Over a thousand years ago, humanity entered a golden age as we took to the stars with the invention of interstellar Spike Drive travel. Our galactic empire, The Terran Mandate, charted the galaxy, colonized distant worlds, and discovered alien life. Exploration-driven innovation led to the development of psionic, new-age Jump Gates -- which connected our most distant frontier sectors and reduced travel times across our empire from many years; to mere days.
But all climbs must come to a fall. Hundreds of years ago -- The Scream , and the resulting Silence, killed all of the psychics in the galaxy in a matter of minutes; or worse -- drove them hopelessly insane. The Jump Gates collapsed, vital supply lines vanished, and our psitech was rendered useless and forgotten -- fragmenting countless worlds into shattered darkness.
Now, The Terran Mandate and its terrestrial origins are a mere myth. Humanity is lost and scattered among the stars -- individual pockets of civilization left to survive, rebuild, and explore anew.
Welcome to the Stars.
ΒΆ What is this?
This is a one-on-one, asynchronous, play-by-post RPG experience. You can EITHER
- follow along to the story by browsing this site; OR
- you can participate!
Participation will be one-on-one, no-pressure, at your own pace, and asynchronous. You will create a character and follow them through their narrative -- with a focus on scifi storytelling, difficult decision making, and sometimes rolling some dice.
If you wanna give it a shot -- send me an email and I will create an account for you to get started on character creation.
OTHERWISE, if you just wanna follow along with the story, feel free to send me an email to subscribe to occasional email updates as the story progress. This site will be updated as our stories unfold.
"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star-stuff."