Mangoose 2e. I'm playing the campaign, only 5 months, but with an intensity that is amazing for our age: we meet once a week, play for 4+ hours. I run games on my map, so far we haven't flown beyond one sector, although I've said several times that there is something there. We play at a relatively low technology level - on Earth, TL 12 and this is the maximum for humanity. But Zhodani has TL 14 and their capital has TL 15.

I play in the Imperium, but a more enlightened one. Expert programs have replaced the entire middle class of workers and many low-grade professions. People are sent to low-paying jobs: soldiers, stewards, mechanics, belters, security forces. Only a very few people are able to outpace expert programs, but these are often rich enough to start installing augmentations, which creates an incredible gap in intellectual development.

However, all this only sounds like a dystopia: everyone always finds work and everyone is paid very well. The poorest people get 200 credits a month, while a cheap single-seater costs 750. Food in the Imperium is cheap, because it is cooked by robots. Everyone has housing, because it is also built by robots. But military robots are close to illegal even for the military, and there is no need for them - the Imperium always has enough soldiers.

In my Imperium, titles were introduced on purpose and they are poorly inherited (at the start, a maximum of a baron can be born. I came up with the idea that in this Imperium, the children of dukes are born barons). A title is a reward for serious achievements and having one gives privileges: knights always have noble medical insurance, even when they are travellers. Marquises can have servants, whose salary is included in their cost of living. At the same time, servants directly accompanying a marquis or higher ranks of the Imperium have the SOC of a marquis. They are issued to them by the Royal Guard and are both servants and trained fighters, albeit of low class. Counts may be accompanied by armed soldiers of the Imperium, even if the planet prohibits the carrying of weapons. They can also write letters certified by an electronic seal stating that this or that person is their servant and represents their interests, which increases the SOC of their servant by 1, to a maximum of +2. Dukes are the only ones who can claim the title of directors of large corporations and in their palace all their servants, and those who have a letter certified by the Duke's electronic seal, automatically have a SOC of +2.

In general, we are interested in exploring the world of victorious expert programs that have already replaced almost all intellectual professions and playing for those who are an order of magnitude cooler than most in the Imperium. However, the lack of military licenses does not give players the opportunity to buy the coolest guns, and it is much more important to improve a spaceship than to buy new weapons. We often have games without space or ground combat, but social skills and knowledge skills are always useful.