Robot Death Ship

A garbled distress signal from a dense asteroid field; rumor is it's not human. Mortinson Semiconductor Conglomerate (MSC) is offering 3,000 credits for the ship's central computer unit for research.

A quick jump and a tense flight through the asteroids brings you to a large, bulbous ship with markings in an unknown script. Sensor scans show 200 inactive synthetic entities and 1 biological lifeform. The distress signal is on standard frequencies but unintelligible.

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Robot Death Ship is a one-shot adventure for Cairn-based space adventure games such as Monolith, Meteor, or Plerion.

It was created for Sci-Fi One-Shot jam 2023 and includes the jam themes of fake alien technology and hostile architecture. 

The adventure assumes technologies such as faster than light travel, artificial gravity, energy weapons, advanced robotics, alien contact. 

It also features potentially sensitive topics such as death, dismemberment, isolation, and psychological trauma.

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Writing and Layout: Luke Simonds

Publishing as Cats Have No Lord

Text Licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0

Robot illustration by Jonathan Barker and licensed CC-BY-SA 4.0