Ashes Over Eden

Ashes Over Eden is a Space Western roleplaying world built on the bones of collapsed empires, forgotten technologies, and spiritual rot. Somewhere deep in the fringe sectors, where the stars look burnt and nothing that bleeds stays clean, the last remnants of humanity scavenge meaning from dust, memory, and machine. The setting is post-collapse, not post-apocalyptic. Planets remain colonized, laws flicker like dying satellites, and old AIs murmur in rusted data-vaults. Terraformers failed or mutated entire biospheres. Time itself isn’t always straight anymore. Colonies once promised Eden—now they fight over ashes. It’s a world of plasma-scorched gunslingers, AI cults, biomechanical cowboys, mutated prophets, ghost-run corporations, and memory-smugglers. Think cattle towns made of spaceship wreckage, wandering mech caravans across irradiated salt plains, or bounty hunters chasing fugitives through haunted time bubbles. Morality is scorched and subjective. Factions rule through ideology, faith, circuitry, and profit. You might serve the Church of the Hollow Signal, roam with the Coil & Star knights, or wander factionless—bearing your own legend like a weapon. The tone is grim but not hopeless. Strange beauty still exists in the glow of dying stars. Even in a world this broken, you can leave your mark—through violence, through faith, or through sacrifice. No one gets out clean. But some ride farther than others. Welcome to the edge. Welcome to Eden.