Space Opera Plots

A Zodiac tour ship has called for assistance and you and your ship have responded. At the twin planet system of Gemstone and Jewel several passengers have vanished while on shore trips. The two planetary governments each claim it was the responsibility of the other.

A notorious assassin had killed the previous six Archons of Golgotha V. They citizens have conscripted a new one; having failed to protect the previous Archons the new Archon has requested off-planet assistance and you and your ship has been dispatched.

A diplomatic courier ship has broken down, and you and your ship have gone to render assistance. The crew refuse to abandon her, due to the sealed data vaults, and despite massive damage insist on stringent security while you assist with repairs.

The inhabitants of Juvenila have been keeping themselves youthful by transplanting their consciousness into new clones every ten years. With many of them reaching the limits of organic memory they have requested you and your ship hire off-world experts to try and resolve this problem.

A ship offering life-extending treatments has been operating just beyond the planetary legal limits of Scaldron II. Although they appear to do no harm the authorities are unhappy about the secrecy they operate under and have asked you and your ship to perform a spaceworthiness check as a pretext.

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A hulk has been spotted adrift in the shipping lanes. You and your ship are dispatched to clear it as a hazard. Closing to identify it you discover it is the Manderley, declared lost 18 months ago - after witnesses saw it disintegrated by a freak plasma flare.

A strange invasive plant has appeared in station green spaces across the Alicorn Rim. Many different methods of control have been tried with varying success. You have been asked to carry horticulturists to a conference, when you discover spores have escaped into the lifesystem of your ship.

The powerful Dockers Guild on Herculan Station has slowed operations to a crawl with ships queuing to dock, undock or get anything loaded or unloaded. The station authorities have asked you to look into the recent death of one of the Guild's masters.

Minor pirate gangs have been operating out of the Hindness System, the damage their raids have done not quite enough for any fleet to risk their defences. Now a Trade league has formed a multi-system squadron, and you and your ship have been asked to join the expedition.

Customs agents have discovered a robot assassin that was being shipped to you, fortunately managing to identify it before it went on a killing spree. A sector-wide search has revealed more of them in transit; you and your ship head for the originating dispatch depot.

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For Saturday our space opera serial continues. Stopping for repairs, our crew find themselves caught up in a local treasure hunt. Vanaheim Interlude. www.patreon.com/posts/vanahe...

A tourist ship cruising the Lusitanian System has stopped in orbit around the garden moon of Verdant without explanation. When you divert to investigate it seems the crew have abandoned the ship, leaving the passengers stranded, though with months of luxury supplies.

An outbreak of nano-flu on Lute Station has incapacitated the station staff there. Fortunately your crew were vaccinated so you arrive just in time to relieve the last capable engineers and start treatment. However is becomes clear a ship has already broken quarantine.

A mysterious winged ship has been attacking mining and security sites across the DeRindi Belt. An investigation has revealed that the owners of the sites form a corrupt cartel. Heading to arrest one of suspects you arrive to discover the winged ship has killed them and is leaving.

A medical frigate deployed to a Hund refugee fleet has broken down and been taken in tow. Returning from a patrol to ensure the fleet isn't being pursued you attempt to close to assist in repairs only to find the passenger hulk towing it refuses to let it be repaired to fly free.

A bizarre combination of accidents, transfers and retirements has left you as acting sector commander. With reports of shipping lanes being closed, raiders striking over the frontier and problems with the plasma torpedoes, now high command have closed your bank accounts pending an audit.

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You have discovered a sprawling necropolis complex in the otherwise deserted Seti system. Resistant to your scans you have sent teams to try and learn more. The artefacts are mysterious, the inscriptions indecipherable and the actual graves packed with perfectly preserved human bodies.

You have located captives taken by a rogue government on a remote space station. Because they will be moved before your ship can bring reinforcements you decide to lead a rescue party despite being outnumbered and outgunned.

A cruiser has been disabled in the Inshun system. They have managed to fight off the swarms of attackers allowing you and your ship to approach, but you cannot take all the crew, nor take it in tow, and the enemy are massing for another attack.

After several deep space arrests have proved unable to be prosecuted an inspector has arrived aboard to improve the legal situation. With carte blanche to go anywhere on the ship the crew are complaining that they keep appearing to question them in the middle of delicate tasks.

Paranoid xenophobia has struck Dorma Station with visiting spacers being accused of espionage. With shipping starting to avoid them you have been sent to negotiate a security protocol. Leaving your ship on the system outskirts to satisfy their fears, you arrive in a one-person pod.

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Off-planet owned Industries on Garuba have been nationalised by the local government. Unhappy with the situation, some investors have sponsored mercenaries to attempt a coup which failed. The mercenaries are holed up with city-busting weapons and you have been called in to negotiate.

A ship thought lost more than a year ago has finally been located, though the crew have been interned by the authorities in Chanik System. Delicate negotiations to free them are close to finishing and you and your ship are on standby to enter the system to retrieve them.