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The science fiction genre is MASSIVE... like space itself! It encompasses everything from dystopian tales of a grim near-future to star-hopping tales of far-flung galactic adventure.

The Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion allows you to emulate ANY sci-fi world from games, books, movies, and television OR those of your own creation. It includes Fast! Furious! Fun! rules for over a dozen new ancestries, starships and space travel, air, land, and sea vehicles, giant war-walkers, cyberware, robots, exploration gear, weapons, armor, transhumanism, netrunning, Arcane Backgrounds, and Setting Rules to help you run everything from space opera to the hardest sci-fi. And like all our Companions, it contains a VAST menagerie of strange and alien creatures to fight or befriend, including xenos, evil empires, and fellow travelers!

New to Savage Worlds

Are you new to the Savage Worlds roleplaying game? If so, you can find our absolutely free Test Drive rules here, and check out this page to see what the rest is about!

What's Inside?

This 200+ page hardcover book updates the original Science Fiction Companion to be completely compatible with the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

• New CHARACTER ancestries, options, Edges, and Hindrances for everything from star-spanning humans to most any alien creature you can imagine.
• Customizable AND premade suits of power armor, starships, and vehicles of all sorts. You can make anything from the Mercury capsule to world-wrecking behemoths!
• Pages of new and updated GEAR to help you run the dystopian streets or exotic planets, and a MASSIVE arsenal of weapons and armor!
• An all-new EVENT BASED system for quickly and easily running chases, dogfights, or vehicular shootouts!
• Narrative Outpost rules, the sci-fi take on the narrative system first introduced in the Super Powers Companion! Build a unique base for your party in the heart of a dying star, the drifting ruins of a space hulk, or the penthouse of a crowded industrial city.
• New SETTING RULES for everything from netrunning to starship combat to transhumanism AND a whole new simplified system for handling massive vehicular weapons and vehicular armor we call HEAVY METAL!!!
• Brand new arcane backgrounds, psionic abilities, and even psychically powered weapons!
• A HUGE bestiary of scoundrels, xenos, monsters, and evil empires to challenge!
• Dozens of strange and alien artifacts to discover!

A Booster Style Campaign

Our Kickstarter Boosters are support projects for our existing lines. They come with Booster Rewards built-in rather than Stretch Goals. We're definitely going to print these on our own no matter what and want you to know that upfront, but are asking for your support so we can order the right amount and most importantly, create the extras that add to the entire experience for all of us—like maps, pawns, card decks, and in this case an entire additional book. We play too, and we want all these goodies as much as we hope you do!

Iconic Adventures!

The Science Fiction Companion can handle ANY type of sci-fi setting, and to show it off, we've created a set of iconic adventures inspired by some of our favorite genres. These all-new Savage Tales are included as a bonus in the Sci-Fi Digital Bundle and all print levels. Those who back at the Sci-Fi Bundle Print level get them in a gorgeous, long-lasting printed hardback...absolutely free as part of your reward tier!

The Captain is Dead: An experimental spaceship makes a historic dive into a gas giant's upper atmosphere. Some very unwelcome visitors prove that unexpected life can exist in such a hazardous place, and now the claustrophobic halls are deadlier than ever. With catastrophes erupting everywhere, key crew members dead, and any kind of help far out of reach, can the remaining crew survive? Horror and desperation in a grimy near-future, written by Donald Schepis (Tales of the Doom Guard, ETU: Study Abroad). (Inspired by films like Aliens™.)

Emergency Evac: Red's Raptors are a hardened group of mercenaries who risk life and limb piloting their gigantic war-walkers in the devastated battlefields of the future, but this is no ordinary mission. With their ship destroyed in a sneak attack, the band must face the terrifying creatures infesting an alien world and rivals bent on their destruction with only their wits, grit, and powerful war-machines to aid them. A tale of futuristic military survival by JM DeFoggi (Savage Universe, The Return of Dr. Destruction). (Inspired by games like Battletech™.)

The Queen's Gambit: A daring crew of noble do-gooders have one chance to cripple the corrupt Star Syndicate. One of the powerful crime-lords of the syndicate has fallen, and his lieutenants are scrambling to seize as much of his wealth and power as they can. One of them has loaded the freighter Rogue Queen with precious loot, and it's up to the heroes to capture that ship and turn those riches against the syndicate before it's too late! A swashbuckling space-opera by John Stevens (RIFTs® for Savage Worlds, Terror on the Dark Frontier). (Inspired by films like Star Wars™.)

Going Viral: It was supposed to be a simple job, but that was before one of your own became the newest victim of the “crazer” trend, viral videos of seemingly random people snapping without warning. Now you’re on the run through the neon-bathed mean streets, trapped between riots, rival gangs, and corrupt cops, doing everything you can to avoid the same fate. A gritty story of the dark near future by Brian Reeves (Savage Worlds Fantasy Companion, Deadlands: The Abominable Northwest). (Inspired by films like Bladerunner™ and games like Cyberpunk™ and Shadowrun™.)

Chariots of Darkness and Light: The crew of an advanced exploration starship face a strange dilemma. An exo-planet on the fringes of known space supports life where none should be able to exist, but that civilization is on the verge of destruction. Can the crew unlock the planet's secrets before its inhabitants destroy themselves—and before deadly enemies from the stars can finish the job? A space-bound allegory by Darrell Hayhurst (Legend of Ghost Mountain, Necessary Evil: Cosmic Crisis). (Inspired by series like Star Trek™.)

Blood from a Stone: In the distant future, a team of investigators dispatched by a temporary and treacherous alliance of powerful factions must uncover the dark secrets of the most important world in known space: Krag. Krag is the only source of the vital commodity that powers technology indistinguishable from magic, and production has suddenly stopped. Restore the flow and save Krag (and the universe)! A sweeping epic of the year XKXKI by Christopher Landauer (Buccaneer: Through Hell and High Water). (Inspired by books and films like The Expanse™ and Dune™.)

Printing and shipping then takes a few more months before it arrives at our various fulfillment hubs, and of course we'll update you along the way should there be any delays.

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