The Next Project

The release plan is Reedwater Campaign and Adventure, followed by four adventures that are set in the same area, each one will develop an aspect of the campaign and give more details about the nobility, the war and the Arcane Guilds. Once these are out then we are looking at bringing a Science Fiction campaign out, once again based around the FATE system using their OGL license.

As a little taster to the release, here is a small section of the intro...

The New Imperium

A Re-imagining of an Ancient Social Structure

Deep in space, in fixed points around many stars, there lies mechanical devices that allow travel to other stars in the blink of an eye. These mechanisms are called Stargates and mankind once used them to populate the Galaxy; however they were not crafted by the hand of man. These Stargates where already in orbit around earth when, all those centuries ago, man first took his teetering baby steps into space.

It was the dawn of a new cycle in the Baktun calendar, many had prophesied doom for the earth, many had read tomes from the beginning times and said that the ancients were returning and yet others that it was all just myth and nothing at all would happen.

It was on the 21st February 2019 that the exploration unmanned vehicle named Amundsen discovered the first Stargate. Amundsen was tasked with better understanding the moon Iapetus, the third largest moon of Saturn. Iapetus had been the talk of the conspiracy community for many years prior to the mission and had put pressure on NASA to fund an expedition to discover what lay behind the strange looks of the moon. Readings from the ground penetrating radar and other fine instruments on the vessel showed that the moon was practically hollow and that it contained vast caverns and rooms; also energy sources.

It took man another 56 years to come up with a ship that could take a survey team to Iapetus and see for themselves the structure and complexity of what had been discovered. It took mankind over a hundred years to understand and fix what they discovered inside. The entrance to the Stargate was the most watched programme and everyone watched as the astronauts 3d cameras relayed images back to Earth in real time. The leader of the Mission Ed Samuels could barely contain himself as he broke through the last yard of debris and his lights caught site of an ancient control room.

It was 107 years later that the great outer disc of the Stargate turned and a new exploration ship was readied, one that would let man set foot onto a new world, in a new solar system many thousands of light years away. Many had conjectured about what life new forms would be discovered and what strange things would be brought back to change the lives of the 11 billion inhabitants of a crowded Earth.

The truth was more shocking than tentacled aliens for they discovered humans were already out there, seeded from some other planet and using the gates to travel to distant solar systems. We were greeted by our brothers from the stars who seemed to be enlightened and wise. They gave us many technological and sociological advancement over the next decade and we gave them war, bloody war on a vast scale.

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There's lots of work to do on this project but so far it's looking great and playtest really well. Keep an eye out for it in the next few months.