Celestial Bodies

Celestial Bodies #

After the calamity, the infinite dark between the stars was cramped with refugees. During the second generation, the survivors cannibalized the metal skeletons of less fortunate home-ships. In the third generation, those survivors expanded their ships, their mecha, their operations, and their conflicts. The fourth generation discovered the Titans: dead gods whose frozen bodies spanned hundreds of miles across. You are the fifth generation.

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Humanity’s Blood Stains the Stars #

Celestial Bodies is a game about humanity’s long struggle to colonize the universe, and what will become of them. It’s about those who will continue to the next generation — and those who will not. It’s about endless destruction and death in the name of continuation, and those who wage it. It’s about the great titan corpses that lie where the stars end, and what lies beyond them.

You are lamplighters: a once-reverent name for the union of pilot and mech, flesh and steel, serving a home-ship. In the name of your home-ship, you will do things that are alternatively necessary, magnanimous, and possibly unspeakable. Your mechs will engage in combat with other hulking metal war machines and uncanny monstrous threats. Your ships and mechs will change as humanity begins to extract everything from the Titans.

  • Build your mech with parts gained both from your own home-ship’s research and from other factions. 8 Frames and more than 100 parts give you a lot to work with!
  • Engage in deep, tactical combat against other Lamplighters as you seek to carry out whatever mission your Home-Ship needs to survive.
  • Experience life between missions through downtime events.
  • Build up your home-ship and lead it to greatness.
  • Deal or fight with 24 factions, including:
    • INFINITY: A wealthy, absolutely ruthless home-ship that has been accumulating secondary ships and colonies since the second generation.
    • Neon Witch Network: A tiny coven of operatives procuring worrying amounts of Titan materiel for inscrutable purposes under the noses of other Factions.
    • The Virtuous Collective: A set of 4 home-ships who have split into a series of quarreling houses with a noble veneer over a vicious mecha-dueling culture.
    • Reverie: Uncannily-happy, psychically-linked missionaries who rent themselves out as mercenaries in exchange for proselytization rights.
  • Uncover the Titans: The dead gods at the edge of the stars, now ripe for harvest and plunder for humanity’s war against itself. What dark mecha and psychic secrets might they yet reveal?