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Amber Zone: Asteroid P-4836 by Loren K Wiseman
Location: The Rabwhar planetoid belt (Lunion Subsector, Spinward Marches), owned and operated by Sternmetal Horizons, LLC.
Patron: An anonymous business factor for an unnamed business that is in competition with Sternmetal Horizons
Mission:
The PCs are to infiltrate Sternmetal's research facility situated on
the planetoid identified as P-4836. Once inside the facility, they are
to locate a specific computer and extract a specific packet of data.
Then they must exit the facility without their actions being detected.
Complications: The biggest factors are the base security and the remoteness of the target. There is simply no way
to approach this facility without being seen – it's a private asteroid
housing highly secretive research. Objects in space have near unlimited line-of-sight in all directions. Lastly, the PCs must
pull off the entire operation without ever being noticed. At all. The
second they're spotted, they have failed.
Payoff: The factor offers MCr 1 for the data, provided that Sternmetal is unaware of its theft.
Strong
Points: This is a mission to throw a PCs with lots of high skill
levels; this is a very tough mission, which relies on stealth instead of
firepower. It can work well as a solo adventure. There are plenty of
challenges in pulling off a job like this.
Weak Points: The
mission could fail at many points – as soon as the base personnel
suspect the PCs of malfeasance, the game is up. The description
specifically includes the possibility that the target data is not in
fact on the station at all. Sternmetal cannot even suspect that they
have been burgled, the steal has to be perfect, or it fails completely.
The factor's company cannot use data that is known to be stolen against
the company they stole it from without facing a huge legal action.
What
I'd change: I would reduce the size and armament of the base security
force, and possibly change the mission to destroying Sternmetal's
computer to take the target data out of the big picture. That would be
an easier objective to reach. I would also correct a number of obvious
spelling and punctuation errors in the article as printed.
In My
Traveller Universe: I would set this adventure in the Verrazano belt
(Solaris-Litton 0409) part of the Republic of Tamarkand. The system
government is listed as family/clan, so I'll say that means that the
belt is worked by independent mining clans, and the research facility is
on a rock the company owns. This may give players a few more options
for how to approach the facility without arousing suspicion.
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