Into The Black II

A companion to Into The Black, a generation later.

Campaign Background

In Into The Black, the concept of the "jump-points" was confirmed; massive -- even intergalactic -- distances could be traversed instantaneously. The prototype Epcot....

Seventy-five years have passed. Twenty-five years of R&D required twenty-five years of testing (during which a dozen adventurous volunteers were disappeared to dimensions unknown), and now, finally, the technology is being properly exploited.

Mineral elements critical to the continued expansion of human civilization within the Eridani system exist in great and concentrated quantities in various star systems previously too distant to consider. Private mining corporations (including Zettacorp) have great motivation to exploit the richest deposits.

However, the experience of the Vegans.... alien synthetics.... UN