While the core worlds rebuild themselves, the frontier worlds are left to their own devices, and everything the USS Enterprise would have handled previously is now contracted out to freelance mercenaries like the PCs. Where the Stars Turn Grey (2 pages): What a roleplaying game is, although the book (reasonably) assumes you know that by now other Gumshoe games you might want to try overview of the rest of the book.Īll the Justice Credits Can Buy (12 pages): The game premise is that a utopian interstellar society much like Star Trek’s Federation (the Combine) was recently destroyed in a great war, by enemies who have since mysteriously vanished (the Mohilar). 305 page PDF, $25 at time of review, author Robin Laws. In a Nutshell: Space opera RPG that strives to emulate a gritty reboot of a TV series that never was.

I’m still looking for the game that will enthuse and re-invigorate my SF gaming the way Beasts & Barbarians did for fantasy, and given how impressed I was by Night’s Black Agents, the obvious next place to look is the space opera game from the same stable.

You decide what the truth is.” – Ashen Stars “Your players decide whether to make it matter.

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