glitter Boy die, The Patriot represents the spirit of innovation that helped create the Riggers themselves.
The Patriot began as a stock USA-G10 recovered from a pre-NEMA United States Army depot, its original American and Army markings deliberately preserved by the Operators who maintained it. During the Dark Age, dwindling replacement parts forced those Operators to improvise with scavenged components and nonstandard systems.
Eventually, necessity became something more.
Innovation became habit.
After The Patriot suffered severe damage in battle, its Operators added a turreted particle-beam weapon above its left shoulder, powered by the salvaged autonomous brain of a pre-Rifts robot. The integration awakened a fiercely patriotic neural intelligence that became The Patriot’s robotic co-pilot – and gave the already unconventional Glitter Boy a personality every bit as loud as its Boom Gun.
Those modifications helped deepen a growing divide with more traditional Minutemen. Other pilots and Operators shared the same willingness to rebuild, modify, and reinvent their machines, helping forge what would eventually become The Riggers.
Today,The Patriot is their most famous Glitter Boy, regarded as one of “The Originals.” Minutemen traditionalists have another name for it:
“The first Franken-boy.”
The Patriot - Black and White Art by Daniel Redus • U.N.C.L.E. S.A.M. - Black and White Art by Steven Cummings
And The Patriot doesn’t travel alone.
U.N.C.L.E. S.A.M. is an intelligent, eagle-shaped reconnaissance robot and companion to The Patriot. Where The Patriot is loud and theatrical, U.N.C.L.E. S.A.M. is quiet and observant – scouting from above, gathering intelligence, and working in concert with the legendary Glitter Boy.
The two artificial intelligences have become an unlikely pair: one built to bring the boom, the other to scout its targets.
Build It. Modify It. Make It Yours.
And this is where the Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex begins opening another part of the toolbox for players and Game Masters. The Codex isn't only exploring the history, factions, personalities, and legends surrounding the USA-G10. It is packed with Glitter Boy suit modifications, new and variant weapons, new gear, pilot options, and other ways to customize the legendary USA-G10 for your character and campaign.
Want a Glitter Boy that has survived decades of battlefield repairs? A suit adapted to the needs of a particular pilot or mission? New equipment? Different weapons? Field modifications born out of necessity?
The Riggers provide a look at what happens when pilots and Operators stop asking what a Glitter Boy was designed to be and start asking what they need it to become.
And this is just a glimpse.
The Riggers, Franken-Boy, The Patriot, and U.N.C.L.E. S.A.M. reveal another side of the Glitter Boy legacy. The Chrome may be iconic, but underneath it are machines maintained by people – people who improvise, rebuild, modify, and sometimes simply refuse to let a battered old warhorse die.
And before we close the workshop doors this week, we have one more piece of Chrome to show you.
Final Art - Black and White Art by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
And the reveals aren’t stopping here.
Join Us Live This Sunday!
This Sunday, September 27 at 12:00 Noon Eastern, Kevin Siembieda and Sean Owen Roberson return to Legion of Myth on YouTube to talk all things Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex – including the unveiling of something huge coming to this BackerKit project.
This is more than another campaign reveal. It marks a historic moment for Palladium Books and the Megaverse®, and you’ll want to be there when Kevin and Sean unveil it for the first time.
They’ll also join the Legion of Myth crew for a fun dive into Palladium’s recurring themes of human augmentation and transhumanism in Rifts and our many other games. And as longtime viewers know, these conversations can go just about anywhere.
Tune in, join the conversation, and be there for the big reveal!
The Rifts® Glitter Boy Codex opens the vault on the factions, legendary suits, personalities, weapons, gear, modifications, history, and stories that have grown around one of the most iconic creations in the Palladium Megaverse – while giving players and Game Masters new ways to make the legendary Glitter Boy their own.
Reserve your spot now for $5 and receive a $30 Rifts Surprise Bundle when you back at launch.
This week we open our first faction spotlight with The Minutemen. Across the wilderness of Rifts Earth, the sight of a Glitter Boy can mean many things, but for countless towns, travelers, and communities on the edge of danger, The Minutemen are the ones who answer the call.
The Minutemen Insignia - Art by Steven Cummings
The Minutemen
The Minutemen are more than warriors in chrome. Their chapters are scattered across North America, independent of any single government or army, but bound together by a shared belief that a Glitter Boy should use its incredible power to protect people who cannot protect themselves. They patrol dangerous roads, answer calls for help, defend isolated settlements, and often become local legends in the communities they serve. Their independence means every chapter has its own personality, but the idea at their heart remains remarkably consistent: when trouble comes, somebody has to stand the line.
For the Minutemen, wearing the Chrome comes with responsibility. Their power is not something to be squandered or used simply for personal glory. A Glitter Boy can change the outcome of a battle, save a community from destruction, or give ordinary people the courage to stand against an enemy they could never face alone. That makes the Minutemen protectors by choice, often putting themselves between innocent people and the dangers of Rifts Earth because they believe that is what someone entrusted with such a powerful machine should do. One may be defending a frontier town, another hunting raiders or monsters, while another patrols the wilderness looking for people in need. Different pilots, different communities, different stories, but all connected by the belief that when the call for help comes,a Minuteman answers.
Hancock: The First Minuteman
And few legends embody that spirit better than Hancock, The First Minuteman. Hancock is not simply another famous Glitter Boy suit. He is a fully sentient Glitter Boy whose origins reach back to the final days of NEMA before the fall of the American Empire in the Great Cataclysm. According to the surviving history, something happened while an Operator was working on the armor, and the machine developed true independent intelligence. Unlike many artificial intelligences that dream of escaping the machines that contain them, Hancock embraces what he is. Being a Glitter Boy is not a prison to him. It is his purpose.
In Progress - Black and White Art by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
For generations, Hancock has served alongside Minutemen pilots as far more than equipment. He acts as co-pilot, mentor, partner, and friend, bringing centuries of experience and an intensely protective personality into every fight. He is patriotic without being blindly obedient, deeply committed to protecting innocent life, and willing to challenge a pilot when pride, politics, or reckless courage threatens to put others in needless danger. Hancock has opinions. He has convictions. And when the Boom Gun speaks, there are two minds standing behind it.
Over time, that relationship has made Hancock something even more extraordinary. He has fought beside generation after generation of Minutemen, remembers the pilots who came before, and carries those experiences forward to the next. He is not regarded merely as property or even simply as an intelligent machine. Hancock is recognized as a Minuteman in his own right. He does not just carry the legacy of the Minutemen, he remembers it.
Hancock is only one of the many legends waiting inside the Rifts Glitter Boy Codex. The Minutemen are part of a much larger Brotherhood filled with remarkable pilots, storied suits, traditions, rivalries, and tales forged across generations of Rifts Earth. Over the next few weeks before launch, we’ll continue previewing that history one piece at a time – but before we leave the Minutemen behind, we have one more glimpse of the Chrome to share.
Final Art - Black and White Art by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
The Rifts Glitter Boy Codex opens the vault on factions like the Minutemen, legendary figures like Hancock, and the traditions, personalities, and history that make the Glitter Boy Brotherhood much more than a collection of armored warriors.
Reserve your spot now for $5 and receive a $30 Rifts Surprise Bundle when you back at launch.
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The Road to the Glitter Boy Codex Officially Begins!
The Glitter Boy is one of the most iconic symbols in the Rifts® Megaverse®, but the Rifts Glitter Boy Codex goes beyond the armor. It's about the people and the myths that surround it.
The Brotherhood
At the center is the Glitter Boy Brotherhood, a loose, far-reaching fellowship of pilots, crews, veterans, and wanderers who keep these suits alive and their stories moving. Some are noble defenders, some are retired veterans, and some wandering mercenaries drifting from the code.
In Progress - Black and White Artwork by Steven Cummings - Colors by Mike Majestic
The Glitter Boy Brotherhood is both informal and universal. If you are a Glitter Boy, you belong to the Brotherhood. Period.
While the Brotherhood may have no formal organizational structure as a whole, it is a collection of traditions and legacies honored and passed down through generations or via mentorship. Whether a member of a pilot faction, or a lone wolf freelancer, there is one guiding principle that stands: the suit is something to be honored, respected, and – when necessary – feared.
The Chromium Codex
Hidden within that legacy is something few outsiders truly understand: the Chromium Codex. Not just a book on a shelf, but a living record carried within the powersuits themselves, an archive of battles, honors, betrayals, warnings, and techniques passed from one Glitter Boy to another. When these chrome giants cross paths, their histories are shared, then travel with them carrying legacies across wilderness and ruin long after kingdoms fall and the truth becomes myth.
Chromium Codex - Artwork by Steven Cummings
Over the next few weeks, we'll open that vault and dive deeper into each of the major pilot factions, famous suits, folklore, cool gear, USA-G10 modifications, and player options.
Reserve your spot for $5 and receive a $30 Rifts Surprise Bundle added to your rewards.
Follow for weekly reveals from the Glitter Boy Codex.
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