Hi there space cowboys,

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.

You can claim the sheet for free here, or grab it as an add-on physical notepad on the Backerkit pledge manager.
 

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...

 
Backers can see info below on how to claim their OB core book PDF.

Thanks, 

Zach, Mol and the rest of the OXC Team

Hi all,

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. 

See ya soon, 

Zach, Mol and the rest of the Orbital Blues team

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.

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!

Cya soon, Space Cowboy! 

~ Zach, Mol and the rest of the Orbital Blues team

We’re hurtling close to the next set of stretch goals, and we’re so incredibly pumped about the prospect of being able to create the Map of the Reach. In anticipation of hopefully hitting that goal, Zach and Josh have been collating a list of corporations, organisations, planets, sectors and systems that have been mentioned in previous adventures into a comprehensive world-building doc. 

The hope of Outlaws and Corporations is that you can use the new material to run galaxy spanning campaigns that jump between different published adventures, homebrew materials and third party adventures from across the Orbital Blues (and general sci-fi) scene, so the connective tissue provided by OXC and the new map are going to be a huge part of that toolkit.

We had a few questions about the new character sheet. If you want to grab a character sheet notepad, it's now available as an add-on for your pledge! The updated version will be made available digitally as soon as it is finished.

This weekend we’re showcasing a special two-part Actual Play of ATMOSPHERIC BREAKUP, the dramatic arc-ending adventure available as one of the bonus rewards for backing all six Orbital Blues Month projects. This is a perfect way to get a sneak peek into what's in the adventure and see how it could play out at your table.

ATMOSPHERIC BREAKUP is an adventure toolbox for providing a climactic ending to any ORBITAL BLUES arc, filled with climax and heartbreak. It centres on a showdown with a Nemesis pulled from the Crews’ Troubles, the perfect adversary for any sad space cowboy. The setting is Affinity Station, an isolated space station powered by a prototype power source, and things are sure to end in blood, tears, or both. 

ORBITAL BLUES co-creator Zach Cox is sitting in the Storyteller chair, joined by a series of stars from across our actual play scene: StellaLuna, Drakoniques, Brain Flaherty, and Michelle Kelly. This’ll be a game that’s sure to make us feel the blues more than ever before. These poor space cowboys don’t know what’s coming for them.

Tune in at 11am EST / 4pm BST on Saturday 25th for session 1, then the same time on Sunday for session 2. We’ll be streaming on twitch.tv/tonyplusone, and it’ll all be linked on the project page.

Josh, Sam and Zach all did an extended interview as part of the Rascal 7, where they talk about the beating heart of our game, the needle drop hits, and discuss the nature of running a community event like Orbital Blues Month. You can grab some real insight into the thoughts and intent of the three-headed sad-space-cowboy giant, and how different parts of the team approached creating Orbital Blues. 

Original Orbital Blues graphic designer and Jupiter in Eb Minor creator LoneArchivist appeared on Many Sided Media’s Talk of the Table Podcast for an interview with Brian and Elliot on RPG graphic design and layout. You can listen to Lone talking about his work on Orbital Blues, his other collaboration with Zach on the DIE RPG, the mothership community project Hull Breach and many, many more. 

Zach also made an appearance on the Weekly Scroll for the umpteenth time, weighing in with crispy takes on Backerkit vs Kickstarter, the design of a collaboration month, the creation of the Orbital Blues setting, and what is next for SoulMuppet. Find it wherever you get your podcasts! 

The final episode of the Why We Roll arc from Stillfleet Studios came out yesterday, featuring Wes Franks of Formula-Infiniti as their guest for the day. Be sure to check it out!

Elliot Davis and Josh Dormanski were the guests on Now You’ve Zine It show on PlusOneExp, with the two creators cross-interviewing each other and deep diving into The Wanderer (Elliot’s SoulMuppet Published solo game for ORBITAL BLUES) and Paramour (Josh’s contribution to OB month). Watch along for a thorough exploration of the two zines… Watch the vod on Twitch or YouTube.

Thanks again for all your support folks and hopefully the next time we speak we'll be celebrating hitting that next stretch goal!

~ Zach, Mol and the Orbital Blues month team