science fiction horror
This is a list of science fiction horror films.
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*'' 4D Man'' (1959)
*'' 9'' (2009)
*'' 9'' (2019)
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*''The Omega Man'' (1971)
*'' Outland'' (1981)
*''Outpost'':
**'' Outpost'' (2008 ...
role-playing game
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with
transhumanist
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themes. It was originally published by
Catalyst Game Labs
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Creative Commons
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license.
Setting
''Eclipse Phase'' is a science fiction horror role-playing game with
transhumanist
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, post-apocalyptic, and conspiracy themes.
The game is set after a
World War III
World War III, also known as the Third World War, is a hypothetical future global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely predicted that such a war would involve all of the great powers, ...
project to create
artificial intelligence
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known as TITANs has gone rogue, resulting in the deaths of over 90% of the inhabitants of Earth. Earth is subsequently abandoned, and existing colonies throughout the Solar System are expanded to accommodate the refugees. The setting explores a spectrum of socioeconomic systems in each of these colonies:
*A
capitalist
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/ republican system exists in the Inner System (Mars, the Moon, and Mercury), under the Planetary Consortium, a corporate body which allows the election of representatives but whose shareholders are nominally most powerful.
*An Extropian/
Propertarian
Propertarianism, or proprietarianism, is a political philosophy that reduces all questions of law to the right to own property. On property rights, it advocates private property on the basis of Lockean sticky property norms, where an owner kee ...
system is established in the
Asteroid Belt
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. The Extropians are split into two subfactions, an
anarcho-capitalist
Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of Sovereign state, centralized states in favor of Stateless society, stateless societies, where systems of p ...
group, more closely related to the Hypercapitalists and a mutualist group, related closely to the Anarchists.
*A military oligarchy rules the moons around Jupiter.
*An alliance of Scandinavia-style
social democracy
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and
Collectivist anarchism
Collectivist anarchism, also called anarchist collectivism and anarcho-collectivism, Buckley, A. M. (2011). ''Anarchism''. Essential Libraryp. 97 "Collectivist anarchism, also called anarcho-collectivism, arose after mutualism." . is an anarchis ...
are dominant in the Outer System.
From there, the setting explores various scientific advances, extrapolated far into the future.
Nanotechnology
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,
terraforming
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reputation system
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s are all used as plot points and background.
With all of this, the game encourages players to confront existential threats like aliens, weapons of mass destruction, Exsurgent Virus outbreaks, and political unrest.
Mechanics
''Eclipse Phase'' uses a simple roll-under percentile die system for task resolution. Unlike most percentile systems, a roll of 00 does not count as a 100. In addition, any roll of a double (11, 22, 33 etc.) is a critical. If the double is under the target number it is a critical success, while being over the target number constitutes a critical failure.
For damage resolution (whether physical damage caused by injury or mental stress caused by traumatic events), players roll a designated number of ten-sided dice and add the values together, along with any modifiers.
*''Nano Op: Grinder''
*''Nano Op: All That Glitters''
*''Nano Op: Better on the Inside''
*''Nano Op: Binge''
*''Nano Op: Body Count''
Creative Commons License
The ''Eclipse Phase'' roleplaying game was released under a
Creative Commons
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Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, and newer printings have updated to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 license; the text found on the ''Eclipse Phase'' website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. As stated on their website, the publishers encourage players and
gamemaster
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s to recreate, alter, and "remix" the material for non-commercial purposes as long as Posthuman Studios is attributed, and any derivatives are licensed under the same Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. Further, copying and sharing the game's electronic versions non-commercially is legal.
Reception
In 2010, it won the 36th Annual
Origins award
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for Best Roleplaying Game of 2009. It also won three 2010
ENnie awards
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: Gold for Best Writing, Silver for Best Cover Art, and Silver for Product of the Year.
See also
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Transhuman Space
''Transhuman Space'' (THS) is a role-playing game by David Pulver, published by Steve Jackson Games as part of the "Powered by ''GURPS''" (''Generic Universal Role-Playing System'') line. Set in the year 2100, humanity has begun to colonize the ...
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Orion's Arm
Orion's Arm (also called the Orion's Arm Universe Project, OAUP, or simply OA) is a multi-authored online hard science fiction world-building project, first established in 2000 by M. Alan Kazlev, Donna Malcolm Hirsekorn, Bernd Helfert and And ...
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Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's ''Islands of Space'' in the Novemb ...