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The silent generation ship: an AI sci-fi text RPG

You are awake. They are not. And something aboard keeps the lights on.

Illustration of The silent generation ship: You are awake. They are not. And something aboard keeps the lights on.

How your story begins

Asterion

You wake in the sleep-pod bay of the generation ship Asterion, three centuries into its crossing between stars. Beyond the curved hull, the destination is still a hard scatter of light; inside, frost feathers the pod glass, and your lungs pull at air that smells faintly of hot dust. You are Kaia, a scout, and the only person awake among the sleeping crew. Someone—or something—has kept the ship alive while everyone else slept. Before you decide whether to wake them, you need to know who.

Your first move: tap one, or type your own.

Play The silent generation ship free

No account, no card. Your first five turns start at once.

How it plays

Real dice

When it gets risky you throw a d20 yourself. The game shows what you need and what is at stake.

Danger that ticks

Threats grow as time passes and when you fail. When the clock is full, the consequence stays.

A world that remembers

Your items, money, wounds and the map are kept by the rules, not by the storyteller's memory.

People with a memory

Who trusts you, who owes you, whose patience runs out: it counts when you try to persuade them.