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<blockquote data-quote="Chaldfont" data-source="post: 2607936" data-attributes="member: 1472">I had an idea for this thread but haven't had a chance to stat it up properly. Maybe someone else can run with it.A small section of the base with an important component (like life support, generators, main computer, etc.) has been breached and has no atmosphere. It's also contaminated with Space-Adapted Mold (SpAM). SpAM is a fungus that grows very rapidly in the warm, moist environments created aboard starships with poor life support systems. It's a terrible nuisance to spacers because it quickly grows to cover every available surface causing widespread equipment failure. The only way to stop it growing is to expose it to vacuum. But this only stops its spread--SpAM exposed to vacuum grows spores which explode (with the release of air trapped in tiny sacs) at the slightest touch. The explosion is too small to cause any real damage, but serves to spread the spores. PCs will probably get these spores on their vac-suits and if they take no precautions will infect their ship on their return. Smart PCs could probably come up with some sort of poison or radiation or some other sci-fi method to destroy the SpAM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaldfont, post: 2607936, member: 1472"] I had an idea for this thread but haven't had a chance to stat it up properly. Maybe someone else can run with it. A small section of the base with an important component (like life support, generators, main computer, etc.) has been breached and has no atmosphere. It's also contaminated with Space-Adapted Mold (SpAM). SpAM is a fungus that grows very rapidly in the warm, moist environments created aboard starships with poor life support systems. It's a terrible nuisance to spacers because it quickly grows to cover every available surface causing widespread equipment failure. The only way to stop it growing is to expose it to vacuum. But this only stops its spread--SpAM exposed to vacuum grows spores which explode (with the release of air trapped in tiny sacs) at the slightest touch. The explosion is too small to cause any real damage, but serves to spread the spores. PCs will probably get these spores on their vac-suits and if they take no precautions will infect their ship on their return. Smart PCs could probably come up with some sort of poison or radiation or some other sci-fi method to destroy the SpAM. [/QUOTE]

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