Picked up a copy, went through it and eventually decided to piece meal a potential campaign or game idea from a mix of the ideas within!
So far have the following NPCs thought up:
Countessa Margaret Phillipa a noblewoman who was kidnapped by a suitor who was attempting to smuggle her back through the Consuit back to Earth but its collapse means her fate is very much in the players hands!
Cullen McArthur, a survivor of a ship that misjumped but was left in a low berth chamber for almost a century now wants to return home but his home is a world that suffered from an unexpected Ice Age resulting in it being abandoned.
He still wants to go home to pay his respects before getting on with his life.
Marcus Krait, a Caxtonite whose so convinced of his beliefs he has built his own army of followers and intends to seize a small colony to begin his own isolationist Sect but to do this he and his followers are acting as mercenaries to fund his vision.
Thomas Odel is a Pirate who specialises in ambushing targets right before they can refuel, he is so prolific that he doesn't check all of his plundered cargo pods storing some within an asteroid facility to deal with later.
Albert Boone lost his ship to one of Odel's lieutenants who is currently using his ship to ferry illegal arms to a colony their Corporate Sponsor wants to seize but needs "proof" so they can move in and claim the world rather than have the Hub Federation interfere.
Ximes Durango is Odel's Lieutenant and has stolen Boone's ship intent on supplying a colony with arms as Marcus Krait and his followers are intent on seizing the colony to achieve his vision unaware they're being used to secure a valuable resource world.
Charlotte Gagnon is their contact she's aware the survivors of Cullen's home world moved there following the last time they illegally rendered the world uninhabitable so they could move in and mine the world.
This time however there's no weather satellite system they can tinker with to speed up an Ice Age so they've settled back on using Krait's group to incite the colony into accepting the arms she had stolen before leading the Hub Federation there after making sure no one left alive is aware of her Corporation's involvement.
Ketta Berlin is Countessa Margaret's former suitor he assumed she was on the other side of the collapsed Conduit, eventually he'll discover she isn't and will make moves to recover her.
It turns out after she disappeared there was a coup that resulted in the death of her family and their murderer is now the ruler of her homeworld.
Being the legal heir makes her a threat to that tyrant and he wants her either killed or forcibly returned so he can marry her cementing his position, so mercenaries hired by both him and the tyrant are sent after her once news of her recovery gets released.
Yes I have a long way to go, but after one evening that's quite a lot of inspiration involved!
