Created by Elodie Hiras, Dark Matter Aberration war is a Space Opera roleplaying game set in a futuristic fantasy universe. Humankind created a space empire, which erupted in civil war. Two factions quickly formed: The Star Systems Federation, and The Dylamian Empire, an expansionnist dictatorship aiming to created the genetically perfect human race, and try to do so genociding inferior genetic strains so that only the strong remain. It is backed up by dark matter aberrations, and is technically the most powerful faction in the universe. There are two reasons they are not in control of the entire universe: La Résistance, consistently derailling its operations, and the Beta Shirian Armed Forces, consistently claiming military victories for the Federation. But in the long run, The Federation is doomed. For this reason, the federal high command decided to create a special unit for highly strategic sabotages and military operations deep behind ennemy lines.
Tropes appearing in Dark Matter Aberration War:
- Absent Aliens: There are no aliens out there.
- All Planets Are Earth-Like: Averted. There are a lot of single biome planet, but lots of not Earth like planets.
- Amazon Brigade: The Beta Shirian Armed Forces are 80% female, so most squads qualify.
- Casual Interstellar Travel: Taking a spaceship in this universe is about the same as taking a plane today.
- Demon Slaying: any soldier can qualify, if enough skilled or lucky, but the Beta Shirian Silver Rapiers are experts in killing Dark Matter Aberrations.
- Distress Call: All pilots and all squads have one distress beacon.
- Grey Goo: Defied. No nanomachines are built with the capability to create more of them.
- Healing Potion: nano healing compound in syringe form.
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Zigzagged Kinetic weapons are Boring, but Practical. Energy weapons are powerful but expensive. Railguns (both a kinetic weapon and an energy one) are the best weapons in the universe.
- Matriarchy: Beta Shirian Matriarchy. Patriarchy flip: Women are assumed stronger and smarter, but there are still 40% of male scientists, politicians and other... Except in the military special forces.
- Methuselah Syndrome: It is not unusual to find people who are Really 700 Years Old thanks to telomera regeneration.
- Nanomachines: Carbon nanotubes armor, carbon nanoblade, carbon superconductor rail...
- Ramming Always Works: If you go kamikaze or eject before impact, a fighter craft loaded with 30 antimatter torpedoes is a really effective weapon against a battle cruiser.
- Ridiculously Human Robots: Some of the robots are created as semi organic with electronic brains. They are so humans they are legally humans... In the federation at least. Most of them are created as sons/daughters by scientists.
