Then, I realised as I read through Ashen Stars that every episode of Star Trek was a procedural mystery: I’m a big fan of Trail of Cthulhu (the ancestor-RPG to Ashen Stars) and wondered how on Earth you’d use the system for a space opera setting. It’s a bit like Traveller or Serenity (in that you have a PC-owned ship with a PC crew) but rather than flying from port to port trading, the focus is picking up investigation contracts and building up your precious reputation score rather than your wealth. The Federation-analogue, the Combine, haven’t pulled themselves together after the War yet, and hence rely on the Lasers to keep peace in the sector and to investigate crimes and distress signals. ![]() The PCs are ‘Lasers’ - Licensed Autonomous Zone Effectuators, who are essentially freelance police in a space frontier (‘the Bleed’) after a big war that ended seven years ago. Ashen Stars is a new sci-fi RPG from Pelgrane Press, focusing on space opera procedural mysteries, using the GUMSHOE system.
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