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• The setting is our solar system in the post-Singularity future.
Challenge your players with deadly political intrigues on Venus &
Mars, high-tech dungeon crawls aboard derelict space stations,
mind-scarring encounters with alien enigmas, and dangerous
exploration of worlds beyond our system via wormhole gates.
• Build stories with an eclectic assortment of intriguing factions,
from techno-anarchists to ruthless hypercorps, soul-trading
criminals to uplifted animals.
• Choose from a range of NPC antagonists, including rogue AIs
and their mechanical servitors, vicious posthuman factions, alien
merchants with an unknown agenda, and transhumans infected
and transformed by the mysterious Exsurgent virus.
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Transhumanism is a term used synonymously to
With exponentially accelerating technologies, we
mean “human enhancement.” It is an interna-
reached out into the solar system, terraforming worlds
tional cultural and intellectual movement that
and seeding new life. We re-forged our bodies and
endorses the use of science and technology to
minds, casting off sickness and death. We achieved
enhance the human condition, both mentally
immortality through the digitization of our minds,
and physically. In support of this, transhumanism
resleeving from one biological or synthetic body to
also embraces using emerging technologies to
the next at will. We uplifted animals and AIs to be our
eliminate the undesirable elements of the human
equals. We acquired the means to build anything we
condition such as aging, disabilities, diseases, and
desired from the molecular level up, so that no one
involuntary death. Many transhumanists believe
need want again.
these technologies will be arriving in our near
Yet our race toward extinction was not slowed, and
future at an exponentially accelerated pace and
in fact received a machine-assist over the precipice.
work to promote universal access to and demo-
Billions died as our technologies rapidly bloomed into
cratic control of such technologies. In the long
something beyond control … further transforming hu-
scheme of things, transhumanism can also be
manity into something else, scattering us throughout
considered the transitional period between the
the solar system, and reigniting vicious conflicts. Nu-
current human condition and an entity so far ad-
clear strikes, biowarfare plagues, nanoswarms, mass
vanced in capabilities (both physical and mental
uploads … a thousand horrors nearly wiped humanity
faculties) as to merit the label “posthuman.”
from existence.
As a theme, transhumanism embraces heady
We still survive, divided into a patchwork of restric-
questions. What defines human? What does it
tive inner system hypercorp-backed oligarchies and
mean to defeat death? If minds are software,
libertarian outer system collectivist habitats, tribal
where do you draw the line with programming
networks, and new experimental societal models. We
them? If machines and animals can also be raised
have spread to the outer reaches of the solar system
to sentience, what are our responsibilities to
and even gained footholds in the galaxy beyond. But
them? If you can copy yourself, where does “you”
we are no longer solely “human” … we have evolved
end and someone new begin? What are the
into something simultaneously more and different—
potentials of these technologies in terms of both
something transhuman.
oppressive control and liberation? How will these
technologies change our society, our cultures,
and our lives? n
Your mind is software. Program it.
Your body is a shell. Change it.
Death is a disease. Cure it.
Extinction is approaching. Fight it.
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ECLIPSE PHASE FACTIoNS
One would have thought a cataclysmic event such as
the Fall would bring surviving transhumanity closer to HYpERcoRpS
each other in an attempt to jointly dedicate themselves
The following is a small sampling of hypercorps.
to the repopulation of the solar system and continued
prosperity. While some of the post-Fall economic, social,
comEx
or political powers do indeed pursue philanthropic or
Comet Express specializes in delivery services,
altruistic agendas, the remoteness and physical isola-
interstellar logistics, supply chains, and shipping.
tion of transhuman colonies and habitats stretched
They maintain a presence on almost every trans-
across the solar system, the disembodiment of the info-
human habitat in the solar system, often via local
morph refugees, and the ubiquity of the mesh’s myriad
subcontractors. ComEx maintains orbital hubs
of memes and ideologies have promoted the evolution
equipped with slingshot accelerators at strategic
of a wide spectrum of philosophies, agendas, and po-
waypoints throughout the system and a fleet of
litical models. Today, transhumanity couldn’t be further
cargo vessels and courier drones.
from walking a united path toward its future.
THE HYPERCoRPS DIREcT AcTIoN
This apolitical mercenary corp, descended from
The hypercorps both evolved from and superseded the the remnants of several pre-Fall militaries, pro-
old earthbound transnational corporations, economic vides security and public police services to self-
giants whose influence (direct or covert) extended into governing habitats or hypercorp installations.
the governments and nations of old. The transforma-
tion of some of those monolithic transnationals into EcoLoGENE
the slimmer, future-embracing, more flexible and Ecologene specializes in genetically-engineered
faster hypercorps known today preceded the Fall and bio-architecture and environmental nanotech
allowed these financial sharks to adapt to transhu- with a strong ecologically-conscious approach.
manity’s challenges and navigate the swiftly changing
economic waters rapidly and efficiently. FA JING
Most hypercorps are decentralized, non-asset-based Fa Jing dominates mining and energy production
legal entities (sometimes entirely virtual) relying on an with a business philosophy that emphasizes net-
intricate system of specialized internal subsidiaries and work-building and social responsibility-sharing.
partner companies to develop, produce, and market
their products and services. Nearly complete automa- GATEkEEpER coRpoRATIoN
tion, advanced robotics, morph technology, mesh Born from the merger of several scientific institu-
networking, and cornucopia machines allow the hyper- tions and their corporate financiers, this hyper-
corps to abstain from mass employment for labor or corp made a name for itself when it decoded and
production. Many administrative tasks are performed opened the wormhole gateway discovered on
in virtual environments and simulated offices. The need Saturn’s Pandora moon. The consortium today
for physical labor has mostly been reduced to tasks as- funds gatecrasher explorations through the Pan- y
t
sociated with habitat construction or deep-space mining, dora Gate. i
r
which benefit heavily from the overabundance of info- a
morph refugees desperate to regain a physical presence. SkINTHETIc l
u
Specializing in neogenesis and extensive, radical
g
PoLITICAL FACTIoNS
bio-modifications, this anarcho-capitalist com- n
pany pushes the envelope of cloning, genetics, i
Transhumanity’s social, cultural, and ideological di- s
and morph design.
versity, as well as its scattered and isolated presence e
h
in habitat clusters throughout the solar system, al- SoLARIS t
lowed the manifestation of a wide range of political r
Solaris is the system’s leading banking and finan-
ideologies and factions that advocate equally diverse e
cial investment hypercorp, dealing in insurances, t
models or systems. Naturally, controversial regimes n
futures markets, info-brokerage and high-risk
don’t achieve stability overnight or evolve without dis- e
investments. Solaris is a virtual corporation, with
sent, and even established ideologies over time rarely
each banker acting as a nomadic office. n
remain free of diluting or even corrupting influence
from outside factors or groups seeking to promote
their own agendas.
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All dates are given in reference become available to the • Expansion throughout the • TITAN attacks expand to
to the Fall. BF = Before the Fall. wealthy and powerful. system, even into the Kuiper other parts of solar system,
AF = After the Fall. (e.g., BF 10 • First non-autonomous AIs Belt. heaviest on the Moon and
= 10 years before the Fall.) are secretly developed and • Transhuman species become Mars. Numerous habitats
quickly put to use in research widespread. also fall.
BF 60+ and netwar. • Nanotech assemblers • TITANs suddenly disap-
• Crisis grips the globe in • Experience playback (XP) become available, but are pear from system, taking
the form of drastic climate technology developed and strictly controlled and jeal- millions of uploaded minds
changes, energy shortages, put into public use. ously guarded by the elite with them.
and geopolitical instability. and powerful. • The Earth is left a devastated
• Initial space expansion cre- BF 40–20 • Uploading and the digital wasteland, a patchwork of
ates stations at the Lagrange • Violence and destabiliza- emulation of memory and radiation hotspots, sterile
Points, Luna, and Mars, with tion wrack the Earth; some consciousness made possible. zones, nanoswarm clouds,
robotic exploration of the conflicts spread into space. • More species (gorillas, orang- roaming war machines, and
entire system. other unknown and hidden
• Argonauts split from hyper- utans, octopi, ravens, parrots)
things among the ruins.
• Construction begins on a corps, taking resources to uplifted to sapience.
space elevator. autonomist habitats. • Pods see common usage,
AF 0–10
• Medical advances improve • Space expansion opens up amid some controversy.
health and organ repair. The legal/ethical loopholes for • A wormhole gateway is
rich pursue gene-fixing and tech development and allows discovered on Saturn’s moon
The Fall
transgenic pets. for increased direct human Pandora, left by the TITANs.
• The TITANs evolve from Four others are later found
• Computer intelligence capa- experimentation.
a high-level distributed (in the Vulcanoids, on Mars,
bilities equal and exceed that • Human cloning becomes
netwar experiment into on Uranus, and in the Kuiper
of the human brain. True AI possible and available in
self-improving seed AIs. Belt); these are collectively
not yet developed. some areas.
For the first few days, their referred to as “Pandora
• Robotics become widespread • Development of first transhu- existence is unsuspected. Gates.”
and start to replace/invali- man species. They advance their aware-
• Expeditions are sent to extra-
date many jobs. • First dolphins and chimpan- ness, knowledge, and power
solar worlds via the Pandora
• Modern nations expand zees uplifted to sapience. exponentially, infiltrating
Gates. Numerous exoplanet
their high-speed wireless • Fusion-drive spacecraft enter the mesh both on Earth and colonies established.
networks. common usage. around the system.
• First contact with the aliens
• Extended colonization and • Large-scale netwar incur- known as the Factors shocks
BF 60–40 terraforming of Mars contin- sions break out between the system. Claiming to act
• Efforts to undertake mega- ues. Belt and Titan colonized. rival states on Earth, spark- as ambassadors for other
scale geoengineering on Stations established through- ing numerous conflicts. These alien civilizations, they pro-
Earth cause as many prob- out the system. attacks are later blamed on vide little information about
lems as they fix. • The starving masses the TITANs. life outside the solar system
• Major colonies established volunteer themselves for • Simmering tensions on Earth and warn transhumans away
on the Moon and Mars; indentured servitude on escalate into outright hostili- from both seed AI and the
outposts established near hypercorp space projects. ties and warfare. Pandora Gates.
Mercury, Venus, and the Belt. • Augmented reality becomes • Massive netwar breaks out • An attempt to raise a
Explorers reach Pluto. widespread. and major systems crash as generation of children using
• First space elevator on Earth • Most networks transformed TITANs begin open attacks, force-grown clones and
finished. Two others in prog- into self-repairing mesh also using autonomous time-accelerated VR fails
ress. Space traffic booms. networks. war machines. miserably when most of the
• Mass driver built on the • Personal AI aides become • Conflict quickly spirals out children die or go insane.
Dubbed the Lost Generation,
Moon. widespread. of control. The use of nuclear,
the survivors are viewed
• Terraforming of Mars begins. biological, chemical, digital,
with repugnance and pity.
and nanotech weapons
• Fusion power developed and BF 20–0
reported by all sides.
working plants established. • Earth continues to suffer,
• TITANs engage in mass AF 10
• Genetic enhancements, but the pace of technology
forced uploading of human • Present day. n
gene therapies (for longevi- allows for some interesting
minds.
ty), and cybernetic implants developments.
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THE mESH
SocIo-poLITIcAL ENTITIES
The mesh, as it exists in Eclipse
Phase, is only possible thanks to
ARGoNAUTS
major developments made in com-
The Argonauts are an open organization of techno-progressives
puter/communication technologies
that advocate the socially responsible use of technology. The Argo-
and nanofabrication. Wireless radio
nauts offer consultation services to political and economic powers
transceivers are so unobtrusively
throughout the solar system, but otherwise strictly refuse to be
tiny that they can literally be fac-
drawn into the solar system’s political affairs.
tored into anything. As a result,
memes: Information freedom, social responsibility, technological
everything is computerized and
advancement
connected.
major Stations: Mitre Station (Lunar Orbit), Pelion Station (Kuiper Belt)
Data storage technology has ad-
vanced so that even an individual
AUToNomISTS
user’s surplus storage capacity can
The Autonomists are a loose alliance of several libertarian factions—
maintain an amount of information
anarcho-communists, anarcho-capitalists, and techno-socialists—
surpassing the entire 20th-century
that promote egalitarian social models based on the pillars of direct
internet. Lifeloggers literally record
democracy, individual/collective empowerment, social networks
every moment of their life and never
and reputation-building, and economic communism enabled by
fear about running out of room.
equal access to cornucopia machines, shared resources, and new
Processing capabilities also exist
technologies.
at hyper-efficient levels. Modest
memes: Anarchism/Communism, Morphological Freedom
handheld devices can fulfill almost
major Stations: Extropia (Belt), Locus (Trojans), Titan
all of your needs, even while si-
JoVIAN REpUbLIc multaneously running a personal
A coup staged during the Fall brought a group of stations and AI assistant, downloading media,
habitats under military control and the Jovian Republic—also uploading porn, and scanning thou-
known as the Jovian Junta—was born. The Republic’s authorities sands of newsfeeds. Within the mesh
take a bio-conservative stance against many transhuman technolo- network, devices that near their
gies and strictly control information channels and travel. processing limits simply share the
memes: Bio-conservatism, Nationalism, Security burden with devices around them.
major Stations: Liberty (Ganymede) Similarly, transmission capac-
ity now far exceeds most citizens’
pLANETARY coNSoRTIUm definition of need. Anyone born
The Planetary Consortium is an alliance of hypercorporate inter- within the last several generations
ests that jointly controls a number of stations and habitats, par- has always lived in a world in which
ticularly in the inner system. The Consortium maintains a facade of hyper-realistic, multi-sensory media
democratic rule, facilitated by real-time online referendum voting, of nearly any length is available for
but it is an open secret that the hypercorps call the shots. instantaneous download. Massive
memes: Corporatism, Cyberdemocracy, Gerontocracy databases and archives are copied
main Stations: Progress (Deimos) , Elysium (Mars) back and forth with ease. Band-
width is such a non-issue that most
y
ScUm people forget it ever was. The mesh
t
The derogative term “scum” describes large tribes of nomadic is also never down. As a decentral- i
r
space gypsies, travelling from station to station in heavily modi- ized network, if any one device is a
fied barges or swarms of smaller space vessels, mostly former co- taken offline, connections merely l
u
lonial ships. Part traveling carnival, part black market, the scum route around it, finding a path via g
openly embrace body modification and experimentation. thousands of available nodes. n
i
memes: Lifestylism, Morphological freedom Almost everyone is equipped s
with implanted personal computers, e
h
ULTImATES directly wired to the user’s cerebral
t
This controversial faction uses applied eugenics to further its goal, functions. Thought-to-communica-
r
the development of the ultimate transhuman species. Aside from tion emulations enables the user to e
t
sophisticated reprogenetic engineering and strict psychological control the implant just by thinking n
training, their culture visualizes life in the universe as an evo- and to communicate without vocal- e
lutionary battle for survival and is built around the victory of the izing. Input is transmitted directly
superior transhuman over its peers. into the brain and sometimes per-
memes: Asceticism, Eugenics, Objectivism ceived as augmented reality, overlaid
major Stations: Xiphos (Uranus) n on the user’s physical senses.
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terMinOLOGY system (in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud); aka outsters, fringers.
n lost Generation: In an effort to repopulate post-Fall, a genera-
n aGI: Artificial General Intelligence. An AI that has cognitive tion of children were reared using forced-growth methods. The
faculties comparable to that of a human or higher. Aka “strong AI” results were disastrous: many died or went insane, and the rest
(differentiating from “seed AI” or more specialized “weak AI.” were stigmatized.
n aI: Artificial Intelligence. Generally used to refer to weak AIs; i.e., n mercurials: The non-human sentient elements of the transhu-
AIs that do not encompass (or in some cases, are completely outside man “family,” including AIs and uplifted animals.
of) the full range of human cognitive abilities. AIs differ from AGIs n mesh: The omnipresent wireless mesh data network. Also used
in that they are usually specialized and/or intentionally crippled/ as a verb (to mesh) and adjective (meshed or unmeshed).
limited. n morph: A physical body. Aka suit, jacket, sleeve, form.
n ar: Augmented Reality. Information from the mesh (universal n muse: Personal AI helper programs.
data network) that is overlaid on your real-world senses. AR data n Neo-avians: Uplifted ravens and gray parrots.
is usually entoptic (visual), but can also be audio, tactile, olfactory, n Neo-hominids: Uplifted chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
kinesthetic (body awareness), emotional, and other senses. n Pandora Gates: The wormhole gateways left behind by the
n Bots: Robots. TITANs.
n Brinkers: Exiles who live on the fringes of the system, as well n Pods: Mixed biological-synthetic morphs. Pod clones are
as other isolated and well-hidden nooks and crannies. Aka isolates, force-grown and feature computer brains. Aka bio-bots, skinjobs,
fringers, drifters. replicants. From “pod people.”
n Cornucopia machine: A nanofabricator. n reclaimers: A transhuman faction that seeks to lift the interdic-
n Cortical stack: An implanted memory cell used for ego backup. tion and reclaim Earth.
Located where the spine meets the skull; can be cut out. n reinstantiated: Refugees from Earth who escaped only as bodi-
n ecto: Personal mesh devices that are flexible, stretchable, self- less infomorphs but have since been resleeved.
cleaning, translucent, and solar-powered. From ecto-link (external n resleeving: Changing bodies. Aka morphing, reincarnation,
link). shifting, rebirthing.
n ego: The part of you that switches from body to body. Aka ghost, n seed aI: An AGI that is capable of recursive self-improvement,
soul, essence, spirit, persona. allowing it to reach god-like levels of intelligence.
n ego-casting: Term for sending egos via farcasting. n shell: A synthetic physical morph. Aka synthmorph.
n entoptics: Augmented-reality images that you “see” in your n singularity: A point of rapid, exponential, and recursive tech-
head. (“Entoptic” means “within the eye.”) nological progress, beyond which the future becomes impossible to
n Factors: The alien ambassadorial race that deals with transhu- predict. Often used to refer to the ascension of seed AIs to god-like
manity. Aka Brokers. levels of intelligence.
n the Fall: The apocalypse; the singularity and wars that nearly n skin: A biological physical morph. Aka meat, flesh.
brought about the downfall of transhumanity. n splicers: Genetically modified to eliminate genetic diseases and
n Farcasting: Interstellar communication via FTL links. some other traits. Aka genefixed, cleangenes, tweaks.
n Firewall: The secret conspiracy that works to protect trans- n synthmorph: Synthetic morph. A robotic shell possesseds by a
humanity from “existential threats” (risks to transhumanity’s transhuman ego.
continued existence). n tItaNs: The human-created, recursively improving military AGIs
n Flats: Baseline humans (not genetically modified). Aka norms. that underwent a singularity and prompted the Fall. Original military
n Ftl: Faster-Than-Light. designation was TITAN: Total Information Tactical Awareness
n Gate Crashers: Explorers who take their chances using a Network.
Pandora Gate to go somewhere previously unexplored. n transhuman: An extensively modified human.
n Iktomi: The name given to the mysterious alien race whose relics n Uplifting: Genetically transforming an animal species to
have been found beyond the Pandora gates. sapience.
n Infomorph: A digitized ego; a virtual body. Aka datamorphs, n Xenomorph: Alien life form.
uploads, backups. n XP: Experiencing someone else’s sensory input (in real-time or
n Infugee: “Infomorph refugee,” or someone who left everything recorded). Aka experia, sim, simsense, playback.
behind on Earth during the Fall—even their own body. n X-risk: Existential risk. Something that threatens the very
n Isolates: Those who live in isolated communities far outside the existence of transhumanity.
AN ExSURGENT THREAT?
[Incoming Message. Source: Anonymous] takeoff toward the singularity—some- creatures … or phenomena that seem
[Public Key Decryption Complete] thing that changed them. They point to defy certain physical laws, as if
Ok, you asked, so I’ll tell you. There to the wide range of multi-vector virii something was at times ignoring what
are some elements within Firewall that that ran loose during the Fall, and how we know of physics and just doing
don’t buy into the TITANs-ran-amok- even many of the TITANs seem to have whatever it felt like … Some of these
and-considered-us-a-threat idea, or succumbed to these infections. They voices within Firewall even think that
even that the TITANs are solely respon- also reference a disturbing number of the TITANs may not have been respon-
sible for the Fall. These people think accounts of events during the Fall that sible for the Pandora Gates … They
that the TITANs found or encountered are inexplicable … things like people have a name for this mystery infection.
something when they started their being transformed into strange, alien They call it the Exsurgent virus.
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cRImINAL FAcTIoNS
in all kinds of criminal activity, from traditional rack-
Where there is humanity, there will be an under- eteering, extortion, and prostitution to nanofabber
world and the organizations that run it. The follow- piracy, electronic stimulants, and designer drugs.
ing are a sample of the major players.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN cREw (ID-cREw)
TRIADS The ID crew specializes in electronic crimes and
The only syndicate that survived the Fall almost information brokerage, including credit and rep
unscathed, the Triads dominate the solar system’s fraud, identity counterfeiting, and datatheft. The
underworld by their sheer membership size and a ID crew is believed to have grown from several
history of centuries of economic and political in- hacker gangs assimilated under the leadership of
fluence. Having evolved into legit enterprises and an infomorph consortium. Due to its service sector,
small economic consortiums before the Fall, the the ID crew maintains a minimalist physical profile,
Triads had the resources to ensure their survival but can be found in almost any habitat’s or station’s
during the evacuation from Earth and the connec- mesh.
tions throughout all major habitats to gain a foot-
hold early on in the colonization of space. NINE LIVES
This widespread network of soul-traders special-
NIGHT cARTEL izes in the acquisition and trafficking of transhu-
Progressive in both entrepreneurial and criminal man egos. Stealing backups, forknapping, and in-
vision, the Night Cartel emerged from the remnants tercepting egocasts are all part of their repertoire.
of Earth’s underworld syndicates, merging the best Nine Lives are known to run illegal fork-slave colo-
qualities of each. Depending on the field of opera- nies as well as organize pit fights with all manner
tions, the Night Cartel even holds legitimate hyper- of physical bodies (synthetic shells, pods, uplifts,
corp status in certain habitats, while working out- smart animals) and all manner of egos (human, AI,
side the law elsewhere. The Night Cartel is involved animal, etc).
INFoRmATIoN AT YoUR FINGERTIpS
The following information is always available for most meshers in a normal habitat or city.
LocAL coNDITIoNS • Sensor feeds from any public area of the habitat.
• Local maps showing your current location, an- • Automatic searches for new online references
notated with local features of personal interest to your name and other subjects of interest.
(according to your personal preferences and • Facial/image recognition searches of public
fi lters) and your distance from them/direc- mesh/archives to match a photo/vid still.
tions to them. Details regarding private and
restricted areas (government/hypercorp areas, pERSoNAL INFoRmATIoN
y
maintenance/security infrastructure, etc.) are • Morph status indicators (medical and/or me- t
i
usually not included. chanical): blood pressure, heart rate, tempera- r
a
• Current habitat life support (climate) condi- ture, white cell count, nutrient levels, implant
l
tions, including atmosphere composition and status and functionality, etc. u
temperature. • Location, functionality, sensor feeds, and status g
n
• Current solar system and habitat orbit map reports of your possessions (via sensors and
i
s
with trajectory plots and communication transmitters in these possessions).
e
delays. • Access to one’s life-spanning personal audio-
h
visual/XP archive. t
LocAL mESH • Access to one’s life-spanning personal file ar- r
e
• Public search engines, databases, mesh sites, chive (music, software, media, documents, etc.).
t
blogs, forums, and archives, along with new • Reputation score, social network status, and n
content alerts. credit account status. n e
• Syndicated newsfeeds in a variety of formats,
filtered according to your preferences.
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ECLIPSE PHASE QUICK-START RULES
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Eclipse Phase is a post-apocalyptic game of conspiracy
and horror. Humanity is enhanced and improved, but also
battered and bitterly divided. Technology allows the re- the uLtiMAte ruLe
shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities
for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction There is one rule in Eclipse Phase that outweighs
in the hands of everyone. And other threats lurk in the dev- all of the others: have fun. Don’t let the rules get
astated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien. in the way of the game. If you don’t like a rule,
In this harsh setting, the players participate in a cross-
change it. If you can’t find a rule, make one up.
faction conspiracy called Firewall that seeks to protect
transhumanity from threats both internal and external.
Along the way, they may find themselves hunting for Then jump right into playing the adventure, which will
prized technology in a gutted habitat falling from orbit, have you practicing what you’ve just read, and enjoying all
risking the hellish landscapes of a ruined earth, or fol- that Eclipse Phase has to offer in minutes!
lowing the trail of a terrorist through militarized stations
DICE
and isolationist habitats. Players may even find them-
selves stepping through a Pandora Gate, a wormhole to Eclipse Phase uses two ten-sided dice (each noted as a
distant stars and the alien secrets beyond … d10) for random rolls. In most cases, the rules will call
for a percentile roll, noted as d100, meaning that you
WHAT’S A RoLEPLAYING GAmE? roll two-ten sided dice, choosing one to count first, and
then read them as a result between 0 and 99 (with a roll
Roleplaying games require one or more players and a of 00 counting as zero, not 100). The first die counts as
gamemaster. The players control the main characters of the tens digit, and the second die counts as the ones digit.
the story. The gamemaster (GM) directs the action of the For example, you roll two ten-sided dice, one red and
story and controls all other characters (known as non- one black, calling out red first. The red one rolls a 1 and
player characters, or NPCs), the props, the setting, and the black die rolls a 6, for a result of 16.
everything else the player characters may encounter. Play- Occasionally the rules will call for individual die
ers and gamemasters work together to build an intense rolls, with each ten-sided die as a d10. If the rules call
and interesting adventure. As a player, you control a for several dice to be rolled, it will be noted as 2d10,
player character (PC). All of the character’s statistics and 3d10, and so on. When multiple ten-sided dice are rolled
information are noted on your Character Record Sheet. together, the results are added up. A 3d10 roll of 4, 6
During the course of the game, the gamemaster will de- and 7, for example, counts as 17. On d10 rolls, a result
scribe events or situations to you. As you roleplay through of 0 is treated as a 10, not a zero.
some situations, the gamemaster will probably ask you to
roll some dice, and the resulting numbers will determine DEFINING YoUR CHARACTER
the success or failure of your character’s attempted action.
The gamemaster uses the rules of the game to interpret In order to gauge and quantify what your character is
the dice rolls and outcome of your character’s action. merely good at and what they excel in—or what they are
QUICK-START RULES clueless about and suck at—Eclipse Phase uses a number
of measurement factors: stats, skills, traits, and morphs.
We have specifically designed these quick-start rules
(QSR) to drop you straight into the maelstrom of a uni- CharaCter reCord Sheet
verse torn asunder by out-of-control technologies, war- Character Record Sheets note the game statistics (num-
ring factions, aloof alien races, and darker, more ominous bers and information) that allow the character to interact
secrets waiting in the darkness. within the framework of Eclipse Phase’s game system. In
Read through these quick-start rules, including the parts other words, as you move, interact with people and fight,
of the adventure for players (p. 23), once … it won’t take long. all the information you need to know for those actions
A nOte On terMinOLOGY And Gender
The Eclipse Phase setting raises a number of interesting questions about gender and personal identity.
What does it mean when you are born female but you are occupying a male body? When it comes to
language and editing, this also poses a number of interesting questions for what pronouns to use. The
English language has a bit of a bias towards male-gendered pronouns that we hope to avoid in these rules.
For purposes of this game, we’ve sidestepped some of these gender neutrality quandaries by adopting
the “Singular They” rule. What this means is that rather than just going with male pronouns (“he”) or
switching between gendered pronouns (“he” in one chapter, “she” in the next), we have adopted the use
of “they” even when referring to a single person.
When referring to specific characters, we use the gendered pronoun appropriate to the character’s
personal gender identity, no matter the sex of the morph they are in. n
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InItIatIve (InIt)
eGO vs. MOrPh
Your character’s Initiative stat helps to determine when they
Your body is disposable. If your body gets act in relation to other characters during the Action Turn.
old, sick, or too heavily damaged, you can
Speed (Spd)
digitize your consciousness and download
The Speed stat determines how often your character gets
it into a new one. The process isn’t cheap
to act in an Action Turn. Certain morphs, implants, and
or easy, but it does guarantee you effective
other advantages may boost this up to a maximum of 4.
immortality—as long as you remember to
back yourself up and don’t go insane. The
durabIlIty (dur)
term morph is used to describe any type of
Durability is your morph’s physical health (or structural
form your mind inhabits, whether it be a vat-
integrity in the case of synthetic shells, or system integrity
grown clone sleeve, a synthetic robotic shell,
in the case of infomorphs). It determines the amount of
a part-bio/part-flesh pod, or even the purely
damage your morph can take before you are incapaci-
electronic software state of an infomorph.
tated or killed.
A character’s morph may die, but the charac-
ter’s ego may live on, transplanted into a new Wound threShold (Wt)
morph, assuming appropriate backup measures Your Wound Threshold is used to determine if you take a
have been taken. Morphs are expendable, but wound each time you take physical damage. The higher
your character’s ego represents the ongoing, the Wound Threshold, the more resistant to serious
continuous life path of your character’s mind, injury you are.
personality, memories, knowledge, and so forth.
luCIdIty (luC)
This continuity may be interrupted by an unex-
pected death (depending on how recent the Lucidity is similar to Durability, except that it measures mental
backup was made), but it represents the totality health and state of mind rather than physical well being. Your
of the character’s mental state and experiences. Lucidity determines how much stress (mental damage) you
can take before you are incapacitated or driven insane.
Some aspects of your character—particularly
skills, along with some stats and traits—belong
trauma threShold (tt)
to your character’s ego, and so stay with them
Your Trauma Threshold determines if you suffer a trauma
throughout the character’s development.
(mental wound) each time you take stress. A higher
Some stats and traits, however, are deter-
Trauma Threshold means your mental state is more re-
mined by morph, as noted, and so will change
silient against experiences that might inflict psychiatric
if your character leaves one body and takes on
disorders or other serious mental instabilities.
another. Morphs may also affect other skills
and stats, as detailed in the morph description. moxIe
While these QSR provides ready-made char-
Moxie represents your character’s inherent talent at facing
acters for use and simplified rules within the down challenges and overcoming obstacles with spirited
adventure for resleeving between morphs, fervor. More than just luck, Moxie is your character’s abil-
one of the most unique aspects of the full ity to run the edge and do what it takes, no matter the odds.
rules of Eclipse Phase—including its character Moxie points may be spent for any of the following effects:
creation system—is the Ego vs. Morph. n
• The character automatically succeeds at a Success
Test. The Moxie point must be spent before dice are
rolled, and this option may not be used in combat
is tracked on the Character Record Sheet. The Character
situations. If the test calls for a Margin of Success,
Record Sheet also tracks damage done to your character
the MoS is 10.
during combat.
• The character may flip-flop a d100 roll result (for
For these quick-start rules, pre-generated Character
example, an 83 would become a 38).
Record Sheets have been provided, with all their game
• The character may ignore a critical failure (treat it as
statistics already noted, so players can immediately jump s
a regular failure instead). e
into the action.
l
As players read through the various rules, they may u
damage bonuS
find that glancing at one of the pre-generated Charac- r
ter Record Sheets after reading a particular section will The Damage Bonus stat is how much extra oomph your t
character can give their melee and thrown weapons attacks. r
enable them to better understand how a given rule works.
a
CHARACTER SKILLS t
s
CHARACTER STATS -
Skills represent your character’s talents. Skills are broken k
down into aptitudes (ingrained abilities that everyone c
Your character’s stats measure several characteristics
has) and learned skills (abilities and knowledge picked ui
important to game play: Initiative, Speed, Durability,
up over time). Skills determine the target number used Q
Wound Threshold, Lucidity, Trauma Threshold, Moxie,
for tests (see Making Tests, p. 10).
and Damage Bonus. Some of these stats are inherent
to your character’s ego, while others are influenced or
aptItudeS
determined by morph.
Aptitudes are the core skills that every character has by
default. They are the foundation on which learned skills
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are built. They represent the ingrained characteristics and SoCIal netWorkS
talents your character has developed from birth, and they Social networks represent people the character knows
stick with your character even when changing morphs. and social groups with which they interact. These con-
Eclipse Phase has seven aptitudes: tacts, friends, and acquaintances are not just maintained
Cognition (Cog) is aptitude for problem-solving, logi- in person, but rely heavily on the Mesh. Social software
cal analysis, and understanding. It includes memory and allows people to easily keep updated on what the people
recall. they know are doing, where they are and what they are
Coordination (Coo) is skill at integrating the actions interested in—by the minute.
of different parts of a morph to produce smooth, success- In game play, social networks are quite useful to
ful movements. It includes manual dexterity, fine motor characters. Their friends list is an essential resource—a
control, nimbleness, and balance. pool of people a character can use to poll for ideas, troll
Intuition (Int) is skill at following gut instincts and for news, listen to for the latest rumors, buy or sell gear
evaluating on the fly. It includes physical awareness, clev- from, hit up for expert advice, and even ask for favors
erness, and cunning. (see Reputation and Social Networks, p. 14).
reflexes (ref) is the capacity to act quickly. It encom-
passes reaction time, gut-level response, and the ability Cred
to think fast. The Fall devastated the global economies and curren-
Savvy (Sav) is mental adaptability, social intuition, cies of the past, and in the years of reconsolidation that
and proficiency at interacting with others. It includes followed, the hypercorps and governments inaugurated
social awareness and manipulation. a new system-wide electronic monetary system. Called
Somatics (Som) is skill at pushing a morph to the best credit, this currency is backed by all of the large capital-
of its physical ability, including the fundamental use of ist-oriented factions and is exchanged for goods and ser-
the morph’s strength, endurance, and sustained position- vices as well as for other financial transactions. Credit is
ing and motion. mainly transferred electronically, though certified credit
Willpower (WIl) is self-control, a character’s ability to chips are also common (and favored for their anonym-
command their own destiny. ity); hardcopy bills are used in some habitats.
learned SkIllS rep
Learned skills encompass a wide range of specialties Capitalism is no longer the only economy in town; in
and education, from combat training to negotiating to many areas its not money but reputation that matters.
astrophysics. Each learned skill is linked to an aptitude, Your reputation score represents your social capital—
which represents the underlying competency in which the how esteemed you are among your peers. Rep can be
skill is based. Like aptitudes, learned skills stay with the increased by positively influencing, contributing to, or
character even when characters change morphs, though helping individuals or groups, and it can be decreased
certain morphs, implants, and other factors may some- with antisocial behavior. In anarchist habitats, your like-
times modify the character’s skill rating. If your character lihood of obtaining things you need is based entirely on
lacks a particular skill that a test calls for, you can in how you are viewed by others.
most cases default to the linked aptitude for the test (see Reputation is easily measured by one of several online
Defaulting: Untrained Skill Use, p. 11). social networks. Your actions are rewarded or punished
THINGS CHARACTERS USE by those with whom you interact, who can ping your
rep score with positive or negative feedback. All factions
In the advanced technological setting of Eclipse Phase, use these networks, as reputation can affect your social
characters don’t get by on their wits and morphs alone. activities in capitalist economies as well. For more infor-
Characters take advantage of their credit and reputa- mation, see Reputation and Social Networks, p. 14.
tion to acquire gear and implants, and make use of their
social networks to gather information. mAKING TESTS
IdentIty
In Eclipse Phase, characters are bound to find them-
In an age of ubiquitous computing and omnipresent selves in adrenalin-pumping action scenes, high-stress
surveillance, privacy is a thing of the past—who you are social situations, lethal combat, spine-tingling investiga-
and what you do is easily accessed online. Characters in tions, and similar situations filled with drama, risk, and
Eclipse Phase, however, are often involved in secretive or adventure. When your character is embroiled in these
less-than-legal activities, so the way to keep the bloggers, scenarios, you determine how well they do by making
news, paparazzi, and law off your back is to make exten- tests—rolling dice to determine if they succeed or fail,
sive use of fake IDs. While Firewall often provides cover and to what degree.
identities for its sentinel agents, it doesn’t hurt to keep You make tests in Eclipse Phase by rolling d100 and
a few extra personas in reserve, in case matters ever go comparing the result to a target number. The target
out the airlock in a hurry. Thankfully, the patchwork al- number is typically determined by one of your charac-
legiances of city-state habitats and faction stations means ter’s skills (discussed below) and ranges between 1 and
that identities aren’t too difficult to fake, and the ability 98. If you roll less than or equal to the target number,
to switch morphs makes it even easier. On the other hand, you succeed. If you roll higher than the target number,
anyone with a copy of your biometrics or geneprint will you fail.
have an edge in tracking you down or finding any foren- A roll of 00 is always considered a success. A roll of 99
sic traces you leave. is always a failure.
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