From publisher blurb:
Adelphos at a Glance
Adelphos is an homage to old pulpy adventure stories and grungy gritty scrapper sci-fi, taking your average space-faring gang and setting them down on a world that is ancient and still very much active. But it is also a chance for us to revisit an old setting and breath new life into it through a new system. You might know Adelphos from the original 5th Edition version, but if you are new, here are three key things to know in order to understand the world.
We might have lived here, but its been millions of years. All life within the DayLITE: Sci-Fi universe originated on this planet - all sentient life, that is. Adelphos was lost due to the hubris of another people, and because of that, was forgotten for eons. The Adelphos today is a deadlier, more primeval, more wild place than it was, and while many communities call it home now, it hasn’t been for a while.
The landscape is alive and massive. Adelphos is huge, 39 billion square kilometers, while the territory of Haven is only roughly 17 million square kilometers. The various homesteads and burgeoning cities of Haven are ants amongst the wild rugged landscape under which ancient ruins sit in standby mode or colossal kaijin slumber.
Adventure is out there...and so is death. 99% of the planet wants to kill you in some way or another: whether planned or accidental. Powerful storms, massive creatures, ancient constructs, the works. It takes a good group of junkers and a lot of smarts to keep it together and stay safe, but all it takes is one idiot and everything goes to shit.
Iaga's Note
recording starts, a long pause, heavy sigh. Some screechy feedback, couple of breaths.*
I am not going to lie to you or try to sugarcoat things: I did not want to do this, be the frukking guidebook. I didn’t want to be here, far away from all of my family, stuck on some lost planet that apparently the stories say that all life in the universe comes from. “A primordial forge world,” my mom calls it, whatever the fruk that means. I was born here, on Adelphos, in a makeshift hospital room built from the scrap of my parents’ ship that they crashed here on some hairbrained mission to find the original home of the Four Peoples. I was the first “citizen” of Tidetimber, or what would become Tidetimber, I guess. The first baby born on Adelphos in hundreds of millions of years.
I am only going to give you the quick version of this once, and I am not going to go over it again. Historians tell us the Five Cardinals created the universe, yaddah yaddah yaddah, breathed life into the cosmos. Thousands of Great Beings, a thousand worlds, a thousand peoples. Course, they couldn’t do everything themselves, so they make these things called the Exarchs, big old space robots who go around and take over for them. Some are good, some are bad, some just are. Apparently, one named Opus Nyn - dumbass name, honestly - decided to build the bestest world they could, and boom, Adelphos was made. Along come the Five Peoples - well, technically who would become Four - the Sudari, Mrekori, Asketri, Exari, and Omzadri. We have guesses on what each of them were about but…hold on….
scratching of chair, clicking of comm, quiet voices, comm clicks off, chair scratches again, couple of breaths.*
Okay, gonna wrap this up. Anyway, the Asketri think they can play Exarch, capture the queen of the kaijan - yeah, we got those, too, hundreds-meters-tall monsters that are like, part of the land and shit - and tried to turn her into a living battery, apparently. Everyone knew this was a bad idea, the Five became Four, and the Asketri frukked up so bad they essentially hit the reset button on Adelphos a few cycles after the Four left. When we got here, or, when my moms got here with their crew, no one had set foot here in millions of cycles. First people back on the planet where life began, essentially.
My moms are getting older, and as Tessin reminded me, she is expecting me to take up being Commissioner when she is gone. So, now it is my job to get out there and start getting to understand the counties and grease palms, yaddah yaddah. Fruk…listen…for anyone who is listening to this…you need to understand this, about Adelphos: we don’t know shit about this world. We love to think we do, but we don’t. We are visitors, as much as my moms love to tell me we are just “coming home to where we were in the beginning.” Fruk that.
I don’t…I don’t…hate…Adelphos. This is all I have known: my friends, my extended family, my school, my jobs…other stuff…but…there are others like me who think we should just stick to the counties and stop frukking exploring. There are things I like about living here, things I even love…but I wish people would stop going further and further…the Stockade is there for a reason.
chair scrapes back from a moment, silence, a few long slow breaths, some feedback.*
My name is Iaga Morlock. My moms are Tessin and Edmora Morlock. My grandmoms were Essara and Tamora Morlock. November 12th, 4054 GST, 0400 PM. Signing off.
What's In Store?
Play as one of six new lineages: Solum, cosgob, Simbast, Odontos, Darwyk, or Threscan!
Select from one of eight new careers: Reclaimer, Sparker, Spacestalker, Cragclaw Wrangler, Excavator, Kaijinkrieger, Wavetech, and Trinketeer!
Pick a mount and set out to explore the wilds of your ancestors’ home planet!