Aegean Verge
It's the dawn of the 33rd century. Over 700 years ago, a pan-galactic cataclysm called the Scream caused the collapse of the psionically stabilized jump gates connecting the far-flung colonies of Earth and the implosion of the Milky Way-spanning Terran Mandate. Uncounted billions died along with their worlds in the aftermath of the Scream, but in some remote regions of the galaxy, humanity has persisted. The Aegean Verge is one such region.
Over the past centuries, the Verge has recovered from the Scream, recharting lost drill routes through metaspace to achieve faster than light travel, picking up where the Mandate left off in the colonization process of its undeveloped worlds, and establishing new, self-governing polities seated on its most advanced planets. Over the centuries, normalcy has been reestablished, and some semblance stability achieved.
Though it is the center of civilization, it is still simultaneously a frontier, and a hostile one at that. The void is vast and empty, but thick with mercenaries and pirates. The balance of power among the Verge’s political states is a delicate one, and a dozen local conflicts threaten to tip the scales one way or another. Blaster pistol toting sheriffs keep the peace in colonial towns that would look more at home in the American Mid-West than on the worlds of the Prospero Colonies, and scientists make breakthroughs in advancing technology in hundred ways, some of which recapture the glory of the fallen Terran Mandate’s technological prowess, and some of which threaten the very future of humanity’s existence.
And no, shit, there you were, hauling ice from the Twin Rings of Olympus back to Mycenae Station…
Stars Without Number is a sandbox RPG in a science fiction setting that resembles beloved IPs like The Expanse and Firefly. I'm interested in putting together a game that would take place in a sector of the Stars Without Number universe that I've developed, the Aegean Verge.
The idea is that you, the players, would be spacers working in the Aegeus System, but given the sandbox nature of Stars Without Number, I imagine we’d be doing some exploring of what kind of adventure we’d like to run before we get started (assuming this gets any traction).
The RPG itself is available for free here. It's a pretty straightforward system, with all of the basics surrounding character creation and such being pretty easy to grasp for a newcomer.
So there you have it. Let me know if you'd be interested in participating.
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