In Dire Straits is a Space Opera RPG campaign created and played by the In Dire Straits players using the Fate Core System ruleset.
The conglomeration of all known information in known space, available on the interstellar Tatternet.
The story of the crew of the Dire Straits, session by session.
The rules and systems we are using to play In Dire Straits.
A standard tool used for discovering information about star systems in the local cluster, and to plan strait routes between them. All starships include the cluster map interface as part of their navigation controls, and all space station and most cities that have star ports have kiosks with the same interface.
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Published 2026-01-11
I re-worked some of the text for
the Local Cluster Creation
page and added diagrams for the "Link systems" example section. I also added a
short description of how we allowed players to modify system attributes after
systems were linked up with FTL routes.
Reworked the pages that were image heavy (like the sapient species page) so
that links from the table of contents were not nerfed by the Markdown rendering
engine.