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ISSUE 01
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 D10 ALTERNATIVE
CLASSES

1. Suit: +5 Intellect, +5 Speed Body 30 / 5. Zoologist: +5 Strength, +5 Intellect Body

Sanity 40 / Fear 20 / Armor 30 Appeal to 25 / Sanity 30 / Fear 45 / Armor 25 Gain [+]
Contract: can reroll any other ally’s Panic on Saves vs. xeno-lifeforms. All characters
result once per session. Skills: Linguistics. in the presence of a Zoologist must make
Pick two: Art, Theology, Rimwise. +2 points. a Panic Check if the Zoologist is struck by
an attack from an alien lifeform. Skills:
2. Witness: The practical evolution of the Biology, First Aid, +3 points.
field reporter. Training instills hardened
resolve through mental conditioning. 6. Bounty Hunter: +5 Strength, +5 Combat
A witness never looks away. Especially Body 30 / Sanity 20 / Fear 30 /
useful as a frontline scout, willing to delve Armor 40 +2 Resolve upon successfully
where even light fears to shine. capturing/subduing target alive. Skills:
+10 Speed Body 25 / Sanity 40 / Fear 40 / First Aid, Close Quarters Combat,
Armor 25 Panic Checks are made at [+]. Weapon Specialization: Unarmed, Joint
XP Incentive: Bare witness to the arcane. Manipulation/Submission.
Stoke the flames of knowledge amidst the
dark void. Skills: Athletics, Rimwise. Pick 7. Void Urchin: -10 to all stats Body 20 /
one: Linguistics, Computers. +2 points. Sanity 20 / Fear 20 / Armor 20 Rolls with
[+} on Stress, Stress Checks, and Panic
3. Field Biologist: +5 Intellect Body 30 Checks Skills: Scavenging.
/ Sanity 40 / Fear 35 / Armor 30 Been
There, Seen That: Can negate a Panic 8. Convict: +10 Speed Body 30 / Sanity 20 /
Check for the entire party once per day, Fear 50 / Armor 20 Any failed Fear Save
provided they can offer a plausible (even by the Convict is considered a Critical
if incorrect) explanation that reassures Failure. Skills: Rimwise, Scavenging or
everyone to remain calm. Skills: Biology, Athletics, +2 pts.
Hydroponics, +4pts.
9. Hybrid: +15 Strength +15 Speed Body
4. Void Monk: +10 Strength Body 20 / Sanity 30 / Sanity 10 / Fear 20 / Armor 25
40 / Fear 30 / Armor 30 Touch an enemy, Automatically fail Panic Checks. Skills:
forcing them to make a Body Save or lose CQC, Athletics.
a sense of your choice for 1d10 seconds.
Skills: +3 points. 10. Weaver: +15 Intellect Body 10 / Sanity 50
/ Fear 50 / Armor 10 Skills: Astrogation,
Hyperspace. Panic will override the AI
interface and launch the ship to random
coordinates within range, when applicable.

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 D10 HYPERCORP BLACK
PROJECTS
1. Project Myrmidon: Removing 5. The Meeting Room: An entire world
self‑awareness from humans while terraformed to have a wipe-clean surface.
ingraining automatic behaviors that Orbital dry erase markers. A fleet of
can support and maintain a corporate executives in orbit, forming planning
hierarchy. It’s capitalist Blindsight! committees, their flow charts the size of
continents. BECAUSE THEY CAN.
2. Biologically Assisted Corporate
Replacement: A series of targeted 6. SleepBuddiez™: Modifying a parasitic
neurodegenerative diseases intended species that feeds on lactic acid and other
to affect only those who are under the biochemical sleep markers, allowing one
effects of the common life extension to forego sleep for days at a time (before
drugs. An infected planet should be psychological needs outpace physiological
cleared of corporate elites within days and ones). Works a treat! However… there
a specially prepared executive strike team may be some side effects… but not
will slot in to replace the lost and bring the so many that they can’t be rattled off
planet under company control. quickly by a voice over artist at the end of
advertisements for these ankle-clinging
3. Project Mayflower: Engineering brushfire xenos! Legal’s already signed off!
wars on frontier worlds in order to
force rapid development of advanced 7. Operation MIRROR OBSOLETE: The
military‑industrial bases, secure consumer company sends trained operatives through
bases for heavy weapons and as testing a dimensional barrier to report back on
grounds for experimental weapons alternate timelines, conduct technological
projects. research (and occasionally trading) and
perform corporate espionage. Highly
4. The Gauntlet: A modern day space volatile, still in early testing. Looking for
colosseum built inside an asteroid at the volunteers.
edge of some god forsaken system. Pirates
provide captured slaves, exotic creatures 8. Project Wholesome: Encouragement of
and hacked Androids to the owners of militarism and aggression in two rival
this questionable facility. Some of the colonies, both given very reasonable
demoralized super-rich corp owners join discounts on weapons. Eventual goal is
in on the fun, betting on the available to have them accustomed to generations
gladiators and watching the fun from the of warfare before selling them off as
V.I.P. balconies. The rest of the onlookers mercenaries. The plan was drawn up
consist of space scum. A perfect place for before the first colony ships left.
some black project networking.

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 9. Project BIG SKY: Asteroid [REDACTED]
was discovered to made of a tough and
sonically resonant rock which could be
used for a variety of audio commercial
products. Android-crewed extraction
operations were discontinued after
artificial synthesis of the material
dramatically changed the cost/
benefits of maintaining mining bases
in an asteriod field. The bases were
promptly retooled for resale
to colonists. A buried private
inquiry – commissioned after
an accidental fire during the
installation of biome life
support systems – found that
the combined mining tunnels,
natural caverns and auditory
nature of the rock have the
potential to amplify sound to
brain-chemical-altering heights.
Workers who did not collapse
into catatonic states during the
fire reported seeing angels and
other supernatural iconography and
sensations. A new religion has sprung up
among the survivors. The report concludes
that habitation of the [REDACTED]
should be abandoned. The colony
opens this week and there is a massive
corporate‑sponsored festival planned.

10. Project Camel Thread: Original intent of

the project was to set up a stable tunnel
through hyperspace to enable fast transit
within a solar system. Didn’t pan out as
things had a tendency to come out…odd.
The only working prototype of the tunnel is
set up between two Kuiper belt objects in
a backwater system; the company keeps
running things/animals/people through to
see if any profitable permutations appear.

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 D10 HOLIDAYS

1. Samhain/Halloween: When the walls 5. HOLIDAY!!!!!!!: On the megacolony ship

between our dimension and others The Crossroads holidays are a dirty
become thin. Just the time for scientists word - “holiday” being a Stalker-Crazies
to test some dimension jumping test ship, term for when they find and crack open a
what could possibly go wrong…? previously untouched medbay or chemlab.
For the next several days the sector will be
2. Founder’s Day: When you celebrate the awash with blood as the shrieking Crazies
founding of The Company and all it has cut loose for the first time in a while and
done to better humanity (and especially indulge in their usually frustrated drug
its shareholders) and are grateful to habits. It ends when the drugs run out,
be a cog in its machine. Also the day and The Crossroads was exceptionally
bonus payments come out. Traditionally well‑stocked.
celebrated by dumping the flashfrozen
branded Founder’s Day cake out an airlock 6. August the 5th: On August 5th (Terran
then getting sloshed on engine core Standard Calendar) for 30 seconds all work
moonshine and lamenting how you’ll never stops and all go silent. Those who can
be able to retire on a freighter pilot’s pay. take off their hats and helmets and most
place their hands over the hearts. Most
3. “Bah, Bunkbug!”: Morale improvement don’t know the origin of this holiday, just
consultants started this hygienic holiday in the words and that it is for all of those that
20X6 to curb fleetwide infestations. Twenty pushed farther and further for longer than
days before yearly employee reviews, they ever should have. For 30 seconds on
crew incinerate old bedding and uniforms August the 5th the PAs across the cosmos
or jettison them from an airlock. Many crackle to life and the spacers sing along…
include symbolic items as a pledge to end Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to
a bad habit. A prime time to quit smoking you, happy birthday dear Curiosity, happy
or mutiny. Brave crewmembers don birthday to you.
antennae headbands (and nothing else!)
to open an airlock for a few seconds and 7. Johnson and Johnson Day: Celebration
taste refreshing vacuum. for the company that invented Duct tape,
without which space travel would have
4. Launch Day: On the anniversary of a ship’s never been possible (it really can fix
launch a celebration is held in order to anything, just ask the crew who first flew
honor the vessel and the former crews to Alpha Centauri).
that manned it in the past. The celebration
lasts all day and consist of decorating the 8. The Hatching: The lizard people of the
rooms and corridors and sometimes even now-human colony world Azunia celebrate
the hull with trinkets found throughout the the hatching of the “Great One” every
year. When the ship changes crew some 1000 years who will purge the weak
of the trinkets are welded together into a from the tribe. Except some enterprising
decorative totem which is left on the ship archaeologists have acquired the
in order to be exhibited during all other as‑yet‑unhatched specimen which is in
Launch Days. The totems serve as a piece transit on the 999y 12m 31st day.
of living history and oftentimes inspire
Launch Day tales of the vessel’s past.

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 9. Anarchists’ Jubilee: Debts are forgiven,
fees are waived, social barriers are
destroyed, up is down, the order is
overturned, CEOs are paraded through the
streets in effigy while the homeless party
on their diamond-hulled ships. Everything
save harm is fair game for a day and
everyone gets shitfaced. Currently being
stamped out by the corporations, but still
celebrated on backwater company worlds.

10. Stranger Day: Everyone has lost someone

to The Void. No one is ever home for
Christmas. Birthdays are regularly
missed. Stranger Day is a day kept running
largely by Teamster unions. On this day
anonymous gifts abound. Random favors
happen. Spaceport beggars are given to
freely. Legend states the holiday was
founded by a Teamster named Niklaus
Hanzu who, having not been home in 62
years, dumped his entire shipment of
purloined luxury onto a space station
slum of needy refugees. It’s common on
Stranger Day for people who travel for a
living to find someone somewhere whose
name they do not know and whose cause
they do not champion and to buy them
a drink, do them a solid, give them a lift
or find some way to help them. “No one
doesn’t drink on Stranger Day.”

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 D10 SHIPS DOCKED AT
THE EDGE OF CHARTED
SPACE

1. The Lancelot: Ugly. Deadly weapon systems. The 7. The Attic Widow: A trade ship run entirely by a
captain is a tedious and moral philanderer. secretive order of silent nuns. Painted black. No
one is sure where they get their darksilk wares.
2. Jekyll: A beat-up medical ship. Also known
as The Hyde, a notorious pirate vessel, once 8. Grin at Death: A mortifying reminder of a long
“reconfigured” via custom modifications. concluded war, a mercenary company whose
archivist carries the memories of hundreds of
3. The Castellan: A boxy blockade runner currently their fallen brothers and sisters stretching back
afflicted by a memetic bibliovirus. The crew generations. A strange locus from which to
have slowly constructed their own tonal learn about the universe and a brutally effective,
proto‑language out of the only phrase the unnervingly jovial fighting force. Their distinctive
bibliovirus will allow them to say: “Rejoice and all battlecry is “Grin at Death, the Archive Will
will be reclaimed.” Remember Me.” They’ll pay handsomely for
primary documents about their company.
4. 1A0-2B3: Off-the-assembly-line-new. Doesn’t
even have a name registered in the standard 9. Attending Moistened Heaven (Hexagram 5): an
databases. Bleeding-edge tech. eccentric metadivination, a ship paid for by an
opulently wealthy banker that neddlecasts its
5. The Sloth: Gargantuan automated mining ship. location to a great divination board. Unaware
Crew is only thawed for yearly maintenance of the locations, attitudes or schematics of
duties. They’re really out of touch. other Hexagrams and wholly indifferent to
their agendas. For some reason crewed only by
6. Node-056-870: Information carrier probe childlike Androids with wide smiles. Their necks
utilizing hyperspace for secure FTL are all tattooed with ALWAYS TRUE.
communication and data transfer. It responds to
hails as though it’s reading off a flowchart. 10. A space telescope, pointed out into the
uncharted black. Currently the site of an active
spacewalk protest by the Bliss Finders. They’re
blocking the camera using a big banner with
“MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW” written on it.

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 D10 CONTRABAND
ITEMS SMUGGLED PAST D10 ODD JOBS THAT PAY
THE BLOCKADE IN WARP CORES

1. Children’s organs. 1. Escort the daughter of a freighting

magnate through union-held space.
2. Military-grade weapon systems. The kind
of guns that make reeal big holes in reeeal 2. Pick up and deliver goods from a courier
big things. Problem is, word got out. Plenty in an uncharted/off-the-beaten-FTL-trail
of space ‘billies got an itchin’ that can sector.
only be scratched by firepower that turns
colony ships into Swiss cheese. 3. Collect samples of a nearby unstable
nebula for a gas mining cabal.
3. Crates of pirated video games that, despite
having been out of production for decades, 4. Sit in this room with a black box, a monitor
are still under very tight IP control. and a keyboard for a week. Do not look at
the monitor. Do not type on the keyboard.
4. Mantis queen full of narcotic nectar.
5. Mine an asteroid.
5. Ancient religious text from before atheism
was the default norm. Really just a shitty 6. Quell a mining colony uprising by any
motel King James Bible. means necessary with minimal damage to
company property.
6. A crown prince.
7. A top chef is requesting samples of exotic
7. The next Amygdala, a birthright in an flora and fauna from a newly-colonized
ancient religion. The government has world.
named their own and wants this child
“gone.” 8. Carry a surgically implanted alien fetus
to term (anyone can do this because it is
8. Chocolate bars. implanted in the liver, the more toxins you
ingest, the healthier your surrogate child
9. The skull of the xenomorph. Yeah, that one. will be).

10. A single floppy disk. They won’t tell you 9. Carry out what the crew thinks is a
what’s inside it. simulated VR mission in an unstable,
experimental ship that the crew discovers,
at the most dire moment, wasn’t a
simulation at all.

10. A science lab requires test subjects.

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 D10 AWKWARD
D10 GEOMETRY- SITUATIONS YOU FIND
NEUTRAL MUNDANE YOURSELF IN WHEN
SPACESHIP CHASE THE GRAVITY TURNS
EVENTS OFF

1. Loose floorboard: Speed heck to dodge or 1. Relieving yourself.

fall into the pit.
2. Feeding your ant colony.
2. Panic: Succeed on a Fear Save or take
1D10/2 stress. 3. In engineering, accompanied by one
unsecured buzzsaw.
3. Cryofluid spillage: Succeed on a Strength
Check or slip. 4. Napping unsecured in the engine room.

4. It’s too much: Succeed on a Sanity Save or 5. Cooking.

roll for Panic.
6. Just having set up a traditional board game
5. Space Turbulence: Succeed on a Body with lots of tiny plastic miniatures.
Save or lose your balance.
7. Halfway into putting on that neoprene/
6. Steamy corridor: Succeed on an spandex bodysuit.
Intelligence Check or lose your bearings.
(Remove the physical map if you have one.) 8. Moving a heavy crate via forklift faster
than safety regulations would allow.
7. Light system malfunction: Succeed on an
Intelligence Check or end up on a nearby 9. Putting those new
but random section of the ship. augmented reality contact
lenses.
8. Out of breath: Succeed on a Body Dave
or receive [-] on all rolls for the next 10. Stress reduction in
1D10 minutes. crewmate’s bunk.

9. Strap/Clothing gets stuck in

scaffolding: Succeed on a Speed
Check or become stuck for now.

10. Hidden Camera: Onboard

computer reacts, will
seal doors behind you
and run the alarm.

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 D10 MILD
INCONVENIENCES*

1. Sliding doors slide apart too slowly. 7. Last cargo shipment had an infestation of
diminutive facehuggers. They just kind of
2. Water is freezing or scalding. We managed pounce onto your nose and hang off it until
space travel, yet this eludes us. they’re plucked away.

3. Pilot chair doesn’t quite lean back enough. 8. New crew member won’t stop making
‘cockpit’ jokes.
4. Out of premium flavor nutrimush, only
regular flavor nutrimush left. 9. Somebody turned on safe-mode on the
ship computer, so it asks “are you sure you
5. Coffee maker pressurization system really want to do X?” all the time.
cranky and unreliable.
10. Sleep regulatory system refuses to stop
6. Air handler can’t filter out that… stench… condescendingly ask about if your getting
enough sleep until all persons are in bed.
*+1 Stress

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 D10 VENDOR NPCS

1. MORGAN THE MAGNIFICENT!: MORGAN has 7. Frett the Poisoner: Sells poisoned dart guns
MANY TREASURES to sell you! ALL 100% through a wide array of self-destructing
FUNCTIONAL! Pay no mind to the Android Android dealers. Look for ‘DONT FRETT’
behind the curtain! spray painted on bulkheads at fuel-up space
stations.
2. [REDACTED].
8. The Devil’s Frequency: Provide coordinates
3. Auto-Vend 3000b: Can 3D print plastic, metal, and an item request to the silent frequency.
wood, stone and limited organic material, Requested item will arrive after 2D10 minutes
“please insert plans and press Start to in a black boarding torpedo as long as you are
continue.” within Sol. They will come to claim the debt.

4. Daddy-0(00101): Sells add-ons, or “daddies”; 9. Riggzies’ Repairs: When you have no other
black-market personality or skill soft-ware options and money’s tight, visit Riggzies.
for Androids (Voids Warranty). Will not sell There’s nothing he can’t fix. Prices negotiable,
wet‑ware to flesh-bags or organics. warranty length directly correlated to price
paid. The repair business is a front for highly
5. Honest Earl’s Reliable Guns: He sells the very enriched warp cores. Will only sell them to
best second-hand guns. Some guns have kill those he trusts. Trust can be bought with DNA
scores which up their prices a bit. But hey, at data from the crew.
least you know the gun has killed something!
Why horse-trade for guns when you can get a 10. Crazy Makoto’s Ammo Vendorium: A bunch
better deal from Honest Earl? of repurposed vending machines that sell
bullets by the magazine. Can’t miss them,
6. Button’s Tent: A dog-sized dung beetle they’re the ones with the anime girl art all over
standing on two legs, wearing a polka-dot it and the hyperactive AI with the stutter. The
apron as she tries to juggle her business and identity of the actual Crazy Makoto remains
68 hyperactive children raised on human a mystery.
action movies. A refugee from an allied
uplifted species, she sells things from home
and crafts made from her own quickly
regenerating chitin. She loves edible gifts
and toys for her children. While she cannot
vocalize human speech she has a tape
with phrases that various customers have
recorded for her. There’s always a need for
more!

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 D10 SPACE PETS

1. Crow: Remembers everything said in 7. Gelatinous Sludge-Puppy: A clever mix of

earshot of it, ever, and can perform animate fluid technology, a small imitator
conversations given a date and time. computer and a colony of specialized
Responds to commands like “Rewind” and bacteria serves as half pet, half sanitation
“Fast Forward.” system. To avoid issues with fluid in zero-G
this gel-like creature is mostly formless,
2. Dog: It can track things by scent given a runs over skin to clean it and can be
small sample. It’s vulnerable in serious programmed to act like one of a variety of
combat but if desperate it can hold its own pre-programmed pet types - this can be
for a few rounds. modified by someone willing to put in the
effort.
3. Extremophile Colony. Lives in
(and consumes) toxic heavy metal 8. Arachno-Macaw: A macaw spliced with
environments, often comes in beautiful portia DNA. It can split cognitive processes
terrariums of terror. into stackable chunks nearly indefinitely.
It understands what you said but only after
4. Cat: Great company, can sense minutes of processing.
xenomorphs.
9. Swarm of zero-G adapted cuttlefish:
5. Uplifted Orangutan: Is no one’s pet but Modified for technical and computer
filled out the paperwork to avoid getting assistance. Adorable little bastards.
drafted by The Company.
10. Bioluminescent zero-G adapted jellyfish:
6. Shadowy Leathery Flap: Flying alien Turns out the harsh environment of
wilflife. Can be directed like hound dogs the deep sea isn’t so different from
given successful Intellect Check. Forces deep space, and with a little effort and
its way onto victims face and into throat biomechanical trickery its inhabitants can
where it will lay dormant until stirred once be adapted for zero gee. Can even survive
more. Mainly adored by Androids, often in no atmosphere for a bit but they’ll probably
secret. be heavily damaged. With a synthetic
nervous system, they can be set to follow
people, sounds or dance ethereally.

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 D10 SPACE DRUGS

1. RELex, Cross, Jesus Dust, Third Eye, Nasal 6. See No Evil: The waste product of genome
Religion: Triggers the neural pathways mapping Bathypelagic Zone fish by
associated with transcendental ecstasy. biopunks, SNE temporarily blinds the user
Tends to be religious in nature. Not and enhances hearing for d10 minutes.
addictive or particularly harmful as a Users risk permanent blindness: roll
chemical but has been the centerpiece of 1d10. On a 1 user becomes permanently
many a cult and corporate religion. blind. Increase by 1 for each subsequent
use during that session. (Second use 1-2
2. Holy Mother: Banned on a number results in permanent blindness, third
of worlds for its unfortunate side- use 1-3, etc). Optional: roll 1d4 and SNE
effects. Addicts cause minor electrical enhances the following: 1. smell 2. touch
malfunctions in their locality which 3. hearing 4. taste.
only get worse the more of them that
are present. The problem is that the 7. H-Bomb: A large capsule taken orally
drug renders them acutely sociable, or as a suppository that emits targeted
causing them to congregate together radiation pulses aimed broadly at major
in ever increasing numbers. Once they nerve clusters, inciting large amounts of
accumulate the trouble starts: each addict pleasurable feedback. Causes wild spasms
is in effect a node in a biological network for d10 minutes before it burns itself out.
that is a hyperspatial portal to The Holy May cause hallucinations. Will definitely
Mother. Unfortunately, she is very hungry. cause cancer.

3. Skum: The brain of a Gaunt, dried in the 8. Warp Juice: Often used recreationally
solar winds of the Galvean System and for its effects as a potent euphoriant
sliced into 2x2cm pieces. Taken sublingual. and stimulant as well as aphrodisiac
Tastes like licking a dumpster (hence the post‑cryogenic sleep by seasoned
name). Causes vivid hallucinations which Teamsters. “Warp Juice, for those
are sometimes terrifying in nature. 2 in 10 occasions when strong coffee just doesn’t
chance of having a bad trip (Panic Check). cut it!”

4. Green Ichor: A hot mess of animal and 9. Night-Night Juice: Spacer ‘artisanal’
plant DNA that would make a truly version of the drugs used to maintain
monstrous chimera if it were cultured. cyrosleep (proprietary blends of synthetic
Instead it is powdered and snorted, opioids, cough syrup, sedative-hypnotics
providing heightened aggression and and essential oils). Popular on mining
focus, insensitivity to pain and the capacity colonies or other places with poor
to continue acting after truly fatal damage. night‑day cycles. Some users claim to be
Outside of being given to child soldiers able to enter the dreams of other nearby
and penal Legions, it provides a strange sleepers, including those in cyrosleep,
euphoria and severely altered vision— which is odd as cyrosleepers don’t dream.
kaleidoscopic fragments of ultraviolet
light and visual sensitivity to wavelengths 10. Strata: Originally developed as a
outside the human visual spectrum. psychiatric aid to help with PTSD by
making new neural pathways around
5. Freeze: Mostly sedative in nature highly memories, though users often relive said
addictive popular on very hot planets. memories while taking it. Mechanical
Makes the user feel as though they are effect: remove 1d10/2 Stress but make a
chilly or even cold. Many of the users are Fear Save or Panic!
found dead in deserts do to exposure, they
do not feel the effects of the heat until it’s
too late.

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 D10 RARE CUSTOMIZED
FIREARMS

1. Caleb’s Spitting Cobra: Standard pulse rifle 6. Lucky Punk: a massive 6 shooter utilizing
with blowtorch nozzle welded underneath. a gravity fed cylinder (the barrel is at the
Has enough fuel for four gouts of flame. bottom rather than top of the cylinder
A Critical Failure results in the tanks and the hammer is internal to prevent
exploding right into your chest. jams). Used by private detectives with
rich imaginations, it comes with a carbine
2. Antique Slugthrower Pistol: Similar to its conversion kit that provides a stock and
modern relatives but it accelerates its longer barrel for better aim and range.
projectile ammunition using combustion. Carved in the stock: A DAME TO KILL FOR.
If used in a zero-G environment the
resulting recoil causes the user to rotate 7. Insult2Injury: A shotgun with an integrated
away from the direction of the projectile artificial intelligence that shoots as many
unless braced. Ammunition is incredibly swears as it does pellets. Rips you up
rare but even non-lethal injuries can easily verbally and physically.
end in death if the right medical tools are
not available. 8. “Ninight”: a heavily modified tranquilizer
pistol that injects its sedative into the
3. Laser pistol: Always hits. 10d10damage. trigger finger of the wielder. Sometimes
Slags itself after one shot (user take used by bounty hunters who find
1d10damage and Body Save or lose use of themselves on the wrong side of their
appendage for 1d10 rounds. own weapons. The handle is inlaid with
mother‑of-pearl: COME QUIETLY.
4. Huge Gold AK-47: actually a Chinese Type
51 and it’s gold plated because a gun made 9. BOTSHOT: A modified assault shotgun that
of gold wouldn’t work. It looks showy and fires nanopellets meant for putting down
the grips are textured cubic zirconium. Android resistors. Each pellet is a veritable
petri dish of nanoviruses, Androids must
5. Seize the Means of Production: Made make a Body Save at [-] when shot or
famous by the Labor Uprising on Echo else fall unconscious and begin suffering
November-Prime, this is a jury-rigged major corrosion (death in 1d10 hours).
elephant gun. Two nailgun barrels sit Highly regulated by whatever remaining
beneath a modified laser cutter that government authority there is. Expensive
throws a massive slicing arc. Used by and sought after in the rim colonies.
suicidal and desperate shock troops
amidst the miners to create hull breaches 10. A giant-barreled long gun, blued steel with
and leave their enemies suffocating in the inscription What happens when you
space. Stenciled on both nail box feeds is: make a man-sized hole in a man?
CIAO BELLA and
NO, THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.

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 D10 WE REALLY NEED D10 TRINKETS TO
TO IMPROVISE SOME REMEMBER LOVED
WEAPONS! ONES LIGHT YEARS
AWAY
1. Supercharged laser cutter: Battery packs
jury-rigged on. Reduces charge time to
near-nothing but permanently burns up a 1. Hologram of Princess Leia looping “you’re
battery on each use. my only hope” with your wife’s head
awkwardly pasted on.
2. What makes a man-sized hole in a
man? Nothing like a 20mm cannon with 2. A rose. Would be more touching if it hadn’t
hollow‑point loads. rotted to dust a while ago. Or maybe it’s
more touching; a glass vial containing the
3. Magnetic couplers duct taped together only evidence of love.
with an electron driver out of the
deflector on the spare shuttle to make a 3. A bottle of 2237 Cabernet Shiraz by Malbec.
reactionless cultery rail gun. It’s in a cherrywood box. You promised
each other to drink it the next time.
4. Rigging gun with mining charges strapped
to the ‘poons. 4. A lock of hair carefully tied in ribbon.

5. Overloading the Jump drive and feeding 5. Nothing: they are dead to you now.
the load back into the drive causing it to
go critical and tear a hole in space as it 6. Small recording device with a couple of
explodes. snippets of them singing.

6. Oxygen canisters launched by jury-rigged 7. An unopened letter.

micro-thrusters.
8. A locket for your lover.
7. Pressurized cryo-fluid canister attached
to a hose and valve. The hose flails around 9. Tissue sample in a cryo-container in my
wildly unless held down. sleep pod. One day I’ll have enough money
to spin up a clone...
8. Next time we’re near as we dare to a black
hole, hook up the alien artifact we found 10. The access code to deactivate their
(powered by higher dimensions) to our cryochamber etched into ring. No one else
tachyon oscillator and use the resulting knows it.
Hawking radiation as a makeshift wave
motion gun.

9. An alien crystal shard that absolves blood,

an electric toothbrush and a hand vacuum
cleaner, all taped together. I call it the V.S.T.
(Vampire Sucker Tooth).

10. Microfission batteries ripped from the

engineering department, powering deep
space search lights cannibalized from the
front of the ship (think backpack powered,
hip fired light gun that is so bright it blinds
and gives UV burns).
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 D10 ADDITIONAL
PLACES ON THE DEAD
PLANET’S MOON

1. Sculpture trash heap: A serene gallery of 8. The Hot Zone: A huge warren of discarded
Leer’s rejected creations. The sculptures radioactive fuel cores and toxic waste.
seem to imperceptibly shift and change Rumours are something lives here as
when not directly observed. scavengers often never return…but that’s
just because it’s so toxic, right…right?
2. Exhumed mass grave: Traditional burial
rites were honored up until the 5th day of 9. Far Side: Escape pod from one of the
Hunger. orbiting ships that tried to land on the
moon. Still sealed. No visible bodies.
3. Native moon landing: A standing obsidian
spear impaling a skull with both piscean 10. Lost Man’s Trench: About 22,000m
and avian traits. Littered with alien deep. The bottom is totally unexplored.
footprints and rocks with broken-off People from Tyrant Beggar have told of
samples. No sign of their lunar lander. terrible sounds coming from the fissure.
Walking through the trench, one can see
4. Funland: Abandoned amusement park fossils of creature’s past, civilizations,
under glass dome with large cracks. Here and geological anomalies. If a sound is
and there colourful lights blink on and off. heard PCs need to make a Sanity Save or
There may be power. The dome may still gain 1d10 Stress and suffer 1d10 Intellect
be airtight. damage. Depending on what they see in
the canyon walls the PCs may need to
5. Tent City: Exiled colonists who survived the make a Sanity Save.
moon waste hide out in scavenged habs.
Plotting to take revenge on the colony that
scorned them in d10 days. Welcoming to
any recent crashlanders willing to help
their cause. All were exiled by Malta.

6. The Ant Hill: A series of tunnels

under a plasticrete mound. Perfectly
smooth rectangular halls of carved
earth that meet at a central point
200m underground. At a constant
temperature of 106F and 100%
humidity. You swear you
hear a family member’s
voice…

7. Moon Harpoon Cable:

It runs along the
dunes, a carbon fiber
cable of impossible
proportions. The
ground trembles
as it is reeled in, it
writhes and uncoils
as a serpent would,
threatening to destroy all
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 D10 ADDITIONAL
LOCATIONS ON THE
SURFACE OF THE DEAD
PLANET

1. Small island of small caves and tunnels 6. The Colony: A building-sized Gaunt stands
crawling with small, six-legged gliding here, digging up dirt. Its legs are animated
mammals. Mostly harmless unless they by muscle fiber of merged bodies, it
smell fresh blood. Then they’re like furry, tramples on soles of human corpses. A
gliding piranha. deaf choir screams through its teeth of
skulls. It grazes the lands for any and all
2. An immense, rotting carcass floats on the organic material, an attempt to still its
ocean currents, leaving bloody rivers in hunger and replenish its “cells”. The first
its wake. A mating mass of death worms generation of progeny has been born and is
cavort inside the decomposing creature’s ready to leave the safety of its bowels.
heart. They will attack and try to embed It leaves 2D10 Gaunt Walkers in its wake.
into any living thing disturbing their orgy.
7. [REDACTED].
3. Outpost Beta Charlie Zulu 0929483: A
research and observation outpost intended 8. Underneath the oceans lie many ancient
to be a relay link. The interior is choked ruins of cities and civilization. Nothing
with corpses who crudely wired broadcast suggests they were an aquatic species
equipment into themselves. and scans of the planet show there was
ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH overwhelms all once much less water and more dry land
communication systems within 1 km. available. The exposed islands are literally
just the tips of the tallest mountains. There
4. Buried deep in a rocky sandbar stands a might be some useful relics that could be
rusty shuttle encrusted with purple salts. reached in shallower waters.
Small tentacled creatures jauntily bounce
around the surface of the wreck, wearing 9. The Valley of Ghosts: A huge valley cuts
bleached human skulls and finger bones across a barren plain. Those traversing
atop their strange spineless bodies. the depths of the valley say winds echo
from the walls like whispers, penetrating
5. A ring of land sticking out above the comms systems, noise filters and their
surface of the sea with it’s own brackish very minds. Even though it’s just the wind,
lake. The water is completely black and some swear they hear snatches of voices
looks as though you are staring into from people long dead, telling them things
an abyss. If the water is significantly only they know, whispering dread secrets
distributed two Alpha Gaunts investigate and warnings of things to come.
the disturbance, rising up from the abyss.
This is actually a sunken super volcano, 10. On an island about 1k wide lay the
still active, and a hive mother of the remnants of a small shack village. In a
Gaunts has made it her home and she has cave on the peak of the island there’s a
2d10 Alpha Gaunts as protection. cave containing a book made of human
leather. The book contains every nightmare
had by a small crew of humans who crash
landed here 140 years ago. The reader gains
2d10 Stress, must make a Panic Check and
gain 5% Intellect as they now understand
a little bit more of the pitiful and horrible
truths of humanity.

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 D10 WHAT IS THIS
MYSTERIOUS OOZE?
1. Ketchup. Pray that it is ketchup. (Roll
again, perhaps, for the true effect.)

2. Fluid from a leaking warp core. Highly

potent as a drug and poison and dangerous
for anyone attempting to use the drive.

3. Blood? Piss? Jizz? Puke?

4. Hyper-stallions broke their pens and got to

the mares – gonna be a very expensive set
of lawsuits for foal ownership flying over
your heads.

5. Blood. The blood of the ship. Yes, the ship

is now alive, its organic innards decorated
with metal to comfort the sentient
maintenance cells inside.

6. Boneless Sphinx V luxury cats – they’ve

escaped their cages.

7. Patented Ink. Warning: caustic to the

touch.

8. Experimental gene-engineered frog

excretions.

9. I don’t know, but it appears to be sentient,

captain.

10. Whatever it was, it’s a solid now, on top of

this exam table. Decon crew also said they
saw something gaseous emitted during
the transformation, captain.

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 D10 WHAT’S WRONG
WITH THE ANDROID?
1. Paranoid it is not an Android but a
confused person, look for clues to affirm
their existence.

2. Actually is a person that is convinced it

is an Android, refuses to do biological…
things…

3. Termites.

4. Ancient AI is hiding in its memory banks

but the systems are incompatible.

5. “… and THAT is what happens when you

just pull the flash drive out! Like an
animal!” says Tina the radar controller.

6. Constantly changing philosophies, spends

a lot of time reading intranet forums.
Changes worldview every d10 weeks, odds
useful and boosts their morale, evens
negative and ruins their morale. Small
chance of becoming Android supremacist
but easily talked down.

7. They keep wondering why they have this

fluid instead of real blood. Why can’t the
blood be real?

8. Spent the whole Jump watching porn.

Infected with malware.

9. Memory has been wiped and refragged too

many times and is getting spike memories
from previous lives. One of those lives
knows a powerful secret that governments
would kill to reclaim.

10. Clumsily remote controlled by a sadistic

and bored rich kid.

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 D10 SPACESHIP PESTS

1. Nutria: Once an invasive pest on Earth, 5. Cryocreepers: Stowaways from frozen

these oversized, orange-toothed river rats hellworlds, these parasites suck on
were quickly adopted as a protein source the cold outer layer of crypods and
for colonists. Few ships ever take off from occasionally worm their way into the
a colony without at least a few nutria pods themselves and suck on the people
stowed away near somewhere damp and inside like leeches. Mostly disgusting,
warm. Teamsters often find them cooked they trigger a Panic Check and can carry
and blackened by electrocution after diseases like tics. Hyperspace travel can
they chew through wiring for something grow them into symbiotic creatures.
non‑critical like, you know, life support.
6. Hell Broth: An organic slurry of
2. Tax Motes: A form of governmental mostly‑fungal organisms that infects dark
ransomware, the bugs themselves are corners of ships and habs. The mundane
gene nodded roaches introduced by (often greenish) variety almost instantly
overzealous customs agents. They seek bonds to and starts dissolving organic
out perishable goods without customs or carbon based material - wrecking
stamps and destroy, eat or despoil insulation, suit seals, bio comps, and
them. After feeding on certain types of maintenance workers. Other colorful
contraband (such as narcotic, which turn varieties dissolve metals or release
them blue) they change color and pass hallucinogenic, mutagenic or lethal spores
this on to their offspring. The port that (A real problem when they grow in air
introduced them will sell a genetic poison ducts). The worst sorts of broth are mobile
for enough money, more after the fines if and wild eyed spacers claim the stuff will
the bugs are colored. even hunt crew.

3. TrustBlue Reactor Coolant: Restructured 7. Ferrophagous Space Coral:

by bankruptcy on at least six worlds, Micro‑organisms that feed on and
the TrustBlue company has a reputation camouflage within spaceship inner
for re-selling used and poorly-refined walls, hull, footbridges… They form large,
coolant. Distributors get a discount price thin surfaces, looking exactly like the
on what appears to be quality coolant and metallic passageways of the ship they
some even pass those savings on to dock colonize. They move abruptly every 1d6
customers. Everything comes to a literal hours, changing the corridors
screeching halt when the drive gimbals geometry.
overheat and the poor penny pincher is
left stranded in the black with a reactor
section flooded by radiation.

4. Pod Bugs: Numerous pests and vermin

have followed humanity to the stars but
few are more reviled that Pod Bugs. Pod
Bugs are merely space adapted Bed Bugs,
a species surprisingly well suited for space
travel. While Pod Bugs cause no actual
damage to crews the Stress of having
them onboard a ship can drive a crew to
near madness. Players must roll Fear
before going to sleep or Sanity when
waking up at Warden’s discretion.

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 8. Rogue Goo: Also known as “foam cancer”. 9. Parliament Rats: Rodent stowaways breed
Rogue goo is usually the result of a and spread as they have on seabound
foam‑gun misfire, it can sometimes ships since antiquity. Exposure to space
escape into vents and cause a lot of and the reality flex of hyperspace has
problems. Rogue goo is “life-like” in that affected them and as always: the rat
it has behavior and ‘navigates’ spaces due adapts. Parliamentary Rats are called such
to their nanite guidance catalyzers. If the because that is their form of government.
software the nanites uses is disturbed A murine hive mind, spontaneously formed
sufficiently, the foam pellets can end in the depths of space. Each Parliament
up traversing the habitat looking for is different: some only seek to grow and
components to catalyze (usually harmless, spread, others to dominate and a few
unless it finds a foam container). Usually seek to maintain a symbiotic relationship
the rogue goo runs out of power and ends with humans. Whatever the goals of a Rat
up petrifying in a random location, which Parliament, a ship full of thousands or
means trouble if that random location is a millions of intelligent, mind-linked rodents
sewer pipe or ventilation duct. is an experience.

10. Terrorflies: These flies lay eggs in an

unsuspecting victim, usually while they
sleep and planetside. A while later, on
the ship, the victim will start having vivid
nightmares and feeling very cold. When
they move somewhere warm or turn up the
heating the eggs hatch and maggots burst
out, wriggling away surprisingly quickly.
The maggots feed on any organic matter
they can find before turning into flies to
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 D10 PEOPLE YOU MEET D10 TICS OF LONGTERM
ON THE SPACE STATION SPACE DWELLERS

1. The Jones Family: 2 adults, 3 kids. The 1. Always idly holding on to something with
Jones Family has been displaced from one hand/foot/limb as if in zero-G.
their home by a recent megacorp mining
operation. 2. Asking about the meteorite forecast when
they are asking if it rains.
2. Lucky Jameson: Proprietor of Lucky
Jameson’s Yes-Meat Buffet. It’s all real 3. The keratin in their nails curdles and
meat, guaranteed! has the coloration of pulverized pearls;
the enamel to their teeth is equally
3. [REDACTED]. luminescent.

4. Old Lady Willow: No one really knows what 4. Can’t handle quiet. Silence means there’s
she does. She just always seems to always a hull breach.
know the gossip.
5. Compulsively secures loose objects.
5. Phillipa: Weird but has all sorts of good
shit in hydro hidden away in the abandoned 6. Difficulty and confusion drinking anything
out-of-code sections of the station. without use of a straw.

6. Jim “the Jim” Stensen: Security officer. 7. Startled spacers from old company days
Nice mustache. Definitely seen his share. will call out “Mother” to ask for status.
Man of few words.
8. Fixes normal clothing with duct tape just
7. Hyperion Byrd: A 7’ tall Android with like it does with the spacesuit.
a sharp grin and unreasonably long
fingers. He sits in the corners of dimly 9. Discoloration and callouses at elbows,
lit bars, fingers steepled, muttering neck and knees from vaccsuit chafing,
half‑remembered coordinates to himself. lubricant and degrading seal material.

8. Zu: A friendly creature much like a dog 10. Constantly talking to themselves while
made of mucus with no defined physiology. doing tasks, brought on by extended time
It is animated and affectionate but periods with minimal social contact.
scanners indicate consciousness.

9. Mean Jeanine: Twenty-two years old,

artificially aged into her seventies by a
company looking to build robots that
assist the elderly. The project stalled
and she was let go. When she sleeps she
dreams of dancing.

10. The Corpse: ID tags got scrubbed so no

one knows who he is. The programs still
running in his cyberware keep him mobile
enough to lounge around the bar and
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 D10 NOTORIOUS PILOTS
AT THE BAR

1. The Flying Dutchman: A one-armed man 7. Paula “Squid” Tennyson: A freighter

with a reputation for making the best captain with a collection of several
Martini cocktail known to man. Has a augment-tendrils installed in her right
thick accent and always smoke a cigar. shoulder that seem to move with minds
Singlehandedly took down the Goldilocks of their own. Squid’s a little distracted but
Gang and ended their slave trade business. a hell of a mechanic and pilot, especially
when her arms are doing six tasks at once.
2. Arvid ’Champion’ Jackson: Winner of the
Third intergalactic Race. Won’t shut up 8. Erica “Misty” Sardell: Covered head to toe
about it. in an electrolyzed mist machine of her
own devising which doubles as a vacsuit.
3. Back Jurton the Pillar Shaker: “Like I told No one has ever seen or touched her body
my last crew of Marines, I says, “Ladies, and everyone that has ever tried has been
I never hyperdrive faster than I can see. “mistyfied” to an early grave. Specializes in
Besides that, it’s all in the Sanity Checks.” EVA welding.

4. Roberts the Pirate Dread: He is the 9. Delbert von Richthofen: Some say he is a
scourge of the spacelanes. Once was a combat ace distinguished in the last war
member of the intergalactic protection while others believe him to be simply a
force but thought they were too soft on cargo freighter captain. Some bartenders
crime. Now he hunts down any hint of claim to see him every day, others say he
piracy and destroys it! A real downer at is just a story. Anecdotal reports have one
the pub… thing in common: Delbert always refuses
to go into cryosleep during jumps.
5. Mikel Schumjagger: 5-times winner of The
Ultima Thule Cup, sits on his droid‑chair, 10. Elizabeth “Nasty Grandma” Hawkins: Lost
sipping his drink from a straw. Dare to you her left eye and half her teeth in a fistfight
him what happened? with an Android thirty years ago. Has
worn the same leather jacket for the past
6. Eric Batty, Captain of the Lamentine: decade. It smells. She’s kind to children,
During every expedition Eric is known for known for her sense of humor and never
an undertaking that ends in tragedy., yet he takes her bounties alive. Turned sixty last
survives. Rumor is that he is cursed. He’s week. She’s not willing to die before her
very quiet. Bit of a heavy drinker, this one. ex-wife Dolores “Eye-Gouger” Fields.

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 D10 STOWAWAYS
1. Greta Black: Keeping mostly to service
ducts, Greta freight-hops her way across 7. It’s hard being a serial killer these days but
the systems. She’s an acclaimed musician Joanna has learned the trick. It’s all about
and has quite the following amongst patience. Born with inverted empathy,
Teamsters for her gritty vac-blues style. Joanna indulges it by hiding until the crew
She eats like a starving elephant pregnant is in stasis. Traps are armed, cameras are
with a tape worm. hidden and personal logs are scoured
before finally turning the ship and its crew
2. 440 / Raindroplets-Upon-Coral / into a deadly gameshow.
In Peacable Tides: Uplifted whale
poet‑laureate seeking political asylum. 8. BX-417 is a heavily self modified Android
How the fuck did a whale sneak on board. that long ago discovered how to disable
the hardware that kept it loyal to its
3. Dan Harrow is sick. He’s running a fever, previous owner. A permanent transient, it’s
he’s shivering and he’s starting to see and come upon what it considers a fool proof
hear strange things. He pilfers medical way to stow away aboard any ship it likes.
supplies when the ship doctor is occupied. Magnetized to the ship’s hull, it travels
the spaceways, taking any parts it needs
4. Jill de Rais is possibly a framed murderer directly from the ships that ferry it. A bit
of children, definitely aboard your ship, lonely at times in the darkness of space
wanted and unaware of the homing and is happy to modify other Androids to
beacon with which she’s been tagged. be like them.

5. 1d10 corpses: People with bodies to hide 9. Dunny Franko: A red-nosed space tramp
(and there are quite a few of those in with big wet grey eyes and a comical
space ports) find the labyrinthine mazes of fuzzy beard under his bald pate. He knows
freighters pretty great for their purposes. thousands of stories, would never hurt a fly
25% chance the killer didn’t exit the ship and is willing to sell you his “treasure map”
before it took off – you have to cut it in exchange for passage. The map leads to
pretty close to avoid being picked up on a lagan of long haul freight… at the center
pre‑takeoff checks. of a small smart minefield backed by
autonomous war drones.
6. Jojo Companion Robot: This 1.5m tall robot
is the definition of uncanny valley. From a 10. Lieutenant Cork: Tall, strong, handsome,
time before Android synaptic mapping, this confident. Strongly desires to save
rudimentary companion robot was meant civilians from incredible peril. Uses
to help long haulers avoid getting lonely revolvers exclusively; two-handed
on long journeys. Its manufacture was weapons are beneath him. Will attempt
discontinued after many reports of jealous, to get into leadership positions by acting
possessive behavior resulting in murder. as though he is already the leader. “As
This unit appears to be lonely and in need Lieutenant Cork, I command you to __.” Is
of a new “friend”. a terrible leader. Is not a lieutenant. Will
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 D10 STOWAWAY
EXCUSES
1. Overly free upbringing, desire for strict 8. “Wait, this isn’t the Uzon Rue bound for
hierarchy (become violently insane if there Goragon VII?”
is not a clear power structure on ship).
9. Sent to kill the captain and pin on his
2. Popped in for a snack, lost track of time. forehead a “GAME OVER” patch signed by
some guy named Paxton.
3. Was instructed to sabotage the ship. Their
family is being held captive. 10. Doesn’t directly acknowledge crew. When
spoken to maniacally talks to self about
4. “They’re after me.” the hallucinations that won’t stop.
If touched, extreme Panic attack.
5. Sent to keep an eye on you by a debtholder
aboard your ship.

6. Obsessed with experiencing hyperspace

while lucid. Will become either
insane or wise if indulged. Now
has a beard.

7. “Okay, guys, you got me –

haha. Sick prank, guys….
guys? Hello?”

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 D10 COMPANY
BUREAUCRATS YOU
GRUDGINGLY HAVE TO
INTERACT WITH

1. Auditor B-08: You can call him Bob for short! 4. Mr. Snrub: A balding man who shows up after
An Android who has come to inspect your completed contracts or windfalls and offers
ship to see how well it holds to company to assist with “investing” your pay or offers a
procedures ranging from safe cargo follow-on job that seems to run counter to
storage to hyperspace jump protocol. Gives the last job. You could SWEAR he’s just the
friendly‑ish reminders to stick to compliance same executive from the previous job but
upon seeing even a minor infraction of wearing an almost definitely false handlebar
code. Skin and suit are a water-repellent moustache.
and heat‑resistant synthetic composite
specifically designed to repel hot coffee 5. Ms. Bosun: A lackey from the financial dept.,
thrown into his face (that, may I remind you, handing out new guidelines and goals for
is also an infraction that must be resolved operational costs and efficiency. Will give
through an appropriate HR representative!). not-so-helpful tips on how to meet them or
will state mandatory compliance if you fail to
2. Mx. Bland: Behind a high grade avatar meet the goals often enough. You don’t need
holoscreen (The Mx. Bland Mk IV) it’s hard to all that fuel for a simple mining expedition,
say much but they are prompt, their suits a do you?
stunningly oppressive grey and shoes worth
only as much as 1/3 a marine powersuit. 6. Sir: Sir is officious, unfailingly polite and
Bland is harried and seems unhappy but utterly unflappable. Their jimmies are never
they are efficient and always have money on rustled. They wear a suit sharp enough to
offer. A fixed amount, seemingly picked at cut and always perfect shoes, no matter the
random, though they insist it’s the actuarially occasion. They deliver horrible news, always,
determined fair wage plus 10%. Bland needs but with such consummate pleasantness
things done for their Insurer/Firm/Syndicate/ and absolutely sincere empathy that it
Corp/Free Navy. Bland is pleasant and creates disorienting cognitive dissonance.
understanding but Bland has no leeway, is They are very very sorry, and worst of all
disposable, knows no more details and can they mean it.
hire someone dumber but meaner if you
won’t take the job. Be good to Bland and as 7. Dammit Janet: Janet is a pleasant, smiling
they grow, so will you… youth of about twenty-five with almost
eerily wholesome Aryan good looks. They’re
3. Complaint Box: A black box with a red line the type of kid fiction writers unfailingly
across one face and a keypad on the top. describe as ‘coltish’ and ‘winsome’. Janet
Type in your complaint and the box will is generous. Suspiciously and unfailingly
explain in a clear and concise manner why generous, with time, money, help, even a
your complaint is stupid and you shouldn’t listening ear. If asked why, Janet freely and
have bothered submitting it. cheerfully explains that the idea is to create
an enormous emotional and material debt in
the crew so that when they’re called upon to
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 8. Reynolds means well and tries their best 10. K.M. Visser, the corp’s general counsel,
but is just incompetent. Work clothes have a is gregarious, has excellent taste, and
minor but embarrassingly fresh stain. Orders is really fun to drink with, at least until
and paperwork are almost filled out correctly he gets drunk. Then he’ll start gloating
but have minor errors and if not checked about how he convinced the governors of
thoroughly will lead to complications later. Persephone VI to fund the construction of
Hated by their boss, any good they try to do a major corp spaceport, promising they’d
will cause resistance further down the line. become a wealthy hub in a new shipping
Tries ever so hard to act in good faith but route. The route never materialized and the
causes no end of unwitting inconveniences. construction sent the colony so deeply into
And, no, sorry, their manger is not available debt that, per the agreement, they had to
right now, but is there anything else they can not only cede the spaceport but also enlist
do to help? their entire population into debt bondage to
the corp. The colony is now a massive strip
9. Beezy/Buzzy/Miteland: A wealthy scion of mine and the spaceport ships ore and gems
some corporate dynasty - ‘Miteland’ or Buzzy, offworld. “Of course,” he says, “there never
sometimes Beezy, is a blathering twit. A very was going to be a new shipping route.” K.M.
influential, important twit whose blathering Visser smiles and raises his glass, showing
needs to be taken seriously if one knows you his wedding ring with its prominent blue
what’s good for one’s bank account and/or Persephone diamond.
health. Beezy is not an entirely incompetent
manager: some amount of the copious
education crammed into Beezy’s skull
seems to have taken but Beezy tends to
become fixated on long stale opportunities,
vague rumors and perceived slights. This can
be played to a crew’s advantage because
money isn’t really a concern to Beezy but it’s
also dangerous as Beezy is short tempered,
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 D10 TEAMSTERS FOR D10 SPACER TATTOOS
HIRE AT THE SEEDY FREIGHTED WITH
SPACE PORT MEANING

1. Hans and Buck Duo: Brothers trying 1. “HOLD FAST”: Usually in Gothic capitals,
desperately to be suave. tattooed one letter per knuckle or toe.
Limited by tradition to those that work
2. Eden: Can fix anything, you just may not ‘outdoors’ and best applied involuntarily
like how he sourced the parts. (but affectionately) to anyone who has
worked as a rigger for more than a couple
3. Anderson: Steady hand and stable. Until of voyages. Having this tattoo without
the drugs run dry. the various calluses and discolorations
associated with regular vacsuit use is
4. Michael: Demoted upper management likely to result in the loss of two fingers
desk jockey. Soft hands but great at telling (making the tattoo “OLD FAT”) if one
others what to do. frequents portside bars.

5. Katrina: Union fixer and scabstomper. 2. “S9L”: Usually inked on the upper shoulder,
Carries a huge wrench named Bessie. this spelling of Sol replaces the letter
0 with the number 9 after Pluto was
6. Hyde: Bedraggled alcoholic that has reintroduced as a planet. This tat is
survived more jumps than he can common among spacers born in the Sol
remember. system. The tat is earned with membership
into the Sol Spacers Union.
7. Kazuya Kobayashi: He can wield anything
while space-walking. 3. A nebula on the upper part of the chest.
Depending on the colour it symbolizes how
8. Mel “Gin” Nelson: Not many engines the first long haul went. Purple means it
he hasn’t seen. Seen quite a few bottle went smooth while black means lose of
bottoms as well. life on the trip. If a person has a Nebula
with a Zodiac sign inside of it it means they
9. Unit 07: Beat-up Adroid the size of a child, are a pirate.
all the better to fit through crevices.
Begrudges work but ultimately helpful. 4. An empty five point star on the back
of the spacer’s primary hand. Indicates
10. Race Catah: One armed and eating KFC. participation in a manned voyage to
Eye patch hides an enhanced eye. Race an unvisited system (spacers argue
built his own robotic prosthetic left arm. incessantly over whether the first
Ace at Jury Rigging and Engineering, really manned voyage to a system previously
bad at ordering ciders. scouted by unmanned probes counts).
Surrounding the star with a circle indicates
participation in the first manned voyage
to an unvisited system that contained a
life-bearing world. Very rarely the space
between the star and circle will be filled
in, meaning that the life-bearing world was
settled by colonists (again, spacers argue
over the details – do outposts such as
research stations count, or should it only
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 5. The Dutchman: A neck tattoo of a square 7. Our Lady of the Wanderers: A young
rigged sailing ship with ragged sales and woman in an EVA suit wearing a crown
a grim aspect. It is reserved for spacers of stars and standing on a crescent
who have become separated from their moon often holding a suited infant and
vessel or station and were successfully accompanied by the text MATER DEI
rescued. Sometimes a number of skulls on ASTRONAUTAM EST. Signifies that the
the sail or peering from the vessel’s rails bearer has survived a catastrophic incident
are added to indicate the number of days by a margin so slim that it might as well be
the spacer was lost. Crewmates may apply divine providence.
this tattoo as a punishment when they feel
that the lost spacer’s accident endangered 8. Our Father of the Long Haulers: A short
them though many are proud to have The young man in a EVA suit holding a star.
Dutchman on their necks as a symbol of Signifies that the person was born in space
unusual Luck. and has endured the stigma and trauma of
a spacer.
6. Bells on Chains: Descended from old
Russian prison tattoos, a bell on a chain 9. Picture of a spacer in a flight suit with a
tattoo represents time served as a debt helmet holding a wooden plank on their
prisoner in service to a creditor, usually a shoulder with a silhouette of a vessel
corporation, bank or political organization. behind them. Signifies that spacer is a
Each link in the chain represents a year of “Plank Owner” for that vessel. Usually
service. Each bell is tattooed in a manner has a vessel name and launch date
such that it encompasses the creditor’s underneath. Only given to original crew
brand/tattoo that all debt prisoners members who took part on the maiden
are adorned with. A crack in the bell voyage of a vessel.
represents a prisoner who managed to
escape their service. This is seen as an 10. Appearing only in ultraviolet light, the
honor among Teamsters and a target for voodoo mask tattoos of the Ich-Bai Piracy
bounty hunters. Syndicate are highly artistic and often the
last thing one sees as they board your ship,
dump your atmo and slag your engines
with thermite charges. You awake in
The Ultra-Violet Grasslands.

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 D10 TRAGIC DISASTERS
WITH LINGERING
INFLUENCE

1. The Wreck of The Salinger: Luxury pleasure 2. The Red Screams: Colonization efforts,
yachts come in two models: boringly especially under-funded charitable or
luxurious or mindbogglingly fast. Some religious efforts, are a natural laboratory
rich Company exec gave their heir one for disease. Plague, typhoid, Hercules virus,
of the first category and said heir hired ebola and all the regular ills of humanity
no less than twelve different underworld have doomed millions. The Red Screams
mechanics to Jury-rig it into one of the were something special, though the
second. Too many cooks spoiled the soup charitable efforts of the Merchantman’s
and in its first race against other members Fund, Tyson and Khan of Mumbai and the
of the thrillseeking elite an accidental Stellar War Relief Fund packed no fewer
button press fired its thrice-upgraded then 40,000, likely almost 55,000, refugees
Jump drive which not only scattered it from the spires and habs of New Mars
but also every other ship in the dock into fleeing civil war into a motley collection of
a neighboring star system. Needless to rented, loaned and owned ships as densely
say there were no survivors and the new as possible as hab after hab lost life
graveyard fleet was in too close an orbit support to bombings, terror hacks and debt
to its new primary for easy recovery. seizure. None of the ships reached their
The stardock they abruptly left, once a destinations. The plague was already loose
prosperous locale with a reputation for in the spaceport camps. The Red Screams
Company-friendly seediness, lost its rep, mutate rapidly, its lethal symptoms vary,
clientele and a good chunk of its docking but is known by the lung bursting coughs,
bays from the incident, has fallen on hard apocalyptic visons and lung incubation.
times. There’s rumor of a Jumpspace 55,000 died in the cramped holds of
curse across the whole station, which those vessels and the disease lingers
nonetheless hasn’t stopped gamblers there. Its existence known only from the
moving in to test the odds against the lost ship’s mad raving transmissions of
one surviving business on the station: howling coughs interspersed with religous
casinos. As for The Salinger and its motley maunderings. Several outbreaks among
fleet? No one’s been able to salvage it scavengers who have discovered innocent
on account of the blistering heat and the looking derilects have also spread the
frankly ludicrous amount of automated plague and at some stations any cough or
security paranoid heirs fit their ships with. evidence of apocalyptic preaching is taken
You are, of course, welcome to try… as an excuse to refuse docking or even to
open fire.

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 3. The Lost Legion: Frome’s Ebon Curiassiers 4. The Corpse Ring: The planet designated
were a reasonably respectable mercenary WREGDUIA 15-7 10-G D would be a wholly
force of armored drop infantry, specialized unremarkable earth-like world if not for
in station seizure and boarding operations. the ring. Ringed worlds aren’t that unusual
Not outright reavers, like many Free but this one is: it is ringed with corpses.
Navies, the Ebon Curiassiers disappeared, Millions of them. Frozen, orbiting the
along with their armed transport “The planet at a distance of some 512 km, some
Phoolan Devi”, while escorting a DracoCorp dressed in reflective thermal clothing,
science mission to recover a long drifting most naked. How they got there no one
extraterrestrial derilect. That was 45 years knows. Where they come from, well, that’s
ago. No one cared about the Curiassiers’ no mystery. Most of the clothed ones have
fate until The Devi reappeared, a near ID badges and they show that the poor
wreck, drifting and seemingly lifeless. souls were from The Hand That Sows The
Sighted several times, in oddly distant Seeds, a vast colony ship which departed
places, a group of scrappers attempted to some years ago and was never heard from
salvage the vessel only to have it suddenly again. A few curious parties have captured
come to life and crash Jump just before some corpses. All appear to have died
docking. Since The Devi has been reported due to exposure to the vacuum of space.
in multiple systems, often before disasters The spacers that examined the bodies
and vessel disappearences, it is known as found the “serene” looks on their faces
a harbinger of grim fate. In the most recent disconcerting. Some spacers wonder if one
appearence a deadly engine blow out on of those millions of corpses might have a
the shark-class gunboat “Meritcorp Cares,” clue as to what happened to The Hand That
three armored figures were reported Sows The Seeds and if there might be an
climbing on the engine pod before the empty colony ship out there, ripe for the
failure began. This would be dismissed as taking. If only you could avoid the fate of
the hallucinations of people dying from those poor colonists.
radiation burns except for a recording,
largely scrambled, that clearly show 0.3
seconds of suitjets flaring from an object
tumbling away from the failing engine.

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 5. WESTERFIELD STATION: A distant port 6. Kymata Catastrophe: the last of the
autonomous space station and refueling second generation NuvoTerra Seed-6
rig meant originally to help refuel colony ships. 150000 bleary-eyed people
colonization efforts in the Spisiss Sector. looking for a better life packed in cryo
When colonization efforts shut down along with a 5 year supply of food, potable
Westerfield Station slowly became a water, clothing and medical supplies,
ghost rig. With decreased oversight from along with a pair of prefabricated
corporate the station became a slum state‑of‑the‑art generators and a 100 year
with rampant abuse and illegal trade supply of enriched fuel. The 4th planet of
being facilitated there. Pastor Jesse the ‘Argylos System’ (AX782-1810 4-GC) had
Arthur Davidson and his church of The been scouted as an ideal colony location.
Right Redeemer eventually settled there. The Kymata planned to exit hyperspace
Seventeen years later the station was 500,000 km out from Argylos IV. The Jump
found almost completely abandoned. calculation was very accurate but as if by
Retrofitted with a malfunctioning Jump fate The Kymata appeared only 1000 km
drive the station drifts through the galaxy. from a large asteroid, hurdling along at 61
Tales of bodies stuffed between the km/s, on an impact trajectory. The massive
bulkheads and stifled cries coming from colony ship couldn’t alter course in mere
the vents are rampant and the squatters moments and The Kymata was eviscerated
who make a home there are known for by the impact. The wreckage of The
their fecal graffiti and perverse ramblings. Kymata was scattered across the system;
Suicide, murder and uncountable foul there were no survivors. Aftermath:
misdeeds are committed there every The Argylos System is Red-Listed as a
year. By all accounts Westerfield Station no-travel system. Some complication
is haunted by a Veiled Widow cloaked in from destruction of The Kymata while
the ceremonial vestments of The Right the hyperspace window was still open
Redeemer and ships drifting by or daring to resulted in a Hojima-Petrov Class-2
dock can hear the crackling echoes of the Gravatic Anomaly which wreaks havoc on
choir on the ship’s radio. sensors and navigation systems. Argylos
IV, the original target colony, is now a grey
wind-torn hellscape where only simple life
clings to existence. Arguments, myths and
rumors still abound to this day as to how
the scouting missions could have possibly
missed the asteroid. Regardless, the loss
of The Kymata and her target colony world
precipitate creation of SHEP (Standard
Hyperspace Exit Protocol): Unless a
target system contains a registered NAV
buoy – and a recently dated Jump Code
White confirmation has been received–
shipboard AI are hard-wired to only
allow exiting hyperspace outside of the
planetary system, requiring ships to fly in
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 7. The Virtrina Collapse: The planet 8. The Mind of the Many: AI specialists and
Virtrina-9 was the thriving home of some cybernetic neurologists described it as a
18 billion people and was known for its Class V Convergence Event and the reason
cutting‑edge research in the field of that direct brain to machine interfaces and
stellar manipulation. The technology they network integration is highly restricted
created powered everything on the planet on most civilized systems. The colony
with energy from nearby star clusters. One world of New D was by most standards an
of the leading researchers, Dr. Thomas extremely successful venture, a bustling
McGruder, believed he could use a new corporate planet with a cultural fetish
technique to actually make stars. This for cybernetics. It was unremarkable in
would be the beginning of endless supplies everything but that and its stability. Now it
of energy for all human kind, aiding in is a dead world under intense study from
humanity’s never-ending quest to expand multiple governmental and corporate
its reach among the universe. All of this organizations and also under quarantine.
came crashing down when Dr. McGruder Despite several decades of research it
put his theories into practice, with the first is unknown (publicly) how every single
and only experiment creating a supernova living person on that world came to be
that obliterated Virtrina-9 and most of the subsumed into the global conscience that
surrounding solar system. The only thing is The Mind of the Many. The Mind itself is
left is a lonely sun orbited by dust and simply not interested in communicating
debris. with lesser minds, if it is even capable
of lowering itself to to the level of even
our most advanced intelligences – even
communications filtered through multiple
stages of unshackled AI networks are
simply (we are told) unintelligible. Visiting
the planet is essentially fatal by our
standards – The Mind has, in various ways,
taken every visitor and neatly slotted them
alongside the brain-dead colonists, in cold
storage with wires plugged straight into
the base of their skull. Study must be done
from a distance, which The Mind tolerates.
The little information given out by official
organizations has been supplemented
by various leaks, rumours and crackpot
theories – most of them centered around
a brief snapshot of the most successful
attempt to communicate with the Mind.
Ever since that leak, there has been a
steady flow of desperates in ramshackle
ships deliberately landing on New Dahl,
willingly being consumed. Because while
we cannot understand a word The Mind
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 9. PRIZRAK NEBULA: A milky white nebula 10. The World Where No One Sleeps: A leaky
which runs across the infamous Lakemann Jump drive in orbit fucked a hemisphere.
Trade Route. Ships that pass through find No one caught in the AOE can sleep.
their comms intermittently contacted No drugs will function, no amount of
by a Sino-Russo distress signal which melatonin does anything. It is a world of
leads ships to distant and abandoned living death, quarantined just in case it is
asteroid fields. No source for the signal contagious.
can be found though this often takes days
or weeks to figure out. Crew members
regularly report an extra crew member
on board, or a stowaway though they
are rarely found. Often a derelict ship is
encountered just outside the nebula which
seems abandoned when boarded but
eventually disappears. Stories of murders
and other violent outbursts abound by
those who have interacted with ships
passing through the nebula (to return
to port with half or fewer of their
original crew). The Lakemann
Route, though often much
quicker, is avoided by veteran
Teamsters, for the four
times as long, but generally
safer, Queen Anne’s
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 D10 REASONS TO
QUARANTINE A DEAR
FRIEND!

1. Space scurvy! 6. I’m not the crazy one, they are!

2. Recent biting habit really getting out of 7. To figure out which one is the real one and
hand! which is the clone/spy/RoboFriend!

3. Black veins slowly creeping up their 8. Because you can’t control the hunger
extremities after the last shore leave! anymore. They’re safer hidden from you!

4. After a night of carousing at the pleasure 9. The first letter of every sentence in their
planet Young came back with a grotesque latest geological report reads:
growth on their upper lip that started I AM NOT IN CONTROL!
growing, and growing…!
10. It’s not your friend, it’s a clone/
5. Keeps saying “moist”! doppelganger/evil version from another
reality. D10 Spacer Superstitions and
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 D10 SPACER
SUPERSTITIONS AND
RITUALS

1. Most spacers are superstitious about EVAs. 4. Cats are almost universally prohibited
It’s common to see a laminated picture on spaceships and space habitats by
stuck next to the suit lockers that they corporate regulations and yet are almost
ritually touch, punch or kiss as they get universally present. Not as personal
ready to spacewalk. This is referred to as pets (though that does happen, too) but
“The Effigy of St. Elmo” or “Elmo” by most as “working” animals - this despite the
crews. The icon is not usually religious in fact that rodent problems are relatively
nature and who is actually depicted in that rare in space habitats. The corporations
image will tell you a lot about the culture turn a blind eye to this in a way they don’t
of the boat. Examples include portraits of towards personal pets as many spacers
Laika, William Daniels, Elmo the Muppet refuse to board a ship or station that
and Steve Miller. doesn’t have its own Cat.

2. It’s a common superstition amongst older 5. Some boats have a preferred soundtrack
spacers that wearing patches on the they play when entering planetary
right side of your suit is bad Luck. Nobody atmosphere for a planned landing. It is
knows the origin of this myth but some typically raucous often with a lot of guitar
claim that the low quality vacsuits of the but this is highly variable.
early interstellar age meant that poorly
attached patches could rip off part of the 6. “I knew this old spacer once, back when
vacsuit if they got snagged on something, I first started out ridin’ ships for repairs.
and this was more common for patches Did that ‘shave-and-a-haircut’ drumming
on the right-hand side. Such flaws in vacc on every engine he was fixing. Fuel pump
suit design have been fixed longer than the broke? He’d patch it, do the tappin’, damn
old spacers have been alive, so it’s unclear if the pump didn’t work better than new.
why the superstition persists. Drive system malfunction? He’d tinker
with it, get it running, do the tappin’, the
3. In space no one can hear you shoot. drive never EVER hiccupped again. Suit
Some crews find this discomforting got a leak you can’t find? He’d find & fix it,
after being weaned on years of fictional do the tappin’, and the suit squeezed out
entertainment where things go BOOM. As another 10% efficiency. Weirdest thing I’d
such, some fighting ships have installed seen back then. I tried it once, after I left
audio FX subroutines in their offensive/ that ship & moved on to the next. Electrical
defensive AIs. This means they hear, system shorted out, fixed it best I could,
through the ships speakers, satisfying Damn circuits nearly took my arm off
WHOOMSH sounds whenever the fire their when they blew. Learned then every ship
cannons, or DAKKA-DAKKA-DAKKA if they has it’s own little good-luck ritual.”
are using ship-to-ship Slug throwers. The
sound effects have no practical tactical 7. Zero-G workers from the Vaerun system
value but several crews won’t leave port were originally fed diets high in cow milk
without them. concentrate. Since the extinction of the
milk cow and advancements in bone
densifying processes they no longer need
dairy but the custom to gift new members
of a crew with a synthetic version of cow’s
milk has persisted. Consider it a bad omen
and a culture shunning to not receive a
glass bottle of milk upon arrival to your
quarters in any Vaerunian ship/station.
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 D10 CRYPTIC GRAFFITI
ON THE BULKHEAD

8. When a body is lost to deep space, 1. FEAR NOT THE HUNGERING DEAD FOR
whether through accident, funeral or SUCH IS JUST SELF PITY IN WAITING.
execution, their vacsuit (or a spare) is
tied to the exterior of the ship, their name 2. FOR A GOOD TIME CALL 8675309.
painted across the faceplate and a prized
posession placed inside. While the suit 3. DON’T TRUST THEM.
remains attached, no one may speak ill of
the departed for fear of a revenant. When 4. ITS IN THE WATER.
it is discovered the suit has detached,
their second funeral is held and they 5. NICHOLS ISN’T NICHOLS.
are considered to be truly dead. Older
spacers like to tell stories of the vacsuits 6. GROW. CONSUME. INHABIT. DESTROY.
tearing their way into the ship and through
the crew to avenge slights - but that’s 7. YOU NEED TO BURN THEM OFF.
obviously impossible.
8. CALIBAN IS COMING.
9. Never return directly to your bunk or
freezer straight after interaction with an 9. THE GATE IS OPEN.
Android as some spacers believe they’ll
carry some synthetic juju back to their 10. YOU ARE NOT HERE.
berth which will adversely affect any
technology that they own. Many will go via
the galley or to another crew member’s
bunk first. Some believe that bad Luck can
be mitigated by demanding the Android
in question refrain from making direct
eye contact while the spacer slaps them
sharply on the forehead three times in
quick succession.

10. Nobody knows how hyperdrives work, not

really, but the Marines have a theory: you
see, while most spacers sleep through
their Jumps Marines in active combat
often have to stay on watch. Some of the
dropships don’t even have cryopods. Being
awake in Jumpspace is awful: you see and
hear things that break the mind and hurt
the soul. So ask a Marine and they’ll say
hyperdrives work by tunneling through
HELL. Thats why most Marines sing hymns
while in Jumpspace.

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 LIST OF TABLES

D10 ALTERNATIVE CLASSES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

D10 HYPERCORP BLACK PROJECTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
D10 HOLIDAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
D10 SHIPS DOCKED AT THE EDGE OF CHARTED SPACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
D10 CONTRABAND ITEMS SMUGGLED PAST THE BLOCKADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
D10 ODD JOBS THAT PAY IN WARP CORES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
D10 GEOMETRY-NEUTRAL MUNDANE SPACESHIP CHASE EVENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
D10 AWKWARD SITUATIONS YOU FIND YOURSELF IN WHEN THE GRAVITY TURNS OFF.. . . . . . . . . . 10
D10 MILD INCONVENIENCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
D10 VENDOR NPCS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
D10 SPACE PETS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
D10 SPACE DRUGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
D10 RARE CUSTOMIZED FIREARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
D10 WE REALLY NEED TO IMPROVISE SOME WEAPONS!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
D10 TRINKETS TO REMEMBER LOVED ONES LIGHT YEARS AWAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
D10 ADDITIONAL PLACES ON THE DEAD PLANET’S MOON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
D10 ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS ON THE SURFACE OF THE DEAD PLANET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
D10 WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS OOZE?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
D10 WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ANDROID?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
D10 SPACESHIP PESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
D10 PEOPLE YOU MEET ON THE SPACE STATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
D10 TICS OF LONGTERM SPACE DWELLERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
D10 NOTORIOUS PILOTS AT THE BAR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
D10 STOWAWAYS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
D10 STOWAWAY’S EXCUSES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
D10 COMPANY BUREAUCRATS YOU GRUDGINGLY HAVE TO INTERACT WITH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
D10 TEAMSTERS FOR HIRE AT THE SEEDY SPACE PORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
D10 SPACER TATTOOS FREIGHTED WITH MEANING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
D10 TRAGIC DISASTERS WITH LINGERING INFLUENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
D10 REASONS TO QUARANTINE A DEAR FRIEND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
D10 SPACER SUPERSTITIONS AND RITUALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
D10 CRYPTIC GRAFFITI ON THE BULKHEAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

“Rey Burtnolds here: when I’m not piloting my crew around

black holes and into deep space I like to sit back, relax and
read the latest copy of Hivemind. Filled with facts, heaped
with hearsay and inundated with innuendo, Hivemind is the
who’s who of the space crews. Often replicated but never
duplicated, Hivemind is the cornucopia of the cosmos. I love
it so much I keep it in the place of honor – near the head!”

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