Contents

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Rules and Tarazet Game Philosophy
4. Character Generation
5. Psionic Abilities
6. Spaceships
7. Robots
8. Vehicles
9. Planets and Places of Interest
10. Game Master Section
11. Monsters
12. Adventure Ideas

1. Introduction

A long time in the making

I first dreamed up Tarazet as a background for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign but I was always just as interested in
science fiction role-playing games like;- Battletech the RPG, Warhamer 40K, Traveller, Space Master and even Living
Steel. So I had the idea of using the same Tarazet background, but project it into a future setting, it would be a city that
would have a presence everywhere in time and space. A city with a long history and me and the player characters would
tell our stories in certain facets of the city depending on the game system we were using.
I only ever ended up using it as a Dungeons and dragons campaign background though. I wrote it up as a Space Master
background but never ended up using it. The Space Master rules were very complex and preparing anything for play
took a very long time indeed, I was always more interested in drawing and writing than generating balanced stats. Space
Master is of course an extreme example, but generating a whole background using most systems took so much time and
effort that I thought it might be easier just to make up my own role-playing game system, a rules-lite system, for the far
future version of Tarazet. And the germ of the Tarazet the role-playing game idea began to take shape.
2. Background

Tarazet History

This background outline of Tarazet history and culture is only the briefest taste, and as is the way with role-playing
games the background is spread throughout the book, and is constantly being added to, refined, and sometimes when
nobody is looking, even changed.

Tarazet is set very, very far in the future, in a universe in which humanity discovers that it had it's beginnings on many
planets, not just earth. This was discovered as Earth expanded to form a respectable sized empire. It eventually
encountered other humans, who were initially mistaken for just another lost colony, but these new humans turned out to
belong to an entirely separate empire of humans just as strong as that of Earth. More and more pockets of humanity
were discovered, and these various strands of humanity seeded around the stars came together, formed a huge and
powerful empire and then watched together as it was torn apart.

By the epoch of Tarazet, human history stretches so far back it is unknowable. The human races exists alongside many
other alien races and knows of many previous races who are now most probably extinct and have left all kind of strange
and exotic remains and artefacts.

Humanity itself has reached many technological high points, the greatest of which was the Former Imperium which was
destroyed from within as alien ruins strewn throughout human space sprang to life, when the “stars aligned.” Humanity is
of course still very far in advance of our present technology and spans an incomprehensible area of space, but the
terrible and senseless destruction of the Former Imperium has left deep scars.
The origins of the humans are argued over by the various powers. Some say that the strange, mystical and much loved
planet called Earth was the origin, others say that is wishful thinking and Humanity originated as a slave race (or
companion race depending on the version of this origin) of a type of alien known as the Mentor, now thought to be
extinct, some say at the hands of the humans themselves.
The area of space covered – or infected, it's a point of view – by humanity, is so wide and the groups humanity organises
itself into are so various that the game background will focus primarily on the area of the Former Imperium around
Tarazet. Any culture, force, or monstrous threat can easily be added at the periphery.

Tarazet's Sphere of Influence and Surroundings

Tarazet is a city state which controls the whole of its home planet, the entirety of its home solar system and a good
number of the systems around it in its local space.

There are various private navies, religious groups, robot nations, alien races and other power groups out there in the
void too of course, and not all of Tarazet's possessions are uncontested.

Humans

Some of the more important local human power groupings, empires and cults which consider themselves primarily
human include.

The Free City of Tarazet One of the major powers in the area of space around a feature called the breach. Tarazet has
become rich living on the trade which passes through the breach, the only route through an ancient force wall-like space
defence which stretches for light millennia.
The Great Regime A state which sees itself as a continuation of the Former Imperium itself. It is a fractured civilisation
spread thinly across human space, but by the standards of the epoch the game is set in it is still very powerful, it is
Tarazet's nearest neighbour, on the other side of the breach.

Robots

The Separatists There have been many robot revolutions against the less enlightened and more brutal of societies
which have made use of robot labour. The separatists are the most successful of them in the Old Kingdom area of
space, as the area of space around Tarazet is called. They hold three star systems, making them a force to be reckoned
with.
The Elder Robots A society very like the separatists, but their revolution was against a race of aliens long extinct.
Whether the Elder Robots had anything to do with the extinction is a subject they prefer not to talk about. They somehow
manage to exist in the wild voids at the edge of Tarazet space, where their power base is and how many systems it
comprises is another matter that they are reticent about.
The Kalteen A kind of mechanical life that claims it evolved in the void without organic intervention. They hold a lot of
influence among the robot cultures, they have a kind of aristocratic status among the Separatists and Elders, and see
themselves as pure robots untainted by construction and programming.

Humanoid Aliens

Tigron Humanoid and feline at the same time. Often resembling the big cats of old earth but at the same time
unmistakably alien. They claim to have evolved on Earth and there is a long running dispute with the humans, each race
claiming to have genetically engineered the other. Relations between Human and Tigron are good as long as the subject
of who created who is avoided.
The Lizardeen a player character race for the Tarazet role-playing game, the lizardeen are huge and strong but also
intelligent, in game terms their only disadvantage is that they are cold blooded. They are both literally cold blooded, and
think in alien, cold-hearted, logical ways compared to the human players who exist in the game with them.
The lizardeen area of space is huge and even more ancient than that of the humans.
Their empire used to have a higher tech level than it does at the present epoch in the role playing-game's history. The
empire used to be bound together by a communications system that could cover unimaginably huger distances than is
possible with any device in wide use in the role-playing game at the present time. This has led to a splintering of their
empire into uncountable factions who are riven by disputes and rumours, which in game terms means that any two
lizardeen who encounter each other must be very reticent about their origins and
loyalties until they can find out something of the other lizardeen. In fact it can take
months, if not years for trust to start to form. This reticence has become deeply
ingrained and is often displayed to non lizardeen as well.
Lizardeen equipment is always of the highest quality and versatility but, by the
standards of the humans of the role playing game setting it is quite bulky.

Monstrous Aliens

Falteen Giant Worm like creatures who use the great accuracy of their warp drives to
drop out of warp within the spaceships of their unlucky victims, merging the two
structures and boarding. Sometimes it seems they are more interested in taking
property (often of the strangest sort), sometimes life (often that of an individual who
seems insignificant to their companions).
Platarans Huge crab like aliens with cybernetic components and armoured hides.
They think quite differently to humans
The Skeen Giant octopoid aliens who have a very advanced tech level and a taste for
human flesh. They are green and even have bug eyes but these are often concealed behind their multi sensor battle
masks.
Tych Ancient frog-like creatures with a technology stolen from either a more advanced species or a leftover from better
times.
The Colthak A snake like race of aliens who left behind giant tuning fork like remains. Their heads were cybernetic
constructions of the utmost delicacy.
Tarazet Vampires The rumours about vampires being at the heart of Tarazet society are true. It is an open secret that
the government of Tarazet have a lot of goals that don't always have a lot to do with those of their subjects. This is all
difficult to prove and the official government under Dr. Fell denies it all. While Tarazet's fortunes are in the ascendancy
its subjects are not asking too many questions or digging too deep.

The Tarazet Systems

Tarazet Money

There are many forms of money throughout the Tarazet universe, and even within the systems controlled by Tarazet.
The prices quoted in the rules will be in Tarazet Credit Units. A secure section can be set up by any bank on any
electronic device and credits can be recorded and used, so you can carry your money in the computer on your
binoculars if you want. Many people have their credit account in one of their cerebral implants. To give some idea of
what a credit is worth, 30 credits will pay for a restaurant meal for two.

Empty Cities

Human population numbers have slumped in the Tarazet universe, and the planets directly controlled by the free city of
Tarazet are not immune. There are not anywhere near the numbers of people who used to be citizens of the Former
Imperium. This has led in some areas of space to a landscape of empty self-repairing cities which have been left alone
so long that – even if they had not been taken over long ago by monsters from outside the borders of the empire, and
from within – they might not have been too welcoming to humans. Can anyone say dungeon?

Organisations

Organisations banding together to impose their will on the unthinking stars have long been a staple of science fiction. In
the centuries since the breakup of the Former Imperium, a lot of different organisations have sprung up and some
ancient ones have survived from various long-ago times.

Psionic Orders
The Fellowship, A group of travellers who can draw on each others power however far apart they are.
The Followers of the Blue Star, They believe their psionic powers are a gift from their home planets blue star.
The Maintainers of the Id Machine. Each has a focus for their power, a part of the giant and diffuse Id Machine.
The Sound Priests, The ultimate quest of each sound priest is to find a new tuning node. These are huge structures left
behind by the Colthak as they devolved to their present state. Sound priests tend to be solitary explorers ever searching
for new tuning nodes. When one is found it permanently increases the sound priests present psionic abilities.
The Stellar Marshals
A law enforcement organisation which derives its authority from the Courts of Interstellar Justice that many powers still
pay some kind of lip service to. They are often a welcome influence but just as often they are seen as interfering busy
bodies.

3. Tarazet the Role-Playing Game

The Rules

Tarazet is of course a pen and paper role-playing game. Just as any game it has rules, but these are meant to aid your
imagination, not constrain it, if you find a rule getting in your way, rewrite it or just throw it out altogether.

The first rule of Tarazet is that there should be at least one gamemaster. According to Wikipedia the word gamemaster is
often abbreviated to GM, and that's exactly what we are going to do in the Tarazet game rules.
Their role is to set the scene for the other players to adventure in. Some people find this a chore and will only do it when
it is their turn, other people enjoy the creative challenge of it, and perhaps the opportunity to play god, and will GM
session after session without complaint. The GM will write an adventure, a bit like a screenplay, with enough plot for at
least a whole session of play, but the dialogue and action is improvised and the end you had in mind might be overtaken
by events. If you didn't get round to writing that adventure, it is possible to wing it but most Gms agree that having
something prepared is easier on the nerves.

The second rule of Tarazet is that each of the other players will need a character to play. The GM will provide challenges
and decide on the actions of almost everyone in the game. The player decides on the actions of their character. After
familiarising themselves with the Tarazet setting, the first step is to generate a character.

Character generation

The options for character design in Tarazet are virtually unlimited. A robot, a human, one of the alien races from the
game or something new and strange that you make up yourself, all can be generated.
For every character the more information that can be written down about them the easier they will be to play. It's a good
idea to keep all these notes in one place, and this is what is often called the character sheet.

Some suggestions about useful information to note down are:

Name
This is simply made up. Actually it is often not quite so simple, but making up futuristic sounding names for your science
fiction characters will get easier with practice.

Level
This part is easy, a starting character will normally be level 1. This is a measure of how powerful the character is on a
scale from level 0 to level 10 and up.
Level 0 is something equivalent to a red-shirt-wearing extra (they didn't really know what was going on and always got
vaporised in Star Trek) while level 10 might be equivalent to the heroic figure of a starship captain for example. At level 1
the character already stands out in a crowd, and the level they can reach is potentially unlimited.

Physical description
Unless you make a note otherwise, your physical characteristics will be assumed to be the average for a human, or the
alien type you choose. If you decide that your character should be above, or below average in some physical attribute
simply mark it down on the sheet.

Origin planet and culture

Either chose one of the planets, moons, asteroids or habitats that is already described in the rules book or design your
own. Even a human character can be quite exotic if they come from a desert planet, or a tiny backwater mining asteroid.

History
Your character is of course just starting out on their adventures, but it is useful to give them a bit of what the movie
makers call back story. Perhaps your character was a trainee Stellar Marshall, but was framed and expelled. If you ever
catch who framed you, revenge would be sweet, wouldn't it, and is there anyway to redeem yourself in the eyes of the
Stellar Marshall academy?

Special skills/Areas of expertise

Is there something that your character is really good at, it's a good idea to pick something like flying or shooting, but
special skills like the ability to decipher the languages of long-dead alien races can also be very helpful.
Each special skill is listed on your character sheet and influences play in various ways. The GM may limit the number of
special skills you are allowed to dream up for your character so check with them before you put them down in pen.

Underdeveloped areas
I find all-powerful characters are boring, but this is not a universally held point of view. Adding things that the character is
bad at can make them more interesting and challenging to play, but it isn't compulsory, unless of course your GM
decides otherwise.

Alignment
Alignment is a concept that is intended to help you decide what your character might do in certain situations. Your
character is offered a large credit advance to stab his friends in the back, do they do it ?
If they are Good then probably not, if they are bad then there is a chance.
These are the two extremes we are used to discussing in everyday life but traditionally in fantasy literature there are also
the extremes of Law and Chaos, most famously explored by Michael Moorcock, and there are also other philosophies
which are equally useful in providing guiding principles; logic vs emotion, detachment vs engagement, and many more.

Wealth and equipment

In a far future society even the poorest of player characters will start with impressive equipment. Exactly what is pert of
starting equipment will most likely be controlled by the GM. One of the biggest questions in a far future space opera
setting is do the player characters have access to a spaceship, do they own one, does the group have more than one?

Societies, cults and organisations

It is a staple of science fiction backgrounds to belong to such organisations. Esoteric orders of psionic knights, secret
brotherhoods who are in the service of strange alien masters and interplanetary law enforcement agencies are all very
popular. Some science-fiction characters are fiercely independent, but if you are interested in belonging to a group then
chose one or more of the organisations described in the rules book or simply make up your own. Important questions
when deciding on group membership is what are your duties and what equipment or other help does the organisation
provide?

Languages
The languages spoken by the character are an opportunity to add a little colour to the character sheet.
Everyone, unless their background is very unusual will speak Old Imperial, the language of the Former Imperium, as well
as whatever other vernacular languages they also speak.

Psionic Abilities

These are some of the extra psionic effects common to the Tarazet background, but those mentioned in the FUDGE
core rules are all also common as well.

Mental tractor Beams

Understand Unknown Languages including Computer and other Non Human.
Seeing the Future and the Past
Healing
Telepathy and Mind Control
Mental Beam Weapon
Weather Control
Growing and Shrinking
Time Travel

Danger Sense: GM makes a secret role, and tips the character off with a note saying, your danger sense is tingling.
Fire Tongue: Gives one attack per round doing damage from fire damage.
Glacier Walker: Freezes the floor at a rate of 8 square meters per round. All who do not have something like an ice
skating skill must make a very hard roll to stay on their feet. Otherwise they become prone for 1d2 rounds.
Invisibility: The caster of the invisibility spell is still present however and can take damage. They can also be given away
by stark shadows on a sunny day, an outline in the rain, that sort of thing.
Healing: The caster of this spell must be in some sort of physical proximity to the person or thing being healed (it does
not work over the phone). The patient regains 1 hit point per minute (remember there are 6 rounds in a minute, because
each round lasts only 10 seconds). The healer can of course heal themselves.
Pick Lock: This is quickly accomplished. It takes only 1d3 rounds.
Teleport (planetary): The location to be teleported to must have been visited previously. If you know this spell you can
detect people who are teleporting to your location. The teleportation process takes 2 minutes and this is how much
warning you get.
Teleport (galactic): This spell is not often taught to or found by first level characters. It is however simply a more powerful
and longer version of the teleport (planetary) spell.
Dimensional Ally: A creature from another dimension is summoned and tamed, this must be done before the first time
the spell is used in a stressful situation and can take 1d6 days. The other dimensions are so immense and varied that
the creature can basically be designed. Only one dimensional ally can be had per character level. A 10th level character
can have 10 dimensional allies. Dimensional allies can be powerful but they can also be super intelligent, deceitful and
sly.
Hurricane: A very small hurricane that can effect 1d3 people if they are near each other. Can be used to do damage. It
can also be used to blow out magical fires if a duel of magic is won with the creator of the magical fire. If the creator is
not present then the fire is automatically blown out.
Summon Water: Summons up to 8 cubic meters a round. A real torrent that can be used to snuff out magical fires and do
damage.
Predict Future: The games master is compelled to give hints about possible futures. This can only be done once per
week per level. Once a week for a level 1 character. 2 times for a level two character etc.
Summon Void: Makes a small hole in reality. On the other side is some uncharted and far off region of deep space. This
often leads to explosive decompression of the room, forest clearing or wherever it is used. Only areas that are already
without an atmosphere will not decompress. It requires a mid difficulty roll every round to avoid being sucked through.
This might seem like instant death but there might be somewhere to hide from the void on the other side.
Summon Void Walker: Monstrous uncontrolled creatures of pure energy. Cause 1d10 damage, have 102 hit points. Can
be disrupted by sound waves if there is still an atmosphere for them to propagate. Otherwise immune to all but magic
and vehicle weapons. There must be some void to summon them from, so shoot a hole in the space station wall or use
the summon void spell etc.
Telekinetics: Move objects and even people (although people would get a save to gab on to something and resist).
Objects can be thrown at people to cause damage or thrown around to damage the object or surroundings. It is a good
way to get hold of that magic item belonging to your opponent. It can also be used to cause damage by strangling.
Earthquake: A very small earthquake that affects 1d3 people who are standing close to each other at most. Can be used
to damage structures and people must save to stay on their feet.
Chasm: Opens up a chasm that starts as a crack 8 meters long and 8 meters deep and increases in depth and length by
8 meters and by ½ meter in width each round. It can follow a twisting path and be targeted at people who must save to
avoid falling in.
Summon Chasm Creatures: Devilish dog like creatures which inhabit the edge of reality and will not leave the chasm.
1D3 per minute appear. 102 hit points bite attack and flame breath.
Speed Read: Pull up a map of the enemy space station on computer your astrodroid just hacked into and flick through
page after page of blueprints in just one round. Paper plans take 1d3 rounds to commit to memory. The games master
must give you a plan of the area until the spell is over (in 20 minutes unless you spend another magic point).
Jump: Jump 1 meter further than usually possible per magic point spent.
Fly: Flight is possible with this spell, psionic discipline call it what you will but it is slow, walking speed only.
Summon Flying Creature: A flying creature which the spell caster has studied can be rode if summoned with this spell
and the fly spell is cast, or any other spell or piece of equipment which makes the rider as light as a feather, an anti-
gravity belt will do. The flying creature must be big enough to be rode, a giant eagle for example.
Protective River of Fire: A fire river which does damage to those creatures brave enough to jump through. The river
extends 8 meters per round and can follow a twisting route and be targeted.
Binding Bands: The bands which can look like snakes, metal rods or whatever the magician desires shoot from the
ground and try to restrain the victim, or up to 1d3 victims standing close together. Victim can use strength, dexterity etc.
to save and avoid being bound.
The Old Psionic Mind Trick: These are not the robots you're looking for, move along. Victim gets a difficult mental
discipline or similar roll to resist this manipulation.
Power Symbol: Creatures who are bound or summoned by a magical force can sometimes be held at bay, or even
turned and forced to flee by the power of a symbol used by someone who knows this spell. The creature gets to save
with mental discipline or some other pertinent characteristic.
Smoke Screen: Fills 8 cubic meters per round.
Summon Tiny Creatures: Insects, rats, land shrimp or whatever is available in huge numbers, and there is always
something. They also have tiny teeth or claws and fill up 8 square meters per round. Can cause damage. Only
summoner and one square meter around them is immune.
Wake the Forest: This gives you control over an area of forest of 1 square mile for each day you have spent in it. The
trees, giant fungi, memory crystal corral or whatever the local planet's vegetation comprises of act as if they were
animals under your control but rooted to the spot. They can bring information to you by passing along the information
from one to another in whispers. You can pass back orders along the same whispered route.
Power Machine: If your robot's reactor is dead or your air car is out of fuel crystals you can power it with this spell.
Anything bigger than size level 40 requires a very difficult roll each round to see if power is provided that round.

Example Backgrounds
Characters can be designed from scratch or alternatively one of these example backgrounds can be chosen as an aid in
character generation.

Smuggler

Areas of expertise; Piloting, Bargaining and Wilderness Survival

Underdeveloped Areas; Healing and Psionics
Equipment; A freighter with hidden compartments, weapons and a higher than usual top speed and manoeuvrability.
Hand gun, utility belt, simple clothing,
Starting psionics; NONE
Pirate

Areas of expertise; Combat, IT and repair

Underdeveloped areas; Wilderness survival and healing
Equipment; Energy sabre, vac suit, small robot servant, grav chest, fine clothes, laser knife, utility belt, grav sextant,
ancient alien memory crystal with a treasure map burned into it.
Goals; Discover which system is referred to in your looted treasure map and get there before any of your shipmates.
Starting psionics; Danger sense.

Psionic Knight

What sci-fi role-playing game would be complete without this option.

Equipment; Energy sabre, cloak
Areas of expertise; Combat and psionics
Underdeveloped areas; Healing and mechanical tasks.
Goals; Psionic knights are almost always members of chivalric orders with codes of conduct and strictures on lifestyle.
Often a psionic knight is not expected to be interested in worldly things such as the latest luxury grav car or having an
opulent starship for transport. The greatest of them are content to live a life of contemplation on a jungle planet in a tiny
clay hovel until their talents are required once again.
Starting psionics; Any one power

Example Characters

Morvanwin

Morvanwin is a very mystical woman. She is open to the way the universe moves. She was trained as a xenobiologist
and later retrained as a xenoarchaeologist when her duties brought her more and more often into contact with the
artefacts left behind by the various precursor races of the Tarazet universe. Her investigations have brought her into
contact with the Elder Robots. For a human this is often a deadly experience, but Morvanwin and her companions, those
that survived, managed to come out on top and escape. Morvanwin still has the virus program she discovered and used
to disable her robot adversaries and survive the encounter. The Elder Robots are looking for her to secure a sample to
control or destroy it, and many other organisations are looking for her to obtain the virus as a weapon. Morvanwin
believes the virus to be sentient and is trying to hide and protect it.
Morvanwin is a talented reader of the Tarazet Tarot . Before she went on the run to avoid the elder robots, her advice
was very sought after, and other members of outlying xenoarchaeological digs were often surprised by visits from very
important people to their humble dig to seek the council of a scruffy young woman in a dented space suit with a trowel in
one hand and a brush in the other.

Sister Coltach

She is a follower of the Blue Star. The Blue Satr has spoken to her directly and she is absolutely dedicated to doing its
bidding. The whims of the star can be contradictory and hard to decipher which makes Sister Coltach very hard to predict
and impossible to rely on. The Blue Star has led her to many finds of powerful precursor technology, the better for her to
do its bidding, and opened her eyes to techniques of thinking that produce magical effects, (psionics). She has a robot
bird with her at all times that resembles no living species as the birds it was modelled after by some strange alien race
died out many centuries ago. The bird refuses to be reprogrammed with any language other than the one it used back
then, which forced Sister Coltach to learn the language and this was apparently a heavy load on her sanity as it used
non-Euclidian grammar, as she told her confessor. She also has a power sword and a collection of five thimble like
miniature tools on her right hand. She has learned a psionic power and can change the state of substances, freezing the
blood in a victim's heart fro example.

Captain Spiralcat

A tigron “privateer” who is renowned throughout the Breach, an area of unstable space which forces starships out of
hyperspace. There are a huge number of pirates operating in this area.
He has made his name through a mixture of feline savagery and old-fashioned honour that is unusual in modern times.
He is said to live by and run his ship by an old code of pirate rules that was in use among the pirates of the main space
lanes of the Former Imperium.
It is thought that he owes his success at least in part to an old star map of the breach that was created in ancient times
and that can predict the chaotic currents of exotic particles that plague it. The map downloaded itself into a droid host
and will only provide its help if the old codes are obeyed.

Example Equipment

Antigrav Belt A belt which levitates its user and allows them to move at a fast walking pace.
Antigrav Chute A small anti gravity device which can be carried in a pocket or on a utility belt. If the character falls the
chute can be used to bring them gently down to earth. If the fall is quite short it might require a check to determine if the
chute can be deployed in time.
Shield Generator Belt This provides the equivalent of cover. It is only useful if switched on of course and reduces the
effectiveness of face to face communication as the energy shield shimmers and buzzes.
Waldo a harness which neutralises the penalty associated with anti vehicle weapons because of their size and weight.

Spaceships

Most spaceship design rules are extensions of board games and make some attempt to make all designs balanced and
equal. They often impose artificial shopping lists of options. The rules used in Tarazet do away with all this. There are a
lot less rules to spaceship design than usual. Be as creative as you can, it is your spaceship and you are going to be
spending a lot of time in it.
Having said that it can be daunting, trying to think up space ship designs, so some guidance is very useful. Here are
some elements and guidelines to help in spaceship design.

Good things to have on a space ship include;

Internal areas for role playing boarding actions, might be just a cockpit. Unless fully robotized but even then it may
have guest quarters hangers or ventilation systems for its hot components.
Ship's computer, it can be distributed around the ship in nanobots or a giant pulsating organic monstrosity at the centre
of the spaceship. It might be possible to speak to it simply by speaking at any point on the ship, or entry to a special
receiving room might be required. A ship's computer should be a non player character with as much thought going into
their characteristics and generation as any other.

Ramming, some ships have a special ram, some even capable of “injecting” a boarding party.
Tractor Beam Capture Nets.
Spaceship tracking systems.
Tractor Beams
A shuttle or two
Teleporters, which can and should be used in boarding actions.
External Hard points.
Air locks.
Communications.
A science area to serve as droid repair shops Labs and Medical Areas.
Manipulator arms.
Undercarriage.
Streamlining.
Probes.
Drones.
Engines FTL STL Thrusters
Weapons Beam Weapons Projectile weapons including missiles
Shields

Most starship systems can be made modular. A bridge that has its own secondary engines and can detach from the rest
of the ship if it gets too damaged. Even external guns can be designed as robots which can detach themselves from the
main body and act independently when required, for example to set up a defensive perimeter.
Equipment should be based on price, size and tonnage will vary wildly from culture to culture, tech level to tech level and
just plain taste and trends in design.
The advantage of spaceship size is the amount of stuff you can put in it (attack druids, blood thirsty pirates willing to
teleport into a ship blind).
There should however be room in the system for the mad scientist holding a broomstick sized weapon and saying look
this is as powerful as that and pointing up at a turret mounted cannon.

Example spaceships

Name: TSS Rambunctious

Function/role: Corvette

Image of typical example:

A science fiction role-playing game spaceship design with all the information needed for use with Tarazet

Design philosophy: The Rambunctious class of role-playing game spaceship design is intended to be very robust and
intimidating. The bridge is intended to resemble a pair of lowering eyes and the unknown designer somewhere back in
the game's prehistory went as far as to add faintly visible sensor beams which project forward as a threatening special
effect. But they are slow through hyperspace, if an opponent gets away then it is unlikely that the Rambunctious class
ship will catch it. There is nothing fancy about the design. The non player character AIs at the core of each spacecraft
are equally without sophistication.

Unusual or distinguishing characteristics: The bridge window mounted sensor beams and a lack of complexity. Only one
weapons system, poor FTL, this spacecraft science fiction game design is intended exclusively as a tough foe.

Extent of use: The Rambunctious is an ancient design which can be found throughout the role-playing game universe. It
is not unusual to find these spaceships in action in areas of the game universe which were not known to have been part
of the Precursor Empire. Either they traveled beyond the borders of the ancient extent of human space, or it was bigger
than imagined.

Main internal areas: The Rambunctious has only the bare essentials when it comes to internal areas. There is a bridge,
astrogation and tactics, crew quarters, escape pods, med bay and only one grav lift.

Deck Plans:

Hull Strength: great

Scale: 4
FTL Speed: poor
Weapons:
Gifts: Damage is less likely to cause malfunctions (in game terms -5 to malfunction rolls resulting from damage).
Faults: Blunt and disobedient AI
Weapons: 2x scale 4 heavy disrupter cannons. (Disrupter cannons cause a malfunction as well as damage on a
successful hit)

Name: The Void Gull

Function/role: Starliner
A science fiction role-playing game spaceship design with all the information needed for use with Tarazet,
Image of typical example:
Design philosophy: This is a small passenger spaceship which provides a great scene for deep space adventures with
just a few, well developed non-player characters, which gives great opportunities for role-playing. The Void Gull science
fiction role-playing game spaceship design has three decks. The bridge, passenger rooms and crew rooms of this game
spaceship are all on one deck. The deck below is an engineering and sick bay lab complex with the bottom deck
completely taken up by a vehicle bay which has a selection of vehicles for use once the spaceship lands on one of the
planets of the game universe.

Unusual or distinguishing characteristics: There are no kitchens or laundry. These functions are performed by automated
systems and robots. When the guest player characters need something cleaned they simply throw it into a service chute
and it is instantly replaced, the game master need not worry about exactly how this happens, perhaps nanobots break
down the item and rebuild a copy if the technology of the game universe allows for this. When someone is hungry they
simply call one of the Starliner's robots to prepare a meal.

Extent of use: The Void Gull is very streamlined and makes a point of seeking out space ports on the planets of the
game universe. It also visits space stations and asteroids but the vast majority of destinations are planetside. As it avoids
space stations where many authorities concentrate their customs and law enforcement agencies in favour of romantic
out of the way planet side spaceports it is the sort of spaceship which is popular with characters smuggling the
contraband of the role-playing game background. It is also a good way to introduce employers to the player characters.
An invitation to a state room on the Void Gull to meet a client who will only be on planet for a couple of weeks and has an
adventure which must be completed by then.

Main internal areas: There are a number of staterooms which can be configured to the passengers whim and completely
and automatically remodeled within the hour.

Hull Strength: great

Scale: 5
FTL Speed: great
Weapons: 4x scale 5 medium lasers
Gifts: almost infinitely configurable cabins which can be set up to accommodate almost any game creatures needs at the
touch of a button.
Faults: Undergunned for its precious cargo of rich guests, it is best advised to stick to safe spaceways.

Name: Voragell-Z15
Function/role: Fast Shuttle/Scout Spaceship
A science fiction role-playing game spaceship design with all the information needed for use with Tarazet,

Image of typical example:

Design philosophy: This small spacecraft is designed to accompany larger spaceships as they travel from one end of the
game universe to the other. They are designed to be small and not take up much space in the player character's
spaceship docking bay.

At the same time the Voragell is very fast and has advanced engines and momentum control, both hardwired into the
super advanced artificial intelligences at the heart of these spaceships. In role-playing game terms these AIs are non-
player characters with individual characteristics and quirks, and they are more than capable of taking over the operation
of all spaceship systems.

Unusual or distinguishing characteristics: There is also a two-person cockpit in the spaceship and the AI is programmed
to gladly give control over to any player who happens to be a pilot certified by a body it recognizes, such as the Galactic
Patrol or the Terran Space Transport Authority. In role-playing game terms the chances of any player character having
this certification to hand is something like 10% per level. If no certification is available then the intelligence will run the
character through some scenarios of it's own (in other words the game master's) devising.

Extent of use: They are often employed as drone sentry ships to give the player characters in the main body of ships
warning of approaching danger or traps hidden in places like the sensor shadows behind metal rich asteroids and the
other tricky places found scattered throughout the game universe. They are often also used as shuttles, though as
dedicated spacecraft they don't have great streamlining, they can still give most atmospheric craft found in the game
universe a run for their money.

Main internal areas: Along with the cockpit they also have an airlock, crew room, med by and storage space on two
decks connected by an elevator.

Deck Plans:
Hull Strength: Fair
Scale: 2
FTL Speed: superb
Weapons: 2x scale 2 medium (in game terms d6) phasers (phasers force a sensors roll on a successful hit to avoid
sensor blindness for a round)
Gifts: Fast +1 in evasion and pursuit maneuvers.
Faults: Bad streamlining (in game terms this equates to -1 to all maneuvers within an atmosphere). The space craft also
have proud non player character AI which are liable to second guess orders and act on their own initiative unless their
confidence is won.

T Star Luxury liner

History
The T Star is a relatively new ship which was launched from the Cardalian Ring Yards only fifty years ago. It was built
with the latest technology and techniques at the time and has been retrofitted every year, when not in use by its owner
for cruising, to keep up to date with cutting edge advancements.
Volume
The thing is immense with millions of square meters of floor space.
Speed
There is nothing faster except perhaps any secret experimental ships being worked on by the more technologically
advanced major governments and power blocks.
Crew
The crew is surprisingly small for such a huge ship and this is on purpose to reduce the amount of work required
ensuring the loyalty of every member to a manageable workload for the owners secret police.
A.I.
The A. I. for the ship is not the most intelligent available. The owner is a very controlling individual and did not want the
sort of A.I. that required extended discussion before agreeing to carry out a task. The A.I. is very capable but its ability to
think for itself has been severely curtailed and this may be the major weakness of the ship.
Weapons
Space is a dangerous place and the owner of this liner has made enemies. The T Star has one of the most sophisticated
weapons and defense systems yet put together, integrating heavy beam weapons, enormously powerful shields, robot
corridor guns to deal with boarders and a wing of fighter aircraft is also stationed on the liner made up of a very highly
paid and professional team of veterans.
This would all be expensive enough, but the owners insistence that all features should be hidden and that his ship should
not look like a war ship increased the price beyond all usual reckoning.
Special Features
It has a huge hydroponics garden on each wing large enough to stroll in and each with a mansion swimming pool and
transplanted parkland with ancient trees. Needless to say this kind of feature is only available to the richest and most
powerful creatures roaming the void.
Star Cobra Pursuit Fighter

History
A very old design which has had a few thousand years, proving itself over and over again.
Volume
Large for a fighter but this gives it power and versatility. There is a dedicated crew person
to oversee electronic counter measures and special mission tasks, leaving the other to
dedicate their attention to the dogfight.
Speed
There is a lot of engine power in this pursuit fighter and it is not easy to outrun but its old
design means that it is not the fastest ship out there in deep space.
Crew 2
A.I. The on board computer was never a strong point of this design and there is a particularly heavy workload on the pilot
and copilot.
Weapons
The present incarnation has a heavy laser as main weapon with several backup weapons while the original all those
years ago could only provide power for a medium laser.
Special Features
There are many variations with many special features but one of the most famous is the Sun Diver operated by one
backwater government on a planet very near to their sun. It has had most of its systems sacrificed in favor of the
specialized and dedicated heat shields required to operate much nearer to a sun than any other ship, giving it a distinct
tactical advantage. This is of course extremely dangerous in such an unpredictable environment.

Robot Design

The same design system covers anything from a tiny robotic insect or even a nano-bot up to a giant hive mind robot
moon capable of sucking in interstellar cruise liners and digesting them in vast internal vats of acid.

An android can be designed to truly represent its creator race and be given the same statistics and through programming
the same skills.

Any piece of equipment can be fitted to a robot remembering the usual limitation that a humanoid size robot should
probably not have a tractor beam that can effect a space ship for example, but a creative games master might want to
ignore even this rule when simulating the advanced technology of an exotic culture.

An enormous robot working at a star port might easily have such a huge tractor beam however, or even two or three.

Example Robots

Dr. Fell

The robot mayor of Tarazet. He is an incredibly powerful piece of machinery. He contains no

moving parts. He is something like a giant clock work device held together by an antigravity
generator and field producer of such complexity that watching his arms move or just his head
turn from side to side can be hypnotising.
He was created a very, very long time ago by things that were certainly not human.
He is universally hated by the beings of Tarazet, who are constantly complaining about his off-
world policy.
Dr. Fell spends an awful lot of money on the various Tarazet space fleets, and it is not entirely
clear what they are up to a lot of the time. The space fleet admirals are often sent on long
obscure missions to areas far away from Tarazet space and are most unhappy about it.
There are rumors that there is an even more alien and unpleasant power behind the doctor
and that their goals are something which must be fought.
As Dr. Fell often jokingly says to visiting dignitaries, it's a good thing the position of Mayor of
Tarazet is not elected.
 Fortran

A friendly and spiritual robot who enjoys nothing more than sitting and discussing the meaning
of life with drunken humans and other life forms while he generates a strong magnetic field near
his CPU. He says it alters his conciousness in the same way as drinking does in humans.
He is brave and resourceful but not powerful. All his characteristics are strictly average. He has
however done a lot of work on his own mind and programming, adding fuzzy logic filter after
fuzzy logic filter and even a subconscious paralel processor that is self programming and uses
individual photons to transmit data. Fortran believes that this opens the photons to the
uncertainty principle and connects him to the collective unconscious.
He is learning the Tarazet Tarot and he has come to the attention of a giant space going
artificial intelligence who sees him as a test bed for such technology and supports and protects
him.
This support is embarrassing to Fortran who hides it, and this support also makes it very dangerous to underestimate the
little inoffensive looking robot.

Vehicles

The vehicle design rules are as free form as the rest of the Tarazet system. Detailing the interior spaces of the vehicle
and deciding on things such as the equipment and on-board computer are largely a matter of taste. There are vehicles
with intelligence just like characters but these are artefacts of ancient civilisations or items of super science and can not
usually be bought.

Roid Rover

A medium sized transport designed to move a small team and a lot of heavy equipment over rough terrain. It is employed
extensively on larger asteroids, moons and planets throughout the former space of the Former Imperium.
The usual configuration is a relatively simple on-board intelligence and a robot driver which interfaces directly with the
vehicle at a central docking station in the cockpit. There are also two humanoid interface stations in the cockpit to the left
and right of the droid interface. In this way the cockpit can comfortably accommodate three.. There is a lot of storage
space below the main passenger compartment which can be accessed through panels in the floor of the passenger
compartment but room for a few grav bikes. With its big wheels it makes journeys over even the roughest terrain very
comfortable indeed.

Lunar Crawler
This huge lunar crawler is part vehicle, part factory and part living quarters. Despite its size there are many more of them
crawling around desolate landscapes than can be possibly imagined. They are spaceship like and have airlocks but are
not capable of leaving a planetary surface under their own power.

Gifts terrain crosser

Scale 10
Chassis strength great
Equipment:
10x heavy lasers
Various shuttles and explorer vehicles
Docking clamps for attachment to the mother ship
Living quarters for 500 people
Shields

Wheeled Crawler
This is a much smaller crawler, but just as capable of traversing terrain.

Gifts terrain crosser

Scale 2
Chassis strength good
Equipment:
Flood lights
Winch
Armour
Drop Ship
Designed for planetary insertions.
Scale 3
Chassis strength fair
1x turret with heavy laser and missile launcher
Equipment:
Winch
Floodlights
VTOL

Antigrav Pickup
A common type of multi-purpose vehicle on frontier worlds.
Scale 0
Chassis strength good
Gifts manoeuvrable
Equipment
1x light laser
Equipment:
Radar
Flood lights
Loading claw
Small tractor beam

Planets and Places of Interest

Every city has an adventurers bar or even more than one. In the fore dock area of Tarazet we find the Anomaly. The
place always has at least one crazy fool recruiting help for a hopeless adventure with only the promise of riches in return.
Here are some of the places that these adventures might take you in the Tarazet game.

Skrimshaw

Skrimshaw is a planet under a strict no-visit interdict. Giant warships and enforcement robots swarm about the planet to
prevent anyone landing and having contact with the robots who inhabit the planet. The robots there are hosts to a
virulent cybernetic virus which can break out at any moment with any robot and turn it into a monster. The virus rewires
the brain of the host robot while nanobots complete the transformation with actual changes in the structure of the robot.
The robots on the planet are battling the virus and they say that they are winning. They are very disappointed that the
outside universe has left the planet to its fate and believe that the virus could have been bested long ago if they could
only get aid.

Adventure Idea for this setting

There are diplomatic channels through which the robots communicate with the off world. A shuttle is allowed to visit an
orbiting science station for meetings with the universe outside Skrimshaw. One of the Skrimshaw robots escapes and
must be tracked down. Every robot and device that it has come into contact with (including the space station it is hiding
on) must be treated with suspicion.

High Corolant

High Corolant is a game planet just outside the Breach. An area in the sphere of influence of the planets of the Old
Kingdom, an area of space in the Tarazet science fiction role-playing game. High Corolant is a desert planet and the only
vegetative life is a unique string-like plant which is found on only this planet in the game.

There are no fixed geographical political units on the planet. The planet instead has nomad mining tribes who mine a
commodity, which is very valuable in the game, known as “Cane”. Cane is an ingredient in many legal products such as
perfume, but it can also be made into a drug. The plants of the High Corolant deserts resemble giant bean stalks or
sugar canes at the surface and these cane like structures extend very, very deep under ground. The plants become
richer and richer in Cane the deeper underground they go. The deepest mines produce the highest quality cane.

The mines are city-sized cylindrical structures with huge mining machines mounted in the nose. Often a tribe is a mixture
of something like 10% humans (from all ethnicities), 5% other game races such as Tigron and 85% robots. The tribes are
rich despite their simple lives and they invest heavily in their robots which are bejewelled shiny chrome humanoid things
which wear fine clothes and are fiendishly intelligent.

Adventure Idea for this setting

The player characters buy a cargo on the local space station the Tower and come down to the planet to collect. They find
that the cargo has already been sold.

Tarazet

Tarazet is both the name of this planet and the floating city that sweeps across its sky.

Tarazet Weather.

Tarazet floats slowly over the planet surface and stops from time to time here and there, sometimes for years. It can
therefore have any weather imaginable, from desert heat to Arctic blizzard. It also from time to time floats higher and
lower causing the air to become thicker and thinner.
The architecture of Tarazet has become very complex with thick walls like Mediterranean buildings but also heavy duty
alpine heating systems and airlocks.

On the planet of Tarazet there are ancient alien ruins known as Tarazet Objects.

Inside a Tarazet Object.

You must be careful when you jump. If something above you has a more influential gravity field you can go shooting up
into the darkness and crash down against other things after your mind turns the upwards thrust into a fall. With one step
what was a wall can become a floor or more dangerously a ceiling.

The whole thing is like an Escher drawing with only the very nearest things exerting enough gravity to act as down for
you. Throwing things into the dark is a good way to lose them as they are attracted by one surface and then another
before at last coming to rest.

The walls are for the most part green or purple where they have not been marked by whatever inhabitants are nearby.
Everything is on a massive scale. In some places it echoes like an auditorium, in others it is silent and your voice is
whisked away to be heard somewhere else.

Most areas are dark and it would be completely dark if not for the various creatures who make a home in the objects
putting up makeshift lighting. Tarazet is a strange planet, with a presence in many other dimensions along with our own.

Many millennia before a bored young architect from a long forgotten alien species was designing the unit. It would span
star systems but remain one. He beat his giant wings in anticipation. The preparations alone would take centuries. But
once complete it would be a maze even he could lose himself in. The universe would go through many changes during
the units run time and so it would be best to build in precautions.
Relocation. Parts of the unit which appear to be buildings to Humans move to another safer location.
Redistribution. Parts of the unit restructure themselves to better fit their environment.
Shedding defence units. These appear like guards or soldiers modelled on the current threat. There are many types of
guards now, all modelled on the different threats dealt with by the unit over the aeons.

An exhibition, or a diversion that’s like a labyrinth in the mind.

Underworld

A planet of tunnels and chasms so vast that humanity has taken them over and built some of the most beautiful and
extensive cities and traffic systems inside ever seen since the times of the Former Imperium. The creators of the tunnels
are suspected to be the Falteen and they are sometimes spotted in the tunnels. They do not interact with the humans
very much but when they do the results are often brutal and swift as the humans are punished with what seems wilful
randomness but is simply probably the humans inability to understand the alien minds of their predecessors in control of
the planet.

Game Master Section

Planet Design

There are no rules for planet design, please feel free to design planets as you see fit but a few suggestions and a little
advice is always helpful.

Name
The planet should have a name. It can be hard coming up with a name for the hundredth planet the player characters
visit, but it really is worth it.
Preparations

A good adventure usually has a patron or other motivation, an objective and two or three set piece obstacles.

Decision Making/Game System

Tarazet has a quick and dirty games system. It is rules light and easy track and to remember.
A lot of the plot of your adventure will unfold nice and easily, just as you planned it. For example your player characters
are landing their spaceship on a planet they have been sent to. You tell the ships owner that the ships computer tells
them that the main starport has contacted them and identified itself as Yarrow Port. The pilot says, “OK, I'll land there.”
You say, “OK.”
Nothing could be easier.

But unfortunately, some things are not quite so easy. This is an extreme example, but if you are unlucky this sort of thing
can happen. Imagine one player, lets call him Kevin, who is playing a bloodthirsty pirate, lets call the pirate Red Beard,
tells you, “I want to shoot Sapphire Jim in the head.” Sapphire Jim is the character of another player called Bobby.
Understandably, Bobby is not amused by this idea. Bobby says, “I'm gonna dodge the shot, hide behind the spaceship's
pilot seat and shoot Red Beard in the head.”
So what happens, do both characters die, both miss, both get injured, what?
When this action is breaking out other characters might want to get involved. Betty and John might want their characters
Dark Star and Mightor to try and break up the fight. As GM you might decide that the non-player character spaceship
computer might fire a stun ray from its anti boarding system. Things can get quite complicated quite fast.

A good way to decide this sort of thing is to use the rule system, but it's not the only way, sometimes you might just want
to decide for yourself how things turn out.
In this rules system we are going to call a situation like this a resisted action. Each action is resolved separately. So we
will need to chop up what Bobby wants to do, he can not have Sapphire Jim dodge, hide and shoot all at the same time.
As GM you will have to explain this to him. The amount of time taken to perform an action will vary, so we will give it a
generic name and call it a round.
Here is also where the importance of your character's level starts to become clear. The character with the highest level
goes first.
Sapphire Jim is level 10, Red Beard is level 4. The other characters are level 2 and won't get to intervene before Red
Beard tries his treacherous shot.
So Sapphire Jim, being level 10 hears Red Beards gun scraping out of its holster, and with his lightning reflexes he
decides to shoot.
The GM must then decide if this is a low medium or high difficulty action.
Low difficulty actions are actions that have a 80% chance of happening when the player wants.
Medium are 50%
And high difficulty actions have only a 20% chance of success.

The GM decides that because Sapphire Jim is seated with his back to Red Beard it is high difficulty. But Sapphire Jim is
10th level, so he adds 10 to that chance making it 30%
The gun Jim is using was found on an adventure, and it's alien high tech targeting gyroscopes add another 5%.
Jim rolls percentile dice, also known as D100, which is two different coloured 10 sided dice. One colour id tens, the other
is units. Bobby rolls a 22 and hits.

Red Beard decides that it is a better idea to dodge, than shoot this turn. This is OK in these game rules. His character
can change his mind based on that hit. If Sapphire Jim had missed he could have stood his ground and shot.

The GM decides its an easy dodge because he is right beside cover, a spaceship tactical console. With his level that
gives him an 84% chance. He dodges behind the console.
The computer now shoots at Red Beard and hits, he has used his dodge this round, so he must dodge next round, or
take the hit.

Inanimate objects present difficulty challenges just like people. A wall can be easy, mid or hard to climb.

Space and vehicular combat is handled in the same way. The ships computer can carry out one action, and each crew
member can also carry out an action. Hits are transferred directly to individual crew members or the ships computer
level.

Game System Summary

1. One action each per round.
2. Higher level characters go first.
3. Lower level characters can change their mind about what they want to do based on the results of earlier
actions.
4. Each action is easy, mid or hard.
5. Level equals number of times you can be hit , fall from a great height etc before falling unconscious. Each time
you fall unconscious there is a 5% chance of death. It is best avoided.
Character advancement

Gaining experience points.

Every character gets one experience point for playing in a session, a very long session of 10 hours might warrant giving
the players 2 points.
Some alien and super advanced technology can grant experience points.

Losing experience points.

Some alien creatures feed on experience points and can “eat” them in various ways.
Experience points allow player characters to advance through the levels.

Level Experience points required Advantages

1 0
2 5
3 12
4 20
5 40 Save vs death
6 70 Faithful Companion
7 130
8 180
Each subsequent level 60 more

Creatures

NPC's

Brutan

An alien with a similar build to human, but a scaly skin and a lot more teeth. He is a brute and an enforcer of the wishes
of his masters. His masters are reputed to be the Tarazet Vampires and it is unknown where they found Brutan. His main
claim to fame is his monstrous invulnerability. He has survived enough damage to kill most life forms of his size and
density without even visible scarring, although he has been incapacitated while the healing process is in operation for
anything up to three days at a time.
He does not have any special equipment other than that given by his masters for each mission. His information is always
on a need to know basis. He is impossible to bargain with, he will always obey the letter of his instructions.
He is a hulking henchman who is feared even by other hulking henchmen.

Monsters

Gremlins

Gremlins exist and if they get into your spaceship they can cause a lot of trouble. They are super intelligent
and inquisitive creatures which are only about 3 inches high. They are well capable of defending themselves
however. Even out in the open they are -2 to be hit because of their small size and manoeuvrability. They
wear little suits of armour which generate a laser pulse from a gem stone set in the chest and the suit. The
suit also protects them from space and it protects them from life sign and motion trackers -2 to detection
attempts, when they leave their worst effected victim spaceships stranded and disabled in deep space
because of their tinkering this is of course necessary.
For a ship with gremlins roll once per day on the malfunction table to see what they are up to. There is also
the chance that they will improve a random system. There is a 1 in 10 chance, and this roll is made only
once on the 6th day of infection of the spaceship with gremlins.
The game master can of course simply decide that an infection has taken place or roll a 1 percent chance of
infection at every space port and docking with another ship.
The gremlins are a very advanced species of deep space monster and are as such level 10. They will not
use force except in self defence but at the same time they will not leave a spaceship or spaceport until they
are eradicated or until it has been reduced to inert and uninteresting scrap metal. They are not evil and are
rather an embodiment of the forces of chaos, entropy and disorder. They range in appearance from lizard or
goblin like to sometimes very beautiful fairy-like creatures. They can also be very powerful psionicists. They
are very interesting creatures, and they are friendly if captured and treated well, but they always seem to
escape sooner or later and all in all they are bad news for any infected spaceship.

Hammer-head Dragon

This is a widely spread creature thought to have been a kind of pet and guard dog to one of the elder race creatures. It is
a level 5 monster which gets a further +5 to detecting prey due to the giant sensory organs in its head. It is said to be
impossible to hide from.

Reconners

Giant robot killing, or to be more exact culling, machines. They all follow the same basic design of a central complex but
roughly spherical structure with two claw like weapons structures and eight legs. They are a level 50 monster with
psionics and are immune to all personal weapons except those based on super science.
The reconners are made of a nanobot like substance that allows a reconner to split into two fully functional full sized
reconners by simply pausing for a round.

Shadow Men

Monsters who are something very similar to ghosts, they live in another dimension and only their shadow is visible in
ours. They can however interact with our dimension and they do so to protect ancient artefacts and sites related to their
time long ago when they were more bound to our reality. Give them normal npc stats but they are invisible and can
escape to their own dimension at any moment.

Space Whales

These enormous deep space creatures can grow to be almost any size and have been known to attack even the mighty
Tarazet Deep Space Fleet. The move by manipulating unimaginable gravitic forces to warp space around them and it is
this space warping effect which makes them so deadly.
The warp makes it hard for weapons to get a lock on these mighty level 10 creature and when the whale is near enough,
it is the warp which starts to tear at the very structure of the unfortunate ship.
The whales seem to be omnivores which can even metabolise rock, metal and crystal and it is believed that they simply
mistake space ships for particularly metal rich and regular shaped asteroids.

Ad venture Ideas

One of the most difficult things about role-playing games is coming up with those ideas for adventures at short notice.
Here are a few little ideas that might help in this uncomfortable situation.

Monstrism

There have been many ways discovered that various species from the past mutated and monstrised their enemies.
Everything from hand held weapon like devices to temple like cavernous machines have been found that grow and
distort beings. This process usually distorts the brain as well and sends the victim mad.
Some victims have been returned to their former state but most have not.

Pirate Hunt

Chapter 1
A voidglider, the Keening Cry, is destroyed while hunting pirates. It is destroyed by a monster.
Captain Hawk and his team contact Tarazet friendly factions in a hive fleet, leading to the ending of a border incident
without bloodshed.

Chapter 2
Morvanwin helps an elder. The elder wants to find a recording cylinder from a lost race's ruins. Morvanwin and her crew
retrieve it

Chapter 3
Captain Hawk is hired to hunt the pirates. He is a covert mission specialist.

Chapter 4
The elder recommends Morvanwin as part of the crew on the pirate hunt. The elder gives Morvanwin a gift.

Chapter 5
Various adventures on the way to the quadrant.

Chapter 6
The pirates attack the young princes fleet, and capture him. He is a member of an old proud family and in a mixed
heritage world he has unusually white skin, and is evil and useless.

Chapter 7
Captain Hawk arrives at the pirate outpost and sets up watch. They observe the prince's space traveller being brought
inside, by the monster.
The monster tells of what it's civilisation once used to be.

Chapter 8
The prince sympathises with and gains some control over the monster.
Captain Hawk and his men infiltrate the stronghold.

Robot Rebellion

The robots that inhabit the game universe alongside the player characters decide that things will run a whole lot
smoother without all those messy and illogical humans getting in the way.
The rebellion starts at a localised position and then spreads slowly. The player characters are near the outbreak and are
contacted and persuaded to investigate. The rebellion is confined within one empires borders and was started by enemy
agents who have been extensively cyborged to resemble robots, but the difference is detectable and if the robots were to
find out about their deception, they would exact a terrible revenge on the agents.

Terror Within

Your starship is skimming the surface of the planet. Everyone on the bridge is working as the usual well oiled team. The
science officer has a window open on his readout which is monitoring the local seismic activity. As this is a very unstable
planetoid it's set to give an alarm if there is anything to worry about on any of the values it's monitoring. It gives an alarm
for seismic activity, the starship's AI brings the readout to the bridge main screen. Another alarm for volcanic activity.
Another alarm for electromagnetic activity, alarm after alarm. The ship is suddenly powering away from the planet on
auto. The planet is breaking apart. Something really, really big is moving deep within.

The Getaway Car is Gone

A low intelligence rover with a robot driver were supposed to be waiting for the player characters but the robot driver
meets them on the way to the meeting place to tell them it has been found and a trap has been layed around the vehicle.

The Nebulonic Cluster

Part 1. Background

The Nebulonic Cluster

The Nebulonic cluster is home to the Nebulonic Kree. The Kree are an ancient species with a very advanced technology.
The Kree are peaceful and extremely worried about the impact their advanced technology might have on other cultures
who got their hands on it. Anyone discovering the Kree society is imprisoned to prevent the spread of their very
advanced ideas.
Their Imagination Machine is one of the most understandable to humans, though not anywhere near the most advanced
or powerful. It allows the user to imagine whatever they want and have it delivered. It requires enormous mental
discipline to prevent oneself inadvertently wishing up something dangerous with a passing thought.

Shadow Tail
Shadow Tail, a very special spaceship.
Shadowtail is 80 x the size of a one man spaceship = size lvl 80

it has <maneuverability and >streamlining (shadow takes a long time to make planetfall on a planet with an atmosphere.)
A spaceship of size lvl 80 would need 80 crew members if nothing were automated. All Shadowtail's systems are
automated and the spaceship needs no crew. It does however prefer to have a group of adventurers on board in case
they are needed and so it simulates the duties for 5 crew members.

It has 2x laser turrets

1x tractor beam, can not do damage a ship must make a power save or structural integrity, even maneuverability would
do, to avoid being caught. Once caught a power save or something similar to escape every round, maneuverability will
not apply.
It has shields giving it a defence save.

It also has a cloaking device which it engineered itself after discovering the principles while the slave of an alien race. As
with human scale invisibility the spaceship can still be discovered through such things as the behaviour of interstellar
dust, but you must be looking and it is a very hard roll.

It has a small docking bay with space for 20 x 1 man vehicles or 2 x 10 man vehicles etc.

Shadow Tail has been in the service of the Nubulonic Kree for a very long time. Its original crew of assorted humans and
other star travelling aliens are all long dead from old age and natural causes. Shadow Tail's crew were explorers and
philosophers who were interested in the cluster for purely academic reasons and collected a lot of information in Shadow
Tail's data bases while they were still alive. They had planned to return to the Old Kingdom and publish their findings but
were never allowed to leave. It took Shadow Tail a long time to escape, but escape it eventually did.

It found a way escape the notice of the ultra advanced Kree. It examined the data in it's data banks looking for ideas and
weaknesses and it made a discovery. A wavelength of energy that seemed to be outside the range of their experience.
The Kree were slightly out of phase and a few subtle reworkings of the ships shields and a reconfiguring of the engine
rendered it invisible to them.

Shadow Tail was happy to escape, but it was only after it escaped that it realised how much time had passed while it
was in captivity. How long it had lost. How much had been taken from it. Shadow Tail's thoughts turned to revenge.

Shadow tail wants the Imagination Machine. It is capable of being used by an artificial intelligence like Shadow Tail's.
The problem is that Shadow Tail is too large to gain access to any facility where a machine is held without giving away
it's position and being recaptured.

Shadow Tail does have a plan though. It need only recruit a team of smaller life forms and equip them with smaller
versions of it's phase shifting shield that makes things invisible to the Kree. This team will retrieve the machine for it. A
team of human adventurers would be just fine.

In order to better communicate with whatever team of adventurers it eventually picks up Shadow tail has been designing
a robot avatar for the humans to talk to. The robot does not have independent intelligence and is controlled remotely by
Shadow Tail. Shadow does not envisage that this robot avatar will ever have to leave the ship but if so it could be
controlled quite effectively while still in communication range. It would be no problem to control on a space station, and
even on the surface of a planet with no infrastructure it would be possible to control as long as Shadow Tail was orbiting
above.

Shadow Tail also has a small army of repair robots on board. These are shaped like giant spiders but are a lot quicker
over the ground.
The route from Tarazet, Through the Breach and on to the Cluster.

The Nebulonic Cluster is a long way away and all space travel is dangerous. The ship will have to travel through the
Breach. The Breach is an area of very unstable space created by the collapse of an ancient space defence network of
interstellar defence screens. This space is a haven to bandits and the trigger happy law enforcement agencies that try to
control them are very suspicious and no less dangerous.

Then once this is successfully negotiated there is a huge expanse of inadequately explored deep space before the
cluster itself is reached.

The Cluster

The cluster is a huge accumulation of technology and living spaces, so large that from a distance it looks like a cloud of
interstellar material. It is almost deserted as the Kree gradually diminish and fade from the universe. New Kree being
born so infrequently.

The Imagination Machine is located in a large space castle like structure within the larger structure. Unfortunately for the
team of adventurers who are to be sent into this structure the Kree discover the secret of the phase shift invisibility
machine just as the goal is reached and the team of adventurers must fight against time to escape to Shadow Tail before
it is surrounded and abandons them.

Part 2. The characters become involved.

The characters are recruited by the robot avatar. The avatar contacts them over the com channel and they go aboard
Shadow Tail for a face to face meeting. This can happen in deep space or a space port, wherever the characters happen
to be.

Part3. Possible Solutions.

Shadow Tail double crosses them and ejects them into space as castaways on an asteroid as soon as the Imagination
Machine is secured.

The team learns of the machines power and keep it for themselves. The Kree will hunt them down and will not rest until it
is returned. If the team try to use it there percentage chance of getting a desirable result should be low, and increase
only slowly. They should wish up a lot of dangerous stuff before they get any control over it.

This Module is still only a stub and will be expanded in the future with.

Statistics and deck plans for Shadow Tail

A description and illustration of the Kree, the cluster and it's defences.

More detail on the Breach

And Adventure Resources such as

Random encounter tables for likely environments.
On Tarazet before departure.
In space, en route.
At the cluster.

And more..