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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3548495" data-attributes="member: 14041">Well, if you really dont mind "borrowing" heavily from TV:Episode 1:  Have players make a PC for either a pirate vessel or for a heavily armed merchant ship.  In the first session run them against each other, using NPCs to fill out the crew of the two small ships.  In the midst of their conflict, preferably when the two ships are connected, a sudden color pool opens up and zips them to an unknown and uncharted region of space.  In the process massive damage is done to the two ships and all (or almost all) the NPCs die.  The two crews quickly realize that if either is to survive they must work thogether (tell the players ahead of time that the two crews will eventually be mingled to avoid problems), possibly to survive an encounter with some nasty astral-space dwelling creatures that attack the ship(s). If there are any roles on the ship that no PC wants to play they can be NPC survivors - or you can have filling those roles be part of early 'missions.'  The two ships are cannabalized to make something that can limp along and reach a trading out post on a floating landberg.Episode 2:  Heavy on RP as the new crew deals with each other and interacts with the inhabitants of the station.  Now is time to fill those vital roles that no one wants to play.  Need an X?  Encounter one on the station, begging all passers by for help.  His/her/its child/spawn/mate/friend has been captured by a well known group of slaver-thugs and is getting ready to sell it to a slave ship.  There are no real laws here and so noone else will do anything about it without pay, which the poor X doesnt have.  He will, however, agree to serve the ship faithfully if they will at least try and rescue the slave-to-be.  In the end they might free several slaves, all of whom are willing and able to join the crew and be deck washers, cooks, and other suitable NPC type jobs.Episode 3: Having made enemies of the slavers the PCs are unaware when, en route to a station that is said to have better maps that might help them get home, they are attacked.  Big ship battle, boarding parties, the usual stuff. If they survive they just get deeper in trouble with the slavers.Episode 4:  The PC's ship needs Y.  NPCs can make several suggestions for a source of Y and the 'crew' has to decide how they are going to get it.  Give them options that are difficult but ultimately good and ones that are easier but evil.  From here they can begin deciding what they want to be -pirates or travelers.Future Episode Ideas:- Great Space Race! Prizes! Intrigue! Hot Alien Babes/Hunks!- The ship takes on passangers who are not what they seem.-The crew arent the only ones who have been hurled into this region.  Old enemies from home make an apperance.- Something came aboard at that last stop and is stalking the crew.-The ship is captured and forced to fight in a war they do not understand.- Fat merchant ships are ripe for that attack.  Are the PCs hired to protect the convoy or do they raid it themselves?Races:The Forsaken - a 'race' made of sentient undead (awakened zombies) that travel in vast rune carved stone obalisks fueled by soul energy.  Mostly the simply collect dead bodies to add members but some lich-captains attack others to gain crew. Their 'engines' are ghosts.'Forged - Sentient constructs made by an ancient race for a war that is long over.  Now they wander space looking for any surviving members of the Makers as well as a place they can call home.  Generally LN, a small sect has grown to hate organic beings and is decidedly LE.Mi-go- Humanoid shaped fungal colonies that thrive on learning.  The source for the best items, but at prices possibly too high to pay.Klix - No one can pronounce the words of their langauage so they just call them 'klix' for the sound they make.  Use stats for Faen from UE but make them insectoid.  The members of their race that can commuicate are special Ambassador or Explorer (theones that have metamophesized to have wings) caste individuals that can function away from the hive mind of the colony.</blockquote>

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