Eclipse Phase: Difference between revisions

''Death is a disease. Cure it.''

''Extinction is approaching. '''Fight it.''''' }}

 

Humanity stood on the cusp of a new age, with accelerated technological growth converging toward a singularity point, promising an undreamt-of future. Despite the ecopocalypse and social upheavals on Earth, humanity had conquered the solar system and partially terraformed Mars. Advancements in biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science transformed our lives. Everyone was wirelessly networked with the world around them, [[A Is]] processed vast amounts of information, and nano-fabrication enables people to print complex devices on the molecular level at home. Biotechnology allowed people to genefix, enhance, and clone their bodies, while others pursued body modifications to adapt to new environments or make themselves into something no longer quite human. People's minds and memories could be digitized, uploaded, transferred over long distances, and downloaded into new bodies (biological or synthetic). Death had been defeated... for those who can afford it.

Though most claim the Fall was carefully orchestrated by the out-of-control TITANS, others whisper that the driving powers behind the wars—both AI and transhuman—were infected by a mutating virus with multiple infection vectors—biological, information, nano—dubbed the Exsurgent virus. Whatever its source, this virus has been known to sometimes transform its victims into something unexplainable ... something monstrous and reality-altering. Whatever the truth, the remnants of the TITANS and this virus were left to the desolated ruins or driven to the edges of the system, where they remain hidden away in dark corners, quietly waiting to infect the minds of the scavengers and explorers who find them ...

 

 

* ''Eclipse Phase'': The core rulebook, with [[Loads and Loads of Rules]]

* ''Sunward'': A splatbook concerning the inner solar system

* ''Gatecrashing'': A splatbook which covers the use of the [[Portal Network|Pandora Gates]], sending expeditions beyond gates, and several sample Exoplanet Habitats

* ''Panopticon'': A splatbook combining the topics of [[Surveillance as the Plot Demands|surveillance]], [[Uplifted Animal|uplifts]], and [[Space Station|space habitats]].

 

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* [[Nuke'Em]]: Some of the older members of Firewall tend to believe that the best approach to danger is to nuke the settlement from space.

** This was also used as a strategy to try and stop the TITAN conquest and destruction of Earth. It helped them more than anything.

* [[One-Gender Race]]: Averted with the Fury morphs as the name implies female only but the description says that on occasion there are male versions.

* [[Only One Me Allowed Right Now]]: Many places forbid forking, at least at the Alpha level.

** One of the audio clips for the Continuity module is {{spoiler|I'm sorry, I can't do that.}}

** In ''Gatecrashing'', it's mentioned that one Angelina Germanotta is a member of a certain hedonistic space colony. She might be better known to you by [[Lady Gaga|another name]] ...

** In the introduction one character complains that she always gets sleeved in a chain smoker, kind of like [[Altered Carbon|Takeshi Kovacs]].

** Nanofabricators specialized for food production are called [[Transmetropolitan|Makers]].

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