The galaxy is in turmoil. In the wake of the Battle of Yavin, the Empire struggles to maintain its grip on power in the midst of bloody civil war. On the edge of the Empire, bands of scoundrels and smugglers, bounty hunters and bandits, explorers and exiles all scramble to …
Mars. What should have been a routine patrol has ended with a Ranger flyer wrecked in a dust storm—20 klicks inside the Quarantine Zone. With your fellow rangers stranded inside the Zone, your station was preparing to deploy a search team to their last known position, but someone high up …
Praise Kane the First of Us, Praise the Guilds. Sunrise on Triton. Matins. Your team has been assembled by Father Francisco of Special Circumstances. The Guild Council has ordered a live team to investigate the loss of contact with the Guildship Tannhäuser. No one has dared attack a Guild Stepship …
Anarchist Eco-terrorist Amelia Chen has finally been captured and imprisoned by the Planetary Consortium, her ego forcibly uploaded to a VR prison while she undergoes personality realignment. Unknown to the Consortium, an Alpha Fork of Chen has been resleeved from an old backup and has approached Firewall with an offer …
No-one knows where it started or why. All you know is that reanimated human beings – zombies – stalk the land. They crave only the flesh of the living. Despite desperate efforts by the Government and local civil authorities to control the situation, society has effectively collapsed. The government told …
Almost a century ago, against the better advice of the Hegemony, the Solar Witnesses despatched the Revelation – an antimatter torch ship – on a pilgrimage to the Machine Civilisation Polis in the Altair star system. It never came back. That is, until now. You are members of a freelance …
You prefer to call yourselves freelance specialists. Others prefer to call you corporate mercenaries, but what’s in a name? Besides, the pay is good, and as the man once said: It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it. On face value it looked like a juicy contract: infiltrate …
Quickened in the manufactories of Tel-Haddad, the Cape Verde is the newest addition to the interstellar trading fleet of House Harper-Yung. At just over four light-hours out of Alpha Centauri B, its stellar-tap drive should be steadily accelerating the ship out of the system on its eight-year long journey towards …