Jovian Chronicles is a science fiction game setting published by Dream Pod 9 since 1997. It introduces a complete universe for role-playing and wargaming space combat featuring mecha, giant spacecraft, and epic space battles. The Jovian Chronicles setting was originally published as a pair of licensed supplements for the Mekton role-playing game; Ianus Publications released two volumes—Jovian Chronicles and Europa Incident—in 1992. This first edition is known amongst fans as the "Green Edition" because of the color scheme of its cover design. After Ianus decided to split into two ventures in 1995 — Protoculture, which would publish Protoculture Addicts magazine; and Dream Pod 9, which would design and market miniatures and gaming books, Jovian Chronicles was re-published as a full-fledged game line in 1997 by Dream Pod 9, this time using their own in-house rule system. This edition, because of its white cover, is known as the "White Edition", and subsequent supplements are also called this, even though several of the supplemental books feature a dark blue starfield cover. Publication history Ianus Publications had licensed the anime-related games of R. Talsorian Games, and Marc A. Vezina's Jovian Chronicles (1994) detailed an original setting for R. Talsorian's Mekton game. It had originally been intended as a serial for the company's Mecha Press magazine. Jovian Chronicles was supplemented soon after with Europa Incident (1994). Dream Pod 9 was soon split out from Ianus as a separate company, and their second game after Heavy Gear was Jovian Chronicles (1998), a game based on Dream Pod 9's Silhouette system, and a variant of the game setting that they had previously created for use with Mekton. The new edition included changes to the theme of the game, which was now an anime mecha game, a space-opera starfighter game and a near-future built on with hard science. Many of the mecha were made blockier in design to better accommodate a potential Activision game that never came to be. The later Silhouette CORE Rulebook (2003) offered a new standalone version of Silhouette that turned it into a generic system, and was immediately followed by the Mecha Companion (2003), which offered d20 stats for all the mecha from Heavy Gear, Jovian Chronicles and Gear Krieg using Guardians of Order's d20 Mecha (2003) mech description rules. Jovian Chronicles second edition was also released in 2003. In 2017, Dream Pod 9 launched a Kickstarter to create new resin spaceship miniatures.