Really, you don't have to look further than Homeland (which is about to start all anew with season 4) and the latest 24, Live Another Day to find inspiration for a non-Firewall campaign Legends: one or more of the players get framed, or did something they don't remember, and will have to prove their innocence or undo what they did. Add in some Forks and you have, basically Orphan Black. Gotham: Forget about Batman mythos. your players return to their native habitat, and find it basically overrun by organized crime, where the law enforcement has more G-Rep than R-Rep. What will they do? blend in ("go with the program" to quote Bullocks) or stand out like Ben McKenzie's Jim Gordon? A blend of the two, or split party? (It's partly why I love this show, even only two episodes in the season) Go like Scorpions, a bunch of geniuses with little to no social skills.

Any kind of Habitat security would work, either say planetary consortium police, or perhaps an anarchist security team. I ran a gamw like this. The only problem I ran into was some unfortunate parallels between the PC cops and certain current events in headline news that sucked all the fun from the game I also had an idea for a game a while back where the players were politicians on Titan. Dunno how this would work in practice. Other ideas: Europan undersea explorers. Startup Extropian company Scum spaceship hijackers

I wonder about a Nine Lives campaign.

How about transhuman mercs hired by the Jovians as deniable assets? No direct contact, all details and payments delivered through middle-men and dead-drops. Presumably in credits as these sort of jobs may not be good for one's rep (@ and G-rep possibly excluded).

Well, I don't really like the mission-of-the-week style games that Firewall provides. You get the message, you go on mission, return. Next time, next message, next mission in some other, completely unrelated place, return... No, I like continuity and story development. That means campaigns and while they are certainly possible with Firewall, we have all the Galaxy as playground and especially Solar System is very detailed and teeming with ideas and conflicts. I feel that it would be wasteful to limit myself to Firewall that has its scope limited to big things like X-risks and focuses on them only until they're resolved - that's shallow. So, in my campaign I decided to exploit the differences and possible conflict between Titanian Commonwealth and Extropians. While they belong to the same political bloc, their ideologies and ways of life differ so much that contrasting them could result in very rich and detailed stories. The big story is that Titanians wanted heavy metals as Titan lacks them. They wanted to haul the suitable iron-nickel asteroid into Titan's orbit but were prevented by Planetary Consortium pulling their strings. So Titanians employed the help of Extropians that after much political maneuvers managed to get 533162 Kiruna past Consortium's reach. In exchange they wanted a land on Titan - namely between Erebor Mons and Doom Mons - to locate their outposts with spaceports, ore depots and such infrastructure. Once they settled on Titan problems began: different cultures of living, different laws, different jurisdiction areas, that means organized crime paradise and such. Enter the players. No memory, no possessions, they wake in stolen bodies in the middle of Titanian nowhere (actually Bilbo Colles). This is introductory adventure, so that they could grasp Eclipse Phase in small chunks - now their job is to get to the safety and on their 3rd gaming session they are close to that. Next will be the choice - do they like to seek rescue from Extropians (seems unlikely given players political preferences, even if it would save their characters from being jailed) or Titanians (they could be jailed, then released without the bodies but with sociopsych advisors easing their integration into society). Then they could indeed be employed as deniable assets by various factions (Titanian Fleet Intelligence, Consortium working through their covert Extropian agents, Extropian businessman offering partnership, Nomic seeking to further its goals through their casus, individual hipercorp agents like some journo investigator...). As the campaign will unfold and will become wider in scope (Kiruna is very special asteroid, hiding a big surprise inside, hinted only by occasional X-ray burst) more and more factions could be involved. Having said all that, it will be players' free choice to whom they'll side. Or won't side if they'd prefer to pursue their past that was lost in deleted memories. Thus I have adventure packed with conflict, details, action and culture shock. Do you think I'd be able to get that with Firewall-style "go-there, do-that" adventure? BR, Forseti