High Colonies is a role-playing game published by Waterford Publishing House Ltd. (Can.) in 1988.
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Description
High Colonies is a science-fiction space-adventure game, a hard-science system set in 2188. The Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear/biological holocaust, and human society continued only in the orbital colonies that surround Earth and are scattered throughout the Solar System. The game includes rules for character creation (a skill-based system), robots, one alien races, genetic engineering, melee combat (between people and/or robots), and spaceship combat. Plus there is campaign setting material, describes the factions that control the various colonies, and an introductory scenario, "Hard Times at Lyric 3."
Publication history
High Colonies featured design and art by Eric Hotz, and was published by Waterford Publishing House Ltd. in 1988 as a 104-page book.