1. Your spaceship comes across an
They are now falling
enormous research vessel that seems to
have been abandoned. Little does the
party know, the crew of this
„abandoned‟ ship have been consumed
by creatures with a natural cloaking
ability, making them almost invisible.
2. A mining space station in a planetary
asteroid belt (rings?) is having
difficulty with small asteroids
seemingly „attacking‟ the station. It is
later found out that the asteroid belt as
a whole is a sapient creature
desperately trying to „defend‟ itself.
3. You see an asteroid moving towards
you, upon closer inspection, It seems to
be made out of living flesh.
4. You detect a damaged vessel docked
with the jump beacon. It appears the
ship is absorbing metal from the
beacon, risking destroying it and
becoming stranded.
5. You find the source of the distress call,
a small research station. It appears a
small laboratory fire got out of control
and is threatening to destroy the station.
Their fire suppression system is not
responding.
6. A large convoy of civilian ships
appears to be passing through this
region. You show no hostile intentions,
but they are taking no chances,
immediately sending their escort to
attack.
7. An enemy capital ship is using its
gravity generators to make a blockade
of asteroids, stopping external attack.
This must mean their internal gravity is
switched off however, making an
internal attack… Complicated.
8. An enemy ship has rerouted its gravity
generators to throw asteroids at you
from a nearby asteroid field
9. A science station imploded a star
during a test of a new weapon, but
misjudged the size of the resulting
black hole.
towards the event horizon, signalling
mayday and a full evacuation.
10. You are immediately hailed by a
dangerous looking ship. “I‟m feeling
generous today. I shall allow you to
choose your own death. Which do you
like least: shields, oxygen, or
weapons?” (whichever the party
chooses, the enemy ships disable for
the duration of the battle)
11. You spy two pirate ships lurking in the
nebula here. They remain unaware of
your presence; You‟re able to get your
scanners to at least identify their cargo:
One is carrying the fuel supplies, the
other the ammunition. They begin to
drift away from each other in the storm.
12. You jump into the middle of a plasma
storm. Multiple recently incapacitated
ships loom in the shadows, briefly
illuminated by the lightning.
13. You see a small station nearby and feel
the shudder of shots ringing through the
ship. You can‟t be sure without sensors,
but it seems there may be intruders on
the ship.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. You find the wreckage of two friendly
ships that warped into the same space,
something technically possible but
statistically approaches impossibility.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. You find an illegal garbage dump zone
at a Lagrangian point. Most of it is
trash, but there is some minor treasure
to scavenge.
22. On a newly colonized tropical pleasure
planet, a crew member with an
abnormally high Psi Score starts to hear
voices. It turns out that the 3000km
long coral reef is actually a sentient
hive mind and it‟s pissed. If the crew
doesn‟t stop the locals from dynamiting
the reef to build hotels, it‟s going to
start causing brain embolisms in people
until there are no humans left. A
computer model shows it could wipe
out the population of ten million people
in five days.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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…
34. 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.
35. There‟s a Wormhole to… somewhere.
Your scanners can‟t quite figure out
where.
36. An automated salvage vessel
mistakenly flags the party‟s ship as
scrap, and attempts to collect its parts.
37. A strange combat drone engages the
ship. It can only move by firing a
plasma launcher in the opposite
direction.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. 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 recognizable form?
44. A gigantic intelligent leviathan creature
is drifting between stars at sub-light
speed. It contacts the ship telepathically
to explain that it rescued some
humans/pc race some time ago and has
been sustaining them in one of many
large cysts on its flanks. It asks you to
take them off its “hands” as their
presence is physically irritating, like a
tick, because they are literally living off
its body and fluids. The creature had
not realized the difference in lifespans
and so had no idea that his passengers
are 6th generation inhabitants who have
never known any other life except as
oral legend and are terrified at the idea
of leaving.
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. Your ship emerges quite far away from
the jump beacons coordinates. You see
a pirate ship waiting nearby the jump
beacon exit; undoubtedly stationed to
look for unarmed vessels that fall into
its trap.
50. You follow the distress beacon to a
small asteroid belt. You find a small
ship struggling to maneuver through
the field. They message you, “Help!
Our shields are down and I don‟t know
how much longer we can last!”
51. 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.
52. A massive diamond shaped space craft
comes out of warp. It seems to be sub
consciously beckoning the party to
come aboard
53. 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
54. The ship‟s recycler is on the fritz and
your food has started to look more and
more like feces
55. 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.
56. A gigantic mechanical skull drifts
through the void of space past the ship.
One of its gigantic eyes follows the
ship, but does nothing.
57. 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.
58. An abandoned science shuttle drifts in
orbit around a seemingly-empty planet.
Analysis suggests the whole crew was
killed by the common cold.
59. 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.
60. An automated battleship attacks the
party
61. The party‟s ship is caught in a
gravitational anomaly and forced to
crash on an unknown planet
62. 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.
63. 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.
64. 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?
65. 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).
66. 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?
67. The ships computer gives a puzzling
report. Something in your cargo hold
has been growing heavier after every
FTL jump.
68. 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.
69. 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.
70. 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.
71. The party discover that a moderately
important drift beacon has an inevitable
guarding it, destroying anything that
gets nearby
72. 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.
73. Party discovers a compound filled with
undead, and turrets that shoot anyone
who tries to harm an undead.
74. In a city the party sees a person openly
stealing things, and no one seems to
notice or care.
75. 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.