Space Junk

A role-playing game about angry aliens, salvaged space tech, and the limitless wonders of the cosmos.

Space Junk is a storytelling game about a far future version of our universe where galactic empires have fallen and reclamation companies, pirate guilds, and mobsters fight for control of a war-torn sector of the galaxy. To play it, you will adopt a persona called a character through whose eyes you will experience this story vicariously.

In the story you create, you play a newly licensed salvager who scours Null Space for wrecked spacecraft, ruined cities, abandoned settlements, and anything else you can sell to the Big Six salvage companies. Along the way, you’ll fight bad guys, solve mysteries, rescue stranded travelers, and occasionally marvel at the wonders of the cosmos.

What you need to play

To play Space Junk, you’ll need the following in either analogue or digital form:

• An active imagination, a desire to be creative, an interest in science fiction, and a place where you can focus.
• A journal, blank paper, and copies of the record sheets at the end of the book.
• A handful of six-sided dice.

Player's Guide

The Space Junk Player's Guide (art-light beta) is free to download. It contains all of the rules and lore you need to get a game of Space Junk up and running. The full, paid version of Space Junk will contain all of the content in the Player's Guide along with an introductory campaign and a robust set of tools to procedurally generate your very own version of Null Space.

The Player's Guide will be updated alongside the full version of the game and will remain free, even once the full game is released. Rules and lore = free forever. Super useful tools for solo gamers, GM-less groups, and GMs = paid.

What you get

• The full game in PDF, including the rules, a starter campaign, and tools to generate your own version of Null Space.
• Separate A4 PDFs of the record sheets for ease of printing.

For solo or team play. Recommended for ages 8 and up.

Space Junk is copyright © 2022 by David Garrett. Licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

This work is based on Heroic Tales, designed and authored by David Garrett and licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.