Forthcoming
Cutting Corners
Ten nameless ships and their nameless carrier. Not much of a fleet, but as the captain said, they were all we had.
In other Hausser bases, newly reassigned personnel must have been staring at their own ships, suppressing their qualms about the idea that a human might pilot them.
Code & Codex
The Censorate has existed for ten years, or one hundred, or one thousand, depending on who’s doing the telling or where the logarithms land. It consists of worlds uncounted, scattered like Cantor dust through the whispering darkness. Even the Censorate’s officials and the officers of the Athenaeum Fleet do not know its true extent. That would require access to the master maps, jealously guarded by its ruler, the Peacock. Nevertheless, the poets and priests and philosophers claim its borders expand all the time.
Or so they have, until now. The interstellar menaces, the opponents that some call dragons and others call lacunae, gnaw at the Censorate’s unpaginated borders.
Ninefox Gambit RPG
NINEFOX GAMBIT RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game of heresy and hard choices set in the tyrannical interstellar empire known as the Hexarchate.
YOU belong to one of the Hexarchate’s six factions. YOU are entangled with a regime that can change the very laws of physics—at the cost of human sacrifice.
Ninefox Gambit RPG
You are a citizen of the Hexarchate, a tyrannical empire that spans countless systems and star fortresses. The vast majority of the population labors under the rule of six Hexarchs and the factions they control. In exchange for power or prestige, you’ve joined a faction yourself.
These truths you know:
The Hexarchate’s technologies depend on consensus mechanics, with the population holding identical beliefs. Heretics who defy its laws and traditions—collectively known as the high calendar—threaten everything from the functioning of FTL stardrives to medical care and power generation. The ritual sacrifice of heretics, a practice demanded by the high calendar, is a small price to pay for the collective good…a price that increasingly troubles you.
But the Hexarchate is at war, and without the great and terrible weapons fueled by those sacrifices, it would lose. As awful as the Hexarchate is, its enemies are worse.