27 lines
3.7 KiB
Plaintext
27 lines
3.7 KiB
Plaintext
Space Truckers
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Westom-Karr'as Shipping is a single-system transport company specializing in non-jump mining transports. One of their large mineral transports from the asteroid belt in the outer system has stopped responding to calls. The ship (the Westom VI) is still there, but gives no response to hails. The ship isnt due for another month, but the amount if minerals is worth millions of cr. It would be good if someone could check out what happened.
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1. An asteroid strike has taken out all the communication antennas, repairs were stymied by lack of replacement parts. The small crew will be happy about any assistance that can be rendered.
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2. An asteroid strike has taken out the main cabin of the ship. One crewman is still hanging entangled in wires (but dead), the other two can't be found.
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3. The ship is abandoned. Systems are running on autopilot, half eaten dishes on the table. No trace of the crew.
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4. The crew is present but claims no contact with the main world can be established. This turns out to be true. Something is interfering with communications.
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5. As 4. But there is one additional crew member unaccounted for by the company.
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6. Something psionicallg active in the cargo has been driving the crew insane. By the time the PCs arrive only one member of the crew is alive, but he has taken on two split personalities from the ones he murdered and ate.
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Signal GK
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A faint and barely understandable emergency signal reaches the players' ship from an otherwise dead moon in the system. The storms on the moon make it difficult to get the signal except in specific conditions. The moon in question is considered uninhabitable.
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1. A small survey craft has crashed on the planet. Everybody on board is dead by the point they can be reached.
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2. As 1. But 2d6 people are alive and barely holding on.
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3. As 2. But the people have a markedly different biosystem than usual (e.g. methane breathers)
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4. A colony ship has crashed on the planet, everybody is dead.
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5. As 4. but 2d6x100 people are alive and barely holding on
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6. As 5. but the crash was hundreds of years ago. The colonists have created an underground TL12 society based on barely understood clone technology. The emergency beacon is left of for ritual purposes.
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Tentacles from the Depths of Space
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A conspiracy theorist (Harlon Szhugivelli) approaches the PCs. He is convinced there is a secret Hiver cabal on the planet, steering the politics of the world for their tentacly masters from the dark depths of space (his words). He wants the PCs to uncover evidence so he can send it in to the local newspaper. The man is clearly nuts, but his credits are as good as anyone's.
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1. There is no Hiver on the world anywhere, but the inquiries of the players catch the attention of a local criminal organisation.
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2. There is no Hiver on the world anywhere, but the inquiries of the players catch the attention of a local conspiracy.
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3. There is a single Hiver on the world. They are really fed up with all those conspiracy theories. They are an ambassador of art, by the fates!
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4. There is a single Hiver on the world, they are the last remnants of a Hiver ambassador ship that came by decades ago and left one of their offspring by mistake. The creature is basically feral, but has found an appropriate niche in the underworks of the human colony on this world.
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5. There is a single Hiver on the world, they have been found by people who knew what it was and brought up in a human family. Due to various circumstances the hiver can now be found loitering together with other teenage recalcitrants.
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6. There is an actual Hiver conspiracy on this world. It's shadowy masters are using their skill in manipulation to have Kevin become the most common name for newborns for unfathomable reason.
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