Welcome, Companions
What is Generation Ship to Proxima b about?
What is inside?
How to join and play?
How to submit your games?
Tips for playing Generation Ship to Proxima b
Rules and deadlines
Other considerations
How to import the .PUMC file and how to play?
Fitting music for Generation Ship
Download the Game and Setting
Questions? Feedback? Bug Reports?
Have fun and stay in touch!

Welcome, Companions

Here we are, ready for the second community event for playing and storytelling together, sharing a common universe with the community, and using Plot Unfolding Machine with the PUM Companion app!

The universe of this event is called Generation Ship to Proxima b, and takes place in a giant spacecraft named “Destiny” traversing the Galaxy, with a complex society that is fragmenting into multiple factions struggling for survival, righteousness, and power. Which role and faction will you take to play?

This event exists thanks to Seal for creating this unique setting. The next credits go to squishyjellyfish for the amazing Random Tables included in the game, and proof-reading of the material. Also mentions to Dex and Kivo for some narrative contributions and cool AI Artwork included in the game.

Join us on Discord to Chat and Share!

What is Generation Ship to Proxima b about?

“Destiny” is a huge spaceship of the O’Neill cylinder type, which has already been on its way to the next star for several thousand years. But the approximately 10,000 people in the Utopia cities have changed.

In 2112, the Vatican secretly built a huge generation ship to colonize the next habitable planet, Proxima b, before any other nation. The generation spaceship has only been on course for 1,000 years and still has about 49,000 years to go. What once was a population solely composed of the Neospiritual-Jesuah community has fractured into many sub-religious sects, with some original believers renouncing, forgetting, or changing their ways.

The people aboard have undergone strange mutations due to prolonged exposure to space radiation, but also developed new technologies, aspire to a different government system, and deal with the DEX drug and corruption.

Now D-SEC has seized control of the ship and continues to expand its power. The situation is dire. Undercover intellectuals really think there has to be a way to reinstate the Neospiritual-Jesuah C.H.U.R.C.H and the government of old, without formally triggering a civil war. Others think it is time to think differently.

What did go wrong to end up like this?

Tags: Hard SciFi, faction-based, religious aspects, social problems, survival.

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What is inside?

The game provides the plot seed above, lore about the universe, factions, characaters, locations, random tables (hand-crafted by squishyjellyfish) and much more. It is all provided in PUM Companion save format (.PUMC), for you to load and right away get to play using the Plot Unfolding Machine structure, with Plot Nodes and a Plot Track.

How to join and play?

Participating is for everyone, the event is public and fully free. The requirements are:

Acquire PUM Companion the app in your favorite platform to play this game.
Download the .PUMC available down below, and load it in the app.
Read the material offered inside the game and start developing your own rich story in it.
Share with the community on Discord in your preferred format (PDF, Text, Video, Podcast, or just a summary)

You can get the app: here for Windows/Linux – here for Android – here for iOS/MacOS

How to submit your games?

Submissions are done on the Discord Server, you will find a specific channel: 2-generation-ship to open your game. Generally speaking, we recommend sharing about your games as you play, rather than playing in complete silence and do a bundle submission. For others to read or watch your games, it is easier if it is split in chapters or episodes.

If you are writing, share your exported PDF from PUM Companion. Videos and audio playing is also accepted. Optionally, provide the following extra information when you finish your game:

Your own thoughts about the game
Summary of the game itself and what happened in it
Clarifications or suggestions for the reader to comprehend
IS NSFW? (makes use of explicit language or exposes sensitive matters)
Optional: Image that reflects your story

Tips for playing Generation Ship to Proxima b

Read the introductory text provided when opening the game
Read the Plot Scope tab in the GM Characater (Voice of Spirit) and the Factions concepts
Read the Pending Questions plot nodes in the Plot Panel to have an idea for what to do
The rest of the material is advised to be read over time and as you play. Make use of the Random Prompts to invoke elements of the universe onto your scenes.
Explore your own interests and what engages YOU to play, what matters is that you enjoy what to do, and explore the universe from your characters perspective.

Rules and deadlines

Share your game, either partially as you play it, or once you finished, ideally before July 2025, though you may continue playing afterwards, or anytime in the future. This game is available for you forever. Around July, we’ll make a video and talk about everybody’s submissions, the highlights, and other comments. There are no winners or losers, this is a creative endeavor to play together, in a universe crafted with passion.

Follow the given base game and its guidelines
Be respectful of each other submissions, appreciative and collaborative. Read them if you can and give hearts and comments.
Games using explicit language or sensitive content are allowed, but MUST include a NSFW warning
Try to use the Plot Unfolding Machine as a base GM Emulator, but feel free to customize it to your liking and use other resources that you find helpful, we won’t be gatekeeping on any systems or approaches.
Submissions in any languages are welcome, but the Roundup and feedback from others is limited.
Perfection is NOT expected. This is not a community of professional writers. This is a community of Solo RPG and Storytelling with dice.
We reserve the right to block or delete a submission that can be offensive or harmful to an open audience of readers

Other considerations

Use the RPG System of your choice and preference (join our Discord to discuss about it). You may also play without an RPG System and focus on the storytelling aspect.

Players are encouraged to stick to the universe concept and respect its laws. However it is fine to tweak aspects of it to your own liking and preference.

The base game contains characters and locations that exist and can’t be removed before the story begins

Players are encouraged to create their own protagonists, and to belong to any one of the available factions.

There is no limit in the length or size of the submission, consider common sense depending on how would you like to engage others to read or watch your story.

It is totally acceptable that players may not find this universe suitable, feel free to skip the event and continue to play your own games, no hard feelings or judgments at all!