Third-Party Expansion: HARDPLACE

It's a happy holiday here in my house today with a surprise gift from Binary Star Games: HARDPLACE, which expands out 4 ports of call from my humble half-page brief in HARDCASE into a whole load of modular fun/misery for your HC:

• Rockwell, Heliopause's infamous prison/mining camp on the surface of Mercury. You're either here for smuggling (contraband in, escapees out) or because you arrived in handcuffs; try to stay alive.
• Dongfeng 2, a free factory-city on Luna whose independence is a thorn in Heliopause's side. Drop off some much-needed supplies, call DF2 home for a time... or hamstring their economy for a financial reward from management.
• Mars, haunted ruins stuffed with valuable salvage just beyond the cordon line (or so everyone says). The boldest risk life, limb, and sanity in the red desert, because its treasures can be great indeed.
• Ceres, a hardscrabble pirate port that's barely clinging on to habitability. It takes a constant stream of thefts to keep the station alive, but the freaks and outlaws who lay their heads here fight hard for what they have.

If you ever wanted more HARDCASE, here it is: 20 new Faces to meet (as clients, bounties, lovers, or Online gamers), 2 new ports (each with 6 Locales of their own), rules for prison time and smuggling, a whole Martian depthcrawl minigame, and even a new Origin that starts you with a (really shitty!) spaceship of your own. 

I'm flabbergasted by how fun all of this is - everyone, please check out HARDPLACE, and join me in thanking Binary for such a delightful explosion of new toys. It means so much to me that this game and this world inspired someone else to run with it!