A Role Playing Game worldbook for Steve Jackson Games' popular GURPS system, Tales of the Solar Patrol is set in the future of the 21st Century, as it was imagined by sci-fi writers in the Golden Age Of Science Fiction. Venus is a swamp world, Mars has canals, and the Overlord of the Jupiter rules its moons with a literal iron fist.. In other words, Raygun Gothic and Rule of Cool are the order of the day.