In Review: Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #2 – HEADLONG INTO THE VOID!

Synopsis: HEADLONG INTO THE VOID! In the science-fantasy universe of the bestselling Starfinder roleplaying game, five down-on-their-luck mercenaries race across uncharted space on a desperate mission to avert a devastating war over faster-than-light technology. In this chapter, our heroes limp through the Drift, discovering strange new settlements and denizens as they navigate the treacherous dimension. Will they find friends or foes?

The Story

Having found themselves stranded in the drift in the last issue Captain Navasi and her crew must figure out a way to make repairs and get their drift engine back up and running. However, it doesn’t help too much that the crew is bickering with Obo disagreeing with Navasi’s tendency to let their enemies live. Added to that Quig the ships rat like engineer is getting a little bit envious about their new Spectre buddie Rute’bahja fixing his engines.

As they eventually reach their destination. The crew and Rute’bahja are horrified to learn that Angel has taken over the planet and is looking to create a war between the two main tribes that live there. The victor wins drift technology.

The Artwork

 Edu Menna continues to do a great job of giving us lots of interesting alien character drawings to look at as well as some great backgrounds. Rute’Bahja will put older readers in mind of countless cute little robots that would have been seen in the many Star Wars-inspired movies to come out in the 1980s. I personally like the character drawing of Quig who is quite obviously somewhat inspired by Rocket Racoon or even the latter might well be inspired by characters like Quig. 

Sequentially the panels work and the story is thick and fast with a lot of very fast witty dialogue.

Overall

I have never played the tabletop game that this story and its characters are based on. I can’t really comment as to how true it is the the worlds within the game or the different character classes. But the mere fact that Quig gets resurrected by the ship’s healer is definitely worth the roll of a D20.

I look forward to seeing what happens in the next issue.