About the adventure

Once upon a time in a galaxy much like our own... An introductory space opera jaunt in Fate Core! Be space samurai and gunslinging scoundrels. Punch Space Nazis in the face with your tank-sized battlemech. Go on daring raids for the plans to exotic superweapons. Forge alliances with (and thwart intrigues against) aliens, droids, and other oppressed groups in the galaxy. It is a dark time in the galaxy. The once noble GALACTIC REPUBLIC has fallen under the sway of the ruthless CHANCELLOR CLEON, and his forces at the CORE WORLDS are even now sweeping away all who would stand against his ambition of an EMPIRE OF MANKIND - and of Mankind alone. In their flight from the Empire's purges, the knights and mystics of the CONCLAVE OF COMMUNION hide the signs of their faith and their formidable psychic powers, aiding the oppressed folk of the OUTER RIM where they can, meditating on means to strike back where they cannot. A cell of the RESISTANCE scratching out an existence on the hostile desert world of CYDONIA may have found it: an ancient map in an even older temple to Communion, one that they think leads to the STARCRUISER REDEMPTION, the lost flagship of the Republic, and his fleet...