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One by one the last stars are winking out and the true Black Hole Era approaches. A period of nearly endless stability around which your ancient civilization will quietly await the inevitable decay of protons, and the final oncoming darkness after quintillions of years. This almost eternal period of stability is interrupted by the formation of Star Scars, an unknown phenomena that rips apart some of the few remaining degenerate stellar remnants. From these scars pours forth an alien form of life determined to reignite the black holes, causing the death of untold digital beings, and the collapse of a civilization trillions of years of age.

In this game you will portray one of the mighty vessels called into being to defend your home. Sentient and self aware, you are equipped with space bending engines, exotic energy weapons, and nanoscale fabricators for self repair. However, resources are scarce and must be scavenged from your foes or rationed carefully from the homeworld vaults. You will have to weigh the benefits of bringing home materials or using them in the field.

 Your missions will take you from diving into the scars left on the last few stars from these invaders, all the way to plumbing the depths of discarded dyson spheres from an epoch before this one. The last remaining stars must be extinguished and the alien invaders forced back from the edges of the event horizon you call home.  Will you commit yourself to an endless siege, will you dive into the scarred stars themselves to strike back at the invaders? Or will you betray your entire civilization and allow the aliens to reignite the stellar furnaces, rolling back the clock and resetting the universe to an earlier more vigorous age?

This game is Illuminated by LUMEN, based on the LUMEN RPG system designed by Spencer Campbell, Gila RPGs. This game is in no way affiliated with Spencer Campbell or Gila RPGs.

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
AuthorSol's Roles
GenreRole Playing
TagsAction RPG, Bullet Hell, Sci-fi, Tabletop, Tabletop role-playing game

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In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $10 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Black Hole Era Release V2.2.pdf 1 MB
Arcology Ship Class V1.0.pdf 123 kB

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Wow, a fantastic game!

Worth every dime, will be testing soon

Absolutely CANNOT wait to play this week! i'm super excited! thanks for creating this gem for the community!

Hey! Thanks for the interest!

This is a gorgeous and super cool implementation of LUMEN. Absolutely love it, I'm dying to play!

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Thanks so much!

Hi there— I recently discovered Black Hole Era and am really impressed.  Are Omni and/or Dockside still being worked on?  I’m certainly looking forward to them, if so.

Omni/Dockside is still being developed! My layout/design person is neck deep in their degree (particle physics) so we're on a bit of a delay.


Thank you so much for your interest! If you ever want to chat about BHE hit me up on twitter or my discord! @Solsroles on the bird app.

How many players does this game support?

3-5 is ideal I've found.

Looks fun. I love the Sci-fi Genre & this game looks good & simple.

Hey thanks!

While I'm personally not intending on playing this soon, I feel like that it's definitely a fascinating experience with an immense scope. Am excited to see what will come of this over time. Luck to you and hope to eventually support it for real.

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Hey thanks! I hope you give it a shot sometime, I'd love to hear how you leverage that scope!

Me too!

I just got to play this game, and this is such a fun, fantastic game. Had an absolute blast!

Thanks it was a great time!