Research-heavy company

focusing on genetic
modification and bio-
coding in agriculture.
Supplied biofuel and food
for most during the war.
Runs several outposts and
laboratories with top-
secret purposes in even
the most unwelcoming of
locations. Its employees
use unbranded gear and
spacecraft. The true size
of Konbina is unknown to
most.
THE TENEBRIS SYSTEM Family business, run by
punks. Vodykov is the
oldest company still active
in the Tenebris system.
The company specializes in
dangerous contracts, like
harvesting ice from distant
comets and asteroids or
GRAVITY drilling operations on
rogue planets in deep
Low gravity space. Its workers are
the first ones to arrive,
Average gravity setting up the base camp,
before prospectors arrive
High gravity to start their work.

Union for transportation Answers most search and

workers, fighting against rescue signals inside and
long working hours and outside of the Tenebris
long-distance travel. Time system. Its well-trained
is a form of currency. Many crews, called “whales”,
workers lose their lives are famous for getting
after traveling for decades the job done, but rumors
through empty space. The say that they are also
union is known to hack causing many of the
systems and screens in disasters themselves.
transport vehicles to make Many of the employees are
them inoperative, forcing former navvies, utilizing
workers to take breaks skills they acquired in
while recruitment messages their travels through the
display over and over on vastness of interstellar
the hacked screens. space.

Organizes workers involved Specialized in the creation

in mining and other of virtual worlds. All
dangerous underground communication with Azimuth
operations. Before the goes through a bulletin
war, it was the largest board system. The full
company in the system. Now, size of the corporation is
it is desperately working unknown to anyone outside
to regain its position of the board, but the logotype
power. can be seen on almost any
TRAVEL TIME IN WEEKS FUEL COST computer connected to a
DETECTION: First
DETECTION: virtual world.
detection happens here, DETECTION FROM/TO NEAR CLOSE HABIT FAR REMOTE OUTER DISTANCE / EVENT COST
as blips on a screen.
NEAR 0 1 2 3 4 6 Within system 0
Ships can communicate via
radio. CLOSE 1 1D4 1D4+1 1D4+2 1D4+3 1D4+4 Between systems* 2
IDENTIFICATION HABIT.
HABIT 2 1D4+1 1D6 1D6+1 1D6+2 1D6+3 Between galaxies*.
galaxies* 10
IDENTIFICATION: Close
IDENTIFICATION:
enough to scan and FAR 3 1D4+2 1D6+1 1D8 1D8+1 1D8+2 Launching from low gravity 1
identify spacecraft,
including what they REMOTE 4 1D4+3 1D6+2 1D8+1 1D10 1D10+1 Launching from average gravity 2
FIRING
look like, symbols and OUTER 5 1D4+4 1D6+3 1D8+2 1D10+1 1D12 Launching from high gravity 3
affiliation.
Manufacturing company, A gathering of marauders,
constructing spacecraft, • Each burnt unit of fuel reduces travel time *No fuel cost for spacecraft bandits and pirates,
FIRING: Allows for firing
FIRING: BOARDING
engines and weapons. If by one week. with radiation pressure loosely held together by
weapons and making
you have an unmodified sails. an anonymous leader called
similar attacks.
weapon, there is a large • The time is for a slow engine. A fast X. Crew and spacecraft are
chance that it is made in engine halves the time (count burnt fuel marked with a number that
BOARDING: This close,
BOARDING:
an L&M factory. Since the before). reveals the name of the
crews can try to board
war, many factories have another ship, or even captain as well as their
closed, and the company has jump between ships if the position in the hierarchy.
had to put all its efforts timing is right. Many mercenaries from the
into survival, often by war have joined this band
unconventional means. of thieves.

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