
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!).
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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. |
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![]() | 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. |
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