Over the last few years, there has been a startling rise in the number of people that are willing to SPEW HATE. These people believe in white power, and fill the internet with nativist, racist, fascist crap. Quite a few of these evildoers are deeply entrenched in the various FANDOMS that us nerds adore. Very specifically the fandom of a certain space opera franchise that we love with our whole hearts has too many sad bad guys.
We are making REBEL SCUM as a way to re-discover the roots of the original message - how some scrappy, anti-fascist heroes can fight back against a government with unlimited power (including giant lasers and space magic). There is something refreshing and healing about getting to punch space nazis in their faces in a game, while we are living in a time when we have once again been called on to fight ACTUAL fascism in the real world (not just in our space operas).
So, we started punching Space Nazis in the face, and we realized that our LOVE for ROLEPLAYING probably started with our love for a certain line of 3 and 3/4 inch ACTION FIGURES. Pew-pew! Our countless hours of space adventures and galactic epics, played out with little plastic guys, were a natural preparation for a lifetime of making and playing characters in roleplaying games.
Source: The Kickstarter.