SPEQTRE: Vol.1 3D Printable Modular Terrain is the first of my new Kickstarter campaign trilogy. It's a stand-alone expansion to ARCS: Vol.2 3D Printable Sci-Fi Modular Terrain that reveals that an organism has infected the very essence of ARCS, changing it into something different; something Alien. Alternatively, you could use SPEQTRE on it's own as a mysterious and frightening Xenos ship or building.
The following SPEQTRE: Vol.2 3D Printable Sci-Fi Assets (furniture, set-dressing and such), and SPEQTRE: Vol.3 3D Printable Sci-Fi Miniatures (a range of 28mm heroic scale figures) are coming later this year.
The SPEQTRE terrain is built around the principle of the einstein problem solving prototile called "spectre" (developed by amateur mathematician David Smith with mathematicians Craig S. Kaplan, Joseph Samuel Myers, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss, 2023) that by itself forms an aperiodic set of prototiles; that is, a shape that can tessellate space but only in a nonperiodic way. It means that you could build a tabletop wargaming battle board that stretched to infinity, and infinitely varied in construction! If you can find a tabletop that big!
Using this idea as a starting point created something fairly unique in the tabletop gaming world, which I am very excited about. Studying it further has allowed for even more ideas to pop up in my head. Hopefully, with your help it would be great if we can turn the basic SPEQTRE set into something huge with the campaign stretch goals. There will also be a Lifetime Commercial 3D Printing Licence on offer if you would like to make some money out of selling prints of the models.
The set includes lots of innovative ideas, such as interchangeable walls sections and multi-layered floors, that give depth and variation possibilities to the set. It also makes painting the set easier, as I tested out a fleshy coloured Citadel Contrast paint straight onto the prints and it looked pretty creepy! There is also an ARCS version of the iris door (shown in the top .gif, you can just glimpse it on the far left) available in this set. The door is simple to print, and is completely reliable on operation.
I hope to launch the SPEQTRE project in and around the second week in July 2025, so keep a look out, or sign up here to be notified when it launches.
