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Orion Sphere LRP is primarily run by volunteers, but there are 3 key people who have ultimate responsibility for the game and system - the Game Team. If you have a question or issue with the game, then please speak to the appropriate member of the Game Team. This section gives a short bit about each member of the team, and details their core responsibility and where you are likely to find them at an event. At events, all members of the Game Team will usually be contactable on radio, so if you cannot immediately find who you are looking for then approach a volunteer or NPC with a radio and let them know who you are looking for. Away from events, the Game Team are also the main points of contact with OSLRP, and monitor our primary email address and social media channels.
Conan is one of the OSLRP's creators, and has been involved with the game since its inception - mostly with preparation, admin, logistics, and making sure everything functions at events. He is also to blame for most of this wiki, including its design. Conan has been live roleplaying since 2005, and playing tabletop rpgs for even longer. A long-time lover of science fiction, despite the lack of it available on Irish terrestrial TV, Conan is equally a fan of conceptual sci-fi, energetic action sci-fi and epic space opera. With early inspirations ranging from Star Trek TNG, Red Dwarf, Thundaar the Barbarian, and Ulysses 31, Conan has a broad love of the genre which feeds into his approach towards running the game and building the setting, and probably informs some of the weirder elements or plotlines that can be found in the Orion Sphere.
Outside of OSLRP, he is a designer of boardgames and tabletop RPGs, a professional playtester, and has at various points been a museum curator, escape room puppetmaster, prop maker, hydrogeologist, stone setter, and digitiser of historical photographs. Originally from the Republic of Ireland, he has lived in South Wales since 2010.
Conan is ultimately responsible for the whole game, including rules development, backend, logistics and overall event administration. He can usually be found behind the Games Operations desk, checking on what is happening out in the field, or watching on the sidelines of set-pieces. While an event is in progress, he has very little idea of what is actually happening. Nevertheless, Conan is the person to talk to if you have a problem with the OOC elements of the event. Conan is also a member of the safeguarding team.
Hi folks, I'm Nathan. I've been part of the game team since just before Event 1, having joined the original creators Conan and Mike in helping to establish and set up the 'Corps' side of the game. Specifically stepping into the role as the Clearance Organisation Representative, Jonas McQuinn, the 'Front of House' Game Team member. In terms of my role within the Game Team, I am the Head of Plot and also the Head of Corporations. In this respect, I'm the person to speak to about any issues, challenges or questions in regards to Encounters and also all the in-character logistics side of the games.
I've been roleplaying in one form or another for over 30 years, but my love of science fiction goes back a lot further. I distinctly remember watching Return of the Jedi for the first time when it was released for VHS rental; the fact I recall being so excited about seeing that means I know I'd seen the first two parts of the OT, but I don't really recall watching them before then. I already had a wealth of the original Star Wars Toys (that I now lament selling as a foolish teen). However, it wasn't Star Wars that really cemented my love of Science Fiction, though it was definitely the catalyst, it was Sunday morning and later school night reruns of Star Trek. I loved Han, but I wanted to be Spock, and then Data when TNG came into my life again via the much missed VHS rentals.
As I look around my office where I type this there are no less than a half a dozen different science fiction shows, movies or book series, and literally tens if not over 100 individual science fiction related items. Then there is one degree certificate that announces me a Bachelor of Physics with Space Science and Technology. I didn't ever get to be Spock, or Data. My career is probably better aligned to some administrative role at Starfleet HQ. But, I at last tried! Being able to bring my writing, ideas and ongoing passion for sci-fi to the Orion Sphere universe is a genuine pleasure, and one of all too few creative outlets for me.
So, Live Long and Prosper, and May The Force Be With You.
Beckett is the member of the game team primarily responsible for crew management, Safeguarding, and Inclusion, though he can also be found among the players as a Megacorp NPC. In his professional life, he’s spent the last twelve years working to improve accessibility to public sector services and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults - in an alternate universe, he says he’d probably be working in some sort of policy role, perhaps supporting pathways into Starfleet from groups previously restricted by the Prime Directive.
He’s been larping since 2017 and has run a number of different games, from parlour larp to ongoing systems. His first contact with Orion Sphere was attending Event 2 as monster crew, where he immediately fell in love with the game’s approach to collaborative storytelling and the richness of the game world. In 2021, he stepped into his current role when one of the founding members of the game team stepped down, and he’s been up to his ears in sci-fi shenanigans ever since.
His love of science fiction may mostly express itself in science fiction horror these days (with favourite like Pandorum and the Predator films) but the obsession started with the 2001 comedy Evolution - though he insists his taste has become much more discerning over the years.
