Beyond Antares: Open Signal [ebook]
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Edited by Brandon Rospond.
This is the universe of the Seventh Age of Humanity and the setting for the game called Beyond the Gates of Antares. Travel through Antarean dimensional gateways to the galaxy spanning empires of the PanHuman Concord and Isorian Senatex, and to the myriad worlds of the Determinate and beyond. Board the glittering space borne cities of the Vardari, the great mercantile powers of Antarean space, and confront foes as implacable as the Ghar and as merciless as the Renegade NuHu Shards.
This anthology acts as an introduction to the world of Antares and all of the factions at war.
Ten fast-action space adventures by some of the best writers in genre fiction and up-and-coming writers based on the new miniatures game by Rick Priestley. This is the first in a series of books based on the worlds Beyond the Gates of Antares.
Humanity has spread to the most distant reaches of space. Our once homogenous species has diversified and evolved, in some cases beyond recognition, adapting to a multitude of environments upon worlds without number. No one can even begin to guess the full extent of the panhuman diaspora. Today the universe teems with humanity in all its myriad forms. Space-faring civilisations have fallen and risen anew many times over the tens of thousands of years since humans took the first step from their native planet. The long ages of the Antarean universe are reckoned in terms of six phases of high civilisation followed by catastrophic collapse and periods of darkness and isolation during which interstellar communication ceased completely. The current phase is the Seventh Age: the age of the PanHuman Concord.
