Shenanigans among the stars

THE SCORE

Reach for the stars

Faster than light travel has been discovered and commodified. Everyday people can get jobs piloting between planets or even upon stars. The stars were always pretty from Earth but who knew they could be even more pretty when you’re rocketing past them. We’ve explored every inch of the galaxy by now. It’s not the most common of jobs but it really gets you away from the life at home and out there. We’ve always had our eyes on the sky and now we’re there. Space is a fresh start for many. Is this your chance to start anew? What all can you find out there beyond the stars? Maybe you can do some good for everyone? After all, what’s there to lose?

Relationships

1 partners

1. Lab partners
2. Captain and second mate
3. A scientist and their helpful robot assistant
4. On a honeymoon trip
5. In crime, in life, in death
6. For however long that lasts

2 coworkers

1. Working in the bowels of the ship
2. Assigned reluctantly
3. Who bunk together
4. The two who know the ship best
5. A scientist and their helpful robot pal
6. The only 2 who can communicate between 2 groups

3 friends

1. Since day one of the assignment
2. Traveling the worlds together
3. From back in college
4. At a time that isn’t right now
5. Who share a secret
6. For as long as this is mutually beneficial

4 shady

1. Captain and head smuggler
2. Dealer and druggie
3. Blackmailer and blackmailed
4. Person onboard officially and the person they smuggled in
5. Mercs hired to oppose the rest
6. Dealt together in the distant past

5 intrigue

1. Alien and scientist
2. Mysteriously ill and doctor 
3. You recognize each other but you have no memory of meeting
4. Recently you two agreed to a risky deal
5. Detective and suspect
6. You both suspect each other of something nefarious

6 rivals

1. Vying for the captain’s notice
2. In scientific discovery
3. In owning the smuggling world
4. Captaining the two best ships in the galaxy
5. Siblings assigned to the same ship
6. Captains of the two fastest ships in the galaxy

Needs 

1 scientific discovery

1. You want something named after you before you die
2. you need more patents than your sibling
3. You need to cure this disease
4. You need to make the first contact
5. You need to crack this code
6. You need to invent something great

2 truth

1. Something here isn’t right
2. These glyphs mean something
3. Your father disappeared in this sector years before
4. Everyone needs to know this before I die
5. They told me one thing before they disappeared
6. They died and you need to know why

3 to get out

1. Of a bad situation with worse people
2. Of debt 
3. Of the country with no way to track you
4. Of this ship and away from these people
5. And finally make something of myself
6. Of this part of the galaxy

4 to get money

1. And live life as stress free as possible
2. To get your parents off your back
3. To bail out a buddy
4. To rid yourself of your past
5. And start a new life half-way across the galaxy
6. By any means necessary

5  to gain respect

1. Of the crew
2. Across the galaxy
3. Of another person of science
4. And accolades for my abilities
5. From my family by finally doing something good
6. Of that jerk who dismissed me

6 surviving

1. This trip to the end
2. To see someone one last time
3. Because you promised them
4. To prove them wrong
5. To live a better life
6. In spite of the situation

Objects

1 Tech

1. The trustworthy AI aboard
2. Bug codes on a zip drive
3. Malware infecting something
4. Robotic prosthetic or necessary accessory 
5. A new invention you want to test out
6. Your spaceship has just been fixed up

2 Alien

1. Egg that might have just hatched
2. Weapon accidentally activated
3. Glyphs appearing on your arms
4. Plant that just destroyed the observation room
5. Baby smuggled aboard
6. Parasite that just bit someone

3 Useful

1. Wrench got from the engine room
2. Fire Axe broken out of its box
3. A single spacesuit
4. The last functioning escape pod
5. A medkit with all the works
6. 3 days worth of rations

4 Dangerous

1. item never meant for zero gravity
2. Illegal weapons the captain doesn’t know about
3. Deal with the mob that better pan out in the end
4. Modifications done to a ship
5. Meteorite headed straight for you
6. Notification appearing with no sender

5 Secret

1. Experimental drugs
2. Smuggled goods ready for the market
3. The last message from Earth
4. An extra person
5. Instructions from the local gang
6. Part of an alien ruin still untranslated

6 Brings back memories

1. Picture of a lost lover
2. A personal journal
3. Locket that won’t open
4. Letter from a former friend
5. A switchblade from dad
6. A stuffed animal you still can’t sleep without

Locations

1 Past the milky way

1. On a trip to the furthest star
2. On the galaxy super highway
3. In an alien blackmarket
4. In an observation tank
5. At the biggest space auction house this side of Pluto
6. On an ordinary mining operation

2 in our galaxy

1. Exploring Martian ruins
2. Observing earth
3. On a mission to Venus
4. Escaping Earth
5. Headed straight for the sun
6. And leaving as fast as possible

3 Onboard a spaceship

1. Owned by the US government
2. On its maiden voyage
3. Doing a cargo run
4. Not necessarily your spaceship
5. Hidden with the supplies
6. Trapped in the medical center

4 in the middle of nowhere

1. In an asteroid belt
2. Far from anyone who could help
3. Caught between two ships
4. Found by smugglers
5. Ready for a deal
6. Hiding from the mob

5 Wrecked

1. In hostile territory
2. On an inhospitable planet
3. And tied up by masked people
4. Trapped in the ship
5. On some random comet
6. With your translator dead

6 lost

1. On a planet not on your star charts
2. Way off course
3. Somewhere that has oxygen at least
4. On a strange green planet
5. With enough gas for one jump
6. On an empty hunk of rock