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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9754829" data-attributes="member: 6999616">Maybe it's just the way this group plays, but we keep finding scenarios where strange alien ships are infested with parasites. We get rid of them, and the ships go on their way.The first was a bioship with parasitic worms, which seemed to be preventing its stutter-warp drive from operating.Today's was a gigantic STL sleeper ship, with a slime-creature hiding in the conduits and eating the occasional passenger. This was not what was keeping the ship from continuing its voyage, but we killed the slime-creature while other parts of the expedition were mining the minerals the ship's maintenance robots needed to do its repairs. We did get something practical out of that: observations and spectroscopy of a working Bussard-style ramjet engine starting up inside a heliosphere and flying away. Humanity in the 2300 setting doesn't need that, but we'd very much like better fusion power plants.The other scenarios so far have been evacuating a group of aliens from a base on their planet's moon to the planet, they having been trapped on the moon after a nuclear war, and talking to an alien cyber-intelligence that we decided to leave alone.If some alien calls the expedition to account for their moral choices, we think we have a decent case. It probably helps that the players have read at least as much SF as Mongoose's editorial people, and appear to know more astrophysics.</blockquote>

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