Trials
Colonization and eugenics, taken seriously enough to be frightening: every argument for selecting the founders is reasonable, and that is the problem.
The book
Jacket copy, the opening excerpt, and buy links land here. The book is the front door; the game is the second room.
The chart
No chart drawn for this universe yet.
The game
The Founder Effect
A small founding population loses variance no matter how carefully you select it — and the careful selecting is what makes the loss worse.
Under five minutes to first failure. The lesson lives in the loss condition, and a closing card states what the model simplified.
Field notes
The research under the fiction, with its sources shown.
Gallery
Reader artwork, moderated before it appears. Artists keep their copyright.