Notes and free form thinking, got more to do to make it worth more than just
notes.
A lab goes dark, a marine det went in to check it out, it did not report
back.
a tramp ship was in the area and went in to check it out, not reported back.
Now your team of fixers/recon (players) is going in and ... how much will
you the GM tell them and how much is there, and how to make it unique if you
play things again?
G-By the Numbers 2014
An encounter matrix or flow chart?
Recon/Fixer team, who and what are they, skills and experience.
Plan some basic what you would expect to find, as well as things you might
not expect to find?
Find any survivors and are they survivors? Or aliens playing survivor, or
host for an alien, or
something else? A survivor but for what reasons? Escaped or was left behind?
Left behind for what reasons?
What are you going to tell the recon/fixer team?
Real reason for mission or ..
Intelligence gathering real or suspected? May need to get the box with the
intel in it before the "enemy" finds it, or found it and now what, chase
them down?
Research was:
- weapons normal
- weapons MD
- Weapons biological
- Weapons Chemical
- Space lab or like?
- ancient relic and arch sites?
- transwarp or like propulsion? Accident happened or it was stolen?
- other dimensions
- Farming and like?
- Terra forming
- Aliens and their existence, lives, diet and culture? good or bad?
Station was used for:
- Recon
- Intelligence Gathering
- Spying
- Trade legal and illegal
- Neutral ground and den of spies.
- Unknown to them they was too close to something someone did not want them
the see/know about.
Its in contested space?
- someone says they own it and will not rest?
- Run by the local criminal element or someone else?
- gambling or like allowed?
Someone was or did visit there and it was overt or covert.. Happened or did
not? Cover for other events?
Refugee or like refuge or turn over point? Your now in Imperial space and
now free? Underground railroad or like situation.
Slave trade or employment hub? Come here for work on the new terraformed
world or something else that is BIG?
Alot of local construction and like? For a new .....
Aliens that are not yet known, attacked it?
Station is or near by a member of the royal family or likes favorite get
away cottage.. Overt and covert (having an affair or like).
Good point for access to a planet that has a resource on it that would to
thru the station when it becomes available,
Such as minerals or military action/travel/invasion/etc.
SITUATION PLAYED OUT:
Team when it gets close does it:
Known and suspected threats?
- Enemies (above board one) such as other nations.
- Corporations - corporate raiding, not liekly to be openly done, maybe via
mercenaries, see crooks/pirates.
- Crooks and Pirates
- old knowledge that may be used? Such as area once owned by the ... The
fun of ghost stories or land rights?
Does it detect a jump leaving the stations area or not?
One or more ships jumping out (signals or ?).
What gear did the station, Marines and like have, such as its own jump
capable ship?
Station hails you. who are they, and are they for real?
- Are they a member of the staff? In what function?
- A marine that you may or may not know of?
- A member of the tramp ship you do or don't know of?
- Some one else, can you see them or do you know them or ..
- Real person or a simulation, halograph or polymorph or like being?
Station does not hail you, or answer your hails.
- Does it look damaged?
- life boats easy to see and are they there or gone?
- How so damaged or not?
- Lights on or not?
- Any power at all, or will it need supplemental power?
- Anthing else ordinary or out of the ordinary?
Unit goes in:
- yes
- no
if No, why not, and what could be done to force them to go in and why?
Black box or like, or lab results or a possible survivor or member of the
royal family or possible trasure or ransom/reward?
Where do they go in?
Dock or other means, depends on how badly damaged the station is, docking
clamps or
tramp is still there and other factors?
Or have to be a hard entry? Clamp on the hull, attaching a tube between ship
and station
and burn a hole into the station. Atmosphere is safe or not?
How?
Do they really have the way and means to do it as they say or just let them
have it?
Such as the tube mentioned earier, designed to clamp on the side of a
ship/station/etc, so you can then cut a
hole into the ship/station for entrance, test the atmosphere and like and go
in.
Does the station look like it was:
Attacked
Abandoned?
Damaged by ... what?
Internal or external reasons? Meteor or explosion outwards or ..
Obvious damage from other than natural means?
Accidental or deliberate or
Bodies floating outside is a good sign of something not good.
Chance to get remote sensor feed from the station, so one could see inside
via their cameras/sensors or have to send a drone/probe or like? A USV -
unmanned space vehicle?
Good to be able to detect signs of life, and any obvious or with in the
limits of its abilities to detect.
This to be a:
Murder mystery? Time for NCIS? May have a NCIS team but also an escort for
security.
Horror?
Gothic?
Western?
Action drama or
Snatch and grab?
Rescue?
The monsters/threat or what? Is a? Normal human, alien, or totally alien?
Parasite like Aliens.
Predator or like from Predator?
Vampire or like being?
Bug or like being?
Nanites?
Microbe or like?
How intelligent and its intentions? Your just food or in the way or ?
Mike Adams
2014
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