There's at least one planet that has recently come out of being a hotly contested warzone, cities lay abandoned and the compromised assets of the most powerful local military forces lay abandoned in the ash and rubble strewn streets of towns deemed lost.

I think an adventurous party might reasonably be tempted by the potential to find treasure in the smoking, bandit ridden hell pit, still grudingly policed by the forces who invading it.

Yeah, space Iraq.

Might have to milk the cliche of the abandoned research base, a petty crook requests they "salvage" some equipment left there not knowing the true nature of the facility, the players progress through it and end up uncovering some dirty secrets about a regional superpower.

They unfreeze a cryogenically frozen man from 1999 who has been frozen for a thousand years. He runs away, and they must retrieve him, else they'll lose their jobs (or lives.)

The mary celeste is a pretty much inevitable contrivance that we all enjoy.

>>2948992

>>2948977
This is a horrible idea and you should feel horrible.

>>2948977
Whilst you tentatively wade through the city ruins toward the crumbling corporate district where the Interbank vault lies you become aware that you have not brought enough firepower with you.

You vastly underestimated how much the local crime boss wanted you dead.

Spaceship breaks down on abandoned planet, group has to go into local abandoned _______ to find parts to fix it.

Or hell, better yet? Just let them EXPLORE. Find cool looking pictures, make them into "dungeons"

How on earth are you meant to find your contact in this place?

Ship crash lands, and the players must find a way to get out. Better yet, ship crash lands in populated area...

>>2948957
They come across a strange planet in the far reaches of space. It's not on any of the maps or star charts. They almost fly right into it. Their scans can just barely penetrate the atmosphere, all they detect is a massive amount of biological matter on or near the planet.
They may choose to ignore it or might explore this strange planet. Upon entering the atmosphere they're met with a nightmarish scene. Writhing black tentacles cover the entire surface like some sort of hideous forest. They then detect a massive energy signature. The energy is coming from a massive temple built upon the service, in the temple is a cult of humans complete with black robes, chanting, etc. Upon further investigation they discover the cult is actually worshiping the planet, the planet is just one huge organism. The cult believes that it is a god and wish to use it to 'devour' other planets.
Just an idea, just throwing it out there.

You don't know what a Stalker is, but it didn't seem very inviting anyway.

These two men would like to sell you some insurance.

>>2949068
That's pretty good.

>>2949064
>How on earth are you meant to find your contact in this place?
... cellphone?

Core worlds are pretty nice so long as you don't have to leave in a hurry, for example if you are caught smuggling contraband.

You wouldn't have joined the army if you realised the other side was playing exalted.

>>2949086
LOL, they're gonna fuck that hippie up.

There's been an accident an an outpost. You've got the nearest ship by a longshot. It's a little bit out of your way, but lives are at stake and the reward should be worth it, right?

"Wait, shouldn't you have your own medical supplies? Or your own ship to medivac with? Who's sending this transmission?"

An ancient library filled with the very rare books. Also a dedicated technophobe.

The new guys in town aren't very neighborly.

A wayward lamb has strayed from the flock. Return it and you will be rewarded.

>Firefly with aliens

An archeologist hires the party to help/protect him while he studies an Ancients site. For added fuckery he is not an archeologist at all but wants to steal an artifact hidden there by the real archeologist whom he killed.

The party is hired to transport a valuable cargo, no questions asked, into Zhodani space. Turns out its a drug which can give anyone psionic powers permanently. This would of course destabilize Zhodani society if proles had access to psionics. The mind-reading Thought Police already know about the trade and are waiting to fuck the party. If you don't want to make the Zhos out to be totally evil bastards perhaps one of the side effects of the drug is a deteriorating mental state until psychosis sets in.

The party is hired to transport a 'biological cargo' between two worlds. Turns out its human children. The twist is that slavery is not illegal on either world although interworld transporting of slaves IS illegal according to Imperial law. For added fuckery the origination world is an overpopulated shithole. These kids are orphans and if they weren't slaves they would be dead within a month. The destination world is an industrial hive world. The kids will still be slaves working in sweatshops but at least they will be fed and clothed and have the chance to buy their freedom.

An old war on one of the party members' home planet flares up after a decade of barely negotiated peace. That party member is an exile, a supporter of a government defeated in a coup. But it looks like this time they might make a glorious return.

Will the rest of the party help him redeem himself?

>>2949113
Is Traveller worth downloading?

>>2949142
If you aren't paying for it then what do you lose by downloading it and seeing for yourself?

>>2949142

I think so. I like it. The new rules from Mongoose are pretty spiffy but low on fluff. There is supposed to be a fluff book out some time. However, Traveller has been published many times in the past so there are other places to go if you want offical traveller universe. I like GURPS Traveller but Traveller: the New Era also holds a special place in my heart as my first.

>>2949153
In Australia there is a limit to how much I can download per month, and I download a lot of animu.

>>2949162
Eh what the fuck, downloading nao.

this should help with your sidequest needs
Traveller: 101 Plots
http://www.mediafire.com/?xmumqkbydtg

the file says GURPS but its not really. it's for Marc Millers Traveller (also known as T4) and pretty generic from the game mechanics standpoint.

>>2949181
OP here, my campaign is to be played in GURPS. I love GURPS.

Giant monsters. Good idea or cheap encounter?

>>2949401

they need a reason to exist. giant monsters for the sake of being giant suck. perhaps they are that planets version of dinosaurs?

>>2949401

like as in "Elephant sized alien?" I think that's fair game, after all, any elephant sized aliens are going to look... alien and frightening. Also, lions are big motherfuckers and eat meat, why wouldn't the aliens be predators? Or maybe they're like hippos and rhinos, not predatores but MEAN motherfuckers

>>2949450

hippos are earths giant monsters. show one to an alien and they will shit bricks.

>>2949239
Shitsux.

There's not many things more terrifying than the inside of a hippo.

>>2949474
Go back to fourth edition.

>>2949485

just ignore the retards. they think they are being clever trolls but really they are just shitting up the board.

>>2949487
What the fuck are you talking about you stupid ignorant cunt? We tell people that 4e is better because IT IS, play with your shitty old rules if you want but expect people playing with rules that actually make sense to piss on you for it.

>>2949497

OH NO, SOMEBODY IS POSTING A THREAD ABOUT A SYSTEM OTHER THAN THE ONE I LIKE, RATHER THAN JUST SITTING HERE AND LETTING THEM TALK ABOUT IT, POSSIBLY GENERATING INTERESTING ORIGINAL CONTENT AND HELPING THE OP, I'M GOING TO TURN IT INTO A 4TH ED SHITSTORM. THEN I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO /b/ AND LAUGH.

>>2949483
Hippos are fucking scary

>>2949499
Not my fault that GURPS is a convoluted piece of shit, the OP should have chosen a good system instead of that piece of shit. Cry moar faggot.

My only suggestion is this: Space Brothels.

>>2949497
Trollin' trollin' trollin'.

Keep those wagons trollin'.

Bamping for more of what this topic was orignally about, not for trolling.

Asteroid belts offer a good source of raw materials, but they have a strange tendancy to be inhabited by unpleasant things, be they raiders or be they mynocs.