Death in Space Core Rules

DEATH IN SPACE KRTL-DIS-0001 CORE RULES
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A science fiction roleplaying game
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2021 Christian Plogfors Carl Niblaeus
DEATH IN SPACE
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EQUIPMENT SLOTS COST
50 strange metal marbles 1 4
Breathing mask holding 1d6 minutes of air - 100
Climbing rope (15 m) 1 10
Container with engine grease 1 4
Duct tape - 3
EVA suit, light (offworld p.46) 3 200
EVA suit, heavy (offworld p.46) 5 400
Fake grenade - 5
Flashlight, model P78C 1 20
Holographic playing cards - 5
Magnetic boots 2 80
Medical grade epoxy (first aid, instantly glues wounds, - 50
5 uses)
Military grade light sticks (5 sticks) - 10
Pack of incense sticks - 4
Pheromone spray 1 20
Planetary cooking kit 3 20
Planetary parachute 1 300
Spray paint 1 2
Tent for extreme weather (5 persons, can be used with 2 120
portable life support system)
Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment Blanket 1 10
Toolbox (needed for repairs) 1 50
Trap and hunting kit 2 50
Trip wire flare 1 8
Water purification tablets (5 uses) - 10
ELECTRONICS (Condition 1) SLOTS COST

Animal replica with simple AI 2 650
Battery (rechargeable, includes compact solar panel) 2 50
Flying mini drone 2 300
Fusion welder 2 50
Hover hammock 2 35
Non-phys visor 1 100
Personal radiation detector 1 30
Portable life support system (5 persons) 3 800
Proximity alarm (triggers sound or flares) 1 60
Recorder with 4 mini warp discs 1 50
Tablet computer (plug in for network access) 1 150
Translator (5 in 6 chance to understand a language) 1 100
Vibrating lockpicks 1 100
Voice scrambler 1 50

FOOD COST
Almost bread (1 loaf) 2
Asteroid whiskey 6
Dry compressed food (1 day) 6
Experimental moonshine (blind on 1 in 20) Free
Fat and protein for making bulk food 3
(1 day, requires mess kitchen module to cook)
Freeze-dried drink mixes 2
Fresh fruit (1 kg) 20
Fresh vegetables and tortillas (1 serving) 16
Liquid salt solution and oily pepper paste 4
Moonshine 4
Rehydratable flavored udon noodles (1 serving) 10
Box of spices 50
Starköl (1 pint) 3
Synthetic flour (1 kg) 2
Thermostabilized soy and fakeon (1 serving) 12
Toothpaste-type tubes with puréed food ready-to-eat (1 day) 6
Vacuu-ice, cold flavored ice in plastic bags (5 pack) 3
CLOTHING COST REPAIRS AND SPARE PARTS COST

Scanty 10 Component 25
Workwear 30 Vehicle part 250
High tech 100 Weapons and electronics 30
repairs, one condition
Royal 2000
(includes spare parts)
Synthetic fur coats, 600
Vehicle and machine 300
parkas with animal-AI
repairs, one condition
Modified for special +100 (includes spare parts)
weather
Modified for concealed +100 Repair times can differ
weapon depending on demand and manpower.
FUEL COST DISTANCE / EVENT COST USABLES AND SERVICES COST

Within system 0 Bed capsule, 1 night 10
Between systems *
2 Docking fee, 24 hours 50
Between galaxies* 10 Ammo clip for weapons 25
(full ammo)
Launching from low gravity 1
Fuel, 1 unit 100
Launching from average 2
gravity Shuttle bus (iron ring) 50
Launching from high gravity 3 Gemstone, small 1000
Failed risky maneuvers 1 Murder contract 1000
Failed fleeing rolls 1 Non-phys experience 15
(1 hour)
*
No fuel cost for spacecraft
with radiation pressure sails.

DEATH IN SPACE
CREATORS
Christian Plogfors
Carl Niblaeus
LAYOUT AND GRAPHICS

Christian Plogfors
ADDITIONAL WRITING
Pelle Nilsson (Cults)
ILLUSTRATIONS
Mattias Astenvald, Johan Nohr, Robert Sammelin,
Anton Grandert, Pontus Björlin, modified stock art
PRINT PROOFING
Dan Algstrand
EDITING AND PROOFREADING

Brandon Bowling, Fredrik Jarl
CHWP
THANK YOU! TACK!
Linnea, Any, Karl Stjernberg,
C W Magnus Olin, Gabriel Herrin,
Christian Sahlén, Fredrik Román,
Svante Landgraf
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INSPIRATION
Moving pictures: Prospect, Outland,
2001: A Space Odyssey, Monsters,
Firefly, Arrival, Blade Runner,
Titan AE
Static text: Alien RPG,

Offworlders, Solar Blades &
Cosmic Spells, Knave, Traveller,
Mothership, MÖRK BORG
Other: NASA, ten years of physics
PLAYTESTERS
Karl Stjernberg, Arvid Burstrom,
Magnus Walterstad, Rickard Antroia,
Artur Foxander, Staffan Fladvad,
Joel Östlund, Sebastian Gerstel
Sollerman, Philip Hallsmar,
Fredrik Román, David Ronnås
© 2021 Christian Plogfors & Carl Niblaeus

PUBLISHER Free League Publishing
G ≈ 6.67×10–11 m3kg–1s–2
D E A T H
“ the rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, and nothing
stirr’d within their silent depths “
george gordon byron
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TABLES
BACKGROUND 14
TRAIT 15
DRIVE 15
LOOKS 17
PAST ALLEGIANCE 18
STARTING KIT 22
STARTING BONUS 22
PERSONAL TRINKET 23
HUB BACKGROUND 30
HUB QUIRK 33
REACTIONS 37
VOID CORRUPTION 39
COSMIC MUTATIONS 40
TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS 48
CRYOPOD MALFUNCTIONS 49
BRIDGING MALFUNCTIONS 49
TRAVEL TIME 49
DEATH IN SPACE 55
SPACECRAFT DISASTERS 59
IMPROVEMENT 60
TRAVEL TIME IN WEEKS 68
CREATURES OF THE ABYSS 94
CORRUPTED BY THE VOID 96
TRIGGERS 98
OBSTACLES 98
SPACE ENCOUNTERS 100
IRON RING LOCATIONS 104
ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES 108
SPACECRAFT 112
POWER SYSTEMS 113
GENERAL MODULES 114
TECH MODULES 116
CONFRONTATION MODULES 118
NON-PLAYER HUBS 120
CREWS 121
WEAPONS 122
ARMOR 123
CONTRACTORS 126
CONTRACT GENERATOR 127
NPC GENERATOR 128

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION TOC/DIS
INTRODUCTION 5
GETTING STARTED I
CHARACTER CREATION 12
GETTING STARTED II
HUB CREATION 26
PLAYING THE GAME
GENERAL RULES 36
VOID POINTS 38
CONDITION AND SPARE PARTS 42
REPAIRS 45
OFFWORLD 46
SPACE TRAVEL 48
COMBAT 52
SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS 56
ADVANCEMENT 60
EXTRAS
PRINCIPLES 64
THE TENEBRIS SYSTEM 66
CULTS 76
WELCOME TO THE RING 78
TABLES AND TOOLS
TABLES AND TOOLS 94

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INTRODUCTION //
A COLLAPSING UNIVERSE THE GEM WAR

The vast blackness of space is A century ago, explorers found
collapsing, in a slow grind a new form of gemstone in the
towards eternal nothingness. desolate Tenebris system.
Heralding the collapse is the The stones grew like cysts on
void, a strange presence that roots that extended deep into the
infects and corrupts. So say soil of barren moons and planets.
the navvies, workers who travel With extraordinary refracting
farther into uncharted space than qualities, the gems soon became
anyone else, as they return with invaluable in the construction of
stories from faraway systems. Some advanced technology, such as the
navvies claim to have seen strange huge bridger spacecraft that rip
creatures out there—behemoths through the fabric of space-time.
drifting from the edge of the
cosmos, seeking shelter in the Although the potential of the
civilized systems. gems was far from understood,
their value soared. The Gem Rush
Scientists of course reject such soon escalated into a full-scale
claims, calling them tales and war that only ended after years
nightmares. Yet, even among them, of bloody struggle. In a final
there are some who assert that the inferno of death and ruin, the
universe has stopped expanding. largest corporations battled
Instead, they say, it is now around the yellow moon Inauro—the
compressing, at an accelerating center of the Gem Rush.
rate towards an inevitable
crushing crunch. The war ended a decade ago. And
although one of the corporations
declared itself victor in the
end, all lost. The production
of spacecraft, advanced weapons
and other technology has since
stopped. It relied on a steady
supply of gems, and on intricate
trade networks shattered by the
war. As a result, everything is
now recycled and repurposed over
and over again. Whittled down, bit
by bit. Nothing is new.
Among the unlucky ones trapped

in the Tenebris system, there
are many that still remember the
war. Some grievances are hard to
forget.
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// INTRODUCTION
THE DECAY OF CENTRAL RULE REPUTATION IS THE NEW LAW

When the war ended, entire star Holos may be what you use to
systems became isolated and pay for your daily dose of
without purpose. Trade activities moonshine, but the real currency
dwindled to nothing and production is contracts. A contract for
halted. Former vassals exploited salvaging parts from a freighter
this power vacuum to seize control that drifts on the dark side of
of their domains and make their a gas giant near the edge of the
own laws. They determinedly cling system. A contract for prospecting
to their authority while staving the icy moon that orbits it. Or a
off attacks from their many contract for escorting a corrupt
neighboring enemies. warlord from the Iron Ring to
peace talks on one of the Feni
The Tenebris system has fractured moons.
into a multitude of small domains.
Much of the system has been Contracts generate clean holos
abandoned. Old stations orbit and bolster your reputation. In
vacated asteroid mines. Only a a system where you need the right
few distant outposts still send contacts to get the best spare
regular updates. Most people have parts for your spacecraft, to get
forgotten about other stellar clearance for exploring unknown
systems. space in a conflict-ridden sector
or to dock at a moon station after
a nasty bridger jump, reputation
is everything.
A STATIC PERMEATES
ALL ELECTRONICS
It is always there these days.
Vague, but undeniable. Like a
radio between channels. It seems
to intensify as you approach the
edge of known space. Occasionally,
you can make out words in the
noise. Strange whispers that make
no sense.
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// INTRODUCTION
Civilization is at its end. The remaining part of the book

Slowly but steadily, the universe contains an introductory scenario,
contracts towards an inescapable and tables and tools to use during
end. The void between the stars play.
whispers strange and portentous
phrases to the unlucky. This is STARTING UP A CAMPAIGN
a game about the hard-working Begin by creating the crew and
explorers and laborers in this their hub. Involve everyone
universe, and the jobs they take around the table. Discuss tone and
to survive in a war-torn stellar setting, and what kind of game
system where anarchy spreads and you want. Do you want to focus on
resources are scarce. Without a intrigue and power struggles, or
good aim, and a tech-savvy mind, on expeditions to forgotten places
they will quickly meet their far out in the stellar system?
DEATH IN SPACE.
Let the players influence what
In this book, you will find the the hub looks like, its purpose,
rules and tools you need to play name and other characteristics.
the game. First are the rules It starts out run-down and almost
for creating the crew of player non-functional, but the crew can
characters and their hub, in the upgrade and customize it during
form of a spacecraft or station. their adventures to truly make it
Some details are left for you to their own home.
define what they mean for your
group in your universe. Second, In a typical campaign, the player
are the rules for playing the characters start out on the Iron
game. They are intended to be Ring at the bottom of the food
quick and simple, and to introduce chain. They are a small crew
and support what DEATH IN SPACE is that have just come across an old
all about. spacecraft or space station. Will
they try to get off the Ring, or
The book also includes an work their way up through the
introduction to the Tenebris power structure?
system, the default setting. You
can use this as the starting point A starting scenario (Welcome to
for your game. Create your own the Ring!, p. 78) is included in
places, planets, corporations, this book, and can be used as the
people, histories and events to start of such a campaign.
make it your own. Tenebris is
only one star system in an entire
Schwarzschild Radius rs=
universe, and there are many

systems both close and far that
2.4×1015 m (~ 0.25 ly)
are yours to create.
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INTRODUCTION //
THE IRON RING • To get between the sectors,

• The Iron Ring is a massive one must often walk through
ring-like structure assembled worn docking connectors or
from thousands of old occasionally open space. There
spacecraft and refinery are also shuttles that run
modules, surrounding the moon between some of the sectors.
Inauro like a belt of metal. • Most technology in the
• The Ring is divided into system is recycled from old
irregularly sized sectors, equipment. There is someone
made up of everything from selling junk or offering cheap
several small connected ships repairs in every corner in
to a single large mining every sector.
carrier. • Society is harsh, and some do
• A lot of sectors are not hesitate to step on others
uninhabited: derelict, cold to get one step ahead.
and dark. • For those who can not afford
• In the inhabited sectors, their own living quarters,
salvagers, miners and drugged there are common areas,
cultists coexist in a never- with rows of bed capsules
sleeping melting pot, filled placed in steel scaffolding,
with sharp smells from food each capsule having room
stalls, ear-piercing noise for one person. Between the
from the workshops that scaffolding platforms are
constantly disassemble and public showers and mess halls
rebuild things, and the where you can buy food and
shouting of AI bodyguards make a friend or two.
offering their services in
every known language.
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GETTING STARTED I
CHARACTER CREATION

// CHARACTER CREATION
CHARACTER 1 .ABILITIES
CREATION There are four abilities:

BODY (BDY)
Bodily strength and physical
STEP-BY-STEP resistance, melee attacks
1. Abilities
2. Origin DEXTERITY (DEX)
3. Character details Reflexes, poise and speed
4. Past allegiance
5. Hit points and defense rating SAVVY (SVY)
6. Starting gear and Perception, intuition,
starting bonus psychological resistance,
piloting spacecraft
TECH (TEC)
Understanding and operating
technology, ranged attacks
GENERATING ABILITY VALUES

For each ability, roll two d4, one
at a time. The ability value is
the first roll minus the second.
Alternatively, you can roll two

d4 of different colors at the
same time, counting one color as
positive and one as negative when
they are summed.
ORIGINS
An origin can be anything from a
different alien species to someone
with opinions and a mohawk.
Starting from our description,
decide on how you want to
interpret yours and how you fit
into the setting.
Void
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CHARACTER CREATION //
2 .ORIGIN
Roll or choose your origin and
4. SOLPOD. Hibernating for decades,
only staying awake for short
pick one of the two benefits. periods. They dedicate their lives
to the scientific study of slow,
1. CARBON. Grown in space-based exo- cosmic phenomena.
wombs. Short life spans. Live
their lives offworld and are LONG-LIVED. You have an old and
untroubled by the darkness of useful contact in every port.
space. More comfortable in an EVA OLD TECH. You have a portable
suit than out of one. hibernation pod. Regenerates lost
limbs, prevents aging and the need
ENGINEERED LUNGS. Use half oxygen to eat. Powered by starlight.
compared to everyone else (one
step for every two normal steps). 5. VELOCITY CURSED. Ill-fated ones
GEARHEAD. Repair twice as fast. that have started to lose their
connection to reality. They
2. CHROME. Ancient AI placed in a shift and flicker in and out of
body vessel of organic material. spacetime with glitching faces.
Part machine, but with an organic
CPU and a distributed neural FUTURE MEMORY. You have already
system that requires oxygen. been here. Once per session, ask
the referee for directions.
NATIVE MACHINE. You can converse POCKET WORLD. You start with a
with computers as if they were portable non-phys server, housing
real people. Plug in and find a a virtual reality where you store
friend. memories to connect the past and
BODY BATTERY. You can use your future of your life. Up to ten
body to power one small electrical users can connect simultaneously.
device, such as a hand-held item.
6. VOID. Robed nihility shamans,
3. PUNK. Rebellious and non- hidden behind masks, speaking
conformist with a long history. through synthetic voice
They have seen civilizations scramblers. They have seen visions
collapse, and others turn against of the edge of the universe.
each other.
VOICE OF THE VOID. You can make
STUBBORN. You never give up. nearby electronics emit static and
Reroll any dice roll once per crackling whispers.
session. MASKED. You have a mask that you
GREEN THUMB. You know everything can reshape during rest into the
about plants and what to use them resemblance of another face or
for. You start with a pocket mask. At a distance, it fools
greenhouse and some random seeds. most.
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3 .CHARACTER DETAILS
BACKGROUND
D20
1 Moon outlaw
To determine your background,
trait, drive and looks, roll 2 Monolith cultist
or choose one of each from the 3 Event horizon
tables, or invent your own. These diver
help determine who you are and add 4 Technomant
color to your player character.
5 Astrochemist
Finally, give your player
character a name. 6 Interstellar
soldier
7 Orbit vagabond
8 Gravity swindler
9 Intergalactic
traveler
10 Legionnaire
11 Freight tracer
12 Asteroid driller
13 Isotope coder
14 Station marshal
15 Static noise
translator
16 Asteroid
archaeologist
17 Tow trucker
18 Star salvager
19 Bounty hunter
20 Deep field welder
Carbon
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TRAIT DRIVE
D20 D20
1 Polite 1 A place
2 Optimist 2 A person
3 Cynical 3 A strange cult
4 Eccentric 4 Heritage
5 Hypochondriac 5 An event
6 Honest 6 Friends
7 Proud 7 An object
8 Relentless 8 A strange drug
9 Perfectionist 9 Technology
10 Dishonest 10 Secrets about (d6):

1. space
11 Remorseful 2. friends
12 Nearsighted 3. the end
4. your background
13 Creepy 5. your parents
14 Lazy 6. a murder
15 Inventive 11 Free will
16 Rough 12 To always be right
17 Hard-boiled 13 To never show weakness
18 Savage 14 To never look (d6):

1–3 poor, 4–6 rich
19 Passionate
15 To never be alone
20 Too old for this
shit 16 To find purpose
17 Harmony
18 Anonymity
19 To never lose
20 Neutrality
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LOOKS
D20
1 Flamboyant robes in reflective
materials
2 Torn, old space dock jacket
3 Foreign, realistic tattoos
4 Filthy, dark makeup
5 Undersized hologlasses
6 Perfectly weathered clothes
7 Botany patches on arms and back
saying “I love plants”
8 Fashionable interstellar clothes
9 Too clean civilian clothes
10 Bags and pockets everywhere for
everything but never anything
important in them
11 Layers of black fabric, wrapped
loosely
12 Robotic hands/arms
13 1d6 bullet scars, 1d4 scars from
slashing weapons, 1d4 metal
fragments
14 Asymmetric, patterned hood
15 Antique space gloves
16 Hazard pants
17 Trucker cap with patch
18 Necklace with odd animal skulls
19 Decorated cape
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4 .PAST ALLEGIANCE 5 .HIT POINTS

AND DEFENSE RATING
Some still wear their war
uniforms, while others do all they You start with 1d8 maximum hit
can to forget. Roll or decide your points. When you rest, you recover
allegiance during the Gem War. Who 1d8+BDY hit points.
are you today, and what happens
when you are pushed about the Your defense rating is a measure
past? of how well you can avoid damage.
D6 PAST ALLEGIANCE Your unarmored defense rating

1 AN IDEA. You held some is 12 modified by your DEX. You
value—faith, science or can increase it by wearing armor
something else—higher than (p. 123).
war and strife. You made
compromises but kept away
from fighting.
2 FAMILY. You stayed with
family and kin, defending
your turf with tooth and
claw.
3 WINNING SIDE. You happened
to side with the winners,
but in the end, did you
really win?
4 LOSING SIDE. Working for the
losing side, death followed
in your steps. You survived,
but at great cost.
5 THE CONTRACT. As an
opportunist, you swore
allegiance to those who paid
best.
6 NONE. You sided only with
yourself and avoided the war
as well as you could.
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6 . STARTING GEAR AND STARTING BONUS

SAVINGS STARTING BONUS
Holos are the most common form If the sum of your ability scores
of currency. You start with 3d10 is negative, roll 1d6 for a
spare holos. starting bonus:
ITEM SLOTS D6 STARTING BONUS

You have 12+BDY item slots.
1 A random cosmic mutation
This is the number of items (p.40).
you can carry without negative
2 +3 starting HP.
modifications. Normal items take
up one item slot. Small items 3 A heavy EVA suit.
normally do not require any slot, 4 A pistol.
whereas heavy or unwieldy items 5 An AI guard animal DR 13,
take up two or more slots. 1d4 HP, bite (1d6).
6 An old crew member
STARTING GEAR (0 in all abilities, DR 12,
For starting gear, roll or choose 1d6 HP). You have always
one of the starting kits and a been close.
personal trinket.
STARTING KIT
D6 PACK TYPE CONTENT
1 PROSPECTOR Handheld material analyzer, magnetic boots, breathing
mask (1d6 minutes air per use), container with engine
grease
2 RING THUG Distillery kit, lockpicks, holographic playing cards,
1d4 doses of unknown substances mixed in a bag
3 MERCENARY Uniform, planetary parachute, proximity alarm
(needs batteries), flashlight model P78C
4 NOMAD Liquid purifier (removes contaminants), hover hammock,
box of spices, pack of incense sticks, rechargeable
battery with compact solar panel
5 ENGINEER Electric multi-tool, duct tape, tablet computer
(plug in for network access), fusion welder, workwear
6 EXPLORER Emergency food rations (1 week), light EVA suit,
5 military grade light sticks, tent for extreme weather
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PERSONAL TRINKET
D20 PERSONAL TRINKET
1 Tool with personal inscriptions.
2 Cartridge with AI from a dead pet.
3 Embroidered patch from a famous organization.
4 Memory disk with a loved one’s memories on it.
5 Weatherproof notebook filled with strange writing and symbols.
6 Notebook with names of people that have treated you badly.
7 A bag of metal pieces called coins.
8 Small toy figurine depicting yourself.
9 Shades, dirty and scratched after an old job.
10 A letter from someone you love.
11 Glove from a stolen prototype space suit.
12 Ancient necklace inscribed with the letters “USB”.
13 Music box from your childhood with a holographic swirling galaxy.
14 A laser disc with your favorite music.
15 Two glowing wedding rings.
16 Digital travel brochure for exotic locations with a cracked
speaker playing commercial messages.
17 Ancient synthesizer shaped like a gun.
18 Holographic image of someone you lost.
19 Belt buckle with hidden star compass. Only works sometimes,
you don’t know why.
20 DNA birth certificate circuit.
THIS WAS THE LAST STEP

HAVE A NICE DEATH IN SPACE
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GETTING STARTED II
HUB CREATION

// HUB CREATION
HUB CORE FUNCTIONS

All hubs are equipped with a set of
CREATION
core functions. They do not cost
any output power.
The hub is your home, your COMMAND CENTER: The hub’s bridge,
sanctuary in a tough universe. where countless cables and wires
The crew starts with a station or a make sure that crucial systems such
spacecraft. as scanning, communications and
steering (spacecraft only) work
SPACECRAFT AS HUB: For a campaign properly.
centered on exploration where you
use your run-down spacecraft to CREW QUARTERS: A crew member’s only
travel between locations in sanctuary. Crammed and sweaty, with
the stellar system and beyond. room for a bed per person and not
much more.
STATION AS HUB: For a campaign
focused on social interaction LIFE SUPPORT: Systems and
and intrigue, for example on the generators for oxygen, heating,
Iron Ring or a moon colony. The water conservation, garbage
station can be a small base, a disposal and artificial gravity.
repurposed spacecraft which is part
of a section in the Iron Ring, or MESS: The only place large enough
something similar. for the whole crew to sit together
and discuss current operations
STARTING HUB while wolfing down some processed
Your starting hub contains a power grub.
source and a set of core functions.
As the game progresses, you can ADDITIONAL MODULES
mount additional modules on it to The hub starts without any modules.
add new possibilities and further To upgrade the hub with modules
define the purpose of the hub and after it has been created, the
the crew. crew must find or steal the new
modules, or obtain them as payment
POWER SOURCE in a contract or as a big favor.
The engine powering the hub and Available modules are listed on
its modules. Supplies an output pp. 114–119.
power (OP), which limits the number
of additional modules the hub can STEP-BY-STEP
support. The engine needs fuel to 1. Hub type and frame statistics
work. At zero fuel, life support 2. Power source and output power
works, but you cannot use any 3. Hub background
additional modules or travel in a 4. Hub quirk
meaningful way with a spacecraft.
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HUB CREATION //
1 .HUB TYPE AND

FRAME STATISTICS
2 .POWER SOURCE
AND OUTPUT POWER
First choose your type of hub. Note down the starting power
You start with either a station source and its output power for
or a spacecraft. Note down the your hub type:
statistics for your choice on
the hub sheet. SPACECRAFT: Standard chemical
engine, slow, (OP 3)
The defense rating (DR) is its
ability to avoid critical damage STATION: Standard industrial
to its frame. The condition is a generator (OP 3)
measure of how technologically
sophisticated it is and its Starting stations require one unit
current state of disrepair. of fuel per session
The listed value is the hub’s
maximum possible condition. Fuel OUTPUT POWER
capacity is the maximum amount The output power limits the number
of fuel that can be carried. The of modules the hub can support.
frame integrity tracks damage to Core functions do not cost output
the spacecraft. It is 100% for an power but each additional module
unharmed spacecraft. has a power cost.
STARTING SPACECRAFT: DR 11, max • The sum of the power costs

condition 5, fuel capacity 6 for all modules must always
be less than or equal to the
STARTING STATION: DR 11, hub’s total output power.
max condition 5, fuel capacity 4 • By modifying and upgrading the
power source, or exchanging it
for another type, the output
power can be increased.
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// HUB CREATION
3 OR
.HUB BACKGROUND (SPACECRAFT)

Your spacecraft had a different purpose before you got hold of it.
Roll or choose a background from the table below or invent one.
D20 BACKGROUND
1 Arrived empty with a dead crew from an unknown stellar system a
year ago. Foreign symbols are etched on the hull.
2 Unknown. No serial numbers, fragmented log hidden deep in the
computer system.
3 Used by an infamous smuggler and moon outlaw.
4 All previous captains have died under strange circumstances.
5 Has traveled to the edge of the universe and back.
6 Played a major role in the Gem War.
7 Was the center of a diplomatic disaster.
8 One of only three prototypes.
9 Famous for nine speed records, but someone stole the old engine.
10 Once lost for 31 years in a black hole.
11 Used as a mobile star bar.
12 Not a single original part left.
13 Strange summoning rituals were performed here by mysterious
cultists. Something still responds to their summonings, at
unexpected times.
14 The former home of a vocal and well-known cult that vanished
suddenly without a trace.
15 Was part of the renowned Eyemaster squadron of the Union Alliance
fleet.
16 The DNA-locked black box, containing all the spacecraft’s logs,
has never been opened.
17 For as long as anyone can remember, the spacecraft has been docked
to the Iron Ring and the home of an old group of punks, who were
recently forcibly removed.
18 Used to be a well-known memory brothel, where one used chromes to
share memories and indulge in pleasure hacking.
19 Part of a time travel experiment.
20 Old chrome ship, once run by serially connected chrome mainframes.
Today, only the communications system remains, which has an
annoying personality.
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HUB CREATION //
OR
3 .HUB BACKGROUND (STATION)
Your station had a different purpose before you got hold of it.
Roll or choose a background from the table below or invent one.
D20 BACKGROUND
1 Touched by the void. Arrived from the future after a failed
bridging jump.
2 Was used as a prison during the Gem War.
3 Covered in ice for 17 years, unclear why.
4 Was previously a notorious smuggler’s nest.
5 Was the site of a holy pilgrimage. Pilgrims still show up.
6 An infected AI killed the last crew but was deleted. Probably.
7 Was the hangout of a bounty hunter crew called The Marshals. Wanted
posters still hang on the walls.
8 Recently hauled in from a derelict part of the Iron Ring. Mostly
intact, but old and dusty.
9 Some parts of the hub have turned into organic material after a
mold infestation.
10 Has been used as a storage for failed experiments. Strange crates
are still uncovered every now and then.
11 Known for an infamous riot and slaughter.
12 Built from parts of the first colony ships that arrived to this
system.
13 Used as an illegal designer drug lab. Drugs were made from strange
fruits harvested close by.
14 Renowned as a black market hub for illegal weapons during the war.
15 Quarantined for a long time. According to the logs, everything
should be fine. Promise.
16 Has had as many owners as service years.
17 A notorious hacker lived here.
18 Void runes are carved into the hull. Everyone knows about the hub
and always start their sentences with “I’m not superstitious,
but...”.
19 A group of cosmologists lived and worked here. A broken
experimental telescope is on the outside of the hub.
20 Old blueprints in the computer show an additional hidden room,
which can be found if anyone bothers to search for it.
#31
// HUB CREATION
Frontier lander
#32
HUB CREATION //
4 .HUB QUIRK
Each hub has a quirk, something about it that is a bit strange or
annoying. Roll or choose one from the table, or invent your own.
D20 QUIRK
1 Body parts and strange objects appear occasionally from tiny
temporary wormholes.
2 Shakes violently when engine or generators work at maximum, causing
panels and wires to come off and fall down.
3 Small deep space creatures live on the hull.
4 Takes two hours to reboot the systems, but can be shut down
instantly.
5 Interior is painted in luminous colors, charged by UV light.
6 You need to hit the controls in a certain way to start the engine
or generator.
7 Minor items disappear every now and then. And just as suddenly
reappear.
8 The brake thrusters or mechanical doors just have on or
off buttons, so you better be ready, because the effect is
instantaneous.
9 The light is always eerily dimmed.
10 Infested with fluorescent spore mold. Needs constant cleaning.
11 A transdimensional presence has always been living here. It seems
helpful.
12 Occasionally the lights go out for a few seconds and it is
impossible to find the cause.
13 Some kind of signal is emitted by the communications system and
over the speakers with a certain periodicity.
14 There is a frequent noise like someone tapping on the hull from
the outside.
15 There is a constant drip of diluted chemicals all through the hub.
16 Scrawled on a wall is “call in case of emergency” along with a
number. The number goes to a person who can offer contracts to the
crew.
17 Comes with a grumpy robotic pet coated in a cosy synthetic fur.
18 There is graffiti here and there from previous occupants.
19 Temperature systems can not be calibrated properly: it is always
too cold or too warm.
20 A tree with fruit is growing in the crew quarters, roots throughout
the whole spacecraft/station.
THIS WAS THE LAST STEP!
#33
PLAYING
THE GAME

// GENERAL RULES
GENERAL ABILITY CHECKS

When a player character attempts
RULES
to resist a hazardous effect or
overcome a challenge where the
outcome is uncertain and there is
a real risk of failure, make an
ABILITIES ability check by rolling:
There are four abilities, defining
how competent a player character 1D20 + RELEVANT ABILITY
is at performing the tasks
relevant in the game. If the result is equal to or
greater than 12, the task is
BODY (BDY):
(BDY) successful, otherwise the check
Melee attacks, healing hit fails.
points, encumbrance, lifting dead
friends, surviving without oxygen On a failure, the player character
in space, forcing open airlocks, suffers a complication or setback
withstanding g-forces, resisting and gains one void point.
cold and sickness.
OPPOSED ROLLS
DEXTERITY (DEX):
(DEX) In the case where the attempted
Defense rating, poise, speed and task is directly opposed by
reflexes, dodging, climbing, someone else, roll 1d20+ability
sneaking, balancing, picking value for both involved, the
pockets. highest result wins. In case of a
tie, the initiator or most active
SAVVY (SVY):
(SVY) part wins.
Perception, intuition,
streetsmarts, piloting spacecraft, ADVANTAGE AND
resisting psychological effects, DISADVANTAGE
detecting holographic illusions, When there are rare situational
recalling lore and knowledge about factors that give someone a
the universe. significant edge, they may roll
with advantage. Similarly, when
TECH (TEC):
(TEC) such factors impact their chance
Ranged attacks, understanding and of success negatively, they roll
operating technology, constructing with disadvantage. Such a roll
gear, tinkering with machinery and is resolved by rolling twice
electronics. and using the better result (for
advantage) or the worse result
(for disadvantage).
#36
GENERAL RULES //
ITEM SLOTS REACTIONS

A player character has 12+BDY item If the reaction of a non-player
slots. Items typically take up character or creature that the
one item slot, but items that are crew encounters is uncertain, the
especially heavy or unwieldy, such referee can roll 2d6 and consult
as armor or heavy weapons, can the following table:
take up more slots. Many smaller
items can be grouped together in 2D6 REACTION
one or several slots. As a general 2 Hostile
rule, one slot holds about one to 3–5 Unfriendly
two kilograms of weight.
6–8 Uncertain
9–11 Talkative
CARRYING TOO MUCH
A person carrying more than 12+BDY 12 Helpful
items has disadvantage on all
actions.
#37
// VOID POINTS
VOID POINTS
There is something out there that USING COSMIC MUTATIONS
is constantly watching. A void, Activating a mutation requires
always grasping at your inner spending one or more void points.
thoughts. Each failure opens the The effect lasts around ten
door a bit more. minutes, and can be activated from
a range of ten meters, unless
GAINING VOID POINTS otherwise stated. More points can
For each failed ability check or result in a bigger effect if the
attack roll, a player character player and referee can agree on
gains one void point. They can the outcome and consequences of
have at most four void points at the spent points.
any time.
The player decides the necessary
details of how a mutation
USING VOID POINTS manifests.
One void point can be used to:
• Gain advantage on an ability VOID CORRUPTION
check or attack roll. When you lose control and let the
• Activate a cosmic mutation. void surge through your body, it
can leave permanent scars behind.
COSMIC MUTATIONS If a void point is spent to gain

The mutations represent physical advantage, and the roll fails:
manifestations of the void through
the player character. • Roll 1d6, if the result is
equal to or lower than the
HOW TO OBTAIN COSMIC MUTATIONS current amount of void points
• As a starting bonus in (after the spend), roll a void
character creation (p. 22) corruption effect.
• As a result of player • No void point is gained for
character advancement (p. 60) the failed roll.
• In rare situations, when the
void is let loose
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VOID POINTS //
VOID CORRUPTION
D20 DESCRIPTION
1 You become infected by an anarchy program (p. 96).
2 Day- and nightmares about a suffocating darkness.
3 Your most important memory transcends to an item you carry. You
and others can feel and see the memory if they hold the object.
4 You hear inhuman, nonsensical whispers through any static noise.
5 You have hallucinations of someone who couldn’t be there. They
talk to you as if nothing has changed since the last time you met.
6 A new eye sprouts from a random place on your body.
7 It starts to grow inside you. A living, empty chasm. It fills your
eyes and veins with corruption as it moves around, trying to get
out. Every time you roll the same result again, you are pushed
towards a transformation.
8 A part of your body becomes surrounded by a cloud of darkness.
9 Your skin starts excreting a slimy substance that sticks to
anything.
10 You start mixing up old and new memories. Sometimes you remember
things that have never happened. Yet?
11 You gain a heightened sensitivity to all pain, one extra damage to
all hit point loss.
12 When you try to sleep, you see through someone else’s eyes.
13 The skin on one of your body parts turns bioluminescent.
14 1d20 strange mathematical symbols start appearing on your body.
15 The iris of one eye changes to look like a miniature galaxy.
16 You grow an extra set of teeth.
17 Once per month, your mind and body disappears into a void plane
for 1d4 days, but only ten minutes in the real world. You are in
a plane with an endless horizon, suspended in time, with dark
clouds hovering above. They seem closer on each visit.
18 Flies and other insects crawl out of your body when you sleep.
A small cloud of them surrounds you. Their buzzing is a constant
static.
19 Another you starts growing on you. The twin clone is fully grown,
and detaches after 1d20 days. It has its own will and purpose,
decided by the referee.
20 You have a vision of the end of the universe. A crushing darkness
that envelops all. Change one cosmic mutation for a new one.
#39
// VOID POINTS
COSMIC MUTATIONS
D20 NAME DESCRIPTION
1 CODE GENERATOR Part of the brain converts to a computer that can
be activated to create programs, transferred via
skin contact. They have the player character's DNA
encoded in them.
2 TELEKINESIS Can lift, move, pull and generally alter the
direction and speed of an object, using the mind.
Up to the size of a hand-held object. Lasts one
minute.
3 TELEPATHY Can put a single word or feeling in another
person’s mind.
4 VACUUM GILLS No need to breathe.
5 VOID CLOUD Can create a human-sized spherical cloud around a
person or object. All sound and light is stopped
within the cloud.
6 CRYSTAL Light bends around the player character, who
MEMBRANE becomes invisible while standing still without
clothes. Only those actively searching will notice
the player character when they move.
7 TECH TALKER Can communicate with electronics and give one
simple order, for example “open”, “turn off” or
“change direction”.
#40
VOID POINTS //
D20 NAME DESCRIPTION

8 MAGNETIC Magnetic blisters form on hands and feet.
The magnetic force is strong enough for climbing
on walls and ceilings.
9 AUGMENTED Vision becomes sensitive to the full
PERCEPTION electromagnetic spectrum, including infrared heat
emission and x-ray frequencies. Also allows for
seeing through solid materials. Effect lasts a
short moment.
10 SYMBIOTIC Can take over a small animal in sight, by sending
whispered commands through the void. Allows you to
control its movements, sense what it senses and
feel what it feels.
11 LINKED Can touch an object and create a connection to it.
Can feel the rough direction and distance to the
object for one week.
12 APAC BRIDGE Creates a portal between current location and the
location of a recent memory, up to a week back.
Lasts long enough for 1d4 persons to pass through.
13 THERMAL Can make the body withstand extreme temperatures,
CONDUIT or create a small region of extreme temperature in
the palm of the hand.
14 TRANSCEIVER Can transmit and receive radio messages, and
eavesdrop on others. The range depends on the
amount of interfering material, from 50 meters
inside a station up to kilometers in open space.
Lasts until concentration is dropped.
15 TWO HEARTS Can run, climb, jump and lift twice as much as
usual.
16 BOOSTED Can eat anything from blood to batteries, and
METABOLISM convert it to nutrition and energy. One kilogram
of matter heals 1d4 hit points.
17 VIBRATION The skin starts to shimmer. During the effect,
DAMPER SKIN slow moving, sharp objects, like knives, fists and
spears, are stopped completely. Fast projectiles
can penetrate the protection. Lasts one minute.
18 COSMIC Can touch something and get a word, picture
SOMATOSENSORY or feeling of what has happened to the object
SYSTEM recently.
19 FEEDBACK LOOP Can jump back ten seconds in time, at the
cost of losing one important memory, chosen
by the player.
20 BLACK HOLE Can create a portal and from it lure a creature.
MONSTER Roll a random creature (p. 94) and roll for
reaction (p. 37) with a –2 modifier.
#41
// CONDITION AND SPARE PARTS
CONDITION AND
SPARE PARTS
CONDITION BREAKING OBJECTS
Most objects are patched up, At zero condition, an object is
fixed or repurposed beyond broken and can not be used until
recognition. The current state of repaired (p. 45).
some objects is represented by
their condition value. The maximum If a station or spacecraft becomes
condition is mainly a measure of broken, either by being reduced
how technically sophisticated the to zero condition or zero frame
object is. integrity, emergency power is
enough to run life support, but
OBJECTS WITH CONDITION not much more. All non-essential
• Weapons and electronics have a systems, such as the engine, and
value in the range 1–5 modules, stop working.
• Spacecraft, small stations and
other big machines have values SPARE PARTS
in the range 5–12 Spare parts used for repairs are
• Other objects have no divided into two categories:
condition value components and vehicle parts.
COMPONENTS
REDUCING CONDITION PCBs, wires or other small
Every time an object with a electronic parts that are used
condition value, including a to repair and build weapons and
spacecraft or station or its electronics.
modules, is used in a stressful
situation outside combat, roll One unit of components takes up
1d6. one item slot.
• On a 1, the object’s condition VEHICLE PARTS

is reduced by one. Larger parts and materials used to
repair broken spacecraft, space
Roll for condition when using the stations, giant drills, satellites
object, spacecraft or station in and big drones.
an ability check, or when time is
tight and success is crucial. One unit of vehicle parts takes up
For combat and hostile situations, five item slots.
roll afterwards (p. 53 and
p. 58).
#42
BROKEN: Hydroponic farm
BROKEN: Medical bay
OPERATIONAL: Solar panels
BROKEN: High-gain antenna
Escape pods 1/5
#43
// REPAIRS
Execution error
Sending message: In need of repairs
Ventricle failure
The Ambio Total Artificial Heart Pump ATAHP.

Constructed from a durable segmented polyurethane
solution. High failure rate. Condition 3. 600
holos. Batteries not included
#44
REPAIRS //
REPAIRS
REPAIRING WITH SPARE PARTS
ELECTRONICS AND WEAPONS: COMPONENTS

To repair an object that has a • Repairing one condition point
reduced condition value or is of an unbroken item requires
broken, the player characters can one unit of components.
either pay someone for the service • For broken items, the first
or do it themselves, using spare condition point requires a
parts. Repairs always require a number of components equal to
workshop or specific tools. the maximum condition value.
FINDING SPARE PARTS REPAIR TIME

While spare parts can be found Repairs take 1d6 hours per unit of
at some merchants, they are more components used.
often found as loot or given as
payment. Dismantling electronics, VEHICLES/SPACECRAFT: VEHICLE PARTS
weapons and spacecraft or other • Repairing one condition
vehicles is another common way point of an unbroken vehicle
of finding spare parts. The requires one unit of vehicle
dismantled object loses all its parts.
condition and is destroyed beyond • For a broken vehicle, the
repair. first condition point requires
a number of vehicle parts
DISMANTLING equal to the maximum condition
ELECTRONICS AND WEAPONS value.
• Picking apart a weapon or an
electronics item gives one REPAIR TIME
unit of components and takes Repairs take 1d20 hours per unit
1d6 hours. of vehicle parts used.
VEHICLES PAYING FOR REPAIRS

• Dismantling a vehicle gives • Repairing items one condition
its current condition value point costs 30 holos at a
plus 1d6 units of vehicle tinkerer.
parts. It takes 1d20 hours for • Repairing vehicles and
each salvaged vehicle part. spacecraft one condition point
costs 300 holos.
• Repair time is halved.
The cost includes the necessary

spare parts. The cost can differ
depending on the specific location
of the space dock or moon
workshop.
#45
// OFFWORLD
OFFWORLD TAKING DAMAGE IN AN EVA SUIT

If the wearer takes damage while
using a suit, the suit immediately
EXTRAVEHICULAR loses one step of oxygen.
ACTIVITY SUITS
Activities out in space require As the referee, be sure to convey
extravehicular activity suits (EVA the stress of the situation as
suits). There are two kinds of EVA oxygen is gradually lost.
suits: light and heavy.
LIGHT EVA SUITS
ALL EVA SUITS ARE EQUIPPED Defense rating +0, 3 item slots
WITH THE FOLLOWING: when carried, donning time 5
minutes.
• Seven hours of oxygen supply
and built-in life support. • No thrusters. Can instead use
• Two-way voice communication. a manned maneuvering unit
• Display for the suit’s status (MMU), a propulsion unit
and the wearer’s health carrying the same nitrogen
parameters. thrusters as the heavy EVA
• Cooling system and pressure suit. When using the MMU,
regulation functions. the wearer can not climb,
• An umbilical cable with which dodge or perform similar tasks
the wearer can connect the requiring dexterity.
suit to the life support
system of a spacecraft or a
mobile life support system. HEAVY EVA SUITS
• A can of repair foam for Defense rating +2 (only against
unexpected damage, like bullet melee weapons), 5 item slots when
holes or other penetrating carried, donning time 30 minutes.
trauma.
• Magnetic boots. • Heavy and unwieldy, suitable
only in low gravity
SUIT OXYGEN SUPPLY environments.
Life support is marked in seven • Power system with nitrogen-
steps on the character sheet. Tick propelled thrusters.
off one step for every hour in • Protects against jagged rocks
the suit. and radiation.
0% 100%
#46
OFFWORLD //
LACK OF OXYGEN AND

EXPOSURE TO SPACE
If a player character ends up
without a source of oxygen, they
risk falling unconscious.
• In the vacuum of space,

without a suit, a player
character can stay conscious
for one combat round (10–15
seconds). Any exposed liquids,
such as in the eyes or on the
tongue, immediately boil away.
• In a suit or onboard a
spacecraft, outside of combat,
a player character falls
unconscious after 1d6 minutes.
When unconscious without oxygen,

a player character survives 1d4
minutes. After that, they must
roll one BDY check per combat
round, until dead or rescued.
If a check fails they are dead.
ZERO GRAVITY
All movement in zero gravity gives
disadvantage on DEX checks. When
firing a weapon, the recoil pushes
the shooter backwards, who must
spend a round to regain control
(assuming they have a suitable
means of propulsion). There is no
limit on how far a projectile can
travel.
#47
// SPACE TRAVEL
SPACE LONG-DISTANCE TRAVEL

To travel the vast expanses
TRAVEL
between stellar systems, there are
two alternatives: either travel
below light speed in the suspended
RISKY MANEUVERS state of cryosleep, or travel by
To push the engine or make an bridging, on the huge experimental
especially risky maneuver, the bridger crafts that jump through
pilot needs to succeed on a SVY spacetime instantaneously between
check. In a stressful or hostile so-called bridging buoys. Bridging
situation, failing the roll costs is rare and expensive, and jumps
one fuel. A risky maneuver can be are made at most a few times per
gaining an advantageous position year and stellar system.
in a confrontation, navigating a
debris field or flying through a TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS
narrow gorge to escape detection When the crew travels in space,
systems. roll on the corresponding table
below.
FUEL D6 TRAVEL WITHIN SYSTEM
Traveling within a system does not
1 Spacecraft loses one
cost fuel, with a few exceptions:
condition
• Launching from planets with 2–4 Roll encounter (p. 100)
low, average or high gravity 5–6 Nothing happens
costs one, two or three fuel
respectively.
D6 TRAVEL BETWEEN SYSTEMS
• Failed risky maneuvers can
cost one fuel. 1 Roll cryopod* or bridging
malfunction
See the table on the inside cover 2 Spacecraft loses one
for all fuel costs. condition
3–5 Roll encounter (p. 100)
For long distance travel
6 Nothing happens
especially, one should plan
carefully where to buy, extract,
steal or otherwise obtain fuel. At D6 TRAVEL BETWEEN GALAXIES
zero fuel, travel and trying risky 1 Roll cryopod* or bridging
maneuvers is impossible. Life malfunction
support is powered by emergency 2 Spacecraft loses one
systems for a limited time. condition
3–6 Roll encounter (p. 100)
* C
ryopod malfunctions affect one
random player character.
#48
CRYOPOD MALFUNCTIONS SPACE TRAVEL //
D6 CRYOPOD MALFUNCTIONS
1 The pentamicetic milk mixture that keeps the user in suspended
animation fails. The failure creates a mental bridge to something
beyond. Roll on the void corruption table (p. 39).
2 Ages 3d20 years.
3 Plagued by nightmares of the void.
4 Awake in the pod during the trip, but unable to move. Acts
aggressively for a week.
5 Hair and fingernails have grown 1d4 meters, and turned white.
6 Gain a cosmic mutation (p. 40).
BRIDGING MALFUNCTIONS
D6 BRIDGING MALFUNCTIONS
1 Roadkill. The bridger and docked spacecraft are covered in the
remains of something that was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2 The bridger ends up in dead space, and it takes some time for the
navigators to jump to somewhere known (d4): 1. an hour, 2. a day,
3. a week, 4. a month.
3 Time and space mix in the wrong way. The bridger is thrust into
the past (d4): 1. 10 hours, 2. 10 days, 3. 10 months, 4. 10 years.
4 The void slips through rifts in space-time extending from the
engine and infects those onboard. Anyone onboard runs a 5% risk of
slowly turning into a port fanatic (p. 96).
5 Unexpected power surge. Anything electrical in the stellar system
that the bridger arrives to shuts down for (d4) 1. an hour,
2. a day, 3. a week, 4. a month.
6 The whole bridger spacecraft ends up in between dimensions, beyond
the edge of the universe. It is stuck in a warped unreality filled
with swirling colorful clouds and a cacophony of shrieking sounds,
where all times exist simultaneously, and nothing is predictable.
Anyone who returns is forever changed.
TRAVEL TIME Instant Weeks Months Years Decades Millenia
Slow
WITHIN SYSTEM Fast
Bridging
Slow
BETWEEN SYSTEM Fast
Bridging
Slow
BETWEEN GALAXIES Fast
Bridging
#49
#50
COMMITTEE OF SALVAGERS // Salvagers and towing
crews travel deep into space to look for
spacecraft, abandoned or not. They travel in
ships with powerful engines and lots of fuel,
and wait like vultures in faraway sectors for
any spacecraft that is broken or running out
of fuel. Mining ships are occasionally spotted
with a whole committee of salvagers in line
behind them, all hoping for a big score.
#51
// COMBAT
COMBAT ATTACK ROLLS

An attack is resolved by
rolling 1d20, adding the player
COMBAT ROUNDS character’s BDY to the roll on a
Combat is structured into rounds, melee attack or their TEC on a
representing about 10 seconds of ranged attack.
in-game time. In each round every
participant gets one turn each, If equal to or greater than the
where they can perform an action opponent’s defense rating, the
and move about 15 meters. attack is a hit. Roll damage
for the weapon and subtract the
INITIATIVE AND TURN ORDER result from the defender’s current
The one who initiates the conflict hit points. If lower, the attack
begins the first combat round. misses.
If unclear, determine randomly.
When a participant has taken their DEFENSE RATING
actions, they pick the next one to The defense rating is 12+DEX for
act, either friend or foe. an unarmored person, and can be
increased with armor.
This process continues until all
participants have acted once in RISKY ATTACKS
the round. The last person to act A risky attack can deal more
chooses who begins the next round. damage to the opponent, but
They can choose themselves. exposes the player character to
danger and counterattacks. Roll a
This method of determining turn standard attack roll:
order reinforces the idea of the
player characters as a crew acting • If successful, the attack
together, since they can choose deals an extra damage die.
a turn order that combines their • If it fails, the targeted
actions in a strategic manner. opponent gets an immediate
counterattack against the
attacker (in addition to their
other actions in the round),
and chooses who acts next
in the round instead of the
attacker.
#52
COMBAT //
CRITICAL HITS ENEMIES IN COMBAT

When rolling a natural 20 on an Stats-wise, an enemy has a defense
attack roll, the attack deals an rating (DR), hit points (HP),
extra die of damage. morale (ML), and either an attack
bonus (ATK) or ability values
CONDITION LOSS for humanoid creatures (with BDY
For weapons, condition loss is and TEC used for melee/ranged
determined once when the dust attacks). If no value is presented
settles, and not with every attack for an ability, assume it to be
roll. zero. Non-player characters of
less importance have zero in all
After combat, roll 1d6 for each abilities.
used weapon. On a 1, it loses one
condition. ENEMY EXAMPLE: CORPORATE MERCENARY
BDY +2, DEX ±0, SVY –1, TEC +2,
If the damage rolled in an attack DR 14, HP 6, ML 9, Procyon raid
is the maximum possible value, one rifle (1d10).
item carried by the defender loses
one condition. The attacker can MORALE
choose the item. Whenever circumstances require the
morale of a non-player character
COVER AND SHIELDS or enemy to be tested, roll 2d6
When firing from cover that can against their morale rating. If
withstand gunfire, such as behind the result is higher than the
a wall, crate or similar, one morale, the enemy attempts to
can choose to be partly or fully surrender, flee or parley.
covered. Attacks against a partly
covered person have disadvantage. Examples of events that trigger
A person in full cover can not morale rolls for enemies are:
attack but is shielded from all
ranged attacks. • Defeating half of an enemy
group.
Shields are bulky and provide • Reducing a lone enemy to half
full cover for the bearer and can their maximum hit points.
partly cover one more person. They • Defeating the leader of a
require two hands to carry. group.
In addition, contractors test

morale if they are not paid or, if
they are not combat-trained, when
they are pushed into peril.
#53
// COMBAT
DEATH AND HEALING

When someone ends up at zero or
less hit points, they are dying
and must immediately roll a BDY
check (void points can be spent
for advantage):
• If successful, the person is

stabilized, but unconscious
until resting.
• If the check fails, they are
dead.
DEATH IN SPACE
This was not how you were meant to
leave this universe. As the last
drops of life leave your body you
have a final vision, accompanied
by deafening static.
When a player character dies, roll

their true death from the table on
the facing page and let the player
narrate the way they were meant to
die to the rest of the table.
Afterwards, let the player create

a new character who can join the
crew as soon as possible.
HEALING
When they have eaten something
and rested a full night, player
characters heal 1d8+BDY lost hit
points. Resting in a safe space,
such as in their hub or at a calm
space dock, restores all lost hit
points.
#54
COMBAT //
D20 DEATH IN SPACE

1 You touch a floating metal sphere that transforms you to a sphere
with the same diameter.
2 You drink a strange fluid from an old fancy cognac bottle. The
fluid does not conform itself to the boundaries of your flesh and
creates a fluid shaped hole through your body.
3 The light from the rising sun ignites the outflow of strange gas on
the asteroid’s surface, incinerating everything.
4 You get hit by a stray projectile fired in a historic space battle
five billion light years away.
5 You are eaten from the inside out after going into cryosleep
together with a hungry, flesh-eating bug.
6 The information content of your entire body is forever lost in
space and time after you misjudged the distance to the event
horizon.
7 Dormant bacteria inside you evolve and multiply a thousandfold.
They explode out of all your body openings.
8 You are swimming through fire. Not a great idea to smoke just
before a zero-g nap.
9 You drown slowly in your own EVA suit helmet, after a cooling
system failure.
10 All your bones break to crumbs when you laugh too hard. Spending so
much time in microgravity really makes your body wither away.
11 You are sliced to pieces after your spacecraft flies through a belt
of micrometeorites that cuts through your body like a hot plasma
knife through fake-butter.
12 Your mind is permanently put on hold after being infected with
mindhacker ransomware, with the blackmailer long dead.
13 You get cut in half by a malfunctioning airlock door.
14 You are incinerated by the engine’s main thruster, when the pilot
checked to see if your repair job worked.
15 You suffer from acute radiation syndrome when hit by an unusually
violent stellar storm.
16 You are slowly drained of life after getting stuck in the mouth of
a nepenthis chrysalis plant.
17 You get stuck in a non-phys time loop after a code error.
18 During a planetary parachute jump you realize you are at the wrong
planet. A gas giant. You have a lot of time to think about your
demise before hitting the hydrogen oceans of the planet’s interior.
19 You are reborn as someone else, after a dare to touch an ancient
glitchy figurine.
20 You float in the middle of everything. You see the last second of
existence before the cosmos closes around you. Nothing exists.
#55
// SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS
SPACECRAFT
CONFRONTATIONS
Combat between spacecraft is ACTIONS ON A SPACECRAFT
unusual, due to the large risk Anyone onboard a ship can take an
of losing your ship or having to action when that ship acts in the
pay for expensive repairs. The turn order. Some actions require
hesitance to destroy valuable specific modules. For example:
parts has resulted in an unspoken
agreement, with confrontations GENERAL ACTIONS: piloting,
between spacecraft instead often fleeing, pushing engine, setting
ending in boarding or flight. up defenses, writing a final
goodbye note, jumping between
ROUNDS AND TURN ORDER ships.
Strict turn order starts when a
spacecraft makes a hostile action. MODULES REQUIRED: hostile
Turns are longer than in personal boarding, gunning, jamming
combat, about ten minutes. The communications, hacking systems.
crew members on each spacecraft
act in the order they wish before Only one person can act as pilot
choosing which ship acts next. If per round.
they are last in the round, they
must choose another ship to start RISKY MANEUVERS
the next round. Risky maneuvers are required
for most piloting actions in a
NON-HOSTILE SITUATION confrontation. They are resolved
Until a ship starts hostilities, with a SVY check. Failure costs
go back and forth between the one fuel. With a successful risky
player spacecraft and other maneuver, the pilot can move two
spacecraft and let them do distance steps in one action.
something one at a time.
HOSTILE SITUATION
When someone makes a hostile
action, like firing or attempting
to board, strict turn order
starts. If unclear, determine who
begins with an opposed SVY check
for all involved.
#56
SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS //
DISTANCES MOVEMENT
In a confrontation, the distance The pilot can move the spacecraft
between the player spacecraft and one distance step on their turn,
other participants is divided into or two with a risky maneuver.
four range categories: detection, When the player spacecraft moves,
identification, firing and move all other spacecraft one step
boarding distance. Each distance on the map.
has a different function:
Referee-controlled spacecraft move
DETECTION: First detection happens their own ship one step on the map
here, as blips on a screen. Ships on their turn.
can communicate via radio.
FLEEING
IDENTIFICATION: Close enough to Outside of hostilities, a
scan and identify spacecraft, spacecraft can flee from the
including what they look like, confrontation freely if it can get
symbols and affiliation. beyond detection distance without
anyone interfering.
FIRING: Allows for firing weapons
and making similar attacks. When engaged in hostilities, roll
an opposed SVY check for the
BOARDING: This close, crews can fleeing pilot and every hostile
try to board another ship, or even spacecraft. The fleeing pilot
jump between ships if the timing flees from all spacecraft they
is right. roll higher than. Any hostile
ships who roll equal or higher
stay at the same distance.
DETECTION In hostile situations, failing to

flee from all other spacecraft
costs one fuel.
IDENTIFICATION
BOARDING
At boarding distance, modules can
FIRING
enable boarding. How boarding is
accomplished and what ability
BOARDING checks are needed depends on
the module used. For example:
Locking the other spacecraft in

place with harpoons (TEC check),
then jumping over (DEX) to weld
PLAYER SPACECRAFT through the hull.
#57
// SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS
FIRING FRAME DAMAGE

At firing or boarding distance, Damage to a spacecraft is tracked
spacecraft with guns can fire on through its frame integrity,
other spacecraft with a TEC check. which is 100% for an unharmed
A result equal to or above spacecraft. Damage to the frame
the defender’s defense rating is comes in steps of 10 percentage
a hit. Subtract the rolled damage points and represents temporary
from the defender’s current frame damage that does not require spare
integrity. parts to repair.
If a successful attack from a When the frame is reduced to 50%,

spacecraft’s guns hits a person roll on the spacecraft disasters
it will kill them outright. table. At 0% frame integrity,
Conversely, handheld weapons can the spacecraft is broken and its
only cause damage to spacecraft condition is reduced to zero.
frames in exceptional cases.
FRAME RECOVERY
CONDITION LOSS • When all is calm, and the
When turn order ends and crew has had a few hours
hostilities are over, roll 1d6 to handle urgent damage to
for every person who made a risky the spacecraft, the craft
maneuver or used a module in an regains 1d6×10% of its frame
action. integrity.
• Spending at least one night
If at least one die shows up at a calm space station or
as 1, the spacecraft loses one a peaceful planet or moon,
condition. regains all lost frame
integrity.
In an attack against another • If the spacecraft is broken
spacecraft, the target spacecraft it can not regain frame
loses one condition if the attack integrity.
inflicts maximum possible damage.
NON-PLAYER SPACECRAFT
It is up to the referee to keep
track of distances between non-
player spacecraft. Non-player
spacecraft always have a pilot.
Any other actions available are
determined by their modules. Stat-
wise, they have values for defense
rating (DR), condition, fuel and
engine speed. To construct a
spacecraft, see p.112.
#58
SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS //
D12 SPACECRAFT DISASTERS

1 Compressed oxygen leaks and causes an explosion after being ignited
by a spark from an electrical failure. Spacecraft takes an extra 10
frame damage and the maximum condition value is reduced by one.
2 All systems shut down for ten minutes (one round). Spacecraft loses
one condition and crew members can not use the spacecraft on their
next turn.
3 The fuel tank explodes, dealing 1d4×10 frame damage to all others
within boarding distance. All fuel is lost.
4 Short circuit in the artificial gravity system. Gravity is slowly
increased, causing all onboard to get tunnel vision and making it
difficult to move. Spacecraft loses one condition.
5 Major hull breach. If in space, air immediately starts pouring out,
along with any objects not bolted down or stuck in place. 10 frame
damage to all other spacecraft within boarding distance. Spacecraft
loses one condition.
6 The main computer is destroyed. Corrupts all data in the spacecraft
from AI to logs and personal letters.
7 Electricity malfunction causes fire to break out in a random
module, which spreads to other modules unless stopped. Spacecraft
8 Power systems malfunction, speeding the spacecraft up to maximum
speed before the engine overheats and stops working for 1d6 hours.
Spacecraft loses one condition, one fuel and automatically flees
the confrontation.
9 Heating systems malfunction. Over a period of thirty minutes (three
rounds), the temperature gradually changes by 1d100 degrees (1d6:
1-3 warmer, 4-6 colder).
10 The water tank system fails. Large blobs of cold, dirty water float
through the whole ship. Spacecraft loses one condition.
11 A random module is damaged and the spacecraft loses one condition.
The damaged module can not be used until the lost condition point
is repaired.
12 The void arrives. All electronics emit a piercing white noise.
Everyone onboard gains a cosmic mutation as their eyes and ears
bleed. A creature of the void (p. 96) is on board. Also, roll
again.
#59
// ADVANCEMENT
ADVANCEMENT
At the end of every game session,
discuss and answer the following
questions in the group. Each
positive answer grants 1 XP to
the player character.
• Did you repair something?

• Did you deliver on a dangerous
contract?
• Did you use at least one void
point?
• Did you discover a new and
potentially dangerous place?
• Did you gain a new enemy?
• Did you find someone new that
you can trust?
• Did you contribute with
something especially
memorable?
Accumulated XP can be spent on

improving the player character.
IMPROVEMENT XP COST
Increase an ability by one, raising 5
to at most +1.
Increase an ability by one, raising 3×value
to +2 or higher. raised to
Increase maximum hit points by 1d4. 5

Gain a cosmic mutation. One ability 15
must be lowered by one. Determine
mutation randomly.
Gain one additional origin benefit. 15
Can have at most two.
#60
#61
EXTRAS

// PRINCIPLES
PRINCIPLES
NOTHING IS NEW
The world is old, rebuilt over and
over. Function rules over fashion.
Wires stick out, protective
casings are long gone. Spacecraft
are fragile, and even tiny debris
can rip through unprotected
modules. Describe objects as old,
ramshackle, repaired, modified,
trimmed, fixed-up or broken. When
the player characters come upon
an object, it might not be at
full condition, maybe it is even
broken, at zero condition.
COMMUNICATION
Networks are local and direct,
rather than open and wireless,
and hacking requires plugging in.
Spacecraft and stations dial up
bulletin board systems over radio
with slow modems. At all times,
messages are limited by the speed
of light, with delays of several
hours when communicating with
the outer rim.
THE WAR IS STILL PRESENT

It ended, but the aftermath is
still keenly felt. When preparing
scenes or locations as the
referee, include people who still
wear their war scars on their
sleeve, veterans who argue about
wins and losses, places or objects
that are still not rebuilt and so
on. Challenge the past allegiances
of the player characters. Push
their buttons to see how they feel
about the war today.
#64
PRINCIPLES //
DISTANT STATIONS WHO WANTS TO

ARE SILENT LIVE FOREVER?
Barely anyone knows what is going Time is perceived differently
on at the outer rim space stations when you can put life on hold in
or in other stellar systems. Most cryo-sleep. Although too much cryo
are too busy rebuilding their can do things to your mind and
lives or scrambling for enough body, human life-spans are not
holos to survive to care about the limiting factor they would
what happens at places that are otherwise be. For some, this life
weeks, months or even years away. is lonely. When waking up twenty
years later, the world can look
If the crew is traveling to one of quite different, and your friends
these distant places, those they and family may be gone.
ask about the place might tell
them about how it was before or INVOLVE THE PLAYERS
during the war, but will not know Let the players create details in
much about what is going on there the setting and help create your
today. version of the setting. This is
particularly important for the
TRAVELLING TAKES TIME player characters and their hub.
Space travel is slow and
suffocating. There is plenty Present meaningful choices to
of time to kill, and you are the players to enable them to get
confined in a small space. Convey ownership of where the campaign
the vast distances, even if the ends up.
crew travels from one planet to
its neighbor, and the sense of RULES AND RULINGS
isolation and claustrophobia that Roll when there are stakes
comes from floating in a tin can involved. If there is no
in an environment that actively reasonable chance of failure or no
wants to kill you. cost associated, let the player
characters succeed without a roll.
When the crew returns to a place
they have been before their The rules are meant to be quick
travels, weeks, months or more and simple to use, but will not
have passed for those who live cover every possible situation. If
there. Major events may have there is no rule for a particular
occurred, perhaps a shift of situation, modify existing rules
power, and friends of the crew who or make simple common sense
used to be in power might now be judgments.
prisoners.
#65
// THE TENEBRIS SYSTEM
THE
TENEBRIS
SYSTEM
Slowly, but surely, the universe The focal point of civilization
is dying. One by one, stars die in Tenebris is the Iron Ring, a
in dazzling supernovae explosions structure orbiting the moon
and whole planetary systems are Inauro, one of the satellites of
thrust into the emptiness between a dead gas giant in the middle of
the stars. Life becomes rarer the habitable zone. Inauro was
and rarer, but here and there the center of the Gem War, but
traces of it—dead worlds, colossal there, the gems are now long gone.
hibernating creatures or dead
space fleets—can be found floating Here and there, deep in deserts
through space. or in dark caves below majestic
mountains, you can still find
In many star systems, life still traces of forgotten, long dead
endures, in the form of bacteria civilizations. Layers upon layers
living under the ice on a distant of history, covered in the dunes
moon or other simple organisms of time.
hibernating on frozen asteroids.
Advanced civilizations, however,
are very uncommon. Most activity
today revolves around the Iron
Ring in the Tenebris system and in
neighboring systems.
Far from anyone’s original

home, Tenebris is populated by
seekers, scoundrels and miners,
all stuck in the system that was
the epicenter of the Gem Rush and
the resulting war. All over the
system, traces of the war still
linger in the form of debris from
destroyed satellites and lost
spacecraft.
#66
NAVVIES // Bridging long distances is
fraught with danger. The navvies are
the lonely workers that are sent out
into uncharted space to place special
navigation buoys that decrease the risk
of bridging. In this way, a network of
jump points has been set up, enabling
bridging in a series of safer jumps
rather than a blind bridging directly to
the end destination.
#67
GRAVITY
Low gravity
Average gravity
High gravity
TRAVEL TIME IN WEEKS

FROM/TO NEAR CLOSE HABIT FAR REMOTE OUTER
NEAR 0 1 2 3 4 6
CLOSE 1 1d4 1d4+1 1d4+2 1d4+3 1d4+4
HABITABLE ZONE 2 1d4+1 1d6 1d6+1 1d6+2 1d6+3
FAR 3 1d4+2 1d6+1 1d8 1d8+1 1d8+2
REMOTE 4 1d4+3 1d6+2 1d8+1 1d10 1d10+1
OUTER RIM 5 1d4+4 1d6+3 1d8+2 1d10+1 1d12
• Each burnt unit of fuel reduces travel time by one week.

• The time is for a slow engine. A fast engine halves the time
(count burnt fuel before).
#68
THE TENEBRIS SYSTEM //
TENEBRIS 59.85882, LAST ACTIVE BRIDGING BUOY

Lights flash regularly from the given up, and have started a new
buoy. A long caravan of ships ends community here, profiting from
at the prescribed safety distance those that pass by the buoy.
to the buoy. Radio frequencies are The massive bridger spacecraft—the
filled with chatter from local cause for the buoy’s existence—
ships. One frequency only calls is rarely present, but when it
out the lucky numbers of those is, activity around the buoy
that have won a ticket to the next skyrockets. Crews with a ticket
jump in the lottery. Desperate can dock their spacecraft and
crews wait here, hoping to snatch accompany the bridger as it rips
a ticket from a last minute through space and time at the next
cancel. Others have practically scheduled jump.
#69
AMISSA GLIESS GALLO

Before the war, this planet was A beautifully colored class 2 gas
brimming with activity. But giant, with a dense atmosphere
the trading posts have become mainly consisting of methane. As
ghost towns, and the domes of you get closer to Gliess Gallo,
the farms have cracked. Dunes of any electronic equipment starts
hot sand dotted with ruins of fuel to emit a faint sinus tone. The
stations cover the planet. Along planet’s sole moon, Inauro, is
the equator there are tall launch the focal point of civilization in
towers, with bunkers extending the Tenebris system.
below the surface. The only city
that still remains is The Block, a
thirty-six hectare square housing
tens of thousands of residents
that can not afford to leave this
involuntary prison. The city’s INAURO
maze-like structure is dominated This yellow moon is the perfect
by narrow alleyways that provide growing ground for gem-roots.
shelter from the sun and the daily After decades of mining,
sandstorms. The rare days with the strange roots now lie exposed
rain are days of celebration. and harvested in abandoned shafts,
once dug deep into the earth in
search of the pods that house the
valuable stones. As the center of
the Gem Rush, the most destructive
battles of the war took place
around Inauro. Although the Gem
Rush and the war is history by
CON-PM28 now, a few desperate seekers still
On CON-PM28, the night shift drill into the moon for small
never ends. In a world of drugs pieces of the precious gems.
and sweat, miners dig ceaselessly Otherwise, the barren surface is
deeper and deeper into a hollow mostly covered in carcasses of
asteroid, hoping to strike gold. huge mining machines, abandoned
smelting facilities and rust
covered vehicles. The atmosphere
is thick and yellowish, heavy
to breathe and greatly limits
visibility. Around the moon is the
Iron Ring, a belt of repurposed
spacecraft and satellites, where
most of the activity in the
Tenebris system is centered.
#70
LACRIMOSA LLIAD
The hottest planet in the A dead and broken planet on
system. A molten landscape where the outer edge of the habitable
time stands still. There is no zone that was recently hit by a
water and resources are scarce. massive meteor. Chunks of the
Beneath the surface are abandoned planet have been thrust out and
and locked facilities. Debris shattered, creating a unique
from destroyed satellites and outline of the planet as well as a
spacecraft orbit the planet. line of rocks and dust along
the planet’s orbit and around
Lliad itself. Other planetary
material ended up in the Messier
51 belt.
LEPIDOPTERA
Close to the host star Tenebris MESSIER 51 ASTEROID BELT
yet safe within the habitable This gigantic but dense belt of
zone, this planet is covered in rock pieces and other more exotic
a dense jungle that hides the materials is infamous for its
strange wildlife that lives on danger, and only skilled pilots
the surface and feeds on a type of can navigate it successfully.
tall black grass. All over The mining crawler CON-PM28 is
the planet are ancient overgrown based in the belt. During the
ruins from dead civilizations. war, it provided raw materials
Massive stellar storms from for all sides. Now, it is just
Tenebris regularly hit the trying to survive as demand has
planet, making it difficult to plummeted. Several strange drugs
use electronic equipment more originate from this sector, made
than sporadically. A single moon, from unknown substances found in
Chrysalis, orbits Lepidoptera. the belt.
#71
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#73
MEZCANCRI OGRE
On this inhospitable small planet, Steep mountain peaks of clear
solid rivers of diamond flow in ice, hidden in an icy blue haze,
forests of black rocks covered in shoot up several kilometers from
glistening crystals. Volcanoes the surface. Far below, giant
spew molten carbon into the deep space whales hibernate under
atmosphere that crystallizes into the surface. Even deeper is The
diamonds providing spectacular Abyss, an active research post
light shows as it combines with where scientists seek knowledge
the ever present auroras. about the universe, unaffected by
The sight is stunning, and makes everything that goes on outside
Mezcancri a great spot for some the thick ice sheet. One of
vacation time. Unless, of course, the few fuel stations still in
you are one of the few miners operation can be found in orbit
that still work all through the around Ogre.
eight-hour long days, on blood red
fields where more mining stations
are abandoned than active. While
the days are scorching hot,
the nights are pleasant. Four
small moons, called the Feni
moons, orbit Mezcancri.
RAMSVART SPACE DOCK

On the opposite side of the system
in the same orbit as Gliess
Gallo, Inauro and the Iron Ring
is this space dock, constructed
out of four massive colony ships,
disassembled for the purpose. As
such, the dock is a disorganized
patchwork, focused only on
functional aspects. It is a place
you want to leave as soon as you
get there, but also a necessary
final outpost for many before
leaving the system.
#74
RIMTURSAR 581 WENDEL

Ship graveyard, famous for metal In the empty space between
mining and collection of water stellar systems is Wendel, a
in the form of large ice blocks. dark rogue planet far from any
One of the oldest space bars can planetary orbit. Tidal heating and
be found somewhere among the radioactivity keep the planet’s
silently drifting spacecraft, interior warm even far from any
its exact location kept secret starlight, but the surface is
among the most experienced space bitterly cold. Surrounded by three
truckers. Many a trucker has lost unnamed moons covered in thick
their sight drinking the potent ice sheets with liquid oceans
moonshine served there. underneath and one volcanic moon,
Omikron.
Escape pod
#75
xx Unknown
Lliad 3
d(15)
CULTS
11 d(4)
k7 Statics
P d(368)
Kalin wU
LLIAD SOMNIUM MATERIA 1ST
CHANNEL TO BECOME PROTECT WITH SURFACE
An isolated and self-preserving This semi-secret society thrives

group of distorted beings. They in populated areas; of course in
still have clearly human traits, the Iron Ring but also the poor
but communicate with odd grunts quarters of The Block. Befriending
incomprehensible to outsiders. and deceiving successful
Their homes are built out of individuals, or tricking others
rubble and spare parts, floating out of their few belongings is
just above the broken surface of routine for a society member.
the low gravity planet LLiad. Materia 1st is also fragmented
The sleepwalking, slow somniums into different cells, each of them
have deceptively strong minds. It claiming to be the wealthiest, the
is unknown whether they actually true top dog.
have opened a channel between
their thoughts and the void, or LOOKS Always try to blend in as
LOOKS:
if willpower alters reality. They much as possible, a difficult task
only consume vegetables, growing which they often succeed at.
them in huge laboratories under BELIEF: Wealth is crucial
BELIEF
color-shifting fluorescent lights. on death’s doorstep and the
subsequent new life. This is the
LOOKS Elongated limbs. Regenerated
LOOKS: only way to short-circuit a final
eyes. Some few tufts of long hair. ending/void. Some cells believe in
BELIEF: Only they can treat
BELIEF a gigantic “liberating” spacecraft
thoughts and space like clay. that will accept only the most
GOALS: To become one with the
GOALS suitable passengers.
void. GOALS: Contradictory, both spread
GOALS
LEADER: Und Kalin was there before
LEADER the society’s ideas but also not
the disastrous meteor hit LLiad. share its wealth.
She glorifies the past with great NOTABLE LEADERS:
LEADERS Tenuk [Block
nostalgia and strongly believes cell], known for his mental
her people are the chosen ones. complexes and erratic mood swings.
SCARCITIES: Water, weapons,
SCARCITIES Frankel [Ancient/Ring cell], known
unbroken equipment. for her torturous methods.
ABUNDANCIES: Rubble, spare parts,
ABUNDANCIES SCARCITIES: Whatever you ask for
SCARCITIES
organic vegetables. the most.
KEYWORDS: Stillness / Sparse
KEYWORDS ABUNDANCIES: Social networks,
ABUNDANCIES
electric humming / Fresh smell of various equipment, food.
vivid plants / Optical illusions KEYWORDS: Social / Sociopathy /
KEYWORDS
/ Static noise / Dream holograms Flatter / Hidden elitism / Sudden
/ Chaotic radio intermissions ostentation / Betrayal / Kindness
throughout the entire Tenebris / Rage
system
#76
CULTS //
TO THE OTHER (T.T.O.) PATHÎC

BEYOND THE VOID CONNECT THE UNKNOWN
Once this was merely a corp group, Contact was lost. The proud
waging war for gem hunters. With Octugust gem fleet corporation
time T.T.O. became more spiritual vanished from the radar, assumed
and sought to understand phenomena to be lost forever. Some few
that literally should be out of decades later rumors spread of
reach. Still based in the heavily their return, but something seemed
looted Messier 51 asteroid belt, wrong. Visitors seldom returned.
times are now desperate for the Surviving witnesses told of morbid
T.T.O’s. Resources are running creatures, and horrific murders.
extremely low and their mission Pathîc, a self-invented term, now
is nowhere near being completed. primarily operates in the Inauro /
Obsessed, with a body anatomy Amissa / Lepidoptera triangle, but
adapted solely to drug use, also in a 270° direction towards
rituals might be the only way out the distant Ogre.
of here.
LOOKS Pale and thin, almost
LOOKS:
LOOKS Dress in deep black
LOOKS: transparent bodies. Semi-
robes, but only at clandestine regenerated, dark eyes and
gatherings. Most members are distorted, bony limbs. Still
corrupted by the void and also communicative but with a guttural
have a cosmic mutation. and weird dialect.
BELIEF: There must be a starting
BELIEF BELIEF: Pathîc proudly keeps on
BELIEF
point, where void but also life is exploring uncharted areas in
created. Beyond the void, in the the universe. No one does it
infinite and even “more void”, a better. This is their calling, to
definitive spark exists. establish routes and find riches.
GOALS: To build the ultimate
GOALS They have long forgotten why.
spacecraft, a world vessel, and GOALS: To build important new
GOALS
travel to the beginning/end of hubs, both spacecraft and
time and dimensions. stations, dictatorially controlled
LEADER: No one has ever seen Aon
LEADER by Pathîc.
Ventor´s face, and he has been LEADER: Anyone claiming to be the
LEADER
around for ages. Rumors say that (even informal) frontrunner will
Aon Ventor is merely a title and soon be slaughtered.
that it is inherited. SCARCITIES: Food, heat sources, a
SCARCITIES
SCARCITIES: Food and water.
SCARCITIES helping hand.
ABUNDANCIES: Functional tech
ABUNDANCIES ABUNDANCIES: Water, invigorating
ABUNDANCIES
equipment, drugs, spare parts. “herbs”, various equipment.
KEYWORDS: Inscrutable / Earnest /
KEYWORDS KEYWORDS: Insanity / Rusty scent /
KEYWORDS
Shadows / Whispers / Temporarily Violence / Hissings / Obscurity /
incomprehensible / Obsession Coldness / Scrapings
#77
WELCOME TO THE RING
Among the countless spacecraft and cheap, and the debt is why. The
space stations connected to the debt is to a salvaging crew who
Iron Ring is Aurum 80, a forgotten desperately need the holos.
corner of the Aurum sector. Many
hard-working survivors are stuck It is now up to the player
there, saving every holo earned characters to pay off or get rid
for a cryo ticket out of the of the debt, repair the broken hub
place, or spending them all on and find fuel, all while handling
non-phys virtual reality drugs a volatile power struggle.
and the corrupt bridging ticket
lottery. During the Gem Rush, THE POWER STRUGGLE
Aurum 80 was a last stop for The leaders of Parliament and
miners heading down to Inauro’s the Passel are in fact former best
surface for their next job. friends, who have ended up in
conflict, both feeling betrayed by
Tension is growing in Aurum the other. Both still need each
80. Unless reduced, things can other though, and both can help
escalate into a gang war between the player characters repair their
the two present ring gangs: The hub if they support them in the
Passel and Parliament. The former conflict. The player characters
controls the output power in the should tread carefully though, as
sector, and the latter computing a single faulty step can trigger a
systems. Both use their resources violent and chaotic situation.
as a tool in the conflict, and the
patience of the ringleader of the THE PASSEL ROY MIRRA
whole Aurum sector, Suro “Thorn” RESOURCE Control the output power
RESOURCE:
Ragosa, is wearing out. to most central functions in
the Aurum sector.
ARRIVING AT AURUM 80 GOAL: To rid Aurum 80 of non-phys
GOAL
The player characters arrive at addiction and Parliament.
Aurum 80 on a shuttle. They have NEED: Water for the hydroponic
NEED
just spent their last holos on farm.
a ramshackle old spacecraft or TURF: The engine room.
TURF
station that they can tow to a new
location, hoping that after some PARLIAMENT MONOTONE TYNALL
repairs it can become a place of RESOURCE Run the computer systems
RESOURCE:
their own. It is docked at airlock that control air and water in
13C in the docking bay. the Aurum sector.
GOAL: Resume control of Aurum 80,
GOAL
THE DEBT blaming the Passel if necessary.
Along with the hub comes a docking NEED: More output power for
NEED
fee debt of 500 holos that has the computer systems and non-phys.
been ticking up since the hub TURF: The computer center.
TURF
was first docked. The hub was
#78
WELCOME TO THE RING //
TIMER AND ARRIVAL SURO “THORN” RAGOSA, HUMAN

OF THE NEXT SHUTTLE Leader of UWA, a union-like
Soon after the player characters organization that unites workers
arrive, scared inhabitants start in Aurum and leads discussions
staring and pointing at a large with company representatives about
timer in the docking bay, counting the precious mining jobs down on
down to the arrival of the next Inauro. Aurum ringleader, speaking
shuttle. There are now four hours for Aurum in any inter-sector
left. On the shuttle is the Aurum matters.
sector’s ringleader, Thorn Ragosa,
and a gang of thugs. Ragosa is PRIORITY Personal power and
PRIORITY:
tired of Roy and Monotone toying remaining in charge.
with the sector’s resources. She
will shoot first and ask questions WANTS To punish Monotone and Roy
WANTS:
later, and try to take over for carelessly playing with the
operations in Aurum 80. sector’s resources, which they
will both resist fiercely.
HOW TO USE THIS ADVENTURE
This adventure starts the crew SURO RAGOSA AND UWA THUGS
off in Aurum 80 with several BDY +2, DEX +1, SVY 0, TEC 0
problems: a broken hub, no fuel ML 10, HP 5, DR 13, Shotgun 2d4.
and a debt. How the players solve
these problems is up to them,
and there is no fixed solution IMPORTANT RUMORS
presented. The adventure presents The player characters should hear
the dominant factions in Aurum 80 these as soon as possible:
and the main locations. The crew
can side with one of the factions, • Either Roy Mirra or Monotone
play them against each other or Tynall can help repair
something else. There is also a the player characters’ hub,
countdown: ultimately, the sector but who knows what they will
ringleader Suro Ragosa shows up demand as payment? They can
to settle the conflict once and repair it in three hours.
for all. Whether the crew stays or • Hina Tsurutsuru owns a bar and
escapes is their choice. But Suro can probably sell fuel to the
Ragosa wants blood. player characters.
• In four hours, the sector’s
ringleader arrives with a
gang of violent thugs. This
will surely trigger a deadly
conflict.
#79
WELCOME TO
DOCKING BAY
A labyrinthine metal shantytown. AROUND THE AIRLOCKS
Hundreds of flickering work lights Along the outer walls are several
hang from big chains in the docking airlocks, most are still
ceiling. Water drips everywhere. in use. Outside are signs with
On the floor are big letters directions to other sectors. The
and numbers that once showed closest one is a short spacewalk
directions. away, others are reached with
shuttles.
AIRLOCK 13C
The airlock door leading to The area is usually calm, but
the player characters’ hub is explodes with activity whenever a
hidden behind heaps of junk and shuttle arrives.
jammed by rust. The spacecraft or
station is broken and out of fuel. THE BAR IN THE MACHINE
Only emergency systems work while In the center is a plaza around
connected to Aurum 80. a large drilling machine remade
into a small bar serving water
THE REPAIR SHOPS and sake. A place to wind down
Metal debris, colorful hand- and relax. A tarpaulin is strung
painted shipping containers, up to protect the plaza from the
booths and stalls are everywhere, dripping water.
arranged into a maze of narrow
alleyways. Shop owners rest in AN OLD FRIEND
hammocks or in containers remade An old friend of the player
into living quarters, waiting characters, who they haven’t
for the next customer. Many met in many years. Let the
opportunities for item repairs. player(s) describe how they know
each other. Can help the player
characters. Has problems, and will
Parliament COMPUTER
not hesitate to use the player
CENTER
characters to make the problems
go away. Secretly works as an
Elevators
informer for both Monotone and

Roy.
HINA
TSURUTSURU
BAR
COMMON AREA
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Old friend
The Passel
#80
O THE RING
1D3 EVENTS SALVAGING CREW

1. A brutal murder takes place in Most of the time this crew is
an unfrequented alleyway. It out in space looking for broken
is a non-phys addict robbing spacecraft and debris, offering
someone to get holos for more towing assistance for way too many
up-time. The murderer runs holos. They also buy and sell
towards the common area. debts, lucrative business except
2. A company shuttle arrives, when the debtor disappears. Every
full of workers looking for inch of their gear and clothes is
luck in new sectors. One is patched up and temporarily fixed.
a hitman looking for murder
contracts. RESOURCE A spacecraft, and not
RESOURCE:
3. Pico, a scared human wants much more at the moment.
to sell a broken AI robotic
animal (max condition 1) to GOAL To collect the player
GOAL:
the player characters. The AI characters’ debt.
has been infected with the
void and is evolving into NEED To repay a large debt to the
NEED:
something new. sector port authorities for fuel
bought on credit.
1D3 WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
1. Alqo, a recently arrived TURF A couple of containers in
TURF:
miner, mutters about the the docking bay, converted to
rest of Aurum and neighboring homes.
sectors and how “things are
even worse there than for us”. PROMINENT MEMBERS:
MEMBERS Ezra Pascal
2. The punk Strummer boasts about (carbon, charismatic team leader,
a cool repair job. former gem-cutter), Elizi (void,
3. A greasy mechanic, Brintels, the brain, former star chart
says loudly to their friend: reader), Gonza Pascal (carbon, the
“Did you hear that someone muscles, former driller).
bought that piece of junk
spacecraft/station by the
dock?”
SALVAGING CREW
BDY +2, DEX 0, SVY +1, TEC +1
ML 7, HP 8, DR 12, pistols (1d6).
EZRA PASCAL #81

WELCOME TO
COMMON AREA
Chaotic, bustling with noise and THE TSURUTSURU
activity. Sharp, synthetic smells On the third floor of the
emanate from a multitude of food scaffolding, bed capsules have
stands. Scaffolding platforms rise been removed to make room for this
several levels above floor level, famous bar, which also extends
filled with people and tight bed like a balcony to the platform
capsules. Paths are carved out outside, and is the main hangout
between mounds of rubbish. for workers arriving from late
shifts or anyone who wants to
SCAFFOLDING PLATFORMS drink, gossip, boast or get high.
Several floors, each with bed
capsules stacked atop one another. It is dim and constantly packed
Walkways along pillars and walls with people, reeking of smoke
connect the platforms. Nearby are and sweat. Offensive holographic
communal showers and a large mess entertainment flashes rapidly,
hall. providing the only lighting
together with tabletop surface
Bored troublemakers, ex- lights. Wires and cloth hang from
prospectors and holo seekers who the ceiling. The entertainment
have lost all their savings hang is old and bright, sometimes
around, doing anything to pass the triggering seizures.
time, including stealing, hiding,
dealing or smoking drugs. Workers, Those who manage to get a seat
passed out after tough shifts, at the bar without bumping into
sleep in their tiny bed capsules someone can get some bad but
in non-phys-dreaming states. potent moonshine and synthetic
Parliament udon noodles with fakeon to slurp
down.
COMPUTER
CENTER
HINA’S OFFICE
Situated in an old airlock in
the back of the bar. Occasionally
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serves as a VIP area.
HINA
TSURUTSURU
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The Passel Old friend
#82
O THE RING
1D3 EVENTS HINA TSURUTSURU, CARBON

1. Passel and Parliament members Ring thug, former astrochemist.
have a heated argument, each Owns the Tsurutsuru. Socially
accusing the other of invading skilled with a good sense for
their turf. Escalates into business. Makes and sells Hola!,
physical conflict if no one a non-phys drug, to Monotone. The
intervenes. drug is made from fuel and strange
2. Someone approaches and asks flowers grown in Roy’s farm.
if the player characters are
interested in a non-phys PRIORITY Escape Aurum 80 and
PRIORITY:
experience. The person owns a start a new simple life.
handful of small non-phys up-
time rooms in a dirty, shabby RESOURCE Fuel and non-phys drugs
RESOURCE:
place nearby. (Hola!).
3. A void cult preacher shouts
about the end of the universe, GOAL To make enough holos to
GOAL:
the subsequent rebirth, and leave the Ring and settle down on
how the void is accelerating a nice, warm planet somewhere.
it.
NEED Help escaping Aurum 80
NEED:
1D3 WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT without making a fuss, for example
1. The airlock operator Loze getting a ride on the player
complains how Vodykov Ice characters’ spacecraft.
is pushing its workers too
hard. “Why aren’t the UWA re- REWARD Hina pays in advance with
REWARD:
negotiating their contract?” fuel if promised a way off
2. The bartender Rozzie fears the Ring.
having to choose sides in a
coming gang war.
3. A drunkard shouts how awful
the latest music is at
Tsurutsuru. “Just a lot of
noise!”
HINA
BDY 0, DEX 0, SVY +4, TEC +1
ML 9, HP 7, DR 12, pistol (1d6).
HINA TSURUTSURU
#83
WELCOME TO
ENGINE ROOM
Hot and stuffy with a thick smell THE FARM AND
of engine grease. Colorful lights THE ENGINE HALL
hang from the ceilings like The engine hall inside the cooling
twinkling stars. Kids run around corridors contains a large,
neon-lit stands where strange overgrown hydroponic farm where
fruits are sold. Steam rises from the Passel grows all kinds of
vents in the floor. vegetables, fruits and flowers.
The plants create a dense tropical
THE COOLING CORRIDORS jungle. They are in urgent need of
The turf of Roy Mirra and the water.
Passel is a bohemian and homely
place filled with life. Roy Mirra and his closest Passel
friends live in a corner of
A ring of cooling corridors the engine hall. At least one of
surrounds the central engine hall, them is always there, sleeping or
where output power is generated tending to the plants. Roy is also
for the whole Aurum sector. often seen at the noodle stand in
The corridors are filled with the left cooling ring.
people and stands with bright
signs where fresh fruit and
vegetables are sold.
Giant shut down fans act as gates

between the different corridors.
Parliament
COMPUTER
CENTER
Elevators
HINA
TSURUTSURU
BAR
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Wo Salvaging crew
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The Passel
#84 Old friend

O THE RING
1D3 EVENTS ROY MIRRA, PUNK

1. The water refill tank is Friendly with a short fuse. Hates
empty. People in line to fill everything related to non-phys.
their bottles start yelling Left Parliament and started
and fighting. the Passel when his mother died
2. A crowd gathers around a due to non-phys addiction, blames
cockfight between two small AI Monotone for contributing to
animals. her death. Spent his youth as a
3. Someone steals vegetables from satellite bodyguard.
a stand and runs towards the
common area. Several people PRIORITY: Friends and family.
PRIORITY
chase after.
WANTS Sympathy from Monotone,
WANTS:
1D3 WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT but will not get it since he has
1. Some Passels are whispering gone too far in his anti-non-phys
about a backdoor to the crusade.
main systems in the computer
center. Accessed from a unit BDY +4, DEX
DEX 0,
0, SVY
SVY 0,
0, TEC +2
on the outside, close to ML 9,
ML 9, HP
HP 14,
14, DR
DR 12,
12,
a large radio dish. raid rifle (1d10).
2. The rough punk Worz is annoyed
that the water supply has been
cut. “We are delivering fruit
and veg for everyone!”
3. Neina, an aloof solpod, speaks
weirdly about dying stars,
burning out one by one in
the sky.
A FAVOR FOR A FAVOR

If the player characters guarantee
a water supply for the farm,
Roy’s repair crew in the docking
bay will help repair the player
characters’ hub. To fix
the supply, the signal sent
from the water systems must be
changed, either from Monotone’s
personal computer (locked, found
on Monotone or in the office), or
in the final relay unit located
on the outside of the computer
center, in space.
ROY MIRRA
#85
WELCOME TO
ENGINE ROOM 6. INNER COOLING RING Busy

1. CORRIDOR. Empty, quiet and around the Airlock Bar. A
clean. Well worn floor. Passel guard sits in a chair,
2. STORAGE. Hatch (leads to reading. Passel graffiti
airlock). Equipment crates covers walls.
(one pistol, two ammo 7. ROY’S OFFICE Racks of drives,
magazines, four components, storing security camera
1d6 bottles of clean water). footage and secret files with
3. ENTRANCE HALL. Hot and stuffy. plans to overthrow Suro Ragosa
Busy, kids playing loudly. as Aurum leader.
Two Passel members guard a 8. CENTRAL ENGINE HALL Moist
thick door (arguing about a and warm. Thick, sweet smell
dangerous mining job). of fruit. Deafening engine
4. LEFT COOLING RING. Packed with noise. One Passel member
people. Shouting from fruit sleeps near inner ring door.
vendors. Most fruit sold looks Room is overgrown with plants
dry. Roy often has soup with a carrying fruit, flowers and
friend at the noodle stand. vegetables. Most are withered
5. RIGHT COOLING RING Crowded. and dry. Racks of electronics
Two self-selling AIs sell stand next to a computer
guard services. A person panel (password-protected).
repairing a fridge can provide Installing Monotone’s PCB here
info on the central engine takes half an hour (quicker
hall (8). with successful TEC check).
PASSEL MEMBERS
BDY +2, DEX –1, SVY
SVY 0,
0, TEC 0
ML 7,
ML 7, HP
HP 5,
5, DR
DR 11,
11, pistol (1d6).
#86
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Fruit vendor Door Monitor
#87
WELCOME TO
COMPUTER CENTER
Bright blue computer lights The systems here run water,
dance on walls covered in sound- ventilation and other life support
absorbing padding. A smell of systems for the whole Aurum
burned electronics fills the air. sector, but also consume most of
Wires tangle up like bird’s nests the power in the sector.
around stacks of old computers. In
the main computer hall, non-phys THE NON-PHYS ADDICTS
addicts of all shapes and sizes In the main computer hall,
gather. the addicts are everywhere. Either
sitting around talking and smoking
AURUM LIFE SUPPORT AND Hola!, or passed out on the floor
COMPUTER SYSTEMS in non-phys dreams, wearing visors
connected with cables to
The place is the main haunt of the floor.
Parliament and Monotone Tynall.
Except for occasional server
maintenance, Monotone can be found
in the office behind the main
computer hall.
Parliament
COMPUTER
CENTER
Elevators
HINA
TSURUTSURU
BAR
COMMON AREA
Wo Salvaging crew
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The Passel
Old friend
#88
O THE RING
1D3 EVENTS MONOTONE TYNALL

1. Nearby computer panels shut Leader of Parliament.
down suddenly. Screens show Unpredictable, thinks too little
static, and speakers emit about the consequences of their
white noise. Stays down for decisions. Feels betrayed by
an hour, as repair mechanics Roy for abandoning the Punks.
curse the power supply. Loneliness issues, due to a stuck
2. A punk asks if the player memory cartridge. Former drone
characters want to buy Hola! driller technician.
or non-phys.
3. A non-phys tripper overdoses. PRIORITY Leadership over Aurum 80
PRIORITY:
They run in a panic, ripping and someone to share it with.
the cables, pushing over
computer stacks and shouting WANTS Friendship from Roy. Will
WANTS:
incoherently about a darkness. not get it since Roy blames
Monotone for his mother’s death
1D3 WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUT and will never let Monotone get
1. The punk Morla thinks Roy has close again.
gone too far in his anti-non-
phys crusade. After all, it’s BDY 0, DEX
BDY 0, DEX 0,
0, SVY +2, TEC +4
just business. ML 8,
ML 8, HP
HP 10,
10, DR
DR 12,
12,
2. Blitz, a hardware pro with compact rifle (1d8).
thick glasses, brags about
their new shiny processing
unit that’s hardly been used.
3. Two Gem War veterans, who were
on different sides, fight
about old war grudges.
A FAVOR FOR A FAVOR

For a favor, Monotone can help the
player characters repair their
hub quickly. They must install
a circuit board in the control
unit in the central engine hall,
that allows Monotone to control
the power supply to the computer
center. The installation will be
harder than Monotone says, with
wires everywhere, that do not look
like they should.
MONOTONE TYNALL
#89
WELCOME TO
COMPUTER CENTER 5. SERVER ROOM. Warm. Thundering

1. CORRIDOR. Usually empty, noise from servers at maximum
except when an elevator capacity. Dimly lit by
arrives. One guard by the main hundreds of server diodes.
door, reading a union pamphlet Racks of servers fill room,
(“Aurum 80 unite!”). A camera storing many non-phys worlds
monitors the main door, of varying sizes. Most are
whirring as it sweeps. shut down due to the power
2. MESS HALL. Entrance door shortage. A simple coding
locked. Room is empty. Funky robot works here, turning
smell issues from a shutdown servers on and off when they
fridge. “Fuck Roy” scrawled fail. Security footage from
on fridge door. Fruit inside, camera surveillance stored on
gone bad. one server.
3. SLEEPING PODS. Pods line all 6. MONOTONE’S OFFICE. Abstract,
walls. A Parliament member moving patterns are projected
works out in the center of the on a cloth-covered ceiling.
room. On each pod is a display Here Monotone monitors
that shows name, health status security camera footage and
and location (according server statuses, only leaving
to schedule) of occupant. to fix server errors. Walls
Two pods contain sleeping are covered with holo photos,
Parliament members. Some pods portraying old friends and the
have personal belongings, time before the war. Roy and
including keys to doors in Hina are in several. Password-
computer center. protected personal computer,
4. MAIN HALL. Buzzing with with code controlling signals
people. Flashing blue to water systems.
lights. Dozens of non-phys 7. FINAL RELAY UNIT.
UNIT Next to the
addicts. They hang around, communication dish is the unit
smoking Hola! or lie on the that sends the control signal
floor dreaming, with visors to the water systems. Can be
that project dream worlds. hacked with a successful TEC
Monotone’s office is guarded check. Visible from a window
by two friendly AI bodyguards. in the main hall (4).
A camera monitors the door.
Hatch leads to ventilation
ducts. PARLIAMENT MEMBERS
BDY –2, DEX
DEX 0,
0, SVY +1, TEC +2
ML 5,
ML 5, HP
HP 5,
5, DR
DR 12,
12, pistol 1d6.
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#91
TABLES AND TOOLS

Add the indicated ability to the attack roll
D8 CREATURES OF THE ABYSS
1 APSIS APE Hairy and muscular. Great jaws filled with spiky teeth.
Intelligent and lethal, enjoys mimicking and ambushing its prey.
BDY +4, DEX –1, ML 8,
ML 8, HP
HP 24,
24, DR
DR 14,
14, ATK 2×fists (BDY, 1d8)
SPECIAL: 2 in 3 chance of acting first in the first combat round.
2 AURORA MASSWORM A purple luminescent worm covered in a sticky
secretion that turns organic material into tiny floating particles.
With the right tools, the particles can be collected and
reassembled.
BDY +3, DEX +3, ML
ML 7,
7, HP
HP 24,
24, DR
DR 13,
13, ATK ichor vomit (DEX, 1d6)
SPECIAL: On successful attack, victim must succeed with BDY check or
take 1d6 extra damage, where on a 6, struck limb turns into floating
particles.
3 HAIRPIN PIG-FOLK Used by deep space prospectors to sniff out gems.
BDY +2, DEX –2, HP
HP 8,
8, ML
ML 6,
6, DR
DR 13,
13, ATK tusk charge (BDY, 1d8)
4 NADI SNAKE Gets inside the body of its victim and consumes it from
the inside. To get rid of the snake, snatch it when it is moving
between body parts. Or cut off the limb.
BDY –2, DEX +3, ML
ML 5,
5, HP
HP 1,
1, DR
DR 16,
16, ATK bite (DEX, 1d2)
SPECIAL: Burrows into body part during victim’s sleep and feeds,
causing 1 damage per day. Switches body part after causing three
damage, during this time it can be attacked.
5 NEON HARPY Hiding in the dark corners of some stellar systems are
these colorful creatures. Their wings shine with a holographic
effect, and their tears shoot sparks. Live with the same partner
their whole life. Those who have lost their partner are angry and
depressed.
BDY +1, DEX +3, ML
ML 7,
7, HP
HP 8,
8, DR
DR 15,
15, ATK 2×galvanic talons (BDY, 1d6)
SPECIAL: Can steal memories. Creates a holographic image related
to a player character's memory (the player chooses one), on a
failed SVY check it steals the memory and the player character is
momentarily dazed.
6 OORT FLIES A swarm of tiny flies that forms the shape of a large
fly. Can communicate by changing its shape.
BDY –1, DEX +3, ML
ML 6,
6, HP
HP 10,
10, DR
DR 12,
12, ATK swarm bite (DEX, 1d3)
SPECIAL: Attacks all within melee distance each round. Takes no
damage from guns or melee weapons, only from fire, explosions and
similar.
IF AN ABILITY VALUE IS NOT WRITTEN OUT,

HIT POINTS (HP) ASSUME ZERO VALUE
ATTACK (ATK)
DEFENSE RATING (DR)
MORALE (ML) Apsis ape
#94
CREATURES OF THE ABYSS //
D8 CREATURES OF THE ABYSS

7 ROCHE SPIDER Constantly shifting colors. Abstract patterns on its
back are said to show the worst nightmares of anyone looking at it.
BDY +4, DEX +6, ML
ML 8,
8, HP
HP 18,
18, DR
DR 14,
14, ATK bite (BDY, 1d6)
SPECIAL: Acts twice each round. If attacked target fails SVY check,
they lose their next round, stuck in a hypnotized stupor.
8 SYZYGY ANTFOLK Fear water. Have a poisonous bite that changes the
victim’s DNA and turns the bitten body part into a sweet, nutritious
liquid.
BDY +1, DEX +1, ML
ML 7,
7, HP
HP 5,
5, DR
DR 12,
SPECIAL: A bitten victim gets three BDY checks, once per day.
Failing all, struck body part turns liquid.
#95
D6 CORRUPTED BY THE VOID
CORRU
Add the indicated ability to the attack roll
1 ANARCHY PROGRAM It is unknown whether the Anarchy program is natural

or artificial. A lethal parasite, hidden in creatures’ DNA, that
consumes and reprograms genetic instructions. The host becomes very
aggressive before eventually dying.
SPECIAL: When exposed, victim must succeed with a BDY check or
become infected. When infected, roll one BDY check per day. Victim
is rid of infection if reaching three successes. For every failure,
they turn more aggressive. On three failures, the victim is forever
lost to the void and turns into a port fanatic.
2 GRAVITY BIODRONE (HIVE) Genetically modified fungal insects.
Symbiote between flesh and electronics, constructed and bred for
the war. Reacts to the smell of materials used for weapons and
armor. When still, resembles ugly fungi.
BDY –1 DEX +3, ML
ML 8,
8, HP
HP 8,
8, DR
DR 18,
18, ATK bite (DEX, 1d4)
SPECIAL: The hive can attack three targets. Preferentially attacks
those with powerful weapons and armor.
3 HIVE DECAYER Similar to a huge louse fly. Emits an unbearable smell
of rotten meat. In its transparent belly, old victims remain in an
infinite rotten state, both dead and alive.
BDY +6, DEX +2, ML
ML 7,
7, HP
HP 22,
22, DR
DR 14,
14, ATK bite and swallow (BDY, 1d4)
SPECIAL: If the creature’s attack is successful, it spends its next
action swallowing the victim (automatic success, BDY check to escape
before that). Swallowed victim dies after 1d6 rounds.
4 PORT FANATIC The unlucky victims of void infection quickly lose
their minds, sharpen their teeth and start performing horrible acts
against their own bodies.
BDY +2, DEX –2
–2, SVY –3,
–3, ML
ML 9,
9, HP
HP 6,
6, DR
DR 12,
5 TRANSMUTATION CUBE A mutated Anarchy program, distorted into
physical form. Devours mechanical parts and loves the smell of code.
Prefers attacking chromes.
TEC +4, DEX +4, ML
ML 10,
10, HP
HP 20,
20, DR
DR 15,
15, ATK mechanical drain (TEC, 1d4)
SPECIAL: Consumes two components or one vehicle part per round.
6 VECTOR PARASITE A tick-like creature covered in eyes and teeth,
found on distant asteroids. Transmits an infectious plague that
turns the skin translucent.
BDY +8, DEX –2, ML
ML 8,
8, HP
HP 26,
26, DR 10, ATK rotten bite (BDY, 1d6)
SPECIAL: If the bite causes damage, victim must roll BDY check.
Infected on failure. Infected rolls BDY check once per day. Rid of
disease on three successes. One limb’s skin turns translucent for
every three fails, and victim also suffers a void corruption effect.
If an ability value is not written out, assume zero value.
#96
UPTED CORRUPTED BY THE VOID //
DEEP SPACE
NIGHTMARES AND
NAVVY TALES
THE CELSIUS SERVANT
Said to have found his way through a bridge still open after a jump,
the Celsius Servant haunts the drug-fueled nightmares of unlucky cryo-
sleepers having a bad trip.
THE STAR-EATER
Some navvies who have traveled far to distant systems talk of the Star-
Eater that roams the edge of the universe. They say it is the reason why
some stars in the sky have gone dark.
THE SUPER-HYDRA
In forgotten corners on the Iron Ring, masked cultists worship the Super-
Hydra, the mythical serpent of the Abyss with a thousand maws, forever
feeding on the Phosphorescent Vortex.
HIT POINTS (HP)

ATTACK (ATK)
DEFENSE RATING (DR)
MORALE (ML)
#97
TRIGGERS
Combine a trigger with an
obstacle and use when the crew
explores dangerous locations.
D10 TRIGGERS
1 LASER A narrow beam of intense light in any color.
Triggers if refracted.
2 PRESSURE PLATE 5 in 6 chance to trigger when someone steps on it.
3 MOTION DETECTOR Can be adjusted to trigger on motion of different
forms and speeds. Running, walking and down to vibrations.
4 MICROPHONE A spherical field microphone that records everything
within a certain distance, or a directional microphone that mainly
captures sound from in front of it.
5 MAGNETIC Triggered by a certain amount of magnetic material.
6 HEAT DETECTOR Sensitive to temperature changes, for example due to
body heat.
7 SNIFFER Detects a certain type of substance, for example
adrenaline, sweat or blood.
8 METAL DETECTOR Can be used to detect concealed metallic weapons or
other objects. Sensitivity can be adjusted, for example making it
trigger only for larger objects.
9 ECHO WIRE Very thin wire that functions as a combined trigger and
trap. Sinks up to a few centimeters into soft tissue (1d4 damage)
before snapping with a distinct sound, responsible for the name.
10 COUNTER A primitive electronic override, often connected to doors
or electronics that are interacted with. Sends a signal for every
interaction, or after a specific number of interactions.
OBSTACLES
D20 TYPE
1 CENTIGLASS Hot glass, that penetrates and melts the victim’s flesh
(1d8 damage). Removing the molten glass requires help.
2 MIND SCANNER A digital copy of the target’s consciousness or code
downloads to a nearby memory cartridge. The cartridge has room for
two minds. A happy chime will play after the download.
3 WORMHOLE Ancient tech fitted in a box. Target travels in space and
time, forwards or backwards. Gone for one second in the current
timeline, but has actually been away for 1d20 years.
4 ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE (EMP) A short burst of energy that disrupts
and harms nearby electronics, which do not function properly for
1d6 minutes and lose one condition.
5 PIPE BOMB Explosives in a pipe, causing a concentrated and targeted
explosion (3d6 damage*).
6 JUMP MINE Hidden load of explosives that jumps a meter vertically
before detonating (1d12 damage to all within five meters).
7 HOTWIRED AIR LOCK A hidden door or hatch is hot-wired to disregard
safety protocols and open to the outside.
#98
TRIGGERS AND OBSTACLES //
D20 TYPE
8 TRACKING CHIP A bunch of darts fire towards the crew. DEX check to
avoid. Darts inject tracking chips that allow for tracking target
movement.
9 FLECHETTES Swarm of small metal projectiles, either spread out over
a large area or focused in one direction (2d6 damage*). If heated,
the flechettes can also destroy equipment.
10 ULTRASONIC BURST High frequency soundwaves. The victim loses their
balance and is unable to move. Continued exposure causes nausea,
shaking and uncontrollable vomiting.
11 TITANIC FOAM A sticky foam that hardens more the longer you wait.
The victim can not breathe if the foam hits their face. Sticks to
skin on contact. Handled with protective gloves, it can quickly be
shaped into a titanium armor that the victim can never remove.
12 PHOTORECEPTOR FLASH A strong pulse of light that blinds all nearby
looking at it for 1d6 minutes.
13 TESLA SPIKE A glowing arrow of electricity that hits one target
before changing direction to the next. Hits 1d3 targets
(3d3 damage to the first, 2d3 to the second and 1d3 to the third).
14 LASER Static or mobile, normally used to split ice on distant
moons. Intense beams that quickly burn holes in and cut through
most materials (1d12 damage). Must charge before it is unleashed,
which is accompanied by a slight buzz and takes 1d20 seconds.
15 MOLTEN METAL Container or deep pit with molten metal. Cooks flesh,
causing extreme pain (1d10 damage). If not removed, provides
excellent protection to the exposed body part(s) when the metal has
cooled.
16 CRUSHER Small room where heavy walls or metal arms compress
contents to a one-by-one meter cube. Almost harmless if you are
alone and can fit inside, less so for larger groups of people.
17 COOKER Microwaves are emitted. They heat liquids inside the victim,
causing agonizing and incapacitating pain (1d8 damage).
18 FLAMMABLE GAS A dangerous, often poisonous gas, similar to the
highly flammable gem gas found in asteroid mines. Prolonged
exposure can cause bleeding eyes, poor memory, coughing, loss of
smell, skin loss, dizziness, paranoia, nosebleed, and in 1% of
cases increased awareness and comfortable visual hallucinations.
19 ELECTROSHOCK PROJECTILES Small projectiles connected to a power
source by thin wires. Victim is completely stunned by electric
shock for 2d20 seconds. Damages muscle nerves (1d6 damage) unless
immediately pulled out.
20 SKIN TRANSFORMER Repurposed LTW (Living Tissue Welder) tool that
alters living tissue. Changes the victim’s skin in the targeted
area (d6): 1. Face, 2. Hands, 3. Arm, 4. Chest, 5. Leg, 6. Player
chooses. Skin changes into (d6): 1. Plastic, 2. Nylon, 3. Gib-flex
(waterproof soft high tech fabric), 4. Hardened bendable glass,
5. Deep space octopus leather, 6. Soft gemstones.
* Dice can be divided among several targets.
#99
SPACE ENCOUNTERS
D10 TYPE D6 ENCOUNTER
1 Derelict 1 Deep space drone. In the computer is code for an
unfinished program called The Gate.
2 Ancient first generation chrome spacecraft.
3 Asteroid digger machine, with a habitat with room for
five workers. Solar panels provide electricity.
4 An old mining station. A few gems are still hidden away.
5 Empty, intact redshift explorer. Traces of a brutal
combat inside.
6 Small station in orbit around an unmapped moon. No
mention of station on maps or in logs.
2 Remnants 1 Destroyed battleship. 1d6 soldiers still sleep in an
of war unharmed cryo-chamber. They believe the war is still
raging.
2 Liberated prisoners have established their own colony.
It is in the ruins of their former prison, a broken
station, bombed out of orbit.
3 Reinforcements in an unmanned exobase dropship, arriving
many years too late. A shipment of third generation
carbons from a neighboring system. Born, raised and
trained.
4 A few veterans live in a habitat built in a container
cluster powered by solar panels. They grow fruit and
vegetables in zero-g hydroponic farms.
5 Debris field from unknown battle. Radio beacons send out
warnings. Spare parts abound, but scavengers are around,
making salvaging dangerous.
6 Lost freighter, containing supplies. 1d10 components,
1d6 vehicle parts, 1d6 random weapons, 1d4 nano pods.
All stamped with company logos.
3 Drifting 1 Smuggler drop-off point. 1d8 components and 1d6 vehicle
in space parts in a crate. Has a hidden radio locator.
2 1d8 drifting space coffins, humanoids inside. They
appear dead. Do not leave them unsupervised.
3 Planetary ground exploration vehicle. Doors are open,
wheels muddy. The radio sends out a voice counting back
and forth.
4 Black, metallic box, made out of a strange material.
Four by four meters. Emits white noise that floods all
electronics onboard. Moves towards the Tenebris star.
5 Damaged science vessel (light freighter) with the
Azimuth company logo on it. Logs show that it was
looking for void static noise. Intact but void infected
non-phys server onboard.
6 Crystal monolith. Upon closer inspection, it seems
to be an ancient deep space navigation beacon, with
inscriptions in an unknown language.
#100
SPACE ENCOUNTERS //

4 Need 1 A chrome on an asteroid bar, on a mission to kill a
a ride water dissident on Amissa. Wants a ride, and help.
2 A lone nomad on a solar barque with shattered solar
panels needs towing to the closest space port. Just
passing through Tenebris for supplies.
3 A Stålverket crew on a sector shuttle are looking for
someone to pick up union delegate Kofel Bohm from Epoch
spaceport.
4 Pen Katz, wanted for stealing memories from the pocket
worlds of velocity cursed. Pretends to be looking for
herself. Crashed on a moon or planet nearby.
5 Unmanned nano pod, piloted by AI. Wants to go to
the Iron Ring for revenge.
6 Two ex-Vodykov representatives at a nearby abandoned
asteroid drill site want a ride to anywhere. Have 2671
stolen holos.
5 Combat 1 Honeyguide driller spacecraft with a crew of seven.
Everything shut down, ready to board anyone getting too
close.
2 Solpod hijackers in an explorer-outfitted interceptor
ship, on the hunt for spare parts and fuel for their
old observatory.
3 1d4 automated combat modified drill drones attack
(DR 8, 1d3×10 DMG, at 30% frame). They are hunting
for spare parts for its owner and will leave if they
retrieve five parts.
4 Moon bandits in a liberation raider with smuggler
modules, masquerading as merchants. Claim to sell new
experimental weapons.
5 Small mining station riddled with drug problems. Ruled
with an iron fist. On the verge of a riot.
6 Scavenger scout ship with a crew of five, boarding a
small, old satellite. Two solpods defend against
the intrusion.
6 Merchants 1 Void merchants, selling virus-infected navigation
subroutines.
2 Former fuel station, now offering strange virtual
reality experiences. Expensive, not worth it.
3 Infamous and rough space trucker stop. Houses the best
black market in the system, “Lost and Found”.
4 Asteroid bar. Holographic entertainment. Offers any
strong drinks imaginable. Something is off here.
5 Orbital vagabonds, selling homemade food and gear.
Live in a small satellite station. Interior has walls
covered in cloth and the air is thick with incense.
6 A traveling market station where velocity cursed and
others trade memories stored on cartridges and visit
non-phys worlds to make sense of their lives.
#101
SPACE ENCOUNTERS
7 Out of 1 A broken racer pod with a velocity cursed in the driver’s
fuel seat. It flickers between dead and alive.
2 Merchant hauler with a crew of solpods selling ancient
tech.
3 Marshal with a fugitive, on their way to the Sand Judge on
Lacrimosa.
4 Scavengers, searching for fuel or spare parts. Follow
the player characters at a distance.
5 Archaeologist, stuck in a small research base on a
forgotten asteroid.
6 Trucker crew, towing a few modules from a solpod research
station.
8 Need 1 A group of punks in a remade shuttle bus. Need two vehicle
of parts for a communication dish. Desperately need to send
repairs a message to the Iron Ring, but will not say what it is
about.
2 Hard-boiled tow truckers, stuck on route to Ogre for an
ice-hauling contract. Weathered hauler spacecraft. Needs
two vehicle parts.
3 Lonely deep field welder, rebuilding a small spacecraft
into a space station. Needs help.
4 Lonely farmer in a broken, small habitat on a nearby moon.
Only spare power works, needs four vehicle parts urgently.
Former gem cutter.
5 Pilot floating freely in space in an EVA suit in a field
of debris. Desperate for help.
6 A broken interceptor. No one is on board, an AI sent out
the distress call.
#102
SPACE ENCOUNTERS //

9 Signal 1 Comes from inside a comet. The comet is in fact an old
spacecraft, covered in ice and stone.
2 Chaotic noise. Hidden instructions (TEC to understand)
reveal how to upgrade engine one output power. Requires
ten vehicle parts.
3 Interception of a message from a deep space colony,
many light-years away. Comment about chaotic weather
and weird migrating space creatures.
4 A fast white noise burst, drowning all electronics for
a moment. Believed by scientists to be the sound of a
dying universe.
5 Messages about daily life on Lepidoptera, from a lonely
amateur radio enthusiast.
6 A cryptic message from the future. Reveals the outcome
of something in the player characters' near future.
10 Oddities 1 Wormhole, leading to the edge of the universe. Soon
disappears.
2 Time rift. All onboard age 2d20 years.
3 A migrating herd of massive strangely shaped
spacecraft, without visible engines.
4 A colossal creature drifts alongside the spacecraft for
a moment. Was it real? Or a strange vision?
5 The comet 78C. Resembles a moving cosmic iceberg, but
its core is hotter than any star. It is one of the
oldest artifacts in the universe. Any material can
be found inside the ice. A presence lives inside it.
If released, it will occupy the player characters'
spacecraft and give it consciousness.
6 Unmanned container shuttle, filled with clones
uncannily similar to the player characters. On its way
to the rogue planet Wendel.
DRØMMER WAKE // Some void

cultists talk of a specific
point behind spacecraft called
the Drømmer wake, where the
void energies interfere with
the energies of the engine
in such a way that strange
creatures are attracted and
begin to follow the ship.
#103
INAURO
IRON RING
LOCATIONS
50 locations inspired by 99% Void Safe backers.
D100 DESCRIPTION
1–2 The Rig, rough bar frequented by workers at nearby junk station.
An AI cat with singed, red fur, said to be the last mind copy of
the famous Tenebris discoverer Cinder, stalks the place.
3–4 Rodionovich passage. Maze of derelict passages, connecting two
sectors. Flooded with radiation from a meltdown reactor now
partly frozen in ice. Fastest way through is next to the reactor.
Suit up.
5–6 Run-down psychosurgery clinic, rewiring brains with black-market
implants. Attracts dream-junkies of all sorts. Rumors say the
clinic is the source of dimfrost, a new form of void plague.
7–8 Masso, PI. The name is gold-plated on the door. Inside is a dark
waiting room with fake ferns and rain sounds playing. Run by an
old AI, that helps find missing persons and items.
9–10 Barrha Oddities. A workshop, full of artificial animals. They
follow all customers with bright neon eyes. Some are packed up
for delivery, others whisper their price when you approach.
11–12 Astrozoological society. If you pay, you get access to
descriptions, holographic projections, and sometimes physical
parts or specimens of creatures found in deep space.
13–14 An old vending machine where you can download your memories to
an affordable and portable format. A screen shows snippets of
memories from previous customers.
15–16 #00FF00. A five by five meter room, where you can sit alone for
half an hour, for only five holos. An intensely colored light
changes in rhythm with sounds of nature.
17–18 Antique shop, selling vintage exploration gear and jewelry made
from exotic gemstones. The owner is sleeping behind a stack
of dusty star atlases. An open ledger on the counter records
everything said here.
19–20 Abandoned research facility in a derelict sector. A sealed
room with plastic walls contains swarms of nano-machines that
consume one condition point per round. Can be contained, but are
intelligent enough to flee.
21–22 Cosmologist observatory. Equations are everywhere. Projectors
show holographic views of cosmological simulations. Some
scientists here say stars disappear, one by one, in correlation
with bridger jumps.
23–24 Black market, ruled by the former marshal Lihp Eedr. Ships dock
with a long pier and buy and sell objects in the inside corridor.
Docking costs 100 holos and necessitates a careful scan of ship
and cargo.
25–26 Closed-down server park. Fungi grow around the old electronics.
In a virtual reality housed in one of the servers you can find
Nykylay Hellray, stuck wandering infinite halls.
#104
Wake ∆ point
IRON RING LOCATIONS //
D100 DESCRIPTION
27–28 A silica glass dome, full of small animals and plants. Entrance
through an elevator, code needed. A few solpods live here,
alternating between research and hibernation.
29–30 The popular restaurant JoMas, run by a punk family with two kids.
Fresh food with home-grown vegetables. The kids are talented
holoharp players and perform regularly.
31–32 Frövalv. Seed samples for plants used when colonizing Tenebris,
stored in a fully automated vault. In constant need of spare
parts and repairs ever since the war. The security of the seeds
is at risk.
33–34 Holographic model maker. Buy a model of your own spacecraft that
shows its current status to put in your pocket.
35–36 The Maze. A former military training ship, now used for a deadly
game. Survive chambers filled with deadly traps and surprises
while fighting other crews with non-lethal weapons.
37–38 Mathematical patterns and glitchy noises from this little store
can be heard far away. Here, two carbons, Seons and Nole,
personalize EVA suits, trying hard to accomodate any wish.
39–40 Just Noodles. Stun and Lest run the best noodle bar on the Ring,
and they know it. The water is clean, the vegetables are fresh
and there is not a trace of engine oil left on the tastebuds.
Rumours say they compromise with local crime syndicates to get
their ingredients.
41–42 A small station overgrown with beautiful orchids, found nowhere
else. The punk Honey escaped the fights in Deutron 72 to live in
peace, and pursue his passion of growing the perfect flower.
43–44 Konbina research lab. Large water tanks house iron-shelled snails
from the depths of Ogre’s cold oceans. The glowing snails are the
only remains of the covered up Surts-Cypra incident.
45–46 The huge drilling craft Saulm M2 drifts next to the Ring. Its
cooling system is a maze of pipes and wires built like a spiral.
Seated in the center in a floating chair is a chrome said to be
able to predict the future.
47–48 Ixx, holographic mapper. Flickering neon map projections are
everywhere. The owner, Stjern, grumpy war veteran, sells maps
of even the smallest moon, and greedily buys maps from your
adventures.
49–50 The only library on the Ring with paper books. Previously part
of an old colony ship. Large and empty. Run by the solpod Avidd
Joern, who spends all their time cataloguing the content of the
books and their content.
#105
IRON RING
LOCATIONS
50 locations inspired by 99% Void Safe backers.
D100 DESCRIPTION
51–52 Behind a poster saying “Missing: Josh Clandestine” is a hidden
door. Just knock, and you will find Forget on Exit, a den where
velocity cursed gamble with their memories.
53–54 jaBBS. Virtual non-phys travel agency, licensed by Azimuth.
Forget your troubles and connect for a week or two. Carefully
programmed AIs make sure that you are nourished.
55–56 Rent a coder for a day. Watch their back as they plug in with
hand-held computers, and they can get into the most secure
networks. Make sure to keep them away from your station or
spacecraft.
57–58 JFS Intelligent Design. Famous AI designer, building realistic
personalities, always with a twist. Lets them inhabit custom-made
drones and robots, uniquely modelled for each AI.
59–60 Perihelion. In the dark corners of this club people desperately
bet their last paychecks in illegal gambles while ingesting
intoxicating powders. Noisy electronic music blasts from
speakers.
61–62 Tenebris Temple of Mercy Relief Fund, for victims of cryosleep
gone wrong. They treat amnesiacs, late wakers with friends and
family gone, and some worse off, who babble about the end of
civilisation.
63–64 Gobalsky’s Moonshine. Stock the infamous, possibly radioactive,
liquid on your spacecraft, or pour it down your throat in between
work shifts. A volatile environment, with occasional explosions.
65–66 At a small stand, an asteroid druid sells a miracle dust said
to give “eternal life”. The dust comes from a strange stone
formation in the Messier 51 asteroid belt. A stone circle rotates
unnaturally, embedded in the dust.
67–68 The massive wreck of the Weatherfish, early bridger ship,
orbiting freely. Said to be frozen in a space-time anomaly.
Its last message transmits over and over. Sought by wild-
eyed
cultists.
69–70 The Red Dragon inn. A narrow, long corridor draped in dim,
red lights. Along one wall is a bar, along the other sleeping
capsules. A dive for black market salvagers and off-
contract
miners.
71–72 At this local Azimuth office for premium customers, you can order
your own world on a portable server, made according to your
personal desires.
73–74 Ence Constructions. Build and sell digging machines and large
tools. They also buy and sell mining claims to remote locations
on Inauro, where prospects are far from certain.
#106
Gliess Gallo
Inauro IRON RING LOCATIONS //
D100 DESCRIPTION
75–76 Zero-g hall crammed with debris, deformed and unrecognizable. A
lonely void lives here, trying to create beauty but managing only
disorder. Only a collar, saying ”Edgar”, is well tended, floating
in a large glass sphere.
77–78 The quiet office of Itren Exploration, a non-profit organization
that finds the few precious mining claims on Inauro’s surface
still available and gives them to workers in need.
79–80 HNOT1. Refinery, abandoned after a horrific disaster which left
few survivors. Airlocks shut with yellow tape and safety wires.
Rumored to be haunted.
81–82 Akaro Broadway. Five concentric rings controlled by the Rex
gang, crammed with small shops selling odd collectibles, scrap
electronics, garish clothes and much more. In the center is
Popeye, a sleazy zero-g music club.
83–84 Pell-Bells Experiences. Non-phys hangout, where users connect to
each other instead of a server. Results in an infinity mirror
effect, and you can meet yourself in the abyss.
85–86 Silo 314. An empty storage silo. Once per month, participants
secretly meet in the silo to bet their lives in illegal zero-g
fights.
87–88 DG’s Stones. Gem cutter, collector and trader, certified by the
Inauro Gemology Institute. Specializes in refractive properties.
Investigating claims that gems can hinder void corruption.
89–90 The Random Forest. A tavern, run by the chrome Gan. Only serves
artificial intelligences. Chrome Lecun runs a game of Fuzzy
Logic, where you plug in and try to reveal hidden identities.
91–92 PRAGMA dimensionals HQ. Racks and stacks of servers and computer
parts abound. The “dims” are code archeologists, studying ancient
code and searching for hidden messages.
93–94 Dourain Plaza. Dominated by a mysterious satellite found in
technomancer ruins on Lepidoptera. Exotic flowers cover it. Dead
until recently, when a red light lit up and it whirred to life.
95–96 Explorer’s travel agency. Arranges distant travels and helps with
cheap hitchhike connections for a small charge. Insurance for
robbery and injury costs extra.
97–98 Observatory searching for incoming asteroids and debris. Manned
by two underpaid and unmotivated workers, hired by the ALNG
corporation. Regular false alarms, triggering loud sirens in the
whole sector.
100 In a hallway is a BBS full of ads, job postings, notes and long
99–
lost conversations. Some notes, concerning the unknown Project
Chimaera, appear mysteriously, referring to older notes in a
never-ending chain.
#107
ADDICTIVE
SUBSTANCES
Roll 1d20 when using an addictive substance, on a natural 1 the player
character opens a door that should have remained closed. The void has
found a way in. Roll on the corruption table p. 39.
NAME DESCRIPTION COST
Single-use Synthetic incomplete regeneration, creating 70
restore injection fibrosis on necrotic tissue. Restores all lost
hit points.
Cyochrome Pe Artificially raises oxygen levels. Can hold 30
breath for 10+1d20 minutes.
Pentamicetic Milk Needed for long cryosleep. Puts the body in 80
stasis.
Synthetic Cleaning oil for electronics. Can stay awake 5
Astercumulus D for 1d4 days when inhaled.
Oq-type, Hola! Different varieties of non-phys drugs, used to 4
enter states of virtual and augmented reality.
Oq-type can be used with a visor that projects
images to enhance the experience.
MCR678 Military issued gel that protects against 10
cosmic radiation.
Photorop spores Removes bacteria and poison and corrects 40
damaged DNA. The user must be exposed to
starlight (real or artificial) for
the treatment to be effective.
Anticphrine Blocks nerve signals causing user to become 40
numb and unable to move. Used by cheap illegal
prisons called pits, or voiding, where
the prisoner is drugged with anticphrine and
put in a pitch black room with zero-g.
Subtiliteminn Drug designed for mission pilots, but can be 100
used to raise any chosen ability. For five
minutes, gives advantage to all rolls using
the chosen ability.
MexomaCG For long/short exposure to low/high gravity. 5
As a side effect after use, the user feels
weightless for 1d10 hours.
KRYb gel User does not need to eat food for seven days. 60
To use, rub the gel generously on stomach and
inside of the mouth.
Peas Sleeping pills. Small and green with a great 40
taste. User sleeps for 1d20 hours per ingested
pill. Rumored to have undocumented side
effects.
#108
ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES //
Anticphrine
Photorop spores
#109
#110
EPOCH SPACEPORT// A wretched
sanctuary for the lawless. Epoch is
a bustling spaceport, always on the
move, where smugglers and villains
buy and sell goods and contraband
of all forms. A fleet of scavengers
constantly surrounds the station, #111
like a hive of bees.
SPACECRAFT
To construct a spacecraft, New modules for the crew’s hub
combine a frame, a power system are obtained in play, either as
and modules. rewards, payment for a contract,
favors or similar. It is seldom
The sum of the power costs for possible to buy modules with
all modules must always be less holos.
than or equal to the hub’s total
output power from the power
system.
FRAMES
PLAYER STARTING HUB CONDITION DR FUEL DEPOT
Spacecraft 5 11 6
Station 5 11 4
FRAME CONDITION DR FUEL DEPOT AVAILABILITY

Nano Pods 3 5 3 Common
size
Interceptor 5 11 5 Unusual
Scout ship 5 11 5 Common
Honeyguide driller 5 11 6 Unusual
Frontier lander 5 11 6 Common
Hauler 5 13 5 Common
Liberation raider 5 13 5 Common
Exobase dropship 5 15 4 Rare
Sector shuttle 3 9 6 Common
Solar barque 6 10 3 Rare
Light freighter 8 14 7 Unusual
Alsviðr barge 8 16 5 Rare
Redshift explorer 8 12 15 Very rare
Bulk freighter 10 16 8 Common
Colony ship 10 18 10 Rare
Monolith runner 10 18 10 Very rare
Gravity ship 10 16 10 Very rare
Bio tanker 12 17 20 Common
Mining carrier 12 18 20 Unusual
Black hole crawler 12 19 — Very rare
#112
POWER
SPACECRAFT AND HUBS //
SYSTEMS
By modifying the power systems, the output power can be increased. The lower
limit of the range represents the standard version.
POWER SYSTEMS, SPACECRAFT SPEED OUTPUT POWER AVAILABILITY

Radiation pressure sail Too slow 1–5 Common
Chemical engine Slow 3–7 Common
Diamagnetic fusion reactor Fast 6–10 Unusual
Gravity reactor Fast 9–13 Rare
Quantum entanglement reactor Bridging* 7–30 Very rare
Experimental geodesic Unknown *
7–40 Unique
reactor
* Can bridge short inter-system distances between bridger navigation buoys.
POWER SYSTEMS, STATION REQUIREMENT OUTPUT POWER AVAILABILITY

Photovoltaic solar panels Close to 1–10 Common
a star
Geothermal energy turbine Thermal 5–20 Unusual
energy
Industrial generator 1 fuel/ 3–7 Common
session
Adiabatic dynamo 1 fuel/ 6–10 Common
session
Faraday gravity power 2 fuel/ 10–15 Rare
station session
or high
gravity
Nuclear fusion reactor An AI and a Enough Very rare
contractor
controlling
the reactor
SHUTTLE HUBS // Tiny stations drift in orbit

around planets. Some are abandoned, other
are still operational and even clean. Their
only purpose is to sell tickets to automatic
shuttles down to the planet. Worn docking
connectors stretch out from the core. You can
find a bench, and a duty-free transit shop
in the waiting room, selling tickets and old
mining souvenirs. An attendant works alone and
lives here until retirement.
#113
GENERAL MODULES
GENERAL POWER
MODULES COST DESCRIPTION
BAR 1 Attracts all kinds of people. Some spread rumors,
some offer contracts, some just say too much after
a few drinks. Comes with holo entertainment.
BRIG 1 Reinforced holding cell. Impossible to escape
from without suitable tools. Can be detached from
spacecraft and moved to another one.
CARGO CLUSTER 1 Cluster of cargo containers mounted on the hull.
Shielded against heat and energetic radiation.
CRYOPODS 1 Sleeping pods used for long distance travel.
The traveler is put into hibernation by the
substance pentamicetic milk.
ESCAPE PODS 1 Four escape pods with two spots each. Simple
landing thrusters, and 14 days of power for life
support and distress signals.
FIRE 1 Add-on to any module. Quickly submerges module in
EXTINGUISHING a sticky, water-based foam that hardens. Excellent
SYSTEM in case of fire or hull breach.
FUEL TANKS 1 Doubles the amount of fuel in spacecraft’s fuel
depot.
GARBAGE 1 Incinerates anything. Useful when you don’t want
BURNER to leave any traces behind.
HIDDEN MODULE 1 Add-on to any module. Hides module visually and on
scanning systems. Players decide how and where.
INTERROGATION 1 A room with one purpose. Made more effective by
ROOM a simple profiler AI, that adjusts lights and
holographics according to the thoughts of
the interrogated. Target must answer 1d4 questions
per session truthfully.
MEETING ROOM 1 Diplomatic counterparts will never turn down
invitations to talk. If violence occurs, no one
will accept any invitation until their safety is
ensured.
MOONSHINE 1 Can make any kind of alcohol. Makes very potent
DISTILLERY moonshine.
PASSENGER 1 Passenger sleeping cabins. Each gets a personal
QUARTERS space, with a computer connected to the spacecraft
network. And a personal dustshower.
STORAGE 1 Seems to have room for anything that fits through
the doorway. Temperature can be adjusted over a
large range, from very cold to very hot.
#114
GENERAL MODULES //
GENERAL POWER
WORKSHOP 1 Halves cost to repair broken items up to one
condition. A tinkerer’s paradise, with tools for
any repairs you can think of. Holds any amount of
components and vehicle parts.
CARGO BAY 2 Room for big cargo, like containers and vehicles.
Several docking airlocks. Includes one mechanized
exoskeleton for heavy lifting.
CARGO TRACTOR 2 Tiny electric spacecraft for lifting heavy cargo.
Powerful but slow. Room for one pilot only. Lifts
four cargo containers. Can land on and launch from
planets with low or medium gravity. One hour use
per hour charged, up to ten hours.
DEEP SPACE 2 The dish can send text messages over vast
COMMUNICATION distances. Also gives access to an anonymous
DISH company, which offers “free” contractors, in
exchange for a “small favor”.
HULL PLATING 2 +1d4 defense rating (roll for every attack).
Reinforced hull with active plate protection.
HYDROPONIC 2 Grows enough food to feed the crew. Needs 1d8
FARM hours of work every day (roll daily).
MEDICAL BAY 2 Contains the equipment required to treat injured
or ill persons, for example sensors, beds,
diagnostic equipment and surgical tools. Rebuilds
lost limbs. Can be converted to an isolation ward.
MERCHANT DECK 2 Has space for a few traveling merchants, who come
along on the spacecraft when the crew travels.
They can sell items to player characters.
PANIC ROOM 2 A last resort, when the battle is lost. Either
hidden or very hard to force open from outside.
Can take command of the ship. Has its own gravity
and life support system. Driven by a large
generator with power for one month.
REPAIR BAY 2 Makes it possible to repair other spacecraft or
vehicles. Holds any amount of components and
vehicle parts.
SPACE DOCK 2 Useful for towing and salvaging. Doubles
the amount of salvaged vehicle parts.
VAULT 2 For storing valuables. Indestructible and
practically impossible to open, but can be hacked
if you can find the control box. The players
decide the specifics of the locking mechanism.
#115
TECH MODULES
TECH POWER
ANTI-HACKING 1 All hacking attempts have disadvantage. Failures
SYSTEMS set off loud alarms.
AUTOMATON 1 A self-operating automaton that can be programmed
CARETAKER with simple commands and take care of a business.
Not self-learning.
BIOMETRIC 1 Locks doors to core utilities and to the outside.
LOCKS Impossible to hack while connected to a power
source.
DECEPTIVE 1 Can disguise voice and image in communications
COMMUNICATION with other ships.
SYSTEMS
DECOY 1 Adds one or more ships to other spacecrafts’
scanning systems. Amount and size decided by user.
Does not work at boarding distance.
DRILLER ECHO 1 Sends an echo signal that locates hidden
spacecraft or objects. Can identify spacecraft
modules at identification distance.
GALACTIC 1 Halves fuel costs for long distance travel.
NAVIGATION Connects to information kiosks when arriving in
SYSTEM new star systems, and can answer simple queries
about the planets in the system.
NAMED AI 1 Keeps track of everyone and everything in the
hub. Wired deep into the mainframe of the command
center. The crew can ask simple questions (“Where
is Cobb?”) and give simple commands (“Lock all
doors”). Any guest must register and log in to
the system. Mostly acts friendly, but is prone to
glitches and has a 1 in 20 risk of refusing any
command.
#116
TECH MODULES //
TECH POWER
SELF-DESTRUCT 1 Triggers self-destruction of the hub, with a code
SYSTEM or physical key (personal per crew member).
SURVEILLANCE 1 Systems for surveillance of the hub. Sound, video,
SYSTEM heat or other activites are shown on monitors in a
dedicated room and recorded on bulky cartridges.
UAV SYSTEM 1 For controlling unarmed aerial vehicles (UAV).
The module comes with four reconnaissance drones.
Can be supplemented with other types of drones
that board, breach or drill.
HAZARD 1 Hermetically sealed space for handling of
CHAMBER dangerous materials, germs and lifeforms that need
to be contained.
MASTER SYSTEM 1 Super computer that can perform advanced
calculations and control big systems. Comes with
an extra server for programming a non-phys world,
often used for long travels.
RADIO NETWORK 1/2 Successful TEC check allows a user to hack an
opponent’s systems and read their logs. At +1
power cost, it can also hack modules and lock the
owner out. Range up to identification distance.
SCANNERS 2 Sensitive enough to detect the faintest
electromagnetic signatures. Can identify other
spacecraft at detection distance, and detect any
lifeforms inside.
MILITARY- 2 Adds a +2 bonus to one roll per round that uses
ISSUED AI the spacecraft. Also acts as tactical support, and
as a psychologist that monitors the crew’s mental
health.
SCIENCE LAB 2 Laboratory with scientific apparatuses for
research and analysis. With the right ingredients,
any substance can be synthesized, giving 1d20
doses per week of work.
STEALTH HULL 3 Hides a spacecraft in open space, making it almost
invisible visually. With a successful TEC check
by the operator, the ship can move unnoticed to
boarding distance. Can not board or fire while in
stealth.
#117
CONFRONTATION
MODULES
BOARDING DISTANCE
CONFRONTATION POWER
KINETIC MINES 1 1d4 heat seeking mines placed at boarding
distance. 1d4×10 frame damage. Can not be
detected without advanced scanning module. One
mine detonates per round and opponent at boarding
distance. Undetonated mines return to ship after
confrontation.
HULL GRAPPLERS 1 With a successful risky maneuver, the pilot can
attach to another spacecraft. 1d4×10 frame damage
to target for any escape attempt.
MOBILE DRILL 1 Used to mine asteroids or drill through hulls. A
ARM motorized zipline is connected from the base to
the top of the arm, making it easy to get to
the drilling point. TEC check to use.
MODIFIED 1 Used for boarding. SVY check to use. Drills
ASTEROID DRILL through hull and connects the ships with an air-
filled simple plastic tube. Aim, drill and board.
MONODISPATCHER 1 Simple cannon, used to fire human-sized tubes at
boarding distance. For each tube, roll TEC check
to hit. A person in an EVA suit easily fits in
the tube. Penetrates hull, so the person fired
can climb directly into the other ship.
SHOTGUN 1 Powerful winch, equipped with strong cables and
HARPOON sharp grappling hooks that holds a target in
place. SVY check to hit. Can be welded off from
inside, taking 1d20 minutes per hook.
EMP HARPOON 2 Disables a spacecraft or vehicle for 1d3 rounds.
Harpoon takes one round to recharge. TEC check to
hit.
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#118
CONFRONTATION MODULES //
FIRING DISTANCE
CONFRONTATION POWER
THROWER 1 Shoots projectiles or persons. Does not penetrate
hulls. BDY check needed to hold on when landing.
SVY check to hit. Do not miss.
HYPERVELOCITY 1 Chaingun. 1d4×10 frame damage. Standard weapon
PROJECTILES for battleships.
GRAPESHOT 1 A carronade loaded with clusters of projectiles
CARRONADE filled with molten metal. Penetrates hulls and
creates holes large enough to climb through. TEC
check to hit.
ISOTOPE BUNKER 2 Slow missiles with thrusters. 1d10×10 frame
BUSTER damage. Can only be used against targets in
fixed, calculable orbits, such as buildings or
space stations.
ORBITAL 3 1d8×10 frame damage. Used in the war. Now
SHOTGUN forbidden in Tenebris.
WITHIN STAR SYSTEM

CONFRONTATION POWER
DEEP SPACE 1 Slow long distance torpedoes. 1d4×10 frame
TORPEDOES damage. Can be programmed to fire at any target,
despite range, as long as it is in a fixed,
calculable orbit, such as a building or space
station.
// Spacecraft in distress can send out an

S&R signal. For just half of the spacecraft
value, trained crews, so called whales, will
answer the call. Since it can take days
or even weeks before they arrive, the main
problem to solve is how to stay unattractive
to scavengers during the wait.
Whales
S&R signal recived #119

NON-PLAYER HUBS
SPACECRAFT
D6 TYPE MODULES ENGINE CREW
1 SCAVENGER Shotgun harpoon (1) Workshop (1) Chemical 5
Cargo cluster (1) engine 3
2 SMUGGLER Hidden module (1) Storage (1) Chemical 2

Escape pods (1) engine 3
3 EXPLORER Named AI (1) Cryopods (1) Chemical 6

Cargo bay (2) engine 4
4 SALVAGER Modified asteroid drill (1) Chemical 4
Scanners (2) engine 3
5 TRUCKER Cargo cluster (1) Fuel tanks (1) Chemical 1

Galactic navigation system (1) engine 5
Deep space communication dish (2)
6 MARSHAL Brig (1) Meeting room (1) Diamagnetic 6
Interrogation room (1) fusion
reactor 6
Named AI (1) Medical bay (2)
The number after the module name is the power cost.
SMALL STATIONS
D6 TYPE MODULES ENGINE CREW
1 SHUTTLE Passenger quarters (1) Industrial 1
HUB Merchant deck (2) generator 3
2 BLACK Hidden module (1) Vault (2) Photovoltaic 5

MARKET Merchant deck (2) solar panels 6
Surveillance system (1)
3 MOON LAB Workshop (1) Science lab (2) Adiabatic 6
Hazard chamber (1) dynamo 6
4 MARSHAL Brig (1) Surveillance system (1) Industrial 4

SATELLITE Deep space communication dish (2) generator 4
5 SMALL Cargo bay (2) Repair bay (2) Adiabatic 8

PORT dynamo 6
6 ASTEROID Bar (1) Automaton caretaker (1) Industrial 3
BAR generator 2
#120
CREWS
NON-PLAYER HUBS AND CREWS //
THE GANG THE WORKERS

LOOKS: Embroidered helmets, faux LOOKS: Reinforced blue and yellow
fur, and dark cloth with symbols workwear with patches from all the
showing affiliations. spacedocks in Tenebris.
Kellyman (punk), Dune (chrome) Aanchal (carbon), Hleen (void)
Banm (punk), Corell (carbon) Wen (solpod), Beta (solpod)
Sana (velocity cursed)
WEAPONS: Prospector handguns (1d6)
WEAPONS: Vacuum pistols (1d6) and
compact rifles (1d8). BDY +2, DEX 0, SVY 0, TEC +2
ML 8, HP 8, DR 12.
BDY –1, DEX +1, SVY –1, TEC +1
ML 7, HP 6, DR 13. THE PILOT DUO
LOOKS: Boots and vests. Strange
THE LONER fancy caps.
LOOKS: Patched up clothes, mixture Montri (punk) Jayne (velocity
of many materials and tech. cursed)
Aiko (carbon)
WEAPONS: AI revolver (1d6)
WEAPONS: Shotgun (2d4)
BDY 0, DEX 0, SVY +3, TEC +1
BDY +1, DEX 0, SVY 0, TEC +1 ML 8, HP 2, DR 12.
ML 7, HP 5, DR 12.
FRAME HAULING // In deep space,

crews occasionally resort to frame
hauling—a cruel punishment and
potential death sentence. The
crewmember is tied to a heavy nylon
cord on the outside of the ship and
dragged without an EVA suit from bow
to stern.
#121
WEAPONS
D10 WEAPON TYPE CONDITION SLOTS USES DAMAGE COST
1 Throwing weapons 1 1 — 1d4 20
2 Melee combat weapons 2 1 — 1d4 40
3 Pistols and revolvers 3 1 5 1d6 125
4 Shotguns 3 2 4 2d4* 250
5 Compact rifles 3 2 10 1d8 300
6 Raid rifles 3 3 10 1d10 400
7 Marksman barrels 3 3 4 1d12 500
8 Chain guns 4 6 4 3d6*
800
9 Grenades — 1 — 2d6* 50
10 Flamethrowers 4 5 3 3d6*
700
The uses value denotes how many actions the weapon can be used without
reloading. It must then be reloaded with a new ammo clip, which requires
one action.
* I
IF
F THE WEAPON HAS SEVERAL DAMAGE DICE, YOU CAN
DIVIDE THE DICE AMONG SEVERAL CLOSE TARGETS.
EXAMPLES OF WEAPONS
THROWING WEAPONS:
WEAPONS accretion RAID RIFLES:
RIFLES Procyon raid rifle,
shuriken, heat seeking micro bullpup vacuum rifle, arc rifle
caltrop
MARKSMAN BARRELS:
BARRELS thermite
MELEE COMBAT WEAPONS:
WEAPONS gravity crossbow, luminance marksman
dirk, oscillator knife, LRAD barrel, crescent limb cutter
Hammer
CHAIN GUNS:
GUNS Caacero coaxial gun,
PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS:
REVOLVERS vacuum frontier light vehicle gun
pistol, AI revolver, prospector
handgun GRENADES plerion grenade,
GRENADES:
quasar incendiary, dust cleaner
SHOTGUNS Messier shotgun,
SHOTGUNS: flashbang
dicecaster defense pump-
action FLAMETHROWER liquid fuel
FLAMETHROWER:
incendiary device (“Deadbug”)
COMPACT RIFLES:
RIFLES silenced apastron,
micro manifold
#122
ARMOR
WEAPONS AND ARMOR //
ARMOR PROTECTS AGAINST SLOTS DR BONUS COST

Light: Stab proof Melee and thrown weapons 2 +1 100
Medium: Flak jacket Explosives, shotguns and 3 +2 250
small arms
Heavy: Bulletproof All projectiles 4 +2 800
Riot shield All projectiles 4 — 400
ARMOR ONLY PROTECTS AGAINST ATTACKS OF THE TYPE IN THE SECOND COLUMN.
#123
HOLOGRAPHIC SCREENS VACUUM PISTOL
AI REVOLVER
PROSPECTOR HANDGUN
MICRO MANIFOLD
#124
LUMINANCE MARKSMAN BARREL
HOLOGRAPHIC TEXT
MESSIER SHOTGUN
SILENCED APASTRON
PROCYON RAID RIFLE
BULLPUP VACUUM RIFLE
#125
CONTRACTORS
A contractor is a hired hand, helping with a particular task or mission.
The cost in the table is per week for a contract of standard risk. Higher
risk contracts will be more expensive. The morale rating of a contractor
can be lower or higher than in the table depending on offered payment and
how they are treated. Mercenaries do not need to roll for morale and are
fully controlled by the players.
CONTRACTORS, MERCENARIES * Counts as mercenary.

CONTRACTORS MORALE HIT POINTS BONUS DEFENSE RATING COST/WEEK
Ring thug 6 3 BDY +1 11 50
AI bodyguard* — 10 TEC +3 11 250
Bounty hunter* — 6 TEC +2 15 200
Roughneck 8 1 BDY +2 11 100
Explorer 4 2 SVY +3 11 100
HAZARD PAY DURATION PREMIUM

Mining Hour 1
War zones and sectors in conflict Day 5
Dangerous or extreme weather Day 10
Cryosleep Month 5
Handling of toxic materials or other strange Day 15
emissions or transmissions of energy
Planet parachute jumping Jump 20
Flying duty as non-crewmember Hour 1
AI BODYGUARD // Heavily armored AI bodyguard

selling its services itself. Created
for tight quarters where projectiles and
explosives are risky to use. Different
cartridges can be inserted to support
a variety of fighting styles. Often
disassembled and repurposed into a full body
armor suit, with the AI used for synthetic
animals.
#126
CONTRACT
CONTRACTORS //
GENERATOR
CONTRACT INSPIRATION
D20 WHAT TO DO? D6 PERSON D6 EVENT
1 Hide 1 Impostor 1 Missing person
2 Infiltrate 2 Smuggler 2 Backstabbing
3 Smuggling 3 AI 3 Murder
4 Extract 4 Traitor 4 Riot
5 Search 5 Union worker 5 Ritual
6 Scavenge 6 Company employee 6 Festival
7 Evacuate
D6 GROUP D12 LOCATION
8 Guard
1 Cult 1 Derelict
9 Tow spacecraft
2 Ring gang
10 Retrieve 2 Space bar
3 Miners
11 Transfer 3 Visiting
4 Scavengers asteroid
12 Pay
5 Outlaws 4 Forgotten
13 Defend
6 Station marshals mining station
14 Locate
5 Planet ruin
15 Investigate D6 OBJECT
6 Underground
16 Raid 1 Unique gem colony
17 Heist 2 Prototype 7 Asteroid
18 Parley 3 Robotics 8 Rogue planet
19 Repair 4 Creature 9 Abandoned
20 Destroy bunker
5 Weapon
10 Rebuilt
6 Module
D6 PAYMENT satellite
1 Holo debt that needs D6 UNKNOWN 11 Old mining town
to be collected 12 Nomad outpost
1 Strange cosmic
2 Gear mutation
3 Favor 2 Anomaly
4 Spare parts 3 New planet
5 Big contract 4 Wormhole
6 Module 5 Strange code
6 Void static
#127
NPC GENERATOR
FIRST NAME LAST NAME
D6 1–3 D6 4–6 D6 1–3 D6 4–6
D20 FIRST NAME D20 FIRST NAME D20 LAST NAME D20 LAST NAME
1 Marshal 1 Hina 1 Grozo 1 Yamada
2 Tarlow 2 Iwata 2 Rife 2 Bhat
3 Cee 3 Baker 3 Shimasu 3 Ortiz
4 Aoi 4 Bowie 4 Aiseke 4 Behl
5 Niko 5 Rowa 5 Helm 5 Brahm
6 Sakura 6 Mirai 6 Astreio 6 Oak
7 Naoto 7 Kev 7 Tungertok 7 Nori
8 Jun 8 Khari 8 Casker 8 Guide
9 Ichiro 9 Isa 9 Cash 9 Bird
10 Koa 10 Lovi 10 Blaze 10 Sunn
11 Ravi 11 Sura 11 Mellowe 11 Lock
12 Mishka 12 Anik 12 Atticus 12 Keone
13 Yuma 13 Nauja 13 Dimber 13 Beconne
14 Roy 14 Sheyma 14 Cage 14 Lumen
15 Fushigi 15 Mira 15 Rose 15 Canero
16 Mateo 16 Yatin 16 Whiz 16 Crowne
17 Aiko 17 Yuval 17 Zapper 17 Home
18 Ezra 18 Jienni 18 Crow 18 Rover
19 Bo 19 Tami 19 Cage 19 Lamassu
20 Elizi 20 Mufasa 20 Tide 20 Shorell
NPC GENERATOR Roll 3d20 and pick one from each column.
D20 BACKGROUND FIRST IMPRESSIONS LOOKS

1 Gas farmer So polite it hurts. Always Filthy EVA suit.
stares at people’s teeth.
2 Data pusher Reckless in combat. Boasts Fashionable robotic
about what they did in the war. hands.
Whistles war hymns.
3 Informer Cautious around others. Moves Clothes made of
slowly if you stare at them. synthetic feathers.
4 Record holder Talks with a vibrant language Space dock
and large gestures. Constantly workwear.
snacking on something.
#128
NPC GENERATOR //
D20 BACKGROUND FIRST IMPRESSIONS LOOKS

5 Auction Hard-boiled with scars. Keeps White civilian
gemologist looking behind objects like clothes.
they could be trapped.
6 DNA modifier Relentless and unnecessarily Vest, nothing
rough. Has several homemade under, and shorts,
augmented reality tattoos. no matter the
climate.
7 Doctor of Perfectionist with control Fake military
Philosophy issues. Swallows strange fashion.
colorful pills every now and
then.
8 Black market Nearsighted. Looks at people No shoes, tight
salvager like they want to eat them. t-shirt, black
pants.
9 AI coder Just overall creepy. Long Tool belt and
nails, teeth and hair. waistbag.
10 Drone driller Lazy and talkative. Wears very, Antique colony
very thick 3D glasses. suit.
11 Subtiliteminn Has control issues and needs a Robe covered
addict plan for everything. Won’t look in asymmetric
people in the eyes. patterns.
12 Military Too old for this shit. Gray- Similar clothes as
linguist haired, smoking actual, real one of the PCs.
cigars.
13 Vector pilot Speaks with a unique accent. Expensive gear and
Disarming gaze. pretty new clothes.
14 Company Bored and jaded. Frustrated Worn marshal cap
marshal about small things. and a fake cigar.
15 Cryo engineer Old-fashioned. Never smiles. Jumpsuit with
Likes things simple. driller oil patch.
16 Moon Calm, cold and calculated with Holographic visor,
mercenary a stiff body language. branded clothes.
17 Asteroid Caring and helpful but hates Untied big boots,
owner being touched. patched broken
nose.
18 Nebular Peaceful, soft-spoken. Soft, G-suit, covered in
pathfinder gentle movements. planet patches.
19 Zero-g Pessimist, with a fake smile. Gray thick lab coat
fighter with blue stains.
20 Ringborn Sad and distant, I have seen Vest knitted out of
colony crafts on fire off the wires, tattoos in a
shoulders of...” strange language.
#129
CHEATSHEET
ABILITY CHECKS REDUCING CONDITION
To attempt an action or resist OUTSIDE COMBAT
danger, roll 1d20+ability. When using an object with a
Check succeeds if result is 12 or condition value in a stressful
higher, fails if lower. situation, roll 1d6.
OPPOSED CHECKS:
CHECKS All involved roll • On a 1, the object’s condition
1d20+ability. Highest result wins. is reduced by one.
ADVANTAGE/DISADVANTAGE: Roll 2d20,
ADVANTAGE/DISADVANTAGE
use best/worst die. At zero condition, object is broken
and unusable.
ITEM SLOTS
PC has 12+BDY slots. Most items DISMANTLING OBJECTS
require one slot. Using more than ELECTRONICS AND WEAPONS
12+BDY slots gives disadvantage on Gives one component per object.
all ability checks. Takes 1d6 hours per spare part
salvaged.
VOID POINTS
Failed ability checks and attack VEHICLES AND SPACECRAFT
rolls give one void point. Void Gives 1d6+current condition of
points can be spent to: vehicle. Takes 1d20 hours per spare
• Gain advantage on an ability part salvaged.
check or attack roll.
• Activate a cosmic mutation. REPAIRING OBJECTS
One spare part repairs one
VOID CORRUPTION condition point.
When using void points for
advantage and failing, roll 1d6. If BROKEN OBJECTS
equal to or lower than current void First condition point costs spare
points, roll void corruption. The parts equal to object’s maximum
failed roll gives no void point. condition.
OFFWORLD REPAIR TIME

LACK OF OXYGEN 1d6 hours per used component for
• Conscious one combat round (no electronics and weapons.
suit) or 1d6 minutes (in suit).
• Survives 1d4 minutes when 1d20 hours per vehicle part used
unconscious. for vehicles and spacecraft.
ZERO-GRAVITY ENVIRONMENT
Disadvantage on all DEX checks.
TAKING DAMAGE WHEN IN AN EVA SUIT

Instantly reduces oxygen one step.

COMBAT SPACECRAFT CONFRONTATIONS
• When someone makes a hostile Turn order starts when a spacecraft
action, they start the turn makes a hostile action. Crews act
order. as groups in the turn order and
• After a participant has acted, all crew members must act before
they choose who acts next. If choosing the next ship to act. The
last in round, they choose who last acting ship can not start the
starts next round. next round.
The attack roll is 1d20+BDY (melee) DISTANCES

or TEC (ranged). Attacks hit if DETECTION: First detection.
roll is equal to or above target’s IDENTIFICATION: Scan and identify.
defense rating. FIRING: Ranged attacks.
BOARDING: Can board other ship.
RISKY ATTACK
Roll a normal attack roll: MOVEMENT
HIT: Deal an extra damage die. PCs move all other ships one step
MISS: Target gets an immediate on their pilot’s turn. Non-player
counterattack and takes over choice ships move one step on their turns.
of who acts next.
RISKY MANEUVERS
CRITICAL HITS SVY check. Failure costs one fuel.
On a natural 20, the attack deals Required for most piloting actions
an extra damage die. in a confrontation.
REDUCING CONDITION IN COMBAT FLEEING

After combat, roll 1d6 for each Outside hostilities, must get
used weapon or item. On a 1, it beyond detection distance.
In hostilities, opposed SVY check
An attack causing maximum damage for all ships. Flees from ships
reduces condition of one of with lower results.
defender’s items by one.
FIRING
DEATH AND HEALING TEC check. Hits if equal to or
At zero or less hit points, roll above target’s defense rating.
BDY check:
SUCCESS: Stabilized but unconscious FRAME RECOVERY
until rest. Regains 1d6×10% when all is calm.
FAILURE: Person is dead (roll on One night in safe port regains all
Death in Space table). frame damage.
Resting a full night restores REDUCING CONDITION

1d8+BDY hit points. Resting at a After the confrontation, roll 1d6
safe haven restores all hit points. per person who did a risky maneuver
or used a module. On a 1 or more,
MORALE the ship loses one condition.
Roll 2d6 for opponent or ally. If
above morale rating, they try to Maximum damage in an attack reduces
parley or flee. target’s condition by one.

DEATH DEATH IN SPACE takes you to the grimy blue-collar
future of a dying universe filled with risk and
IN opportunity, where technology is broken and dirty and
SPACE society is harsh and desperate. This book includes an
introductory scenario and plenty of tables and tools
CORE RULES
to get you started immediately.
• Create unique characters, marked by cosmic

mutations and void corruption
• Customize your crew’s spacecraft or space station
and salvage spare parts for repairs
• Take risky jobs to survive in the lawless and war-
torn Tenebris system
ISBN 978-91-89143-40-1
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ELECTRONICS (Condition 1) SLOTS COST

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CLOTHING COST REPAIRS AND SPARE PARTS COST

FUEL COST DISTANCE / EVENT COST USABLES AND SERVICES COST

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LAYOUT AND GRAPHICS

EDITING AND PROOFREADING

Static text: Alien RPG,

Other: NASA, ten years of physics

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PLAYING THE GAME

CONDITION AND SPARE PARTS 42

THE TENEBRIS SYSTEM 66

WELCOME TO THE RING 78

TABLES AND TOOLS

TABLES AND TOOLS 94

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A COLLAPSING UNIVERSE THE GEM WAR

Among the unlucky ones trapped

THE DECAY OF CENTRAL RULE REPUTATION IS THE NEW LAW

Civilization is at its end. The remaining part of the book

universe, and there are many

are yours to create.

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THE IRON RING • To get between the sectors,

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CREATION There are four abilities:

GENERATING ABILITY VALUES

Alternatively, you can roll two

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3 Cynical 3 A strange cult

8 Relentless 8 A strange drug

10 Dishonest 10 Secrets about (d6):

15 Inventive 11 Free will

16 Rough 12 To always be right

17 Hard-boiled 13 To never show weakness

18 Savage 14 To never look (d6):

co 20 Suit with holographic patterns

4 .PAST ALLEGIANCE 5 .HIT POINTS

D6 PAST ALLEGIANCE Your unarmored defense rating

6 . STARTING GEAR AND STARTING BONUS

ITEM SLOTS D6 STARTING BONUS

THIS WAS THE LAST STEP

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HUB CORE FUNCTIONS

1 .HUB TYPE AND

STARTING SPACECRAFT: DR 11, max • The sum of the power costs

.HUB BACKGROUND (SPACECRAFT)

THIS WAS THE LAST STEP!

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GENERAL ABILITY CHECKS

ITEM SLOTS REACTIONS

COSMIC MUTATIONS If a void point is spent to gain

D20 NAME DESCRIPTION

• On a 1, the object’s condition VEHICLE PARTS