Shatterzone

Shatterzone is a 1993 space opera role-playing game by West End Games. The game went out of print in 1997 after the company went bankrupt. It came back in 2011, published by Precis Intermedia. The universe of Shatterzone shares some structural similarities to the Star Wars expanded universe including an intergalactic

government called the Consortium (like the Republic from Star Wars) run from a central region of space known as the Core Worlds, large megacorps that run galactic affairs (a theme common in the cyberpunk genre of storytelling), and a super-industrialized capital world, called Centaurus, but similar to Star Wars'

Coruscant. Likewise, there is a sentiment of xenophobia in the setting similar to that of the Empire in Star Wars. Humans, Glahns, and Ishantras, the three ruling races of the Consortium and a few others are given full citizen status while other races suffer under prejudice and second-class-citizenship. In an interview

with the creator of Shatterzone, Scott Palter, he refuted the connection stating that his intention was for a "darker setting, more to my tastes than Star Wars" citing inspiration instead from C. J. Cherryh’s Company Wars. The namesake feature of the setting is the "Shatterzone", an uncharted and mysterious sector of

space consisting of dark matter and strange gravitational phenomena as well as strange energy storms and asteroid fields.

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