Ultimate Base Kingdom Rules and Star Hero

[Jkeown]

How about this:

 

The Galaxy is in ruin following a Great Interstellar War. Hundreds of worlds have lost technology's benefits and most aren't aware of other occupied worlds. The ENEMY species is still out there, struggling to gain a foothold in space once more. The UNION is a legend. Once it ruled great swathes of space; now it's a meme for a war in Heaven. We focus on one planet, 1260 years after the fall of the UNION.

 

Egariah is a single-world of ATRI 7.5 or so, struggling to make it into space. However, space is dangerous; so bad in fact that there is a group of intersteller spies on-planet trying to retard technology and (perhaps more importantly) acceptance and trust of space travel. Call them GROUNDERS. Counter to this is a group of folks working with certain government elements to counteract the first group. Call them STARFARERS. Both work against each other toward one goal: Rebuild the UNION. They are small teams of humans waging a war against their unseen counterparts.

 

Recently STARFARERS have infiltrated the PCs government (and most others) and started a progressive movement to explore the moons and other worlds of their system. When the PCs world is ready, they will reveal themselves and the UNION. Egariah will have a part to play in resettling the galaxy. They aren't conquerors, but rather want to drag humanity out of the long night quietly. They are active on dozens of low- and mid-tech worlds. If the ENEMY finds this world unprepared and earthbound, they're toast. Getting them into space makes them ready to fight when the battleships arrive.

 

The GROUNDERS oppose this. Far out in space, the remnants of the ENEMY and the tatters of the UNION rage on against one another. Space is unsafe and deadly to low-tech worlds. It's better to keep such folks from making too much noise. Already Egariah's first radio broadcasts have reached a 200-ly radius and might be detected by the ENEMY's picket ships. its a long shot, and the energy of the signals is very low. If that happens, even a single ENEMY ship could do tremendous damage to Egariah.

 

Where do the PCs come in? Glad you asked. They are members of the government of the superpower that will first make it into space if left unchecked. They have government organizations (Kingdoms) to run and bureaucracy above and below to contend with. Over the course of the game, they will learn about the two teams influencing their world. The timeline includes elements such as deaths of NPCs, newly-opened fields of research, incidents involving GROUNDERS or STARFARERS and such, the discovery of a 1300 year old fighting ship in orbit around a distant moon and many other clues to the TRUTH. An election year might see a PC run for higher office, and new resources will be heaped upon the PC to represent the increased political power.

 

But it's not all politics. They have the option of a second character, who acts as a minion or other representative in a more intimate setting. Regularly, we'll focus on these lesser PCs who will do the actual legwork of uncovering the secrets of the game.

 

I have much more detail available, but this is enough to get a conversation started, yes?