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''Shatterzone'' is a space opera role-playing game by West End Games. The game went out of print in 1997 after the company went bankrupt. It is now back in print, owned and published by Precis Intermedia. The ''Shatterzone'' universe shares much in common with the ''Star Wars'' role-playing game produced by the same company and was a repository for original ideas produced for ''Star Wars'' but which were turned down by the legal department of Lucasfilm. As such, 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. The namesake feature of the setting is the "Shatterzone", an unchartable and mysterious sector of space consisting of dark matter and strange gravitational phenomena as well as strange energy storms and asteroid fields. The Shatterzone is home to cult worshippers, bands of alien exiles called "bolters" seeking to flee Armagon oppression, and groups of deep space miners looking to make a fortune off the rare minerals to be had in this unusual sector of space. ==Alien races== In ''Shatterzone'' there are three classes of race: Citizens, which only Humans, Glahns, and Ishantras have the right to become; Allied, which consist of races who have signed nonaggression pacts with the Consortium, but which have no rights to representation; and Hostile/Unidentified, which are considered suspicious and are treated with caution. *Glahns - one of the three ruling races in the galaxy, blue skinned humanoids organized into clans *Ishantras - another ruling race, bipedal aliens who lost their homeworld in an ancient cataclysm *Armagons - an incredibly powerful alien empire of various races which rule from beyond the Shatterzone, pillaging and destroying one world after another *Yithras - a violent race whose bodies emanate chill rather than warmth *Kestarians - primitive four-armed matriarchical humanoids *Rednas - reptilian humanoids whose pre-spacefaring civilization is prized for its metalwork. *Veronians - shapeshifters from an unidentified homeworld *Reavers- aggressive humanoids allied with the Armagons as shock troops 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shatterzone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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