First Impressions of Wretched Space Second Edition By The Red Room For The Wretched Rpg

 "In the sordid underbelly of the galaxy, only the crafty and callous survive. Wretched Space is an old-school RPG where you don’t play as heroes on a noble crusade, but rather as roguish anti-heroes just looking to get by in a harsh universe. You aren’t out to save the world – you’re out to save your own skin. And maybe make some credits along the way if opportunity knocks. This game revels in greyness of morality, where doing the right thing takes a backseat to doing what needs to be done. Idealism is a luxury you can’t afford out here."

Wretched Space Second Edition has gone from being  full rpg to being a full rpg intergalatic setting. The material here has expanded into five hundred pages of blown out galaxy spanning rpg setting now with a fully attached OSR adventure. The PC's being members of the Wretched Legion & an overedging concept of vast intergalatic scumminess and weirdness to the whole Wretched affair. 
Now with the new Jack Kirby homage cover and the concept of the Wretched Legion being; " the players as members of the Wretched Legion, a special corps of the Galactic Federation law enforcement made up of pardoned criminals given an old, battered starship and second-rate weaponry, and deployed to enforce the law on backwater worlds. " Everything within Wretched Space Edition is build up around this concept and they do a great job of it. 
This is a great setting if your A. Looking for a space opera with some of the concepts of the Wretchedverse. B. You want a space opera with a sleazy underbelly to it and yet has room for you to add in your own home grown touches to the underworld & environs. 
There are ton of alien races, adventure generators, setting generators, places to go, things to do, advesaries, factions, and much more. Wretched Space Second edition really goes all out to add  in brand new material the Wretched Rpg. And this edition takes this on with lots of brand new ideas from psionics,magic, ritual material and more. Wretched Space Second edition is a chunky beast of a setting spanning tons of areas where the PC's can easily get themselves in way, way, over thier collective heads. The new layout is easy on the eyes, the material here is solidly done, and there's tons of opportunities for the setting to easily be overlaid into your existing Wretched Rpg campagins. 
You are not playing the good guys in Wretched Space Second Edition instead your playing the anti hero PC's treking across the universe and getting into one mayhap after another. Believe me the factions here are playing for keeps and they want to do your character in as fast as possible. The Wretched Legion isn't well liked in the galaxy and the material here proves that out in spades. 
Please remember that your going to need the Wretched rpg to use Wretched Space Second edition because this supplement is a setting book and not a complete game! 

So is it worth the Expanded second edition of Wretched Space?! In a word, yes the material is extremely expansive and there's a brand new adventure included. Which really highlights the plusses of the Wretched Legion. The factions here are far more out for blood then they've been in the past. There's also a sense that the material here is hinting at future adventures in the setting of Wretched Space and I'm down for that.