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You find an asteroid floating in space. It seems safe to enter, but when you break
open the door there is an explosion which terribly injures the being within. Taking him
home, you find he is an indestructible psychopath who was sealed into that asteroid
by his race for his terrible, sadistic crimes
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A small planetary colony without ships of their own is about to be wiped out by some
form of disaster, and only the party can arrive in time. Unfortunately, the party's ship
only has enough room for half of the colonists to survive.
As the party enters a unexplored star system, they recieve a message in an unknown
language sent from what seems to be a point inside the star's outer layer.
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The crew come across a kilometer wide, dense mass of musical birthday cards floating
out in space. As they investigate, a cloud of assembly oozes bleeds out and attacks
their ship, nibbling at it and turning it into more birthday cards.
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The party finds a damaged and disable ship floating in space. Upon entering they find
it is covered in ice and many of the crew are encapsulated in it. They find one person
alive with no ice immediately around them. They are muttering about how it is still too
hot.
The party discover that a moderately important drift beacon has an inevitable
guarding it, destroying anything that gets nearby
The party finds a library bigger than one that they can remember. It's librarian is a
dragon, who demands a large price to using it's books.
Party discovers a compound filled with undead, and turrets that shoot anyone who
tries to harm an undead.
In a city the party sees a person openly stealing things, and no one seems to notice or
care.
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You see a large spaceport filled with many tourist ships. Apparently, a local star is
about to go supernova in a week, and many visitors from across the system have
come to witness the event.
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Jacknerik
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The ships computer gives a puzzling report. Something in your cargo hold has been
growing heavier after every FTL jump.
You find a research station attempting to breed livestock capable of surviving in the
vacuum of space. The experiments have all been a failure, and the station offers you
sell you the meat from all the failed experiments at a cheap price.
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1. You come across a damaged ship that is drifting in space. Scans reveal that it is
on emergency power and life support is in danger of shutting down. They also
reveal that there are 6 people in cryoberths. If the group wakes them they will
have no memory of who they are.
2. Come out of hyperspace/jump/warp in the middle of a very chaotic battle in a
system that is not the one you were attempting to travel to.
3. The party is offered a job to escort a delivery to a penal colony on a small moon
in the system. When they arrive things seem a little off. If they pry (or are very
observant) they figure out that the inmates have taken over and are running
the place. Do they join them, try to stop them, or just ignore the fact?
4. Something went terribly wrong with the last jump. You were in jump space 2x
as long as normal and now you come out and are in complete darkness. No
stars. No planets. Just void. Turns out they jumped into the middle of an
extremely large Dyson sphere (aka hollow planet).
5. Someone ate all the rations, and you are still a week out from the next
destination.... was it a crew member or is there a stowaway?
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The ship's recycler is on the fritz and your food has started to look more and more like
feces
A smattering of high-velocity(missiles, lasers, tungsten slugs, whatever) tear past the
ship- analysis suggests they are the remains of a centuries-old battle.
A gigantic mechanical skull drifts through the void of space past the ship. One of its
gigantic eyes follows the ship, but does nothing.
A heavy battleship , long-decommissioned and turned into a spaceport, has had it's
combat AI reactivated and is now firing on all docking ships.
An abandoned science shuttle drifts in orbit around a seemingly-empty planet.
Analysis suggests the whole crew was killed by the common cold.
Half of a destroyed planet floats through the empty space between stars- a small
settlement within the crust still survives, and has sent out a distress beacon for
someone, anyone, to help them evacuate.
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-A massive diamond shaped space craft comes out of warp. It seems to be sub
consciously beckoning the party to come aboard
-The party receives a mysterious distress call that comes from a empty system. When
they inspect it further, they find an abandoned ship that looks exactly like theirs.
When they check it further, they find bodies of people that look exactly like them.
They had been sending a distress signal to themselves
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Jacknerik
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You are hailed by a small colony on a a planet. A few weeks ago, the moon orbiting
the planet disappeared, and nobody knows what happened to it.
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StingerAE
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A wrecked cargo ship. Huge weapon damage but it looks like a lot of the cargo
remains inside. The only problem is the cracked core which continues to flood the
ship and near space with radiation.
A small mining colony on the small moon of an inhabited planet. The planet is middle
ages tech level on its two main continents with a couple of areas starting renaissance-
style thinking. The colony has mined the far side till it risks breaking up and are
fighting over whether to start on the near-side and affecting the locals.
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Jacknerik
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You find a abandoned small space station near a tiny moon. Scans show something
extremely strange: the station is not orbiting the moon, but rather the moon is
orbiting the station, which has a mass 10 times greater than that of the moon.
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Jacknerik
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Lemon juice rations you brought to combat scurvy have gone missing. An
investigation reveals that it was stolen by the janitorial staff in an attempt to brew
alcohol.
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Patergia
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Drifting in space you find a spherical metal structure the size of a small moon,
Scanning it will reveal no signs of advanced technology or life forms but it will reveal a
small hanger on the structure. If you land in the hanger you find it very plain and
without any life support or artificial gravity systems but a small door on one wall big
enough for a human to fit through but not much bigger. If you go through the door
you will find a cube shaped room 10 meters long in all dimensions. On one wall is an
inscription explaining that this structure is a giant mechanical computer but it does
not say who built it and when. On the opposite wall to the inscription is a typewriter, a
box of paper, a slit to put paper in, and a slit that paper can come out of. If the PCs
type out messages on the typewriter and put them into the input slit than the
computer’s response will come out of the output slit. The computer introduces itself
as Socrates and explains that it simply wants to ponder the meaning of the universe
in peace. Socrates appears to be of intelligence on par with a human but his
responses take time to process(about 10 seconds for each word inserted into the
input slit). If he sees the PCs as threatening to him the walls of the room and the
hanger begin to close in.
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StingerAE
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An unknown species' equivalent of a voyager probe. How long has it been travelling?
Where from and what is the species doing now? Does it even still exist in a
recognisable form?
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buddychrist627
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A very small moon is home to a small shop of tiny friendly aliens. They sell moon rocks
and preserved tiny bugs from their little home as souvenirs.
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Jacknerik
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You find the remains of two nomad plants that fell into each other’s gravitational pull
and collided. A breathing view, but ultimately not useful for much other that pictures.
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dndspeak
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We tried doing that once, but everyone in the community liked this way much better!
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I definitely notice that people contribute and upvote more on lists where the user is
updating regularly. I wish dndspeak would only post lists when he can at check once
or twice a day. There are quite a few old lists that have "died" but have 20 entries not
updated and could at least pass the d50 threshold.
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You find a illegal fueling station with a massive array of solar panels. The station
offers the ship a full refuel if they are allowed to use the processing power of the
ship’s computer for one hour, and offer to buy any computing equipment your ship
may be carrying. Scans reveal that they have a much larger computer system that a
station of that size requires. If the crew accepts the offer the ship will be refueled as
promised with no negative effects on the ship or the ship’s computer. If they are
forced to reveal what they are doing, the will admit that they are a religion that
believes that through immense processing power they can calculate the equation that
the entire universe is devised from.
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Jacknerik
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A crew member notices a group of manta ray like aliens drifting behind the ship
appearing to feed off the ship’s exhaust. Scans show they are not a known species.
You find the wreckage of two friendly ships that warped into the same space,
something technically possible but statistically approaches impossibility.
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DraXus87
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The o2 generator is broken through a spilled drink from one of the party members
and they know they have x hours to fix it or find a habitable planet.
A strange smell starts to emit from one of the containers in the cargohold. Upon
inspection, your crew finds that the refridgeration of the alien meat fell out and it
started to rot. When not immediately inspected, some sort of worms start to eat up all
the food and, still ignored, these worms start to evolve and eat the ship like termites.
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A portion of space suddenly rips open and unfurls into a mass of tentacles
surrounding a great maw. It pulls the ship towards its mouth. The maw is actually a
wormhole to a destination of the GMs choice.
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You find an illegal garbage dump zone at a Lagrangian point. Most of it is trash, but
there is some minor treasure to scavenge.
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KNHaw
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You didn't think much about that shipping container full of alien artifacts that
museum asked you to haul. That is, until last night when something inside tore
through the container's steel wall and escaped into the air ducts. Inside the container
you find seventy-three one meter long sealed sarcophagi... and one broken open.
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KNHaw
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Those twenty shipping containers labeled "Childrens' Pajamas" you're delivering? One
of them broke open while moving stuff around the hold and it appears to be filled
with very illegal automatic weapons. Oh yeah, and the Space Patrol just hailed your
ship for a surprise inspection.
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KNHaw
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On an isolated colony, bare knuckle boxing has become popular. So has a locally
grown and refined performance enhancing drug that turns its users into sociopathic
murderers. Worse, about a quarter of them learn to hide their impulses and instead
become highly effective serial killers... and they're beginning to emigrate back into
the galaxy's general population.
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KNHaw
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Argus Nine is a fully automated mining facility on the surface of a metal rich asteroid.
The crew visits for its biannual pickup of refined ore only to find all the mining
equipment disassembled and the supposedly non-sentient robots separated into
warring religious factions, one that worships humans as their creators and the other
sworn to exterminate them.
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Silverdragon701
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reminds me of something from Asimov... one of his short stories was about that, I
believe.
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On a colony, you encounter a scientist with an aptitude for cloning limbs. He asks if
anyone would be a willing test subject for his latest project.
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The group comes accross a space station, that's sending a distress signal. There are
hundreds of people in there, being slaughtered by giant spiders.
The ship is hailed by a group of freighters far away. Scans reveal they are being
harassed by smaller combat ships. The captain of the main freighter asks for their
help in dealing with the pirates, but at some point in the fight, it's revealed that the
pirates stole the cargo ships, and the real merchants are the ones in the combat
ships.
A random guy teleports into the bridge, and offers to be a janitor. If you refuse, he
will fight with a small phaser, but should you let him join your crew, he will do his job
just fine.
The ship receives a message from a nearby moon, asking the crew to come down to
discuss a quest. Turns out the moon is a space whale sanctuary, where these
creatures breed and grow. There is a small community of warriors, sworn to protect
the sanctuary. They know hunters are coming, and need the player's help.
The players come across a massive trade station. There, they are approachedd by a
scientist, who says a great evil from another dimension has awoken within the
system, and will soon destroy it. Should the players investigate, they will find a giant
portal in a jungle planet, surrounded by bizarre monsters.
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Hexastisch
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A monolithic ship, nearly as black as the space around it, suddenly appears out of
warp and hails the party in a strange language. The design is unlike anything the
party has ever seen. They don't seem hostile...
A group of strange, whale-like creatures peacefully pass the ship. The scanner will
show up blank no matter how many times the party tries.
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LordOph
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There’s a Wormhole to... somewhere. Your scanners can’t quite figure out where.
An automated salvage vessel mistakenly flags the party’s ship as scrap, and attempts
to collect its parts.
A strange combat drone engages the ship. It can only move by firing a plasma
launcher in the opposite direction.
A supply merchant ship hails the party and offers to trade with them. Declining
angers the merchants, and they will continue to ask to trade until either a transaction
is made or a fight breaks out. Their prices are fair, though.
Two automated battleships are in a perpetual battle with each other around a red
dwarf star. Neither has functional thrusters, transmitters, or anything besides solar
panels, mirror plating, and an assortment of laser weapons. Unfortunately, neither
can be damaged by the others lasers, due to the mirrors.
A small ocean planet comes into view, with a distress beacon coming from its surface.
If the ship approaches the planet, they will be warned by a castaway on the planet of
an ancient defense system that will try to shoot down anything that enters the
atmosphere.