
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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In our second issue we have more great articles. There are two articles on CE creatures, how to salvage and repair starships, another Sword of Cepheus NPC, what those technological levels really mean, and an adventure on the earthlike world of Kaldraa. We want to thank all of you who have sent in submissions, and if your submission isn’t in this issue, it will be in a later issue.
In the first issue of Cepheus Journal we have some great articles. There is an article about CE skills, part one of a scifi adventure on salvage and recovery, a Sword of Cepheus NPC, a description of a free trader with deckplans, a small pseudolizard species to encounter, a piece on modern war, tech level comparisons and more. We want to thank all of you who have sent in submissions, and if your submission isn’t in this issue, it will be in a later issue.