Hazards
  * Depressurization
  * Radiation
  * Toxic atmosphere
  * Temperature
  * Biological infection
  * Predation
  * Piracy
  * Gravity too high
  * Gravity shear
  * 


Annoyances
  * Taxes
  * Decontamination
  * Fees
  * Poor food
  * Poor lodgings
  * Corrupt personnel
  * Customs (checking for contraband, foreign plants, etc.)
  * Strange etiquette


Inspirations
  * Futurama
  * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  * Farscape
  * Filk
  * Discworld
  * Spelljammer
  * Cowboy Bebop


Scenarios
  * Out of gas
  * Stranded in the doldrums
  * Shipwrecked on a...
    * Empty, airless, tiny asteroid
    * Hostile planet
    * Abandoned space station
  * Ship inspection by an agency of an oppressive government
  * Space Madness
    * Reavers
    * Cabin Fever
    * Crackers Don't Matter
    * Brain Switch
  * Nuclear blast
    * Blindness
    * Burns
    * Radiation poisoning
  * Cybernetic surgery
    * Limb replacement
    * Eye replacement / augmentation
    * Neural alteration / augmentation
  * Interdictor ship encounter
  * Salvage
    * Abandoned, depressurized, depowered ship
    * Abandoned, powered ship. Automatic processes might be a hazard.
    * Abandoned cargo
      * Another ship has a legitimate yet conflicting claim
  * Haggling
    * With a dealer who knows you're at their mercy
    * Trying to find the best price
    * A "kind" stranger offers you a black-market deal
    * For something necessary
      * Food
      * Water
      * Fuel
      * Ship component
        * Engine
        * Battery
        * Sail
        * Life support
        * Automaton / Computer / Autoabacus
    * Trying to sell something
      * Goods
      * Stolen goods
      * Services
      * Something nobody seems to want
        * Because they already have it
        * Because it's illegal
        * Because it's loathsome
        * Because it's too dangerous


Modes of travel ideas
  * Stellar Wind on lightsails - slow, but steady and reliable
  * Jumpgates - fast and reliable, but expensive.
  * Wormholes - fast and cheap, but unreliable.
  * Starburst, riftjump - fast, cheap and VERY unreliable. Though requires rare technology.



  * Stellar wind - lightsail (or other slower-than-light modes such as an Orion drive - nuclear pulse engine)
    * Advantages: Easy to understand and adjudicate.
    * Disadvantage: Universe has to be built differently than ours: Star systems must be MUCH closer than normal; or speed of light (causality much slower than normal.
  * Warp drive - lightspeed, FTL
    * Advantages: Easy for players to understand.
    * Disadvantages: Certain details must be arbitrarily imposed, such as:
      * What happens when two ships meet during FTL travel?
      * How long does it take to go from sublight to FTL? Too fast and the players can just escape everything.
  * Jumpdrive - hyperspace, interdimensional
    * Similar advantages and disadvantages as Warp drive.

Mission types
  * Bounty hunting
    * Dead or alive
    * Alive
  * Survey
  * Deliver
    * Smuggle
  * Steal
  * Terraform, beachhead, foothold
  * get to the gig on time
    * the Bard is performing
    * we're getting awards
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