Star Without Number Revised Campaign - Mixing Trey Causey's Strange Stars & Terra Arisen rpg -Terrans & Reticulans -

So I've been thinking of the 'problems' of adapting the Terra Arisen campaign setting into Trey Causey's Strange Stars material. Which  consists of  Trey Causey's 'Strange Stars' campaign  setting & 'The Strange Stars OSR rule book'.  So let's make that distinct right off according to the author 'You need the setting book to maximally utilize the OSR rulebook.'

 

Strange Stars is like a smoke ring from the 70's or 80's from the fevered mind of its author, and its a graphic as well as artistic slight of hand trick of a laser sword of retro science fantasy gaming goodness. Terra Arisen is written from the perspective of a galactic sector that has recently thrown off the yoke of oppression from the Reticulan empire. Seems like these two would be incompatible right?! Wrong, the Zhuzzh are the insect alien race  who can mend these two campaign settings together. 

The Zhuzzh are a precursor interstellar race that has only recently on a galactic scale gained sentience as we humans know it. They are interstellar scavengers and collectors of technology which they trade among the other races. They move among the stars like interstellar tidal dwellers going where and when the hyper spacial trade winds take them.  And this might also include those cybernetically, & psionically modified humans who now count as technology to certain  Zhuzzh factions. Especially those factions who use the hyperspacial gateways of the Strange Stars setting. 

Away from the prying eyes of the Terran Federation  and the Reticulan clans the Zhuzzh are free to trade, buy, and modify these specimen humans to their hearts content.  Remember the Reticulans have been completely taken aback by the violence that humanity as a whole visited upon them. We talked about this last time on the blog here.  To the alien races of Strange Stars the Zhuzzh are simply another alien race of traders with some local sector issues. Their more then happy to buy cybernetically modified super soldiers & refitted humans who can fight their wars, explore, mine, and more. The events of the Scream and other intergalactic events of Stars Without Number are ancient history to the races of Strange Stars. The universe moved on and the aliens got on with life throughout the galaxy. 
The Zhuzzh traders move through the hyperspace gates trading, collecting, and even bringing alien passengers such as those from The Alliance: into Terran space. Ibglibdishpan find work in both the Reticulan and Terran Federation. 
The Terrans may be in for far more then they bargain for because of the influx of alien technologies, slaves, and more from the Strang Stars. We'll get into this next time.