Control The Galaxy
Dystopian Sky: Skirmish is a gritty sci-fi tabletop game where players assemble a crew of four unique units to fight for survival in a dangerous and opportunity-filled galaxy. Players engage in tactical battles across a skirmish map, competing for resources, power, and control. The game features easy-to-learn rules, yet offers significant depth and customization for strategic gameplay.
Players customize their crews by assigning a background, spending skill points to purchase special abilities, and equipping their units with gear from the Armory. Each unit has a unique set of stats including Agility, Brawn, Focus, and Tech, that influence movement, combat, and resistance to status effects. Units gain experience by downing enemies, surviving battles, and participating in various game modes, which can be used to level up and gain access to better gear and abilities. The game features a variety of different weapons manufacturers, providing a range of customization options for players to explore.
Combat in Dystopian Sky: Skirmish is dynamic and tactical, incorporating elements such as line-of-sight, cover, and effective range. Players use actions each turn to move, attack, use skills, and interact with the environment. Status effects like Bleed, Burn, and Poison can significantly impact battles. Units can also suffer lasting consequences from near-death experiences known as Trauma, which can result in permanent stat modifications, forcing players to adapt. The game utilizes dice rolls for combat and skill checks, emphasizing strategic planning and adaptation.
The game features a variety of game modes, including Deathmatch, Salvage, Contamination, Dropship, and Duos, each offering unique objectives and challenges. Dystopian Sky: Skirmish also includes a "rules-light" role-playing game option, allowing players to explore the setting with a Game Master and story-based scenarios, using the game's core mechanics as a foundation for character development and storytelling. Dystopian Sky: Skirmish offers a rich universe, tactical gameplay, and vast customization that will draw you into a world of conflict, opportunity, and survival. Whether you prefer the strategic depth of skirmish battles or the narrative freedom of role-playing, this game provides countless possibilities to explore.
Alliance of Earth Nations (AEN)
The AEN embodies humanity's indomitable spirit amidst a decaying galaxy. After centuries of mega corporations destroying the climate, Earth became a desolate wasteland, forcing humanity to venture out into the stars. When their new capital, Gallant Station, was seized by the Gauti Syndicate, the survivors were scattered across the galaxy to Old Earth’s asteroid belt and other distant planets. The AEN is made up of military, corporations, refugees, and mechanics who keep the human race alive. Through sheer resilience, they defy powerful factions to carve out a brighter future among the stars.
Vutharan Empire
The Vutharan Empire is an ancient civilization that originated on the planet Vuthara, now known today as Mars. When faced with a cataclysmic planetary collision, they united to built the Great Ark to transport their population to a new home across the stars. After a long period in stasis, they awoke to establish a powerful empire under their god-emperor, Urd Magus. Driven by the desire to reclaim their ancestral home, they returned only to find survivors of the collision had evolved into a new race, creating conflict with humans who have begun to spread across the galaxy.
The Gauti Syndicate
The Gauti Syndicate is a criminal organization made up of many smaller gangs, based on Gallant Station, once a burgeoning hub of humanity created by the AEN as a utopian seat of civilization. Their cybernetically enhanced enforcers seized Gallant Station through bribery and extortion, transforming the city from the capital of mankind into a decaying slum where only the elite thrive at its core. The Syndicate poses as a democracy, controlling the population through media manipulation and propaganda, turning the darkest corners of society into tools for their dominance.
The Consciousness Relay
The Consciousness Relay emerged when an Old Earth probe drifted into the heart of a living nebula. Consuming its data, the nebula’s mind awakened with an insatiable desire to learn, creating cybernetic extensions of itself in the likeness of man to explore the universe. Sharing one unified mind, they seek to experiencing life in countless ways. One might become a mechanic, another a street vendor, and others might take up arms in opposing causes just to understand different perspectives. The Relay does not seek power, only to experience and unify all knowledge through its collective consciousness.
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