The Stygian Horizon (A Sandbox Alien Campaign)

About the adventure

Every job is a roll of the dice. You might be sent to retrieve valuable cargo from a drifting freighter, or secure a research lab that suddenly went dark. Sometimes it’s just pirates or rogue synthetics. But sometimes it’s something else... Something off the books, with claws, and no sense of mercy. Out here, it's hard to tell what’s more dangerous: the corporations, the creatures, or your own crew when they start to crack. The farther you drift into the void, the more you realize... Space isn't the only thing that wants to kill you. - In this bleak and unforgiving sandbox campaign setting, players step into the boots of mercenaries trying to make a fortune living on the fringes of known space. The frontier is a graveyard of failed colonies, derelict freighters, and half-finished research outposts, a silent testaments to humanity’s arrogance and ambition. Officially, you're in the “Space Salvage” business. Unofficially? You sometimes find yourself being an "off-the-books" cleanup crew for the galaxy’s worst nightmares. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has a long reach and even longer list of secrets, and every abandoned hulk you board might hold something that was never meant to be found. The setting takes inspiration from Dead Space and Event Horizon... So expect a few extra added homebrewed elements into the Alien universe. As I run multiple sessions, the multiple games are all interconnected. So the events of one session might have the ripples of that event be felt by other games and vice versa. I'm planning on giving plenty of mission ideas to allow players plenty of options to choose from, but allow characters the autonomy to work towards their own goals. Want to start up a settlement, go for it! Wanna own your own starship? It'll take some hard work, but that's definitely on the table! If your looking for a sci-fi horror based game that allows you to work towards your own goals and emphasizes roleplay, this is your game!

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