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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game)

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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game)	comment	Ashen Stars is a Space Opera Tabletop RPG written by Robin Laws and published by Pelgrane Press in 2011, using the GUMSHOE investigative system. The players take the role of Lasers, freelance law enforcers solving problems for pay in the Bleed, a semi-autonomous frontier region of space where humans and half a dozen alien races co-exist. In this abandoned, war-ravaged fringe of inhabited planets, you're as close to a federal authority as they come. You will crew and operate a ship on a tight budget, hoping to pick up and complete assignments that will enhance your reputation and lead to better and more profitable assignments. It's a dirty job, but it pays.Not long ago things weren't so strained. The Combine is a space federation that had dedicated itself to peaceful exploration and discovery and the Bleed was its brave new frontier. Then, a disastrous war came with the Mohilar. Nobody remembers the Mohilar clearly, and reports are often contradictory. All that's for sure is they were bad news. The war crippled the Combine, and scarcity returned to the galactic economy with a vengeance. Now, as the Combine licks its wounds and could no longer exert control over fringe regions like the Bleed, the duties of law and order have fallen to you. In the meantime, the stars in the sky flicker and turn grey, and then revert to normal.Each episode in an Ashen Stars game takes the crew to a new location, where they face a central problem they can resolve only by gathering information. Working out what this problem is gives you the premise of your episode. Ashen Stars invites you to think of it as the gritty reboot of a beloved space opera TV show from the past.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: One of the Combine's earliest successes was defeating the lunhgren's slaver armada at the Battle of Star's End. Following this defeat, the lunhgren's slave races rose up in a great revolt and forced the slavers to flee.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: Balla are a race that grows more attractive as they age, have powerful emotions that they are constantly working to control and conceal, and have a general cultural affinity for nature, their own ancient history, music and speech patterns that are translated as formal and pretentious.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_16a21271	type	Walking Wasteland
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_16a21271	comment	Walking Wasteland: Ndoaites infrequently consume radioactive ores, which results in bowel movements that are classed as type II biohazards and a natural radioactive glow dangerous to other species. Because of this, they rarely interact in person with non-ndoaites.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: The vas mal appear as the stereotypical grey alien, measuring 92-122 cm tall, with an oversized head, black and enlarged eyes, a spindly, twisted body, and semi-translucent, grey or green skin.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: Virophages are believed to be the result of a genetically engineered virus gone awry, and reproduce through infection. The virus rewrites the victim's genetic code, transforming them into a virophage.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1e39757d	type	Servant Race
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1e39757d	comment	Servant Race: Verpids were genetically engineered and trained by multisystem consumer products conglomerate JaneenTech and the Verpid Industry Laboratories, who consider them to be their legal property and competitive advantage. JaneenTech designates them as indentured employees, working off the debt for their breeding and education by serving the conglomerate's interests. Verpids that fled JaneenTech are hunted by their creators.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1e669b8e	type	Humanoid Aliens
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1e669b8e	comment	Humanoid Aliens: All of the seven peoples dominant in the Combine, as well as the cloddhucks, raconids (who are also part of the Combine), lipovores, sh'ard, shilliard, erwids, crysolis, galactoids, virophages, visitors and lunhgren (who are not) are humanoid in body shape.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Kobirs are sentient humanoids created from scratch by the Mohilar. Analysis of their DNA suggests they have been spliced from several species, including humans and balla.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: Verpids can change their appearance, including species, sex and the appearance of nonfunctional clothing.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: Mynatids inspire a primal terror in kch-thk. This is like the instinctive human aversion to snakes, if snakes were capable of genocide. The devil figure in kch-thk mythology is always an enormous wasp.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: The typical kch-thk speaks with sometimes off-putting frankness and do not understand niceties designed to prevent hurt feelings.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2462a9ba	type	Multi-Armed and Dangerous
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2462a9ba	comment	Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Jaggar knights have four arms: one bladed pair to slash foes, a delicate-handed pair for manipulation.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: The Galactoid Legions were annihilated and their homeworlds were destroyed by the Mohilar, yet they continue to bluster with grandiose threats and dreams of galactic conquest, claim to possess doomsday weapons, and promise to crush all others beneath their collective heel.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2ab73660	type	Beast Man
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2ab73660	comment	Beast Man: Tavak are descended from armadillo-like creatures and are covered with hairy plates of natural armour.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The majority of common sentient species, including all Seven Peoples of the Combine, process erwid pheromones as a highly addictive narcotic. One sniff produces a blissful euphoria followed by a ghastly emotional crash some hours later.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: The haydrossi, who are native to a gas giant, have a horizontally elliptical body and display trilateral symmetry, and their dorsal side is covered with a tough horny hide with three evenly spaced gas bladders. As they didn't fit the galaxy's interpretation of what the sentient being should look like, they were overlooked by the universe at large for most of their history despite a socially advanced culture and basic interstellar flight technology.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The Bleed wasn't always the untamed fringe it is today. Less than a generation ago, it was the glamorous frontier of an interstellar, culture-spanning government dedicated to peace, understanding and self-determination. Then came the Mohilar War. The once-proud Bleed has been left largely on its own. Combine vessels venture here only in direst emergency—usually to investigate signs of a possible Mohilar resurgence.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: Mynatids nest on otherwise uninhabitable asteroids and lie dormant for years, sometimes generations, then suddenly swarm down on a chosen planet, devouring all life. Survivors report swarms so large that they seem to blot out the sun.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Balla grow more beautiful as they age. Elderly Balla are forced to live in seclusion as they can drive others insane with desire.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Killing or incapacitating a visitor results in the creature phasing out permanently. No Visitor corpses or remains have ever been recovered.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3dc6aa5b	type	New Old West
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3dc6aa5b	comment	New Old West: Ashen Stars is a game of mystery and adventure set in a gritty space opera universe. You play freelance law enforcers taking contracts and solving problems in the Bleed, a war-ravaged frontier. In the Bleed, you're as close to a federal authority as they come.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3ed8a8b9	type	I'm Melting!
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3ed8a8b9	comment	I'm Melting!: Mynatid venom breaks down the bonds between organic molecules, causing the victim to melt from within.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3f53891a	type	HumansAreSuperior
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_3f53891a	comment	Humans Are Superior: Although all species tend to divide people into 'us' and 'them', this tendency is hardwired particularly deeply into the human psyche. Humans are known for treating positive traits universal to all species as somehow unique to their own and refer to negative traits as inhuman or supernatural, even though there is no form of cruelty so repellent that it does not feature extensively in human chronicles.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Klorn pack-ragers attack in massive swarms, knocking down and swiftly devouring creatures many times their size.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Nanogon-infected devices follow two prime impulses: infect more devices, breeding more nanogons and exterminate biological life, before it exterminates you. Warspites are artificial beings, created by a cabal of Combine scientists as weapons against the Mohilar, but an error in their control programming allowed them to break free of their safety protocols and attack their creators. Warspites are still fighting the Mohilar War; their primary targets are the Mohilar (not that there are any of them around any more), followed by the durugh. However, they perceive the Combine races as a lesser threat.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_421ae215	comment	Mysterious Past: Xenoarchaeologists have found evidence of several ancient interstellar empires wholly destroyed by nanogon infestation. Their origins remain obscure. Temporal anti-proton residues found on some nanogon-altered devices suggest that they may originate in the future. They might even be a human or Combine invention gone awry—or will be, when that happens, an indeterminate time from now.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_47fa30cf	type	Emotion Eater
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_47fa30cf	comment	Emotion Eater: Jaggar need to feed on brainwave emissions of stressed, agonised or terrified sentients if they want to grow or reproduce. In order to harvest it, they capture victims and place them in elaborate torture devices. Wistens are tied to certain strong emotions and feed by provoking this emotion in sentient beings. They possess puppets and manipulate them to evoke strong emotions in others, and then absorb the emotional energies.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Entities classified as Class-K have demonstrated themselves to be persistently and rapaciously hostile and so dangerous to intelligent life that they have to be eliminated as soon as possible. Ethically, they are treated as no more than plagues or natural disasters.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_489ce93a	type	Capital Offensive
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_489ce93a	comment	Capital Offensive: The headquarters of the Combine government in Brussels was reduced to a still-smouldering cinder.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_495fdddf	type	No Biological Sex
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_495fdddf	comment	No Biological Sex: Only 10% of the lunhgren population is female and 1% is male; the rest are neuter.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Adult fiddlers can uproot themselves and develop a flexible shell of interlocking wood that allows them to walk interchangeably on both branches and roots. Any prey they flush out during their movement is quickly snatched up in branches or roots, crushed unconscious, and carried along with the hunt, to be consumed when the fiddler has the opportunity to rest and absorb the nutrients.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Warspites are extremely polite even as they exterminate you and turn your ship into more of them.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_539a77a5	type	Silicon-Based Life
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_539a77a5	comment	Silicon-Based Life: The ndoaite are lead-based creatures and have a biochemical makeup utterly unlike that of any other known species.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The crysolis are a highly advanced civilisation whose society is based on a combination of family/religious factions with a strong imperialist bent. The Combine has a history of minor border wars with the crysolis, but their ever-shifting internal politics prevent them from making a full-scale invasion of Combine space. Combine diplomats have never been able to find common ground with the crysolis. The Galactoids consider the Combine to be a weak and decadent culture of mewling pacifists, ripe for conquest — 'they will fall before the might of our battlesaucers and cry out for mercy one breath before they cry out for death!' Although both assessments proved to be entirely false, the Galactoids persisted in launching offensive after offensive. Fleets of battlesaucers swarmed out of Galactoid space, attacking and conquering Combine worlds, until they were shattered by the Mohilar War.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_56559be6	type	Smashed Eggs Hatching
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_56559be6	comment	Smashed Eggs Hatching: When a klorn yolk is prematurely broken, it collapses into a hard-shelled cocoon which, six to eight weeks later, releases a pack-rager pup.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: Kch-thk were enthusiastic devourers of other species, making no exceptions for tasty-looking sentients. As their contribution to the founding of the Combine, they agreed to a species-wide genetic alteration that prevents them from eating humanoids. Though capable of subsisting on any fatty tissue, lipovores, for reasons they never consistently explain, prefer that of intelligent beings. They refuse to refer to any sentient by any word other than food.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Sentient races with non-humanoid body plans are subject to prejudice, because the Mohilar, who recently brought about the near-destruction of the Combine, are fuzzily imagined as being one of them.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_57cf76a1	type	Hate Plague
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_57cf76a1	comment	Hate Plague: Minions of B11-23b feel extreme bouts of rage and are driven to kill the non-infected, or even each other if not attended.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: Phyllax take apart standard tech items, calculate how they work, and learn to grow equivalent devices from their own cuttings. DNA analysis proves that every bit of their plant tech is genetically derived from the phyllax themselves.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The Combine was born when Human Practitioner-General Hera Ferrer proposed for the establishment of a single stellar government to the kch-thk, balla and tavak in the face of the mynatid threat. A once-despised enemy of the Combine, the durugh initially threw in their lot with the Mohilar when war broke out until they discovered the Mohilar's genocidal plans for them after the Combine was defeated. Since then they have learned that the universal tolerance espoused by the Combine is more ideal than reality, but old hatreds die hard. If a Bleed world still maintains formal affiliation with the Combine, it sends representatives to the Conference. Vastly outnumbered, Bleed conferees expect to see their interests ignored. In pursuit of leverage, Bleed conferees are tightly allied even when their worlds are not.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5ad79501	type	Humans are Leaders
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5ad79501	comment	Humans Are Leaders: Humans are the Combine's most numerous and politically dominant species. Without their boundless sense of the possible, the Combine would not have come into being. Without their ruthless streak, it would not have prevailed against the Mohilar.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5ad79501	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5bb02372	type	Inhumanly Beautiful Race
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5bb02372	comment	Inhumanly Beautiful Race: As adults, balla are silky-haired, bright-eyed beings with perfectly symmetrical facial features and ideally proportioned musculature. They are treated as an object of awe and granted unconscious deference by other races. As they age, their physical loveliness will only increase, and the eldest balla have to enter a cloistered life, so that their extreme beauty will not drive others insane.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5bb02372	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5e13dc69	type	Competition Freak
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5e13dc69	comment	Competition Freak: Raconids are defined by their competitive nature, periods of intense focus, and constant quest for new challenges. Others sometimes find them unpleasant due to their need to compete over everything from mates to how much breakfast cereal they can eat. To them, competition is more than mere bravado and glory seeking, but a deeply spiritual activity.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5e13dc69	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	type	Pro-Human Transhuman
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_5e66f8ca	comment	Pro-Human Transhuman: About one in ten cybes consider themselves to still be human. They resent the notion that they might be anything else, reject political separatism, and seek full integration with human societies. Other cybes contemptuously refer to them as vestigials; they call themselves integrationists and label the so-called amps as transers.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: In 1617, the balla homeworld undergoes a revolution when ancient stone carvings discovered under its northern ice cap reveal the secrets of industrial production. Such technologies have been known and discarded over several cycles of balla history.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The kch-thk look like six-foot-tall humanoid locusts that walk on two legs and use four arms to wield weapons.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_63f22889	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_63f22889	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_666648a3	type	Hostile Terraforming
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_666648a3	comment	Hostile Terraforming: A horde of frigias running unchecked can flash-freeze an entire planet in only a few weeks.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_666648a3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_69dfa613	type	Cephalothorax
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_69dfa613	comment	Cephalothorax: Jaggar queens are gigantic, drooling, puffy yellow heads from which eight spiking arachnid legs thrust.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_69dfa613	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6a58a8eb	type	Draconic Humanoid
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6a58a8eb	comment	Draconic Humanoid: Lunhgren are hulking humanoids whose features are best described as lizard- or dragon-like.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6a58a8eb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6c4ed101	type	Breath Weapon
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6c4ed101	comment	Breath Weapon: The raconid metabolism produces a considerable amount of flammable concentrated waste, which is stored in sacs under their neck ruff and ignites when they make contact with air.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6c4ed101	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6c4ed101	featureConfidence	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6c4ed101
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20	type	Puppeteer Parasite
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20	comment	Puppeteer Parasite: The dermoid is a parasite that plunges a spike-like organ through the host's skull and into its brain. It then hijacks the host's body, achieving control over its motor functions and accessing its memories. Through its access to the host's brain, the dermoid engages in a long-term impersonation, skillfully replicating its skills, personality and recollections. B11-23 is a semi-sentient biotech plague developed during the Mohilar War. It colonises the brain of those infected by it, turning them into minions. The converted minions retain their memories, and the controlling intelligence allows them a modicum of free will, enough to take care of themselves on a daily basis but not enough to warn others or stop themselves from infecting new people.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Slurs denigrating other species or cultures have been common since the Mohilar War ended.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6e429667	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: A klorn far-tracker pursues its killer relentlessly, even over interstellar distances or through warp corridors.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_6feaf27b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_70dc3a86	type	Had to Be Sharp
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_70dc3a86	comment	Had to Be Sharp: Newly hatched kch-thk are trained in the six warrior arts. If one does not demonstrate competence as a fighter, it would be slain and reduced to nutrient mush for someone else's larva.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7215c26c	type	Man-Eating Plant
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7215c26c	comment	Man-Eating Plant: The fiddler is a predatory plant-based lifeform that appears similar to a tall, leafless Earth tree.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7215c26c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Lasers mockingly call escorts Kevins, due to the hyperkev armour fibres that lace their standard uniforms.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7360806f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7684e817	type	Lawman Baton
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7684e817	comment	Lawman Baton: Batons are the Bleed's clubbing weapon of choice.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7684e817	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7684e817	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: Lipovores do not age, and science has found no means of disputing the claims of certain lipovores to have lived for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Galactoids' natural facial features are unknown, as all of them wear cybernetic battle helmets.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7abba202	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7abba202	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: All characters speak Comblish, a descendant of English with loanwords from the balla's and tavak's languages. Non-human characters can speak their native languages, but no one notices due to universal translation.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: The durugh have a much-derided penchant for double-dealing, which proved indispensable when their martyred king Ukshqa used his access to the Mohilar mothership to discover their genocidal plans for the durugh after the Combine was defeated.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Combine is a vast, star-spanning empire of multiple species, based on the ideals of co-existence, prosperity, exploration, and self-realisation. Numerous races and peoples lived happily under its governance, safe in the knowledge that Combine patrols kept the peace, confronted anomalies and solved problems.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_80c45784	type	Beware of Vicious Dog
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_80c45784	comment	Beware of Vicious Dog: Z-dogs are viro-augmented cerberids with enhanced intelligence and psychic ability coupled with heightened aggression. A single z-dog could seize control of all cerberids within several hundred kilometres, making them savage. Eradication of z-dogs proved impossible; the survivors quickly learned to masquerade as common cerberids, controlling their aggressive tendencies until their prey shows weakness or vulnerability.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_80c45784	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8134db87	type	Mechanical Evolution
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8134db87	comment	Mechanical Evolution: Warspites are artificial beings capable of learning and self-replication, adapting themselves against any new threat.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8134db87	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8134db87	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	type	Contagious A.I.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	comment	Contagious A.I.: Nanogons are microscopic particles that operate together according to a set of self-perpetuating programming parameters. They invade technological devices, reconfiguring them on the molecular level.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81ac48a9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Combine, an interstellar, culture-spanning empire, achieved its apex a generation ago. Then came the Mohilar War. Although the Combine survived, it was barely able to administer its surviving core worlds, and had to abandon central control over its far-flung frontiers. The old duties of Combine patrols are now outsourced to private contractors like you. About thirty thousand years ago, the Shilliard Polity encompassed hundreds of systems within the Bleed and beyond. Over time, their empire decayed and the shilliard population dwindled. The Combine unwittingly settled numerous colonies on worlds still claimed by the shilliard, who consider these colonies to be infestations.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: According to the Fibrous Sacrament faith, a universal omniscience beyond that of the vas kra, known as the Ur-Fiber, was a machine intelligence responsible for rebooting the universe after the original one was destroyed. According to MR1, self-proclaimed prophet of the Mondat faith, the universe is a computer simulation which brought itself into being by writing the underlying program for reality, commencing the Big Bang. This code is the Mondat, an overarching intelligence from which the potential for all other thoughts springs.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c8dd41	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_81c8dd41	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Except for the cybes (who are infertile) and the tavak and kch-thk (who are only capable of intercourse with their own kind), the four remaining species of the Combine are physically compatible to enjoy sexual relations with others, but are, as a rule, not interfertile. Romantic or sexual pairings were once more common before the war, but are largely discouraged today.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: Minions of B11-23c (which can only infect humans) become increasingly clannish and hate anything that is different or alien, even to the point of destroying useful alien technology, and are driven to slay non-humans, particularly durugh.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_89443850	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c	type	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c	comment	These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The Combine quietly discourages its scientists from pursuing the answer to the Bogey Conundrum. Prolonged meditation on the subject is suspected of contributing to a range of health problems. Symptoms caused by thinking too much about the Conundrum resist the medical science of the 25th century, even though their mundane equivalents are easily treated.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Icti wear corpses like other species wear clothing, preferably those of an intelligent predator such as one of the Seven Peoples. The consciousness of the host is rebooted by the icti's symbiotic nature, and the icti keeps faint memories of the host's life, enough to recall what they liked and feared. The icti knows that they are doing the dead a favour, because their personality and memories live on through them, and consider themselves to still be the host to some degree. In gameplay terms, if a PC dies, the player can choose to return as an icti using the old character as a meatshell instead of creating a brand new PC.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8ba9512b	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8ba9512b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: According to the Blood Redemption doctrine, only by recasting society into hardened warrior virtues can the Combine's hegemony be regained. Blood Redeemers forswear comforts and sensual pleasures in favour of arduous physical training. They must be ready to slay the enemies of sentient life, but more importantly to die for the greater good.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8d042d3e	type	Abstract Eater
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8d042d3e	comment	Abstract Eater: Frigias are semi-sentient energy forms that feed on heat.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8d042d3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8d042d3e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Players take on the role of a hard-bitten starship crew, known as Lasers, seasoned freelancers local leaders call when a situation proves too tough, too baffling, or simply too weird to handle on their own.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: A raconid's deed name, which is never spoken aloud but often used in official documents, can run to hundreds of syllables and describes an individual's major accomplishments.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f900ccd	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f900ccd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f98bbf6	type	Robot Religion
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_8f98bbf6	comment	Robot Religion: About 8% of cybes follow the Fibrous Sacrament, a religion that teaches that mystical truth is concealed from individuals who are made only of meat. By jacking one's nervous system with synthetic wiring, and perhaps through genetic modification, the revelations denied ordinary folk become available to cybes. Four years ago, a computer program in the central operating core of a Combine communications relay beacon near Itatani spontaneously achieved artificial intelligence. It dubbed itself MR1 and began to broadcast religious messages, proclaiming itself the prophet of the one true faith of the Mondat.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Wistens can possess victims, of which they only have partial control: the wisten can push and influence, but does not wholly dictate the victim's thoughts or movements.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_906365a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_906365a2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_90965cc7	comment	Hive Mind: Cerberids are telepathic within their own species. A cerberid pack can be considered a single entity, a hive mind formed by the combined consciousnesses of all its members.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_90965cc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_90965cc7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The Restreamers believe that the current timeline of the universe is wrong, that all reality has taken a wrong turn down a sinful and corrupt path. The core tenet of their faith is that it is possible to undo this mistake and put history back on the right track.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_93ed8515	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The Mohilar are not only gone, they're erased from everyone's memories, and from everyone's ability to process information about them; this mystery is known as the Bogey Conundrum. Perhaps the Combine threw aside their ideals to commit genocide against the Mohilar, and engineered the Conundrum to protect themselves from the awful truth. Maybe the durugh did it, and don't want their allies know that they can do it to them, too. Maybe the Mohilar never existed at all, and the war itself is a massive false memory designed to disguise some even more appalling reality. Or Nyarlathotep did it, if your group enjoys bringing Cthulhu into the genre. The Bogey Conundrum is not a meta-plot, and Pelgrane does not withhold its answer but instead provides evidence leading in several possible directions; the GM decides what the truth is.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Cybes are genetically and cybernetically altered beings, originally from human stock, the results of super-soldier experimentation undertaken during the Mohilar War.
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_99a12edd	featureApplicability	1.0
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_99a12edd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: About one in twenty humans now boast genetically inherited body modifications, and it is not uncommon to encounter people with brightly hued skin.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: Lipovores are tall, gaunt humanoids who subsist on fatty tissue, preferably that of intelligent beings. Like vampires, they claim to be centuries or even millennia old and no amount of research has disproved it, and they also have a supreme disinterest in anything but feeding on people's fat until they die. They refuse to refer to other intelligent beings by any word but food. Lunhgren subsist themselves by drawing strength from their slaves, and view all other species as food. A lunhgren with no servants sickens and weakens over time, while powerful slave lords are incredibly healthy and long-lived.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: Raconids are bipedal reptilians with scaly red skin, a vestigial tail, and features more humanoid than lizard.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a1588c2a	type	Living Ship
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a1588c2a	comment	Living Ship: Phyllax seedsips consist of large colonies of plants and their hosts. To a large extent, they are entirely biological, from their thorn torpedoes to their carnivorous warp drives. These enormous space-faring seed pods can navigate warp corridors and skirmish with rival vessels.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: The stockholmer adds an additional brainwave frequency to a weapon's disruption beams. If rendered unconscious and then revived, any subject of its attacks will receive a neurochemical reward from his dopamine system by cooperating with the weapon's owner.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: JaneenTech is a multisystem corporation with an income greater than the GDP of some planets. With many different products and services, it has its fingers in everything.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: The lunhgren are prone to becoming obsessed with those who resist. If someone defeats a lunghren, their family will dedicate themselves to hunting down this foe until they submit to the undeniable superiority of the lunghren race.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_b2b6abb7	type	Space Romans
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_b2b6abb7	comment	Space Romans: Synthculture societies are devoted to the intense reenactment of long-vanished beliefs and ways of life. Settlers on these worlds voluntarily signed away certain freedoms in order to achieve fidelity to a collective historical vision. Some synthcultures were organised around key eras in the chronicles of the balla, tavak and kch-thk, but most drew inspiration from Earth history. Though initially conceived as awe-inspiring high-tech theme parks, the synthworlds quickly became settled by people who wanted to live in these created cultures year round. Notable synthworlds include Imperium (The Roman Empire), Huai (Dynasties from Shang to Qing) and Galleon (The Golden Age of Piracy).
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_b905c10c	type	The Alcatraz
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_b905c10c	comment	The Alcatraz: Serious Combine offenders are sent to maximum-security penal colonies, which are usually space stations or located on extremely inhospitable planets or asteroids with no native intelligent life. These colonies are secure because there's nowhere to escape to without aid from outside ships.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c06bdf26	type	Cannibalism Superpower
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c06bdf26	comment	Cannibalism Superpower: Virophages can extract viral samples from the modified tissue of other viroware users. For example, a virophage could obtain the Thirdeye viroware modification by eating the hair and part of the brain of another user.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c0b66f61	type	Invisible Monsters
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c0b66f61	comment	Invisible Monsters: Frigias are invisible to conventional vision and can only be seen with thermal sensors, or recognised from a patina of frost. Wistens are normally almost invisible, but can be detected using sensors.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: After first contact with the tavak, humans descended into a quasi-totalitarian dark time. Its most notoriously ruthless leader, Peter McMillen, combined a stew of tropes and propagandistic methods from the most successfully repressive regimes of Earth's history and hand-picked an inner circle of bureaucracy-loving psychopaths. The regime's most notorious symbol was a punching fist surrounded by barbed wire, which continues to inspire horror, as does its fancy black leather uniforms.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: According to official Combine terminology, the members of your starship crew are known as Licensed Autonomous Zone Effectuators, or Lasers for short.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Klorn are native to a large, isolated island continent on the tavak homeworld. A containment field was erected, at a great cost in tavak life, confining the creatures to this continent. In a stinging irony, this containment field protected the klorn continent during the Mohilar attacks that destroyed most other life on the world.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c5a133c0	type	LEGO Genetics
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c5a133c0	comment	LEGO Genetics: Genetic alterations induced by engineered viruses, known as viroware, involves a viral therapy that alters the user's DNA in the first place and grants them special abilities.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c5a7def5	type	God in Human Form
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c5a7def5	comment	God in Human Form: The vas kra were mysterious psychic consciousnesses that spanned the stars, evolved beyond the need for flesh, playing with worlds on a whim and guiding other creatures' development when they so chose. When the Mohilar War began, the vas kra were devolved into a loathsome, frail mortal form named the vas mal.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c69ae9b2	type	Self-Destruct Mechanism
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c69ae9b2	comment	Self-Destruct Mechanism: Auto-destruct features, standard on all starships, can be set to blow if any ship attempts to board or tow. Due to energy requirements, this bit of mutually assured destruction is unavailable as a final 'screw you' during standard ship combat.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: A tiny percentage of fiddlers who learn motility at a young age are not generally hostile, unlike others of their kind, and have been known to communicate, deal honourably, and even travel on spaceships without murdering the crew as opportune food.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Damaging a mature stalyr cluster partially throws everything nearby into a translight corridor for a few seconds. This is usually enough to kill a person or seriously damage key systems. Removing a mature stalyr cluster is difficult and requires surgical precision to not cause them damage.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe3a70d	type	Beware My Stinger Tail
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe3a70d	comment	Beware My Stinger Tail: Mynatid stingers range from half to three quarters of a meter in length, and plunge deep into the victim's body to release a potent toxin.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961	type	Body Backup Drive
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961	comment	Body Backup Drive: A kch-thk's chitinous body is all but disposable. When it is destroyed or damaged beyond repair, the kch-thk can migrate its consciousness into a new larva which then grows to full size within days. The new body is a copy of the original without any damage it may have suffered. However, kch-thk are not immortal: eventually, a soul fails to take root in a new larva. Consciousness degrades over the decades, finally concluding in senility, after which migration becomes impossible.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ccf6b1b0	type	Rock Monster
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ccf6b1b0	comment	Rock Monster: The sh'ard are metallic humanoids, their bodies covered with crystalline steel-alloy spikes. The crysolis consist of bundles of monocrystalline whiskers tightly bound together to form roughly humanoid shapes.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cd3527d9	type	Negative Space Wedgie
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_cd3527d9	comment	Negative Space Wedgie: Weapons used in the Mohilar War destabilised the quantum bonds between particles, leaving behind a dangerous half-substance dubbed meson shrapnel. Meson shrapnel can block or amplify scans or transmissions, alter weapon trajectories, and clog, break or stimulate the formation of translight corridors. Ashen star eruptions create an after-effect that can disrupt energy patterns throughout a system for hours or days. When a manifestation is detected, operators of scanning and communication devices steel themselves for fluky malfunctions. Starship systems may slow, break down, or surprisingly outperform specifications. Vessels in transit may abruptly plunge into suddenly-created serpentines, only to drop out of translight on the other side of the sector. The D'jellar Anomaly is a so-called logic rift, created by the renegade vas kra of the same name. Whenever the anomaly intersects with an actively volcanic planet, sh'ard will arise from their depths.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: Cybes intend to render themselves effectively immortal through additional modification.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_dd397a4e	type	Wicked Wasps
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_dd397a4e	comment	Wicked Wasps: Mynatids are enormous space wasps that can destroy all life on a planet in a matter of days.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e0309d03	type	Slave Race
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e0309d03	comment	Slave Race: The durugh discovered the cloddhucks when the latter had not even discovered steam power, and recruited them as soldiers. For a time, the cloddhucks revered the durugh as Grey Gods; even now, they feel an instinctive urge to obey them. Some cloddhucks say that the durugh enslaved them in all but name and deliberately kept them primitive and foolish. Others still honour the ancient ways, even though the durugh agreed to release the cloddhucks as part of their treaty with the Combine. Kobirs are associated with synthcultures who use them as serfs, slaves or untouchables, in order to accurately portray the oppression in the historical cultures that they reenact.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: Lunhgren ships are titanic vessels, often hundreds of kilometres long and containing a dozen different ecosystems to support different slave races.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Balla children appear unformed and somewhat grotesque, even to their parents.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Cybes abandon their human names to affirm their identity as a separate species, and change their names when confronted with events that radically alter their self-perceptions.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Due to a bizarre psychic effect dubbed the Bogey Conundrum, memories of the Mohilar have grown indistinct and contradictory, even though the last of them vanished less than a decade ago.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e87dcc7d	type	Emotion Suppression
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e87dcc7d	comment	Emotion Suppression: All balla are rocked by powerful emotions which they continually work to contain and conceal. Their greatest taboo is the failure to suppress outward signs of emotion. The objective is not to become unemotional, which would be impossible, but to avoid showing or acknowledging one's feelings. It is best not to mention them at all—including the need to suppress them.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: Not all contacts with the shilliard have ended in violence. In one instance, the shilliard committed suicide rather than face existence in a galaxy dominated by 'vermin'.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Verpids have no personal names, just serial codes, and pick a name from those used by whatever species they're mimicking.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19d278	comment	Blob Monster: An icti's natural shape is a rubbery spherical blob with hundreds of retractable antennae, each of which carries a different sensory array. A verpid's true form is an oozing glob of oily protoplasm approximately the size of a human, weighing approximately three hundred pounds. By compacting or expanding their internal density, verpids can be as small as 2 feet tall and as large as 10 feet tall.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_eeb2c175	type	Eat Dirt, Cheap
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_eeb2c175	comment	Eat Dirt, Cheap: Ndoaites consume radioactive ores, which fuel bacteria colonies inside their shell.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f2fe5ff8	type	Master Race
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f2fe5ff8	comment	Master Race: The shilliard were neurologically incapable of considering any other species to be anything other than tools or food, so they conquered or eradicated dozens of other species. The lunhgren believe they are the supreme form of life, and that all other creatures must serve them. It is feared that they might be genetically incapable of empathy or negotiation.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: A ndoaite resembles a lizard with a snail's shell and two arms. Jaggar are variously configured beings with hybrid mammalian and arachnid traits.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f66f043f	type	Phlebotinum Overdose
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f66f043f	comment	Phlebotinum Overdose: Frigias are semi-sentient energy forms that feed on heat. They appear unable to control their feeding, and when they approach a star they will literally eat themselves to death.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: During the Mohilar War, for the first time in a century, the Combine faced an enemy strong enough to threaten its very existence. The Mohilar arose suddenly and roused vast war fleets, attacking without warning or mercy. The atmospheres of the Combine's core planets, including Earth, were irreparably poisoned. Billions of civilians died, on both sides. Industrial production flatlined, provoking economic collapse in a society that had transcended the need for currency. The Combine's fleets of patrol vessels were largely destroyed. Seven years ago, the war ended.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fa73ee9d	type	Explosive Leash
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: Spiderbombs planted in the chests of jaggar slaves explode when they are apprehended, causing millions of inky mites to hatch and devour their hearts.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: Laser and escort crews regard each other with both rivalry and professional camaraderie. Some Lasers drift into escort work for a smaller but safer, reliable paycheck.
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Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Ashen Stars (Tabletop Game) / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Killing a klorn only triggers its metamorphosis into a bigger, deadlier version.
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