Anyone ever tried a “Long Night” L:LAtR setting?
The term was originally coined by Poul Anderson in 1983. It refers to a dark age that comes after the collapse of an interstellar empire. Colonized worlds that do not have the technological or industrial base to be self-sustaining without help from the extra-solar empire suddenly find themselves devolving to an agrarian society to survive, with only a few pockets of advanced technology left. Contact may not be made with other worlds for millennia, so the memories of the empire and their tech eventually take on an almost mythical quality.
Definitely! The original playtest for 1st edition was set on a colony world isolated after a meme-virus spread through the interstellar network, burning out or controlling everyone connected to it. By the time play began, stories of an empire spanning multiple planets seemed absurd and mythical.