Cepheus Journal – Issue #011

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Issue 11 Welcome to our eleventh issue. The theme for this issue is aliens. We hope that you will enjoy it.

In previous issues there have been a few alien writeups. Now we wanted more aliens, and we got it. Thanks to everyone that has submitted an article or more to this issue.

We also have several other interesting articles about starships, orbital stations, combat, inspiration from a TV-show and converting PCs from Cepheus Engine to Cepheus Deluxe.

We also have part 5 of The Raider’s Lament and an interview with Omer Golan-Joel.

Article	Author	Page
From the Editors	P-O Bergstedt	2
Cepheus Deluxe Personal Combat	Todd Bradley	3
The Koszrans	Paul Drye	5
Designing Aliens	Jim Vassilakos	10
Other Folks Gold	Brett Kruger	15
Converting PCs from CE to CD	Todd Bradley	22
Dump Demons	Brett Kruger	26
Chatting with… Omer GolanJoel	Brett Kruger	28
Four Aliens	Jon Zeigler	31
Almost Alien	Jo Jaquinta	37
The Raiders Lament Part 5	Jo Jaquinta	42
Airzach	P-O Bergstedt	47
Beast From Beyond The Stars	Norton Glover	48
Down and Out in Low Orbit	Jo Jaquinta	52
The Imko and The Flertvad	P-O Bergstedt	55
What’s New	Brett Kruger	57
100 Ton Ships	Ricardo Emilio	58

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Published: June 22, 2022

Cepheus Journal – Issue #010

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Cepheus Journal Issue 010 Welcome to 2022 and our first double digit issue!

We have a couple of articles again from Jo Jaquinta, the first one exploring rare metals and minerals, as well as one on a quirky design of the space junk – including a deck plan. Plus, he’s given us the fourth episode of his fiction story ‘The Raiders Lament’.

Our own Paul Drye has written an expansion of a Sword of Cepheus role, the Alchemist, with lots of potion information to give some zing to your fantasy games. Norton Glover gives us an adventure for Zaibatsu for 3 to 6 players that’s sure to challenge your street samurai.

Jon F. Zeigler outlines ‘The Human Destiny’, a space opera setting of his own devising. We have two articles from our own P-O Bergstedt about online AI tools and world generation in the Hostile Setting. Finally, Brett Kruger round out this issue with a teaser for a setting he is working on.

Article	Author	Page
From the Editors	Brett Kruger	2
Beyond Mithril and Adamantine	Jo Jaquinta	3
The Alchemist	Paul Drye	10
Bring me the Head of Izumi Takahiro	Norton Glover	18
The Human Destiny	Jon F. Zeigler	26
The Junk	Jo Jaquinta	30
The Raiders Lament Part 4	Jo Jaquinta	35
World Generation in the Hostile Setting	P-O Bergstedt	44
Using AI for Your Cepheus Engine Setting	P-O Bergstedt	46
The Edge of Darkness	Brett Kruger	49
What’s New	Brett Kruger	50

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Published: April 9, 2022

Cepheus Journal – Issue #009

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Cepheus Journal 009

Welcome to issue #009 of the Cepheus Journal.

From Ewan Spence we have an article about the 2nd Battalion Royal Australia Regiment for Modern War. Then from Jo Jaquinta we have the third part of his Raider’s Lament and an article aboutan out-of-the-ordinary monster.

Our editors have also contributed. Brett has interviewed Paul Elliot of Zozer Games and written a review of the Cepheus Deluxe rules. Paul has written an adventure and finally P-O has made a subsector map a written a short write-up of an alien race.

Article	Author	Page
From the Editors	Paul Drye	2
2RAR for Modern War	Ewan Spence	3
The Raiders Lament Part 3	Jo Jaquinta	5
Monster Capybara	Jo Jaquinta	10
Interview with Paul Elliot	Brett Kruger	14
Review: Cepheus Deluxe	Brett Kruger	18
The Sins of Winter Last	Paul Drye	19
Chambersburg Subsector	P-O Bergstedt	26
The Krampus	P-O Bergstedt	29
What’s New	Brett Kruger	30

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Published: December 11, 2021

Cepheus Journal – Issue #008

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Welcome to issue #008 of the Cepheus Journal. This is issue is a Retro Sci-Fi issue.

Our editors have written two articles: one about the Space Force outlining some Area 51 style adventure seeds and an article outlining how to build characters and adventures for a Space Patrol style game.

Steve Attwood wrote an article about Orbital 2100. Norton Glover sent us an article about Martians for the Cepheus Engine. Brass Jester has updated an article about solo play (that originally appeared on the Freelance Traveller website.) In A R Kavil’s article you can read about Lethal Hits for Cepheus Engine.

We have part 2 of Jo Jaquinta’s The Raiders Lament story, as well as his look at what a future galaxy might bring to gaming. Finally, Brett sat down and had a virtual chat with Independence Games John Watts, a great bloke with some great games.

We have also added a map of Lancaster Subsector (where the Travellercon/USA is held.)

Article	Author	Page
From the Editors	Brett Kruger	2
Space Force	Paul Drye	3
The Space Patrol	P-O Bergstedt	10
Orbital 2100 Feature	Steve Attwood / Alegis Downport	13
Cepheus Martians	Norton Glover	17
Travelling Alone 2021	Brass Jester	21
Cepheus Lethal Hits	A. R. Kavli	27
The Raiders Lament Part 2	Jo Jaquinta	31
Future Galaxy	Jo Jaquinta	37
Chatting With… John Watts	Brett Kruger	43
What’s New	Brett Kruger	49
Lancaster Subsector	P-O Bergstedt	50

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Published: October 10, 2021

Cepheus Journal – Issue #007

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007 Welcome to issue #007 of the Cepheus Journal. Since this is issue 007 we decided to make this a spy themed issue.

To that end this issue of Cepheus Journal is taking a hard look at superspies and espionage. Norton Glover provides a short set of rules for dealing with intelligence networks, a realistic upgrade for starting your adventures when compared with “So you are in a bar when…”, while Ewan Spence outlines how to make characters in the modern CIA’s Special Activities Center Special Operations Group. Those of you who game in the relatively near future can look to a passel of gadgets and upgrades that would make Q slightly queasy as Mr. Glover makes his second appearance with Zaibatsu Retrogenics. Peter Simon writes about the motivations for betraying secrets. There is also short spy adventure for a medieval setting by our own P-O Bergstedt.

There are also a number of SF articles in this issue. Joseph Jaquinta brings us a brace of articles on Lagrange points and the humble spaceship door. Timothy Collinson supplies us with some alien cephalopods to come through those doors and Neil Lucock a shuttle to put them on. We also have the first part of Jo Jaquinta’s story “Raider’s Lament”.

Article	Author	Page
From the Editors	Paul Drye	2
Beyond the Iris Valve	Joseph Jaquinta	3
Eroctopi	Timothy Collinson	7
Lagrange Rendezvous	Joseph Jaquinta	12
The Raiders Lament	Joseph Jaquinta	15
The Chort	Neil Lucock	21
Why do people betray secrets	Peter Simon	23
Zaibatsu Retrogenics	Norton Glover	27
Intelligence Networks	Norton Glover	29
CIA Special Activities Center	Ewan Spence	31
From Visby with Love	P-O Bergstedt	33
Who Goes There?	Brett Kruger	34

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Published: August 3, 2021