Heavy Gear is a science fiction game universe built around giant humanoid combat vehicles called Gears and Striders. It has been published since 1994 by the Canadian company Dream Pod 9 and takes in a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game and a combat card game, Heavy Gear Fighter. The setting is Terra Nova, a distant colony planet about four thousand years in the future that fell into a dark age after Earth abandoned it, and whose city-states later merged into rival Leagues and bloc powers. Dream Pod 9 designed its Silhouette System to power its own books, and the line grew to more than a hundred books and accessories following one continuing timeline. The universe also reached computer games from Activision and an animated television series.
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published since 1994 by Canadian publisher Dream Pod 9
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It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game, and a combat card game (Heavy Gear Fighter).
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