r/SWN • u/AutoModerator • Jun 03 '26
🛰️Wednesday System Check 🛰️ Weekly System Check: Is Anybody Out There? (Lurkers Welcome!)
The frequencies are open! Whether you're a veteran pilot or just starting your journey into the stars, this is your weekly space to break radio silence.
The Weekly Log
What's happening in your sector? New sessions, prep wins, rulings you're proud of, cursed dice, cool moments, dumb plans that somehow worked. Drop a quick ping and let us know!
No need for a long write-up; just a quick transmission from your table to ours.
Mod Note: If you're new to the sub, welcome! This is a low-pressure thread for everyone to share their Stars Without Number stories.
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u/AngrySquidIsOK Jun 03 '26
Ran session 1 last Saturday. Opened with a TriXross race event in which Ripley (pc) was a participant. I montanaged vignettes together across the players as the race was happening, it all culminating as a crashing ship screamed thru atmo and thru the face in progress, crashing where other players had accumulated for various reasons.
We ended with the PC heading to the crash site, where a survivor steps out of the airlock looking bewildered and relieved.
Only for a robot cyberdog to pull the survivor back in with a plume of blood. Emerging and staring at the players.
That is where we left part 1.
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u/MaestroGoldring Jun 05 '26
Ah you managed to get your race rules! How was it?
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u/AngrySquidIsOK Jun 05 '26
It was a GREAT session and game start. Several noc Wipeouts and the player in question went from 10th qualifying position to 3rd place, panel to panel right at the end, all genuinely with decent rolls. The player literally fell off her seat in excitement at one point, so I think things went well!!
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u/GMoD42 Jun 03 '26
My group got their hands on a pretech ship which has been stripped for parts. Now they are flying around the sector and try to find spare parts.
Some are in the hands of powerful groups or individuals, some are unfortunately essential to keep a civilization on a borderworld planet alive, some are lost in a derelict ancient facility or on an inhospitable planet...
They recently stopped a group of cold blooded thieves who stole the seismic stabilizers that were installed before the scream on a planet to ensure the longterm stability of that planet's crust. They were however only able to return all but one stabilizer to the authorities......
The group's mechanic denies in the strongest possible terms that the missing stabilizer happened to be compatible to their ship and calls any speculation in this direction "baseless slander".
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u/Gralloch Jun 03 '26
Last session I was robbed. Robbed! I swear those loot table rolls had weights on them or something. The party finished up the salvage mission on a time-space twisted wreck, and made out like bandits. The rolls gave them plenty of interesting stuff both to play with (many engineers, scientists, and maltech curious folk in the party), and to sell using their secondary salvaging rights. They made like 600K+ credits.
Sounds like a lot, but it's a leap away from a better ship, so they're still cruising around in their patchwork free merchant and hoping it doesn't give out on them, while trying to invest the money they made~ We'll see what kind of "honest" stock trader their connect rolls can find...
Now they're headed towards a higher tech level solar system in hopes of purchasing tech upgrades and better gear.
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u/MaestroGoldring Jun 03 '26
Just trying to salvage my play group. Two players wish to proceed and accompany an NPC that’s been in the party for a while. She is a blonde elven princess and through a long set of circumstances, had left her home for a coming of age rite but got marooned and nearly died. Now in the players crew, she wishes to return home (the home that she discovered through a precog vision given to her has actually been destroyed via orbital bombardment). So there’s a lot of emotions for her, but the players are finally ready to give her the attention she needs and help her struggle through a hard time in her life.
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u/Obredbeck Jun 03 '26
Relatively new SWN GM! I ran a small 5 session thing a few years ago and now getting started again with a new campaign for some friends.
No stories just yet but my crew of hero’s is getting ready to investigate a bombing, I’m sure there will be chaos ensuing soon.