Ark

For 3-6 people, in a 3-4 hours one-shot.

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This game tells the story of a year on board the Khonsou, a generational ship that's part of an interstellar fleet sailing towards a new habitable planet hundreds of light years away. The Khonsou has the particularity of having abandoned the old hierarchies in favor of a self-managed community model. Life in the Egalitarian Constellation, as this political system is called, is not drastically different from the experience of other ships: the noisy lunch in the refectory; the maintenance of the fusion reactor; the eyes of children riveted on the educational holograms… But there are also people who debate and collaborate within Stars, the autonomous structures that govern citizen life.

This year will be extraordinary: it will see the population confronted with various internal and external troubles. We will deal with trying events, social divisions, ethical conflicts, but also examples of solidarity and shared hopes. We will experience it from two points of view: from the perspective of the Comrades sitting on the Star POLARIS, the ship's coordination and emergency response committee, but also from that of the Community as a whole. At the end of the year, it will be up to the Community to judge the actions of the Comrades and decide which ones will be recognized for their work and which will leave in disgrace...

Ark was adapted from Palanquin by Genesis of Legends Publishing, under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, with inspiration from Shrine by Curious Chimeras.

This game was created as part of the Interstellar Voyage Jam.

Cover image credits: kjpargeter / Freepik