The Universe of Centaurus Gate

Centaurus Gate is a scifi themed RPG based on a rebuild of WEG's Star Wars D6 game and inspired heavily by Farscape.

Gates

It was 2101 HY, early in the Great Human Expansion, when they discovered the Gate (then called the Artifact, as they had no idea what it was, or what it did). The Artifact orbited between the two stars of Alpha Centauri, a ring almost as large as a planet. It proved to the naysayers that there was other intelligent life in the universe.

IsoTech

About 100 HY after the first Gate was discovered (2205), a field of Gate like debris was found in the Andromeda space. Some of it was still functional and in less than five years (2210), IsoTech was born. Humanity engineered the alien technology of the gate in their own digital energy format. IsoTech is a technology of energy fields, known as IsoFields which are stable low power low radiation (LPLR) devices. Nearly all humans in 3111 have their own IsoField around them, connecting them to the network of all humanity and allowing them to manipulate and use lights. Lights are just what they sound like, glowing points in space that are stable minimal decay energy storage, not unlike a glowing battery. These points in space come in three “sizes” K, S, and C. A K light is worth 1000 S lights, and an S light is worth 100 C lights. Humans call this the KSC system, and it works as their currency too. Isotech is wonderful and powerful and gives Humans incredible power, but there is a problem. Literally the Humans are using it all up. There is no more light production, resources have ran out, and stocks are dwindling. Eventually IsoTech will fade into stories of a golden age of humanity, but for now people are just rationed in their use.

Milky Way

The home galaxy of Humans and Earth in 3111.

Centaurus Expanse

Some vast portion of Galaxy IC-1101, now called the Centaurus Expanse after the gate that leads there, circa 3111 HY (Human Years). The gate on the other side is the only known one (of many more) that can connect to the Milky Way gate, and that is located at the end of 'civilized' space. The area of poorly governed (galactic scale) worlds leading towards that gate is know as The Serpentine Spinway, and its not what people the Expanse think of when they think “good and proper”.

Astral and Exotic

The myriad species of the Expanse break themselves up into two categories: Astral and Exotic. While the Exotic are generally quite remarkable and come in a wide array of forms, the Astral are all humanoid. The races that went to space first and began building galactic empires are all Astral, and share a common language and have their own takes on a common technology. You never know what you might encounter with the Exotic though, and they are all over the Spinway. Of the many Astral species, five have joined the ETF as allies. These are known to the ETF as the Five Allied Races. Much more is known about them than the rest of the species in the Expanse, as they have been the most open to humans.