PYLKAH Adventure Hooks
The SpyA person that introduces herself as a representative of a minor republic wants to buy a middle passage on the PCs ship. She is willing to pay Cr. 50,000 extra if the PCs will fly (at low altitude) over a restricted area 100 km from the starport, so that she can take some photos. Dangers will involve avoiding the local COACC forces, and running the risk of being banned from that country's starport.
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Mercenary(For PCs with military background)The PCs are contacted by a representative of a minor kingdom that need help to train their elite troops. The kingdom has acquired some hi-tech weapons systems, and they don't have the expertise to do the training themselves, and they cannot trust someone from another country.
Some possible complications...
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Or... These scenarios are best played with the old Striker rules, but other military rules like mercenary, GURPS Traveller Star Mercs or GURPS Traveller Ground Forces are ok.
The PycoonsPycoons are the most intelligent life form indigenous to Pylkah. Pycoons have been used as slave labour, doing simple household work and farming and mining, but that was outlawed in most countries a hundred years ago. Some military forces still use them as mine clearers. Pycoons have not been classified as semi-intelligent, but some scientists say they should be.
A group of scientist wants to hire the PCs to join them on an expedition to look for and study pycoons in the wild.
The PCs can work as drivers, camera crew, hunters or body guards (or anything else that can be useful) Maybe someone wants to stop the scientist from finding out more about the pycoons. This could be someone, or an organization, or some minor country's military that uses pycoons as slave labour.
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The Silver BugsIf the PCs are very poor, let them hear about the SilverBugs...
SilverBugs have a silvery skin. For this they have nearly been hunted to extinction. On the
black-market a dead animal is worth Cr. 2,000 and a living one, Cr. 10,000. Unless someone has Streetwise skill, locating a buyer of the skins will be quite difficult, and may lead to trouble with the local police, environmentalists and animal rights activists.
The NomadsThe Nomads are a people that travels the wastelands of Pylkah in small groups on the back of their Hoftas.Sometimes they get into conflicts with landowners over water rights and feeding rights for their Hoftas. Most governments are on the Nomads side in this conflict, and say that the Nomads have the rights to the wastelands, because they were there first.
The PCs are contacted by a group of landowners who wants to drive the Nomads of their lands.
The landowners don't want anyone to be killed. They just want the PCs to fly with their ship over the nomads to
scare their Hoftas. When the Hoftas are running loose, the landowners and PCs can kill them.
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