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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atomn" data-source="post: 3569726" data-attributes="member: 40154"><p>It depends on how into creating background your players are but what about having them each come up with their own background (or backgrounds if some of them want to have past histories together).  Then you and they can brainstorm on how that could draw them into this galatic race.  Since it's an actual race, perhaps the organizer puts people together randomly (or seemingly randomly but actually for some greater purpose if they are a manipulative type).  That would give you the enemies that the party would face and if kept secret in- and out-of-character would give the players an ingame mystery of "who are my shipmates and what are their stories"?  So as the washed up swooprider who's trying to regain his fame wonders why they were on the bad end of a drive-by from a spice drug lord, the "business man" is trying to stay alive and win the race so he can pay back the drug lord for the shipment of spice he lost last month.  And if you'd want the organizer have an overarching goal or just be especially manipulative, he could have a hand in what drew each character to the race.  (ex: he caused the spice-dealer's shipment to get lost, which pushed the dealer to the race because that's the only way to make up the needed cash in such a short timeframe.)</p></blockquote><p></p>