Assault Fleet Centauri: Quickstart Edition

This game was written on the lands of the Worimi People. 

Their culture and story telling traditions have endured since time immemorial.

Their struggle to resist colonial rule is ongoing.

This always was, and always will be, Worimi Land.

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The year is 2222, Common Era.

The Solar System is divided between Four Great Powers. Three of them, Earth, Mars, and Venus, are united in hatred against the fourth. These imperialist, capitalist nations are known as the Inner Systems Alliance.

The fourth power, the Gas Giant Combine, stands at the outer edge of the solar system.
An anarco-socialist federation, spread across hundreds of moons, asteroids, and space stations.
They are united in their resistance against the capitalist colonialism of the ISA.

For 70 Years these nations have been locked in a simmering cold war.
Spies and politicians struggle to control the flames of war.
Pirate cartels and Separatist militias fight proxy wars on behalf of the great powers. 
Territorial expansion in the Kuiper Belt, Trojans, and SEZ threaten to boil over into all out war.

FTL Warships carrying Antimatter bombs stand poised to annihilate billions.
And on every front, the GGC fights to prevent the extinction of humanity.
Their Navy of Anarchists, Pirates, Water Protectors, and Old Revolutionaries 
stand as bulwark against imperialism and capitalist expansion. 

You are members of this navy, part of a new fleet tasked with defending the edge of the solar system.
Your sacred duty is to prevent capitalism from breaking containment and spreading to the stars.

At the heart of your fleet is humanity's first and only interstellar spaceship.
A massive mobile fortress, capable of carrying other warships on her back.
The Assault Carrier, Sacred Odyssey.
Flagship of Assault Fleet Centauri.

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This is a Quickstart version of AFC, and is intended as a beta version and teaser of the full game.

What Is This Game?

Assault Fleet Centauri is a Fleet Command Tabletop Roleplaying Game set to the backdrop of a solar system wide cold war. In it, each player takes command of their own warship as one part of the titular Assault Fleet. Together you’ll take on missions to defend the motley nations of the outer planets from the imperialist machinations of Earth, Mars, and Venus.

The core gameplay loop in AFC is all about decision making and creative problem solving. We tried to make a game where the player evaluates their course of action by thinking like their character would. 

A game where System Mastery stems from Setting Mastery. The game is fiction first, but is far from rules light. It’s full of character options, premade ships, all with unique and evocative powers. We’ve tried to blend what we love about story driven, drama focused RPGs and the most exciting parts of modern tactical and OSR games. Synthesising it into something that puts each player in the captain's chair of 50,000 metric tons of warship in the middle of a chaotic war at the edge of space.

Buying this game unlocks access to:
- AFC Quickstart PDF, a condensed preview version of the game, with only the parts you NEED to play.
- AFC Playsheets PDF, all the character and ship sheets you’ll need for both the GGC and Mars + tokens for both forces.
- AFC Rules Summaries, quick reference sheets for referees and cheat sheets for the players.
- Example Mission, a prewritten mission pack, No Win Scenario, including pregen captains and enemies.
As well as access to all future updates and revised versions of the quickstart rules.

Content Warnings
This game deals with themes of Violence, War, Imperialism, Colonialism, Fascism, Transhumanism, War Crimes, Mass Loss Of Life, Nuclear Annihilation, Space and the dangers there in.

Assault Fleet Centauri is explicitly political. 
The game champions themes of Anarchist Utopia, Community Driven Socialism, and Human Collaboration. 
It invites you to plot the downfall of all settler colonies and imagine a world where capitalism can be defeated using fleets of spaceships crewed by anarchist pirates. If you don’t like games with political messages, then this game is not for you.