EclipsePhase_QuickStartRules.pdf

Q U I C K-STA RT R U L E S

the system

• Eclipse Phase uses a d100/

percentile system. It’s fast, simple

and streamlined so players can

immerse themselves in the setting

without being burdened by

complex rules.

• Characters are skill-based, with no

classes, but customizable templates

provide recognizable roles and

sample builds for new players.

• A unique set of mesh rules enables

all characters to take advantage

of information resources and

ubiquitous networking and sensor

technology via mental implants.

G U A R D I A N S

gamemas ters to use for bui lding scen ar ios . Perhap s

evidence is uncovered of Iktomi sett lem ents in other

For Players

• Join Firewall, a cross-faction

conspiracy that seeks to save

transhumanity—at any cost.

Alternately, play a character

with their own agenda.

• Switch your body at need, from

genetically-modiied transhumans to

synthetic robotic shells, optimizing

your form for speciic missions.

• Back up your character’s mind and

be restored from backup in case of

death—a built-in system of “save

points” and near-immortality.

or o ther Factors w henever they le ave a Factor sh ip.

or a rel ic i s u nearthed that suggests the Iktomi fel l

Movement R ate: 4/20

Ski l l s : Cl imb ing 40, Exot ic Ranged At ta ck: Factor

Gate, p. 4 6) al l look an d operate in a simi lar fashion ,

though the y vary wi ldly in terms of siz e, shape, and

avai lable des t inat ions. The gates are bui l t from some

sort of stable exot ic matter whose ful l ato mic struc-

t rat ion 40, Int i midat ion 50, K inesics 20, Per cept ion

50 , Profess ion: Secur i ty Proce dures 50, Un armed

Com bat (Tentacle s) 50 (60)

Notes : Chameleon S kin, Eelware, Electr ical Sen se,

Gr ip P ads , Inf rared Sens ing , M agne tocept io n,

Poison G land (Factor Dust Toxin) , T entacle Whip

(DV 2d10 + 1, AP –1)

from a t imeless-seem ing pol ished black metal w i th no

signs o f aging or wea r and tear. So mething about the

gates’ p hysical compo si t ion makes them di f cul t to

look at , a s i f the viewe r cannot qui te focus on thei r

out l ines . So me onlooker s have reporte d feel ings of

Li t t l e i s known ab out the al ien race known as the

Iktom i except for th e ancient ruin s they left be hind

on Echo V (p. 109) . N o Iktomi spec imens have be en

found so far, though c ertain archi te ctural remain s

suggest a p redi lect ion fo r web- l ike str uctures . Thi s

has been bol stered by certa in other featur es and rel ics

which suggest these al iens had a segmen ted, mul t i -

le gged, arthrop od-type form— thus their giv en name,

aft er a Nat ive Am erican spider god.

W hat i s clear i s that the Iktom i suf fered th rough

some sort of catacly smic event th at wiped out thei r

civi l izat ion. The natur e of this event has yet to be de-

termined, but i t raises c oncerns for m any researcher s.

Having suf fered through i ts own near- apocalypse, i t

is not comfo rt ing for trans humani ty to nd evidence

that other al ie n species did n ot .

Though the Ik tomi are l ikel y long ext inct , the rem-

nan ts of thei r civ i l izat ions pre sents a plot h ook for

gate out l ines m ove on the ed ges of their vi sions, as i f

th e l ines are re‚ owing or the edges are vib rat ing at

high frequencies. Due to this dis turbing featur e, most

gate si tes keep the a ctual gate stru ctures covered .

St ru c tura l l y, the gat es themse l ves are par t i a l l y

enclosed by an irregul ar spherical ca ge composed of

black arm s that are bent and angled in unusual way s

and somet i mes inter lock ing. When ne w wormhole

locat ion i s p rogrammed i nto the gate , these arms

p hys ical ly cha nge shape, m ove, and re‚ o w around

th e spherical ga te area (sugge st ing they are made of

som e sort of pro grammable m at ter) . The op enings

betw een arms are somet imes on ly large enoug h for

a trans human to ente r, whi le others are large eno ugh

to al low a freight trai n of suppl ies to pass throug h.

In many c ases , large veh icles or equip ment must be

dismant led, carried throu gh, and reasse mbled on the

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For Gamemasters

• The setting is our solar system in the post-Singularity future.

Challenge your players with deadly political intrigues on Venus &

Mars, high-tech dungeon crawls aboard derelict space stations,

mind-scarring encounters with alien enigmas, and dangerous

exploration of worlds beyond our system via wormhole gates.

• Build stories with an eclectic assortment of intriguing factions,

from techno-anarchists to ruthless hypercorps, soul-trading

criminals to uplifted animals.

• Choose from a range of NPC antagonists, including rogue AIs

and their mechanical servitors, vicious posthuman factions, alien

merchants with an unknown agenda, and transhumans infected

and transformed by the mysterious Exsurgent virus.

Credits

QSR material pulled from the Eclipse Phase Core Rulebook, written and

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Mind the WMd Writing: Rob Boyle

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Maps: Matt Heerdt

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n ENTER THE SINGULARITY n ENTER THE SINGULARITY n ENTER THE SINGULARITY n ENTER THE SINGULARITY

ENTER THE SINGULARITY

ECLIPSE PHASE

An “eclipse phase” is the period of time between when a cell is

infected by a virus and when the virus appears within the cell and

transforms it. During this period, the cell does not appear to be

infected, but it is.

ENTER THE SINGULARITY

WHAT IS TRANSHUmANISm?

ECLIPSE PHASE UNIVERSE

ECLIPSE PHASE FACTIoNS

THE HYPERCoRPS

PoLITICAL FACTIoNS

HYPERCoRPS

THE mESH

ECLIPSE PHASE QUICK-START RULES

WHAT’S A RoLEPLAYING GAmE?

QUICK-START RULES

DEFINING YoUR CHARACTER

CharaCter reCord Sheet

CHARACTER STATS

InItIatIve (InIt)

Speed (Spd)

durabIlIty (dur)

Wound threShold (Wt)

luCIdIty (luC)

trauma threShold (tt)

moxIe

damage bonuS

CHARACTER SKILLS

aptItudeS

learned SkIllS

THINGS CHARACTERS USE

IdentIty

SoCIal netWorkS

Cred

rep

mAKING TESTS

TARGET NUmbERS

When to make teStS

dIffICulty and modIfIerS

CrItICalS: rollIng doubleS

defaultIng: untraIned SkIll uSe

teamWork

TYPES oF TESTS

SUCCESS TESTS

tryIng agaIn

takIng the tIme

margIn of SuCCeSS/faIlure

oPPoSED TESTS

oppoSed teStS and margIn of SuCCeSS/faIlure

NETWoRK INTRUSIoN

ESTAbLISHING A CoNNECTIoN

netWork IntruSIon teSt

SubverSIon

REPUTATIoN AND SoCIAL NETWoRKS

SoCIAL NETWoRKS

REPUTATIoN

USING NETWoRKS AND REP

the netWorkIng teSt

ACTIoN AND CombAT

ACTIoN TURNS

Step 1: roll InItIatIve

Step 2: begIn fIrSt aCtIon phaSe

Step 3:

deClare and reSolve aCtIonS

Step 4: rotate and repeat

INITIATIVE

InItIatIve order

InItIatIve and damage

InItIatIve and moxIe

moVEmENT

movement rateS

TYPES oF ACTIoNS

automatIC aCtIonS

QuICk aCtIonS

Complex aCtIonS

taSk aCtIonS

delayed aCtIonS

RESoLVING CombAT

Step 1: deClare attaCk

Step 2: deClare defenSe

Step 3: apply modIfIerS

Step 4: make the oppoSed teSt

Step 5: determIne outCome

Step 6: modIfy armor

Step 7: determIne damage

Step 8: determIne WoundS

CombAT FACToRS AND ComPLICATIoNS

FIRING moDES AND RATE oF FIRE

SIngle Shot (SS)

SemI-automatIC (Sa)

burSt fIre (bf)

boTS, SYNTHmoRPHS AND VEHICLES

bot and vehICle StatS

CraShIng

FULL DEFENSE

ARmoR

energy vS. kInetIC ratIngS

armor penetratIon

layered armor

PHYSICAL HEALTH

DAmAGE PoINTS

damage typeS

durabIlIty and health

damage value

WoUNDS

Wound effeCtS

mENTAL HEALTH

STRESS PoINTS

luCIdIty and StreSS

StreSS value

TRAUmA

We humans have a special way of pulling ourselves up

and kicking ourselves down at the same time. We’d

achieved more progress than ever before, at the cost of

wrecking our planet and destabilizing our own govern-

ments. But things were starting to look up.

With exponentially accelerating technologies, we

reached out into the solar system, terraforming worlds

and seeding new life. We re-forged our bodies and

minds, casting off sickness and death. We achieved

immortality through the digitization of our minds,

resleeving from one biological or synthetic body to

the next at will. We uplifted animals and AIs to be our

equals. We acquired the means to build anything we

desired from the molecular level up, so that no one

need want again.

Yet our race toward extinction was not slowed, and

in fact received a machine-assist over the precipice.

Billions died as our technologies rapidly bloomed into

something beyond control … further transforming hu-

manity into something else, scattering us throughout

the solar system, and reigniting vicious conlicts. Nu-

clear strikes, biowarfare plagues, nanoswarms, mass

uploads … a thousand horrors nearly wiped humanity

from existence.

We still survive, divided into a patchwork of restric-

tive inner system hypercorp-backed oligarchies and

libertarian outer system collectivist habitats, tribal

networks, and new experimental societal models. We

have spread to the outer reaches of the solar system

and even gained footholds in the galaxy beyond. But

we are no longer solely “human” … we have evolved

into something simultaneously more and different—

something transhuman .

trauma effeCtS

DERANGEmENTS

mISSIoN: mIND THE WmD

SYNoPSIS

SCENE 1 : SWImmING IN SCUm

ASSIGNING THE mISSIoN

mEETING UP

the SCum barge

TRACKING DoWN THE DEALER

WhAt is

trAnshuMAnisM?

Transhumanism is a term used synonymously to

mean “human enhancement.” It is an interna-

tional cultural and intellectual movement that

endorses the use of science and technology to

enhance the human condition, both mentally

and physically. In support of this, transhumanism

also embraces using emerging technologies to

eliminate the undesirable elements of the human

condition such as aging, disabilities, diseases, and

involuntary death. Many transhumanists believe

these technologies will be arriving in our near

future at an exponentially accelerated pace and

work to promote universal access to and demo-

cratic control of such technologies. In the long

scheme of things, transhumanism can also be

considered the transitional period between the

current human condition and an entity so far ad-

vanced in capabilities (both physical and mental

faculties) as to merit the label “posthuman.”

As a theme, transhumanism embraces heady

questions. What deines human? What does it

mean to defeat death? If minds are software,

where do you draw the line with programming

them? If machines and animals can also be raised

to sentience, what are our responsibilities to

them? If you can copy yourself, where does “you”

end and someone new begin? What are the

potentials of these technologies in terms of both

oppressive control and liberation? How will these

technologies change our society, our cultures,

and our lives?

faCe-to-faCe brIbeS/threatS

uSIng rep

the detaIlS

arrangIng a buy

TWEAKS

SCENE 2: DEALS GoNE bAD

THE mEET

the dealer’S SeCurIty

the WeaponS

What Would fIreWall do?

UNINVITED GUESTS

WorSt-CaSe SCenarIo

SAVING THE bARGE

FRIENDLY FIRE

SCENE 3: GET YoUR ASS To mARS

RESLEEVING

WELComE To mARS

ExPEDITIoN

nanofabrICatIon

mARTIAN DANGERS

TWEAKS

SCENE 4: RUmbLE IN THE RUINS

SCoUTING THE HAbITAT

nIght Cartel SCavengerS

the CaChe

PARTY-CRASHERS REDUx

runnIng the Combat

DEALING WITH THE CACHE

AFTERmATH

PLAYER CHARACTERS

GAmE RULES SUmmARIES

makIng teStS

SuCCeSS teSt

oppoSed teSt

defaultIng

modIfIerS

teamWork

takIng the tIme

aptItudeS

SpeCIalIzatIonS

Your mind is software. Program it.

Your body is a shell. Change it.

Death is a disease. Cure it.

Extinction is approaching. Fight it.

learned SkIllS

aCtIon turnS

n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE n UNIVERSE

ECLIPSE PHASE UNIVERSE

ECLIPSE PHASE FACTIoNS

One would have thought a cataclysmic event such as

the Fall would bring surviving transhumanity closer to

each other in an attempt to jointly dedicate themselves

to the repopulation of the solar system and continued

prosperity. While some of the post-Fall economic, social,

or political powers do indeed pursue philanthropic or

altruistic agendas, the remoteness and physical isola-

tion of transhuman colonies and habitats stretched

across the solar system, the disembodiment of the info-

morph refugees, and the ubiquity of the mesh’s myriad

of memes and ideologies have promoted the evolution

of a wide spectrum of philosophies, agendas, and po-

litical models. Today, transhumanity couldn’t be further

from walking a united path toward its future.

THE HYPERCoRPS

The hypercorps both evolved from and superseded the

old earthbound transnational corporations, economic

giants whose inluence (direct or covert) extended into

the governments and nations of old. The transforma-

tion of some of those monolithic transnationals into

the slimmer, future-embracing, more lexible and

faster hypercorps known today preceded the Fall and

allowed these inancial sharks to adapt to transhu-

manity’s challenges and navigate the swiftly changing

economic waters rapidly and eficiently.

Most hypercorps are decentralized, non-asset-based

legal entities (sometimes entirely virtual) relying on an

intricate system of specialized internal subsidiaries and

partner companies to develop, produce, and market

their products and services. Nearly complete automa-

tion, advanced robotics, morph technology, mesh

networking, and cornucopia machines allow the hyper-

corps to abstain from mass employment for labor or

production. Many administrative tasks are performed

in virtual environments and simulated ofices. The need

for physical labor has mostly been reduced to tasks as-

sociated with habitat construction or deep-space mining,

which beneit heavily from the overabundance of info-

morph refugees desperate to regain a physical presence.

HYpERcoRpS

The following is a small sampling of hypercorps.

comEx

Comet Express specializes in delivery services,

interstellar logistics, supply chains, and shipping.

They maintain a presence on almost every trans-

human habitat in the solar system, often via local

subcontractors. ComEx maintains orbital hubs

equipped with slingshot accelerators at strategic

waypoints throughout the system and a leet of

cargo vessels and courier drones.

DIREcT AcTIoN

This apolitical mercenary corp, descended from

the remnants of several pre-Fall militaries, pro-

vides security and public police services to self-

governing habitats or hypercorp installations.

EcoLoGENE

Ecologene specializes in genetically-engineered

bio-architecture and environmental nanotech

with a strong ecologically-conscious approach.

FA JING

Fa Jing dominates mining and energy production

with a business philosophy that emphasizes net-

work-building and social responsibility-sharing.

GATEkEEpER coRpoRATIoN

Born from the merger of several scientiic institu-

tions and their corporate inanciers, this hyper-

corp made a name for itself when it decoded and

opened the wormhole gateway discovered on

Saturn’s Pandora moon. The consortium today

funds gatecrasher explorations through the Pan-

dora Gate.

SkINTHETIc

Specializing in neogenesis and extensive, radical

bio-modifications, this anarcho-capitalist com-

pany pushes the envelope of cloning, genetics,

and morph design.

PoLITICAL FACTIoNS

Transhumanity’s social, cultural, and ideological di-

versity, as well as its scattered and isolated presence

in habitat clusters throughout the solar system, al-

lowed the manifestation of a wide range of political

ideologies and factions that advocate equally diverse

models or systems. Naturally, controversial regimes

don’t achieve stability overnight or evolve without dis-

sent, and even established ideologies over time rarely

remain free of diluting or even corrupting inluence

from outside factors or groups seeking to promote

their own agendas.

SoLARIS

Solaris is the system’s leading banking and inan-

cial investment hypercorp, dealing in insurances,

futures markets, info-brokerage and high-risk

investments. Solaris is a virtual corporation, with

each banker acting as a nomadic ofice. n

EclipsE phasE tiMeLine

All dates are given in reference

to the Fall. BF = Before the Fall.

AF = After the Fall. (e.g., BF 10

= 10 years before the Fall.)

become available to the

wealthy and powerful.

• First non-autonomous AIs

are secretly developed and

quickly put to use in research

and netwar.

• Experience playback (XP)

technology developed and

put into public use.

• Expansion throughout the

system, even into the Kuiper

Belt.

• Transhuman species become

widespread.

• Nanotech assemblers

become available, but are

strictly controlled and jeal-

ously guarded by the elite

and powerful.

• Uploading and the digital

emulation of memory and

consciousness made possible.

• More species (gorillas, orang-

utans, octopi, ravens, parrots)

uplifted to sapience.

• Pods see common usage,

amid some controversy.

• TITAN attacks expand to

other parts of solar system,

heaviest on the Moon and

Mars. Numerous habitats

also fall.

• TITANs suddenly disap-

pear from system, taking

millions of uploaded minds

with them.

• The Earth is left a devastated

wasteland, a patchwork of

radiation hotspots, sterile

zones, nanoswarm clouds,

roaming war machines, and

other unknown and hidden

things among the ruins.

BF 60+

• Crisis grips the globe in

the form of drastic climate

changes, energy shortages,

and geopolitical instability.

• Initial space expansion cre-

ates stations at the Lagrange

Points, Luna, and Mars, with

robotic exploration of the

entire system.

• Construction begins on a

space elevator.

• Medical advances improve

health and organ repair. The

rich pursue gene-ixing and

transgenic pets.

• Computer intelligence capa-

bilities equal and exceed that

of the human brain. True AI

not yet developed.

• Robotics become widespread

and start to replace/invali-

date many jobs.

• Modern nations expand

their high-speed wireless

networks.

BF 40–20

• Violence and destabiliza-

tion wrack the Earth; some

conlicts spread into space.

• Argonauts split from hyper-

corps, taking resources to

autonomist habitats.

• Space expansion opens up

legal/ethical loopholes for

tech development and allows

for increased direct human

experimentation.

• Human cloning becomes

possible and available in

some areas.

• Development of irst transhu-

man species.

• First dolphins and chimpan-

zees uplifted to sapience.

• Fusion-drive spacecraft enter

common usage.

• Extended colonization and

terraforming of Mars contin-

ues. Belt and Titan colonized.

Stations established through-

out the system.

• The starving masses

volunteer themselves for

indentured servitude on

hypercorp space projects.

• Augmented reality becomes

widespread.

• Most networks transformed

into self-repairing mesh

networks.

• Personal AI aides become

widespread.

AF 0–10

• A wormhole gateway is

discovered on Saturn’s moon

Pandora, left by the TITANs.

Four others are later found

(in the Vulcanoids, on Mars,

on Uranus, and in the Kuiper

Belt); these are collectively

referred to as “Pandora

Gates.”

• Expeditions are sent to extra-

solar worlds via the Pandora

Gates. Numerous exoplanet

colonies established.

• First contact with the aliens

known as the Factors shocks

the system. Claiming to act

as ambassadors for other

alien civilizations, they pro-

vide little information about

life outside the solar system

and warn transhumans away

from both seed AI and the

Pandora Gates.

• An attempt to raise a

generation of children using

force-grown clones and

time-accelerated VR fails

miserably when most of the

children die or go insane.

Dubbed the Lost Generation,

the survivors are viewed

with repugnance and pity.

The Fall

• The TITANs evolve from

a high-level distributed

netwar experiment into

self-improving seed AIs.

For the irst few days, their

existence is unsuspected.

They advance their aware-

ness, knowledge, and power

exponentially, iniltrating

the mesh both on Earth and

around the system.

• Large-scale netwar incur-

sions break out between

rival states on Earth, spark-

ing numerous conlicts. These

attacks are later blamed on

the TITANs.

• Simmering tensions on Earth

escalate into outright hostili-

ties and warfare.

• Massive netwar breaks out

and major systems crash as

TITANs begin open attacks,

also using autonomous

war machines.

• Conlict quickly spirals out

of control. The use of nuclear,

biological, chemical, digital,

and nanotech weapons

reported by all sides.

• TITANs engage in mass

forced uploading of human

minds.

BF 60–40

• Efforts to undertake mega-

scale geoengineering on

Earth cause as many prob-

lems as they ix.

• Major colonies established

on the Moon and Mars;

outposts established near

Mercury, Venus, and the Belt.

Explorers reach Pluto.

• First space elevator on Earth

inished. Two others in prog-

ress. Space trafic booms.

• Mass driver built on the

Moon.

• Terraforming of Mars begins.

• Fusion power developed and

working plants established.

• Genetic enhancements,

gene therapies (for longevi-

ty), and cybernetic implants

BF 20–0

• Earth continues to suffer,

but the pace of technology

allows for some interesting

developments.

AF 10

• Present day. n

SocIo-poLITIcAL ENTITIES

THE mESH

The mesh, as it exists in Eclipse

Phase, is only possible thanks to

major developments made in com-

puter/communication technologies

and nanofabrication. Wireless radio

transceivers are so unobtrusively

tiny that they can literally be fac-

tored into anything. As a result,

everything is computerized and

connected.

Data storage technology has ad-

vanced so that even an individual

user’s surplus storage capacity can

maintain an amount of information

surpassing the entire 20th-century

internet. Lifeloggers literally record

every moment of their life and never

fear about running out of room.

Processing capabilities also exist

at hyper-efficient levels. Modest

handheld devices can fulill almost

all of your needs, even while si-

multaneously running a personal

AI assistant, downloading media,

uploading porn, and scanning thou-

sands of newsfeeds. Within the mesh

network, devices that near their

processing limits simply share the

burden with devices around them.

Similarly, transmission capac-

ity now far exceeds most citizens’

definition of need. Anyone born

within the last several generations

has always lived in a world in which

hyper-realistic, multi-sensory media

of nearly any length is available for

instantaneous download. Massive

databases and archives are copied

back and forth with ease. Band-

width is such a non-issue that most

people forget it ever was. The mesh

is also never down. As a decentral-

ized network, if any one device is

taken offline, connections merely

route around it, inding a path via

thousands of available nodes.

Almost everyone is equipped

with implanted personal computers,

directly wired to the user’s cerebral

functions. Thought-to-communica-

tion emulations enables the user to

control the implant just by thinking

and to communicate without vocal-

izing. Input is transmitted directly

into the brain and sometimes per-

ceived as augmented reality, overlaid

on the user’s physical senses.

ARGoNAUTS

The Argonauts are an open organization of techno-progressives

that advocate the socially responsible use of technology. The Argo-

nauts offer consultation services to political and economic powers

throughout the solar system, but otherwise strictly refuse to be

drawn into the solar system’s political affairs.

memes: Information freedom, social responsibility, technological

advancement

major Stations: Mitre Station (Lunar Orbit), Pelion Station (Kuiper Belt)

AUToNomISTS

The Autonomists are a loose alliance of several libertarian factions—

anarcho-communists, anarcho-capitalists, and techno-socialists—

that promote egalitarian social models based on the pillars of direct

democracy, individual/collective empowerment, social networks

and reputation-building, and economic communism enabled by

equal access to cornucopia machines, shared resources, and new

technologies.

memes: Anarchism/Communism, Morphological Freedom

major Stations: Extropia (Belt), Locus (Trojans), Titan

JoVIAN REpUbLIc

A coup staged during the Fall brought a group of stations and

habitats under military control and the Jovian Republic—also

known as the Jovian Junta—was born. The Republic’s authorities

take a bio-conservative stance against many transhuman technolo-

gies and strictly control information channels and travel.

memes: Bio-conservatism, Nationalism, Security

major Stations: Liberty (Ganymede)

pLANETARY coNSoRTIUm

The Planetary Consortium is an alliance of hypercorporate inter-

ests that jointly controls a number of stations and habitats, par-

ticularly in the inner system. The Consortium maintains a facade of

democratic rule, facilitated by real-time online referendum voting,

but it is an open secret that the hypercorps call the shots.

memes: Corporatism, Cyberdemocracy, Gerontocracy

main Stations: Progress (Deimos) , Elysium (Mars)

ScUm

The derogative term “scum” describes large tribes of nomadic

space gypsies, travelling from station to station in heavily modi-

ied barges or swarms of smaller space vessels, mostly former co-

lonial ships. Part traveling carnival, part black market, the scum

openly embrace body modiication and experimentation.

memes: Lifestylism, Morphological freedom

ULTImATES

This controversial faction uses applied eugenics to further its goal,

the development of the ultimate transhuman species. Aside from

sophisticated reprogenetic engineering and strict psychological

training, their culture visualizes life in the universe as an evo-

lutionary battle for survival and is built around the victory of the

superior transhuman over its peers.

memes: Asceticism, Eugenics, Objectivism

major Stations: Xiphos (Uranus)

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