The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror
Produced by Catalyst Game Labs and Posthuman Studios
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Your mind is software.
Program it.
Your body is a shell.
Change it.
Death is a disease.
Cure it.
Extinction is approaching.
Fight it.
P R O G R A M .
C H A N G E .
C U R E .
F I G H T .
P R O G R AM .
C H A N G E .
C U R E .
F I G H T .
LACK
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ENTER
THE SINGULARITY ...
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STARTING OUT
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What Is A Roleplaying Game?
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What is Transhumanism?
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Post-apocalyptic, Conspiracy, and
Horror Themes
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But How Do You Actually Play?
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What Do Players Do?
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Where Does It Take Place?
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Ego vs. Morph
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Where To Go From Here?
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Terminology
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A TIME OF ECLIPSE
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A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF AN
UNFORTUNATE UNIVERSE
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Eclipse Phase Timeline
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM
AFTER THE FALL
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TRANSHUMANITY
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Inequality
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Clades and Separation
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First Contact: The Factors
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CULTURE AND SOCIETY
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The Longing For Earth
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Nostalgia Jewelry
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Fear and Paranoia
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An Exsurgent Threat?
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Real and Social Distance
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Singularity Seekers
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The Rise of Cultural Regions
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Cultural Experimentation
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Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships 45
The Diversity of Habitats
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TECHNOLOGY
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Living With Infotech
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Opening Pandora’s Gate
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Going Beyond the Known
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Muses
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Attitudes Toward AGIs
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Attitudes Towards Mental Alterations 48
Travel
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Privacy
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Incapacitating Inputs
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Low-Tech Existence
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Life, Death, and Morphs
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Entertainment and Media
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Lost Lore
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Metacelebrities
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Popular Types of Entertainment
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POLITICS AND POWER
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The Inner System
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The Outer System
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KEEPING THE PEACE
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Law Enforcement
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Punishment
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THE ECONOMY
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The Old Economy
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The Transitional Economy
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The New Economy
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Rest