We've been hard at work on getting Outlaws and Corporations into your hands! We've got some art to show you, and also a new crowdfunding project in its final hours to talk about.
Here's some new pieces of art we can show you:
SHIPS RANCH from the Outlaw Section
The Associated Federation of Hunters is one of the Outlaw Factions, a galaxy-wide syndicate of bounty hunters who work for the highest bidder.
Here's a diagram of Port Lasvik, a space station above a gas giant, headquarters for Stellan Strame’s Leviathan Investments & Acquisitions
The most unwelcoming advertising poster for a company that sells grey clothing to cops. Do you recognise the logo from a previous OB product?
We're polishing up layout, and hoping to get OXC in your hands digitally before the end of November for proper delivery in the new year. We're making sure we stick to that distinctive dustbowl-galaxy in-universe retro-future style, while carefully differentiating the feel of the Outlaws and the Corporations, so you can always tell which half of the book you're reading.
Meanwhile, we've got a new project on Kickstarter: ATRAPOS Atrapos is a Doomed Mythic Fantasy for telling the stories of the mythological heroes of a doomed civilisation venturing home at the end of a disastrous war. It's inspired by Homeric poetry, and uses the same rules as our beloved game Inevitable. It is written by Orbital Blues co-creator and chief SoulMuppeteer Zachary Cox, and has tons of incredibly atmospheric art from Klur_Arts.
Its cover is a 3D rendering of a real mosaic, and the top tier pledges come with dice with tiny little ships encased inside of them! There's just 24 hours left on the project, so you should check it out if you enjoyed Orbital Blues or any of SoulMuppet's other games.
Thanks for reading, we'll hopefully be back soon with some PDFs! If you're reading this update and somehow didn't back the project, check out the hosted pre-orders and grab yourself some sad space cowboy goodness.
A short update from us as we're at that stage of post project where we're all hard at work behind the scenes.
With the manuscript finished, we've been working through edits and layout. With half of the book written by Sam and the other half by Josh, we want to make sure the style is distinctive enough to match the feeling of which side of the book you're reading, while still feeling cohesive and solidly part of the Orbital Blues universe.
Josh has continued to create some gorgeous art work for this project, he is brilliant at bringing the dust-bowl retro future to life and its a joy to see his range of art from maps, to faux advertisements, to character illustrations.
Some of the CORPO GEAR your Outlaws could find, borrow or steal
We really appreciate your patience while we finish up projects. We know it sucks to wait, but we promise that its so we can bring you the best final book possible. Trust us, we want to get this to your hands as much as you want it!
We just sent out a link to the pledge manager, where you can provide shipping info and purchase add-ons. We're planning to fulfil physical items in October time, so you'll be able to change your address until then. Please do grab some add-ons and support Outlaws and Corporations.
Please share the pre-order page with anyone who missed the campaign and wants in on interstellar hyper-capitalist depression.
We also released the new Orbital Blues character sheet. This in-world artefact is the OB-26CS, a tax form from the Reach Department of Interstellar Revenue. Its a little more noisy and characterful than the existing sheet, and we hope you have as much fun using it as we had making it. Orbital Blues characters are normally simple enough you can write them on out a post-it note, so we had enough room to play around with when designing it.
The notepad version of OB-26CS (coffee stain not real, pencil not provided)
Josh has been hard at work on doing even more art for Outlaws and Corporations! Here's a preview of one of the corporate space stations you can drop into your campaigns...
Port Lasvik began as frontiersmen fuel depot, but is now the corporate domain of Leviathan Investments & Acquisitions, a sinister force of credit and capital in the Outer Reach.
Backers can see info below on how to claim their OB core book PDF.
Just wanted to take a moment after the project had wrapped up to thank you all for your support of Outlaws and Corporations, and Orbital Blues Month at large. This collab month was a huge success, with $169,471 of funds raised and 3,170 backers across all six projects. Outlaws and Corporations was a massive win too, with £67,601 of funds and 986 backers. We couldn't have done it without you!
Most of the team took the long weekend off for the May bank holiday here in the UK, but we're now back here in the office, working on the art, words and layout to make Outlaws and Corporations happen for you! The next time you hear us we'll be back with the pledge manager, so you can pay for shipping and sort whatever glorious addons you want to include in the project.
In the meanwhile, come join the conversation at the SoulMuppet Discord, which is bustling with Orbital Blues chat, as well as fans of all the other SoulMuppet games.
£60k Hit! New Stretch Goal Unlocked!!
Howdy Outlaws!
Thanks to all your amazing support, we've passed £60k and unlocked the next stretch goal – a Map of The Reach designed by Orbital Blues artist and co-creator Joshua Clark. This huge, double-sided poster will feature a full, skeuomorphic map on one side and a tonne of GM advice, locations, random encounters, plot hooks and more on the other.
Grab physical copies as an add-on to your pledge (or if you've backed at the Starship Captain level you'll get it added automatically included). The digital version will be made available free to all backers of Outlaws and Corporations when it's completed.
This is one of Josh's maps that featured in Orbital Blues: Afterburn and is a great example of the amazing work you can expect to see from him for The Map of the Reach.
Don't forget to also add-on physical copies of both our previous stretch goals, including a notepad of tear-away character sheets and the upgraded adventure zine ATMOSPHERIC BREAKUP from Orbital Blues’ co-creator Zach Cox’s . Digital versions of both will also being made available for free for all backers.
If you want to get a sneak peek preview of Atmospheric Breakup, see how it could play out at your table and watch some of the best performers in the Actual Play space make some space cowboys really sad, catch up on a special two-part mini series of it here.
Orbital Blues Month is in its last few hours, so we just want to say a massive thank you again for your support! We couldn’t do it without you. Please tell your allies, marks and bounties to come and check out Orbital Blues Month in its final countdown.
Finally, be sure to also check out the other fantastic projects involved in this cross-collaboration, if you're a fan of Orbital Blues we're sure you'll like them. Plus there are special rewards for backing multiple projects!
The Collaboration Cassette is one of the bonus rewards unlocked by backing multiple Orbital Blues Month project!
Cya soon, Space Cowboy!
~ Zach, Mol and the rest of the Orbital Blues team
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