Renegade Legion was a series of sci-fi games from FASA in the early 90s which also produced the spin-off Legionnaire RPG.
Last week, on DriveThruRPG a new game called Renegade Legion: Centurion was published by Budgie Smuggler Games and marked as beta 1.0.
The website RenegadeLegions.com has a countdown which places the return of the game firmly in 2021.
There’s a Kickstarter planned, a Patreon and a Shapeways. The latter is used to host 3d-printing designs which, presumably, can be used to populate the upcoming Renegade Legions Universe.
The original Interceptor, Centurion, Leviathan, Prefect, Circus Imperium and Legionnaire were all published by FASA. The first comment on the DriveThruRPG page asks;
So how did you get the rights to publish this?
So, what’s going on? Well, paperwork filed in August 2020 grants the wordmark for Renegade Legion in the space of board games to Renegade Legion LLC based in Flordia. A company search reveals that Renegade Legion LLC is run by Joshua Perian.
The supporting Patreon identifies Budgie Smuggler Games as Matt Alexander and Josh Perian as the leading developers of Renegade Legion Universe.
In the same post, Budgie Smuggler Games make it clear that they are neither FASA nor Topps.
Lastly, the website claims Renegade Legion, TOG, Centurion, Interceptor, Legatus and Xenovita all as trademarks of the company. So, with or without FASA, it seems Budgie Smuggler are intending a full sweep of old Renegade Legion titles.
The game is set in the 69th Century and originally pitted the empire of the Terran Overlord Government (TOG) against the alliance of humans and aliens known as the Commonwealth. The new Renegade Legion: Centurion renames the Commonwealth to the Union.
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I hope they ditch the lasers. Lasers it has turned out are basically useless as weapons, save for a very narrow window that we have missed (this is why you don’t hear very much about the US, China, and European Laser Weapons that had $billions spent developing). And in a Sci-Fi Setting where Starships exist with the capability to re-enter an atmosphere multiple times, then Lasers are even worse-off than they are now, and are going to be in a few more years. The Heat-Shields that exist for multiple re-entry and exit of a gravity well with an atmosphere would… Read more »
Sorry, but that’s the dumbest and laziest excuse to cut lasers out of a SCI-FI game. You sound like Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory.” Now, according to you, we have to erase over 70 years of lasers from TV shows and movies.