Sphere:Longshots

It's 2170. About 100 years since founding, and hundreds of light years from Earth. You don't really care. They've never spoken to you. All you have are second-hand tales from trade caravans, about FTL failures and killer drones. They call it 'the Rim', but you just call it home.

History Paths

A1) Origins

Pioneers

Some people petitioned the posthumans with the pure spirit of adventure. With no frontiers left on Earth, only longshots could satisfy the human drive for exploration and discovery.

Seperatists

Others left to escape persecution, real or imagined. Distance from Earth would shield them and let them start anew.

Idealists

Still others held in their minds an ideal for society. By travelling to a new land with like-minded people, they could make a better life, on sound principles.

A2) Colonists

Baseline

Mixed

Transhuman

A3) Destination

Garden World

Tolerable World

Hell World

No World

B1) Historical Events 1

Quiet

Transhuman Replication

Crisis Situation

Military Action

Artefact Find

B2) B3) C) Historical Events 2

D) Historical Events 3

E1) Political Stance

Keep On Keeping On

Nationalism

Grand Ambition

The Podunk Union

Open for Business

Get Out

Ideological Purification

E2) Economic System

New Gilded Age

Fabricator Rations

Social Management

The Middling Classes

Transistor Mines

Crossroads

The Pirate Bay

Get Digging

E3) Military Doctrine

Death Spiral

Some worlds are desperate to gain any technical advantage they can, but without substantial research infrastructure this takes a severe toll.

Able Spacemen

A focus on a solid and reliable fleet is key to defence in the depths of space.

Swarms

Making effective smallcraft is a challenge for rim states, but pays dividends.

Tiptoes

For pirates, lurking is king.

The Low Road

Ships are hard. It's better to focus on a strong army to defend.

Into the Darkness

Effective interstellar travel is crucial to trade and power projection.

The Future's Fighting Man

Making better murderers.