Derelicts of the Frontier

With the 3rd Ships of the Frontier article in the works for issue 12 (Trafalgar Lines) its time to think about lining up some more articles. Ships of Trans Travel will be getting worked on but I thought a brain storm thread for derelicts would be interesting. Ideas can be rip offs from entertainment and literature or history.<br /><br />Cannon material suggest that hundreds of exploration vessels have been lost and in particular 32 of them in the Mores Nebula (lesser or major I have to look which- its in Zebs time line somewhere). Based on this at least 2 of the derelicts ought to be exploration craft. For simplicity at least one ought to be a civilian version of the assault scout which gives us a readily available deck plan.<br /><br />I believe there was a scenario in both WoWL and the Referee's Screen involving misbehaving computer controlled ships complete with robotic opponents for the PCs to shoot up. This would be another class of derelict though its not typical in that these ships are still operating after a fashion.<br /><br />The point of a derelict is for the PCs to explore it thus we need deck plans and the easiest thing to do here is to reference deck plans that were published in the SFman or FE or were part of the KHs box set (Assault scout and 2 freighters) so lets see if we can match an exisitng deck plan to a derelict idea. Of course if you feel like working up a deckplan have at it.<br /><br />Things to find on the ship:<br />1. mysterious dangerous cargo<br />2. Crew surving in cold storage berths and or freeze fields <br />3. alien life surving on the ship somehow<br />4. records of where the ship has been with some promise of reward if the PCs run this down<br />5. treasure/ reward on ship (this could be the SF equiv of a troll cave - quick session of play with opposition and reward)<br />6. ?<br /><br />I'd like to come up with 3-4 derelicts. Each would have a bit of history and or legend on when and how it went missing, some notes on what might be discovered on the ship and an exisiting deck plan a prospective referee could refere to (something previously published)<br />