Do you dream of exploring the cosmos?

The UNIVERSAL SURVEY project is on the lookout for budding astronauts such as yourself.

Volunteer today!

You awake far, far from home, orbiting a lonely, planet-less star. The ship's computer promptly reminds you of your mission: Mapping the stars. "Welcome to the rest of your life!" is written on a post-it note stuck to the door. You can't quite remember signing up, but you're here now. Might as well get started. That employee manual should be round here somewhere...

Requires: six-sided dice, and a deck of cards (cardless rules included).

Written in 5 days for the One-Page RPG Jam 2025.

This ttrpg was inspired by such works as:

• No Mans Sky
• Project Hail Mary
• Moon
• 2001
• Interstellar

I also compiled some of my favorite songs from these works - and similar - which I listened to while developing this ttrpg. They make great atmosphere when playing too, so if you want to check the playlist out, it's linked below:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LSOVX3YdQV76x0nIaEOWG?si=2179569496ae4100

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Credits:

Fonts: Josefin Sans (title) and Space Mono (body) from Google Fonts

Background diagrams: www.nasa.gov/history/historical-spacecraft-diagrams/

Moon image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solarsystemscope_texture_8k_moon.jpg