well...it's done. I had planned a short campaign arc, based largely on the surface of Mars. the group was a firewall cell that stumbled into a plan by a rogue (?) hypercorp executive who was trying to reverse engineer basilisk hack to indoctrinate people into becoming better - unquestioning - corporate citizens. Along the way they had two players die from exsurgent infection (and restore from clean backups), one went nearly insane and one who decided that the ONLY valid use of nuclear weapons was for the purposes of artistic expression. the final encounter was with a completely insane memetic engineer who had adapted a nanoplague/indoctrination virus to spread a virulent strain of Catholicism around little shanghai and locked his boss into a time dialated simulation of dante's inferno in a vain effort to 'save his soul'. I have to say, i'm impressed with the game. the rules were a bit clunky at times but nothing we couldn't work with and/or around. the players REALLY loved the idea of backups. they found that they worried less about losing a character and could focus more on exploring the game back story. I feel as if I only scratched the surface of the game. there's so much potential there for long term campaigns of nearly any sort you can think of - intrigue, corporate skullduggery, lovecraftian horror, clashes of economic systems, piracy, post-apocalyptic survival...all of that and more, all fits within the realm of Eclipse Phase. But I had planned for a short campaign arc as a break between pathfinder RPG adventure paths, and so back to fantasy we go. That said I think it's safe to say my group will be returning to Eclipse Phase at some point. it's just too good a game to let go. So this isn't 'the end'. its merely a goodbye...for now. many thanks to the folks on the forums for your help, advice and totally bizarre ideas about how to run a game in the EC universe. I'll be back, and i'll be watching for new books and PDF supplements.