From the Star Frontiers Basic Game Rules...<br /><table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><p>The trivid screen grows hazy and then a hideous worm-like creature appears, its segments glistening with slime.
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You hear its hissing whisper congratulating the raiders for infiltrating Security.
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Then it describes the raiders' next mission.
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They are to fly to a top secret military asteroid where research is
underway on a special weapon that can reduce entire populations to mass
hysteria.
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They are to meet other agents who have already infiltrated the base and steal the device.
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Cold chills run up and down your spine as you eye each other silently.
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This case is more diabolical and far-reaching than you first thought; the raiders are working for the Sathar!</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br />So, the Sathar had raiders infiltrating PGC security and stealing things from numerous PGC sites around the Frontier.<br /><br />That raiding activity was preliminary to a raid on this asteroid research area.<br /><br />In addition to PGC security raiders, the asteroid base was already infiltrated.<br /><br />My guess here is that a military asteroid subcontracted a number of compartmentalized components from the likes of PGC, Cassidine DevCo, Streel etc... for shipping to this military asteroid for assembly and testing.<br /><br />Now the Sathar are after it and were 2 steps ahead... until the PCs broke up the PGC security raiding.<br /><br />So, this one text paragraph brings up a pretty cool sounding adventure possibility, and a number of questions:<br /><br />1. Which military is developing this mass hysteria device?<br />2. Why are they developing it?<br />3. What does it really do?<br /><br />I can assume the base is military in design, and parts in zero gee and parts with spin gravity of some sort, either gravity wheels or the entire asteroid spinning.<br /><br />It would be some sort of "military base" - but in space! So, it would have administrative offices, a research area, some workshops for site maintenance and assembly, a docking area, a mess hall, a PX, etc.<br /><br />The Sathar agents aboard might be some of the scientists, or site security, or even just administrative types.<br /><br />So, my idea of a hook is that Star Law would temporarily deputize the team, since they already were involved with the Sathar agents, and the team goes into the military asteroid.<br /><br />This sort of assumes that this military asteroid is in the Prenglar system since the basic game hasn't gotten too much into spacecraft and travel.<br /><br />And there's a couple of ways in - overt, or covert.<br />An overt Star Law raid is one possibility - cops kick in the asteroid base door as it were - so the team goes in with Star Law support.<br />A covert approach would be longer and probably with less support from "known star law"<br /><br />Overt sounds like a Basic Game Rules friendly approach.<br />Covert sounds more like an Extended Rules approach.<br /><br />Thoughts on fittting a mission like this after PGC Security Breach and before Alien Creature on the loose?
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