A Lot of Zeroes

Terawatt thrusters developed during the exoglobalization era are capable of crossing the incredible distance between the stars, but it isn't until the futures era that the decades long fueling processes are completed to launch these journeys. The first interstellar crews sent out on these star ships will likely die en route to even the nearest stars to us: either of old age or killed by the effects of interstellar radiation, on board accidents, mutinous colleagues or grey goo. Rather than condemn yourself to suffer a similar fate, you will adopt a lifestyle to survive the rigors of multiple interstellar voyages. A lifestyle reflects the extreme steps needed to achieve immortality, giving you a many century long lifespan in a way that also minimizes the risk of accidental death from the space faring lifestyle you have chosen. There are many different lifestyles, from robots who deliberately erase their memories or young brains who spend almost all of their lives in suspended animation to crews who pass their mission goals onto their children, achieving in their legacy what they couldn't do in their own lifetimes. And unless you are at the wave front of the first expansion and never look back, you will encounter humanity changed in ways you will not recognize, building megastructures to house secrets, evolving and going extinct, driven by biological processes and galactic politics beyond the scale of a single lifespan. You will explore alien worlds and reach the galactic core and emerge to find extraterrestrial civilizations beyond it. And at the end of it all, you will find answers to the most important questions that enable you to ascend beyond what any other species is capable of. A Lot of Zeroes is a 147 page solo or cooperative GMless tabletop roleplaying game about mapping the Milky Way to find answers to the ultimate questions about life, physics and computation. It includes Route, Sector and Megastructure  builders to populate the universe around you. It can also be used as a sequel for the Sixty Years In Space TTRPG to take your crew on a grand journey throughout our galaxy and beyond. You can download the first 38 pages of these rules for free. The expansion 60 Virs10ns is also available which allows you to add a Great Filter to the game and create the solar systems you find in much more detail including any indigenous life you discover. IMPORTANT: If you have already backed 60 Years in Space at $50 USD or more you will already own a copy of A Lot of Zeroes and do not need to purchase it here again.