Adventure Seeds

Title: A Clockwork Empire

Recommended Series Type: Exploration (Any era, use Iconians as godlike aliens if TNG, make up your own for TOS)

Description: A crossover between Star Trek, Space: 1889, and Deadlands


The characters come across a system with two class M planets. Neither one is a united world. The more advanced one has a level of technology and society like late 19th century Earth. They have begun "colonizing" (i.e. conquering) the more primitive planet.

The catch is, they shouldn't even have the technology to reach the other planet - their "Etheric Skyships" shouldn't work, nor should their Steampunk items of superscience. The crew tries to unravel what is going on. Slowly they learn that these clockwork steampunk devices are powered by Iconian artifacts and for the past century scientific advancement has been "guided" by a mysterious figure who hides in the shadows, providing funding and "guidance" to mad scientists, giving them the intuitive leaps they need to use the Iconian "GhostRock" (from Deadlands - like coal but burns hundreds of times longer and hotter and aids in odd superscience) for things like deflector shields, artificial gravity, etc., all within a 19th century context.


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Title: The Men In Black

Recommended Series Type: Exploration, any era

Description: A Federation Runabout/science ship/etc. crashes into a world in the midst of a conflict resembling World War II. The "good guys" in the war are losing badly. But one of their scientists learns much from the starship - he doesn't understand all of it, but enough to begin research on developing an atomic bomb to tilt the balance to the side of the good guys.

Enter the PCs who are arrive to see what happened to the Runabout and find themselves taking the role of the Men in Black/spooks/etc. as they try to find out the contamination from the Runabout and how to best resolve the situation within the structure of the Prime Directive. How far have the scientist's notes traveled? Who knows what? Where are all the pieces of the Runabout? Should they shut down the a-bomb project, even knowing the forces of tyranny are on the verge of victory?

I just love your "Clockwork Empire", Dan. Very, very nice.
Still, why does the mysterious figure give them all that? Where did it get all that, for that matter?

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Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)

The main reason "Mr. Mystery" is there is to give a focal baddie. As to his motivation, it could be left as an exercise to the narrator. I've always been a fan of using ancient empires - Iconians mainly, though I'll probably make use of the Tkon at some point as well, so I personally view Mr. Mystery as someone who understands Iconian tech pretty well (possibly even a cultist who worships them as gods) and wants to use it to forge the more advanced world into the start of an empire, one which he controls in all but name.

(In my game I've given some though to reusing a former Betazoid PC aboard H.G. Wells who went insane when exposed to Iconian technology and wound up passing through an Iconian portal to parts unknown....)

THE PRIME DIRECTIVE SYNDROME
Recomended Series: Exploration

The PCs are ordered to apprenhend a "rogue" ship's captain who is accused of violations of the Prime Directive. Her actions has saved a number of worlds from complete and utter destruction but her actions have violated the Prime Directive. The PCs would be faced with a dilemna of how to deal with her actions as they were obviously the "right thing" to do but in violation of regulations.

During the chase, the PCs are faced with a major Prime Directive conundrum which would force them to choose between saving lives and violating the Prime Directive.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Type; Early Dominion War

Intelligence reports show that the Arrival of the Dominion in Alliance with Cardassians has also sparked the wholesale slaughter of Maquis forces.

The characters ship, patrolling the borders, detects a small freighter crammed with personnel and a small 'Raider' class escort, both fleeing Cardassian space, even though entering Federation space would mean their arrest.

(If you have an ex-Starfleet Maquis defector, that would make a good mission commander).

The crew face a diplomatic situation with a Trio of Jem Hadar fighters, with an unusually reasonable Vorta leader. And a fanatically determined Cardassian Gul focused on destroying the Maquis terrorists that killed his family in a botched assasination (I used Gul Evek from TNG, DS9 and Voyager; Caretaker).

To complicate matters, one of the Maquis is actually a changeling, who will use the opportunity to switch from the Maquis ship to the crew of the players ship, this should be successful, but depending on your players, its up to you whether its a background event or3 clues are dropped.

Leading Too...
THE ENEMY WITHIN
Type; Dominion War

As suspected the Dominion has commenced hostilities against the Federation, in fact the dramatic failure of all Federation actions so far leads many to suspect a spy in the ranks.

Shortly after the accidental discovery of some Well Hidden communications tampering during regular maintenance, there is also a communication from Starfleet Command.

The orders are simple, remain on station and try to discover the identity of the spy.

There follows a cat and mouse game through the ship, as the crew try to determine the identity of their spy and eliminate other crew members from their suspicions.

To make matters worse, once the crew are down to the PC's, Security Detail and Coammand Crew, one of whom will be the Changeling, they find themselves tracked by a squadron of Jem Hadar attack fighters, with their old friend the pleasant Vorta in command.

Thery now have to find the identity of their spy, and hold off the Jem Hadar, who's purpose is simple, drop the Starships shields, return the Changeling and destroy the Federation ship.


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DanG.

"Hi, I'm Commander Troy McClure, you might remember me from other academy training holo-simulations as, Abandon Ship, the quickest way out, and I sense danger, 101 things you dont need a Betazoid to know..."

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Title: The Collector

Series Type: Exploration

Description: While exploring a distant system, the PCs encounter an alien vessel many times larger that any they've encountered or read about (Size 50+).

The object captures their vessel and begins to make it part of itself, in effect assimilating their ship. Though they manage to get shields up, it's only a matter of time before they're forever trapped.

Exploring the alien vessel, they find terrariums constructed for the thousands of other sentient beings captured and their descendants imprisoned. Many familliar and unfamilliar races will be found (including Gamma and Delta Qadrant species).

Further searching reveals the AI responsible for the vessel's mission. The ship is eons old, traveling at very low speed (slower-than-light), capturing and adding aliens from ships and planets to its colelction. The computers are degrading and have lost track of where it came from and why it's collecting.

The PCs must not only escape, but determine the nature of the Collector and help it (?) and/or put an end to its mission and/or relocate the many intelligent beings aboard the vessel.

mactavish out.

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OK, heres a few from my 'Three Card Draw'TM method of using the CCG for quick plot ideas...

WHAT PRICE FREEDOM
Type; Deep Space Exploration/Morales

After recent damage, the players ship has laid up for repairs at a Spacestation belonging tew but freindly species. This allows many crew (NPC's) to get shore leave, but obviously, even with the local workcrews, many engineers, the senior officers and a security precense will be required to remain aboard.

During the course of the repairs it becomes apparent that the workcrews are actually criminal chain gangs, and that they are being forced to work against their will/are being mistreated...

Plot devices
- Some crew are arrested and put to work.
- Some criminals make a bid for freedom, and try to steal a Federation Shuttle.
- Some criminals are actually innocent, but unfairly imprisoned, and advanced Federation Tech can prove this?
or many, many more...

UNDERDOGS
Type; Lower Decks

A weird scientific experiment TM has gone wrong, erasing the senior crew, or putting almost everyone in stasis where they stand. Somehow only a small number of Lower Ranks/ Civilians/Cadets are unaffected, it is up to them to reverse the situation.

To make matters worse they have a hostile ship closing on their position, and their orders are to hold the line, but there are too few of them to put up a fight for long. Do they fight, run or get creative?


WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN.
Type; Murder Mystery.

A civilian scientist comes aboard to help upgrade the ships computer at Starfleet Command orders. The upgrade is a simple task and shouldn't even impeed the ships operations. This its missions as normal.

Unfortunatly, the scientist has been replaced by a spy/subversive and manages to sabotage the ships computer. Putting the ship at risk. The crew need to shut down the computer.

Without the computer, this saboteur has gone to ground, hiding in the knowledge that scans dont work. Can the crew restore systems to normal and find and stop the saboteur before things get worse?




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DanG.

"Hi, I'm Commander Troy McClure, you might remember me from other academy training holo-simulations as, Abandon Ship, the quickest way out, and I sense danger, 101 things you dont need a Betazoid to know..."

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Adventure Title: "The Changing Face"

Recommended Series Type: Space Station
Summary: The crew is assigned by their captain to uncover a traitor on the station who is passing information to the Romulans. The blame is initially placed on a young Vulcan woman, but the spy turns out to be the captain.
Could also be used for an Intelligence series or a Starship series- just put the spy aboard the ship instead of the station.

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The road goes ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree.
And I must follow if I can.
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY...
Type; Early Dominion War.

The crews ship detect a Borg signature form a nearby planet, soon revealed to be a crashed Borg scout cube. A signal is being sent to the collective. It is a simple matter to mask and shut down the signal.

However things are complicated by the arrival of the Jem'Hadar, led by your series Vorta regular. It seems that they have had enough second hand intelligence and plan of discovering all they can about the Borg.

Plot Twist;
The First becomes infected with Nanoprobes, and is assimilate, but the geneticly programmed loyalty conflicts with the new borg systems trying to connect to the collective, which the players cut off.
The resulting drone is dangerously unbalanced and while only partially assimilated, retains the gentic training of the Jem'Hadar, and the unbalanced mentality puts both groups at equal risk...

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DanG.

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Title: The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Lao

Series Type: Any TNG-era or later

Description: Dr. Lao, the brilliant madman from the popular 1930s-style pulp holonovel "The Mysterious Dr. Lao" has undergone an odd transformation at the characters' location due to the installation of an experimental computer system several weeks earlier.

A feeback pulse severed Dr. Lao's program from the holomatrix, instilling him with sentience and true intelligence. Dr. Lao has kept this fact hidden from the organics, however.

Dr. Lao - every time he has been activated over the past several weeks - has been studying the ship/station/base and formulating a fiendish plan. Using the extensive processing capabilities at his disposal (thanks to the experimental computer systems), Dr. Lao has managed to use replicators and transporters throughout the ship/station/whatever to create and secretly install holoprojectors in nearly every accessible area (i.e. engineering, science labs, etc.). Dr. Lao then covered his tracks by selectively altering and deleting data from the computers.

Fiendlishly plotting for several weeks, Dr. Lao has scoured the computer's databases and programmed an army with which he plans to take over the ship/station/whatever. Lao's evil army includes various characters from literature, history, and even some of his own creation.

Lao's planning has been so extensive that it is impossible to deactivate the holoprojectors without completely disabling the entire computer system, severing life support, artifical gravity, and several other key systems in the process.

Dr. Lao's ultimate goal is to equip a runabout or other vessel with holoemitters and leave the confines of his "technological prison," eventually discovering or developing an autonomous holoemitter (i.e. the Voyager EMH's mobile emitter) that will allow him to travel with relative freedom.

The PCs are unlikely to win a straight fight with Dr. Lao and his minions. Diplomacy might work, but although Dr. Lao is a genius, his program is also that of a madman, thus making negotiations difficult.

mactavish out.

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THE BIGGER THE SMILE...
Type; Early Dominion War (Will suit a 1 player game)

The character receives a message from Ferenginar, an old academy buddy, one that the character thought had been killed in conflict with the Cardassians. The message is text only and indicates that the other person would like to meet, urgently. Personnal details are included that only the two would know.

The character finds themselves called to the Commanders office, which is also shared by a Starfleet Intelligence officer. Apparently the friend was recruited for long term undercover operations in Cardassian space, with the current climate with the Dominion and its Cardie alliance, if this agent needs to come in, it must be urgent. The character is seconded to Intelligence and assigned to the case (A small group may be assigned too)...

On Ferenginar, the non-aggression pact is obvious, and there are even a small number of Dominion ships in orbit, as well as Federation ships.

On the planet the character makes contact, and they catch up, but the trap is sprung and the character is acaptured by the Dominion, who want to recruit mind controlledagents using Obsidian Order tecniques...

Can the character escape, evade further capture and either get back to Federation territory or bust the plot open?

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Title: Journey to the Underworld

Series Type: Exploration

Description: The PCs' captain/commanding officer has disappeared without a trace!

Investigation reveals that he/she was abducted by a member of a strange humanoid race previously unencountered by the UFP. Further exploration reveals that he/she was taken by transport ship through the utterly unnavigable Stygian Nebula, so large that going around would take literally months and involve entering the territory of hostile aliens (i.e. Romulans, Tholians, etc.).

Sources indicate that there is a mysterious figure that is known to have successfully traveled through the hazardous nebula and back again without loss of person or property. Mainly, it seems, he ferries passengers into uncharted territory where his "clients" pay him handsomely.

This individual, Qae'ronn, is a gaunt, pale humanoid with an unusual vessel. If properly motivated ($$$), he will lead the PCs across the nebula to find their captain and then back again to the fringes of Federation space. If threatened, he will lead them into the Stygian Nebula... and then disappear.

The PCs must locate their missing captain, defeat the mysterious aliens, and return home in one piece.

mactavish out.

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THE BIGGER THE SMILE...
Type; Early Dominion War (Will suit a 1 player game)

On Ferenginar, the non-aggression pact is obvious, and there are even a small number of Dominion ships in orbit, as well as Federation ships.

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Didn't know Feringinar signed a NAP with the Dominion, or is this just in your game?

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Thats Cpt SIR SIG to you!

More then meets the eye,
His a MapMaker in disguise.

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Originally posted by SIR SIG:
Didn't know Feringinar signed a NAP with the Dominion, or is this just in your game?

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I am pretty sure it is Canon (give or take 7 Ferengi), either way, the Ferengi Alliance does remain neutral in the conflict... Officially, it also seems pretty clear that Zek favours the home team.

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DanG.

"Hi, I'm Commander Troy McClure, you might remember me from other academy training holo-simulations as, Abandon Ship, the quickest way out, and I sense danger, 101 things you dont need a Betazoid to know..."

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Layout:

Story Name:
Adventure Type: [Exploration, War, Diplomatic, Investigation]
The Adventure:

Story Name: The Beyond
Adventure Type: Exploration
The Adventure: The Crew, exploring a Sector that seems to consist mostly of dead stars and empty systems, comes across a leviathan starship. Held in a decaying orbit above a J-class gas giant, this ship has power, yet it is totally empty. The ship was created by a species using an experimental drive to flee their dying system. However, the drive failed stranding them in their system, and a phasic instability generated by the drive accidentally merged the bodies and minds of the crew and 10 000 colonists with the ship. The remaining merged personality that survived in the computer core is totally insane and psychic as a result of the merge. In eternal pain, it tries to drive the Crew to pain and death through hallucinations and manipulation of their environment.

Story Name: The Warrior
Adventure Type: Investigation
The Adventure: Investigating the disappearance of a famed Starfleet Xenoarcheologist, the Crew become involved with a mystery. The Xenoarcheologist has found a prehistoric site in the Valley of Bones [a desolate mesa], which contains a giant [10-foot tall] automaton. This thing is their original God, some kind of device that gave them the trappings of society. When it is discovered, the aliens first of all deny it, and then accepting it, decide to resign from the Federation and follow their old God. However, the God Device was actually designed to train them for a war fought light-years away. The Crew, if they inspect the device when they find it, will find this out by examining its databanks. In this case, overcoming their beliefs and willingness to follow this thing into a war-torn future is a priority – failure is a blow to the federation’s ideals, as a member species turns back to war…

Story Name: Hunting Grounds
Adventure Type: War
The Adventure: While relieving a Ground Force unit on the Dominion front line, the Dominion make an offensive, driving Starfleet back, and ending up with the Crew evacuating units and then fleeing as the line breaks. The order is given to regroup at a nearby system, but en route the damage sustained by the warp core makes it to go off-line, causing an emergency-drop out nearby a nebula. Luckily, the nebula contains patches of gaseous-form Isodesium, which can be used to patch the warp core and any other damage. Unfortunately, it and other electro-magnetic inference gases start reflecting sensor ghosts, seriously hampering sensor efficiency. The Jem’hadar also track down the Crew through their warp core emissions into the nebula, where both sides are mostly unable to find each other. What started out as a simple supply mission becomes a life or death struggle of wits as the Crew attempt to repair the system in time, avoid/destroy the Jem’hadar, and escape alive.


Story Name: Personal Morality
Adventure Type: Diplomatic
The Adventure: A new Federation member [an alien race on the border], after having clashes with the Klingons and Cardassians, has split. Nearly one-half of the world’s governments wish to leave and pursue a policy of independent expansion rather than suffer the lack of sovereignty that comes with being a Federation member. The debate has become extremely harsh, and the new World Government building being constructed has been levelled with a shaped plasma charge. Naturally, the Federation is worried about this friction and they have dispatched the Crew to resolve the situation peacefully.
The question here is about the idea of surrendering sovereignty, even to a benign entity. The aliens feel that their culture has been swiftly eroded to be replaced with that of the UFP, and want out. However, the problem is exacerbated by the fact that Starfleet Intelligence needs the planet for it’s strategic/mineral/other [depending on timeline] value, and a Section 31 member has also come along with the diplomatic team to ensure that it happens one way or another.
If the story is set during the Dominion war, Klingon civil war, or other conflict [Cardassian?], then Starfleet will insist that the resolution benefit the Federation. Section 31 will do whatever to make it happen, including assassination, the alien peoples are falling down a downward spiral of distrust and retaliation, and their leaders just want a few treaty changes to protect their cultural interests. Which interest will the Crew uphold? And to who’s benefit? And just how will they enforce it?

Story Name: Long tales
Adventure type: War
The Adventure: A previously unknown species has left its dying Homeworlds and has begun an offensive into Federation territory in order to take and hold new worlds. While there is the question of their methods, and their unannounced attacks without any plea for help, their worlds have come to an end and all they want is a new home. The first the Crew know about this is when colonies report attacks before being cut off. The Borg are suspected, but the Crew are dispatched to find out.

Story Name: One Mind
Adventure type: Exploration
The Adventure: While exploring a baryotronic nebula, the ship’s sensors pick up a heavily damaged Borg Cube in the centre of the nebula. Upon investigation they find that the Cube is only at 18% power, with only a hundred or so Drones left alive – fighting against the Cube itself, tearing it slowly apart. A cybernetic virus, holdover from a vicious local war between two now-dead civilisations, has infiltrated that Cube and when it becomes aware of the Crew it tries to do the same to their ship. The Borg, running on now-encrypted common Drone-to-Drone communications and separated from the rest of the Collective are losing the battle against a ship that now seeks to kill its Crew.


Story Name: Coda
Adventure type: War [between either 2367-70 or 2372-75]
The Adventure: While on shore leave on a Federation/Cardassian border world, the Cardassians invade. As an obvious Federation symbol, the Cardassians seek to capture the crew in order to try them as war criminals in order to reduce Federation morale. Their ship is currently in spacedock [either as a result of conflict, or from something else] and without resources they end up teaming up with a Klingon Crew similarly stranded here in order to survive and maybe even strike back until the Federation is able to retake the system. The sub-plot here is that the Klingon Captain is very old, an after he loses his crew in the initial attack, he wishes to die heroically. How the crew decide to help him/keep him alive as long as they need him is up to them.

Story Name: Theories of Expansion
Adventure type: Diplomacy
The Adventure: A historical enemy of another Federation race has requested admission to the Federation. Apart from being enemies [offshoots of the same race with ideological differences], they are pretty typical and meet all the other requirements. Eventually they are accepted, and a cold war begins between the two as the first race [already in the Federation] begin a series of terrorist/pirate attacks designed to provoke the second race into violence, getting them kicked out of the Federation. The second race resists, but some form a “defensive group” of vigilantes that begin causing trouble with anyone they think may be on the other race’s side. The Crew are called in to arbitrate before the situation gets out of hand.

Story Name: Dujvogh’ mIk’a’
Adventure type: Exploration
The Adventure: A Klingon B’rel turns up at a Starbase with its crew missing. The ship probed a quantum anomaly with its sensor beam, resulting in a strobing pulse, which puts the crew out of quantum phase. Once the ship has been docked, the Klingons end up around the Starbase/ship [whatever the Crew are using] and the crew finds panels being accessed, weird sounds and occasional sightings as they phase in and out. Essentially a gentle ghost story.

Story Name: Premonitions
Adventure type: Exploration
The Adventure: The Crew, making a supply trip to Deep Space 5, is hijacked by Q [or another Q]. He has decided to test the Crew by informing them that a new Borg offensive is coming. He gives them the time and place, and then stays to see what they will do. The Borg do invade, and the Crew are given a chance to stop it by luring it to a sun’s corona and causes a solar flare using a graviton beam to destroy it. The point of Q’s antics is to test the Directives of the Federation and its high morals by asking if they will violate the Temporal Directive in order to ensure their future.


Story Name: Vector
Adventure type: Diplomacy
The Adventure: A plague is sweeping the Takannis Sector. Extremely slow and efficient, it is passed through body fluids [sweat, spit, etc.], and works by cloaking itself as body tissue [and is therefore invisible to transporter biofilters] removing them of their bodies defensive systems then slowly devours brain tissue. It comes from use of the Genesis device, and was released into the Federation through a Science team that visited the world. It takes over a year for symptoms to show, but it can be detected by a certain tissue-sequencing anomaly. The issue here is about paranoia. While initially it only passed through Bolians [who have a genetic weakness against this virus], it eventually grows to infect most species, especially Humans, except Andorians.

Story Name: Moore’s Musketeers.
Adventure type: Holodeck Adventure
The Adventure: One of the Engineers has managed to get hold of a new holonovel. However, this version of the Musketeers has one slight change – once halfway through, the characters turn into Borg Drones and the computer will not respond until the original storyline is fulfilled. The Drones are not real – the person who wrote it modified the program did it as a prank in return for the prank pulled in them by the Engineer. Of course, the Crew don’t know that…

Story Name: Officer Exchange
Adventure type: Any
The Adventure: As part of a cultural exchange package, the Crew are invited to work on a Klingon/Ferengi/other races’ ship for a while. This can be useful in allowing you to tell different kinds of stories for a while.

OK, so some of these are a bit obvious, {yes, I like Event Horizon - or Cenobites in Space, as I call it}, but hey. :-)

My group can't be bothered with ST right now, they want Star Wars and violence, so you may as well have them :-)







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Great stuff gang, I hope to add some myself as well. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

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Two scenarios using Call of Chutulu monsters.

TITLE: The Hound

The ship is asked to investigate the fate of a eccentric temporal physicist whose last reported location was a planet recently hit by an earthquake.

They find the scientist dead in a room that is almost a perfect sphere. A corner was exposed by the earthquake.

Bringing the body back on board, they also unwittingly bring aboard A Hunting Hound of Tinadalos. A creature from a time before time which travels through angles - any angles - and kills the last person who sees it. After a few "red shirts" die gruesomely, the PCs now have a "bug hunt" on their very own ship.

TITLE: The Colour out of Space

The ship is ordered to investigate the destruction to two planets near a nebula cloud. All life on both worlds have had the life force sucked out of them, leaving dead husks.

The nebula cloud is actually a mature Colour out of Space (from the Lovecraft story of the same name).

The solution is fairly simple the creature is repelled by electromagnetic energy. The only problem is that a ship cannot generate such a large charge and with the cloud approaching another inhabited planet, what can the PCs do?

TITLE: The Eden Project
STORY TYPE: Exploration / Prime Directive

The PCs are ordered to investigate a world called Gehanna by its founder. A planet in its first stage of forming.

The arrive to find that the planet has become class-M (in six months) and is already showing signs of a primitive civilization.

As they observe, they begin to see the planet evolve at an incredibly accerlerated rate. Whole centuries of development are compressed into a few short days (or hours) until within a short period they reach space flight and are about to make the breakthrough into warp drive when GOD arrives to destroy the planet. Or rather a GODlike being who had created Gehenna as an experiment to study how a species develops. He's impatient so he built a controlled experiment. But he's made a fatal flaw. He gave his creations free will and they're not prepared to face armageddon and prepare to fight their creator...

I suggest that this scenario be played as a multi-part scenario interspaced by other scenarios with the PCs asked to revisit Gehenna which has become a pet project for them from time to time. The "fight" with GOD may serve as a season finale...

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Type: Exploration (Any)
Mission Name: Treasures of Old
Description: An event horizon has a 21st century probe the capt. is interested in.

During a routine space charting mission, the crew comes upon a black hole bearing down on an empty system. When they come near, they detect an old earth probe from the 21st century. Its stayed nearly in perfect condition and stuck in the gravimetric forces.
Reason: A micro-temporal fissure is centered on the probe making it stuck in time near the hole. A side effect is that the ships engines cease to function for some technobabble reason.

As they slowly drift towards the event horizon, they must find a way to close the fissure, restart the warp core and hopefully get the probe out for sentimental reasons.

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Originally posted by ghosty
TITLE: The Eden Project
STORY TYPE: Exploration / Prime Directive

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Now that is a sexy idea Ghosty...nice biblical reference as well ;)

So the planet is how old when they discover it? I mean my problem with that Voyager episode with the fast evolve planet was that Voyager arrived when it was a primitve world, so it is logical that it just formed then :) So how along would Gehenna be when the players first find it?

TELLAR BLUES

ERA: Could be adapted to any period
TYPE: Any
LOCATION: Tellar

The ship is transfering a presidential envoy to Tellar on an important mission concerning Tellarite affairs vis-a-vis the Federation. The envoy is backed by the Tellar ambassador to the Federation Council. Give the charcters a chance to get to know them: the envoy is a taciturn, politic REgulan; the Tellarite a boisterous and famed legal mind (he's the equivalent of a superstar on his homeworld.)

While taking the space elevator down to the surface, there will be an attack on the envoy by a terrorist/Maquis/syndicate baddie. The crew should be distracted by the mob of Tellarites looking to get an autograph or shake the hand of the great orator.

At this point eh security guys need to start working with Tellarite Federal Police to find the bad guy. Team them with a jocular, talkative cop...think Joe Peschi from Lethal Weapon, or some such... Give 'em a time limit: the station is closed to all traffic -- space or ground -- for 24 hours, but after that they need to go to the local ombudsman to keep the place closed. The amount of losses for the merchants coming through is staggering, so it's unlikely it will be approved.

Clues: check security monitors to locate and ID bad guy. Try to locate (it's a BIG station, so this'll take at least half the time they have.) Also hit the bars, clubs, etc. Give 'em a taste of Tellarite nightlife: debate clubs, dance clubs with Tellar dancing girls and the ubiquitous Orion or two. They'll find out there's Maquis/terrorist/whatever guy with a ship looking to clear out. He's headed for the Rigel colonies -- the perfect place for a person to drop out of sight.

The captain must replace the envoy for the big speech & has only 24 hours to get familiar with the argument & prepare for the inevitable debate that the Tellarite empor will throw at them after the speech. (Figure the speech is followed by an extended Q&A, House of COmmons-style).

Big slam-bang action sequence in the berth of the ship-in-question and catching the bad guy. We threw in a chase sequence through the guts of the elevator, including an attempt by the baddie to escape down the elevator shaft in grav boots. NOthing like a 200 mile fall to keep the characters on their toes.

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Now that is a sexy idea Ghosty...nice biblical reference as well ;)

So the planet is how old when they discover it? I mean my problem with that Voyager episode with the fast evolve planet was that Voyager arrived when it was a primitve world, so it is logical that it just formed then :) So how along would Gehenna be when the players first find it?

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Its up to you. When it was first written up, the idea was that when first surveyed, Gehenna was a "hell hole". Volcanic activity was spitting ash miles into the atmosphere and lava flow is everywhere. No life is possible. Six months later, tectonic activity had stabalized and life has spawned. When the PCs get there, they find primative civilizations are forming...

Adventure Seed Title:
Security Officer Training Exercise A001

Recommended Series Type:
Security Procedures (FASA Constitution Class Deck Plans). Helps players familiarize themselves with combat and movement rules, as well as gain extra points in various skills. It's also good for sessions when only one player shows up (!)

Description:

Security Officer PC is assigned to a Starfleet Vessel Simulator for Security Procedure Examination (Technical and ethical). He/She can prepare a back-pack with supplies as described in FASA Starfleet Intelligence Manual Source Book (Set a limit with imaginary weight).

He/She is told to receive instructions from an NPC officer to beam aboard in transporter room. The Security Officer PC is literally jumped by that NPC officer to test reaction time; he/she must find a way to get the instructions from the assailant without getting killed (stunned) or imprisoned.

Instructions I created required the Security Officer PC to find a cluster of sonic grenades hidden on another deck. Various obstacles are 4 to 8 other Security Officer NPC's looking to arrest the Security Officer PC, three decoys of the grenades, power outages and misleading information from eavesdropping/intercepted communications.

Adventure Seed Title: Mirror's Edge
Recommended Series Type: Any
Description: A loved one, from the academy or an old tour, of the XO or CO shows up on the ship. He/She has a few eeks shore leave and wants to spend it with the old flame.

Have them ask lots of questions, forget little details only to remember them moments later....

the endresult is that this person is from the Mirror UNiverse and has been sent (against their will) to get certain info from the PC so that they can be killed in the other universe (childhood hiding spot, etc...) Of course they fall for the PC and there should be some sacrafice involved :)

I am bumping this up to top, since soooo many wonderfull ideas have been posted here and it would be cool if some of you had a look at this thread:

http://forum.trekrpg.net/showthread....0&pagenumber=3

You are all welcome to contribute if you like.

Title: The Blood of Heroes

Recommended Series Type: Exploration (Any era)

Description: Superheroes! The characters visit a world with superheroes - use your favorite universe if you wish. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (or other baddie group) detects the characters' vessel and tries to take it over. It is important to be careful to not allow the world's superheroes to overshadow the characters.

Note: One neat idea would be to match the superhero era with that of the game. For example, TOS would be a great use for 1960's style marvel comics. TNG would be neat to capture the 1980's - maybe even Watchmen. Voyager seems well matched for the Image style of comics. And DS9, for some reason, strikes me as good for a retroactive 1930's and 40's universe (i.e. Sandman Mystery Theatre, Justice Society of America, etc.)

TITLE: Yesterday's War

RECOMENDED: Exploration

The PC ship is asked to investigate why the Forever Planet research station has gone off line. When they arrive they find that the station had been destroyed by Klingon style weapons but the only survivors are an away team (from the PC ship - in fact they should be mirrors of the PCs) who tell of their own universe where the Federation is fighting a death struggle with the Klingons (yes they're from the universe of Yesterday's Enterprise).

The DTI orders the PCs to keep the away team aboard and incommunicado until the DTI can figure out what to do with them.

Anyway, the next mission is one that will take the PCs to Klingon space. A freak mishap takes out the bridge, forcing the mirror crew to take over command just as Chancellor Martok's flagship decloaks...I know it needs a bit of work, anyone want to help?

Title: Infestation

Series Type: Space Station

This is a pilot episode for a space station story (okay its a bit of a campaign seed too).

Space Station (insert no.) was abandoned a few years ago as it was stuck in the middle of no where and was costing too much to operate especially with a War on. Now with the Dominion War settled, Starfleet is reactivating the station.

When the PCs get there they find that somebody or someone had revamped the station. Systems have been refitted and upgraded and its actually in advance of anything Starfleet has operational.

What had happened was that the station has been infested with a self-replicating nanovirus that is rebuilding the station for its own use...(I'm thinking the replicators from Stargate SG-1) and well the PCs are in its way.

If the PCs pull it off and don't nuke the place, Starfleet could find itself in possession of a very advanced space station.

Title: Man out of Time (or Time Lost)

Series Type: Any, exploration is preferable

The PCs encounter a Starfleet ship that was listed as missing for almost a hundred years. The only survivor they find onboard is the CO who was put into cryo-freeze. He was a legend in his time and much admired by everyone in Starfleet.

Anyway, due to his deep freeze (or something else that is ripe for medical technobable) he's not completely right in the head (okay he's gaga) but that's not the problem. He begins living out his past triumphs and well makes a nuisance of himself just as the ship have to undertake a tricky mission very similar to his last one...the one which resulted in him becoming a popsicle.

Title: Another Man's Shoes
Series Type: Exploration, preferably on a smaller ship in the Next Gen era.

Premise: The PC ship is scheduled to pick up an Ambassador from a newly discovered civilization on the fringe of explored space, for transport to a nearby Starbase for negotiations. The Ambassador is a rare telepath of the species and ends up effecting the primary crew. At first, only very 'out of the ordinary" mood swings, then, swapping of bodies. The crew realizes that they are not in the "right body", but have access to the new bodies' memories and personalities. Take it from there...

TITLE: Civis Federation Sum ("I am a Federation Citizen")

SERIES TYPE: Exploration

This one's a bit tricky so I'll modify it once in a while...

Okay the crew is sent on what is supposed to be a milk run mission to take the new Federation ambassador to his new posting. A relatively backward world that has just acheived warp drive (similar to Earth during First Contact).

What they find when the arrive is a planet in the thros of civil war and the government has taken all Federation citizens hostage in the Federation embassy.The government threatens to kill all the Federation citizens unless the Federation immediately aids them in their civil war with arms and materiel and the use of the PCs ship to hunt down rebel ships in the system. Remember one starship could squash the entire armed forces of the planet in just a few hours. The new ambassador, somewhat of a hothead feeling threatens wants to declare war...an attack on a single Federation citizen is an act of war...

TITLE: A Diplomatic Incident
STORY TYPE: Diplomatic
TIME: Dominion War (early)

The Federation are considering the admission of a new world into the Federation. The PCs have been charged with escorting the planet's bigwig (Prince or some such) home and to show him what Starfleet has to offer.

The problem is the Prince is an obnoxious SOB and he travels with a huge entourage of armed guards which pose a danger to everyone on board as they have a tendency not to ask questions first.

Just as things couldn't get worst, the ship gets trapped in some sort of EM storm (nautral disaster) and looses power. The Prince fearing an attack hunkers down in an area of the ship with his guards shooting at anything that comes close.

Dan, your idea for a superheroes style campaign sounds like fun, but personally, I think using Marvel or DC style superheroes could make running the adventure extremely tricky because you have to balance the capabilities of the players verses the natives very carefully.
One possible source of ideas for your adventure seed would be the old GURPS I.S.T. sourcebook. The world described is sort of halfway between a traditional superhero setting and a real world. (Note: I.S.T. stands for International Super Teams). The heroes described in the book are powerful enough to challenge an Away team without the team getting overwhelmed. Also, as an alternative, a world based on this setting could have developed a FTL drive and you could run a First Contact mission.

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TITLE: A Diplomatic Incident
STORY TYPE: Diplomatic
TIME: Dominion War (early)

The Federation are considering the admission of a new world into the Federation. The PCs have been charged with escorting the planet's bigwig (Prince or some such) home and to show him what Starfleet has to offer.

The problem is the Prince is an obnoxious SOB and he travels with a huge entourage of armed guards which pose a danger to everyone on board as they have a tendency not to ask questions first.

Just as things couldn't get worst, the ship gets trapped in some sort of EM storm (nautral disaster) and looses power. The Prince fearing an attack hunkers down in an area of the ship with his guards shooting at anything that comes close.

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I like this one. Sounds like a couple of old Cyberpunk plots...

Dont forget that the Prince would of course be hunkering down in a vital area of the ship, somewhere the crew needs to be to repair the ship.

And if there really Does happen to be an assassin aboard???

Title: Errand of Peace
Story Type: Time Travel
Era: Dominion War, but could be adapted (ie, DS9 Klingon War)

The character's ship detects an unexplained subspace distortion on long range sensors. Recent intelligence reports have suggsted that the Dominion may be experimenting with some sort of subspace weaponry, and Dominion vessles have been spotted in the area in recent weeks. Additional scans are unable to determine the presence of any other vessels in the area at this time.

Deciding to investigate, the crew set course for the anomaly. Upon arriving, they discover a large rift in subspace (insert your technobabble of choice here). Sensor scans are unable to penetrate the rift very deeply, and if no one else thinks of it, Astrophysics eventually recommend using a heavily shielded probe. Alternatively, the characters may suggest using a shuttle, or even taking the ship into the rift. Either way it doesn't matter, what they do, because the end result will be the same. Once the probe (or shuttle, or the ship, or even a modified sensor beam) penetrates deep into the anomaly, it will suddenly expand, far too quickly for anyone to react. The ship will be caught in the rift, primary systems will fail, and the crew will lose consciousness.

When they awake, they will find themselves drifting in space, hundreds of light years from where they were. It will take several hours to get primary systems back online, but when they are, sensors will quickly reveal they are now located only light minutes from the Organian system. It's worth noting that if you have a really sharp group of players, they may be able to determine their location by making visual observations, and comparing them to starcharts, before sensors come back on line.

It will also become quickly apparent by which ever mechanism you wish, be it chronometric readings, variations in starcharts, monitoring subspace chatter, or whatever, that they are no longer in their own time. They have travelled back in time to the year 2266, shortly before the Organian Conflict of that year. For the benefit of any players who may not be familiar with the episode, it may be worth giving a quick breifing on the Organian Peace Treaty, and the incidents that lead to its formation.

Now that the characters are aware of their situation, their first thought should be to avoid contaminating the timeline. During whatever briefing they may be holding, an Organian, who identifies himself as Ayelbourne, will suddenly appear in the room, inviting them to beam an Away Team down to talk. If the characters are reluctant to comply, have Ayelbourne reveal that the Organians have brought them to this time time and place, and if they wish to know why they can discuss it in the Council Chambers. With that, Ayelbourne will disappear, leaving the crew to mull over his invitation, and their situation. A situation complicated by the presence of a Klingon Occupation force on Organia.

The Organians detest interfering in the affairs of others. However, they now feel they are caught between a rock and a hard place. Many Organians feel that not intervening would also be a form of interference. The Council is split, and a decision must be made. To this end, they have brought back ship crews from the two different realities that will result depending upon their action or inaction. What the Starfleet crew do not know at this time, is that the organians have also brought back a Romulan crew from the other alternate future.

In this alternate future, the Federation defeated the Klingon Empire. The weakened Klingons were then attacked by the Romulans, who quickly overrun and annexed the Empire. Qo'Nos is now a subject of the Romulan Empire, and Klingon culture is all but dead. However, in this reality, the Federation and the Romulan Empire are allies. Not only that, but the Dominion War has not occurred, and the Galaxy is mostly at peace. What the Federation does not know, is that the Romulans are massing to invade their allies, an invasion that will ultimately succeed, since the Federation is totally unprepared for such an action.

This adventure has several aspects which make it a lot of fun (at least when I ran it). Firstly, it allows your future crew to interact with Kirk and Spock (who will see them as Organians, thanks to Ayelbourne). Secondly, it also gives you as narrator an opportunity to play segments from Errand Of Mercy, as beautiful scene-setting material, and cut scenes.

Secondly, it presents a major moral dilemma for your crew. The Federation they come from is losing the war. The future the Romulans present is likely to seem very appealing to them. Especially if any of them suffered or lost friends during the recent Klingon War.

The adventure can end many ways. The Organians can be swayed by the Starfleet crew's arguments, and act as they did in the original incident (at least from your crew's point of view). Your crew might decide the Romulan's reality is the better one, and may side with the Romulans, arguing for the Organians NOT to interfere. Whatever your crew argue, the Organians may or may not be impressed by their arguments and/or actions. And it is important to remember that the Organians are not stupid. The know exactly what is going on in both timelines. They know the Romulans will betray the Federation, etc, etc. But the Organians will not take sides. They will weigh up both the arguments and actions of both crew, and then decide.

It is entirely possible that your crew could find themselves in an alternate future at the end of the adventure. If they do, they may eventually find that everything is not they way they hoped. And that in itself, could lead to a whole new adventure, as they struggle to restore their original timeline.

Enjoy

Thanks Dan.

Actually the original idea was for the Prince to seize control of the computer core area and the crew needs to access the core to restart the entire system. Engineering is off line and due to a plasma fire, inaccessible until Damage Control can put the fire out and without power...I love these stories the crew has to live completely on their wits.

There really is an assassin...hey good one...may have to add that in somewhere...thanks.

TITLE: The Veteran
ERA: Post-Dominion War/Shore leave
(recomended for solo play)

One of the PCs friends from the Academy has left Starfleet and one day they meet while the crew's on shoreleave. Secretly the PC's friend is suffering from a bad case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which was not picked up due to his aversion to counselors and the fact that he had turned in his resignation papers. So the veteran is a ticking timebomb and almost anything can set him off...the guns have not fallen silent for him and when he goes off...its up to his friend to save him before he goes completely postal.

Title: Strained Alliances
Story Type: Murder Mystery
Era: Post Dominion War

The characters are personnel aboard a starship assigned to explore a distant sector. Under orders from Starfleet, they are working closely with a Cardassian Colony, and using the Cardassian mining station as a base of operations. Due to the ravaged Cardasisan resources, Cardassia can no longer provide support for this distant colony, hence the Federation aid. Several weeks into their assignment, things have been going smoothly despite some friction between Federation personnel and the Cardassians. This changes when a group of Federation scientists are murdered on the colony. All evidence points to the Cardassian Governor as the guilty party, especially when one of the victims is revealed to have been romantically involved with the Governor's ex-mistress.

The characters must work with the antagonistic Cardassian security officer to unearth the truth. Is the Governor guilty, or is there more to the incident than meets the eye.

Been there, done that ;).

I ran a very similar episode, where murders were committed on a joint Cardassian/Federation space station, by a Tal Shiar agent. The aim was of course to disrupt the Federation - Cardassian "entente" so that the Romulans could take over the sector.
The crimes were actually committed with a remote mobile (i.e. mounted on a probe) holoemitter which used a subspace narrowband communication device to get its computing power from the station's bar's holocomputer. This added a bit of spice to the adventure, as the murder weapon could appear virtually(;)) anywhere, take any shape, and leave but very few traces behind :).