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Title: Out to the Black
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Games, LLC. <a href="/cypher/fan-use-policy">Full Disclaimer</a>.
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# Out to the Black
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Out to the Black is space sci-fi campaign run in a homebrew fictional universe, run in the Cypher System.
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## Campaign Synopsis
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Humanity has spread to the stars. Humanity has lost record of what happened to Earth, but it is believed to have
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suffered a total biosphere collapse, and in its waning days, spaceships were launched in all directions, humanity's
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last chance to find survival among the black, abandoning their doomed world.
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Many were invariably lost in the act of desperation, victim to the emptiness of space. The known survivors reached Xi
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Tauri, and spread among its many planets. Waking from cyro-sleep, the original explorers staked out humanity's new
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future among biomes hospitable and not, establishing agrarian villages, land stations, and basic terraformed lands.
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As time has passed, humanity has salvaged its roots, good and ill. Travel between the stellar system and its planets is
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long but commonplace. Civilization resides in hundreds of scattered settlements across the planets, moons, occasional
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asteroid or comet, and space stations. The system's government focuses on a core set of planets, exploiting the
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resources of the rest of the system for only its settlements. The outer worlds rely on local law, and some remnants of
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the initial settlement of the system still drift in orbit, latent.
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Likely to steal liberally from *Firefly*, *Star Trek*, *Farscape*, *Alien*, and *The Expanse*, mashing up elements of
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hard sci-fi and space opera under an advanced technology rating (space travel inside a system is relatively ordinary,
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but traveling beyond a system is almost never undertaken; FTL travel doesn't exist but gravity generation does;
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*generally* things follow known physics, but there's always the opportunity for psionics, alien stuff, etc.).
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## Characters
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* Alex Frege, a mechanical explorer who loves the void
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* Jared Paul Ware, a sharp-eyed explorer (technology flavor) who builds robots
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* Taxion, a vicious warrior (skills and knowledge flavor) who fuses flesh and steel
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## Sessions
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The overall [session log](session-log) from bss's notes is meant to be a more detailed running history of in-game
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occurrences.
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### The Xi Tauri System
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A separate page organizes the emerging detail of [the Xi Tauri system](xi-tauri).
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## Character Creation
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At their basic level, characters are defined as *NAME is a [adjective] [noun] who [verbs]*. Adjectives are
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**descriptors**, nouns are **types**, similar to character classes, and verbs are **foci**.
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Chapter 4 of the *Cypher System Rulebook* details character creation, with description of the mechanical elements, and a
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small sidebar summarizing the steps to take to create a character.
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### Sources
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The majority of the options below are found, and best described, in the *Cypher System Rulebook*, with an open gaming
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version available via the [Cypher SRD](https://screwtapello.gitlab.io/cypher-system-reference/). Most others come from
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*The Stars Are Fire*. Anything homebrew we'll write up and link to here.
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I skipped listing a lot of the core content, because there's no point in repeating that everything in the core book/SRD
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are fair game --- and you can probably grok the appropriate foci or come up with a plausible explanation for anything
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weird.
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## Science Stuff
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* [Xi Tauri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Tauri)
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* The three blue-white B-type stars could form planets, though they don't have a ton of time in main sequence.
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Likely require some form of shelter for life. Alien life, lots of meteor strikes and young planet activity.
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* The F-type star yields the most earth-like planets.
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