Science-Fiction Role Playing in a More Civilized Time.

Last Updated 17 April 2003

Drift the stately canals of Mars.  Escort caravans through the desert domains of the steppe nomads.  Fight the winged warriors and the cloud ships of the Martian Sky Lords.

Undertake a secret mission for the crown on Venus.  Elude the agents of the Kaiser; avoid capture by the German war zeppelins; survive the steaming, Venusian swamps, with their savage amphibious natives and gigantic dinosaurs.

Explore the mysterious caverns and grottos of Luna.  Venture deep in the dark interior in search of the Selenites.

• Everything Jules Verne could have written.

• Everything H. G. Wells should have written.

• Everything A. Conan Doyle thought of but never published — because it was too fantastic.

• Everything you need for the adventures of the century.

Character Generation

• Character Generation

Background Skills

Careers

NPCs

Worlds

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Luna
Mars

Technical Architecture

• Æther Propellers

• Analytical Engines

• Atmospheric Propulsion

• Clockwork

• Liftwood

• Masts and Sails

• Materials

• Mole Drills

• Overpowering Steam Engines

Encounters

Territory Types

• Organized
• Independent
• Insular
• Terrorized
• Anarchy
• Devastated
• Disputed
• Cantonment

Terrain Types

• Glacier

• Clear

• Prairie

• Rough

• Broken

• Mountain

• Forest

• Jungle

• River

• Swamp

• Marsh

• Desert

• Beach

• Surface

• Shallows

• Depths

• Bottom

• Sea Cave

• Sargasso

• Ruins

• Cave

• Chasm

• Crater

Events

• Animal Events

• Unusual Plants

• Weather

• Natural Disasters

• Terrain Features

• Curiosities

Bestiary

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Luna

• Flyer

• Humma

• Lunar Bat

• Lunar Bay Whale

• Lunar Caterpillar

• Lunar Fish

• Lunar Rat

• River Grabber

• Sea Turtle

• Water Snake

Mars

• Knoe Shoshu

• Ruumet Breehr

 

Articles

• Martian War Bands

• Oenotrian Economy and Military

• Spanish American War

Adventures

• One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing!

Related Campaigns

• Dark Æther - Dark Conspiracy horror in the Space 1889 universe

• Space 1939 - A world on the brink of war in the Space 1889 universe

• Space 2089 - Victorian adventure in the future of the Space 1889 universe

Links

• The Horror of the Heights by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1913)

• The Imperial German Army pre-1914

• JTAS:  Primitive, But Not Stupid

• The Steam and the Flame

• Steampunk:  What is today known as "Steampunk" has its beginnings in the early days of pulp fictions, for the genre is really a combination and imitation of the Scientific Romance and Gothic Horror genres of literature. Steampunk began so long ago with H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.R. Haggard, and others.

• Vaguely Victorian: by Marcus L. Rowland.  Role playing games with a Victorian setting have been popular for several years. To a large extent their success stems from the popularity of steampunk fiction, and most are firmly in the SF/steampunk camp, with weird gadgetry and complex intrigue as essential plot elements.

Bibliography

Canon Sources

• Conklin's Atlas of the Worlds

• Soldier's Companion

• Space 1889

• Tales from the Ether

Semi-canon sources

• Challenge 47, "Fist of Allah"

• Challenge 52, "Dwellers in the Dark"

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