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RIM WORLDS
SOL (Ancient Solar System)
1. Thorbin DUR
1. Jupiter Europa; Ganymede; Io RCG
2. Aradhlas DUR
2. Mars Phobos; Deimos RCG
3. Dargor DUR
3. Saturn Hyperion; Phoebe RCG
4. Khar‘dum DUR
4. Terra Luna RCG
5. Drokar DUR
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Equipment Purchases Agragon & Valefar a few. Though Vance in particular is a very Game rules Agragon
You can buy more or less anything in Elys- cosmopolitan city, filled with folk from all Agragon has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC
ia Prime (it is the centre of the galaxy after corners of the human ethnic spectrum, the races can breathe naturally without requiring
all). However some equipment is cheaper rest of Sector Prime has a dominantly cauca- the use of special breathers.
than others. Below is a list of corporations sion population with pockets of Surroyan
Agragon has an Earth-like gravity. This has no
and the ease of purchase in this zone. influence (see below.) special game effects or modifiers.
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
Equipment from the following manufac-
The Industrial Chasms of Sector Alpha
Sector Alpha consists of a vast continental Game rules Valefar
turers is cheaper because the plants are
located in the area.
strip that covers the equator of the world. Valefor has a special breed of red lotus that
• PP (PlasmaPro)
The area here was once tropical rainforest grows in the rich black earth that emit near pure
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
and its decay and eventual destruction as Oxygen. While a PC can breathe this for a short
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
the cities of the Sector Alpha grew up wi- while if breathed for too long it can become poi-
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
thin it. The area was further ravaged by war sonous and make a PC sick. A PC can breathe
and bombing runs. What really crippled it Valeforian air for a number of hours equal to his
+0 Purchase DC Penalty though was the whethering tide of human Con score. After which the lack of Nitrogen in
Equipment from the following manufactu- industry. The thousands of years of dying the atmosphere starts to sicken the individual.
rers can be purchased at no penalty. vegetation have made the area naturally rich The character needs to make Fortitude checks
• AutoDyn Vehicles in resources. Though it was once built over equal to 10 plus one for each additional hour
• CG (Correllan Genetics) for, lumber men have found that digging breathed since checks started. He needs to take
• CC (CyberCorp) lower into the ground there are massive oil a check each hour. If he fails once he is neau-
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) pits waiting to be excavated. Driven by pe- seated as per d20 Modern rules. Each further
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) trol and rare minerals the machines of men failed check deals 1d4 points of Con damage.
• AS (Arcane Supplements) have drilled ever deeper into the crust in the
• Generic (generic no-name brands) Valefor has a gravity that is 1/8 that of the Earth
search of materials to make them wealthy. and characters need a low-gravity adaptation
+2 Purchase DC Penalty feat to not take a -4 penalty on attack rolls and
Equipment from the following companies Sector Alpha is a riven industrial wasteland skill checks.
can be found but the increased difficul- of factories, manufacturing facilities, che-
ty incurs a -2 circumstantial penalty on
purchase DCs. This is typically because mical plants, oil rigs and fusion reactors.
the companies below are associated with Protected from the smog cloud and rising
one of the other major human powers dust, on tall sky-piercing citadels of plascre-
(ICHA or Guild). te the wealthy leaders of industry make their
• CC (Core Cybernetics) homes. Here AutoDyn manufactures the
• DA (Delta Arms) bulk of its high-tech antigrav vehicles, the
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) scientists of PlasmaPro experiment with
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) new volatile plasmerrific combinations and
• OT (OmniTech) Hyperdine Mecha Systems makes some
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) of the most fearsome machines of war the
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) world has ever seen.
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• EC (Elite Crafts) Surroyo and Sector Beta
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) Taking a cue from the neighbouring Indus-
• IR (Ichan Robotics) trial Chasma the Sector Beta comprises nor-
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) therly island the size of Australia on the West
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) Hemisphere of Agragon and a far reaching
archipeligo of volcanic islands that stretch
out from the central island. The central is-
land is named Surroyo and was predomi-
nantly settled by men of Southeast Asian ori-
Sector Alpha is a riven indus- gins – what today might pass as having come
trial wasteland of factories, from Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia or
manufacturing facilities, che- Thailand. The Surroyans have since changed
mical plants, oil rigs and fusion a bit physically – partly through interbree-
reactors ding with each other but mostly because of
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Gemory Ose
Gemory is the closer of the two moons; they Ose is the further of the two moons, further still
are both almost exactly the same size. Like than Amy, whose orbit lies somewhere between
all worlds in the Elysium Nebula the elves the other two. Like Gemory and Astaroth it too is
grav-stabilized it. Despite its small size it fairly urban though Osens are reputed to be the
has a super dense core so in actual fact it has people of the planet who are most interested in
the same earth-like gravitational pull as its preserving the original beauty of the worlds that
parent planet Astaroth. Gemory is ultra-ur- the elves had left them with. Ose has got some
ban. As one of the older settlements in the wide ranges of natural parks, often in the most
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and has a very high population. Gemorians ties when suddenly the metal and girders will
speak their own dialect of Elysian and have give way for a dozen acres of wilderness before
pretty unique slang. In fact most visitors to reconnecting again with palaces of steel and
Gemory have a very tough time understan- concrete. Ose has also pioneered the notion
ding the locals. Men and women from near- of Garden Blocks. Garden Blocks are massive
by Astaroth, Amy or Ose are long since used apartment complexes that rise from the ground.
to this special way of talking. In fact in the But instead of clearing all the soil to build the
rest of the planetary system imitating the foundation instead they temporary displace all
curious Gemorian accents is a popular just the living things and then replant them on top
among people. Gemorians like to think of of the building. So several stories up, protected
themselves are a savvy, streetwise people; or by a glass dome, the building’s penthouse will
very “furbo” according to Gemorian slang. be a natural garden. These Garden Blocks can
Cybernetics are quite the rage among young be very wide; some are built in big circles that
people suggesting once again a close con- are over a mile in radius. Lizardfolk are often
nection between the Astaroth system and employed in gardening positions to tend to the
the ICHA where cybernetics are endemic. wilderness above the Garden Blocks. n
Ruins of a failed cities can be found all
across the Deadlands on Bath Kol.
Bath Kol a whole has been more cut-down and the forest
land has dwindled partially due to some decisi-
Equipment Purchases Bath Kol The Planet Overall ons made at the Gubernatorial level and partially
You can buy more or less anything in Bath Bath Kol (like many of the planets terra-for- due to the fact that building population saturated
Kol. However some equipment is cheaper med by the elves in ancient times) is a beau- castles is impractical and costly. Athell Loren can
than others. Below is a list of corporations tiful forest-world. Bath Kol is still the site of be found on an island off the coast of Freya – ar-
and the ease of purchase in this zone. This the greatest Elvish population in the United guable the only true Elvish city left in the world.
chart assumes purchases are being made Republic and is unsurprisingly the site of the
in industrialized sectors or on castles. If founding of the URE’s largest manufacturer Adventurers also will be interested in a zone
you’re attempting to buy in Athell Loren of arcana and eldritch obscura: Arcane Sup- that has thus far avoided the presence of man
availability is greatly reduced. plements. Bath Kol features many notable almost entirely. This area called the Deadlands
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
features such as its captial city called simply is a boggish wetland upon which it is impracti-
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
The Castle which has in fact been constructed cal (or more costly) to build. But there is more
in the style and magnificence of a castle atop a it is rightly avoided because the area is now
+0 Purchase DC Penalty mighty hill surrounded by forest. The Castle is filled with zombies and ruins of a failed city of
• AutoDyn Vehicles at the very centre of the continental land mass special magnificence.
• CG (Correllan Genetics) of Freya. A number of smaller castles (citadels)
• CC (CyberCorp) dot the landscape of Freya – built in similar Bath Kol, is roughly earth-sized and features
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) style to The Castle. Freya contains some hund- a varying range of terrain from rugged moun-
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) red or so more modern port cities located on tains to frozen tundra in the poles. Despite this
• PP (PlasmaPro) major rivers and along the coastline. there are trees everywhere (even the poles)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) and it is very densely forested in most areas.
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) Bath Kol also features Sky-Pierce, an urban city Around the equator the forests don’t give out
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) on the most habited continent of Galvestar made to jungle or tropical rainforest but rather be-
• Generic (generic no-name brands) of hundreds of sky-piercing towers. Galvestar as come marshy and swampy (mot unlike the
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The truth was that the Governor had still grea- Sky-Pierce 2 URE Striker Jets racing across the
ter ambitions. He passed a low decreeing that This many-towered city was once the seat vast metallic city of Sky-Pierce. It is
the continent of Freya was protected territo- of Gubernatorial power at Bath Kol. Now steeped in magic, a curious hybrid
city of arcana and technology.
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it is simply the most active bustling city in lands incident ruined the Global Nanotetch The Deadlands and the Destruction of Azuria
the world. It is a commercial wet-dream. A Researchers (GNR) and now, though still the Humans have a preference for building on so-
place where knowledge workers make lots centre of nano-tech research, with GNR cal- lid ground over swamp-land but history has
of money working in the Elysian high-tech ling for Chapter XI the URE does not produce shown that never-the-less people will commit
industry or else designing slogans for mar- any consumer nanotech, it’s generally consi- gargantuan efforts to build a city if they find so-
keting campaigns or providing other Nebu- dered too risky. mething they like or if the feel that strategically
la-wide services from the huge office-esta- there might be a good reason to put a city so-
tes. With considerable disposable income This is an island in which an almost all-elvish mewhere. Azuria built on a strip of swampland
Sky-Pierce has become a place where people community lives. That’s not to stay that hu- that connects the Galvestar continent with the
can expect to buy high-priced clothing at mans can’t be found there (unfortunately they forested continent of Freya. Precisely it is equi-
the height of fashion, expensive jewellery, are every where these days) just that there is distant from Sky-Pierce and the Ash Coast along
watches and other accessories. Sky-malls or a higher concentration of elves in one place which there are two major ports, Greyport and
100-story shopping complexes are common- here than in just about any other place in the Mannagra. The idea was to build a city around a
place. Sky-pierce is also the home of Arcane Nebula right now. The Elves here are offiially significant turning point in a sky-rail that would
Supplements biggest design warehouse and part of the United Republic of Elysium but in connect the two continents. Since real-estate
training facility. This is where graduates all truth the island nation of Athell Loren is was extremely cheap in this swampland GNR
from the Dome of Seers end up if they want more or less self-governed. It is certainly the put up a major research centre very early in
to make money. Sky Pierce is really a place only place in the nebula that has Elvish po- the construction of the city. The research being
where science and mysticism have fused litical figures. Even so Athell Loren’s elvish done was to create a nano-colony whose capaci-
perfectly. The sky-malls are easily navigated population barely scratches a thousand el- ty was to rejuvanate individual cells to maintain
by means of the teleportation circles that can ves. Not a great number by any stretch. Athell youth (and maybe find the evasive technology
be found all over the place. Psychic alarms Loren has several wooden houses all crafted towards immortal life). Since it was a nascent
are often place along-side practical ones. El- from the bark of the ancient mystwood trees city and most major industry hadn’t settled to
dritch tattoo parlours are popular. Enchan- (with dark rich near-black oaky wood) which provide adequate jobs for the poor people that
ters offer to improve the qualities of your gives this city a sullen dark appearance. Ironic moved in to snag cheap real estate many volun-
mundane equipment on every street corner. because the elves themselves are a peaceful teered as test subjects for the ReJoov Nanocol-
Sky-pierce used to also be the centre of the celebratory people who have had misfortune ony. The Nanoncolony responds to the human
URE for nano-tech research until the Dead- and war be their ruin. bodies natural moisture, as long as the body is
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biggest exporter of powerful machines of war. Certainly she is a woman with a strong mind
As the common soldier can be replaced with and a good head on her shoulders. She is also,
A.I.‘s and sophisticated massive scale ma- singularly, the eldest living person in the Ely-
chines it makes sense that URE army would sium Nebula. Life support, gene therapy and
purchase such devices in bulk. The warma- advanced medicine have kept her alive for 212
chines of IWM even the score when fighting years.
Drow daemons and Illithid ogres and robots.
Tanith is an urban commercial city and any-
Tanith thing can be acquired there. The Yakuza, a
The capital city of Beleth is a uniquely tall city formidable gang who trace their routes to the
with plenty of flashing lights. It is know for Terran mafia of the same name, are also based
technical innovation (several high-tech star- here so the city is not without its dangers.
tups come from there), but mostly it is known
for being the remaining home of the Shinzo- Port Molvos
Taigo ethnic group of old Phoebe. Tanith is Port Molvos is the largest city on Beleth aside
ruled over by a powerful stateswoman named from Tanith and is located in a far region
Yuri Fujimitsu, who is said to be able to trace (about 1 hour and a half by the current fastest
her ancestry to Vampire hunters back when atmospheric craft) relative to the capital. It is
the eldritch forces were only being discover- worthy of note for several reason. First of all it
ed and psychic powers were in their infancy. contains the largest spaceport on Beleth ma-
king it commercially and tactically significant.
Second, it is a military city, and a stop-over for
Tanith, capital city of Beleth. Tanith was URE troops that will be engaging and com-
colonized by Yurioshi Koto of the Shinzo-Taigo batting in the conflicts occuring over nearby
people of Phoebe which in turn originated from Isafel. As more and more cities in this sector
the Japanese isles and Korean peninsula. As turn on the Republic in favour of the NED the
a people the Tanithians are very protective of importance of the Molvos spaceport cannot
their culture, maintaining a strong tradition of be underestimated. Should the NED manage
language despite overwhelming pressure from to do damage to this port, the main supply
the rest of the URE. Tanith itself is a reflection line between the troops at Isafel and the rest
of the cities that the Tanithian ancestors might of the URE would be broken and Isafel might
have lived in back on Terra. be overwhelmed by NED revolutionaries.
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Vohumunah Agragon
l- Valefar
SOLARIS
Crayville • Vault-Town • Gommorah
l- Leraye
dum
to Khar'
Jophia
Zhukdul l- Amon
Omega II-l Bereth-l
Flamburg
Manakel l-Bune
Kazan
Jumpbay to Novobrisk
l-Valac
Muscovisk
Androalphus-l
Orobas
Jumpbay to Muscovisk
Morax-l
Gamma Core Gate
l-Ipos under construction
l- Midpoint
Chetkovo
Brava Spacestation-l
Station
Elektros Barbatos-l
l-Paimon
Colopatiron
River City
Procel Vaul
Bastion of Umgar • The Forge of Massay
Nadir Rose Gate
Dantalion-l l- Amduscias
Cemeies-l
Fuhror/ Layover
Ares
Adis Haleil • Sett • Osiris • Isthmos
Salmissus
Lanaris • Borgouze
Vepar-l Saladin-l
Malphas-l
Phoenix
Decarabia-l
l-Seere
Sabnach-l
Marbus Naberius Dalmatovo
Toggle
Haagenti Hejjat • Welldigger’s Canyon
Toggle
Grid
Dark Storm
Delta Core Gate
under construction
Detail
Toggle Uretil Zollefar • Adharis • Moley
Orbit Gaap-l
Stolas-l
l-Asmodai
l-Marchosias
ACHERON Passeri • Adathain
Isafel Astaroth
Ten-Moons-l l-Gemory
Al’Neer • Nahaja
Nefertiti • Verwe Selxor-l
Amy Stations-l l-Ose
100 Shekinah
<- million ->
miles West Hyacinth l-Raum
Gate
URE Planets
Vine-l
l-Shax Aradhlas
NED Stations
Kieff
State of Sasha
Beleth
Tanith • Port Molvos
DUR Jumpgates
Nelya • Marina
Oxana • Raisa
l-Bifrons
South Lilac
ICHA Gate
Saleos
Drop Point A1
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ping plazas and distribution outlets. In this The more modern Habs have cut down com-
area one can find the Chertkovo Docking pletely on all wasted space. Elevators have
Station, the equivalent of a Space Station for been removed because they occupy space; in
a Nationcraft. Though most people live in the its place Teleportation Pads based on eldritch-
residential habs and come visit the Commer- science are used to leap a tenant into his ten-
cial Habs to buy and trade stuff, there are still foot-by-ten-foot ‚box‘ of an apartment. Tele-
a fair number of tradesman that live directly vision and VRNet terminals are built directly
above or near their stores in the Commercial into the walls to reduce space and the beds
Hab itself. This Hab houses some 10 to 20 mil- are industriously manufactured UFog nanite
lion people, though at any given moment an array units. This allows the bed to ‚morph‘ into
additional 5 million may be found there either the ground when unneeded, or into a coach
working, shopping or just taking a stroll. to watch television during the day. Normally
on one wall there will be a small closet space
Residential Habs for clothing and personal items. One corner of
The residential habitats, which are also often the room will actually contain a shower head
called Recycler Habitats by people who choose and a small drain. When the shower activation
to be derogatory as extremely tightly packed. button is pressed the UFog array doubles up as
Though there are some apartments that are small shower container.
comfortably sized, the cost of such a place is
astronomical due to lack of space. Normally Since these boxes can be teleported into via Chertkovo‘s Commercial Habs are
anyone with enough money to buy a big place a teleportation pad space is conserved by not an incomprehensible network of
will elect to go for a smaller place in the more using any kind of corridors. Instead massive girders, walkways, neon signs,
pleasant gubernatorial district. grids are built 100 by 100 boxes for 10,000 in- restaurants and multi-story labyrin-
thine shopping complexes.
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dividual Habs. Normally, in between each floor, basically mean that it is quite possible to live
there is enough duct space to call through. This in Chertkovo all your life and never come face
is for emergency malfunction purposes. If your to face with it. Some 10 million inhabitants live
teleportation pad breaks down you‘re only op- in near absolute poverty in the slums.
tion is to request maintenance to crawl into get
access to your Hab. The outer layer of Habs so- The Industrial Habs
metimes have windows - or even more exciting Finally there are the Industrial Habs were the
(and expensive) open ports onto space. Some hardworking folk of Chertkovo labour during
Habs have visio-screen walls to give the illusi- the day. The Industrial Habs manufacture
on of space. Some 30 million inhabitants live in spaceships, weaponry, pharmaceuticals; any-
the Chertkovo Residential Habs. thing an adventurer is likely to buy over in the
Commerical Habs. The Industrial Habs are
Slums also the Habs that contain all the space shutt-
The Habs above are for the lower-middle to les used for couriering back and forth from it
middle classes; with upper middle classes and the trash world of Saleos which can be
being able to afford a little extra space and may- mined and search for raw materials. In fact the
be a window. The poor however cannot afford Industrial Habs of Chertkovo generate huge
anything so fancy as a UFog bed. They live in income for the ICHA because out in space
the old unconverted tenements. In many cases raw materials are hard to come buy and the
they have to deal with ten-to-twenty people to export of stuff mined or recycled from Saleos
a room, no place to sleep and in extreme cases provides Chertkovo with a tremendous oppor-
they will be forced to live in un-grav-plated tunity. Unfortunately most of the owners of the
areas where they effectively float around be- facilities in Chertkovo are ICHA businessmen
cause of the lack of artificial gravity. Certain living afar; reaping huge profits from their for-
Certain areas of Chertkovo face ex- areas of Chertkovo face extreme poverty and tunate positions and then living in luxury on
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Few people remember the days when man One of the most breath-taking examples of
was colonizing worlds for the first time, each Colopatiron architecture is the River City. It
new planet representing a rare opportunity to is constructed from a rarely used (replaced
forge a new culture and a new people. Colopa- by newer tougher materials) kind of Polyme-
tirons are very homogenous and tend to stick ric Marble (imaginatively called polymarble).
with one another strongly, sharing a close-knit The polymarble can be easily crafted, and the
culture. Colopatirons are specifically fond of curving
shapes and inlaid knotwork designs. All of
They are ethnically of European descent, or this is present on every wall in River City.
more accurately almost all a very specific kind Visitors tend to be stunned by the beauty of
of celtic European. Red hair, freckles, pale of River City.
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Equipment Purchases (continued) River City is also the home of the Colopatiron Game rules Colopatiron
+2 Purchase DC Penalty government, which has (shockingly) a here- Colopatiron and its moons have an Earth-like
• CC (Core Cybernetics) ditary ruler. This ruler (King at the moment) atmosphere so PC races can breathe naturally
• DA (Delta Arms) has no actual power, but he is a prominent without requiring the use of special breathers.
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) public figure. Instead the planet has a Prime
In most areas Colopatiron has an earth like
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) Minister that represents Colopatiron at the gravity but in some of the undeveloped regi-
• OT (OmniTech) parliament on Elysia Prime. ons (GM‘s perogative) the grav-wells are not in
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) place and this makes it treated as a moderately
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) Because of its ancient and special magni- low gravity world. People without a low gravity
• INS (Ichan National Starships) ficence Colopatiron is afforded several ad- adaptation feat suffer a -2 on Initiative checks.
• EC (Elite Crafts) minstrative laxities that are not available to Everyone takes half damage from falling.
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) other planets. The fact that they have a King
• IR (Ichan Robotics) is unique in the solar system.
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) Game rules Barbatos
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) Barbatos, the White Moon Barbatos has been probably enchanted by the
Barbatos is a much more modern world, elves and has an Earthlike gravity.
+4 Purchase DC Penalty
with tall sky-scraper cities erected out of
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) Paimon has an earth-like gravity in the cities
the white sands that cover a vast area of the
• GA (Greenfield Arms) thanks to Gravity Wells. In the rest of the world
planet. Barbatos has a special relationship however (in the rainforest) it is considered a
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
• Duruki Freemarket Technology
with Colopatiron in that it is the world that very low gravity world. People without a low
• Elvish Freemarket Technology
actively recruits men for the Marines. Sin- gravity adaptation feat suffer a -2 on Initiative
ce Colopatiron has a large standing militia, checks and attack rolls. Additionally everyone
+6 Purchase DC Penalty not a small number of these end up being
• Elvish Restricted Tech takes 1/4 damage from falls.
recruited for the Marines. Colopatiron has
• Duruki Restricted Tech no official marine recruiting association
• Illithid Technology (perhaps more distance between them and level city (or Hive) or you‘re in the jungle.
• Drow Technology the rest of the United Republic) but Barba- Third of all the rain-forests of Paimon have
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) tos has several Marine bunkers scattered all some of the most curious animals in the
• Beyonder Technology over the planet. When soldiers of a certain known galaxy. This is because the Paimon
level of skill and bravado make themselves rain-forest precedes the arrival of the Elves.
known in Colopatiron they are encouraged That is - there was life here long before the
to travel to Barbados to see what life in the Elves arrived. The world was therefore never
Marines has to offer them. terraformed. Since Paimon has a gravity that
is .27g the kind of creatures are very, very
It is not surprising therefore that Barbatos curious. Long-limbed tree-hoppers, many
has a number of training boot camps nor boned articulated snake-like things and the
that its twin city is Verran in Manakel. Verran infamous leaping frog-rabbit. All kinds of
is often used to test the physical endurance unusual creatures exist in Paimon and their
of Marines because the mountains are high zoos are very popular. Not all the creatures
and rugged and the air is sparse. are safe however. The venomous Vulpigor
and the deadly flying Wampyri are just some
Paimon, The Green Moon of the many hazards faced by visitors to the
Paimon has a variety of different climate Rain Forest.
zones but is probably most famous for its
tropical rain forests. The reasons for this If you travel deep enough you may even en-
are three-fold. First of all, the tropical rain- counter the protected Secheyans, a sentient
forests of Paimon are paritcularly lush and non-travelling race that live in protected
fertile, and they cover a disproportionate reserves in Paimon. Rules detailing Sech-
amount of the world (roughly 19%). Second eyans can be found in both the Menace Ma-
the Paimon rain-forests are protected and nual and d20 Future - they are not repeated
therefore totally unspoiled. This means that in this game because these aliens are very
the rest of the planet has been converted rare in the Elysium Nebula. Few ever leave
by a vast industrial sprawl of girdered cities Paimon. (Not least of all because they are
The Paimon rain-forests are protected and and ultramodern buildings. Basically if generally too heavy to fly in normal gravity
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Equipment Purchases Chertkovo th or ‚top‘ surface and Dalmatavo‘s nadir or Game rules Dalmatavo
You can buy more or less anything in Dala- ‚bottom‘ surface. There is some friendly (and Dalmatavo has been grav-stabilized and the
matavo Starhome. However some kinds not so friendly) rivalry between these two. atmosphere is simulated. The atmosphere and
of equipment are cheaper than others. In terms of GDP the Nadir Hab makes more gravity are both earth-like.
money than the Zenith Hab because the Na-
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
The following manufacturers are availa-
dir Habs are also the locations of the domi- habs that dominate the lower income habs in
ble discounted in Dalmatavo because the
nant number of business men as well as the places like Chertkovo. Thankfully, due to a go-
principle manufacturing plants are loca-
principal operating headquarters of Trader‘s vernment that imposes strong housing regu-
ted here.
Barges. lations and applies diligence in helping poor
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
people recover by clearing debt and providing
The Zenith Hab however is the seat of govern- public health care there is no extreme poverty
+0 Purchase DC Penalty ment. The Oligarch of Dalmatavo and his close in Dalmatavo in the same way that there is in
• CC (Core Cybernetics) personal team live here. There is also the very Chertkovo. Never the less, the Sandwich Habs
• DA (Delta Arms) significant fact that the Duruki Consulate can are notoriously cramped.
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) be found here and the Duruki Ambassador
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) who is a respected figure who has tremend- As a rule of thumb there is a stereotype about
• OT (OmniTech) ously improved the lot of the average human these three areas in Dalmatavo. The stereo-
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) in these years by sharing technology that the types are traditionally these:
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) Duruki are traditionally uncomfortable with - Zenith Habs: You are a wealthy snob who has
• INS (Ichan National Starships) leaking. inherited money. You drink expensive wine
• IR (Ichan Robotics) and have an unhealthy addiction to ugly art.
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) In return the humans of Dalmatavo and the - Nadir Habs: You are a greedy snob. You
• Generic (generic no-name brands) companies of Dalmatavo have been very good would not be opposed to selling your mother
+2 Purchase DC Penalty about restricting the tech they use and conce- to pirates if it would earn you an extra dime.
• AutoDyn Vehicles aling how much of it works. This arrangement You have no heart.
• CG (Correllan Genetics) works well for the humans of Dalmatavo. - Sandwich Habs: You are under-educated and
• CC (CyberCorp) a little stupid. After all, if you weren‘t so stu-
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) Nadir Habs pid you‘d be in one of the other habs.
• EC (Elite Crafts) The Nadir Habs are the home of Trader‘s
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) Barges and are generally considered the busi- The Satellites
• PP (PlasmaPro) ness man‘s habs. If you‘re rich and you‘re in In addition to those people actually living
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) business (from finance, to televsion, to infor- aboard Dalmatavo itself, there are at any given
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) mation systems and more) then chances are time some 650 orbiting satellites around Dal-
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) you‘re looking to live here. It is arguably more matavo wherein some 15% of Dalmatavo‘s po-
• AS (Arcane Supplements) beautiful than the Zenith Habs (certainly they pulation can be found. These are people that
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) have done a better job of organically mixing have decided they prefer to live away from the
• GA (Greenfield Arms) in greenery). Both Zenith and Nadir habs are hubbub of Dalmatavo. Typical satellites inclu-
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) the only locations where once can witness a de an apartment complex which is much more
+4 Purchase DC Penalty double eclipse of Solaris and Acheron. When spacy than on the Dalmatavo proper; a simple
• Duruki Freemarket Technology (once every seventeen years) Drumai and spaceport; a commercial ring with shops and
• Elvish Freemarket Technology Zhukdul both pass in front of their respective utilities and other such things.
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) suns, an eclipse can be seen on both stars at
the same time. The biggest difficulty about living on a Sat-
+6 Purchase DC Penalty Hab as they are called, is that quite often you
• Elvish Restricted Tech The Nadir Habs are generally reckoned to be will need to buy something that quite simply
• Duruki Restricted Tech
the safest Habs, largely because the Cygors cannot be found on your Hab. When this is the
• Illithid Technology
hired out by the major corporate entities, con- case then, you have no choice but to hop on
• Drow Technology
stantly patrol the streets ensuring that no one your short range shuttle and actually fly down
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
is hurt and or intimidated by misbehavers. to Dalmatavo. Many Sat-Habs are geo-fixed
• Beyonder Technology
above the Nadir or Zenith side so that people
The Sandwich Habs can more easily go to the area where they pre-
The central area of Dalmatavo - also called the fer to shop. Sat-Habbers also often prefer to be
Sandwich because it lies between the Zenith associated with one side or the other (Zenith
and Nadir habs - is the poorer region. Here or Nadir) to avoid association with the Sand-
we start to see some of the ‚cellblock‘ style wich Habs. n
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Equipment Purchases Elektros panding as more and more resources are mi-
You can buy more or less anything in ned out of nearby Naberius to make it bigger.
Elektros Starhome. However some kinds
of equipment are cheaper than others. So what does it sell to make all this money?
What technology did Elektros perfect to make
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
The following manufacturers are available
it the economic powerhouse of the Indepen-
discounted in Elektros because the prin-
dant Coalition. Well, Elektros developed the
ciple manufacturing plants are located
first advanced nanotech pieces. It is the home
here.
of the company called Shadowjack Nanoware
• OT (OmniTech)
and in the laboratories of Elektros the ICHA
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
developed the first grav-plates to provide the
most effective artificial gravity to date and
+0 Purchase DC Penalty later they would develop the technology for
• CC (Core Cybernetics) using nanite arrays to greatly improve the in-
• DA (Delta Arms) telligence of animals. Cygors would become
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) one of the greatest military successes of the
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) ICHA, one a par with the deadly Urean Mari-
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) nes of the United Republic.
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• IR (Ichan Robotics) This last fact also makes Elektros one of the
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) creepiest places to visit, because in their en-
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) thusiasm for this new technology Elektros has
• Generic (generic no-name brands) in fact got a host of artificially intellectually
+2 Purchase DC Penalty enhanced animals (or Nanomals as they are
• AutoDyn Vehicles sometimes absurdly called). These animals
• CG (Correllan Genetics) are often genetically altered as well to further
• CC (CyberCorp) enhance thinking powers, to grant human-like
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) vocal cords and to provide some sort of basic
• EC (Elite Crafts) manipulation tools.
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro) Some animals are able to interact with humans
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) in a more or less meaningful way. Dolphins for
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) instance, have a natural talent for science and
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) arithmatic when brain boosted and a number
• AS (Arcane Supplements) of Nanomal Dolphins actually work now for
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) Shadowjack Nanoware. Chimpanzees, mon-
• GA (Greenfield Arms) keys, and any kind of ‚fingered‘ animal ob-
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) viously is able to carry out some measure of
+4 Purchase DC Penalty manual labour and engage with humans in
a more or less humanoid fashion. Bears have Game rules Dalmatavo
• Duruki Freemarket Technology
• Elvish Freemarket Technology also often been intellectually enhanced, and Elektros has been grav-stabilized and the at-
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) like Cygors they tend to fill mostly military ro- mosphere is simulated. The atmosphere and
les. There are many birds that flutter through gravity are both earth-like.
+6 Purchase DC Penalty the habs of Elektros, and don‘t be surprised
• Elvish Restricted Tech if they talk to you. They‘re not mimicking like Shadowjack Nanoware is licensed to carry out
• Duruki Restricted Tech
parrots, they have human sentience. such operations and now only under special
• Illithid Technology
government approved conditions.
• Drow Technology
But sometimes the people of Elektros have
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
just gone a little overboard. Such animals as Interestingly, outside of Elektros Starhome,
• Beyonder Technology
Walrusses, Mice, and in the most extreme case non-cygor Nanomals are almost completely
the African Grey Elephant. There are even ru- unheard of. Perhaps this is because Elekt-
mours of a highly intelligent swarm of fire ants ros has now a community of Nanomals, or
and of sentient tigers. In any case there are perhaps (more likely) because outside of
now special rules and regulations regarding Elektros no one would ever think of giving a
the use of this ‚brainiac nanotechnology‘. Only talking Panda a job. n
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Equipment Purchases Elysia Prime is about 320 square miles (515 sq km) in area
You can buy more or less anything in Elys- and boasts a population of 7 billion people. If
ia Prime (it is the centre of the galaxy after it weren’t for the fact that it is built so high it
all). However some equipment is cheaper would be impossible to live (in fact if everyo-
than others. Below is a list of corporations ne took to street level then the people simply
and the ease of purchase in this zone. would not fit in the area) and generally spea-
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
king the wealthier you are the higher up you
Equipment from the following manufac-
live. The lower zones tend to be dirtier and
turers is cheaper because the plants are
house an urban, criminal element. That said
located in the area.
its not unkown for the rich to ‘slum it’ down
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
below when looking for drugs, prostitutes or
other unsavoury interests. The exception is
+0 Purchase DC Penalty King’s an area of New Phoebe that has been
• AutoDyn Vehicles restructured and is on ground level and has
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) seen renewed popularity with the wealthy. It
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) may be a passing fad but a number of rich men
• PP (PlasmaPro) and women have acquired some ground-level
• CC (CyberCorp) real estate in King’s. This is aided by the fact
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) that King’s is really close to Stephen’s College
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) and people like student’s to stay safe.
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements) New Phoebe is also a commercial heaven as
• Generic (generic no-name brands) well as being residentially over-populated. A
+2 Purchase DC Penalty number of important companies have their
• CC (Core Cybernetics) executive offices here including AutoDyn, that
• DA (Delta Arms) manufactures the bulk of all jetcars and jet-
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) bikes in the Nebula; Zenith Food Distributers,
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) which is the biggest comestibles conglomerate
• OT (OmniTech) and largest manufacturer of violet rations in
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) the Nebula; Elysian Arms and Armour which
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) manufactures a vast quantity of weapons and
• INS (Ichan National Starships) is the primary provider of combat equipment write Eldritch Scrolls and learn of the history
• EC (Elite Crafts) to the deadly United Republic of Elysium Ma- of Witchcraft and Daemonology.
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) rine forces and many other equally significant
• IR (Ichan Robotics) galaxy-spanning business enterprises. However, possibly the most important thing
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) about New Phoebe is that it is the centre of
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) New Phoebe’s centre is the seat of Stephen’s government. The Senate resides at the Sena-
+4 Purchase DC Penalty College one of the two most respected uni- torium, a large structure built at the Apex of
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) versities in the Nebula (the other being Laure- the city to resemble a vast an ancient Roman
• GA (Greenfield Arms) lanthis Uni at Correllan also in Elsyia Prime). monument. White marble pillars lead up to
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Stephen’s is particularly noted for its maths the circular atrium and adorning the sides are
• Duruki Freemarket Technology and sciences department and the greatest marble (or some synthetic equivalent) statues
• Elvish Freemarket Technology engineers and tech’s come from this school. If depicting the great Senators of the past. Each
they can afford it of course – living at the centre Senator rules for 9 years at a time and is able to
+6 Purchase DC Penalty of the universe is not cheap. The other signifi- re-elected up to a possible three terms. Sena-
• Elvish Restricted Tech
cant educational institution in New Phoebe is tors must be at least 30 years old each before
• Duruki Restricted Tech
the Dome of Seers – a massive domed struc- coming up for election. The seats of the Senate
• Illithid Technology
ture that caters towards the psychically gifted go up for election one a time in rotation, one
• Drow Technology
and the study of the arcane. There individuals each year. Urean gubernatorial elections are
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
can study the effects of Aesir (and test it un- quite complex and are discussed at greater
• Beyonder Technology
der carefully prepares safe environments to length in another section. Suffice it to say that
see whether the individual takes to the drug the Senators are able in many cases to secure
and finds it enhancing, or whether it dulls his their positions for multiple terms and the cur-
mind) as well as learn how to do such things as rent seat of power has been nearly unchanged
graft Arcane Tattoos, enchant Psionic Potions, in the last two decades.
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tory of plastic surgery and in more recent in the Elysium Nebula today.
years gene therapy and anti-aging skin-cell
regeneration. It is said that if you’re rich en- The Temple of the Phoenix is a massive Py-
ough in Correllan – you can live forever. ramid and it is linked to the Temple of the
Eye in Hadas in a way too mystical to com-
New Cairo prehend. With the aid of the Elvish psion Na-
In the year -1207, at the height of the Illithid tareth the Wanderer the Phoenician cult have
wars, the planet Phoenix (which was called constructed a Way Gate to transport people
New Egypt at the time) and it’s three moons from the Temple of the Eye to the Temple of
was going to fall to a potent invasive force. the Pheonix and back - allowing hundreds
It was saved by a man named Phoenix Assal of millions of Phoenicians to make the holy
who would become a war hero - and would pilgrammage to New Cairo even though they
later be deified after his passing. lack the funds to do so normally.
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Equipment Purchases Enoch forcefield has been erected around the pla- Game rules Enoch
You can buy more or less anything in En- nets to keep it relatively cool (cool enough to Enoch has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC
och. However some equipment is chea- sustain life) and to keep the Sun‘s boil ener- races can breathe naturally without requiring
per than other. gy from tearing apart all the structures that the use of special breathers. However the at-
are built there. mosphere is slightly irradiated and anyone
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles outside sufferes the effects of light radiation as
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
Because this world held special significance described in d20 Future page 80.
• CC (CyberCorp)
for the elves, there are a fair number of them Enoch has been grav-stabilized by the ancient
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
left on the planet (a people who call them- magic of the elves.
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
selves Fire Elves) but with the collapse of the
• PP (PlasmaPro)
Elvish Kingdoms the Fire Elves have retrea-
ted to their basalt towers and let the humans Special Feat School of Fire
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
claim the planet for their own. Benefit: You have received the tutelage of the Fire
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) Elves of Enoch and as such have mastered the art
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
Never the less, the Fire Elves of Enoch are of controlling flames. All spells of the Fire subtype
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
vital - for they are the ones (mostly) who still that you can cast are treated as being Empowered
sustain the Psion Dome. as per the metamagic feat Empower Spell.
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• CC (Core Cybernetics) Prerequisites: You must be able to cast at least
Many humans seers and psykers of great one spell or manifest at least one psionic power
• DA (Delta Arms) power have travelled to Enoch to learn from
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) of the Fire type.
the Fire Elves because something as power-
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) ful as the Psion Dome can be put to good use Special: You must have spent at least one
• OT (OmniTech) on other worlds. Unfortunately there are not month training in Enoch in one of the Basalt
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) enough humans with that level of psychic Towers to take this feat. This is a special feat
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) endurance that such a device can be used and thus you should be sure you have your GMs
• INS (Ichan National Starships) effectively in other parts of the world. n approval before taking it.
• EC (Elite Crafts)
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
• IR (Ichan Robotics)
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
+4 Purchase DC Penalty Furcas and Andromalius dangerous places to be - possibly the most
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) dangerous in human space. For a brief while
• GA (Greenfield Arms) The Planet Overall they were ruled over by a Dictator who siezed
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Furcas and Andromalius form a binary pair of control of the army and ruled both worlds from
• Duruki Freemarket Technology orbiting moons. Furcas is the larger of the two a throne on Andromalius built from the skulls
• Elvish Freemarket Technology - though it is barely 70% of the size of Mercury. of his defeated enemies. Not surprisingly the
+6 Purchase DC Penalty Andromalius is smaller still - a mere 70% the two worlds are a haven for villains and crimi-
• Elvish Restricted Tech size of Furcas. The two really orbit each other. nals looking to hide from the law.
• Duruki Restricted Tech Since Furcas is 30% larger than Andromalius
• Illithid Technology it is typically listed as the planet while Andro- Midpoint Station
• Drow Technology malius is typically described as Furcas‘ moon. Midpoint Station is a large spacestation (the
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) In fact this is not quite accurate. They are so size of Manhattan Island) that occupies a point
• Beyonder Technology similar in size that they are more like each in space directly between the two worlds. From
others moons. The pair of them are part of the Midpoint Station it is a 1.5 hour spaceflight to
furthest outlying orbit of the Acheron system. either world. The representative of the Fur-
This far out into space there is very little Re- cas/Andromalius system can be found here
public presence. The two worlds gained their - though he is said to be a political puppet and
independance by a sort of De Facto event. Cut of little use to anyone on these worlds. Never
off from the URE by the NED worlds and with the less a figurehead to communicate with the
the URE having no interest in controlling these outside world is a necessity.
two worlds the government swapped some-
time around 270 and no one seemed to notice. The Gangs
Indeed no one pays much attention to these Gang warfare is a major problem in both
two outer Acheronian worlds. They are very worlds. There are 7 principal gangs that do-
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Haagenti is known, among other things, as a haven for intergalactic smugglers and pirates - in this case a Member of „Black Raven Wing“
trying to outrun local authorities.
cover in no time. For this reason Haagenti has Game rules Haagenti Seere
an abundance of freemarket Duruki Techno- Haagenti and its moons where terraformed Seere is one of those moons that has mana-
logy and a higher than average amount of Re- and grav-stabilized by the ancient elves. They ged, despite human dominance, to maintain
stricted Duruki Technology. always have an earth-like gravity and an earth- a strong link to the cultures that once lived
like atmosphere. there. There is a sizable elvish population
Ex-Capital of Borgouze (who, it should be noted, have full voting
Borgouze used to the be where the Governor privileges in the NED, unlike the half-votes
of Haagenti presided when Haagenti was part Decarabia afforded to them by the URE) and lizardmen
of the United Republic. Now it is a major com- Decarabia is a big moon - perhaps twice the population (who likewise have a full-vote
mercial and industrial centre, but no longer is size of ours. It is circling a big planet (also which is even more interesting since they are
it a sphere of political influence in the world. almost twice the size of ours). It is by merit permitted no votes in the URE). There is also
Borgouze is also where Project Belladonna of this - not a very densely populated moon. a lively kobold city called Nuttertark, possibly
was initiated and where the founders of De- Like its parent world much of it is given over the only fully kobold city in the Elysium Ne-
cker Biotech came from. The grassy outskirts to grassy prairies - but unlike Haagenti it is bula. In this city everything (chairs, houses,
beyond the endurium city of Borgouze pro- a much drier planet with considerably less utensils) is smaller and ‚kobold-sized‘ for
bably contains the highest concentration of water, mist and annual rainfall as a whole. the little reptillian species. The places has a
Werewolves in the galaxy - though it is known Decarabia‘s grasslands are not green thick, number of factories on the outskirts (all run
that the lupine lycanthropes have spread out but thin, whispy and brown. by kobolds) which produce even smaller
over a considerably greater area. There are ru- weapons of the generic variants. A scaled
mours as well that the infrastructure of Project Out on these prairies the people of Deca- down weapon normally deals damage as if it
Belladonna in the city has not been destroyed rabia make out an existance of their liking. were one die size smaller than it actually is.
and that lycanthropes beyond the city walls They are a simple people who have returned Seere actually drifts further from Haagenti at
out in the grasslands have kept the data and to working the land. Oxen, horses and big certain times of the year than the West Hya-
resources of the old Decker Biotech plant and native lizards are all used to work the land cinth gate. It has for a long time also had a
are even now researching. Whether they seek and help transportation. It is a place vague- very large Duruki population. With its varied
to find a cure for their condition or to develop ly reminiscent of the Western frontier in the population (elvish, duruki, lizardkin, kobold
new lycanthropic breeds to spread like a virus early period of expansion in the history of the and human) it may truly by the most racially
among human kind is anyone‘s guess. Americas. mixed body in the Elysium Nebula. n
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Equipment Hayyel
Hayyel
You can buy more or less anything in
Hayyel and its moons. However some The Planet Overall
equipment is cheaper than others. Hayyel, the second closest planet to Solaris,
is arguable the ugliest planet in the entire bi-
-2 Purchase DC Penalty
Equipment from the following manufactu-
nary star system. It is a horrible hive of smoke
rers can be purchased more easily since
and toxic waste. Outside of the city centres
significant manufacturing infrastructure
the air is so polluted that life does not real-
for these companies can be found here.
ly exist. Within the city centres humanity is
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
forced indoors.
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
Hayyel has acid rain, corrosive oceans and
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
makes Venus look hospitable. Never the less
its comfortable gravity - the fact that it has an
+0 Purchase DC Penalty atmosphere - and its rich mineral wealth have
• AutoDyn Vehicles made it a hot-spot as an industrial zone.
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp) If people had a choice in the matter, no one
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) would live in Hayyel, but instead it has a po-
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) pulation just short of Elysia Prime‘s. Hayyel‘s
• AS (Arcane Supplements) main cities are Crayville, Vault-town and
• Generic (generic no-name brands) Gommorah. Its moons, Leraye and Eligor,
+2 Purchase DC Penalty are considerably more hospitable places to
• CC (Core Cybernetics) live.
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) Crayville
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) Crayville was built in a massive fissure among-
• OT (OmniTech) st the bones of ancient reptillian creatures
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) that once covered the planet of Hayyel. It is
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) theorized that Hayyel once had a wider orbit
• INS (Ichan National Starships) around Solaris than it currently had and that
• EC (Elite Crafts) by the time the elves discovered the world, the
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) Hayyel Dinosaurs (as the humans call them)
• IR (Ichan Robotics) had long since died out.
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) However, they left precious oil, deep under-
+4 Purchase DC Penalty ground, with their decomposition, and the
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) massive skeletons of these ancient beasts
• GA (Greenfield Arms) still litter vast areas of Hayyel. Crayville was
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) sculpted into this trench-like recess, but
• Duruki Freemarket Technology eventually grew tall enough that like a cree-
• Elvish Freemarket Technology ping vine it climbed out of the crevasse and
spread upwards and skywards.
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• Elvish Restricted Tech Because of Crayville‘s wealth of oil its people
• Duruki Restricted Tech
are incredibly wealthy - but they are restricted
• Illithid Technology
in doors because outside it is impossible to
• Drow Technology
live. Manufacturing plants and factories co-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
ver the city and belch thick clouds of polluti-
• Beyonder Technology
ve fog into the air. The sky above Crayville is
perpetually dark with smog.
Vault-Town
Vault Town is the capital city of Hayyel, and
is aptly named because it has the largest
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IsafeL
The Planet Overall
Isafel is a large world. 45% of the planet is ocea-
nic salt water. Another 20% is massive freshwa-
ter reservoirs. The world is divided into 6 major
continents and on each major continent, where
once there were cities and houses, now there are
trenches and weapons. In 372 Isafel decided to
follow in the footsteps of Haagenti and Vaul and
seceded from the United Republic. Its govern-
ment presented its withdrawal from the Repu-
blic as a necessity. Isafel insisted on full voting
priveleges for xenolifeforms (there are many
Kobolds on Isafel), on freedom to practice their
own forms of justice and legal system as distinct
from those pushed down from the central Repu-
blican Senate and to be free of any intervention
from the Hunters of the United Republic which
had long since been in Isafel to keep an eye on
the spread of NED revlutionary ideals. Governor
Helena Carynthi submitted this formal secessi-
on to the United Republican Senate in Septem-
ber of 372. By October Ms Carynthi’s parlaiment A NED Revolutionist in the trenches of Moley.
was attacked. Carynthi was captured by hunters
and put to death for conspiracy to further divide
the Republic. lose yet another one of its border worlds. The Game rules Isafiel and Selxor
republic has more supplies, better equipment, Isafel and Selxor were terraformed by the an-
The Republic, tired of the slow weakening of its better training and greater intelligence. The NED cient elves. They have an earth-like gravity and
borders to this fledgeling nation on the Achero- has passion and numbers. Across the planets ci- atmosphere.
nian rim worlds, sent a contingent of URE Ma- ties burn in the flames of war and the soldiers on
rines and attempted to set up a puppet govern- both sides begin to ask themselves – is this still a Hunters and brought to justice on Elysia Prime.
ment until it was assured that the revolutionaries world worth fighting for? It is also hear where the first shots of war rang out
would not win the next general election in Isafel. and engagement commenced in full. The conti-
The murder of Isafel’s beloved Senator and the The URE could realistically win this war in a few nent has since been completely bunkered up.
arrival of UREan troops on Isafelian ground was months if it brought its full military weight to Big resilium and plascrete bastions have been
the spark that ignited the war. NED revolutionari- bear by the Senate in typical URE indecision has set up for the deployment of URE Marines and
es smuggled in weapons and equipment from chosen not to send most of its fighting forces. In war machines. Missile silos and air strips have
nearby Vaul. Using guerilla tactics and terroristic truth the URE still faces many threats from the been crafted in this area. More or less the whole
methodologies the NED set of bombs, sniped at outside. Aliens like the Kruthik or Illithids still continent is in the hands of the Republic mili-
the URE marines from buildings and otherwise hound the borders of Elysium Nebula space and tary. Perhaps most horrifying of all is the PoW
engaged a difficult war of revolution. closer in there is the lingering threat of the Drow camp were captured revolutionaries are sent to
and their daemons. The military needs to be at be interrogated.
So the URE brought in more troops. And the more the ready to repel more serious threats to human
troops that the URE brought in, the more collate- security, and so undermanned for the task at Continent of Adharis, Moley and Passeri
ral damage was inflicted. The more collateral da- hand, the URE Marines continue to gain ground These three continents are accessible by sea
mage was inflicted the more sympathies of the in Isafel. from Zollefar. URE Marines have succesfully
local population began to be with the NED. By implemented amphibious assaults on all three
the end of the second year of occupation the war Continent of Zollefar coastlines. A line of trenches divides URE domi-
had been blown wide open. Not a citizen in Isafel Zollefar is the continent which the URE Marines nated ground from NED dominated ground in
wants to remain with the Republic now. The en- first occupied. It is the URE stronghold in the these continents. The current standings place
tire planet has taken up arms against the Repu- world of Isafel. The capital city of Niyeth once the URE at about 1/3 of the way in land; these
blic. If the Republic were honest with itself then housed by the parliamentary seat of the world continents are still dominated by NED revolu-
Isafel would be accepted as another loss the New of Isafel. It is hear that Helena Carynthi ran the tionaries. Typically the area between the NED
Elysian Democracy, but the Republic refuses to planet. It is hear where she was captured by URE trenches and the URE trenches are about
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Equipment Hayyel
Istra Starhome ICHA Psy-corp which produces all major el-
You can buy more or less anything on Istra dritch artifacts and devices within Coalition
Starhome. However some kinds of equip- The Habitats Overall Space Sectors and it is also a major University
ment are cheaper than others. A Starhome is the second largest construction for Eldritch Science and Psionic Studies.
that the ICHA produces for civillian living. Like
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
all other ICHA stations, Istra is a completely Outer Spoke Habs
man-made construct made up of a number of Some of the major inhabited sectors of Istra
+0 Purchase DC Penalty habitats or Habs. are in the outerspokes. Hovertrams travel into
• CC (Core Cybernetics) the centre in an interconnecting asterisk pat-
• DA (Delta Arms) Istra is the smallest of the Starhome class sta- tern, and a final outer ring line ensures that it
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) tions of the Independant Coalition. Istra has is very easy to travel from any one hab to ano-
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) a population of about 50 million people and ther. The outer spoke habs are named accor-
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) was the third major construction made by the ding to there number (Spoke 1 Habs, Spoke 2
• INS (Ichan National Starships) ICHA (which at the time was actually a subu- Habs and so on).
• IR (Ichan Robotics) nit of the Phoeban Ambient Fleet Collective).
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) It orbits the sun Solaris in an orbit just beyond Commercial Habs
• OT (OmniTech) the United Republic capital of Elysia Prime. The outer radius of the Cog is mostly filled
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) It tends to be more distant from Elysia Prime with commercial habs. Since Istra is the home
• Generic (generic no-name brands) than Muscovisk, the capital of the Coalition of Technomancy (the art of Technomancy as
+2 Purchase DC Penalty which orbits also adjacent to Elysia Prime but a form of Psionic Study emerged in The Prism
• AutoDyn Vehicles on a tighter concentric elipse. shortly after its founding) it is no surprise that
• CG (Correllan Genetics) a majority of these commercial habs sell goods
• CC (CyberCorp) The Prism of Istra that have been enhanced with eldritch pow-
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) Istra is shaped like a massive 8-spoked Cog, ers. Many of these habs are connected one to
• EC (Elite Crafts) built in the style and design of the icon of the the other with teleporation pads. These pads
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) ICHA as depicted on their flag. At the very are a major export (they rely on a permanent
• PP (PlasmaPro) centre of this cog is a structure shaped like a ‚teleportation circle‘ enchantment) and places
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) diamond prism which was built in accordance like Dalmatavo which have many closely
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) with several structures of elvish origin that al- pressed living ‚grids‘ use these pads in place
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) low the trapping and superior manipulation of of conventional doors and corridors to access
• AS (Arcane Supplements) eldritch energy. Within this structure is a ce- apartments to save on space.
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) lebrated university of eldritch science where
• GA (Greenfield Arms) young men and women of the ICHA can study The Inner Habs
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) magick, psionics and meta-science. The Inner Habs are actually 4 distinct regions,
+4 Purchase DC Penalty each one forming a pie-shaped quarter wedge
• Duruki Freemarket Technology The Prism of Istra is a locus for psycho-magical around The Prism at the centre of Istra. The
• Elvish Freemarket Technology energy. It is the origins of the industry called Oligarch‘s palace is probably the most im-
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
+6 Purchase DC Penalty
• Elvish Restricted Tech
• Duruki Restricted Tech
• Illithid Technology
• Drow Technology
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
• Beyonder Technology
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The capital city of Varenburg is not built on one of the floating islands of the elves but is rather a completely artificial construct, made of
human ingenuity, steel and cerametal.
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Equipment Hayyel
You can buy more or less anything in Jo-
phia (it is close to the centre of the ga-
laxy after all). However some equipment
is cheaper than others. Below is a list of
corporations and the ease of purchase in
this zone.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
ting city in Jophia, the capital of Varenburg, is What resulted is a huge space station. The only • AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
actually not an elvish helio-island at all but a major Urean space station to be true, with a • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
completely man-made concrete island sus- capacity to house over 8 million people of its • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
pended above the gas-giant by a dozen dura- own accord. Between Omega II and Varen- • AS (Arcane Supplements)
cable cords afixed to a geo-synchronous space burg is over 70% of the Jophian population. • Generic (generic no-name brands)
station (Omega II) which uses thrusters to When you calculate that another 15% can be
maintain its orbit. Varenburg is literally han- found on the moon of Amon you realize that +2 Purchase DC Penalty
ging in the atmosphere – attached by cords to the floating islands of the elves are large un- • CC (Core Cybernetics)
deep-space. The fuel costs for maintaining Jo- populated. • DA (Delta Arms)
phia are quite high and it’s no surprise that the • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
humans have planted numerous helio-trees all Amon • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
over the base of Varenburg to help lighten the Amon is the moon-world of Jophia. It is two- • OT (OmniTech)
load. Many wealthy individuals acquire rare thirds the size of the Earth and has two-thirds • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
holiday homes in the Jophia Helio-islands. the gravity. It, like so many worlds of the Elysi- • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
um Nebula, has been seeded by the elves and • INS (Ichan National Starships)
Omega II contains a human breathable atmosphere. It is • EC (Elite Crafts)
Omega II is actually the second star station to curious that so few people live in Amon. Like • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
be designed with the objective of sustaining Jophia it is a primarily agricultural world, but • IR (Ichan Robotics)
an aritifical city in the atmosphere to house unlike Jophia it is pretty solid. Perhaps becau- • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
a more sizable human population (without se there is not much to do but visit the cinema • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
risking sufficient envirionment damage that and go to the pubs. Amon is a green planet +4 Purchase DC Penalty
would cause the island to fall and be engul- with vast farms and open lands. It’s two-thirds • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
fed by Jophia the gas giant). The first was ne- gravity has made the men of Amon taller and • GA (Greenfield Arms)
arly fully designed before it was realized that more gawky than the men of most worlds. They • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
the construction had taken too long and the are also physically weaker on a normal gravity • Duruki Freemarket Technology
original specs didn’t meet the new require- world because they are completely unadjusted • Elvish Freemarket Technology
ments. Omega I was actually sold to ICHA to the suddenly increased weight. The agrari- +6 Purchase DC Penalty
(who lacking in resources can really do a lot an community of Amon is particularly noted • Elvish Restricted Tech
with a near-complete star station). In return for its calm and peaceful inhabitants but they • Duruki Restricted Tech
the ICHA cooperated with the URE in the de- are still able to defend themselves if need be. • Illithid Technology
velopment of Omega II; a vaster more stable Amon is the primary source of Jophian pla- • Drow Technology
starship capable of sustaining a fully habited netary defense forces (perhaps because the • DA (Daemon Artifacts)
city with sky-scrapers and all and a human po- Amonians are economically worse off than the • Beyonder Technology
pulation of over 7 million people. Jophian main-landers.) n
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Kieff Halo-World
The Habitats Overall
A Halo-World is the largest man-made struc-
tures to be found in the Elysium Nebula.
Only two such massive worlds exist. One, the
older and smaller of the two, is the Muscovisk
Halo-World and capital station of the Inde-
pendant Coalition of Human Advancement.
The newer and largest man-made structure
is the Kieff Halo world. From a distance it
looks like a giant gray ring cycling rapidly.
Kieff States
Kieff is so vast that it does not have Habs
like other stations. Instead soil and water
has been laid out to form a fully biologically
stable habitat contained in massive green-
house domes. There 6 major States within
Kieff each of which is ruled by its own Olig-
arch (though Kieff does have a Grand Olig-
arch which represents it within the ICHA
National Oligarchy). These States are mas-
sive by Coalition standards. In this respect
Kieff is much more like a planet than it is like
a construction.
State of Sasha
Sasha is the state where the Grand Oligarch
presides and is the largest State in Kieff. It Marina is named appropriately because it is largely a marine state. A massive artificial
has the biggest spaceport and sees the most ocean has been built here and Marina is a series of interconnected islands.
traffic from travellers coming to and from the
West Hyacinth Gate. The Sasha Spaceport
was the site for a climactic battle between State of Nelya
a group of mercenary travellers and a blue Nelya is the founding state of CORE Cyberne-
chromatic dragon. The devastation wreaked tics. A large number of cybernetic factories
by their combat is still being cleared away and workshops can be found in Nelya. Not
and authorities are still speculative about surprisingly because CORE is based here, Kieff
the reason for the combat. in general is fairly renown for its advanced
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Equipment Kieff
You can buy more or less anything in Kie-
ff. However some kinds of equipment are
cheaper than others.
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
The following manufacturers are available
discounted in Kieff because the principle
manufacturing plants are located here.
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• OT (OmniTech)
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
• SS (Sophos Stimulants)
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• IR (Ichan Robotics) Kieff is so vast that it does not have Habs like other stations. Instead soil and water has been
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) laid out to form a fully biologically stable habitat contained in massive greenhouse domes
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty cybernetics. In Nelya specifically it is rumoured Game rules Kieff
• AutoDyn Vehicles that a lot of mundane cybernetics have become Kieff uses centripetal force to simulate gravi-
• CG (Correllan Genetics) so cheap that they are becoming fashionable ty and the atmosphere is simulated. The at-
• CC (CyberCorp) items. Among young people for instance its very mosphere and gravity are both earth-like.
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) popular to have a built in music players and
• EC (Elite Crafts) some forward thinking schools are beginning in the Nebula. Plus visual effects have come a
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) to required the use of ‚digibrain‘ computers. long way. Digital artists are able to perfectly
• PP (PlasmaPro) mimic people and advanced artificial intelli-
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) State of Marina gence software basically means that ancient
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) Marina is named appropriately because it is battles can be simulated and filmed in an
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) largely a marine state. A massive artificial oce- entirely virtual context. Oxana Filmic Studies
• AS (Arcane Supplements) an has been built here and Marina is a series of University, which is quite famous in its field,
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) interconnected islands. Marina contains a mo- focuses on traditional forms of art however
• GA (Greenfield Arms) derate population of Nano-Dolphins ported based on old fashioned video recordings of
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) over from Elektros. Marina‘s Oligarchic palace live events.
+4 Purchase DC Penalty is reckoned to be one of the most beautiful in
• Duruki Freemarket Technology all of the ICHA. It is a palace that is built enti- State of North Raisa and State of West Raisa
• Elvish Freemarket Technology rely underwater with a vast glass dome around These are the smallest two States in Kieff and
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) it so that all the fish that have been brought in at one point were a single state before they
to Kieff can be seen swimming about. A single divided. The division was the culmination of
+6 Purchase DC Penalty spire rises above the water containing a do- a series of disagreements between two major
• Elvish Restricted Tech cking station and some formal briefing rooms; political families vying for position of oligarch
• Duruki Restricted Tech but the bulk of the Oligarch‘s living facilities lie and eager to push forward their own agenda.
• Illithid Technology
below the surface of the water. The result was that the state was in permanent
• Drow Technology
civil unrest and when bombings began to hap-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
State of Oxana pen the other States had to step in to mediate.
• Beyonder Technology
Oxana is the media-state of the Independant Now a vast wall seperates the two states. A wall
Coalition. It is the ICHAs equivalent to Cor- was built between the Northwest point of the
rellan in Elysia Prime for the United Repu- state and the Southeast point. The Northeast
blic. A considerable amount of ICHAn pro- State took the name North Raisa whereas the
gramming is done here. It is an area where Southwest one took West Raisa. There is still
people have a unique film-making expertise considerably emnity in this area today. Exter-
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Liwet
The Planet Overall
Liwet and its single moon Purson are the fourth
closest system to the flaming sun Solaris. Its
unique atmosphere, geoformed by Elvish ma-
gics, keep it cool enough for normal life. Never
the less in the summer‘s the many oceaned
world boils - thick clouds of steam rise from the
oceans and blanket the world in mist.
Win‘Dal
Win‘Dal is a completely artificial city, built along
the equator of the planet‘s Western hemisphere.
It rises several thousand feet from the ocean and
consists of a dozen spires connected by sky-rails,
teleportation beacons and Pactoris skippers.
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Equipment Liwet
You can buy more or less anything in Liwet
and Purson. However some equipment is
cheaper than others.
-2 Purchase DC Penalty
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• CC (CyberCorp)
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
Now that Purson is all but hollowed out (like a Duruki world almost) and its ragged shell forms
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
the core of a single massive mechanized moon.
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty What is known however is that the 6-legged Ba- Game rules Liwet
• AutoDyn Vehicles rintz Bear‘s with the capicity to disappear enti- Liwet has been grav-stabilized by the ancient
• CG (Correllan Genetics) rely and swim like a fish have made the entire elves so has normal earth-like gravity.
• CC (CyberCorp) zone a declared „danger zone“. When the dae-
Liwet has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC ra-
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) monic influence of dark magics started to affect
ces can breathe naturally without requiring the
• EC (Elite Crafts) the native animals of the region the Barintz Re- use of special breathers.
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) search Station was set up to report on what was
• PP (PlasmaPro) going on. The research station is still in place,
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) and as far as anyone knows Kraull is still active Game rules Purson
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) in the region. Purson has been grav-stabilized by the human
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) grav-plates wherever there is structure, but
• AS (Arcane Supplements) His fortress is well-protected and as he has made has very low gravity elsewhere. Humans from
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) no attempts to damage the rest of the world as of the moonworld of Purson do not generally have
• GA (Greenfield Arms) yet, the half-daemon has not been bothered by the low-G adaptation because there are so few
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Liwetan authorities so far. The Barintz Bear‘s are areas that are undeveloped now.
+4 Purchase DC Penalty not to be trifled with - they kill for pleasure and Purson has no atmosphere but in doors (and
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) are larger than a normal polar bear. everywhere in Purson is indoors) there is a nor-
• GA (Greenfield Arms) mal earth breathable atmosphere.
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Xund
• Duruki Freemarket Technology Nestled into the side of a once-active volcano,
• Elvish Freemarket Technology Xund is the city with the largest number of Purson
cybersurgeons in the galaxy. Everyone in the It is easier to think of Purson as a space station
+6 Purchase DC Penalty city (and the surrounding area - Xund is the than as a moon. It was once just a small lifeless
• Elvish Restricted Tech capital of planetary zone called Haligroun) is rock until it was founded by the humans of
• Duruki Restricted Tech adorned with mechanical eyes, legs, arms and Liwet and built up in the deep of space. It has
• Illithid Technology so on. Unlike anywhere else in the galaxy the no natural atmosphere - instead it started as a
• Drow Technology replacement of real limbs with prosthetics is collection of small research centres that even-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
not an act done by those who have lost limbs tually became mining centres when the rich
• Beyonder Technology
in wars, but is a fashion statement. Xund has iron deposits of Purson were discovered. Slowly
a curious Victorian society and members of but surely, on the strength of its own resources
this society have good manners but maintain Purson expanded to envelop the entire world in
an ascetic distance from one another as if wor- plasteel and cerametal. Now the world is all but
ried that getting too close could spread germs hollowed out (like a Duruki world almost) and
or something. Xund is a unique place in the its ragged shell forms the core of a single mas-
galaxy and is thus a popular place for it. Not sive mechanized moon. It is so covered with ci-
surprisingly, CyberCorps, the URE manufac- tyscape that it is difficult to find any of the rocky
turer of Cybernetics has its HQ in Xund. grey moon terrain left on the entire world. n
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Equipment Manakel
You can buy more or less anything in Ma-
nakel and its moon. However some equip-
ment is cheaper than other.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• OT (OmniTech) Ronove is dominated by a largely Neo-Japanese population, with the second largest popula-
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) tion being that of people that on Earth would have been considered Pacific Islanders
• SS (Sophos Stimulants)
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• EC (Elite Crafts) the wealthy visitors may have. Flamburg has a forcement. Humans (brave humans) occasio-
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) very large ogre and half-ogre population due to nally come into the city as tourists but the locals
• IR (Ichan Robotics) its proximity to Bune. Manakel and Flamburg are so unwelcoming (a curious spin on traditi-
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) are favoured areas for skiing across the Elysium on) that they’d sooner leave. The only human
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) Nebula, not least of all because of the higher institution that is there regularly is the EDK. A
+4 Purchase DC Penalty than normal gravity. human named Rakunk Grive is the known Hun-
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) ter in the area, and he is given a very large sum of
• GA (Greenfield Arms) Bune money to make sure that the ogres aren’t up to
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Bune is the moon with the closest orbit to anything. Rakunk and some of his men (which
• Duruki Freemarket Technology Flamburg. It is a terra-formed moon with cu-
• Elvish Freemarket Technology rious lake formation on half the world. What
it is most famous for however, are not geolo- Game rules Manakel
+6 Purchase DC Penalty
gical features, but for being the only place in Manakel has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC
• Elvish Restricted Tech
the Elysium Nebula that has a city built by and races can breathe naturally without requiring
• Duruki Restricted Tech
for half-ogres and ogre-blooded. This vast city the use of special breathers.
• Illithid Technology
built in the style that should (supposedly) re-
• Drow Technology Manakel has higher than normal gravity (1.3g)
semble what Ogres may have constructed on and people without the High Gravity adaptation
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
their homeworld is called Gormir. Here, ogre- feat take a -2 on Initiative checks. Everyone
• Beyonder Technology
blooded scholars study what the Ogre race suffers 1.5 x damage for falling.
may have been like before the enslavement
by the Illithids, Half-Ogres run for positions in
the local parliament, and on the odd occasion, Game rules Bune, Renove, Bereth
you may even see a full-blooded ogre walking Manakel’s moons have an Earth-like at-
around among the cloud. mosphere so PC races can breathe naturally
without requiring the use of special breathers.
The ogre-blooded here form a full and complete
Manakel’s moons have been grav-stabilized by
community. They make their own ships, gather the ancient elves and have normal earth-like
food from their own farms, sell the food at their gravity.
own restaurants and even run their own law en-
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Naturally much of the buildings constructed on Bereth are designed to withstand extreme temperatures, giving Bereth a rather unusual look.
Most of Bereth‘s Farmbuildings look more like Fortresses than typical Barns.
are rotated regularly since working in Gormir it not for spells cast by Elves in times when
is considered unpleasant) are the only humans they has mastered Geomancy that bind it
that maintain a constant presence in Gormir. tightly to its master world) and therefore has
a few repercussions. Every ten years or so the
The rest of Bune is rather unassuming. A lot of population has to migrate to the other half of
agricultural and farming goes on here. Bune the planet to avoid the scorching hot summer.
neeps or turnips are particularly requested. With a thin atmosphere (typical of a moon)
The capital city of Bune is called Povis and has Bereth has no natural protection against the
a very large observatory of some acclaim. scalding sun of Solaris when both Manakel
and Bereth are at their closest proximity. Ma-
Ronove nakel has an unusual orbit, in that, sometimes,
Ronove is covered by about 84% water and is it will pass closer to the sun than Liwett. Bereth
really a collection of widely spread island. The in turn follows a wide orbit. The result is that
moon is smaller than Earth’s moon and it is the sometimes these two frequencies occur at the
smallest of the three moon. It occupies the centre same time, pushing Bereth far closer than Li-
position spinning around Manakel. Ronove’s ca- wet, almost as close as Hayyel; but with none
pital island New Samoa is the twin city of Azardis, of the protective wards about the inner most
Surroyo a major residential city on Agragon. The- planets to protect from the heat. During these
re are regular flights connecting the two cities for unlikely times the whole planet scorches up.
student exchanges and cultural swaps. Ronove is The waters hiss with steam and things catch
dominated by a largely Neo-Japanese populati- fire spontaneously. Then as the rock cool and
on, with the second largest population being that passes back into normal orbit, people return to
of people that on Earth would have been consi- their homes.
dered Pacific Islanders. Sumo Wrestling main-
tains a rich tradition in this part of the Nebula. The people of Bereth are used to this cycle,
and the rarity is such that it does not disturb
Bereth too much. Naturally much of the buildings
Bereth has an unusually wide orbit around constructed on this world are designed to
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Equipment Marbus
You can buy more or less anything in Mar-
bus. However some equipment is cheaper
than others.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• OT (OmniTech)
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
• SS (Sophos Stimulants)
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• EC (Elite Crafts)
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
• IR (Ichan Robotics)
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
+4 Purchase DC Penalty
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
• GA (Greenfield Arms)
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
• Duruki Freemarket Technology
• Elvish Freemarket Technology
+6 Purchase DC Penalty
• Elvish Restricted Tech
• Duruki Restricted Tech
• Illithid Technology
• Drow Technology Marbus principle cities in Marbus. Lava City, at the
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) very apex of polar ice caps - represents the
• Beyonder Technology The Planet Overall biggest city and even it has a population of
Marbus is the closest world to the smallers under a million.
sun in the Elysium Nebula, Acheron. It is a
small mercurial world with active volcanoes Marbus is a unique place because it is large-
all along it. It was not originally colonized by ly untouched by the memory of war - it was
the elves unlike its brother Enoch that wan- built after the Illithid wars. It also is place so
dered so close to Solaris. However it is much obscenely close to the Sun that it is pretty
cooler than Enoch because its sun is far much safe from invaders. After all, who would
weaker. For this reason humans were able choose to live there? In Lava City for instance
to colonize and modify parts of this world so the pole always slightly faces the sun - this
that it would be suitable for human life. Ne- means the sun never sets. It is always there
ver the less there are still only about a dozen boiling and burning angrily in the sky.
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Equipment Muscovisk
You can buy more or less anything in Mus-
covisk. However some kinds of equipment
are cheaper than others.
-2 Purchase DC Bonus
The following manufacturers are availa-
ble discounted in Muscovisk because the
principle manufacturing plants are loca-
ted here.
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• SS (Sophos Stimulants)
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• OT (OmniTech)
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
• IR (Ichan Robotics) The Muscovan State of Zoya was founded to do medicinal and pharmaceutical work. Aesir
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) sales have made the area wealthy enough to maintain regular beautification treatments
• CC (Core Cybernetics) - Zoya is quite scenic by evening.
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty Muscovisk Halo-World warship (after undergoing heavy bombing) to
• AutoDyn Vehicles match Titan‘s orbit around Jupiter.
• CG (Correllan Genetics) The Habitats Overall
• CC (CyberCorp) A Halo-World is the largest man-made struc- During the Renaissance Period when Phoebe
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour) tures to be found in the Elysium Nebula. Only rose to power with its steady advancements
• EC (Elite Crafts) two such massive worlds exist. One, the older in Fusion Technology they purchased it off the
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry) and smaller of the two, is the Muscovisk Halo- Jovan National Party and set it around Phoebe.
• PP (PlasmaPro) World and capital station of the Independant When Phoebe first discovered the Elysium Ne-
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals) Coalition of Human Advancement. The newer bula was already habited by Elves and Dwarves
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems) and largest man-made structure is the Kieff as a show of good faith (to prove they were not
• ES (Elysium Starships Co) Halo world. From a distance it looks like a giant interested in taking anyone‘s land - how wrong
• AS (Arcane Supplements) gray ring cycling rapidly. that turned out to be) the massive Halo-World
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) was taken apart piecemeal and accelerated to
• GA (Greenfield Arms) A Halo-World is unique, because unlike the the Alpha Centauri system for jumping to the
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) other types of station that rely on the ultra- Elysium Nebula. There it was reconstructed
+4 Purchase DC Penalty modern Grav-Plate nanotechnology to si- and rechristened The Pearl (which some still
• Duruki Freemarket Technology mulate gravity Halo-Worlds do not need any call it today).
• Elvish Freemarket Technology Gravity at all. Halo-Worlds spin to mimic the
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) effects of gravity. Muscovisk in particular is During the early years of the Nebula, when hu-
the single oldest used man-made structure in manity was more or less politically united - or
+6 Purchase DC Penalty the Elysium Nebula. It has undergone count- at the very least politically undecided The Pearl
• Elvish Restricted Tech less expansions and renovations but the core proved to be a first stop bastion for travellers
• Duruki Restricted Tech
of it, the main bulk of it, was built well over 12 entering the core worlds. The Pearl was badly
• Illithid Technology
thousand years ago - a mind bogglingly vast damaged during the Illithid Wars, and when
• Drow Technology
amount of time. In fact it has exchanged hands the star fleets under Commander Ivan Petrov
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
as many times as anyone can remember. It was helped control all major Elysian Space Sectors
• Beyonder Technology
first built by the UEU (United Earth Unity) and and commandeered the black void between
it orbited not far from Earth. During World War worlds it was he that set about the reconstruc-
V, the war which would set humanity back by tion of The Pearl. He rechristened it Muscovisk
about four thousand years and plunge the hu- (Ivan and his fleet command were descended
man race into a new dark age, it was stolen by from NeoRussia and the names they chose
Jovan Nationalists and it was dragged by heavy were a reflection of their history and culture).
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A small scale Jump Gate bought from the Duruki and built specifically for transport between Muscovan and Novobrisk ensures a rapid and
safe journey between these two ICHAn Homeworlds.
He dedicated it to be not only a habitation, but Game rules Muscovisk (there are actually 2 Grand Oligarchs from Kieff
a place for research and science. „A station for Muscovisk uses centripetal force to simulate and Muscovisk as well as 6 State Oligarchs from
Human Advancement“ he called it. With the gravity and the atmosphere is simulated. The Kieff, 3 State Oligarchs from Muscovisk, and 7
construction of Kazan Station and the Istra atmosphere and gravity are both earth-like. other Oligarchs of various ICHAn stations) are
Starhome it become clear that Muscovisk was collectively called the Oligarchy, and they are the
not be a unique construction in the Elysium The Jumpbay to Novobrisk ruling body of the Coalition. The Exalted Forum
Nebula. When the United Republic declared The military fleet of the Independant Coalition is the place where in a fairly regular basis critical
itself a single political entity spanning all the is primarily built in Muscovisk. The home, the- meetings are held and decisions are made. Most
major planets in Elysium the space stations for refore of Ichan National Starships, can be said often the Oligarchs themselves will not travel to
„Human Advancement“ declared themselves to be Muscovisk. The Grand Admiral of the Fleet the Forum from their own station (though the
politically distinct, claiming the title of an In- is based in the more military oriented station of Novobriskian Oligarch tends to do so thanks to
dependant Coalition. By the year 3 of the Re- Novobrisk, but bulk warship manufacture oc- the jumpgate and the Kieff Grand Oligarch tends
public Calendar the new political group had a curs here. Not surprisingly there is a great need to do so to distinguish himself from the State
name and a gubernatorial system based on the for quick transport between the two places. A Oligarchs who have local matters to attend to)
principle outline by Ivan Petrov and his fleet small scale Jump Gate bought from the Duruki and so the Exalted Forum is a giant room with
command. They were called the Independant and built specifically for these two stations en- a fully immersive Virtual Reality system so that
Coalition of Human Advancement and thus sures a rapid journey to and from Novobrisk. very remote Oligarchs can interact in near real
the ICHA was born. time in an actual place.
Advanced Chemical Studies
Muscovisk is quite old, and thus smaller than the Muscovisk was initially rechristened as a sci- The States of Muscovisk
other Halo-World of Kieff. It is still the second ence facility so its no surprise that one of the There are three states in Muscovisk: Ulyana,
biggest artificial habitat in the Elysium Nebula. first things that were tested and developed here Valentina and Zoya. As Kieff was to continue to
It has a diameter of just under one million mi- were pharmaceuticals to help advance the field do the, naming standard for Coalition States on
les. It is fatter and wider however (by about 40%) of medicine. Sophos Stimulants, the dominant Halo Worlds is to name the State after female
than Kieff so the difference in habitable land drug firm in the Coalition, emerged from the painters that emerged during the Post War V Re-
area is not that great. Muscovisk is tilted such early days of Muscovisk. Not surprisngly it was naissance in Phoebe‘s NeoRussian sectors. Ulya-
that both sides are shaded from the sun (well also the first company to mass produce Aesir wi- na is the largest and capital state and is where the
one side ‚eclipses‘ the other from the sun every thin the Elysium Nebula so a number of the early Exalted Forum can be found. Valentina contains
7 hours roughly). Instead the day/night cycle is psychics came out of Muscovisk. the military fleet and main INS Production Fa-
simulated by a pulse beacon which turns on and cilities while Zoya is the place most noted for its
off at the centre of the Halo to simulate a steady The Exalted Forum of the Oligarchy work in the advancement of medecinal, genetic
26 hour day. All the Oligarchs of the Independant Coalition and pharmaceutical research. n
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Hejjat
Once just another oasis-town, Hejjat has expan-
ded many times over since the Eriksens’ disco-
very. It now boasts a population of one million
(as opposed to its population of two thousand
half a century ago) and has three major space-
port complexes on its periphery (Alpha, Beta,
Welldigger’s Canyon on the surface and Gamma). The central Gardens, a public
of Naberius serves as the primary area of meandering paths and exotic trees, are
entrance to the subterranean crypts. Naberius still heated by the city’s spring, but the rest of
the city is made of heavily-insulated buildings.
The Planet Overall Because of the city’s relative youth, its buildings
Naberius was ignored by the URE for much of are small by Elysian standards (the tallest re-
the time humans have occupied it. On the sur- aches only thirty stories) but the architecture
face, it seems just like any other elf-terraformed is still inspiring because of the arching covered
world in the Nebula, and not even a terribly walkways that extend between buildings. It’s
good one at that. Plant life is only found in small, possible to walk from any of the space-ports to
clustered oases centered on supernaturally hea- the Gardens without ever stepping outside, a
ted springs. A few farming communities existed journey of about five kilometres, which is fortu-
on Naberius, using the oases to keep out of the nate because the uninsulated streets outside of
numbing cold of the planet, and it was a pair of the city centre are scoured by blistering winds.
explorers from one of these that discovered the There is very little ground traffic in any Naberian
now-infamous Welldigger’s Canyon. cities due to the hostility of the environment.
Kaspar and Jall Eriksen, brothers and would- The Urean official Capitol Building in Hej-
be prospectors, were attempting to create their jat has always been a source of contention to
own hot spring, working on suspicions that Naberians. It sprang up within a year of the
the elves magic was hidden underneath the appearance of Welldigger’s Canyon, prior to
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Equipment Muscovisk
As a developing planet, Naberius is still
working on its economy. Hejjat, the Dark,
Alloces, and other urbanized areas have
plenty of equipment available because
of the influx of visitors willing to spend
plenty of credits. Outside of these places,
however, the available items are even
more limited. Ground vehicles are always
a rarity on Naberius or Alloces.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
Nowadays authorized contract-fortune-seekers enter the Dark in search for Elven-Artefacts. • LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
which there were no government buildings found what appeared to be the ruins of an an- • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
on the planet at all. Watched over vigilantly by cient elven civilization. Quickly staking a claim, • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
Urean marines, it serves as a physical remin- the brothers began to quietly sell off items to • AS (Arcane Supplements)
der of the “Big Government” presence that off-world investors. Eventually people began to • Generic (generic no-name brands)
has suddenly appeared on Naberius. In the wise up to the bumpkins who “happened to find
Prole Riots which have rocked Hejjat in the the stuff” and the secret of Welldigger’s Canyon +2 Purchase DC Penalty
last decade, the Capitol Building is more often was revealed. The Eriksens were fine with this as • AutoDyn Vehicles
the mob’s target than even the hated customs it meant they didn’t need to transport the artif- • CC (Core Cybernetics)
stations in the ports, where the URE squeezes acts as far any more, so they set up a waystation • DA (Delta Arms)
every credit it can from the artifact trade. inside the caverns known simply as the Dark. • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
The rest, as they say, is history. • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
Welldigger’s Canyon • OT (OmniTech)
When the Eriksens drilled at the site now known Today the Dark is run by Jall’s daughter Kylie • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
as Welldigger’s Canyon, it was nothing more Eriksen. Her father, meanwhile, lives the life • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
than a patch of empty ground. Their survey, of an eccentric millionaire on Colopatiron, • INS (Ichan National Starships)
however, noted that there was a slight concavi- but her uncle died fifteen years ago of natural • IR (Ichan Robotics)
ty to the ground at the area and they thought it causes in Hejjat. The Dark lies about a kilo- • EC (Elite Crafts)
would be a prime place to drill to the imagined meter into the cavern of Welldigger’s Canyon, • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
aquifer. Once they drilled twenty metres, howe- right before the caves start branching into the • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
ver, their equipment was swallowed into a giant elven crypts. Kaspar long ago walled off the • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
sinkhole. Returning with spelunking equipment, tunnel behind the Dark to prevent unauthori- +4 Purchase DC Penalty
the brothers searched through the caves and zed fortune-seekers to move any ships farther • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
into the crypts than the waystation. Kylie has • GA (Greenfield Arms)
since augmented this wall with turrets for ad- • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
Game rules Marbus ded security and maintains a security force • Duruki Freemarket Technology
Naberius and Alloces have been grav-stabilized known as the Keepers (as in Crypt Keepers) to • Elvish Freemarket Technology
by the ancient elves and have normal earth-like ensure that her legacy remains under family +6 Purchase DC Penalty
gravity. control. No visitors are allowed into the crypts • Elvish Restricted Tech
without an official guide and no groups are • Duruki Restricted Tech
Naberius has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC
races can breathe naturally without requiring
allowed back out without their guide, a harsh • Illithid Technology
the use of special breathers. Outside of insu-
reminder of the “frontier justice” that still per- • Drow Technology
lated buildings or the 100 metre heated radius
vades Naberian society. The URE clashes so • DA (Daemon Artifacts)
of the hot springs, PC races need heated suits
often with the Darkers that many inhabitants • Beyonder Technology
to survive.
refer to the relationship as a cold war. Howe-
ver, the Dark and the Canyon itself are private
Alloces has no atmosphere to speak of and land thanks to the Eriksens’ claim and the go-
vistors who leave the protection of the Harton vernment can’t do much to curtail Kylie or her
Complex must where vacuum-suits. followers.
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Alloces
If the URE has a light presence on Naberius
itself, it has no presence whatsoever on Al-
loces. The moon is sparsely populated with
only a few domed complexes surrounding the
Harton Spaceport. The diverse group of for-
tune-hunters that come to Naberius in search
of artifacts often find the former farming com-
munities to be stifling and boring, and an en-
trepreneur named James Harton answered this
need by building a cluster of gaming houses on
Alloces. As might be expected, the population
of the moon is tough and sly, and visitors are
encouraged to watch out for pick-pockets and
card sharks alike. n
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Equipment Nemeniah
Nememiah
You can buy more or less anything in
Nemeniah and its moon. However some The Planet Overall
equipment is cheaper than other. Nememiah and its „brother world“ Vohu-
On Ipos robotics are acquired at -2 manah are critical planets to Urean trade.
Purchase DC instead of +0 Nememiah spends a third of its orbit in a
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
position almost directly half-way between
• AutoDyn Vehicles
Solaris and Acheron. Half of the time it is
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
not in this vital strategic position, Vohumu-
• CC (CyberCorp)
nah is. These two worlds form what is called
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
the Gulliver Trade Route - straight between
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
the Solaris System and the Acheron System.
• PP (PlasmaPro)
Only 30% of the year is the Gulliver Route
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
down (when both Vohumanah and Solaris
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
are not immediately available as stop over
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
points for barges coming through.
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands) For this reason Nememiah and Vohumanah
• IR (Ichan Robotics) have perfected their function as stopping
points for traders. They provide refuelling
+2 Purchase DC Penalty services, have vast space ports, and a large
• CC (Core Cybernetics) number of fancy hotels. For a quick stop
• DA (Delta Arms) in Nememiah, most visitors will stop on
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) Nememiah‘s popular moon Morax. Morax
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) has the largest Space Station in the Solar
• OT (OmniTech) System - the second largest in human domi-
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) nated space and certainly has one of the top
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) five in galactic terms. The Omicron Space
• INS (Ichan National Starships) Port swallows up roughly 1/8th of the pla-
• EC (Elite Crafts) net. (Only the truly grotesque Space Port of
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) Astaroth compares in size.)
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) Los Demonios, New Sanfran,
+4 Purchase DC Penalty Diego and Barbara
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) Nememiah was not inhabited by Phoebans
• GA (Greenfield Arms) like much of the rest of URE space. It was in-
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) habited by an earlier generation of explorers
• Duruki Freemarket Technology representing a mixed bag of travellers. One
• Elvish Freemarket Technology of the communities to have arrived was a
+6 Purchase DC Penalty Terran based one that could trace its origins
• Elvish Restricted Tech to the American West Coast. The names of
• Duruki Restricted Tech the cities of Nememiah reflect these ancient
• Illithid Technology places on Terra. Los Demonios - the coun-
• Drow Technology terpoint city to the now forgotten Los Ange-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) les; New San Francisco - later simplified to
• Beyonder Technology simply New Sanfran; and finally the cities of
Diego and Barbara - shortened derivatives of
the one time San Diego and Santa Barbara.
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Game rules Marbus area, and part of that reason is that the Ipos
Nememiah and its moons have an Earth-like governor general, Miles Ipax, is semi-cyber-
atmosphere so PC races can breathe naturally netic and has a passion for robotic acqui-
without requiring the use of special breathers. sitions. He has held his power for nigh-on
hundred and twenty years, kept alive by
Nememiah and its moons have been grav-sta-
bilized by the ancient elves and have normal
the most expensive of technologies. Ipos is
earth-like gravity.
a curious place because Governer-General
Ipax was once a wealthy business man and
did not relinquish control of his buisiness
once moving into politics. Instead he tried
New Sanfran is noteworthy because it has the to merge his business with politics, and
Sanfran Station that hovers over it in geosyn- though his opponents have accused him of
chronous orbit and has a long elevator that wheeling and dealing (and generally using
hangs in perilous defiance of gravity, from his monopolies on local industries to have
Sanfran to the Station. This unique structure his way) has yet to be ousted from power.
is one of a kind in the Elysium Nebula.
He has managed to push legislature granting
Diego is a very wide city - surrounded by voting rights to robots and is the single big-
open plains Diego just spread out like a gest acquirer of robots in the known galaxy.
terrible concrete desert. The city of Diego Its no surprise that many of Ipos‘ residents
covers about 15,000 square miles and eve- have moved out and gone to nearby Morax
ry inch is covered in concrete. Wide two or or down to Nememiah. Never the less Ipos
three story buildings are common. Sky-scra- continues to thrive, by merit of the fact that it
pers are not. is quite cheap to acquire hotels and the fact
that the robots keep things quite clean. n
Barbara is a city by the sea. There is not much
water in Nememiah (only 17% of the planet
is covered in it) but Barbara is at a principal
location by the largest body of water (the Ne-
memian Ocean - there is only one).
Morax
Morax has the busiest Space Port of all the
planets orbiting Solaris - which is quite say-
ing something considering its just a small
moon. In fact, a good 8th of the planet is a
single solitary space port - spread out like a
cancer of girder and landing bays over the
entire area. This is because Morax has to
handle traffic to the nearby SanFran station
as well as to the local stations at Los Demo-
nios and the three major stations on Ipos.
Ipos
Ipos is one of the few areas of the human
systems where humans are outnumbered by
droids. Ipos is a very clean, well maintained
One of the many householding robots
which can be found on Ipos. This Ichan
Robotics Model H3 aka „Jeff“ is often also
used as a private Messenger. It is not un-
The Morax Omicron Space Port, usual to see a bunch of them exchanging
one of the largest Space Ports private messages in public places for
in all of the URE. their owners.
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Game rules Marbus the Novobrisk spacestation and extend in a Equipment Novobrisk
Novobrisk has been grav-stabilized and the block around it. You can buy more or less anything in
atmosphere is simulated. The atmosphere and Novobrisk Nationcraft. However some kinds
gravity are both earth-like. A large number of military grade escort of equipment are cheaper than others.
vessels accompany most freighters carrying
-2 Purchase DC
Gubernatorial Habs arms and armour. As one might imagine the- The following manufacturers are based
The Gubernatorial Habs were erected shortly se freighters are popular targets among cri- in Novobrisk and equipment from them is
after it was decided that Novobrisk would ser- minals and pirates who know perfectly well therefore cheaper.
ve as a non-military civillian station as well as a that one good hit will allow them to equip a • DA (Delta Arms)
military one. These Habs are neatly divided in veritable army with the latest combat gear. • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
two to provide housing and work facilities not • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
only to the political elite (the Oligarch and his The Robotics Habs • IR (Ichan Robotics)
entourage) but also for the military elite. The Though people generally think of Novobrisk
General Superior of the ICHA Armed Forces as a place to buy big guns and protective +0 Purchase DC Penalty
and the Grand Admiral of the ICHA Fleet both outfits, it also a centre for robotics study. • CC (Core Cybernetics)
make their homes and work in the Gubernato- This is of course because the ICHAs prin- • OT (OmniTech)
rial Habs of Novobrisk. ciple interest in robotics is for military ap- • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
plications but as the engineers who operate • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
Residential Habs in the Robotics Habs have expanded their • INS (Ichan National Starships)
Novobrisk is not the youngest construction in knowledge of military design (and granted • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
the ICHA but it is certainly the most recently ha- extra funding) they have also advanced in • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
bited of the major stations. It was first opened to the general areas of artificial intelligence • Generic (generic no-name brands)
civillian habitation in 314 which was when the and motor skills sophistication. Though +2 Purchase DC Penalty
flag of the ICHA underwent its most recent alte- not nearly as advanced as Elvish Synthetics, • AutoDyn Vehicles
ration (to add an additional circle to the lower Robotic Biodroids made by the ICHA are be- • CG (Correllan Genetics)
6 making the new number of 7 circles plus the coming more and more life-like with each • CC (CyberCorp)
original 2 - for 9 major habited stations). passing year. They can think, behave and • E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
interact as humans and from a distance, or • EC (Elite Crafts)
Because it has been around so shortly, despite a appropriately disguised can often be con- • LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
campaign to promote Novobrisk as a new place fused with one. • PP (PlasmaPro)
to live with plenty of opportunity and space, • AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
a mere 7 million people live on Novobrisk The Military Habs • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
(though the number is closer to 10 million if The military habs are subdivided into vari- • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
you include military personnel on tour of duty ous sections. Certain sections train the ICHA • AS (Arcane Supplements)
and cygor units.) The residential habs tend to Polize which are humans trained for peace- • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
be more spacious than in other major stations keeping within the civillian zones. Some • GA (Greenfield Arms)
for this reason. sectors train the more highly trained CATT • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
Teams (Coalition Assault Tactical Teams). +4 Purchase DC Penalty
The Commercial Habs CATT Units are primarily policing units like • Duruki Freemarket Technology
Unlike Commercial Habs on any other Coa- the Polize but they are more heavily armed • Elvish Freemarket Technology
lition Station, in Novobrisk the Commercial and armoured to handle more organized cri- • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
Habs are also often called the Gun Range Habs minals and security threats.
because of the number of weapons sellers, ar- +6 Purchase DC Penalty
mour sellers and training facilities. There is also the cybernetic gorilla subsec- • Elvish Restricted Tech
tions which train and breed CyGors for mi- • Duruki Restricted Tech
• Illithid Technology
Novobrisk was initially designed as a military litary and peacekeeping purposes. This sec-
• Drow Technology
station so its no surprise that people tend to tion is also accompanied by a combat robots
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
think of „the place to buy weapons and ar- section where engineers design military gra-
• Beyonder Technology
mour“ they think of Novobrisk. de robots based on the latest designs from
the Engineer Habs.
Since the weapons of the ICHA are bulk ex-
ported from Novobrisk to both NED rebels, Novobrisk has a direct Jumpgate to Musco-
URE worlds (were prices for such imports visk. This Jumpgate can be used by anyone
are jacked up) and other ICHAn space sta- that pays – with reduced fairs for ICHAn na-
tions the Commercial Habs are married with tionals n
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Equipment Orabas
You can buy more or less anything on
Orobas and its moons. However some
equipment is cheaper than others. Below
is a list of corporations and the ease of
purchase in this zone.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• OT (OmniTech)
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
• SS (Sophos Stimulants)
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• EC (Elite Crafts)
• TB (Trader‘s Barges)
Game rules Orabas species of the Elysium Nebula. The Second Illi- • IR (Ichan Robotics)
thid Wars, that which the URE calls simply The • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
Orobas and its moons have an Earth-like at-
Illithid Wars (since humanity was not present • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
mosphere so PC races can breathe naturally
without requiring the use of special breathers. for the first one), came at an opportune time +4 Purchase DC Penalty
for humanity. It was the excuse they needed • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
Orobas and its moons have an Earth-like gra-
vity. This has no special game effects or mo-
to build military stations on almost all of the • GA (Greenfield Arms)
elvish worlds and thus establish themselves as • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
difiers.
the dominant species of the Elysium Nebula. • Duruki Freemarket Technology
The eventual victory over the Illithids (in -47) • Elvish Freemarket Technology
and the foundation of the United Republic (in +6 Purchase DC Penalty
swelled to fill all of Orobas and moved further year 0) on the old elvish capital of Elysia Prime • Elvish Restricted Tech
inwards ever closer to the two stars. When served to effectively change the capital planet • Duruki Restricted Tech
the population in Orobas brimmed to totality for humanity. Until that time Orobas was con- • Illithid Technology
humans moved on to colonize Astaroth, then sidered the capital world of the Elysium Nebu- • Drow Technology
Naberius and briefly Saleos (before it was con- la. Still today it has a powerful historical legacy • DA (Daemon Artifacts)
verted into trash world). It was on the Solarian and it has thousands of visitors every day. In • Beyonder Technology
orbits that the human incursion was first felt. every way it feels like an old seat of power. It
Vohumanah, Nememiah, and ancient Colopa- has venerability and ancestry, the oldest hu-
tiron which at that time still had a very sizable man world in the Elysium Nebula.
elvish population.
The Consulorium and the Monodominants
Already it was apparent the human spreading, According to the old habits inherited from
though less violent and more diplomatic by far Phoebe of Sol System, the humans were ruled
than the Illithids (who had come to wage a war by a council and a leader called the Prime
and enslave all) were a danger to all the native Consular. The settlers of Orobas built a
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Androalphus
Androalphus is the closer of the two moons
and, like the rest of the system, maintains a
rich history and heritage. Androns (as peo-
ple from Androalphus are often called) have
a reputation for being a bit snobbish. They
dress well, maintain quaint traditions and
are well very polite by the standards of the
rest of the United Republic. Androalphus is
a built up moon – almost entirely dominate
by cityscape. Despite this Androalphus has
managed to retain its natural beauty to some
extent in the form of zoos, gardens, and wild-
life reserves that have been artfully integra-
ted into the cities themselves. Androalphus
is considered architecturally one of the most
attractive places to visit with in the Elysium
Nebula, so not surprisingly it gains a decent
revenue from tourism. In fact it is suspect that
Andron elitism stems in part from the fact that
this is what visitors expect them to be like and
because the Androns try as much as possible
to ‘sell’ their image.
Valac
Valac is a very distant moon from Orobas
(most likely it is a far flying meteorite that got
caught in a wide unlikely orbit as it passed
close to Orobas). The moon, like Androal-
phus, is terraformed and the technomagic of
the elves has artificially increased its gravity
across the surface as is the case with many
moons and worlds across the Elysium Nebula.
However its distance and its small size made
early human settlers take the assumption that
in fact it would be uninhabitable. By the time
that Valac was visited for the first time by ex-
plorers it was with incredible shock that the
humans discovered the true significance of
Androalphus is considered architectu- elvish terraforming. Nearly every world in the
rally one of the most attractive places to Elysium Nebula is habitable thanks to them.
visit with in the Elysium Nebula, so not grand structure called the Consulorium where Thankfully Valac is one of those places so sig-
surprisingly it gains a decent revenue the council would make its gubernatorial de- nificant in the humans understand of their
from tourism cisions. When the Orobas council was eventu- new homes that they have not over-urbanized
ally dissolved in favour of the more robust Re- it. It retains a good deal of wilderness and it
publican model of the URE the Consulorium has one of the lowest populations in the Ely-
became the working place of the governor of sium Nebula. Like Androalphus much of the
Orobas. Eventually (in 107) the entire struc- income of Valac comes from tourism. Unlike
ture was bought by a Supreme Prelate of the Androalphus, Valac is not particularly known
Monodominancy and the Consulorium has for its culture – rather as a site of historic sig-
since become one of the most influential re- nificance and place of considerable natural
ligious locations in the Nebula. The Order of beauty. Possibly due to the Monodominat in-
the Clouds makes its principal Cathedral the fluence in the Orobas system in general, Valac
old Consulorium and they are a very powerful has an unusually high number of Monodomi-
order in the Monodominant Church. nist Churches. n
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Game rules Phoenix tingent of URE Marines. He proved his tactical Equipment Phoenix
Phoenix and its 3 moons have an Earth-like worth at the Battle of Al‘Falad - likely a turning You can buy more or less anything in
atmosphere so PC races can breathe naturally point in the battle for it is here that the Marines Phoneix and its moons. However some
without requiring the use of special breathers. realized the potential of the young psyker and equipment is cheaper than others.
brought him to their orbital station to discuss
Phoenix and its 3 moons have been grav-sta- +0 Purchase DC Penalty
bilized by the ancient elves and have normal
the military situation. Al‘Falad contains a notab- • AutoDyn Vehicles
earth-like gravity.
le military barracks and a very famous Museum • CG (Correllan Genetics)
of War History. One of its most notable feature • CC (CyberCorp)
is the skeleton (and rresin model) of the terrible • E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
black dragon Arraksu whom the Illithids sided • LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
religious significance to the Phoenicians be- with during the 3rd war. There is an alien re- • PP (PlasmaPro)
cause it is the location where Pheonix Assal search centre of great note as well, where people • AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
spent his youth as an Aesir dependant. Se- try to study and understand the curious mind of • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
cond of all because Hadas has a unique link to the Illithids and question what drives them to • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
Elysia Prime. Deep within the Temple of the kill things. All things that have stemmed from • AS (Arcane Supplements)
Eye (a large pyramid at the centre of the city) the historical backdrop of the city. • Generic (generic no-name brands)
is a Way-Gate. A special door that people can
walk through and appear within the Temple Azurn +2 Purchase DC Penalty
of the Phoenix in New Cairo. This link to the Azurn is the smallest and most densely vegeta- • CC (Core Cybernetics)
capital world is used by the Phoenician Cult ted moon of the three that surround Phoenix. • DA (Delta Arms)
to help people that so desire make their pil- For some reason the Elvish arcane sciences • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
grammage to the Holy City of New Cairo but that alter worlds took a particularly strong • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
also to make money for the church allowing grip on Azurn turning it into a steamy tropical • OT (OmniTech)
certain commercial voyages as well. General- world. Illithids used nano-tech devices to turn • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
ly the day is devoted to allowing travellers of the natural flora and fauna against the people • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
the former variety while the night is reserved here. Small nanites were deployed, able to al- • INS (Ichan National Starships)
for high paying business clients. ter the DNA of plants and animals to turn them • EC (Elite Crafts)
into fanged killing machines with a penchant • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
The creation of the gate is something of an in- for fights. Azurn is now a very dangerous place • IR (Ichan Robotics)
triguing mystery. Not long after the building filled with all manner deadly wildlife. • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
of the Temple of the Phoenix on New Cairo a • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
wandering Elvish Psion of venerable age was Saladin +4 Purchase DC Penalty
drawn to it from afar. He reputably told the Saladin reacted in nearly the opposite way • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
high members of the Phoenician Cult that to Azurn. Whereas Azurn ended up with an • GA (Greenfield Arms)
the intense and raw arcane energy emanating overabundance of moisture Saladin ended up • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
from the place was so strong he had to see it with not nearly enough. It is the largest of three • Duruki Freemarket Technology
for himself. moons and is predominantly desert (or tundra • Elvish Freemarket Technology
at the poles) and there is very little water any- +6 Purchase DC Penalty
Once there he explained that such energy where on the moon. Most water is imported • Elvish Restricted Tech
could do wonderful things if harnessed in the directly from Malphas which is something of • Duruki Restricted Tech
right way. Him and a time of Phoenician psy- a water world. • Illithid Technology
kers spent many sleepless nights preparing a • Drow Technology
permanent Circle of Teleportation to exist in Malphas • DA (Daemon Artifacts)
two places joined by Phoenix Assal‘s potent Malphas is a curious world. Whereas the other • Beyonder Technology
psyke. How exactly they accomplished this two lacked a significant atmosphere before el-
is shrouded in myth and half-fact because of vish meddling, Malphas always contained a
the secrecy of the operation. sort of protective layer. Malphas is unique in
that it is a predominantly water covered moon
Al‘Falad (like many worlds) but unlike many it is pre-
Al‘Falad is another example of a major city that dominantly covered in fresh water which may
was built surrounding a place of great religious explain why many refer to it as Loch-World
significance. After Phoenix freed himself from or Lake World. Malphas has the furthest or-
the Institution and single-handedly crippled a bit around Phoenix and is roughly the size of
force of Ogres in the region that would later be Earth‘s moon, a good mean average between
called Hadas, he travelled South with a con- the large Saladin and smaller Azurn. n
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Equipment Procel
Any of the equipment below can be
bought on Procel and Dantalion. Some
of the equipment is cheaper than others
though.
-2 Purchase DC
Equipment from the following list is chea-
per because it is commonly manufactured
on Dantalion.
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
+0 Purchase DC
• GA (Greenfield Arms)
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
Dantalion is well-watered, urban and modern - with an unique take on architecture. • CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
munity which operates its own completely au- lar ICHA and URE manufacturers LC has been • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
tonomous government. The lizardfolk of Procel very good at imitating the very latest techno- • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
have not adopted any modern technology and logies and offering them at reduced prices • OT (OmniTech)
rely instead upon the sword and the arrow. It to the NED consumer - allowing even folk in • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
is interesting to note that the Totem Lizardfolk the backwater worlds at the limit of Acheron‘s • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
of Procel are a unique breed and cannot inter- orbits access to life-saving organ replacement • INS (Ichan National Starships)
mix with lizardfolk from other worlds though cybernetics. • EC (Elite Crafts)
it is thought that they are related. Only elvish • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
historians have access to the records of the Olaf Vorcetrix • IR (Ichan Robotics)
elves from when they went to world-to-world The representative of the Procel System for • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
seeding planets and they do not often share foreign affairs is Olaf Vorcetrix the Mayor of • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
these sacred tomes with humans - so humans Paratris the capital city of Dantalion. He is in- +4 Purchase DC Penalty
have only current genetic data to make theo- volved in numerous activites both across the • Duruki Freemarket Technology
ries about the origin of lizardfolk. In any case NED and among potential external political • Elvish Freemarket Technology
there are no kobold communities on Procel allies such as the Duruki and the ICHA. Unlike
which makes it fairly unique. Armand Hawke, president of the NED, Olaf +6 Purchase DC Penalty
takes a much less hardline attitude with the • Elvish Restricted Tech
• Duruki Restricted Tech
Dantalion URE. He believes the only way to open trade-
• Illithid Technology
Dantalion, by contrast, is an atypical world in lines to their closest trading partner (the Re-
• Drow Technology
the NED. The moon that circulates the world public) is to stop competing and open peace-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
of Procel is well-watered, it is urban, it is mo- ful negotiations slowly. He would prefer to let
• Beyonder Technology
dern and it is a hot-spot for new and exciting the Republic keep Isafel than see continued
cybernetic development. The NED Organiza- bloodshed in the region. Armand‘s opinion is
tion called Liberal Cyberworks operates out of that it is easy for Olaf to say - he has already
Dantalion and thus the system has some of the won his war for independance. The two are
cheapest cybernetics in the NED. Though Li- likely to compete for the position of President
beral Cyberworks lacks the resources of simi- in the next elections. n
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Game rules Phoenix would be if you counted the lake it surrounds Equipment Rhamiel
Rhamiel has an Earth-like atmosphere so PC as part of the size of the city itself. Lake Voral is You can buy more or less anything in Rha-
races can breathe naturally without requiring a rough circle about 500,000 feet in radius. The miel and its moons. However some kinds
the use of special breathers. entire city is built as a giant circle surrounding of equipment are cheaper than others.
Rhamiel‘s moons have an Earth-like at- the lake with a big marina at the centre.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
mosphere so PC races can breathe naturally • AutoDyn Vehicles
without requiring the use of special breathers. Though there are many unique things about • CG (Correllan Genetics)
Rhamiel has been grav-stabilized by the ancient
the city (its structure for one, its organized • CC (CyberCorp)
elves and have normal earth-like gravity.
diving trips featuring exotic fresh-water fish • E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
Rhamiel‘s moons have been grav-stabilized by the
from all over the Nebula and from old Terra • LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
ancient elves and have normal earth-like gravity.
as well) the thing that it is most known for • PP (PlasmaPro)
however is that it is the capital of the Mono- • AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
dominants. Monodominance is one of the • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
the mountains outwards in such a way that three main religions in the Republic (the • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
they form jutting edifices - like rocky penin- Phoenician Cult and Neomysticism being • AS (Arcane Supplements)
sulas hanging perilously over empty sky. If the the other two). It is a monotheistic faith, with • Generic (generic no-name brands)
peninsulas stretch too far the weight at the end white-robed clergy who worship in Mono-
would cause them to snap, causing an avalan- dominant Churches. Monodominancy is +2 Purchase DC Penalty
ched and often times crushing the lizardfolk perhaps a fusion of various old Terran mono- • CC (Core Cybernetics)
who lived in the irrigated river basins below. theistic religions and rose to heights during • DA (Delta Arms)
the period of Phoeban economic dominancy • ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
For this reason the lizardkin revered the moun- in the old Sol System. • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
tains as a god, able to quickly punish commu- • OT (OmniTech)
nities who did not behave as it wished. They Here the Monodominant Demagogue, equi- • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
called this God Rhamatl and it is in part from valent to the Pope in old Terran catholicism, • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
this name that planet derived its calling by the presides in a three thousand year old citadel. • INS (Ichan National Starships)
Republic. The crashing of a rocky outcropping His decisions and opinions are echoed across • EC (Elite Crafts)
led to other problems. Often the river would Monodominants all over the republic. • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
dam up and homes would be swept away • IR (Ichan Robotics)
downstream as the river took different routes. Vepar • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
The river goddess was the wife to the mounta- Vepar is the larger and closer of the two moons • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
in in Tiagaran myth. Her name was Tiagara. that orbit Rhamiel. It was once a desert planet +4 Purchase DC Penalty
pooled by two small oceans but has since been • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
Humans, struck by the majesty of these rocky irrigated by the elvish terraforming (the ice- • GA (Greenfield Arms)
cropping decided to brave the structure of ex- caps were melted during the process). Now it • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
pensive residences on the far end. Cities in the is divided between temperate forest, grassland • Duruki Freemarket Technology
sky. Of course the added weight always called and remnants of the old deserts. In these areas • Elvish Freemarket Technology
the structures to topple so the ingenious hu- humans comingle with the native Kobolds. Ve- +6 Purchase DC Penalty
mans have added Ion thrusters to the bottom par also has one of the larger temples of Yuan- • Elvish Restricted Tech
end of structure to provide an equal and oppo- Ti, though obviously not so great as the one to • Duruki Restricted Tech
site force on the other side. be found in Salmissus. • Illithid Technology
• Drow Technology
The powering of these massive thrusters re- Sabnach • DA (Daemon Artifacts)
quired the building of a vast number of effici- Is a distant a far-flying small moon, that is barely • Beyonder Technology
ent hydro-electrical plants on the river system trapped by Rhamiel‘s tight orbit around Acheron.
below Tiagara. The lizardkin were quickly dis- Sabnach is the most popular space port destina-
placed from their native homes to make room tion - since it is furthest out and rotates rapidly
for the powerplants. Today a large number of so is almost always accessible before its sibling
Lizardkin still live in the area as powerplant la- moon or Rhamiel itself. For this reason travellers
bourers or as servants in the households abo- going to and from Rhamiel via Sabnach generate
ve on the mountains themselves. a healthy amount of commerce. Supplies trade
and grain trade (imports from nearby Shekinah)
Voral keep the Sabnachians wealth; many of them
Voral is the city with the greatest surface area have summer homes on Rhamiel‘s wealthy city
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Equipment Saleos
Nothing can be bought on Saleos however
there is a lot of scavenging to be done.
Here is a list of companies that currently
of formerly used Saleos as a dump.
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
• APA (Axis Professional Armour)
• INS (Ichan National Starships) Saleos chines and pipes that first make the trash smaller
• EC (Elite Crafts) and then distribute across the planet. Drop Point
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) The Planet Overall A1 is usually manned by ICHA personel that got a
• IR (Ichan Robotics) Two words can be used to describe Saleos. Huge little to loose with laws. As such „Don‘t make me
dump. Saleos was once a small human world a send you to A1“ is a common threat from ICHAn
Any character can make a search check bit smaller than earth with a large Hawaiin islan- officers to their crew members.
DC 15 to find anything under PDC 10. The der population. It was littered with tiny islands
check takes 2d4 +2 hours and you must and large volcanoes. But with the second arrival Bifrons
have some way to travel the planet. To of the Illithids, the planet was totally destroyed Although Bifrons was not spared from orbital
find anything over PDC 10 takes a search by orbital bombardment. The land was perma- bombardment, it very much less damage was
check DC 25 and the item needs to be re- netly scarred and what used to be a beatiful ideal done to Saleos‘ only moon. When Bifrons was
paired. The check takes 3d4 +6 hours. island paradise now is used as a giant garbage terra-formed, it was originally desiginated by the
1-2 Garbage Shark Carcass dump. Owned by the United Republic of Elysium Elves to be a place of relaxation and quite exercise.
3-4 Huge Pile of Axis Armor of all ty-
licensed for use by the ICHA. Many elves vacationing there took to hoverboards
pes. Follow the scavenge rules to as a sport. All across the landscape half-destroyed
find a certain piece of armor but Garbage that cannot be recycled is brought from ramps and half-pipes lay. Now Bifrons is believed
instead of hours use minutes. all over Elysium and dumped all across Saleos to house many Guild refugees and many other
5-6 large collection of damaged transforming it into a toxic wasteland. Although half-bloods and outcasts. It is also rumored that
AD-Bright Police Cruisers formerly 80% water, garbage has filled up most somewhere in the moon exists a cache of dozens
7-8 Undamaged AutoDyn Runner of the oceans. The radiation coming from certa- of jetboards. An entire group of people interested
9-10 Cache of PP Classic Stubbers in garbage has twisted former earth sharks into in the ancient skateboarder culture of old search
11-12 2 Slightly Damaged Urean strange and bizarre creatues. These so called gar- the charred landscape in search of the cache. n
Marine Combat Armor Suits bage sharks have actually turned out to be very
13-14 A dead ICHAn officer with no gear effective recyclers and are not attacked unless
they pose a threat. Game rules Saleos
15-16 E2A Ogre Minigun
17-18 A collection of Dolphin Snub- Saleos was given gravity by elvish terraforming
noses, Falcon Automatics and Drop Point A1 and has earth-like gravity with no game effects.
E2A Hammer Handcannons Although Saleos is owned by the URE they allow
Saleos has a completely toxic atomshpere. Brea-
19 The crashed remains of a strange any to dump garbage for a yearly fee. In fact they
thing without special equipment is impossible.
spaceship even got the ICHA to build something at no ex- Unless wearing environmentally sealed ra-
20 An entrance to a tunnel that leads pense to the URE on the planet. Drop point A1 diation proof suits anyone exposed to the at-
back to Drop Point A1 was manuafactured by ICHA to ensure even dis- mosphere of Soleis takes 1d20 points of radia-
trubution of garbage across the world to ensure it tion damage each round.
can be used as the collosal garbage dump of the
galaxy for as long as possible. Drop Point A1 con- Bifrons has gravity and air similar to earth with
sists of a giant hole and a system of crushing ma- no game effects.
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Equipment Salmissus The humans settled the world and many for- Game rules Salmissus
You can buy more or less anything on got of the presence of the serpent folk (so good Salmissus has an earth-like gravity and at-
Salmissus. However some equipment is were they at being quiet and unmeddling). By mosphere.
cheaper than other. the second or third generation of men in the
world some humans began to have doubts at its centre. This is a trading post, a meeting
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
Equipment from the following manufactu-
about the presence of the Yuan-Ti in what they place between the two cultures. It is where
rers can be purchased at no penalty.
had come to see as their world. All too often human diplomats visit when discussing thing
• AutoDyn Vehicles
men would investigate the conspiracy theories like the Yuan-Ti zoning rules and when wan-
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
bubbling up around the Yuan-Ti would disap- ting to trade or otherwise interact with the
• CC (CyberCorp)
pear never to be seen from again. Too many Yuan-Ti. Here Yuan-Ti have picked up human
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
politicians actively defend the Yuan-Ti. Too mannerisms. Their ‘hips’ (where there snake-
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
many politicians with rather disturbing snake- like tail starts) often have belts with modern
• PP (PlasmaPro)
like eyes. Is the goal of these creatures to take sidearms like laser and plasma pistols shea-
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
over the United Republic of Elysium by inser- thed in them. The Yuan-Ti here have learned
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
ting snakeblooded humans into high ranking technology, they are practiced with compu-
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
positions in the human government - snakeb- ters and they are altogether more accessible
• AS (Arcane Supplements) loods who are only loyal to the Serpent King than other Yuan-Ti.
• Generic (generic no-name brands) at the Temple of Sett? Some believe it. Perhaps
this is too rudimentary, too simple for this That said, the Yuan-Ti of Isthmos can be consi-
+2 Purchase DC Penalty alien race which has proven time and again dered the most sinister for they have disguised
• CC (Core Cybernetics) to be far more sophisticated and wily than their true loyalties to the Serpent King. Among
• DA (Delta Arms) humanity had given them credit for in their themselves they use their own alien speech
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) first encounter. Whatever the Serpent King has and mannerisms; the transformation for an
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) planned for the universe, one thing is for sure. onlooker is astonishing. They behave comple-
• OT (OmniTech) There are sinister machinations at work deep tely different when humans are not watching.
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) in the Temple of the Serpent King and many a They are also the ones who reintroduce sna-
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) would-be hero hope to expose this. keblooded men back into the fold.
• INS (Ichan National Starships)
• EC (Elite Crafts) Desert of Sett, Osiris and Isthmos Adis Haleil
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) The Temple of the Serpent King is a massive ali- Adis Haleil is the capital city of Salmissus. As
• IR (Ichan Robotics) en structure located deep in the Desert of Sett. might be expected of a world in this region
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) The temple is a massive many-tiered ziggurat of space, its dominant people originate from
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) within which very many of the alien serpen- Pheonix and have brought with them the
+4 Purchase DC Penalty toids called the Yuan-Ti reside. The Yuan-Ti of Phoenician culture and the revival of Egypti-
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) Sett are traditionalists, wearing traditional ar- an themes and architecture. Adis Haleil is an
• GA (Greenfield Arms) mour and robes and bearing the symbol of the homage to the grandeur of ancient egypt. The
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Serpent King at all times. They are the least ap- senatorial palace contains a great walkway
• Duruki Freemarket Technology proachable of the Yuan-Ti and have an other- leading up to a large and elegant chrome py-
• Elvish Freemarket Technology worldly alien quality to them that disturbsmen ramid. The walkway is flanked by large plas-
+6 Purchase DC Penalty at a fundamental level. teel sculptures of ancient egyptian gods from
• Elvish Restricted Tech Anubis to Bastet. Perhaps most eerily of all is
• Duruki Restricted Tech To the northeast of the desert there is an island that Sett the Snake God is depicted on his own
• Illithid Technology called Osiris. Here the Yuan-Ti live in swam- standing on the right side of the doors. The
• Drow Technology plands and craft clay ziggurats that emerge current governor of Adis Haleil is a half-Ori-
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) high above the swampy surface. Like the Yuan- ental, half-Phoenician woman named Vella
• Beyonder Technology Ti of the Desert of Sett they too are quite tradi- Craye. She is rumoured to have a large albino
tional; though they favour bows and crossbows boa constrictor in her palace. In truth her true
over the melee weapons of the Guardians of loyalties lie not with the Republic but with the
Sett. They are less skilled with magics and psio- Serpent King. She is the King’s eyes and ears
nics than those who have trained in the Temple onto the worlds of the Elysium Nebula. Effec-
of the Serpent King and are therefore generally tively an entire world is under his sway. If ever
less frightening than the Desert of Sett breed. the Republic knew how far reaching the web of
corruption spun by the Yuan-Ti was, surely the
Isthmos is a city in the far south. It is a rela- world of Salmissus would be invaded and the
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The buildings are often wood, ceramic or protoclay – none of this fancy plasteel or chrome silver. The buildings are not particularly tall, but they
make up for this in elegance.
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Equipment Shekinah
You can buy more or less anything on
Shekinah and Maur. However some
equipment is cheaper than others.
+0 Purchase DC Penalty
• AutoDyn Vehicles
• CG (Correllan Genetics)
• CC (CyberCorp)
• E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
• LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
• PP (PlasmaPro)
• AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
• HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
• ES (Elysium Starships Co)
• AS (Arcane Supplements)
• Generic (generic no-name brands)
+2 Purchase DC Penalty
• CC (Core Cybernetics)
• DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense) Violence has broken out in Verwe on a few occasions, Verwen police, it is generally noted,
• APA (Axis Professional Armour) are particularly brutal with the elvish locals.
• OT (OmniTech)
• SN (Shadowjack Nanoware) sorts of legalized weeds, and a number of ille- ron) see 2 hours of day 18 hours of night per for
• SS (Sophos Stimulants) gal hallucinogenic substances. The Shekinian half the period of their orbit, and then 18 hours
• INS (Ichan National Starships) police have often tried to crack down on the of day and 2 hours of night during the other
• EC (Elite Crafts) growing of illegal plants as the region is known half of the orbit. This means Nefertiti spends al-
• TB (Trader‘s Barges) to be the biggest exporter of illegal drugs. The most the entire orbit in either perpetual day or
• IR (Ichan Robotics) drug barons of Nahaja are very crafty however. perpetual night. These two periods are called
• IPC (ICHA PsyCorp) They spread themselves out over the vast far- Night-Season and Day-Season by the locals.
• RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products) mlands, spread far and thin – with a number Nefertiti is reputable more beautiful in Night-
+4 Purchase DC Penalty of contingency plans should an inspection roll Season because it is particularly well-lit by syn-
• LC (Liberal Cyberwork) in. The police have not yet been able to make thetically intelligent hovering glow-lamps.
• GA (Greenfield Arms) any major dent in the Shekinian drug trade.
• PB (Protectorate Bodysuits) Much of this stuff ends up sold to youngsters Verwe
• Duruki Freemarket Technology in the streets of New Phoebe or Sky Pierce half Verwe was once an Elvish city – but due to
• Elvish Freemarket Technology a solar system away. Shekinian humans arriving in large numbers
+6 Purchase DC Penalty Elves now only make up a quarter of the po-
• Elvish Restricted Tech Nefertiti pulation. Already disillusioned by finding
• Duruki Restricted Tech Nefertiti, named for a beautiful Egyption queen, themselves have to adhere to the laws of
• Illithid Technology is the capital of Shekinah’s moon, Maur. It is in- Sheikh Auda ibn Jad, and only receiving half
• Drow Technology deed a fitting name for Nefertiti is a beautiful a vote on Urean political matters the tension
• DA (Daemon Artifacts) city. Its exports are mainly worn manufactured between the Elves and the local population is
• Beyonder Technology goods: jewellery, watches, shoes and other sor- mounting. Humans, being shorter lived and
ts of clothing. Nefertiti has the largest space port being more inclined to have larger families
in the Shekinah system and thus sees the most reproduce at a considerably faster rate. In the
foreign traffic. The travel lanes between it and last thousand years that Verwe has been part
Al’Neer are always busy, and if you expect to of the United Republic the elves have seen
take a trade barge from the one to another you their own population actually dwindle (as El-
are advised to keep a close eye on your wallet ves leave and as the birth rate drops to all new
– pick pockets are quite common! lows) and the local human population swell
to ten times its original number. Violence has
Nefertiti and its surrounding region (due to the broken out in a few occasions, Verwen police,
only slight asynchronization of its orbit around it is generally noted, are particularly brutal
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Jumpgate Schedule
Alpha Beta North East South West Nadir Zenith Mainte- Non-Elysian
Core Core Ivy Tulip Lilac Hyacinth Rose Orchid nance Destinations
Alpha Core NA A B C D E F G H1+2: Cygni System
A B C D E F G H
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The big long distance voyagers are still made by massive Industrial plants in the Infinity Worlds but Aradhlas’ industries are getting competi-
tive in the mid to short range space shuttle market.
style force dome and special Elvish tech- Aradhlas has two moons. Unlike with the Dargor
nomagical gravity and atmosphere. That this other two worlds these moons are largely This is the last and furthest world to have a
community of elves is happy to live so far inhabitied. Aradhlas has a sort of ‘mini-sys- jumpgate. Beyond this world there are only two
from their beloved Suns is perhaps a sugges- tem’ with these three worlds trading back and more Duruki worlds which are by far the most
tion of how far the ancient race has fallen. forth enough that Aradhlas has developed a unusual. The Duruki themselves are unable
thriving short range starship industry. The big to travel much further than this without inves-
Aradhlas long distance voyagers are still made by mas- ting considerable resources in crossing the vast
The second closest of the rim-worlds, already sive Industrial plants in the Infinity Worlds void that lies between Dargor and the worlds of
we are dealing with mind-numbing distan- but Aradhlas’ industries are getting compe- Khar’dum and Drokar. Dargor’s gate is called
ces. From one side to another then orbit of titive in the mid to short range space shuttle the North Ivy Gate and it is by far the most dis-
Aradhlas is 15 light minutes across – which market. tant Gate that is still in the Elysium Nebula. The
means at the fastest speed physically possible Duruki of the Ivy Gate are known for being parti-
it will take a quarter of an hour to cross. Sci- Already in Aradhlas the Duruki are getting a cularly dislikable towards non-Duruki. Humans
entifically possible, even using Elvish science, little Xenophobic. They have fewer visitors that have the unfortunate job of trading with
without the Duruki jump gate such a journey here except for the occasional elf seeking Dargor often come across the Green Armoured
could take many months. Using a jump gate Asylum and the odd far travelling himan. Ivy Gate Guards and are roughly shoved around,
Slingshot in ‘bad season’ when Aradhlas is Aradhlas’ jump gate is called the South Li- poked and prodded and their Ident cards che-
at the opposite end of the Jumpgate it takes a lac gate because it is solar-fixed at a point cked over and over again. This far out Duruki are
full week to travel to it. in space that is considered ‘Galactic South’ less hospitable than in the inner worlds. They
when using the standard Elysian 3-dimensi- run things themselves and don’t feel like they
onal coordinate system which include Nor- need any humanfolk about to bother them any.
Game rules Outer Gate Worlds th, South, East, West, Zenith (up) and Nadir
The Outer Gate Worlds have no atmosphere and (down). These directions are often called Ga- Dargor has a moon called Boghardan but it
low gravity. In areas that have been developed lactic Directions (like Galactic North or Ga- is a volcanic rock that constantly spews mol-
for life (force dome enclosed blocks that have a lactic South) but in fact the term Galactic is a ten lava. It is normally uninhabited though of
pressurized atmosphere) the ground has Stan- misnomer because the directions are relative course research teams and other investigators
dard Duruki Gravity (10% greater than Earth Gra- to the Elysian binary star system and not to will occasionally land there to perform some
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Marchosias
Marchosias is the moon with the highest cost
of living and thus has the biggest upper class.
It is the most well-kept world, with much of
its verdant greenery left over from elvish ter-
raforming stil very much intact. People of the
Uretil system try to study in Gaap in the hopes
of one day being able to live in Marchosias. As
already noted in the illustration at the begin-
ning of the Uretil section, Marchosias features
a number of natural phenomena, including
the largest waterfall in the Elysium Nebula.
Marchosias is ruled from Mount Shian, a city
near the southern pole of the moon, though it
is argued that its young governor, William Ver-
moth, has less influence over the world than
Simon Wells, inheritor of the wealthy Starship
company ES.
Stolas
The furthest of the moons, Stolas is the least
economically stable. It is too far out to be in
the swing of the major commercial trans-
actions that occur. Most private starships,
which are the kind that do this sort of travel-
ling, take a few days to reach it. This means
that it is very cut off from the rest of the Ure-
til system. Furthermore its proximity to the
outer moons basically means the bulk of the
residents at Stolas are freelance miners. Not
the sort of people you want to make silly jo-
kes with. The Uretil miners are rough, hard
people with a mean temper. It also doesn’t
help the general nature of the Stolasians that
a good chunk of the world part of a massive
prison network called The Dungeon. The
Dungeon is reputed to be the most secure
prison in all of the Elysium Nebula, and all
of the most feared enemies of the Republic Marchosias is the most well-kept
end up there. It is certainly the biggest. Sto- world, with much of its verdant greene-
las’ governor is an ex-sports figure named Di- um. Three of the moons have octane gasses ry left over from elvish terraforming
ego Carlos. His gubernatorial seat changes in that bubble at the centre and large gas plants stil very much intact. People of the
location periodically as the nation has three have been built to convert the gas into a na- Uretil system try to study in Gaap in the
principal cities rather than a single capital. It tural fuel. Not surprisingly there is little law hopes of one day being able to live in
is said that Diego has about as much political across ten-moons and it’s a hazardous place to Marchosias
clout as Lee-Anne Ruth, the Executive Prison try to survive in. Beyond ten-moons is a true
Warden at the Dungeon. asteroid field called the Uretil Belt. There are
rumours that a small drow pirate camp exists
Ten-Moons somewhere in the Belt, picking off the miners
Collectively called Ten-Moons, beyond Sto- in Ten-Moons now and then for who-knows
las are ten major rocky moons. None of them what reason. The moons are named after clas-
have been terraformed and all of them require sic Greek heroes and from closest to furthest
breating apparatus, but these ten moons each are called: Calypso, Iphitus, Telemachus, Nes-
contain a variety of minerals and natural re- tor, Menelaus, Hector, Perseus, Laertes, Anti-
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Game rules Vaul major arms and armour that outfit the re- Equipment Uretil
Vaul has an earth-like atmosphere so breathing volutionaries of the new democracy. It was Any of the equipment below can be bought
there requires no special apparatus. However not until Vaul turned that the URE began to on Vaul and its moons. Some of the equip-
it is a high density heavy world and it is trea- consider the NED a serious threat to internal ment is cheaper than others though.
ted as a High Gravity World for the purpose of stability.
-2 Purchase DC
racial adaptation feats. Additionally everything Equipment from the following list is chea-
weighs 25% more which means players can The great continental mass per because it is commonly manufactured
carry less according to their carry weight. With such a low percentage of water on Vaul on Vaul.
it is no surprise that all major land masses • GA (Greenfield Arms)
Game rules Cemeies and Amduscias are interconnected somehow. The major • PB (Protectorate Bodysuits)
Cemeies and Amduscias the moons have an landmass contains the civillian population of
earth-like atmosphere and gravity. Vaul. As a planet it is not overtly given over to +0 Purchase DC Penalty
fighters in the revoution as it was at a time. • LC (Liberal Cyberwork)
The URE has relinquished in its belief that it • Generic (generic no-name brands)
blue crawler vines are exported to decorate will be easily conquered again and thus the +2 Purchase DC Penalty
the pillars of wealthy men‘s homes all over people have started to live in a relative calm. • AutoDyn Vehicles
the nebula for their curious alien quality. The swarthy people of Vaul have fragmen- • CG (Correllan Genetics)
And naturally the planet‘s rich iron deposi- ted their government such that each city is a • CC (CyberCorp)
ts made it a critical exporter in the United law unto itself and is ultimately very diverse • E2A (Elysium Arms and Armour)
Republic. Which is why it hurt all the more from any other. Crime levels tend to be fair- • LAI (Laser Arms Industry)
when, over the course of a single night, the ly high in Vaul and even the most tranquil • PP (PlasmaPro)
people of Vaul overthrew their government citizen is volatile compared to other people • AC (Azerdine Chemicals)
and declared independance under the char- of the Nebula. The continental mass of Vaul • HMS (Hyperdine Mecha Systems)
ter initially outline by the rebels of the New is stereotyped as being a hectic sprawl of ho- • ES (Elysium Starships Co)
Elysian Democracy. Vaul had seceded, and verbikes and bars that stretch across the dark • AS (Arcane Supplements)
the URE reeled from this sudden and unex- asphalt-like road paved from the very living • CC (Core Cybernetics)
pected revolution. rock itself. • DA (Delta Arms)
• ACD (Axis Civilian Defense)
Bastion of Umgar Cemeies • APA (Axis Professional Armour)
Umgar was a military station of titanic propor- Cemeias is the smaller and closer of the two • OT (OmniTech)
tions used as a gathering and training point moons that orbit Vaul. Cemeias was the last • SN (Shadowjack Nanoware)
for URE Marines on their way from URE space of the two moons to fall to NED control and • SS (Sophos Stimulants)
to NED space. The NED rebels sealed the mi- was a final bastion of the URE for a long time • INS (Ichan National Starships)
litary units within with the flash-seals and re- after Vaul fell. The fall of Cemeias was some- • EC (Elite Crafts)
leased a deadly viral weapon to wipe the bar- what inevitable. Not only were people revol- • TB (Trader‘s Barges)
racks clean of URE presence during the night ting but it came under attack from the entirety • IR (Ichan Robotics)
of revolution in 352. Since then the bodies of Vaul‘s planetary defense fleet. Cemeias is • IPC (ICHA PsyCorp)
have been cleared out by the military of the now the least secure in its identity with some • RGP (Reclaimer‘s Guild Products)
new government and the mighty admantite voices crying out that things were safer under +4 Purchase DC Penalty
structure has become the new seat of power the URE. • Duruki Freemarket Technology
of Vaul. The powerful anti-spacecraft guns • Elvish Freemarket Technology
mounted at strategic points around the Bas- Amduscias
tion of Umgar which served the URE so well Amduscias is a large moon, roughly three +6 Purchase DC Penalty
have made the planet of Vaul the most secure times the size of Terra‘s moon in Sol System. • Elvish Restricted Tech
of the worlds of the NED by far. It continues It represents a classic world of the New Elysi- • Duruki Restricted Tech
• Illithid Technology
to export its vast mineral and iron wealth to an Democracy. Unlike Vaul it is not nearly so
• Drow Technology
the ICHA (and to some URE folk who are pre- wealthy, and the people have acclimatized
• DA (Daemon Artifacts)
pared to look the other way) and continues to themselves to living simple lives directly off
• Beyonder Technology
bring in a tidy profit. It is therefore the only the land. In many areas beasts of burdens are
world in the NED that is financially stable. It favoured over grav-vehicles or robots. That
is, in all effects, a unique place. said, the moon, under the protection of Vaul,
is able to be more accepting of outsiders than
The Forge of Massay some of the outer NED planets. Cowboy hats
The city of Massay contains the largest forge and boots are popular apparel, as in much of
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Vohumunah
The Planet Overall
Vohumunah, like Nememiah - is ideally po-
sitioned as stopover point for trading freigh-
ters travelling to and from the two suns in the
Elysium Nebula. It sees less traffic than Ne-
memiah and there are a number of reasons
for this. For one thing Vohumunah has no
moon. The biggest space port on Nememi-
ah is on its moon Morax. The lack of a moon
means that all ships have to dock planet side
and this is often more fuel costly because of
the greater height of the atmospheric layer
they have to pierece when leaving. Neme-
miah also has a spacestation that orbits geo-
synchronisly over New Sanfran.
Palmentiero
Palmentiero is a large city with a very old-
Terran european aesthetic. It has cram-
ped building, narrow streets and plenty of
houses constructed in stone or cement. This
is because Palmentiero was one of the ear-
lier areas landed on by humans and a lot of
this area was built up with the help of the
local Lizardmen. Their ability to move and
place large blocks made them ideal to aid in
the construction of housing.
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