Vesta Mandate - Quickstart

Vesta Station stands between Corporate oligarchy and total revolution. Corporate has smashed Earth into its own image, an authoritarian nightmare of endless subsidiary companies and ruined, flooded cities of the failed nation states. Vesta stands alone as a revolutionary project, an asteroid amid the inky black. In the canyon of Rheasilvia, the Council plots and backstabs, dreaming of the power to forge the unfinished nation into polished steel. Yet Corporate looms, ready to shatter the dream into molten slag.

The Vesta Accords have come to a close, The Corporation stands waiting in the wings. Ascend to the heights of executive power on Vesta Station, taking your place as Councilor and working to appease the manifold factions all with conflicting agendas.  

YOU are the Council. The POWER is all yours, what will YOU do with it?

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VESTA MANDATE is the sci-fi political thriller TTRPG for one-shots or long term play with a group of 3-5 players. On Vesta Station, you play the conniving mastermind with a secret agenda that will bring the Station to its knees or uplift it to a new era. Vesta Mandate is inspired by Powered by the Apocalypse (PbtA), with mechanics and procedures added to turn the game into a competitive, political drama.

This Quickstart gives you everything you need to immerse yourself in a one shot of the political realities of the Station. Create your Councilor in a hidden role game of Secrets, Hidden Agendas, and complex political ideologies. Get right to the table with  one pre-built Crisis scenario. During a Crisis: make Moves, improve Reputation, and investigate the problem plaguing the Station. Download the Quickstart below to start playing today!

You can find the pre-order page for the full pdf of Vesta Mandate here.

CONTEND WITH THE POLITICAL REALITIES OF CORPORATE POWER

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• Character creation that helps you build a complex, multi-dimensional Councilor. Someone deeply tied to the Station and its people.
• Career-ending Secrets, made in collaboration with other players who hold them over your head as blackmail.
• Downtime play to explore how the realities of political life disrupt the relationships between the Councilors and their friends and family… if they’ve even managed to maintain them.
• A mix of lore and in-game worldbuilding that gives players agency over the story, characters and setting.
• Hidden Agendas that drive player characters to scheme, unravel each other’s plots, and keep everyone guessing their ultimate play.
• A catastrophic Crisis scenario that creates a tense environment for negotiation as the Red Horizon Militia flees to the station demanding asylum as war heroes.

IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES, YOU THRIVE.

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