The History of the Tarazet Concept
I first dreamed up Tarazet as a background for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign but I was always just as interested in Science Fiction role-playing games like;- Battletech the RPG, Warhamer 40K,Traveller, Space Master and even Living Steel. So I had the idea of using the same background but project it into a future setting, a city that would have a presence everywhere in time and space. A city with a long history and me and the player characters would tell our stories in certain facets of the city depending on the game system we were using.
I only ever ended up using it as a Dungeons and dragons campaign background though. I also wrote it up as a Space master background but never got it into use. The Space Master rules were very complex and preparing anything for play took a very long time indeed. It took so much time and effort that I thought it might be easier just to make up my own role-playing game system for the far future version of Tarazet. And the germ of the Tarazet the role-playing game idea began to take shape.
Background
This background outline of Tarazet history and culture is only a taste and as is the way with role-playing games the background is spread throughout the book and is constantly being added to.
Tarazet is set very, very far in the future in a universe in which humanity discovers that it was left behind on many planets, not just earth. These various strands of humanity seeded around the stars have come together, formed a huge and powerful empire and then tore it apart again.
Earth expanded to form a respectable sized empire before it encountered other humans. Initially thought to be a lost colony the humans turned out to belong to an empire of humans just as strong as that of earth.
By the epoch of Tarazet, human history stretches so far back it is unknowable. The human races exists at the same time as many other alien races and knows of many previous races who are now most probably extinct and have left all kind of strange and exotic remains and artefacts.
Humanity itself has reached many technological high points, the greatest of which was the Former Imperium which was destroyed from within as alien ruins strewn throughout human space sprung to life, and spans an incomprehensible area of space. The origins of the humans are argued over by the various powers. Some say that the strange, mystical and much loved planet called Earth was the origin, others say that is wishful thinking and Humanity originated as a slave race (or companion race depending on the version of this origin) of a type of alien known as the Mentor, now thought to be extinct, some say at the hands of the humans themselves.
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