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Exoplanet Exploration: The Outer Reaches of Eclipse Phase

Gatecrashing takes you through the mysterious Pandora Gates:

n The 5 Solar System Gates and the Factions that control them

n 30 Extrasolar Locations of interest to Firewall

n Exploration Operations and Hazards

n plus new Morphs, Gear, and Gate Rules

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EXPLORE EXTRASOLAR WONDERS

AN INFINITE HORIZON 4

GATECRASHING OPS 10

The Gates: Opportunity or X-Risk? 12

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE

GATES

EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS 52

Gate Failure 52

Hostile Gate Users 52

Rescue Operations 53

PANDORA GATES 54

SOLAR SYSTEM GATES 56

The Vulcanoid Gate 56

The Martian Gate 58

Pathinder: Reliable Sponsorship 59

The Pandora Gate 60

The Fissure Gate 63

The Discord Gate 65

Interrogation 66

Go-nin Gate Ops 67

RUMORED GATES 68

Option 1: Earth 68

Option 2: Luna 68

Option 3: Earth Orbit 69

Option 4: Venus 69

Option 5: The Fringes 69

EXTRASOLAR GATES 70

Gate Travelogue 70

EXTRASOLAR SYSTEMS 73

ARCADIA 74

Solarchive Search: Exoplanets of Note 74

Floating Above It All 75

BABYLON 77

Impact Crater Analysis 77

Incident Debrieing Report 78

Day in the Life of a Salamander 78

BLUEWOOD 78

Firewall Mission Report 319947D 79

Gatecrashing Rumors: Blue Stragglers 81

BRAK KODEL

LASSITER 104

LUCA 105

MISHIPIZHEU 108

Doomed Tranquility 108

Nanabozho’s Anomalies 109

MORAVEC 109

Dead Land, Lively Seas 109

Active Network 110

The Graveyard Theory 110

The Interface 110

Network Concerns 111

NIRVANA 112

The Heartbeat of a Dead Star 112

Interrogating an Interrogator 113

Unintentional Oversight 113

NÓTT 114

Cold Calculations 114

OLAF 116

Olaf Exoplanet Survey Summary 117

Solarchive Search: Dyson Sphere 118

PENROSE 120

On the Edge of Black 120

Gatecrashing Rumors: Gray Skies 121

PORTAL 122

Isra 122

Xenotech Black Swans 123

RORTY 124

Lifelog Transcript, Excerpted 124

SKY ARK 126

A New Terra 126

Frozen Zoo 127

Fugitive Preservationist 127

SOLEMN 128

Paradise Locked 128

A Nice Place To Visit, Sans Toys 129

SUNRISE 129

Field Report 129

SYNERGY 131

Visiting a Transhuman Hive Mind 131

TANAKA 133

Investigating Tanaka’s Curious Life 133

The Ambiscience Mystery 133

Clues From a Survivor 135

TIRION 135

Duvalier’s Animal Farm 135

VOHAUL 136

Chronology of Waste 137

WORMWOOD 138

Field Report 138

GAME INFORMATION 141

PANDORA GATE RULES

GATE LOCATIONS

Geological Strata Implications On

Gate Age

Gate Facilities

GATE DESIGN

AND APPEARANCE 15

Disturbing to the Senses 15

The Wormhole 16

Asyncs and Gates 17

GATE OPERATIONS 18

ORGANIZING MISSIONS 21

Sponsors 21

Self-Sponsorship and Buying Access 21

The Lotteries 22

A Mobile Gate? 22

Autonomist Gates 23

Extrasolar Explorers 23

Solarchive Search: Gatehoppers 23

Gatecrasher Teams 24

EXPLORATION MISSIONS 24

First-Link Procedures 24

First-In Missions 25

What to Bring 26

What about Go Cycles? 27

A Ghost from Afar 28

What Not to Bring 28

Mission Protocols 28

Voice from the Past 29

Returning Home 31

Follow-up Missions 33

Mission Dangers 33

Fools but not Ghouls 33

Recovery Bonds 34

EXTRASOLAR ENVIRONMENTS 34

Exoplanet Classiications 35

The Rarity of Earth-like Conditions 37

Unusual Remote Gate Environs 38

Xenolife 38

Solarchive Search: Sunrise Whiplash 39

Missing Courier

Gatecrashing Rumors:

Myst Tree Death 85

CARNIVALE 86

A World of Scum 86

CORSE 87

Mission Journal 87

DROPLET 89

Abundant Life, Abundant Death 89

Unusual Contact 90

ECHO 92

Echo V: Tangled Webs 92

Iktomi Basilisk Hack? 92

Echo IV: Megafauna Paradise 93

FORTEAN 94

Monsters in Isolation 94

GIZA 95

The Cryptid Creations of Fortean 95

The Rumors Are True

COLONIZATION MISSIONS

Where to start

Running a Colony

Debrieing the Dead

Memo to all Proxies

Regarding “Lost Colonies”

Colonial Media

RESEARCH MISSIONS

Battleground

142

A Typical Mission

Torii Prime Archive 2341:

Giza Strategic Brieing

Detecting Gates

142

Anomalies in Physics

Viewing the Gates

142

GATECRASHING OPS

RESOURCE EXPLOITATION

MISSIONS

Priority Server Discussion:

Giza X-Risk 98

After-Action Report 100

Giza’s Loose Ends 100

JUST IN CASE 101

Parallel Interests 101

KRYPTON 102

Not the Vacation Spot You Expected 102

Project Priorities

The Gate Interface

142

Network Connections

143

PANDORA GATES

New Recruit

Operating a Gate

143

The Gate Library

and Gate Addresses

EXTRASOLAR SYSTEMS

XENOARCHEOLOGICAL

MISSIONS 50

Planets of the Dead 50

The Process 50

TITAN Sites 51

GATES AND COMMUNICATIONS 51

Exoplanet Mesh Networks

143

Opening and Closing

A Wormhole Link

GAME INFORMATION

144

Unexpected Closings

144

The Wormhole’s Tug

144

103

Receiving Incoming Links

144

Interception and Confusion

104

Preprogrammed and

Timed Connections

Getting Used to Isolation

Resleeve Order

104

144

Gate Hacking 144

Forcing Open a Wormhole Link 145

Gates and Psi 145

GATECRASHING CAMPAIGNS 145

Types of Campaigns 145

Explorers 145

Researchers and Xenoarcheologists 145

Hired Contractors

146

Exploration Gear 155

Smart Animals 157

Survival Gear 157

Xenoarcheology Gear 160

Robots 160

Vehicles 163

Alien Relics 164

GATECRASHING DANGERS 166

Stellar Phenomena 166

Natural Dangers 166

Unnatural Threats 167

Old Enemies 169

Marooned 169

Random Jaunts 170

Gate Abnormalities 170

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 170

Alien Atmospheres

Echo 180

Fortean 181

Giza 182

Just In Case 183

Krypton 183

Lassiter 183

Luca 184

Mishipizheu 184

Moravec 184

Nirvana 185

Nótt 186

Olaf 186

Penrose 187

Portal 188

Rorty 188

Sky Ark 189

Solemn 189

Sunrise 190

Synergy 191

Tanaka 191

Tirion 192

Vohaul 193

Wormwood 194

CREATING EXTRASOLAR WORLDS 194

Setting and Story 194

Choosing a Setting 194

Characteristic Considerations 195

Diversity of Environments 197

Life or No life 197

WORMHOLE LINK MAP 198

INDEX

Colonists

146

Problem Solvers

146

Gate Access

146

Buying Gate Time

146

Sponsorship

147

Hired Crashers

147

Colonial Volunteers

147

Lottery Winners

147

Autonomist Gates

148

170

Gatehoppers and Remote Gates

148

XENOFAUNA

172

Firewall and Gatecrashing

148

Clown Sprites

172

Access Restrictions

149

Land Anemone

172

Insurance and Backups

149

Sciurid

172

Recovery Bonds

149

Switchwing

172

Rewards

149

Whiplash

173

First-In Procedures

and Gatecrashing Guidelines

Zombie Crab

173

149

KNOWN EXOPLANETS

174

GATECRASHING TECH

150

Arcadia

174

New Morphs

150

Babylon

175

New Bioware

152

Bluewood

175

New Nanoware

153

Brak Kodel

176

Special Trait

153

Carnivale

177

Communications Gear

154

Corse

178

200

Everyday Technology

155

Droplet

179

CREDITS

Writing: Rob Boyle, Brian Cross, Jason Hardy, David Hill,

Ken Horner, Evan Jamieson, James Knevitt, TS Luikart,

Phil Masters, Steven Mohan, Malcolm Sheppard,

John Snead, Tobias Wolter

Editing: Rob Boyle, Brian Cross, James Knevitt, Michelle Lyons

Development: Rob Boyle, Brian Cross

Art Direction: Rob Boyle, Adam Jury

Cover Art: Stephan Martiniere

Interior Art: Rich Anderson, Noah Bradley, Leanne Buckley,

Saul Espinosa, Tom Garden, Zachary Graves, Tariq Hassan,

Thomas Jung, Andrew McIntosh, Aaron Miller, Mark

Molnar, Will Nichols, Lorenz Ruwwe, Mike Sass, Jonas

Springborg, James Wolf Strehle, Bruno Werneck, Joe Wilson,

Mark Winters

Layout: Adam Jury

Diagrams: Tiara-Lynn Agresta, Adam Jury

Wormhole Diagram Based On Work From: Allen McCloud

Indexing: Rob Boyle, Adam Jury

Playtesting and Proofreading:

Joe Altepeter, Michael Brightbill, Eirik Bull-Hansen,

Karl Hauber, Sarah Hood, Ryan Jeffrey, Christopher Lavery,

Mike Miller, David Silberstein, Zak Strassberg, Martin

Swan, Brandie Tarvin, Guillaume Tremblay, William Wilson,

Jaqui Wujec

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