Welcome to the Cepheid Cluster

[Jubal]

"And this shall be said of each one who flies into the night: that they walked through the darkness, and so saw the light."
- An Old Spacefarers' Prayer

Across the star cluster, civilisations and peoples are making their way beyond their home planets and into the blackness of space. Few ever undertake such ventures, and fewer still would dare go beyond the few systems that offer the relative safety of ship-scale wormhole travel. The rewards are out there, though: finding new homes, new life, new creations, and the myriad scientific possibilities out there in the stars are all lures to the adventurous. Whether stumpy S'ruba homeworlders seeking to build new lives, the wide-eyed relic hunters of the Lexihad, the mightily carapaced Verwynn knights and their Gruth servants, the eclectically robot-bodied scientists of the Tangalak, or any number of other beings (slug-like Illuchi, flying Jaxali, even a sparse-haired pursuit predator from the outer reaches called a 'human') space can prove impossible to resist. What might be out there?


Cepheida is a game and associated setting based around the Cepheid cluster, a region of imagined space full of an immense diversity of possibilities and life. The principles of the setting are that other life-forms, not humans, take centre stage, and that they seek a wide array of outcomes: whilst conflict can certainly happen, all-out war is not an inevitable fact of life and seeking success through other means is a viable approach. Cepheida aims to be science fiction that is speculative, colourful, and not without hope. I hope you'll enjoy exploring it as much as I have.

Key Links

Exploration Game Main Thread (Request playtesting copies here!)
FAQs Thread
Concept Art
Captain's Development Log

Faction and Setting Notes Index
~To Be Written~