March, AD 5000
Volume I, Issue I

It is through communication and discussion that the Word of the Pancreator is spread. To silence it is to deny the Word of our Lord.

- Chow Sun Yi, itinerant Amalthean

To do, you need to know. To know, you need to talk. To talk you need a way. Here is the way.

- Kint "Skinny Toothless" Talmont, Scraver runner on Malignatius

The noble legacy of mankind, it is not land, it is not technology, it is not even the Word of the Pancreator. It is knowledge.

- Laurence DeVareant du Hawkwood, Questing Knight

The older articles from past issues can be found here, organized according to category.

Links all around the great-wide-world of the internet, both to Fading Suns sites and other useful pages. This is also the reviews archive for the End Times.

What's this Fading Suns thing?
It's a role-playing game from Holistic Design Incorporated. It's a science fantasy game that has been described as "the Renaissance in space." For more information go here.

I'm stilll confused.
For more information (and a wonderfully comprehensive FAQ for both newbies and veterans alike), go here for a superbly well-done and extensive Fading Suns FAQ. Unfortunately, it's only available in .pdf format at present.

Just what is the End Times?
This is a fan-zine supporting the game, a place where fans can write up stuff and send it in to be posted and read by other fans. We even get to pretend like this is being published. Hopefully we can continue with the monthy-update schedule we are planning on.

So how do I get in on the action?
If you want to get involved, you can send your submissions or questions to submissions@theendtimes.8m.com with "[the End Times]" in the subject. Submission guidelines will be posted shortly.

This white-text-on-black format is really annoying. How do I get it to print?
You have 2 options. First, you could (at least in Netscape) go to Edit > Preferences > Colors and choose a black-text-on-white color scheme. Second, you can change the way Netscape will print by going to File > Page Setup and choosing "Black Text" and "Black Lines" from the choices there. That will make Netscape print everything in text as black-on-white.

Alright, I can't take it anymore, why the hell do you have a column called "Sci-Fi Wasabi?"
Well that's easy enough. Wasabi is a really spicy Japanese condiment. Pardon the pun, but the goal of the column is to "spice up" your campaign with some real science. And it's a fun Cibo Matto song.

Articles and Columns

• Heresy in Two Parts - by Derek Guder
  Gnosticism reborn to men of peace in a world of chaos

• The Fatherly Strike - by Derek Guder
  Ill-begotten gold, a war hero and a dark secret.

• "I said it's sufficiently advanced already!" - by Derek Guder
  Taking "magitech" and running with it.
• Ships of the Fleet - by Charlie Payne
  A few of the starshpis flitting about the Known Worlds

• Farstride - by Charlie Payne
  A psi path of teleportation.

• Grandmaster Flash and the Tale of the Handfuls of Dice - by Derek Guder
  A patch for the Fading Suns system that will actually allow characters to tie their shoes without critically botching.
• Broadsides and Boarding Actions! - by Charlie Payne
  Some initial notes on using Nobles Armada in your Fading Suns game.

• Links - assembled by Derek Guder
  Lots of links, including reviews and real science sites

More information about you intrepid authors. Please feel welcome to email us, and do visit our personal pages. Idolatry will be tolerated, but only when accompanied by sums of money.

• Derek "Kintaro Oe" Guder - the webmaster and contributer for The End Times, I also sumbit reviews to RPGnet and work as a freelance writer for Eden Studios. Aside from an overwhelming slew of personal projects (including spending nearly every waking minute involved in gaming), I also help find links for Gamers.com. Recently, I have joined the staff of Ex Libris Nocturnis as the head reviewer.
• Charlie "Darshu" Payne - A Freelance Writer and Artist, I contribute to The End Times as well as work on other projects. Between Gameing, I write for several small Anime Zines, as a writer for a small online comic, and host my own fan fiction webpage devoted to RPG Game Fan Fics. I am currently devoteing a majority of my time to developing a Fantasy RPG.
• oh yeah, and there are some other guys too.

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As for this page itself, please feel free to link to it as much as possible, but leave any content you find here, here. It's only polite to the authors, both of the webpage and the articles themselves. Feel free to email the webmaster (me) at dguder@speaksoftly.com with comments, concerns, or submissions.

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