Nutshell description: This campaign focuses on the dozen-or-so human survivors at the Tranquility base on Luna in the Reign of Steel setting (advanced a couple hundred years; the PCs have been in cryostasis). On Earth, some infighting between the ruling AIs has taken place. Boreholes have been opened in Zone Zaire and Zone Mexico City, raising the surface temperature nearly 60° F worldwide, making human survival (more) difficult between 40° north and south. Zone Orbital has been completely cut off from Earth resources and has been surviving, just barely, on a trickle of materials from Zone Luna.

For those unfamiliar with the Reign of Steel setting, I wrote up an incomplete précis of the setting's background (it covers most everything except the last 10-year period from 2037 to 2047; it doesn't cover the evolution of the individual Zoneminds, the rise of the robots, or the end of AI unity).

Game notes: The available technology in RoS, especially the robot templates, has been modified to more closely reflect the standards used in the Transhuman Space setting. The tech level available to Tranquility is essentially TL9, but with biomods, most nanotech, brain-interface cyberwear, and advanced space travel effectively off-limits. PCs are allowed 250 points with up to -40 points in disadvantages and -5 points in quirks. Disads shouldn't be too crippling as these characters had to be able and sane enough to make it into space. Disads that represent injuries from the attacks on the American lunar base are permissible.

Most equipment will be supplied by the base; personal inventory should be limited to stuff that could fit in a 1 cubic foot locker; nothing with an LC of 3 or lower. Cyberwear is allowed, programmed allies (a la THS) are not. Characters should be built with explorer, scientist, and soldier templates in mind, but this is only a general guideline. The campaign will likely include a wide variety of alien environments, so be prepared for most anything.