Five Parsecs From Home: The Final Frontier

By the mid 21st century humanity had stepped timidly into space, but had already lost it's way. Greed was good. Multinationals and the super wealthy owned the world. The planet suffered. Leaders had forgotten what it was to lead. War was inevitable, Then it came. In the aftermath The Long Winter reminded humanity what it was to be human. For survival of the species, against the odds we rose from the ice and ashes fostering an age of cooperation, for the good of all. We moved mountains, and made a new world, laying the foundations for the next steps in our incredible journey. In 2193 The orbital yards at Luna were completed, By 2250 a human colonist took their first breath of clean Martian air. In 2329 The first extrasolar colony was founded on Alpha Centauri 4. Then, In 2364 the Marconi Array on the edge of human space detected the first evidence there was intelligent life out there. So we went to meet the neighbors.

Five Parsecs From Home: We Have The Power

 

Ship's power has been a recurring trope and plot device in all of Trek and in TOS it was quite rare that Mister Scott happily replied job was a good one and reported and the space pistons are firing at 100%.  My Five Parsecs campaign is unlikely to be any different but in this instance on the terrain building front we can have a moment that would make Scotty smile.  We have the power, or more appropriately Reactor Alpha is online.

Five Parsecs From Home: Better Living in a Distant Retro Future

Production still from pilot episode, "Revelation at Zarathustra"

A few months back I became interested in Five Parsecs From Home.  The setting is generic space opera built around the adventures of a crew that you generate to explore the galaxy.  I thought it would be really cool to build a crew and a story setting based on classic sci fi shows, particularly TOS Trek.  That's when I realized I didn't have a great selection of retro sci figures, or much in the way of sci fi terrain for the tabletop at all.  I decided to build a series of structures that could stand in as a listening post, a science station, or with enough of them a small colony.