Sedition Wars

What is it? Well its Studio McVeys first game and well... the miniatures have looked really nice for some time now if you ask me and given we have some Alpha rules to use them with, its starting to look just that little bit more tempting to me now. As we all know I have some sort of nerd disease that makes me prone to playing and buying any and every game there is with nice shiny miniatures and I think its fair to say not many come as shiny as those of produced by Studio McVey. So it was almost certainly inevitable that I would end up giving it a blast.

Captain Kara Black - Vanguard poster girl of badassery

So what the hell is it all about? Well obviously its some far flung future where humanity has expanded and almost certainly we've gotten ourselves into some shit... we always do!!! Apparently we've spread the human condition and humanity amongst the stars to some ten thousand worlds or so. This wasn't done over night though and the back story refers to it as a 'fairy tale' leading me to believe it was over many hundreds or even thousands of years. As always though with any historical stories, there's always two sides to the tale.

On the one hand the back story to Sedition Wars Universe tells of planned human expansion, taking planets and turning them into paradises, which hints at terraforming, a much loved staple of all good sci-fi I feel. That this expansion was guided by a benevolent organisation called the 'Solar Conglomerate' and that they were the good guys seems a bit too... perfect. Also being fair and just and what not, probably really handsome too with blonde hair and blue eyes... obviously it goes without saying that they were almost certainly wise and intelligent, they always are, aren't they?

Yeah well that is one view of the Sedition Wars history, the other side of the story is a little different... you see these worlds were built off of the backs of genetic clones or convicts forced into service contracts. Yeah that's right clones AND convicts as forced labor, i.e. slaves. I mean come on, its like these people don't ever read sci-fi!!! So yeah this rag tag bunch of malcontents are treated pretty badly kept in stasis for hundreds of years, augmented (yeah I know begging for trouble right?) against their will. Long and short of it? They're pissed off and looking for trouble.

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