A science fiction western
Humanity came to VOI 700 D looking for a future. It found a world that did not need to be conquered, saved, or understood. Survival now depends on what its last people are willing to become.
The premise
In 2625 the multigenerational ship Last Frontier crashes on VOI 700 D (102 Wiki), a world that always shows the same face to its red dwarf star. One side burns. One side freezes. Life is possible only in the twilight belt between them, and that belt is home to seven and a half million people who were there first.
Twenty-five thousand survivors arrive with the technology of a starship and lose most of it in the wreck. They build New Kourou, Hope, Morningstar, and a mining town in the permanent night called Firetown. Within four years they are at war with the Native Tribes (102 Wiki) who took them in. What they become after that is the story.
Three ways in
Play
Four browser games set on VOI 700 D, and pen and paper modules for the table. Free test versions, ready-made characters, a scene template for your own stories.
Listen
Audio plays and audiobooks tell the same world from other vantage points. Samples first, then the store.
Explore
The full reference: ages, peoples, settlements, factions, wildlife, technology. Curated entry points, then the whole map.
Looking for the raw reference? Open the 102 Wiki directly (102 Wiki).
VOI 700 D
The planet always shows the same face to its red dwarf. Scroll along the terminator from the scorched side, through the twilight belt, into the dark.
01 · Up to 70 °C · eternal day
East of the belt the star never sets. Sand moves in walls, the ground reaches seventy degrees, and nothing that came from Earth lasts long without protection. Few go there. Fewer come back with what they went for.
Explore Desert Side in the 102 Wiki Adds the scorched day hemisphere.
02 · 20–28 °C · 400–500 km wide · eternal sunset
A strip four to five hundred kilometres wide where the light is always the last minutes of sunset. Twenty to twenty-eight degrees, all year, forever. Every settlement but one stands here, on ground the Native Tribes held long before the ship came down.
Explore Habitual Belt in the 102 Wiki Adds the twilight strip where life is possible.
03 · Down to −70 °C · eternal night
West of the belt the night does not end. Minus seventy on a clear day. Copper under the ice, heat under the volcano, and one town that burns lanterns against all of it. Those who want to be forgotten walk west.
Explore Dark Side in the 102 Wiki Adds the frozen night hemisphere and its predators.
Featured adventure · Beta Age
In the frozen frontier of Firetown, a routine extraction opens a trail into the buried secrets of the crash. You are Freelancers under contract to the Office for Special Operations. An unknown old man sits in the Guarding Trooper Station. An anonymous client wants him out, alive, within seven days. No questions asked.
See the full page for The Man Without a Name Explore Firetown in the Wiki
Play in your browser
A narrative investigation in Firetown, an ice-road courier run, the saloon dice game, and a geothermal pipe puzzle. Free, nothing to install, keyboard or touch.
Narrative investigation · third person
Get a man without a name out of the Guarding Trooper Station. Seven days. Four ways in.
20–40 minutes
Arcade endurance · driving
A courier cart, one battery, and the ice road from New Kourou into the dark.
3–6 minutes per run
Dice · push your luck
The house game of Saloon Gloria. Frost freezes, Punkt burns, and you decide when to stop.
3–5 minutes per match
Puzzle · pipes
Number three vent is coughing. Route the steam before Firetown freezes.
1–3 minutes per level
Featured audiobook
An old man is found half-frozen on the plains of the Ralar Region with no memory, ritual scars and one sentence he repeats. In the perpetual night of Firetown, a contract to free him becomes a question nobody wants answered. The audio play follows the story told in the tabletop adventure from a different vantage point.
No audiobook is released yet. The sample and the listening links appear here on release day. Until then, play the story at your table.
The reference layer
The 102 Wiki maps the ages, peoples, settlements, factions, wildlife, and histories of VOI 700 D. Follow a thread from the story you are reading or begin with the planet itself.
The wiki is a separate reference site and may contain spoilers for the adventures. Your browser's back button returns you here.