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Michael Thayne · 05-22-2010, 10:14 PM

GURPS StarDrive/On The Verge

Recruitment Closed

Looking for 4-6 players for a science fiction game based around a small cargo vessel and her crew--think Firefly, though in a somewhat different universe. Characters will be built on 150/-75 points, and can have any abilities that wouldn't be out of place in a world of mutants, cyborgs, and alien telepaths.

The specific universe is the StarDrive universe, originally created for the now-defunct Alternity system. The game will take place on the Verge, a region which humans have been exploring for close to two hundred years, but which is cut off from the stellar ring--the chunk of stars that Sol is a part of--by the starless expanse known as open space.

Much of the Verge is quite dangerous. Most of the nations of the stellar ring lost control of their Verge colonies in the second galactic war, leaving it to the locals to enforce law and order. The stellar nations haven't given up on the Verge, but their interest now mostly takes the form of schemes to regain what they lost. None of this has stopped immigration to the Verge though: Traders come hoping to strike it rich in the rhodium trade (and, if they're suicidal, running guns to the Algernon system, whose inhabitants haven't stopped fighting the last galactic war). Fugitives also come, including quite a few sesheyans trying to escape the subjugation their species suffers at the hands of VoidCorp. And of course, plenty of people come just looking to escape the overcrowding of better-settled worlds.

05-22-2010, 10:14 PM	#14
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Re: Meta: LOOKING FOR PLAYERS GURPS StarDrive/On The Verge Recruitment Closed Looking for 4-6 players for a science fiction game based around a small cargo vessel and her crew--think Firefly, though in a somewhat different universe. Characters will be built on 150/-75 points, and can have any abilities that wouldn't be out of place in a world of mutants, cyborgs, and alien telepaths. The specific universe is the StarDrive universe, originally created for the now-defunct Alternity system. The game will take place on the Verge, a region which humans have been exploring for close to two hundred years, but which is cut off from the stellar ring--the chunk of stars that Sol is a part of--by the starless expanse known as open space. Much of the Verge is quite dangerous. Most of the nations of the stellar ring lost control of their Verge colonies in the second galactic war, leaving it to the locals to enforce law and order. The stellar nations haven't given up on the Verge, but their interest now mostly takes the form of schemes to regain what they lost. None of this has stopped immigration to the Verge though: Traders come hoping to strike it rich in the rhodium trade (and, if they're suicidal, running guns to the Algernon system, whose inhabitants haven't stopped fighting the last galactic war). Fugitives also come, including quite a few sesheyans trying to escape the subjugation their species suffers at the hands of VoidCorp. And of course, plenty of people come just looking to escape the overcrowding of better-settled worlds. Last edited by Michael Thayne; 05-24-2010 at 09:35 AM.