Transhuman Space

by Steve Jackson Games.

This is a background that's been a long time coming in the RPG world... a realistic, hard-sf future that embraces biotechnology, nanotech, artificial intelligence and space exploration, with all the social and psychological changes those entail. This is a whole line of books, describing a setting contained entirely within the solar system in the year 2100, with books detailing the inner and outer system, cislunar space, Earth (and the more unpleasant side of transhuman society), and the oceans of Earth and Europa! The game system used for Transhuman Space is GURPS, the corebook is now (finally) available as a colour hardback and all the core supplements have now finally been released.

In a twist of events that still occasionally surprises me, I landed a place as one of the co-authors of Under Pressure (formerly known as "Blue Shadow"), the oceanic sourcebook for Transhuman Space - the other authors are David Morgan-Mar and Kenneth Peters. I wrote the chapter on the oceans of Europa (and Mars, and Titan), which is quite handy as it also ties in with the research I'm doing as a post-doc! The book has now been released, and should be available from your Friendly Local Gaming Store (if it isn't, get them to order it!).

On this site...

The Not Remotely Complete List of Bioroids, Cybershells, and Parahumans (etc), compiled by Constantine Thomas. Someday this might be a list of every bioroid, parahuman, cybershell, genetic upgrade, infomorph type, bioshell type, and uplifted animal that has been presented in the published TS books so far, but so far I've only added those from TS and Fifth Wave. It lists name, points cost, a brief one-line summary, year it was first introduced, and page reference. This list should make it easier for people to track down a specific type of upgrade or biothingie. I haven't added biomods or nanomods though - not sure if I will. Someday I might get round to updating it...

SLA Industries Stormers, by Constantine Thomas. While looking through the rather fantastic SLA Industries RPG, I realised that the Stormers therein were basically bioroids. So I set about to convert them into the Transhuman Space setting. Currently only the basic Stormer 313 is presented here, but I might write up the others soon, if I can find some time to do them!

Maps

Global Sea Levels on Mars, by Constantine Thomas -(UPDATED: 22/4/03) This is something I originally made for the 'In The Well' playtest, but I've updated it now that the book is finally out. This version is based on more accurate topographic data than the map in the ITW book, but is not canonical - it is only provided here as an option for those who want realistic sea levels for Mars in Transhuman Space.
You can also access a much more accurate (and detailed) map of the Valles Marineris Map (see right) from there. Both maps show all the settlements and features shown in the original ITW maps.

This is a much more accurate of what Mars should look like than the featureless orange ball on the cover of In The Well. Valles Marineris is being illuminated by orbital mirrors.

Europa Seafloor Map, by Constantine Thomas - This is a smaller version (1500x1125 pixels) of the original version of the map of Europa's seafloor that I submitted to SJG for Under Pressure. As you can see, it's rather more detailed than the (somewhat butchered) version that SJG's art department came up with. Note that this map doesn't change anything shown in the map in the book - it's just a much clearer version that shows more topographic detail on the seafloor (pretty much all the rifts were blurred out of existence in the book version, for example).

External Links

Under Pressure - the TS Supplement that I co-wrote with David Morgan-Mar and Kenneth Peters. See above for details! Note that this book was formerly known as "Blue Shadow", but the name was changed to avoid confusion with GURPS Blue Planet, a conversion of the FFG/Biohazard RPG.

Transhuman Space - The official Transhuman Space homepage - Produced by Steve Jackson Games, and "powered by GURPS".
TzeentchNet: Transhuman Space - Kenneth Peter's very nicely done THS website, containing many pretty pictures, useful resources and links - I think this site is actually a lot more useful than the SJG one...!
Aaron Kavli's TS page - a very nice new page written by one of the TS Yahoo Group regulars. Includes some excellent writeups of corporations and places in the TS setting, with equipment and people to come - well worth a look!
David Pulver's homepage - David Pulver is the Line Editor of Transhuman Space - his website has just gone up, but hopefully will have some useful TS goodies on it soon :).
Transhuman Space Yahoo Discussion Group - a thriving Yahoo group devoted to the GURPS Transhuman Space setting.

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	Global Sea Levels on Mars, by Constantine Thomas -(UPDATED: 22/4/03) This is something I originally made for the 'In The Well' playtest, but I've updated it now that the book is finally out. This version is based on more accurate topographic data than the map in the ITW book, but is not canonical - it is only provided here as an option for those who want realistic sea levels for Mars in Transhuman Space. You can also access a much more accurate (and detailed) map of the Valles Marineris Map (see right) from there. Both maps show all the settlements and features shown in the original ITW maps.
	This is a much more accurate of what Mars should look like than the featureless orange ball on the cover of In The Well. Valles Marineris is being illuminated by orbital mirrors.