Judith Jones is a charasmatic religious/cult/cadre leader that has gathered a flock of true believers from a half dozen planets. They are seeking to shield themselves from the corruption of the corporate dominated system and purify minds, souls, and spirits for the return of god riding in his flying saucer hidden in the tail of a cosmic storm. <br /><br />To this end all of her followers have liquidated their assets and given it to the "church" and Judith has decreed building a HS20 ship to house the church. It has domes from growing food and some ag domes with lawns and trees. It has two digger shuttles and an ore processing plant- with a view to chewing up cometary bodies or oort cloud objects for ion fuel. The idea is to build a self-sustaining vessel and leave behind the corporate military establishment.<br /><br />She's prophecied that once they build the ship more will flock to the "church" as the only way to escape the coming catclysm. she has thousands and they live like hermits but they probably dont need a HS20 ship. Building an HS20 ship is actually about the publicity it will create. <br /><br />The churches officers have become more controlling of them once they are locked away on the ship. Rumor has it that Judith is brewing up a special batch of cool-ade.<br /><br /><br />The idea is that religious nut house group builds a monstrousity of a shipto be a self sustaining escape vehicle, borrow from the Jone's Town and Heaven's Gate groups and what are the adventure possibilities.<br /><br />a HS 20 ship would be a very big dungeon crawl just exploring it if it was a derelict- of course it wont be a derelict as you will want the PCs to encounter people along the way.<br /><br />Edit: no doubt they toured the ship to many of the planets in the Frontier with Judith preaching the message of salvation and largely recruiting the homeless and desperate (when she really wanted more of the wealthy set), carefully contolled news crews were allowed on board to holo-tape the untopian world they are creating but eventually the ship disappered from the Frontier: they dont actually get far when they cant simply buy ion fuel any more. They have problems mining fuel and some parts and spares they should have stocked for the ship were deglected. <br /><br />PCs may have been contracted to find the ship or they just stumble upon it. church officers may want to seize the PC's ship for their own purposes or perhaps they already did that (to someone else's ship) and sent people back to the Frontier to get the missing parts and spares. By this time Star Law and Space Fleet might want to talke to Judith concerning a number of violations.
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