has gloss | eng: Space Opera is a science-fiction role-playing game created by Edward E. Simbalist, A. Mark Ratner, and Phil McGregor in 1980 for Fantasy Games Unlimited . While the system is applicable to the whole genre of science fiction the focus is on creating space opera themed adventures. Space Opera resolved to give gamers a system and universe which they could mold into any popular science fiction milieu, be it Star Wars, E.E. "Doc" Smiths Lensman, Larry Nivens Known Space, Frank Herbert's "Dune", Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, etc. |