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Mutant Chronicles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mutant Chronicles is a pen-and-paper role-playing game

set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in
1993. It has spawned a franchise of collectible card
games, miniature wargames, video games, novels, comic
books, and a film of the same title based on the game
world.

Mutant Chronicles

Mutant Chronicles was developed by the Swedish

company Target Games as a successor of their earlier
Mutant RPG series. The rights to the game are now
owned by Paradox Entertainment.[1]

Contents
1 Story
2 Editions
3 Spin-offs
4 See also
5 References

Story

Mutant Chronicles cover

Designer(s) Nils Gullikson, Michael Stenmark,
Henrik Strandberg, Magnus Seter,
Jerker Sojdelius, Stefan Thulin,
Fredrik Malmberg
Publisher(s) Target Games
Publication February 1993
date
Genre(s)

Techno-fantasy, thriller

System(s) Custom
The game takes place in a distant future where the Earth
has long since been depleted of natural resources and
abandoned. Humanity has spread to the worlds of Venus, Mars, Mercury, Luna (the first settlement
following the exodus from Earth), and the Asteroid Belt.

Since the exodus from Earth the traditional nation-states of the world have merged into five huge
megacorporations: Bauhaus, styled after the culture of continental Europe, the American-influenced Capitol,
the Japanese-themed Mishima, the British-inspired Imperial, and the ultra-secretive, ambiguous, high-tech
wielding Cybertronic, all of whom use private military forces to fight for resources. Luna (the Moon) itself
is considered to be neutral ground and is home to the massive city-state known as Luna City.
The other major power of this universe is the Brotherhood, a fanatical religious organization formed to meet
the threat of the Dark Legion, an ancient evil comprising five "Dark Apostles" and their horde of hideous
mutants and undead. The Dark Legion is the corporeal presentation of Dark Symmetry and minions of the
Dark Apostles. The Dark Legion commands the most powerful armies of the solar system, including
Legionnaires, resurrected corpses of fallen Megacorp heroes and footsoldiers alike; Necromutants,
hideously modified humanoids; Centurions, the lethal lieutenants of the Dark Legion; and Nepharites,
fearsome, towering behemoths of unimaginable power.

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The reign of the Dark Legion began as mankind set foot on Nero, a fictional tenth planet beyond the orbit of
Pluto, where they discovered a citadel. As they entered, the Imperial Conquistadors a group of
interplanetary explorers accidentally broke the First Seal Of Repulsion, a thin ring of salt spread around
the citadel. Inside, a mysterious iron plate was found, and as it was touched, the Dark Legion was brought to
our dimension, and along with it, the Dark Symmetry.
The Dark Symmetry prevents computers, "thinking engines", and other electronic devices from functioning
reliably, if at all, and initially caused complete chaos, and then a forced adaptation of the technology used
by mankind. The Dark Symmetry also begins to spread plague, lies, illusions and war on the human
population through Dark Apostles known as Demnogonis, Semai, Muawihje, Algeroth and Ilian, The Dark
Mistress and most powerful wielder of The Dark Symmetry. Thus the first Corporate wars began. Only
through the Brotherhood and its first Cardinal, Nathaniel Durand were the corporations pulled under one
banner, driving back the Dark Legion and Dark Symmetry back to the void where it came.
This however cost Nathaniel Durand his life as he fought and defeated Algeroth, the field commander of all
of the Dark Legion and the master of Dark Technology. Dark Legion resurfaces as a millennium passes, old
edicts to keep the evil at bay are broken and Megacorps begin the 2nd Corporate wars. Yet again Nero is
explored and Dark Symmetry is unleashed. It was also during the period of 1000-year peace that
Cybertronic surfaced and was first to break one of the edicts; Human must not create or use machines that
think like man.

Editions
Target Games published the two first editions of the game (in 1993 and 1997 respectively).
Mutant Chronicles was part of the first wave of foreign-language RPGs translated into English, following
Metropolis' Kult (1993), and preceding Chaosium's version of Nephilim (1994).[2]
Between 2006 and 2009, a Swedish game company, COG Games, held the license rights to publish a new
edition of the role-playing game.[3] In September 2009, COG's failure to deliver any results resulted in their
license being revoked.[4]
In 2013, British game company Modiphius announced that it will be releasing the official 3rd edition of the
role-playing game.[5] The release date is cited as Fall/Winter 2013/14.

Spin-offs
Doomtrooper, a collectible card game where the players commands warriors, magic and resources
against their opponents.
Dark Eden, a second collectible card game designed by Bryan Winter based on the tribes remaining
on planet Earth. Genesis, an expansion set, was never released.[6]
Warzone, a miniature wargame much like Warhammer 40,000. A Warzone real-time strategy video
game was in the process of being made but never published.
The Doom Troopers video game was released for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems.
A trilogy of three novels set in this universe were published by Penguin Books to boost the franchise
and widen the perspective of the role-players.
The Siege of the Citadel is a board game where players fight their way through a citadel filled with
monsters from the Dark Legion.
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Fury of the Clansmen and Blood Berets are two-player board games where players (or teams of
players) could recreate battles between Imperial troops and the Dark Legion.
Acclaim Comics published a set of five Golgotha comics in 1996. Issue #5 was a source book with
minimal info about some of the characters from the comics. Each of the comics came packaged with
one of four promotional cards for the Doomtrooper CCG. Written by William King with art by
Davide Fabbri and others, #1-5 [7]
Fantasy Flight Games published a collectible miniatures game set in the Mutant Chronicles universe
and was released in August 2008.
Mutant Chronicles, an independent film directed by Simon Hunter.

See also
Kult

References
1. Pressmeddelande Stockholm
(https://web.archive.org/web/20010515015544/http://www.paradoxplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=9&lngID=2)
at the Wayback Machine (archived May 15, 2001) (Swedish)
2. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p.91. ISBN978-1-907702-58-7.
3. "Delayed release" (http://coggames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5479&highlight=#5479). COG Games.
Retrieved June 17, 2008.
4. "Closing statement" (http://www.coggames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=879). COG Games. Retrieved
September 17, 2009.
5. "Mutant Chronicles" (http://www.modiphius.com/mutant-chronicles.html) (3rd ed.). Modiphius. Retrieved
March 20, 2013.
6. Winter, Bryan. "Welcome to Dark Eden Central"
(http://www.thewinternet.com/doomtrooper/darkeden/index.html). thewinternet.com. Retrieved January 25,
2007.
7. "Mutant Chronicles Golgotha (1996) comic books" (http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=228381).
www.mycomicshop.com. Retrieved 9 November 2013.

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