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Fire up your voidjammer's engines and prepare your rifter crew for adventure.
HYPERSTORM is a science fiction role-playing game about explorers and treasure hunters who go boldly beyond the final frontier - into the Hyperstorm.
I want share with you a Finnish RPG project called Hyperstorm RPG that is a upcoming game from Finnish roleplaying publisher called Ironspine. In 2006, Ironspine published a science fiction roleplaying game called Heimot (eng. Tribes) that was somewhat popular in Finnish roleplaying scene. It was hard covered, high value book. Main focus of the game was mankind's future, heroes were outcasts of their tribes who tired to make living in world where prejudices between mankind and aliens (and even between different human tribes!) made everything hard. Relics from humanity's glorious days would make someone very rich but risk them to many dangers. Heimot landed somewhere between Firefly and Dunes if I had to compare its setting to something.
Now Ironspine is making a reboot game to Heimot and it will be in English. Hyperstorm.com has additional information about the game, I like this quote a lot as it tells much about what they are trying to accomplish:
Outer Space Wreck Crawling
The core idea of this game concept is to transfer the well-tested idea of dungeon crawling into outer space. Instead of dungeons, the heroes in this game will be exploring wrecks. In game terms, wrecks can be anything from crash-landed space ships, wrecked space stations, and abandoned colony settlements to mysterious enigmas or other alien ruins.The wrecks are more often than not dangerous places, with terrible creatures, clever traps and other dangers such as leaking reactors, rogue nano-swarms or weird dimensional anomalies waiting for the hapless explorer.
Depending on what you want to make of it, the adventures can be just simple blast & slash looting, or the characters can get entangled in galactic conspiracies or take sides in the on-going conflicts between different factions.
Hyperstorm will go to crowdsourcing in sometime, you can find the plan for this project from this blog post (pre-order means IndieGogo or something similar). I'll keep this topic updated as we go into future so you won't miss anything about this project.
As you probably can see, I'm pretty hyped about Hyperstorm RPG. It is because of many things: Heimot is one of my favorite games and settings, Ironspine is great publisher and I really like their games. Their latest game, Astraterra, was just sold out here in Finland just a year after its publishing. I encourage you to check out the website, Hyperstorm RPG to read about the game, setting and to be amazed by the art the game will have.
Go boldly in to the Hyperstorm!