Helios Obscuris Wiki



Helios Obscuris is a wiki dedicated to a roleplaying game setting using the tabletop games Stars Without Number (year 3200) and Apocalypse World (year 2741)

Apocalypse World
The year is 2741, a few generations after "The Scream". The planet of Najaf, once the technological jewel of the sector, is a broken shell of its former self. Societal structure rests in the hands of warlords, psychopaths and bandits, while survival is predicated on knowing where to find water in the now barren wasteland. The world has a short supply of hope, happiness and children, but has inherited an abundance of weapons and gasoline. The remaining survivors, ragged and violent as they may be, are still determined to use what they do have to make themselves the masters of the Najafi wastes.

Stars Without Number
Human civilizations dot the distant expanses of the galaxy, isolated from each other by a cataclysmic event of psychic energy known as "The Scream". Technological expertise of several centuries were lost, as the jump gates connecting the sectors together were destroyed, and only self-sufficient worlds were able to survive its aftermath. Other planets either slowly died or went feral as their infrastructure failed, and all psychics either went mad or died. Planets became separated as those remaining tried to rebuild what was lost in darkness of isolation. This time is known as "The Silence".

The year is 3200. On frontier worlds in the sector known as Ignis Proxima, the rebuilding of the trade lanes are underway through the use of spaceships with rudimentary spike drives. The exchange consulate Silverlight Zaibatsu stands as a central actor in attempting to achieve a sector-wide standardization of economy, language and knowledge, and seeks to return to the Golden Age of Man from their homeworld of Priyanka. However, conflicting factions seeks to remake human greatness in their own image.

Minor Factions
Akash Orbital Customs (Priyanka, Veloka)

Basran Separatist Collective (Basra, Alrai)

Mkhedrioni (Priyanka, Veloka)

Nazarovo Incorporated (Regansburg Station, Regulus)

Sword Brothers (Priyanka, Veloka)

Xenotech Society (Alhondra, Iota Indri)

Xing's Mercenaries (Iphicus, Iota Indri)