• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Space 1889 gets its steam from solar thermal generators which power its steampunk space ships (ether vessels).

    It gets its punk from it being about colonialism.

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          2 months ago

          lol Yeah! That’s how I associate it but the comment made it seem the opposite so I had a little chuckle.

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            2 months ago

            I mean, the players can make imperialist characters if they want to, the same as how you can make an asshole character in a DnD campaign.

            I say that its punk because the setting and rules don’t depict this as something that’s good or neutral. The sourcebooks give a description of how the colonial economy operates, and some of the monstrous things that are done to maintain it.