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Dustrunners

Illegal asteroid mining in 2038, flown by mercenary pilots in low Earth orbit. The oldest world here — its production materials were CC-licensed in 2001.

2001–2011 2 characters 1 file

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The oldest world in the Commons, and the reason the Commons exists. The Dustrunners production materials — ship designs, world bible, background art — were released under Creative Commons in 2001, years before there was a name for what that was meant to accomplish.

Typhoon is the livewritten novel set in it: seventy thousand words in three days, with characters living or dying on answers sent in over Twitter.

The cast

Files

  • Typhoon
    Typhoon Novel cover

Using Dustrunners

The world, its cast and the files above are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Write in it, draw it, score it, set your own story there. Credit me, don't sell it, and license what you make the same way.

Attribution — copy this:

“Dustrunners” by MCM (2001–2011), https://mcm.1889.ca/commons/dustrunners — licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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