Visiting Ships

[Shadowizard]

We should have various shuttles that come to the station as a normal event. It would be in the vein of the cargo shuttle, except the shuttles would contain actual players drawn from the ghost pool. After a certain amount of time, the shuttle leaves with it's crew and thus despawns and the crew becomes ghosts once more. I haven't been able to come up with a good incentive to leave on the shuttles, though a simple addition to the rules may be enough. We've been adding a lot of ghost roles recently, and these would be part of that. Possibly the shuttles and the characters on them could be saved, and when the game calls for a shuttle of the same type in the same round you get the same players, characters etc. back. Possibly the people on the shuttles could sign a contract with NT and join the crew (A job for the lawyer?). I'm anticipating resistance on the account that most ghost roles so far have been isolated from the crew whether by lavaland or by drone laws. However, it's not all that different than coming back as a posi brain or xeno critter. I think a few ideas for shuttle could be: NT inspector, Space Bikers (one has to be named Lobo though), Religious groups to try and recruit, Space cops looking for a randomly-named crewmen to arrest, etc. Maybe the shuttle event could only happen after the round had gone on for a while to ensure enough ghosts and to shake things up a little. The shuttle crews should be around 3-5. If taken to the extreme, it could cycle the dead players so there's always a chance to do something when dead.

[captain sawrge]

Read the topic as visiting shaps. Didn't read the op. Hth

[Luke Cox]

Sounds pretty cool, fund it

[Haevacht]

Read the topic as visiting shaps. Didn't read the op. Hth

how do you visit a cloud

[Jacough]

Read the topic as visiting shaps. Didn't read the op. Hth

how do you visit a cloud

You fly up to it, duh.

[kevinz000]

>space cops
>try to arrest me
ok but make sure they don't get security protection so i can beat the shit out of them kkthx

[Jacough]

>space cops
>try to arrest me
ok but make sure they don't get security protection so i can beat the shit out of them kkthx

Alternatively make it so an escape pod containing a fugitive crashes somewhere on the station and the space cops show up a little afterwards with the objective to capture him.
Catching the fugitive and transporting him away on the space cop's ship gets the space cops green text and nets the station a bunch of supply points. If the fugitive is captured alive (or if he commits suicide/ghosts) they get a bonus too and the space cops get the BADASS greentext.

[Professor Hangar]

Cruise ship with drunken tourists wielding cameras and demanding a genuine cultural experience. (lots of food and booze)

A rich space asshole's yacht visiting with their bodyguards and staff.

Space combie van full of hippies.

Flying saucer with (theoretically) friendly ayy diplomats.

[Lumbermancer]

I was a Space Trader once. I got people to steal shit in exchange for memes and contraband.

[John_Oxford]

billionare arms dealer trying to sell bluespace cannons and syndicate mechs to the captain and hos

if the deal is accepted the next shuttle is a NT inspector

if the NT inspector sees illegal weaponry and escapes back onto his shuttle a deathsquad is deployed
if a NT inspector sees illegal weaponry and dies before making it back to the shuttle, central command believes he stayed for a extended period as a on board inspector
if a NT inspector does not see illegal weaponry and dies before making it back to the shuttle a deathsquad is deployed

[DemonFiren]

Make it require a sample of the merchandise or photographic evidence.

[ShadowDimentio]

Fund this

[Professor Hangar]

billionare arms dealer trying to sell bluespace cannons and syndicate mechs to the captain and hos

if the deal is accepted the next shuttle is a NT inspector

if the NT inspector sees illegal weaponry and escapes back onto his shuttle a deathsquad is deployed
if a NT inspector sees illegal weaponry and dies before making it back to the shuttle, central command believes he stayed for a extended period as a on board inspector
if a NT inspector does not see illegal weaponry and dies before making it back to the shuttle a deathsquad is deployed

The NT Inspector is stated to be arriving undercover, resulting in the captain and sec detaining the next greyshirt to arrive on the shuttle and bribe him to say nothing is wrong.

Just as they've finished bribing him to the gills and sending him off, the NT Inspector's arrival is announced.