History TabletopGame / Mindjammer

''Mindjammer'' is a ScienceFiction TabletopRPG running on the rules set in the distant future New Commonality of Humankind. The game uses the ''[[TabletopGame/{{Fate}} Fate Core]]'' rules. A version using the ''{{TabletopGame/Traveller}}'' rule set exists, too. The setting in general has been described as the established ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' setting [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''. There's also some Creator/CordwainerSmith influence detectable in there.

''Mindjammer'' is a ScienceFiction TabletopRPG running on the rules set in the distant future New Commonality of Humankind. The game uses ''[[TabletopGame/{{FUDGE}} FATE Core]]'' rules. A version using the ''{{TabletopGame/Traveller}}'' rule set exists, too. The setting in general has been described as the established ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' setting [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase''. There's also some Creator/CordwainerSmith influence detectable in there.

* Mordor: The Orion Complex (The Venu home star systems). In the Venu sourcebook, a Commonality agent notes that the whole region of space has such a sinister and strange feeling to it that he can't help thinking that there's some kind of malevolent force at work. With features like the Bone Nebula or the Graveyard Stars, its hard to disagree.

* RockBeatLaser: Partial example. The Venu make up for their less advanced technology with sheer ferociousness. The Commonality only barely managed to drive them back during the first war.

* WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture: Before the discover of FTL technology, Old Earth had mandatory euthanasia at the age of 500 to help prevent societal stagnation.

** Between their undying God-Emperor, ramshackle technology which is as dangerous to its users as to its enemies which is maintained by "technopriests", psychic commissars, and legions of fanatical "Mutant Marines", the Venu aren't even a subtle reference to ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Fan opinions are somewhat divided on whether this is a tasteful little reference or some kind of {{anvilicious}} TakeThat aimed at a far more popular setting, possibly with an ill-conceived political undertone. (The Alexandro Jodorowsky comic book universe also has "technopriests".)The answer is likely the former, what with an entire sourcebook dedicated to playing them and exploring their society having been released.

** Between their undying God-Emperor, ramshackle technology which is as dangerous to its users as to its enemies which is maintained by "technopriests", psychic commissars, and legions of fanatical "Mutant Marines", the Venu aren't even a subtle reference to ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Fan opinions are somewhat divided on whether this is a tasteful little reference or some kind of {{anvilicious}} TakeThat aimed at a far more popular setting, possibly with an ill-conceived political undertone. (The Alexandro Jodorowsky comic book universe also has "technopriests".)

A large part of is the Mindscape, a network that people communicate through and upload memories into via implants, and kept up to date across interstellar distances with ships known as Mindjammers.

* {{Arcology}}: ''Big'' arcologies are the standard form of human habitation on Old Earth (and doubtless a good few other long-inhabited worlds).

* BottomlessMagazines: Fate usually advises players not to bother keeping track of ammo; the GM can declare that they've run out when it seems most dramatic. But in any case, in Mindjammer, most TL 9 projectile weapons have a small "Makepoint" that automatically regenerates spent ammo and energy weapons run on zip reactors, so characters really do have bottomless magazines.

** Manhome as a name for Earth, references the work of cult science fiction Creator/CordwainerSmith.