​This is a Tabletop Roleplaying Game ("TTRPG") much like Dungeons and Dragons or Cyberpunk, where players roll dice to perform actions and a game master decides their fate and guides the story.

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Unum uses a streamlined approach to the math usually found in most other TTRPGs, where a character attempting to do something merely rolls a 20-sided dice ("D20"), then adds one of four Ability modifiers, then one of four Body modifiers.  A character's Class, features, and proficiency choices may have situational impact on the roll.  The game master determines the success of a roll, which is often influenced by the social and physical environment of the characters.

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Ability, Body, Class.  Simple Math.  Roleplay.  ABC, 123, RPG.

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This game is influenced by the science fictional worlds of Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek), Isaac Asimov (Foundation, iRobot), Frank Herbert (Dune), Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey), James S. A. Corey (The Expanse), Stephen King (The Jaunt), Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner), Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers), William Gibson (Neuromancer), and of course the many flavors of cyberpunk.

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The origin of the name Unum references "E Pluribus Unum; Out of many, one," as a sort of nod to the struggles of late stage capitalism, as well as subtly alluding to the concept of the AI singularity where machine outpaces mankind.  As society approaches a new threshold, we question what it means to be human, face the extremes of science and religion and economy and government, and strain to grasp the last vestiges of control over ourselves before falling into obsolescence.

 

The setting is a far future, where humankind has just begun to colonize outside our solar system, while simultaneously facing the existential crisis of what it truly means to be "human" as man and machine begin to blend.  On the fringes of new frontiers, resources and influence mean power, and private militaries enforce corporate interests.  Unease and societal tension are at a tipping point, where the actions of a few people in the right or wrong place and time could change everything.