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Art by B+Up Games. Scenes from Atlas Rush Board Game.

Atlas Rush is a strategic scifi print-and-play game for 1-4 players. You'll pilot your faction across real-world locations in our solar system and beyond, collecting vital resources on each world and using them to modify your dice rolls, build stations, and outmaneuver your rivals.

Will you be the first to activate the warp gates, complete missions, and dominate the system economy? Or will you fall behind as your competitors claim victory?

Follow the project on Kickstarter for updates:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/b-up-games/atlas-rush?ref=bxwnd4

The triple-sun Alpha Centauri system is mentioned a lot in scifi, given it's our closest neighbor. The idea of setting foot on a world that we might actually be able to reach in a human lifetime without warp drive is tantalizing. (Project StarShot aims to get there in only 20 years.)

The discoveries of potential earth-sized worlds in the habitable zone like Proxima B make a lot of scifi representations of hospitable planets in this system all the more believable.

I'm looking for sci-fi recommendations that explore worlds of the Alpha Centauri system.

There's the obvious:

Trisolaris (Three Body Problem)

Polyphemus / Pandora (Avatar)

And the slightly more obscure:

Centauri Prime (Babylon 5)

Alpha Centauri (Star Trek)

Tiber (Encounter with Tiber)

Chiron (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

Jemison (Starfield)

Any favorites (books, movies, games, anime, comics/manga, etc.)?