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.

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.

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 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?

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

And if we reach 2,200 followers before launch, we'll celebrate by unlocking a digital wallpaper pack before October 20th.

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.

The road is getting shorter. The legends are getting older. And the Boom Gun is getting closer.