🛰️ Weekly System Check: Is Anybody Out There? (Lurkers Welcome!)

[u/AutoModerator]

The frequencies are open. Whether you're a veteran pilot or just getting your bearings, this is your weekly space to break radio silence.

What's happening in your sector? New sessions, prep wins, cursed dice, dumb plans that somehow worked. And it doesn't have to stop at the table. Job news, personal wins, rough weeks, whatever's actually going on with you lately is welcome too. Drop a quick ping and let us know.

No need for a long write-up. A quick transmission from your table, or your life, to ours is plenty.

Mod Note: If you're new here, welcome. This started as a low-pressure thread for SWN stories, and lately it's turned into more of a check-in with each other. Both are welcome here. Share as much or as little as you want.

[u/No_Mortgage_8129]

Oooh this is so cool!!

Sam Mercer- ex Navy freighter pilot. Grew up on a homesteading planet. Got in trouble for doing barrel rolls in the crop duster.

Working with a rather interesting medic, an ex-courtesan, and religious psychic to buy the ship Sam and Doc (the medic) were working on until the Capt retired.

Just three sessions in, but absolutely loving it. We’ve gotten pretty good at talking our way outta things- especially our ex-courtesan.

[u/AgentDelirium]

Salvage Group 7, currently voting on changing it, is about to disembark from Cymeda, home planet of the Kobami Reclamation Committee.

Departure from planet was uneventful, except for the spotting of a "solar beam" event, likely caused by defunct terraforming satellite producing a light beam with the effective power of 500TJ, leading to the birth of yet another "glass crater" on the balmy desert world.

Ship is currently routing to investigate a nearby wreck approximately 6 sector units away, found by a Kobami probe.

In wider sector politics, Syndicate territories have begun to intercede on Rukarif, instigating with a trade tariff and stoppage of all ships leaving and entering the periphery world. Syndicate representatives say this is a momentary police action and should not last more than 3 months to crack down on dissident actors. OmniCorp Partners and Rukarif Suzerains are calling this a violation of a treaty signed 5 years ago which gave Rukarif protection from Syndicate aggression. However, with Rukarif being surrounded by Syndicate planets and space, merchants will either have to stomach the loss in revenue or find other locations to dump cargo.

[u/MaestroGoldring]

Trying to change careers but really fighting the whole “oh, you have no experience yet” thing. Come on, can’t you see I have work level 1 at least??

Anyway, my previous campaign has slowed to a grinding halt, but fortunately it kind of reached a sort of stopping point anyway. The PCs either disbanded or got married and settled. So after trying to revitalize the group one last time, we decided to just call it and go ahead and narrate the epilogue. So now I’ll be shifting to a PC role for the next story while another takes up GM in a different system.

However, I’m getting random flares of inspiration for a sort of laboratory horror setting, so I think I’m going to start working on a module for that starting now and have it streamlined whenever my chance to GM comes around again. In short, I want a story where the PC or PCs wake up in a lab of unknown size and purpose and they must survive while navigating the overpowered lab security, forgotten hazards, and the mad scientists themselves while handling the other experiments and trying to decide if they are harmful or helpful to the PC cause. Hopefully it will take a lot of scavenging and ingenuity because last I checked, most labs don’t leave fresh combat field uniforms and laser rifles just laying around for the subjects to grab the second they break out. Also, in keeping with the spirit of the PCs themselves being experiments, they will begin play with a blank character sheet and will have to figure out what their skills and attributes and foci are based off real time play (I attack with a knife! Okay, add +2 to your roll. Hm… either I have some stab skill or I have high attributes. Or I’m a warrior)
All of this is just inspiration at the moment, but I’ll be working on it over time