Thursday, February 11, 2016

Random Space Events

We're playing a GURPS campaign in the Firefly universe.  It's looking like travel with random events will be a big part of the episodic nature, so here are some random events in a table. Most of these are from similar FTL events.


1. Asteroid Miners are out of explosives.  They hail you to see if you can help.
2. Automated Merchant ship requests credits and provides items. 
3. Automated Merchant ship requests credits but doesn't work or provide items.
4. Distress Signal! A cruiser is being destroyed in an asteroid field!'
5. Distress Signal! A cruiser is stuck between two asteroids and cannot free itself.
5. Distress Signal! A ship is out of fuel and drifting.
6. Distress Signal! A ship is out of fuel and the crew is long dead.
7. Distress Signal! A ship has plenty of fuel and life support, but the crew is dead?
8. Distress Signal! A pirate is using a distress beacon as a trap.
9. Distress Signal! A pirate is chasing down a merchant ship.
10. Distress Signal! A pirate is chasing down a merchant ship and offers you a bribe to stay out of it.
11. Drifting ship scrappers have parts for sale.
12. Drifting ship scrappers have a rumor about yonder moon.
13. An abandoned Alliance base might hold secrets
14. An abandoned Rebel base might hold secrets 
15. A heavily damaged Alliance Star Destroyer needs help
16. An automated drone protects an abandoned weapons/supply cache from the war
17. A drifting escape pod, far from any ship
18. Stealthy pirate attack
19. Weak distress signal from an abandoned planet
20. A group of ex-marines from the war are attacking civilians
21. A valuable shipment of medical supplies is lightly guarded.
22. A merchant wants you to deliver supplies.
23. A merchant wants you to track down the last guys he hired to deliver supplies
24. A drifting flash drive has a weak distress signal
25. Random inspection by Alliance Officers!  Hope everyone has their papers in order :)