Announcing the latest exciting crowdfunder from Cirsova:
Michael Tierney’s Wild Stars: The Gold Exigency
With the price of gold crashing, the Artomiques find a new backing for earth’s currency: gems harvested from an endangered alien race!
Welcome to the 40th Anniversary of the world of Wild Stars!
Thousands of years ago, Mankind was led on an exodus to the stars by an immortal warlord from beyond our galaxy to save them from an alien-caused cataclysm. Those who remained and survived the attack became the ancestors of modern humans; those who went into space became the Wild Stars.
Following their return to our galaxy, Earth’s Wild Stars cousins observed and assisted in myriad crises, though largely from the shadows. As humanity took to the stars again on their own, it became time for mankind–the people of Earth, the space trekking terraformers, and the Wild Stars–to reunite as one race.
The peace talks, however, were the target of a terrorist attack that led to the death of Erlik, one of the foremost princes of the Wild Stars!
The Gold Exigency
Following the bombing of the galactic summit on Ansa, the Artomique Corporation has become the dominant political power on Earth and throughout the rest of the galaxy! However, the immortal princess Phaedra has amassed a planet-sized hoard of gold, causing the value of the precious metal and any currencies backed by it to crash!
Unusual economic problems require unusual solutions: the Phileans are a race of bird people with brilliant gemstones growing on their skin–simply exterminate the aliens, harvest their skin gems, and corner the market.
Of course, all of this needs to be kept hush-hush. It would be bad if anyone found out Earth’s government was in league with the notorious space pirate queen Nefarimor or, worse, the vile lizard-like Black Star Reavers to engage in trafficking and genocide.
Enter Constable Conrock, who has been investigating abductions and disappearances of Philean women. In the principle of keeping one’s enemies close, the Artomique leader Achilles Hister deputizes Conrock to find the remaining Phileans to “place in protective custody,” look into the origins of the excess gold flooding the market, and track down a pair of wanted criminals.
Conrock, however, is too clever to merely be an unwitting pawn in the Artomique’s secret war against the Wild Stars… Keeping his cards close to the chest, the retired space cop will stop at nothing to uncover the truth and put an end to the insidious machinations of the Artomique Corporation!
There’s a plethora of additional details and original art over on the campaign’s Kickstarter page.
