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Recreating Myths and Legends
Myth & Legend Glossary
Olympus Games & Releases
Influences & Acknowledgments
RPG Nation Promise
Lifetime Membership
Reviews, Comments & Awards

Recreating Myths and Legends

Some people hold the belief that the Gods of ancient Greek Mythology were infact travellers from the distant stars, whose great powers were actually the result of advanced technology. The Far Space: Olympus series aims to recreate these stories in an advanced science fiction alternate universe. There are people known as Gods, but they have now mystical powers, they are just normal people in positions of power, the ruling classes so to say; for instance, in our universe, Zeus is the Emporer of his Domain, in the same way that Ming the Merciless was in control in the Flash Gordon movies.

As you can probably imagine, there a vast amount of myths and legends linked to religion of ancient Greece - Greek Mythology. It's our aim at RPG Nation to recreate every story into our science fiction universe, and whilst these tales will follow the legends as close as possible, adaptations are ofcourse needed to suit our setting. There will naturally be some mythology purests who think any changing of the tale is a form of heresy, but remember these are stories without known authors, past down through the ages by word of mouth and then recreated on paper. There are many different stories for the same tale, the Romans were so impressed with the ancient Greek religion that they adopted many aspects of it as thier own. To see what we are changing it may be helpful that you understand the different between myths and legends. Myths represent the stories linked to the religions and the gods. Legends are related to mortal men who become heros or villians.

Recreating these tales has required a lot of research, and as a result great influences have been gained from books and popular culture. Many of you may have seen the television show Battlestar Galactica; whos characters including Apollo and Helios are named after Greek Gods, the planets from their twelve colonies represent the signs of the Zodiac (i.e Caprica Sagitaris) also present in ancient Greece. This setting slightly gives a feel of how Far Space: Olympus could be seen. Ofcourse, this is still small scale to what we are seeking to achieve. Fewer of you will remeber the French cartoon Ulysses 31. A cult classic science fiction series featuring the Gods of Olympus and a starship Captain called Ulyssess in an epic recreation of Homer's tale of Ulyssess, the Odyssey and his voyage home. It is these such things which have greatly influenced our designs, and we truely hope you enjoy your adventures in our worlds as much as we enjoyed creating them.

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Myth & Legend Glossary
The RPG Nation Myth & Legend Glossary provides you with a brief insight of how we have changed the great myths and legends of ancient Greece. The full tales and adventures will be told and roleplayed within Far Space: Olympus releases, for example:

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To find our more about our changes, please visit the Glossary Page.

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Olympus Games & Releases
There will be many different releases for Far Space: Olympus, when used in combination with the free KRS Ruleset will allow you to expereince great adventures in our new science fiction world. The majority of these releases will comprise of modestly priced quests. The associated releases are listed below, please select each title to find out more.

Far Space: Olympus - Blood Rites of Ares
Game Type: Tabletop Battle Game
Players: 2+
Price: Free (download only)
Releases: Download and Hardcopy Book (when completed)
Release date: TBA
Description: FS:O-BROA is the beta test of the KRS Combat system. Designed to test the KRS rules to the full BROA is a gladiatorial combat game set within the huge multipurpose arena on Olympic Station. Every form of combat, against beast, alien or man, the fair fights, the not so fair and the downright nasty fights, all fought to the death, hopefully not your own. You'll play the role of a enslaved combatant of the bloody games arena, where you will literally will fight for you life to escape. Your task is simple... All you have to do is survive 100 "events". Fame and fortune awaits you, especially so should you reach your 100. Ares - Lord or the Arena, Son of Zeus, Precider of the games however, has other ideas - he does not like people reaching this score, so you can expect things to get rather difficult as you progress, pray hope he is in a good mood when you fight before him. Find out more HERE

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Influences and Acknowledgements
As mentioned above, we could not have created our games without influences obtained from others. Out of respect to those "others" we would like to inform you that we have been inspired by the following:

Far Space Olympus has been created by David King (Concept, Art and Ruleset Design) and Shawn Green (Concept and Art), for more information please visit the about us page.

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The RPG Nation Promise
Traditional role-playing games, tabletop battle games and collectable card games are constantly being developed by thier creators, changing rules here and adding new features there, striving to make thier games better and better. How ever with these changes come new releases, which mean any fan wishing to follow their series is required to purchase the latest edition of the game (one of the main reasons our main ruleset is free of charge). Not all of these games are that affordable. So for a little bit of so called corporate social responsibility, we at RPG nation make this promise to you. Should anyone purchase a version of a game from us which is later redeveloped and released in a newer version, will receive an updated version free of charge, all you will need to do would be to provide proof of original purchase. For more information, please visit our RPG Nation Store.

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Lifetime Membership
RPG Nation would like to make an offer to all of their fans and follows, which simply put means that for a one-off fee, you can receive a lifetime Membership to RPG Nation. What does this mean? Lifetime Members will have access to all of our downloadable releases free of charge, be the first to obtain copies of our releases before the are released and also receive exclusive membership only quests, or Far Space CCG cards. Access to this material will sent either by email, or distributed via members only forum boards. For more information, please visit our RPG Nation Store.

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Reviews, Comments & Awards
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Updated 06 December 2009