Star Frontiers/Star Drive campaign setting (True20 system)

<p>I am running some old SF modules now in a merged setting of SF and Star*Drive (Alternity setting) using True20 as the system.  I am bringing some of the politics of S*D and have modified somewhat the SF universe to fit into that political tense model.  I thought I would share to see what people thought (be kind, please) ....<br /><br />I could have simply just added new races and a couple of new worlds and been fine with it, but I wasn't satisfied with that. I went a little deeper and decided to take a few elements and characteristics of the Frontier and used them to create a story arch and potential sub-campaign.<br /></p><p>There were three major sources I used to draw from. (1) Core <em>Star Frontiers</em> rules books, (2) <em>Dragon Magazine's</em> conversion of <em>Star Frontiers</em> races to <em>Alternity</em>, and (3) <em>d20 Future</em>.</p><ul><li>The Vrusks are the elder race. There is a lot of mystery behind the Vrusk, the formation of their stellar nation and seemingly generous upbringing of the Yazirians and Dralasites.  Think Vorlons from Babylon 5, sort of, but with a strong original Vrusk influence.  They still have all the characteristics of the original Vrusks but now the attitudes towards them from the other races are a little less trusting, but reverent because they brought all the other races into the stellar age.<br /></li><li>One of the biggest characteristics about <em>Star Frontiers</em> is that none of the alien races have homeworlds. The Dragon Magazine article and <em>d20 Future</em> conversions both assigned homeworlds to all the alien races. I decided to play on that. I redesigned the Frontier, renaming it the Zebulon's Expanse, and gave the Vrusks, Yazierian and Dralasites a homeworld (as well as the races from Zebulon's Guide). In most cases, I used them the homeworld the Dragon Magazine article gave them.<br /><br />However I went a step further and planted humans through out the region, with no apparent homeworld. In the new timeline, I had the Expanse humans, for a time, treated as second rate citizens because they had no homeworld. There was an uprising and now the humans seem to have equal standing. But there are still tensions between the other races and the humans. <br /></li><li>Sathars waged three wars with the UPF and were defeated each time. In the last one (200+ years ago), they took major losses and their homeworld was reduced to nuclear slag, although few now remember where the homeworld is. After signing a peace accord, a cold war between the two major powers has been in place. Much intrigue revolves around this cold war. It's been 200 years since any overt Sathar activity and some believe that they are slowly dying out.<br /></li><li>The technology is very mixed. Ship tech does not have artificial gravity (still borderline tech level 5) but they have personal shields (tech level 8 and 9). Although this is a convenient interpretation of the True20/Modern Tech levels, I am using that to add a little more mystery to the region. The source of some of this knowledge can be traced to Vrusk mega-corporations.<br /></li><li>I am developing a re-invention of the Mechanons that relates to the resurgence of the Sathars.  I have not decided on the details yet but at some point in time, the Sathars allied with the mechanons.  The material in the modules I am running (The Beyond the Frontier series) states that the Sathar are highly dependent on robots.  Well, I took a little liberties and advanced it a little. I saw that an alliance between the two races would eventaully lead to a exchange in tech.  THe Sathar robots would eventually become more and more like Mechanons.  Sathars would eventaully merge with these dives cybernetically and create the next evolution of the Mechanon/Sathars.<br /><br />Like I said, the details of the alliance have not been worked out.  I know that there may be some conflicting cultural issues, etc, but I will work those out.<br /><br />My players have not discovered that part of the plotline yet but they will at some point.</li></ul><p>Anyway, I thought I would share.  Hope you enjoyed.<br /><br />Ron<br /><br /><img src="http://www.seawolfsden.net/images/alt/new.frontier.map.small.jpg&quot; alt="Zebulon's Expanse" title="Zebulon's Expanse" height="582" width="450" /></p>