Through Monday, September 7 we present the new Blue Planet Recontact Bundle featuring Blue Planet: Recontact, the new 2025 edition of the hard-SF RPG from Biohazard Games, published by Gallant Knight Games, about humanity’s precarious future on a distant waterworld. On the colony planet Poseidon in the year 2199, after the impoverished Earth re-establishes its authority and discovers the priceless mineral “Long John,” political unrest and a hungry alien ecology threaten the colony. On this “Wild Wet” frontier, Incorporate mercenaries wage amphibious proxy wars, GEO marshals struggle to maintain peace, and native insurgents fight for their adopted world.
AD 2078: Investigating an anomaly at the edge of the Solar System, the Prometheus II probe discovers a traversable ‘wormhole’ (space warp) that leads to the Lambda Serpentis system, 35 light-years from Earth. Ten years later, the United Nations establishes a small frontier colony of genetically engineered humans and ‘genlifted’ cetaceans on the system’s habitable ocean world, Poseidon. Earth’s civilization promptly collapses for over a century, but the abandoned colony thrives. Now it’s 2199, and Earth’s resurgent government(s) and Incorporate States have returned to Poseidon in a gold rush for the life-prolonging xenosilicate Long John. There’s a world to explore, an alien ecology to study or plunder, criminals to catch – and the original pioneers are rebelling. Meanwhile, deep in Poseidon’s endless ocean, mysterious Nereids pursue unknowable goals of their own.
On this wide-open frontier you can try just about anything, take on just about any profession, and be any kind of person – or uplifted dolphin, orca, or whale. (Play a beluga whale! With a rocket launcher!) Poseidon is a place where life is hard and dying is easy – where GEO marshals enforce the peace and wired mercs patrol deep waters in deadly fighter subs – where corporate greed and human desperation threaten to plunge humanity into a war of survival with an ancient legacy. The 23rd Century will be a time of unprecedented possibilities, not just for institutions and governments, but for real people (and cetaceans) who have the will and courage to build a future for themselves.
Funded in an April 2021 Kickstarter campaign, the 2025 Blue Planet: Recontact edition (the third) offers hard-SF adventure on the contentious frontier of Poseidon, Earth’s first extrasolar colony. The new Synergy rules set is a modern evolution of the Second Edition (2000), and Blue Planet‘s renowned reputation for scientific accuracy is upheld with Recontact‘s new technological, scientific, and sociological worldbuilding. For fans of media like Avatar and The Expanse, and novels such as Legacy of Heorot, Songs of Distant Earth, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Blue Planet: Recontact continues its decades-long exploration of colonialism and collapse.
In a Free Zone of blighted 22nd-Century Earth, these Recontact rulebooks would cost you US$60, adjusted for two centuries of inflation. But you pay just $14.95 to get both complete rulebooks in our Recontact Collection as DRM-free .PDF ebooks: the Blue Planet: Recontact Player’s Guide and the Moderator’s Guide (plus the pay-what-you-want Quickstart).
Don’t miss your trip to the new frontier. Book passage to Poseidon before this new Blue Planet Recontact offer heads out to Lambda Serpentis Monday, September 7.
