From publisher blurb:
Heart of Varrul is a White Star: Galaxy Edition campaign setting book that details the aliens, factions, and conflicts of the Rul System, Tathkee Station, and the Planet Varrul. The Rul System is on the brink of an interstellar gold rush and the PCs are poised to get involved on the ground floor. How they get involved is up to them!
Written by Peter C. Spahn and James M. Spahn, Heart of Varrul expands on the foundation laid by the critically acclaimed White Star: Galaxy Edition. With illustrations by artists Nicolas Giacondino and James Shields and maps by Just Insert Imagination's Morne Schaap, Heart of Varrul is specifically designed to give Referees a readymade location to run hours of adventures.
Heart of Varrul is packed full of usable content. The newly discovered Rul System lies far out in the Galactic Beyond which makes it easy to drop into any existing White Star™ campaign. Descriptions of NPCs, factions, and locations are similarly painted in broad strokes to make them easily adaptable. All NPC entries are fully statted for the White Star™ system.
The book contains a detailed overview of the Rul System, Tathkee Station, and Planet Varrul including:
Layout of the planets and features of the remotely located Rul System.
History of Varrul. This includes the history known to the miners and other visitors as well as the planet’s darker, more mysterious history.
History of Tathkee Station. A seedy suborbital space station that acts as the hub of commerce and intrigue on the gas giant Varrul and the Rul System.
Security, laws, and punishment aboard the station.
Interesting shops aboard the station and locales throughout the system and planet.
Games and leisure activities (many of them dangerous) to be found aboard the station.
Over one hundred (100) original NPCs of Note.
Twenty-five (25) Factions of Note.
Thirteen (13) New Aliens and Creatures found on the station and in the Rul System, including the insectile Tikatikatik, a sapient species native to Varrul.
Seven (7) New Vessels found on Tathkee Station and Varrul.
Three (3) New Classes.
Various intrigues aboard Tathkee Station.
Random Encounters on Tathkee Station (detailed and fully statted).
Random Encounters in the skies of Planet Varrul (detailed and fully statted).
Guidelines for opening a business on Tathkee Station, starting an independent varrulium mining company, or working as a corporate mercenary.
Guidelines for meeting (and perhaps joining) the native Varrulians whose lives are being ruined by the constant strip-mining operations.
Numerous Plot Hooks, Conflicts, and Adventure Ideas to be found in the Rul System, aboard Tathkee Station, and on Planet Varrul.
The Heart of Varrul: Special Edition also contains the six (6) setting-based adventures contained in the Rul System Adventure Pack.