Jovian Nightmares

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Front Cover

Product Code: CHA0367

Publishing Year: 2009

Pages: 92

Cover Price: $16.95

Author(s): John Ossoway

Artist(s):

Setting(s): Future (Cthulhu Rising setting)

Format: MULA Monograph

Released as PDF: Yes

Contents

By the late 23rd century, the gas giant Jupiter and its sprawling system of rings and moons is home to a colonial population of millions.

Over the century and a half since the colonisation of the outer planets began in earnest, an aggregation of settlements and outposts have developed to mine the raw materials which drive the economy upon which the United Earth Federation depends. The types of settlements found in the region are varied, ranging from the subterranean conurbations at the top of Europa’s oceans to the harsh mining towns of Io; from the Callisto orbitals to the countless corporate research outposts.

Despite its location in the most densely populated and heavily-policed star system in the United Earth Federation, Circum-Jove remains a fertile breeding ground for a multitude of subcultures, outlaws and weird religious cults. It’s also a hotbed of new technologies research and home to corporate infi ghting at its worst.

Humanity is not the first star-faring culture to have visited this region. There are beings far older than Man. Ancient, malign beings that would be described in human terms as pure evil, but for whom such a label is meaningless. Here, they wait. Beneath aeons old ice and rock. In the dark spaces between the stars. Waiting for when the time is right.

Some nightmares are very real. Jovian Nightmares.

This book is a sourcebook for Cthulhu Rising, a setting presented in a previous MULA Monograph by the same author.

Contents:

• Fiction: Dying in a Winter Wonderland by John Ossoway and Cutback Blues by Gary Cooper
• History: A brief history of the colonisation of the Circum-Jove system.
• Circum-Jove – The Rough Guide: Jupiter and major locations of interest in the Circum-Jove system.
• Jovian Organisations: Political, governmental, corporate and private organisations of interest.
• Jovian Investigations: New professions for roleplaying in the Circum-Jove colonies.
• Jovian Secrets: A Keepers-only chapter full of Mythos secrets associated with this region of space. What lies in the world-oceans beneath the ice of Europa? Who or what has been causing disappearances in the labyrinthine catacombs beneath Ganymede? What dwells within the eye of Jupiter?
• Adventure: Escape Velocity is a short adventure designed to be played in one gaming session. The adventure also contains deck plans and details of an orbital gas mining platform.
• Adventure Seeds: Ideas for more adventures set in the Jupiter system.
• Glossary: A glossary of terms and abbreviations used in Jovian Nightmares.

Scenarios: Escape Velocity

Front Cover Text

A Sourcebook For Cthulhu Rising — Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying in the 23rd Century

Back Cover Text

JOVIAN NIGHTMARES

By the late 23rd century, the gas giant Jupiter and its sprawling system of rings and moons is home to a colonial population of millions. Humanity is not the first star-faring culture to have visited this region. There are beings here far older than Man.

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