I am a great fan of very simple games which enable creating a wide range of possible scenarios, and this is definitely one of them. In 6 pages it gives characrer creation and action rules, four major competing factions (two of them interplanetary governments, one the criminal underworld and the fourth an organization of good guys) and a set of briefly described worlds, with their native races, rulers and a number of monsters. There are mild touches of humor (there is a doglike race called Fidons) but it is perfectly possible to create serious scenarios from the materials provided. I have already created two, one in which an agent of the evil Dreadcon Empire is trying to subvert the Fidon government (whose planet poduces the vital element ultonium) and another in which an agent of the good Order of Planets is aiding the liberation movement of the insectoid Huuk against the Dreadcon general who has conquerd their planet. This system is easily worth the price of "pay what you want."
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