OSR Commentary Thirteen Parsecs: Beyond the Solar Frontier Rpg By Jason Vey & The Arduin Grimoire rpg - The Yellow Connection

 "Thirteen Parsecs: Beyond the Solar Frontier is the latest tabletop role playing game project from Elf Lair Games, producers of Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars  and Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age. It forms the third of our trilogy of core games - we've given you modern and fantasy, and now we bring sci-fi to the forefront with the same rules, completely customizable and ready for you to build exactly the type of science fiction gaming you want. As always, it's your game your way when it's Powered by O.G.R.E.S.!"

 Thirteen Parsecs: Beyond the Solar Frontier Rpg By Jason Vey is a game that we've been playing around with. The game has some real legs to take your rpg player's PC's into space. The third interstellar campaign option leans heavily into the King in Yellow Mythos & this is a perfect Sci Fi tool kit for putting together a space based OSR game. It's very easy to plug and play your favorite OSR setting if you want to. For me it's David A. Hargrave's Arduin Grimoire which lines up with some of Jason Vey's interstellar races within Thirteen Parsecs. 

For example the Phraint make an excellent alien race to trade with and the Nexus gates are the perfect vehicle to get PC's to the Arduin campaign setting. 

 

 What 13 Parsecs does right is present an alternative OSR style rpg tool box and platform that allows the DM to bring their own Science Fiction vision to the table top. Within the Arduin Groimoire there are tons of optional systems that can influence PC generation.  Thirteen Parsecs has character archetypes  including the Augmented, Blaster, Bounty Hunter, Diplomat, Merc, Mystic Knight, Psychic, and Slicer. These PC types are perfect to bring into a game as traders, bodyguards, etc. 
The Arduin fantasy setting then is easily convertible into the primitive alien world. I'm not the only person whose done this. The alien races of Thirteen Parsecs  such as  Android/Robot, Canis, Decti, Felis, Grey, Jalex, Remoni, Saurian, are those who rule the Galactic Empire. 
Arduin's fantasy races are the remains of the colonists and colony races who have been supplanted after these colonies have fallen.  The Nexus gates have only recently started working again. 
These Nexus gates also lead into the interstellar ruins and dungeons across the multiverse. But are these dimensional gates also leading back into the clutches of the King in Yellow? 
Yes because the King In Yellow has ruined or destroyed countless other worlds. Many of these worlds  used to be under the control of the yellow sign. But is this only the beginning.