CAMPAIGN BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Third Galactic Imperium: The greatest empire humankind has ever known. The Third Imperium stretches across the galaxy and consists of tens of thousands of star systems. God-Emperor Aquila Avitus Justinian of Terra has ruled over trillions of subjects for over three hundred years. Most of his far flung subjects know him as nothing more than a mythological figure whose words and whims can launch a hundred thousand ships or destroy a world with fire from the sky. Through the combination of Holy Church, Government Bureaucracy, Megacorporation economic controls, and the Might of the Imperial Navy, the Emperor’s rules extends across the galaxy. But space is large and even with warp routes it can takes years for a citizen, news, and royal proclamations to travel from one end of the empire to the other. The wheels of government grind ever forward, but so do the wheels of chaos. At any given moment hundreds of worlds are in open revolt, require aide due to natural disaster, or are quarantined for some technological mishap, alien induced catastrophe, or religious heresy. This leaves imperial resources constantly stretched thin, especially along the farthest reaches of the border. For years, the Imperial presence has shrunk within the Trojan Reach, but a new governor has been installed in Tobia, and she has her own plans for expanding the imperial reach as well as her own power. As the Emperor’s health continues to deteriorate and his grip grows weaker, many Imperial powers jockey for power and position. Readying themselves to be the one true guardian and savior of all humanity.
Fallen Empire of Sindal: The Empire of Sindal once ruled much of the Trojan Reach, but that was over six hundred years ago. When it was as it peak, this Empire founded by ruthless raiders from the Sindal system, once ruled most of the sector including worlds that now belong to the Galactic Imperium and the Enlightened Confederacy. Now Sindal is nothing but a bombed out ruin, home to a few subsistence based agricultural colonies. Most of the worlds that it once ruled with an iron fist are now part of the Imperium, the Confederacy, or independent worlds struggling to remain so.
The Enlightened Confenderacy: The second largest government in the sector. It is a region of over 100 primarily alien populated systems that stretches rim ward of the Trojan Reach. Relations between the Imperium and the Confederacy are strained at the best of times. Over the last 100 years they have fought no fewer than five major wars over systems within the Trojan Reach and hundreds of minor skirmishes or other incidents have occurred. Still trade does exist between the two as well as between all of the other minor systems within the sector. The sector system is a lynchpin of this trade offering a neutral ports of call along the quickest known warp routes between the Empire and the Confederacy.
Kingdom of Drinax: King Oleb XVI presides over a dead world, but that hasn’t stopped him from having dreams and ambitions. Ruling from the ancient Floating City, the massive starport built more as an expression of art and hubris rather than for function, that still orbits Drinax and is the only surviving remnant of the Sindalese empire which was utterly destroyed by the Enlightened Confederacy 200 years ago. Despite a lack of resources, wealth, and any space faring navy, King Oleg isn’t without influence in the sector or a good political mind. Now he has devoted what little assets he has to building his kingdom’s power and influence within the sector.
The Abandoned Worlds: A loose string of isolated or backwater worlds known for looking the other way when it comes to criminal activities. The law is determined by the one with the biggest guns and the largest number of people willing to use them. Turnover in leadership is frequent and often bloody and nearly every piece of equipment on or off planet is rundown, third hand, and held together with a duct tape and a prayer.
FATE INFORMATION
FATE DICE ROLL: To roll FATE dice use the following code. [dice=FATE]4d3-8[/dice]. Substitute the actual skill or action your rolling for "FATE" in the first set of brackets.
ASPECTS
Each character begins with 5 aspects. A High Concept, a Trouble, and three other open aspects. Aspects are what define your character. For more info on Aspects go here.
SKILLS
All characters select 10 skills. One at +4 (Great), Two at +3 (Good), Three at +2 (Fair), and Four at +1 (Average). Skills are selected from the following list.
Security Systems: Picking locks to bypassing sophisticated AI password algorithms, this is the art of getting into places others don’t want you to be. Or for the person with stuff to protect, trying to set up a system that others can’t infiltrate.
Contacts: You know people. Some of them might know people. Maybe they’ve got something you need, maybe they don’t. Maybe you owe them a favor, better yet, they might owe you one.
Engineering: You know what makes a star ship tick and you’re good at fixing them when they break.
Programming: Computers are your friend and you know how to talk to them and make them do what you’d like.
Deceive: Truth is subjective.
Pilot: Engineers know how to build ships and fix ships. You know how to squeeze every last bit of speed out of them and keep them from crashing into stuff.
Astrogation: The mysteries of the warp are you mistress and reason for being. If anyone wishes to travel between the stars they come to you, usually with pockets full of Imperial Eagles.
Empathy: You know when to hold them, you know when to fold them. And you know when that scoundrel across the table is bluffing.
Fight: Using your fists, knives, or vibroblades, you know how to protect yourself and cause some serious harm to someone else in the process when they get up real close and personal.
Investigate: Snooping into things is your passion and you’re good at it.
Culture: Art, history, local entertainment, religion, and politics, you track it all.
Science: The answers to the universe are there, we just need to figure them out.
Notice: You see things, just not dead people.
Provoke: You know just the right things to say to get a reaction out of someone.
Persuade: This is what you use when you’re out numbered and Deceive doesn’t work.
Shoot: What you use when you’re not outnumbered. Works best with Laser Rifles, Blasters, Rocket Launchers, Bows, or just about anything that throws something at you foe from a distance.
Resources: You got money or know how to get your hands on some.
Stealth: You are one with the night. Quiet as a mouse.
Will: You will not fear, fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death.
Psionics: The mind holds vast unexplored secrets. You’ve explored some.
Gunnery: Hand weapons are for wimps. Your prefer the mass drivers and torpedo launchers of starships. They make a BOOM you can be proud of.
Toughness: It’s only a flesh wound, you’ll be fine.
Command: Nobody really likes you, but they’ll do what you tell them.
Planetary Survival: Harsh deserts, frigid methane seas, radioactive wastelands, you know to avoid such places, but when that isn’t possible, you also know how to increase the odds of lasting long enough to get back out again.
Medicine: Like an engineer but for squishy things.
STUNTS
Each character may select 3 stunts to begin. A solid list of stunts for FATE characters can be found here. You may also develop your own stunt if you wish, but all stunts require GM approval.
REFRESH
Everyone starts with a Refresh of 3 unless. You may spend up to one refresh to gain an additional stunt.
STRESS & CONSEQUENCES
All PC’s begin with 3 physical stress and 3 mental stress. If you have a skill rank of +3 or higher in Toughness then you gain one additional physical stress box. If you have a skill rank of +3 or higher in Will, then you gain one additional mental stress box.
