Adventure Seed; The false god

[Orr]

They are still expanding into District 268 in 1105+

Thanks. I know 268 was made a protectorate of sorts sometime before the Classic era and was made a real subsector (Plankwell?) by the Regency, but I couldn't remember where/when the Imperium had expanded after the Civil War.

 

[Blue Ghost]

When was the last time the 3I expanded? Or tried to expand?

The first war with the Zhos pretty much stopped any expansion in the Marches and all the others have just kicked the 3I out of more territory. The Julian War stopped expansion coreward. Would the last expansion have been rimward before all the Solomani troubles began?

Enoki's points about taking into account Eskufet's "neighborhood" are good ones too. There's a Ral Ranta world 2 parsecs away, a marginal one with a poor port and a TL of 8 but still one with 40 million people on it. There's an ATC world 5 parsecs off, low population but it can be used as a base.

Just what are these off-world corps shipping off Eskufet? Food? There's a world, Boilingbrook, with an insidious atmosphere and 70 million people right next door. Maybe Ral Ranta, ATC, or both are interested in Broilingbrook's breadbasket?

Excellent points, which is why this is a seed and not a fully fleshed out adventure. A referee would have to conjure a product, good, service, or some raw material available and ready for exploitation. Maybe there's a unique biochemistry that the world and its biosphere have, such that it creates some byproduct of somekind that turns out to be extremely valuable to the rest of space. It might be some mineral, possibly petrochemicals, or indeed fields of crops of some kind; wheat, nuts, produce, maybe even vast herds of animals.

Said thing could be a MacGuffin (something around which all interest revolves, but which itself is uninteresting), or it could be very salient to the job; i.e. the players may need to discover why the Tilans are being exploited, and in order to do that take a sample of the thing they're being forced to produce back to the local Imperial office back in Imperial space.

 

[Orr]

Excellent points...

Excellent, yes, but they're not my ideas or points. I was just playing with what Enoki already shared with us.

You should talk over your adventure seed with him. He's not only got the region detailed, he's put some long thinking into it too.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Thanks. I really just wanted to post it here to give people some ideas for gaming sessions. Enjoy

 

[Orr]

Enjoy

No worries there. I know I did and I'm sure the others did too.

Thanks for sharing the idea.