Fading Suns: Core Books SlipcaseA sturdy slipcase designed to hold all three of the core books. This set includes the Universe Book, the Gamemaster Book and the Character Book. A Far Future Passion Play. It is the sixth millennium. Humanity spread across the stars and built a republic of advanced technology and universal emancipation and then squandered it, fought over it, and lost it. As the light of the stars began to slowly fade, a New Dark Age descended upon the Known Worlds.