Tales from the Dajina Cluster

Tales from the Dajina Cluster

A White Star campaign

Some 30 years ago while in high school me and a couple friends of mine played an RPG campaign set in a Sci-Fi setting of our own design. We mostly made it up as we went, and didn't use any one set of rules. A lot of it was free form. When we did use rules, it was mostly Classic Traveller and Gamescience's Star Patrol.

As I said, the campaign was of our own design, made up as we went. Not surprisingly the biggest inspiration was Star Wars, but other stuff got thrown into the pot as well. Roger Cormans Battle Beyond the Stars film was a huge inspiration. Bits and pieces of the original series of Star Trek, Frank Herbert's Dune novel, Doc Smith's Lensman stories and Jerry Pournelle's Falkenberg novels were also a big part.

The campaign was set against the backdrop of a cold war between the evil Sadraukan Empire (based loosely on the Klingons from Star Trek) and the League of Planets, a mostly Human alliance of worlds. The Vulpan Union (who looked like Star Trek Romulans but had a society like Feudal Japan) was also a major power, allied with the League against the Sadraukans. There were space battle and ground battles, with the player characters getting involved more and more in the conflict as time went on.

After we all graduated from high school and began going our separate ways the campaign pretty much petered out. Over the intervening years I've brought it back a few times, playing a scenario or two with other gamers, but the biggest problem I've found in trying to recreate the campaign setting is rules. I have never found a set that quite fits the Dajina Cluster universe. Not until now.

I recently came across James Spahn's White Star and immediately fell in love with it. These rules fit the Dajina Cluster universe more closely than any other I've seen, and those few things that need to be modified are easily done so, as the rules are meant to be modified.

So now, thirty years after the original campaign ended I'm finally able to rebuild it properly. The old crew of characters will take to the stars once again....

Del Payton (Human pilot, smuggler, rogue, captain of the Effigy III)
Scot Rubel (Vulpan warrior, revolutionry anti-Sadraukan activist)
Danel "Donut Dan" Stemofski (Human man of action)
Robyn Jaris (Human soldier, Del Paytons gal)
Zade Lensman (Human spy, gambler, con-man)
Alek "Thunder" Storm (Human commander of the Lightning Brigade mercenary company)
4-Q2 (Del Paytons trusty robot sidekick)

Now I just have to put it all together..... Stay tuned!