Exodus

"Before the dawn of time, they rose to rule the world.

"Sixty-five million years ago, they fought a war so devastating that it nearly destroyed that world and everything on it. Those who survived fled into the vast night of space, looking for a new home

"Today they are here, among us.

"Those who know them call them Saurians, viscous looking lizard creatures with technology centuries beyond our own. For the moment, they walk among us, hidden within false flesh, barely recognized as their own.

"Soon more will arrive - many, many more.

"Then, the true battle will begin."

That is a quote from the back of the Exodus Sourcebook, a supplement dealing with the aliens known as the Saurians for Conspiracy X.

Everything you know about Saurians is correct, but you don't know everything about them. There are more species of Saurians that those who work with the Black Book - would you believe there's eight types of them? That they are originally from Earth? And, in less than a century, humankind will be fighting for their very lives?

Read on, friends - this may be for your own survival!

Chapter 1 gives you an introduction to Exodus, including the obligatory "How to use this book." A neat short story begins your venture into the Saurian Culture.

Chapter 2 begins the descent into the mystery of Saurians, including the "Lizardmen of Vietnam."

Chapter 3 introduces us to the Dreamspeakers, a rogue group of Saurians who wish to learn from humankind on how to be human. They can be used as a potential ally, or as possible new recruits for Aegis.

BTW, Chapter 3 also gives us what really happened in 1938, when a news reporter broadcasted an alien invasion.

New equipment, character generation, and a new ability called Hypnomancy for the Dreamspeakers round out Chapter 3.

Chapter 4 gives us the history of the Saurian Race - their life on Earth, the Great War between the Saurian Races that forced their escape into space, and finally their secret return to Earth, with the rest of the Saurian races to return in less than one hundred years.

Chaper 5 gives us the biology, motivations, activites, and game stats for the four clans currently on Earth, as well as motivations and goals for the Saurians.

Chapter 6 describes Saurian Technology, with items common to all clans, and also those specific to a certain clan.

Round it out with an adventure dealing with Saurians, and you have the making of an excellent sourcebook. The art is wonderful, with the pictures of the Saurians a we bit too lifelike. Creepy.

My only complaint is the werid lizard-like art on the bottom of the pages. It makes the type difficult to read whenever it is on that "skin," but it still didn't detract from the enjoyment of the sourcebook.

Finally, one of the most chilling sentences which foreshadows trouble for Humanity is:

"Some humans have stumbled across them (remains of Saurian's history) from time to time, but the evidence was misunderstood or concealed. In the next hundred years, no amount of disinformation will contain the secret."

Extinction is on the way, folks...