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[content warning for depictions resembling attempted suicide]

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Let the trials begin.

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Music Credits:

"Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Kadapul" by Nihilore | "The Gods Are Fallen" by Nihilore | "Cathedral" by Nihilore | "Found Poetry" by Nihilore | "A Mundane Conclusion" by Nihilore | "Still Waters Keep Me Awake" by Nihilore | "Liberosis" by Nihilore

The Space Squad head into the deep, where they find themselves the unwilling guests of honour at a lavish party all about the Big Fish's latest obsession - them. 

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Music Credits:

"Bones" by Nihilore | "Swings and Roundabouts" by Nihilore | "Find Me In The Future" by Nihilore | "Push Clouds" by Nihilore | "A Mundane Conclusion" by Nihilore | "Sleepwalking" by Nihilore | "The Gods Are Fallen" by Nihilore | "Phantasms" by Nihilore | "Axis Mundi" by Nihilore | "Threads of Rain" by Nihilore | "Kadupul" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore

The party has reunited by the city docks in the hopes of a stealthy reconnaisance mission, but Tali Goldenhorn has other ideas.

Guys, is it ethical to let your not-girlfriend serve as a distraction? 

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Music Credits:

"Monolithic" by Nihilore | "Closest Strangers" by Nihilore | "Samsara" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore | "The Woods Shall Wave on Mountains" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "The Illusion of Cold" by Nihilore

While Crick and Karel have been getting into blaster fights and smuggling themselves onto trains, the rest of the party has been busy discovering their next lead. It's time to reunite - if Crick and Karel can avoid getting caught first. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Monolithic" by Nihilore | "Closest Strangers" by Nihilore | "Samsara" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore | "The Woods Shall Wave on Mountains" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "The Illusion of Cold" by Nihilore

The party have split to chase different leads. It goes better for one group than the other. 

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Music Credits:

"The World You Desire Can Be Won" by Nihilore | "Are You Happy" by Nihilore | "Monolithic" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore | "Closest Strangers" by Nihilore | "Sleepwalking" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore

The Space Squad have followed Dana's trail to Yentao, the city where they became legends - only to find it in peril once again. A new power rules the streets, one that has eyes and ears everywhere. If they're to find Dana, they're going to have to go undercover. Good thing they're known for being subtle...

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Dead City" by Nihilore | "Push Clouds" by Nihilore | "Monolithic" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore | "Last Chance" by Nihilore | "Sleepwalking" by Nihilore | "Swings and Roundabouts" by Nihilore | "Threads of Rain" by Nihilore | "Our Ships Line The Ocean Floor" by Nihilore

The party's one clue about the disappearance of one Dana Dakhal points to Zirel, the Namazir homeworld - but they have to get there first.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Samsara" by Nihilore | "Haven" by Nihilore | "Despair" by Nihilore | "Saved By A Simple Little Thing" by Nihilore | "Glimmer" by Nihilore | "Past Times" by Nihilore | "The Illusion of Cold" by Nihilore | "Lore" by Nihilore

Lore'la and Schlurp pay a visit to the doctor's office, and Karel tries their hand at bookbinding. Also: screw circles. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"The Woods Shall Wave on Mountains" by Nihilore | "Past Times" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Threads of Rain" by Nihilore | "Behind the Mask" by Nihilore | "Are You Happy" by Nihilore | "Samsara" by Nihilore | "Glimmer" by Nihilore | "Dead City" by Nihilore | "Swings and Roundabouts" by Nihilore

Old powers are crumbling, new ones are rising, and mixed up in the middle of it all is one small Araswati reporter. The party need to catch up and put together a plan of attack over what to do next.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Behind the Mask" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Found Poetry" by Nihilore | "Past Times" by Nihilore | "Liberosis" by Nihilore | "Closest Strangers" by Nihilore

While to the Space Squad their latest adventure took just a few fraught days, in the living realm six months have passed and a lot has changed. It's time to head to Azulir's surface and find out what.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"The Woods Shall Wave on Mountains" by Nihilore | "Behind the Mask" by Nihilore | "Swings and Roundabouts" by Nihilore | "Last Chance" by Nihilore | "Control" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Are You Happy" by Nihilore | "Replaced" by Nihilore | "Monolithic" by Nihilore

The year is 2223, and Yentao is still burning. The news outlets are claiming that a misfit crew of five are responsible for saving the day, but Chief of Police Kya na Yentao isn't so sure. It's time for some questions. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Closest Strangers" by Nihilore | "The World You Desire Can Be Won" by Nihilore | "Behind the Mask" by Nihilore | "Are You Happy" by Nihilore | "The Illusion of Cold" by Nihilore | "Samsara" by Nihilore

In which one doorway closes, and another opens.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Find Me In The Future" by Nihilore | "Life, Death and After" by Nihilore | "L" by Nihilore | "Our Ships Line the Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "Still Waters Keep Me Awake" by Nihilore | "The Woods Shall Wave on Mountains" by Nihilore | "Control" by Nihilore

Thrown back into a doomed city's final night, the party's only chance is to find the God of Pathways before the end finds them.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Our Ships Line The Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "The World You Desire Can Be Won" by Nihilore | "Past Times" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Find Me In The Future" by Nihilore

In which the Space Squad are rescued from an ancient sea by a ghost, and they discover that the only way out is through.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Bones" by Nihilore | "Our Ships Line the Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "Found Poetry" by Nihilore | "Cathedral" by Nihilore | "L" by Nihilore | "Past Times" by Nihilore | "Tangled" by Nihilore

The ash settles, and the party looks for a way forwards. They don't know it yet, but there's still one heartache left to bear.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"New Apocalypse" by Nihilore | "The World You Desire Can Be Won" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Cathedral" by Nihilore | "Find Me In The Future" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore | "Found Poetry" by Nihilore | "Our Ships Line The Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "L" by Nihilore

The heart of reality is broken and bleeding, and the Space Squad have battled through time itself to find out why. The last dance of the gods is about to begin.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Bones" by Nihilore | "Despair" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Find Me in the Future" by Nihilore | "Ghost" by Nihilore | "Haven" by Nihilore | "Life, Death and After" by Nihilore | "New Apocalypse" by Nihilore | "Our Ships Line The Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Tangled" by Nihilore | "The World You Desire Can Be Won" by Nihilore | "String Quartet in B minor" by Nihilore | "A Dance in a Field of Flowers" by Paige Selby-Evans | "Finding a Way (Teresial's Theme)" by Paige Selby-Evans | "The Bard, Haunted" by Paige Selby-Evans | "Flute Music 1" by Digital Feed

In which the only way out is through.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Despair" by Nihilore | "Find Me In The Future" by Nihilore | "Tangled" by Nihilore | "Panthalassa" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore | "Everything You Say Is A Lie" by Nihilore | "Haven" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "The Absurd" by Nihilore | "What Came Before" by Paige Selby-Evans | "A Dance In A Field Of Flowers" by Paige Selby-Evans

Content warning: references to transphobia

With Pyrrhos quite literally hot on their heels, the Space Squad are running out of time to find out how the end of the universe began. Somewhere amidst the infinite, twisting pathways of Teresial's realm there is a door that will lead them at last to the truth. They just have to find it first - though in this shifting plane where the past and the present collide, that's easier said than done. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Everything You Say Is A Lie" by Nihilore | "Despair" by Nihilore | "Tangled" by Nihilore | "Haven" by Nihilore | "Everything Breaks" by Nihilore | "Bones" by Nihilore

The Space Squad press deeper into the Avenue. Three of their number have already faced the realms left behind by their predecessors. What remains for the other two?

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Bones" by Nihilore

The Space Squad have fought their way into the heart of the Pantheon, onto a never-ending, ever-changing avenue lined with godly seats: strange miniature realms haunted by echoes of those who came before. The plan? Search the Avenue, taking care to avoid the minions of Pyrrhos, and find something called the Staircase...

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

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Music Credits:

"Our Ships Line the Ocean Floor" by Nihilore | "Find Me in the Future" by Nihilore

Even with a literal god on their side, the Space Squad are going to need all the luck they can to battle their way into the heart of the Pantheon in search of the mysterious Staircase which Shomu claims will lead them to the beginning of the end. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Under prepared and under assault, the Space Squad find themselves taking sanctuary in the realm of the God of War. They aren't ready to face Pyrrhos yet, but there may not be a choice. Unless...

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

A gateway lurks down in the dark. Beyond it? The Space Squad are about to find out.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad's search for answers take them deep beneath the Arch-Delve, to a warren of secret tunnel known only as the Old Ways. Within their pitch-dark twists and turns are ruins, secrets... and dozens of ravenous infant Ipeltan Queens.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

A widow. An Empire. A garden. The Space Squad meet with an ancient leviathan, and prepare for a very dangerous expedition indeed.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad finish up their goodbyes and then set off towards Anitar, the sun-blasted heart of the Ipeltan Empire, to search out the truth behind the beginning of the end.

The Arch-Queen awaits. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad are about to head off on their most dangerous adventure yet: one that will take them deep into the heart of the Ipeltan Empire in a treacherous search for the beginning of the end.

...But before they can do that, they have a few personal matters to attend to.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad return to New Analu, but there's no time to rest. The horns of a certain pirate queen are going up for auction, and they made a deal to acquire them - whatever it takes.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

It's early March in the year 2226, and the Space Squad return to the surface of Azulir to find a city in chaos, an empire on the brink of crumbling, and a whole lot of innocents stuck in harm's way.

It's time to live up to that 'heroes' title.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Down in the flooded passageways beneath the city at the bottom of the sea, two old lovers search for a way forwards.

They don't know it yet, but that way forwards has a name.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad have followed pirate queen Tali Goldenhorn to a ruined city hidden for eons beneath the oceans of Azulir, a run-down waterworld that once served as the galaxy's premiere pleasure planet.

After initially splitting up to explore, they now reunite to exchange their findings before pressing on into the unknown. Ghostly echoes await...

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Lore'la, Schlurp and Crick chase echoes and learn about the beginning. Faraday and Karel stand witness to the end.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

A secret lies at the bottom of Azulir's ocean: a ruined, half-drowned city that might just be the key to unlocking the truth of what happened to the galaxy of long ago... if the party can stay on the trail of its ghosts.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

A leviathan haunts the abyss. It's time for an exorcism. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Five heroes and an old enemy head into the deep to hunt for a very powerful monster in a very small submarine. What could possibly go wrong?

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Azulir was once the jewel in the crown of the Kanzir, the ancient and powerful interstellar Namazir government. Nowadays, thanks to five chaotic someones who saved the galaxy two years ago and threw the Kanzir into chaos in the process, it's the jewel in the crown of a very different kind of power.

Or: for the galaxy to have a future, Lore'la must first face her past.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Even ancient empires run by telepathy-wielding leviathans have holidays, and the Festival of New Beginnings is the very best of them. There will be games, there will be food... and there might just be something to set the Squad off on the next leg of their adventure.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

It's a rainy 23rd century Friday, and the five reluctant adventurers known to many as the Heroes of Yentao - and to significantly fewer as the Space Squad - are on their way to a very exclusive dinner party attended by some very powerful people. 

It's time to convince the rest of the galaxy of what is coming.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

With their latest adventure fully wrapped, the Space Squad return to New Analu for some much-needed down time - only to be waylaid by an impossible-to-resist invitation to the city's hottest (and newest) attraction.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad return to the surface with a hogtied Mr. Bickering, an unhatched Prince, and an ancient guardian. It sounds like the set up for a joke, but the only punchline is that the end of the universe is still barrelling towards them and even with everything they've seen so far, they're still no closer to knowing how to stop it.

It's going to be a long trip home.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

In which breaking a magical barrier has consequences, and Teb realises that the only way to beat an overpowered party is to send in an overpowered foe. 

The next hour will decide the future of an entire planet. It's do or die time. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The hidden city still has more secrets to give - if the Squad can win over its guardian.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Outsmarted and smarting, the Space Squad have no choice but to press on into the unknown. 

The hidden city awaits. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

A man, a monster, and a door.

It's time to find out what lies beyond it - if they can save Dr. Silverglass from Teb Bickering first.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Squad need to find the door, open it, and see what lies beyond. 

...It sounds so simple when you say it like that. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

The Space Squad have concocted a brilliant and daring plan that will take them deep into the heart of Corsair operations.

It goes well - until it doesn't.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Tucked away in the hidden apartment of Dr. Teshurali Silverglass, the Squad rest, recuperate, and ruminate on their next steps.

It's time to hatch a plan.

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

 The cramped streets of the Anvil are alive with whispers of a mysterious doctor. The Squad take a trip to a daycare. Schlurp causes an amputation. 

Just one of those days, huh?

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Seeking answers, the Space Squad head to the windswept wilds of Yamaten. A heavy Corsair presence and high gravity conditions are the most immediate concerns, but they won't be the last. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.

Ears still ringing from the cheers of a jubilant Ipeltan delve, the Squad returns to the concert, drinks in the atmosphere (plus a fair bit of the free booze), and then gets to work. 

The next leg of their journey is about to start. It's time to figure out where it will take them. 

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For more information on the Maelstrom Galaxy, including its custom playable aliens, check out our campaign page.