Hello Outlaws!

Last update we spoke a little about adding some stretch goals for this project, we've decided to add FOUR stretch goals, two we've already hit and two aspirational targets.

SoulMuppet marketing manager and multimedia artist Molomoot is going to be creating a new custom character sheet for Orbital Blues. We’re going to offer the digital version for free to ALL BACKERS of Outlaws and Corporations, and host it on our website too after an exclusivity period. There is also a physical tear-away A5 notepad version of the character sheet that you can grab as an add-on to your pledge.

One of the cross collaboration rewards for ORBITAL BLUES MONTH is Atmospheric Breakup, an adventure written by Orbital Blues co-creator Zach Cox. This is Zach’s attempt at an explosive, arc-climaxing, campaign ending adventure, where Troubles will brew, Swans will sing and Sad Cowboys will be Movin’ On. 
The Crew will face a Nemesis, a manifestation of one of their Troubles drawn into the real world, who pose a threat to not only the Crew but Affinity Station, an orbital platform with an experimental power source. 

This was going to be a pamphlet adventure, but thanks to this goal and your amazing support we’re going to bulk it out into a full zine since we hit the stretch goal.

We’re going to offer the digital version for free to ALL BACKERS of Outlaws and Corporations, and host it on our website too after an exclusivity period. Physicals will be reserved as an exclusive treat for the saddest space cowboys amongst who you backed every single project from the month. 

If you want to know more about Atmospheric Breakup, you can watch Zach GM it on a live play on PlusOneExp across two sessions at 11 AM EST on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th April. We’ve invited a cast of superstar players from across the OB actual play scene: StellaLuna, Drakoniques, Brain Flaherty, and Michelle Kelly, who we hope will make us all weep!

We’ve always been nervous about digging too much into the larger setting of the Frontier Galaxy, always preferring mystery to narrative authority, but it's time to finally let the vibes fall away and show you our vision of the galaxy. 

Joshua Clark, OB’s primary artist and co-creator, is going to create a Map of The Reach, a huge, sector spanning chunk of the Outlaw Galaxy, stretching between the corporate-dominated Core and the isolated and lightly populated outlaw-paradise of the Belts. The Reach is the former frontier, left behind as humanity spread to the far corners of the galaxy, becoming increasingly more populated and developed by the year. The map will link together the settings of your favourite Orbital Blues adventures and will detail famous systems, the major corporate homeworlds, and other important travel hubs and populated planets. It couldn’t possibly include everything in the Outlaw Galaxy, there’s thousands of systems in the Reach after each, all which will leave plentiful gaps for your Storytellers to fill, as well as giving future first and third party adventures room to breathe. 

One side of the poster will detail the full, skewmorphic map, and the other will be a valuable GM play aid written by Zach for galaxy-spanning OB mega campaigns, providing random encounters, an index of the planet, corporations and systems we know about (with published adventure references), plot hooks, random tables for planet, city and ship names we didn’t have room for on the map, and whatever else we can stuff onto it. 

We’re going to offer the digital version for free to ALL BACKERS of Outlaws and Corporations, and host it on our website too after an exclusivity period. If you want the full, double-sided physical A1 foldout monstrosity, we’ll provide it as an add-on and also include it in the top tier pledge: Starship Captain.  

A couple of months ago, our friend Galen Pejeau (Solarcrawl, Stoneburner, Inevitable) approached me about wanting to do a poster for Orbital Blues Month. We worked together on coming up with the Atlas Core and Expanded Richmond-Class, a legendary outlaw vessel prized for its adaptability and open-source engineering. Galen is hard at work on sketches for their weird, modular vessel, and is planning a schematic cutaway poster for this Crew Ship group's ship in the style of a 60/70s car user's manual. We wanted to run a whole project for it as part of Orbital Blues Month, but unfortunately Galen couldn’t find any time in their schedule, so we’re going to return it to life as an add-on and stretch goal for Outlaws and Corporations. 

We’re going to offer the digital version for free to ALL BACKERS of Outlaws and Corporations, and host it on our website too after an exclusivity period. An A2 version of the double-sided foldout poster will be provided as an add-on

Before we sign off for this update, we just want to say another massive thank you to everyone that has backed this project and the other fantastic projects in Orbital Blues Month. We seriously couldn't do this without you and we are blown away by the love and support all of the projects have recieved so far. Be sure to go checkout the other Orbital Blues Month projects as many have begun announcing exciting stretch goals of their own!

Thanks for all the support, 

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