The Fractured Galaxy: System Core 1.0

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System Core (Rule Book) for Martin Tobias Lithner's VOIDCORVUS TTRPG System. The Fractured Galaxy is a Sci-Fi, Horror RPG set in a very dystopian future.

Once, they say, the stars were mapped. Empires bloomed in Algorithmic Harmony. Warp-thread Routes pulsed with trade, with soldiers, with peace. There was law, not justice, but order. And then... Something shifted. No one agrees how the Concord fell. Some whisper of Code-Viruses seeded in the central AI-Minds. Others blame the awakening of Ash Choir hymns in the Deep Void. Some say a God-Machine was unearthed and unprayed into existence. This was later to be known as the Collapse. 

Now, every system burns in isolation, or forgets the others ever existed. The Pale Imperium still clutches its Throneworlds with Gold-blooded Reprogrammed Accord Clones and Ceremonial Railguns, each noble house carving decrees from dead languages. Beyond their reach, AI enclaves like the Mawkin Synod aim to automate entire Dead-World planets, dragging flesh and logic into their Cold Calculus. Above it all, the Gravemerchants drift, time-untouched Scavengers peddling Entropy-Stable Relics, Coffin-Data, and Starmaps inked in marrow. They know where the broken Arks all drift... like the Xeno-Wretches, those half-dead Void-Clingers, worshipping their Glitch-Gods and building shrines from self-replicating scrap. Thread corridors are dying. Some twist. Some vanish. Some loop back centuries late. Ships using Voidheart Drives sometimes return… with none of the original crew, only their screams encoded in hull metal. 

Worse still are the hymns. 

They say if you listen to the black between stars, you hear the Ash Choir. Hymns that override memory. Hymns that kill ships. Hymns that awaken things older than starlight. They sing to The Void.