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Tabletop Adventures Presents:

By Martin RalyaR EPAIR S TATION 7 -O SIRIS

IntroductionWelcome, and thanks for picking up Repair Station

7-Osiris, the first product in the “Destinations” line

from Tabletop Adventures! This book describes 7-

Osiris, a busy repair station that can be easily

dropped into any space-based sci-fi RPG campaign.

About the AuthorMartin Ralya has been a freelance writer since 2004, and

has worked on several other projects for Tabletop

Adventures, including Bits of the Boulevard and Bits of

the Wilderness: Into the Wildwood. Martin also writes

Treasure Tables, a daily weblog for GMs, and runs the

GMing Q&A Forum (http://www.treasuretables.or g).

This is his first solo project for TTA, and he would like to

dedicate it to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Firefly, Outlands

and of course, Deep Space 9, which did it best.

7-Osiris is presented in two different conditions:

Active (inhabited, running normally) and Derelict

(ruined and devoid of life). An Overview is also

provided, which familiarizes you with the station ingeneral terms. You can run the derelict version of

the station without first reading the active version.

If your players ask questions relating to what

station life was like while 7-Osiris was still

operational, you can just refer back to the relevant bit of the active section during play.

This gives you two dramatically different ways toincorporate 7-Osiris into your campaign – as well

as the option of using it in both states in the same

game, if the PCs become familiar with the station

before disaster strikes.

The Active and Derelict conditions are described

separately, and broken into several sections:

Station Exterior (what 7-Osiris looks like from

space); Exterior Scenes (ready-to-use descriptions

of minor events that take place aboard the station);

Interior Areas (what the station is like inside);

Adventure Seeds (which you can use to introduce

the station into your game); and Bringing 7-Osiristo Life (to help you make this repair station seem

more real and vibrant to your players).

In addition, the first division – which describes 7-

Osiris as an active, functional repair station – also

includes one extra section, Cast of Characters,

which briefly describes the NPCs who run, use and

visit 7-Osiris.

Each section includes text that you can read aloud

directly to your players, generally when the

characters see a new area (or meet a new NPC) for

the first time. Some sections include a mini-

vignette (also designed to be read aloud) featuring

that area of the station. Read-aloud descriptions are

always italicized .

Gravity and life support (which includes both

breathable air and heat) are not consistent

throughout 7-Osiris – some areas have neither,

while others have one or both – and these

conditions change depending on which version of

the station (active or derelict) you are using in yourgame. For this reason, the status of both gravity and

life support is included at the very beginning of

each description, right after any read-aloud text.

OverviewRepair Station 7-Osiris is a medium-capacity repair

facility for spaceships, capable of handling

anything from personal shuttles on up to midrange

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cargo vessels. Although 7-Osiris is not a

particularly large station, what it lacks in size it

makes up for in adaptability; this repair station can

alter its structure to accommodate ships of different

shapes and sizes, within reason.From a distance, 7-Osiris looks like a big wire box

with lumps in it – and in a nutshell, that is exactly

what it is. The station consists of a roughly cube-

shaped frame of girders, armatures, docking tubes,

pipes, cranes and cables – called “the grid” – which

surrounds a handful of repair bays and pod-like

habitable areas, as well as the ships that are docked

there for repairs. Each face of the grid is about 500

yards wide.

With a bit of grunt work, the various armatures and

girders that are “woven” together to form the gridcan be moved around and anchored in new

positions, allowing 7-Osiris to make room for a

larger vessel, bring needed cranes or other

equipment closer to areas in need of repair and

otherwise adapt itself to every job that it takes on.

The station is home to a sizable crew of repair

specialists and technicians, as well as a few guards

and other support personnel, plus the staff of the

Vicar’s and, of course, the crews of some of the

ships that are docked there.

7-Osiris works equally well in deep space or as anorbital repair station, and is described in such a way

as to leave both options open to you. In deep space,

it would need to be placed near a hyperspace jump

point or along a major space lane. As an orbital

station, it can be installed in geostationary (stays at

a fixed point while the planet rotates beneath it) or

geosynchronous (rotates with the planet, but stays

above a fixed location) orbit around any planet with

significant space traffic.

Similarly, whether or not 7-Osiris is a commercial

venture or a government (or even military)

installation has been left open as well, to make it is

as easy as possible for you to incorporate this repair

station into your game.

7-Osiris has a variety of nicknames among its crew

(and frequent visitors), including “Seven,” “the

grid,” “the cage” and “Siri” (shortened from

Osiris). You can extrapolate as much or as little

from the designation “7-Osiris” as you like –

perhaps there are other numbered Osiris-class

repair stations scattered across the galaxy (1-Osiris,

2-Osiris, etc.), or other stations named after gods

and mythical figures (like 9-Odin and 33-Quetzlcoatl).

About Communications7-Osiris has its own communications network,

segmented into public and private bands. Every

member of the crew carries a personal comm, and

can communicate with any other crewmember on a

range of channels, including one scrambled

channel, for the station’s very occasional secure

communications.

For visitors, the station maintains a hardwired

public network. There is a comm unit on both sides

of every airlock, as well as several in each of the

interior areas described below. (Note also that since

the docking tunnels are segmented and separated by

airlocks, there are comm. units every hundred feet

or so even in the docking tunnels.) These stations

allow visitors to communicate on several publicchannels, as well as to dial other parts of the

station. They also include an emergency call button

that summons guards (and usually several

crewmembers, as well) to their location, if needed.

7-Osiris: ActiveThis section describes Repair Station 7-Osiris as a

bustling hive of activity – a full house, with ships

docked for refitting and repairs, and plenty of

visitors aboard.

Station Exterior From a distance, the space station glitters likea birdcage in the starlight. As you get closer,

you see that the station is little more than a

vast, roughly box-shaped grid of girders, struts, tubes and armatures, perhaps 500 yards

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on a side, surrounding a dozen or so ship-sized

pods – and enclosing several spaceships of

different sizes in its web. Even from here, youcan see that this repair station was built for

function, not beauty.

Red and yellow guide lights blink on and off allover the outer edges of the station’s metal grid.

Tiny scratches and pockmarks dot the

structure, from years of exposure to small- scale space debris and contact with the hulls of

countless ships. Servo platforms and drones

skim the surface of one of the larger ships thatis docked there, and space-suited figures can

be seen working on a great tear in the cargo

vessel’s bright metal hull.

As you get closer, you can see tiny figuresthrough the view ports of the larger habitation

pod, and several space-suited repair techs

pulling one of the docking tubes to a new

location. Painted on a row of metal plates

mounted on the leading edge of the grid is the station’s designation, Repair Station 7-Osiris,

spelled out in red block letters ten feet high.

The Grid7-Osiris’s elaborate grid system is built

primarily of bright stainless steel girders and struts, extensively cross-braced, that radiate

out from dozens of hinged mounting points.

Some of the smaller pieces are made of darker

metal, while others are painted red or blue, perhaps to signify their function. Conduits and

pipes run along most of the grid arms, mixed inwith control boxes and guide lights.

Where ships are enclosed in the grid, you can see that they are

hard-docked to the

station itself, withrubber-gripped

clamps and

magnetic armaturesholding them firmly

in place. Most of the

larger structuralelements also havetranslucent docking

tunnels running

along their length,and dark shapes –

people moving

between ships, orbetween ships and

the habitation pods

– can be seen

within.Gravity: None.

Life Support: None.

The bulk of Repair

Station 7-Osiris is

“the grid,” the

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network of interlinked supports, hollow girders and

braces the gives the station its cage-like

appearance. Most of these supports look a lot like

modern day crane arms: four long tubes, each about

six inches wide, placed in a square configuration, joined by smaller “X”-shaped supports that run up

their length.

Most of these sections can be decoupled from one

another and relocated to new positions, allowing

the station to accommodate different hull sizes and

configurations. They offer plentiful handholds, as

much of the station’s repair work is performed by

techs in spacesuits. Running in, on and around

these supports are conduits carrying electricity to

the outer areas of the grid, pipes, locked control

boxes that allow the struts to be repositioned,

running lights and other bits of equipment.

Repair BaysYou can see several repair bays throughout the grid, each one a half-sphere perhaps forty feet

across. The inside of each sphere is lined with

racks of tools, pieces of machinery and otherrepair equipment, all open to the vacuum of

space. Techs in spacesuits dart gracefully in

and out of these bays, retrieving and stowing

tools and otherwise going about their work.

Looking closer, you can see that the open face

of each bay is not actually open – a fine net

covers the entire flat side of each half-sphere.The net has a hole in its center, allowing techs

to come and go freely but preventing loose

tools and stray parts from drifting into space.

Each repair bay pod also has a pair of doors stowed on its exterior, which look like they

could be used to seal the pod in the event that it

needed to be pressurized for specialized repair

work.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No, although they can be given full

life support (air and heat) if needed.

7-Osiris has six repair bays, all of which contain a

wide assortment of tools, gadgets and gizmos used

for spaceship repairs. These pods are generally left

in the configuration described above – open to

space – for ease of use, although all of them can be

sealed and pressurized if necessary. Since most of

the actual repair work that the 7-Osiris’s crew performs is done on the hulls of the ships being

repaired, however, there’s rarely a need for

“workshop” spaces.

Shuttle Bay7-Osiris’s shuttle bay is adjacent to the station’s habitation pods, not far from the

center of the grid. The shuttle bay is lozenge-

shaped, with a slit in one side that is open to space, allowing shuttles to come and go freely.

Several shuttles can be seen inside, lit by the

shuttle bay’s interior lights. Docking tubes are

coupled to each shuttle, and a few techs can be seen working on one of the smaller craft.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No; docking tubes are used to get

from the shuttles to the habitable areas.

The shuttle bay is little more than an enclosure to

house the station’s five shuttles; although it can be

sealed (the hatch is normally left open), it cannot be

pressurized and there is no gravity. Access to theshuttles is by docking tunnels, and these tunnels

lead to the habitable areas of the station. This is one

of the most spartan sections of the station, with

little wasted space – just a few feet of clearance

around each shuttle – and nothing in the way of

amenities.

Habitation PodsThe most brightly lit section of the 7-Osiris isits pair of habitation pods, egg-shaped

structures that sit end-to-end not far from thecenter of the grid. Both pods are made of a dull gray metal that soaks up the starlight, with

some sections that have clearly been patched

and repaired over the years. A web ofoverlapping pipes and conduits encases each

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pod, surrounding small view ports that are

scattered across their surface.

Docking tunnels radiate out from both pods,

connecting them with other sections of the

station and with the shuttle bay. You can seemovement through the view ports, and in manyof the docking tubes as well. Even from a

distance there is a sense of coziness – of

warmth in the void – that seems to emanate from the two pods.

A third larger, longer pod sits off on its own,

connected to the other two by several very long

docking tunnels. “The Vicar’s” is paintedacross its scarred metal hull in gold letters

several feet high, and flashing multicolored

lights can be seen through its tiny view ports.

Gravity: Yes; slightly less than Earth-normal.

Life Support: Yes.

There are three habitation pods: one for crew

quarters, one for visitors and the third for the

Vicar’s, the station’s combination bar, casino and

den of ill repute. These are described in more detail

in the Interior Areas section, below.

Bug Hunters As you approach Repair Station 7-Osiris, you

can see a fair amount of movement on the

station. Repair techs, both free-floating and on skiffs and platforms, skim around the ships that

are docked there for repairs, and dockingtunnels sway gently as people pass through

them, but what catches your eye are the

menacing black gun turrets located on eachcorner of the repair grid. Two snub-nosed guns

protrude from each turret, and as your ship

approaches the station, the two closest turretstrack your progress.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: Yes.

The bug hunters are 7-Osiris’s defense system:

eight automated gun turrets, one at each corner of

the repair grid. Each turret has a wide field of fire,

limited only by the station itself and any ships that

protrude past the edges of the repair grid. The bug

hunters can be reached using the network of

docking tunnels, although a locked, armored airlock

limits access.

The bug hunters have fairly sophisticated onboard

Artificial Intelligence (AIs), and in the absence of

human control they are capable of running threat

assessment programs and picking their own targets.

In practice, human control is preferable, so station

guards man at least four of the bug hunters at all

times. Standard practice is for one or more turrets

to track every unknown ship that approaches the

station, which can be unsettling for first-time

visitors.

These ball-shaped turrets each have a pair of large-

bore cannon emerging from them, and can rotate onall axes. Inside, there is just enough room for a

single person (with or without a spacesuit) to work

the controls. Each bug hunter is also equipped with

a computer that allows it to control the rest of the

turrets – so in a pinch, one person with the proper

access codes could operate all eight turrets.

If the station is attacked, the guards in the four

manned bug hunters will each take control of a

second turret, setting that one to semi-autonomous

mode until the rest of the gunners can take their

positions.

Exterior ScenesPresented here are three mini-vignettes that you can

use to convey the feel of approaching 7-Osiris from

space, or of looking out of the hab pods at the rest

of the station.

Scene: Pulling in for repairs

From a little way off, the edge of the cube-

shaped grid that is Repair Station 7-Osirislooks impassable – a crazy web of

interconnected girders, with no openings large

enough for your ship. Up close, however, youcan see that this is not the case – a path has

been cleared for you through the supports, with

several yards of clearance on every side.

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Repair techs in spacesuits hover around theedges of this pathway, and several small

floating platforms and drones are moored to

girders above and below you. With puffs from

its attitude jets, your ship moves slowly up to,and then past, the edge of the station’s grid.

Soon you are surrounded by pipes, conduitsand supports on all sides, and after another

few moments the ship glides to a stop withanother burst from its forward jets.

You hear the muted thump of rubber on metal

as repair techs attach magnetic armatures to

her hull, hard-docking your ship with the station itself. Within moments, drones are

zooming past the view ports as they flit over the surface of your ship.

Scene: Damaged cargo ship docking

You watch as a heavily damaged cargo vessel

begins its approach, preparing to dock with the

station. One side of the ship is marred by thebright scars of several impacts – whether from

weapons or space debris, you can not tell for

sure – some of which look to have penetratedthe hull completely. Large sections of the edge

of the station’s grid nearest to the ship swing slowly outwards, with space-suited techsmanning their controls, as the cargo ship

closes with the station.

Slowly and with great care, the ship aligns

itself with the edge of the cube and begins tomove inwards. The grid almost seems to

swallow it, with girders extending off of the

structure to wrap around the tail end of thecargo ship. Several small drones, as well as a

larger floating platform, move into position

around the ship, and you watch as techs position hard-docking arms and booms to holdthe massive vessel in place. In a few silent

minutes, it is all over; except for the stream of people moving through the translucent docking

tunnels, you would not know that the ship had

not been there all along.

Scene: Repaired ship taking off

A swarm of repair techs decouples a small

freighter – freshly repaired – from the support

grid. Coupling arms and booms slide back smoothly and silently, and other techs

reposition several of the larger girders to give

the ship more room to move.

With a few white puffs of gas from its attitude jets, the freighter begins to nose its way out of

the grid. It slides out smoothly and heads into

open space, running lights blinking steadily,

and then fires its topside jets and pulls slowlyaway from the station. After it is fully away

from 7-Osiris, you see a cherry-red glow

blossom deep within the freighter’s aft engines.The glow builds rapidly, quickly becoming a

star-bright flare of white heat, and the ship –

now several kilometers from the station –disappears into the black.

Interior Areas

Docking TunnelsYou are enclosed in a dimly lit tube made oftranslucent yellow-white plastic. There aremetal rings every few feet, and rails run the

length of the tube above, below and to both

sides of you. You can hear the steady hiss of airbeing pumped into the tube, which rocks back

and forth as you pull yourself along the rails in

zero-G. The whole thing feels a bit like beinginside a giant plastic intestine, and you can not

see much through the walls of the tunnel – just

vague shapes that might be ships.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: Yes.

Often called “float tubes” by the crew, docking

tunnels connect all of the habitable sections of 7-

Osiris to one another, to other important areas (like

the shuttle bay) and to the outlying regions of the

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grid. The tunnels are made of thick, semi-rigid

translucent plastic, and are a pale yellow-white in

color. There are steel support rings every eighteen

inches, which help the tunnels keep their shape, and

four grab rails (thin tubes with a textured outer

surface) are mounted to these rings. Dim lights arealso present every twenty feet or so.

The grab rails run along the length of the tube, one

each on the top, bottom and sides (although these

are relative terms in zero-G), allowing those using

the tunnels to pull themselves along in the absence

of gravity. Despite their rugged construction, the

docking tunnels will not stand up to any serious

punishment – they can be cut with relatively little

effort, and penetrated by nearly any projectile

weapon with no effort whatsoever.

The network of docking tunnels is interrupted everyso often by airlocks; airlocks are also in place

anywhere that a docking tunnel mates with a

pressurized area (like the habitation pods). This

prevents depressurization in one section of a

docking tunnel from depressurizing the whole

network.

Scene: Crowded tunnel

As you change directions to turn a corner,

kicking off of one of the grab rails, you see several other people floating towards you from

the opposite direction. All of them are wearing

dark gray space suits, but their helmets are off;they are talking in a language you do not

recognize, and the sound of their voices is

warped in the cramped confines of the tunnel.They nod and smile as they line up, one behind

the other, so that you can pass each other in

the narrow tube. A moment later they are past

you, floating by with the grace of seasoned space travelers.

Machine Bay Peering in through the machine bay’s airlock,

it is tough to believe that so many machinescan be stored in one place. A stack of towing

platforms is strapped to one wall, while drones

and repair skiffs float gently in their harnesses

on the ceiling above you. The only open space

is next to the doorway, where a skiff is midway

through being repaired; tools and parts floataround it, and two repair techs are examining

its engines. Opposite the doorway is a massive

circular airlock, currently closed, which allowsaccess to the repair grid.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: Yes.

7-Osiris’s machine bay is one of the largest sections

of the station, a roughly spherical pod that is

smaller than the Vicar’s and the storage pod but

larger than either of the hab pods. It houses the

drones, space platforms, jet-equipped cranes, repair

skiffs and other heavy machinery needed for

spaceship repairs. Altogether there are thirty-sixvehicles housed in this bay, although at any given

time about half of them are being used in repair

work.

Unlike the shuttle bay, the machine bay is

pressurized; positive pressure is maintained by a

massive airlock – fourteen feet in diameter – that

allows the various drones to come and go freely.

Within the bay, an elaborate system of harnessesallows 7-Osiris’s crew to maximize the interior

space – platforms are stacked on top of each other

and strapped to the walls, skiffs overlap nose-to-

tail, and so forth.

There is also a large cleared area on the back wall,

opposite the main airlock, which is used to perform

repairs on the various machines in the bay. This

area (which looks a lot like a modern-day helipad)

has a wide range of tools stowed around its edges.

Apart from that, there are very few small objects in

the machine bay – it is deliberately kept as clear as

possible to minimize the chance of damaging the

various drones and other equipment.

Scene: Repair skiffs taking off Looking out at 7-Osiris’s machine bay, you

watch as its wide, circular airlock cracks open,both halves of the circle sliding smoothly back

into the pod. Two repair skiffs emerge from theairlock, their attitude jets squirting out small

plumes of gas as they maneuver towards the

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nearest docked ship, a boxy mining trawler.The skiffs are slim machines, made to be

straddled, with small engines underneath fore

and aft, and each has a scratched and dented

plastic sphere mounted on its underbelly. A single space-suited repair tech rides each skiff,

guiding it through the web of girders thatmakes up the station’s repair grid.

Storage PodThe storage pod is a boxy rectangular

structure situated near the “top” of the

station’s repair grid. Someone with a sense ofhumor has painted “Coffin for Non-Paying

Customers” in dark blue paint across one of itsrusted metal sides. The pod is low and wide,clearly designed to hold spare hull sections

and plating for use in repairs. Smaller lockers,

boxes and crates are bolted and strapped to its

exterior, presumably holding other spare parts.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: None.

Unlike all of the other structures on the station, the

storage pod is box-shaped, a hard-edged

rectangular structure made of rusted metal. (It looksquite a bit like a modern-day shipping container.)

The pod itself is used to store sections of ship hulls,

metal plates of various sizes and composition, andother large objects. The various boxes and lockers

attached to its exterior house smaller parts,

including piping, fuel, electrical wire, bolts and

other essentials, as well as anything the crew could

not put somewhere else. Like the main pod, all of

the smaller storage spaces are kept locked at all

times.

Scene: Hull sections leaving storageThree repair techs with a towing platform havetaken up positions around the storage pod’s

access hatch, and one of them keys in the entry

code. Together they open the large door,revealing stacks upon stacks of sheet metal and

hull sections. One of the techs disappears

inside the pod, pulling a tow cable behind him. He emerges a few moments later, and all three

techs climb aboard the platform.

Slowly and with obvious care, they fire the platform’s attitude jets and drag an enormous piece of spaceship hull – perhaps twenty feet

square – out of the storage pod. Once it is free,two of the techs kick off of the platform, close

the storage pod’s access door, and grab hold

of two of the hull section’s edges, helping to guide it through the repair grid.

Habitation PodsOver the years, 7-Osiris’s crew has made thehab pods less sterile and utilitarian, and more

homelike. Their textured metal flooring has

been carpeted over in some areas, woodenaccents have been added around doorways and

airlocks, curtains have been hung in front of

many of the view ports – to keep out the lightsof the station during night cycles – and framed

prints, paintings, photos and silk screens have

been mounted on the walls.

Gravity: Yes; slightly less than Earth-normal

(applies to all hab pod areas)Life Support: Yes (applies to all hab pod areas).

Called the “hab pods” by nearly everyone aboard,

these three structures house everyone who lives

aboard, or visits, 7-Osiris. There are three separate

hab pods: one for the crew and staff, one for

visitors and the third for the Vicar’s. The crew pod

and the visitors’ pod are connected to one another,

as it is easier to supply life support to both of them

that way; the Vicar’s sits off by itself, on one edge

of the repair grid. All three are described

individually below.

The Vicar’s has its own life support machinery and

gravity generator, while the two other hab pods

share one life support and gravity generation

system. Both sets of equipment are mounted below

the pods they supply, and are armored against

random space debris (as well as low-level

weapons).

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Crew Quarters Looking down the corridor into the crew

quarters pod, you see several narrow cabindoors on either side, and a larger door at the

end. Soft string music emanates from one of the

closed cabins, and you can hear voices frombeyond the larger doors at the end of the

corridor. The wall to your left is covered in

photos of repair jobs the crew of 7-Osiris has

performed, as well as pictures of family and friends. A painted mural on the right-hand wall

depicts a busy shipping lane in space, with 7-

Osiris at its nexus.

7-Osiris’s crew pod is fairly simple in layout. A

central corridor runs from one end of the egg-shaped structure to the other, with small crew

cabins on both sides; the command crew’s quarters

are at the far end of the hall, along with the arms

locker, while bathrooms and showers are at the near

end, closest to the main airlock.

Two crewmembers share each of the small cabins,

which hold a bunk bed, a tiny closet, two storage

lockers and a folding table with two folding chairs.

Each cabin has been personalized with posters,

artwork and other items according to the tastes of

its occupants.

The command crew’s cabins are half again as large,

but by no means luxurious. They also sleep two,

with the exception of the Station Commander’s

room (which is not shared). Like the crew cabins,

the members of the command crews have

personalized these spaces as well, giving them a

homey feel.

The bathrooms feature low-tech pressure showers

and vacuum toilets, and all of the water used there

is recaptured, filtered and recycled back into the

system.

The arms locker is secured by two lockingmechanisms, one physical and one electronic, and

only the command crew and the guards have access

to it. The locker (really a small walk-in closet)

holds a dozen sidearms, a dozen shotguns and six

space-capable rifles. The sidearms and shotguns

both fire frangible rounds – essentially, plastic

bullets that will penetrate flesh, but not the station’s

hull – and neither will work in space. The space-

capable rifles fire armor-penetrating bullets, and

will work just fine in space.

Scene: Shift change

At shift change, the common area between the

crew and visitors’ quarters fills up with space-

suited repair techs, drone jockeys, guards andother station personnel. Crewmembers swap

stories from their shifts, fight over who gets

dibs on the showers and generally make a lotof noise for the next few minutes. Once the

departing crewmembers have left for their shifts, and the arriving ones have gone to the

showers or to their cabins, the common area is

suddenly quiet again, with only the almost-

inaudible hiss of the life support system to keep you company.

Visitors’ QuartersSoft, soothing music plays in the galley, where

the crew of a small cruiser is sharing a meal.

Beyond the galley are several cabins for

guests. Some are open, and you can see visitorsinside, while others are closed. The walls in the

galley and around the cabin doors are covered

with mementos of past visitors: before andafter photos of their ships, some cracked and

yellowing with age, crews toasting repair techs

aboard their newly-repaired vessels and otherimages from around the station. Behind you, in

the lounge, you hear a soft bleep as the status

screen is updated, signaling that one more shipis a bit closer to being fully repaired.

During lengthy repair stays, most ship crews sleep

aboard their ships, but there are times when this is

not an option, such as when the repair techs have to

depressurize a ship to fix a major problem. For thisreason, the station offers spacious, comfortable

visitors’ quarters.

The visitors’ pod is attached to the crew quarters

pod, and there is a common area – essentially, a

lounge – in between the two. (Technically, the

lounge is aboard the visitors’ pod.) One wall of the

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lounge is taken up by a large video screen, on

which is displayed the status of every ship docked

at the station: what percentage of repairs have been

completed, an estimated completion date and other

useful information. This screen is updated severaltimes a day by the repair techs, who send the

information over from computers in their repair

bays.

Just past the lounge is the galley, which serves a

limited menu around the clock and can seat

everyone aboard the station. (Better – and more

expensive – meals are available at the Vicar’s.)

Beyond the galley are the sleeping quarters, ten

rooms with four foldout bunks apiece. Each room

includes a folding table and four folding chairs,

plus a small closet and a storage locker. With the bunks folded up, four people can comfortably sitaround the table playing cards, throwing dice or

otherwise passing the time until their ship is

repaired.

At the back end of the visitors’ pod are spacious

showers and bathroom facilities, much nicer than

the ones in the crew quarters. When no visitors are

aboard, crewmembers regularly sneak into these

bathrooms instead of using their own.

Scene: New arrivals

As the lounge airlock opens, the mellow

atmosphere is broken by loud shouting fromthe airlock’s occupants: the crew of a small

mercenary ship, the Line in the Sand , which

you just saw pop up on the status screen. Three

women and two men, all in pilot gear, arearguing at the top of their lungs about whose fault it is that their ship got damaged. Seeing

you, they abruptly stop arguing, mutter their

apologies, and head straight for their cabins

without pausing to chat.

The Vicar’sCompared to the rest of the station, going intothe Vicar’s is like getting hit with a wall of

sound – you are inundated with the bright

chirps of gambling machines, the clatter of

dice, catcalls from the brothel above and the shouts of gamblers and bar patrons alike. Then

there are the lights: multicolored tubes of

swirling light around the view ports, slow-

pulsing white and gold lights from under thebar and spotlights bathing the gambling tables

in a diffuse yellow glow. The crowd is a mix of7-Osiris crewmembers, visitors who are here

while their ships are being worked on and spacers who have stopped by solely to spend

their money at the Vicar’s.

One of the largest structures on 7-Osiris, the

Vicar’s is a cigar-shaped pod situated at one edge

of the repair grid, some distance away from the

other hab pods. Like space station and spaceship

crews everywhere, the crewmembers and visitorsaboard 7-Osiris would go stir-crazy without

distractions – and the Vicar’s offers distractions

aplenty, including gambling, a fully-stocked bar

and restaurant, prostitutes and the chance to rub

shoulders with everyone else on the station. Nearly

every member of 7-Osiris’s crew spends some time

(and money) at the Vicar’s blowing off steam, as do

many of the station’s visitors.

There are three levels to the Vicar’s: the main level,

which includes the bar and the gambling tables; the

mezzanine, a wide walkway overlooking the mainlevel, which houses the restaurant; and the upper

level, which is a brothel. There are wide view ports

on the main and mezzanine levels, offering

spectacular space views on one side and views of

the station on the other. These view ports are lined

with pulsing, multicolored light tubes, giving the

Vicar’s a garish appearance from space. The

interior lighting is otherwise quite dim, the better to

facilitate the shady dealing that goes on here at all

hours.

The Vicar’s is a popular destination in its own

right, attracting customers to 7-Osiris who do notneed ship repairs. To this end, there are ample

docking points, including docking tunnel

connections, on the repair grid around the Vicar’s.

This allows ships to park next to the station without

entering the grid, so that they can come and go

without needing assistance from the station’s crew.

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Armed guards who work for 7-Osiris patrol in and

around the Vicar’s, and theirs are the only weapons

allowed aboard. In practice, this rule is very

difficult to enforce, and depending on how seedy

you decide to make the Vicar’s, some, most or all

of its customers could be carrying concealedweapons.

Repair Crew

Scene: High rollers

The center of the main floor of the Vicar’s is

packed – it looks like everyone who was at therestaurant, the bar and the other gaming tables

has gathered around a single table. The crowd

is hushed for a few moments, and then erupts

in cheers as one gambler throws the dice. Afterthe bets are raked in, a hush descends again –

only to be broken seconds later by catcalls from the mezzanine and more cheers from themain level.

Interactions

Cast of CharactersThe most people you would expect to find on this

station at one time is approximately 140 people. Of

that, approximately 110 people would be residingin either the crew quarters, the visitor’s quarters or

the Vicar’s. The remainder of the people reside on

their own ships. The standard crew for the repair

station only would be 54.

Command CrewVisitors to 7-Osiris are not likely to meet most of

the command crew, which consists of three Repair

Captains (who supervise the repair techs), a Comm

Officer (who coordinates station communications),

a Supply Chief (who manages the station’s

inventory) and the Station Commander, KejiArmstrong.

Newly arrived visitors are generally greeted by a

Repair Captain – most often Sasira Cheng, the most

garrulous of the three Captains. Especially

important guests may be welcomed aboard by the

Station Commander himself.

The members of 7-Osiris’s sizeable repair crew

spend most of their time in the repair bays and

working on ships. When they interact with visitors

at all, it is in the relaxed atmosphere of the galley

(in the hab pods) or at the Vicar’s. Grainger

Chapman is generally regarded as the best tech

aboard, while Garz Mullak does the fastest repairs

and Safir Elemena is particularly accident-prone.

Guards7-Osiris’s small staff of guards patrol the tunnels

around the hab pods, keep an eye on the Vicar’s

and man the bug hunters. Visitors are most likely to

run into their Captain, Savin “Bang Bang” Jones,

who makes an effort to get to know everyone who

comes aboard the station.

Staff of the Vicar’s

The Vicar’s, appropriately enough, is run by the

Vicar (known by his real name, Stuart Derby, only

to a select few), a smalltime criminal who paid off

his debts and retired to 7-Osiris. Notable members

of the Vicar’s staff include Sira Quartz, the Vicar’s

girlfriend and the best dealer in the house; Avar

Stoneman, a hired thug with fewer teeth than

scruples; and Jen Swale, the most popular prostituteon the station.

Visitors

At any given time, 7-Osiris is usually hosting the

crews of two to four ships (the rest live and sleepaboard their vessels while repairs are underway),

plus as many as two dozen spacers who are aboard

to sample the distractions that the Vicar’s has to

offer.

Adventure Seeds

Big Bang

One of the ships docked on 7-Osiris – the Spinward

Wanderer , a small mercenary vessel – has a leak in

its fuel core, and if it gets any worse the whole ship

could explode…taking the station with it. As soon

as they discover this, the station’s repair techs

refuse to go near it, and other visitors start leaving

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the station in droves. Desperate to save 7-Osiris,

Station Commander Armstrong approaches the PCs

and implores them to go aboard the Wanderer and

stop the leak.

Fish in a Barrel

The Bard’s Pride, a midsize mining vessel that has

just docked on 7-Osiris, is not what it seems – it is

crewed not by miners, but by space pirates, and

they plan to take over the station. Their plan

involves spreading out in the docking tunnels on

the station’s next night cycle, overpowering the

guards manning the bug hunters – and then training

the guns on the ships in the repair grid and

demanding an exorbitant ransom. While the PCs

are in the Vicar’s, Mordecai Aldor, a pilot from the

Pride, gets a little too drunk and lets the basics oftheir plan slip out at the bar. Will the PCs handle it

themselves, or go to the station’s command crew?

New Bug

The Vector , a science vessel that recently stopped

off at 7-Osiris for a refit, brought a surprise gift: a

virus from a newly colonized planet. The virus

came aboard with the Vector’s crew, and shortly

after they left it broke out all over the two main hab

pods. The repair techs quickly locked down the

airlocks leading out of those pods, keepingeveryone in the Vicar’s – including the PCs – safe,

at least for now. Will the PCs take a ship and try to

track down the Vector ? Or will they work with the

people in the Vicar’s to try and come up with a cure

on their own?

Bringing 7-Osiris to LifeRepair Station 7-Osiris was built in a very

utilitarian fashion, but over the years it has been

personalized – and humanized – by its crew and its

many visitors. Aspects of the station are still veryutilitarian, though, like the docking tunnels, repair

bays and shuttle bay – plus, of course, the repair

grid itself. But the living spaces – the crew and

visitors’ quarters, and the Vicar’s – have been made

more homelike, and have a lived-in feel to them.

It is also a bit of a rough-and-tumble place. There is

enough security present (in the form of the bug

hunters and the station’s guards) that visitors rarely

cause problems, and in return the crew overlooks

most of what goes on in the Vicar’s, as well as

behind closed cabin doors.

And it is big : 7-Osiris is a cube that is 500 yards(almost 500 meters) on a side – that is 1,500 feet, or

five American football fields. Most of that space is

just that – empty space, taken up only by the repair

grid and ships that happen to be docked for repairs.

The various discrete structures, even the larger

ones, are lost in this sea of metal.

Floating through a docking tube from the main hab pods to the Vicar’s – a trip most visitors take at

least once – can be a very isolating experience, and

can take someone who is inexperienced at moving

in zero-G several minutes. Several long, lonelyminutes, with only the sound of their own breathingto keep them company…

With the many girders and struts of the repair grid

in the way, it is tough to see all the way across the

station even when no ships are present – but with a

couple of ships docked for repairs, it becomes

impossible. This further isolates the different

sections of the station, and makes the crew and

most visitors very glad for the coziness and comfort

of the hab pods.

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7-Osiris: DerelictIn the recent past, Repair Station 7-Osiris was

attacked by forces unknown – raiders, hostile

aliens, space pirates, a rival government’s military

ship, mercenaries – the choices are endless! They

ravaged the station itself with ship-based weapons,

boarded it, kidnapped some of those aboard, killed

the rest, and made off with any ships that survived

the attack. This section describes 7-Osiris as a

derelict, ruined and empty – and potentially quite

creepy, too.

A Few Words aboutGravity and Life Support

As with the active version of 7-Osiris, each section

of the derelict version includes a brief note about

the status of gravity and life support. It is worth

noting here, however, that every section is now the

same – there is no gravity or life support anywhere

aboard 7-Osiris.

If you would prefer to avoid requiring the PCs to

wear spacesuits while aboard, you have a couple of

options. One is to scale back the damage caused in

the attack, and have a working backup generator in place for the two main hab pods. That allows the

PCs to have a place to rest other than their ship –

but they will not know how long the generator will

keep going…

The second option is to set the attack in the very

recent past – within the last few hours, or possibly

days. Sections of the station that were not blown

open will still have gravity and/or life support (if

they did originally, of course), as the station’s

power source will not have had a chance to run

down yet.

Lights

Another thing to keep in mind is that without

power, there are no lights aboard 7-Osiris. Near

view ports, the PCs will be able to pick up some

ambient starlight (or shine in lights from their ship),

but everywhere else they will be in complete – or

near-complete – darkness, and will need to carry

their own light sources.

The descriptions below all assume that the PCs are

carrying lights.

What about Communications?Because each comm station has battery backup

power, and because the comm units require very

little juice (especially when they are not in use), the

station’s comm networks – both public and private

– are still functional. (The comm network is

described in detail in the Overview, above.)

This allows the group to split up, if necessary, and

still have a way to stay in touch with one another. It

also gives you, as the GM, a wealth of

opportunities to creep the players out – comm. units

can ring when the whole group is in the same place

(so who is on the other end?), lines can be dead

when someone tries to use them, strange sounds

can be heard when a handset is picked up, and so

forth.

Station Exterior From afar, the station appears normal – until you notice that there are no running lights on

the station itself, nor any lights in the windowsof the habitation pods. As you come closer,there is no way you could mistake this station

for anything other than a derelict.

Torn-away docking tubes and other debris

have floated away from the ruined station,catching the starlight as they turn over and

over in space. This debris forms a loose cloud

around the station.

The vast “cage” of girders and struts thatmake up the station has been heavily damaged.

Scorched and dented in some places, portions

of it have been smashed or torn away entirely.

Broken armatures dangle limply, attached tothe rest of the station only by dead electrical

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shredded by weapons fire and others simply pulled loose.

Just two ships remain docked on 7-Osiris, and

both look to have been damaged beyond repair.The ships are surrounded by clouds of dust, shreds of metal and debris, as well as several

space-suited bodies. One corpse rotates slowlyas you watch, and as the faceplate spins

around to face you, you can see that it is full of

frozen blood.

The ship-sized pods suspended in the repair grid have not fared any better. There are

scorched and ragged holes in several of their

hulls, open to space, while airlocks on several

others hang open on broken hinges. Worst ofall, corpses have floated out of the various

pods. Some of them are now trapped in therepair grid, while others drift slowly through

the maze of steel piping, occasionally bouncing

off of a support and taking a new trajectory.

The Grid7-Osiris’s repair grid is a study in contrasts. In

many places, the bright steel girders, painted

pipes and conduits have not been touched –they look as good as new. In other areas,

weapons fire has cut struts in half and melted

wires into streams of plastic and copper, andimpacts – whether from projectiles or ships,

you can not tell – have dented and bent the

various girders and supports.

It appears that some of the hinged mounting points that allow the repair grid to change

configuration have not been damaged, and

might still be functional. Others, however, are

clearly too far gone to be of any use.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

The repair grid, or simply “the grid,” forms the

bulk of 7-Osiris and gives it the appearance of a

gigantic square cage. When the station was active,

each interlinked bundle of girders terminated in a

powered hinge mechanism, which repair techs

could use to reconfigure the attached sections of the

grid. About 75% of these mounting points no

longer function now, having either run out of poweror been irreparably damaged in the attack.

The other 25%, however, have a bit of juice left in

their backup batteries and are still functional. This

allows the PCs to move them around if necessary,

within whatever limits you ascribe – perhaps they

are lucky, and the ones that they need to move still

work; perhaps not.

The repair grid is still covered in cables, conduit

and piping, but those elements have also suffered a

lot of damage. There are still pipes with hydraulic

fluid in them, and many of the electrical wires stillwork just fine – they just need to be re-terminated.With some creativity, PCs could get some sections

of the station working again by reconnecting cables

and providing a power source (such as the engine

of their ship).

Repair BaysThe station’s repair bays, each one a half- sphere once crammed full of tools and spare

parts, are relatively undamaged. The flat side

of each sphere was designed to be open to space, with netting across the opening to keep

the tools from floating away – so whoever

attacked the station did not have to blow anydoors to get at their contents. It looks like most

items of value have been stripped, with a

random assortment of nuts, bolts and smaller

tools left behind. The nets have been torn open,allowing the remaining tools and other items to

float out of the bays, where they occasionally

rebound off of nearby girders.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

All of the repair bays have been thoroughly looted,

and only a small, random assortment of tools and

spare parts remain. If the PCs need a particular

widget that they do not have aboard, though, there

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is plenty of leeway for you to declare that the

raiders – thorough as they were – missed a cache or

two of useful tools.

Shuttle Bay It looks like the raiders spared the shuttle bay,because apart from a few blaster marks on its

exterior, it appears to be undamaged. It is alsoempty – presumably, the shuttles were taken by

whoever attacked 7-Osiris. The shuttle bay

itself, a lozenge-shaped pod with one open side, is dark inside, its interior lights having

long since gone dead. All of the restraints, straps and other docking gear that would have

been used to hold docked shuttles in place is

still present, and it looks like you could land a shuttle there quite easily.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

Shuttles and other small craft can still dock here

without any problems – all of the hardware

necessary to keep the anchored in the bay in zero-G

is still here, and still fully functional. The seals of

the docking tubes are also still good, should the

PCs find a way to restore life support functions to a

portion of the tube network. As before the attack,

this section of the station is very spartan – apart

from the docking hardware, there is nothing here.

Habitation Pods Near the center of the repair grid sit 7-Osiris’stwo main habitation pods, both dark and dead.

Their dull gray hulls are pocked with holes and

covered in scorches and blaster marks. Manyof the pipes and conduits that swarm over both

pods have been severed, melted or torn away,

and you can see cracks in some of the view ports, as well.

A larger pod sits off to one edge of the station,

with “The Vicar’s” emblazoned on one side in

bright gold paint. One of the docking tubes

attached to this pod has been pulled free, and you can see that the pod’s airlock is hanging

open. A cloud of dice, broken glass and frozen

droplets of blood surrounds the hatchway.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

7-Osiris’s three habitation pods (or “hab pods”)

have been badly damaged. Each of them – crew

quarters, visitors’ quarters and the Vicar’s – is

described in the Interior Areas section, below.

Bug Hunters At each corner of 7-Osiris’s now-ruined repair grid sits a spherical black gun turret, once

used to defend the station. Three of these

turrets look to have been hit with heavy

weapons fire, and have been blown wide open. Melted circuits, tufts of seat padding and

frozen bits of gristle – presumably, the remains

of their occupants – float around these turrets.

Two of the other turrets are lightly damaged,with only a few small, neat holes in their hulls

– perhaps made by surgical strikes from laser

weapons? The remaining three turrets appearto be undamaged, without even a scratch on

their paint. It could be that the attackers

disabled them electronically – or simplyboarded them.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

The bug hunters were 7-Osiris’s defense against

space-based threats. Each one could accommodate

a gunner, but was also equipped with a fairly

sophisticated AI – one capable of picking and

engaging targets on its own. In most cases, gunners

(station guards) would occupy a few of the turrets

while assuming partial control over the others.

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Out of the eight turrets, three are completelydestroyed, two have suffered minor damage (the

ones that were penetrated by laser fire) and the

remaining three are fully functional, although

without power. Each turret boasts a pair of

medium-bore projectile weapons, capable of

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sophisticated pieces of 7-Osiris, and it is a wonder

that the raiders did not try to steal them.

The bug hunters have wide fields of fire, and can

even be turned on the station itself (or more likely,

on hostile ships that have entered the repair grid). Ifthe PCs can restore power to the turrets, they would

be in fairly good shape in the event that anyone

comes poking around the station…

Exterior ScenesHere are three short scenes that you can use to

bring home what the derelict 7-Osiris is like from

space, or when viewed from within the station

itself.

Scene: Bloody skiff

A repair skiff floats by, and you can see that its propulsion system has been shot to bits. Scraps

of shrapnel are embedded in its body, and the

seat and handlebars are covered in streaks of frozen blood. It spins slowly in space, shedding

small tools and spare parts from an open

toolbox strapped to one side.

Scene: Stress fracture As you watch, the smaller of the two ships stilldocked in the repair grid lurches suddenly,

taking several massive girders with it and

snapping them like dry sticks. Coils of wire spring loose, and a cloud of bolts and bright

metal bits sprays outwards, glittering in the

starlight. The ship drifts ponderouslydownwards until it impacts a larger cluster of

girders, where it becomes wedged and sticks,

motionless.

Scene: Shimmering fragments

A large cloud of debris – mostly broken glass –

hovers at one end of 7-Osiris, around andabove the Vicar’s. Every bit of it is in motion,

although most of the debris is moving only

slightly – and very slowly. You happen to

glance at the cloud just as – by some freakchance – nearly every piece of glass catches

the starlight at the same time, flashing

brilliantly for a split second before going black

again.

Interior Areas

Docking Tunnels Rounding a bend in the docking tunnel – adarkened tube of yellowish plastic, lined with

support rings – you come upon a grim tableau.

In front of a scorched airlock door floats a

badly burned body. The walls of the tunnelhave been seared and partially melted by the

heat of a fire – presumably once raging on the

other side of the airlock – and the corpse’s spacesuit has been turned into so much slag.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

The network of docking tunnels – or “float tubes” –

aboard 7-Osiris is extensive, but it was pretty badly

damaged in the attack. About 10% of the tunnels

are simply gone; another 20% have been punctured, but still connect to the rest of the network; the

remaining 70% are just fine, although without

power there is no life support present inside them.

Each tunnel is a thick tube of semi-translucent

yellowish plastic about four feet wide, held rigid by

support rings every eighteen inches (on the inside);

long rails are mounted at the top, bottom and on both sides of each tunnel, to allow the occupants to

pull themselves along in zero-G. They were

originally illuminated by small lights every twenty

feet or so, but those are of course no longer

functional. The tunnels are all quite dark now,except for what little light comes through from the

outside.

The tube network connects every structure aboard

7-Osiris to every other structure, and to all of the

outlying areas. Even without life support, they are

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station, and to avoid concerns about misjudging a

zero-G kickoff and launching oneself into space.

Machine BayThe station’s machine bay has been looted but shows few signs of damage. It looks as thoughabout half of the machines stored here were

taken by the raiders, leaving only those that

are too specialized to be of much use outside ofa repair station. Unlatched straps and loose

cords float all around you, along with a few

hand tools, bolts and miscellaneous metal bits.

Just to the left of the doorway are two bodies,both apparently repair techs. They have been

shot several times in the chest, and one of them

is sprawled limply over the skiff that they were

working on.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

The machine bay is one of the largest structures

aboard 7-Osiris – this roughly spherical pod is

smaller than the storage pod and the Vicar’s, but

larger than either of the main hab pods. It once

housed the station’s fleet of thirty-six drones,

towing platforms, skiffs and other machinery. Post-

attack, only a dozen vehicles remain, all of themdesigned solely for spaceship repair (the lightest

personal skiffs, mobile cranes, drills, and the like).

The integrity of this pod has not been compromised(so if life support is restored, it will be a livable

space – although still zero-G, as it was never

designed to have gravity), and some of the

remaining vehicles could be useful to the PCs in

traversing the repair grid.

Storage PodThe storage pod’s locked doors have been

blown open, and one of them is hanging almostcompletely off its hinges. The low, wide interior

– made to hold sections of spaceship hull,

plating and other large spare parts – iscompletely empty. A host of small lockers,

crates and boxes are affixed to the outside of

the pod, and most of these have been blasted or

torn open as well. As with the other sections of

the station, floating bits of metal and otherdebris from the attack form a loose cloud

around the storage pod.

Gravity: None.

Life Support: No.

The only box-shaped structure aboard the station

(apart from the repair grid itself, of course), the

storage pod is also one of the largest. It once held

stacks of metal plating, blast shielding and sectionsof ship hulls, all of which were taken by the raiders.

About half of the smaller storage containers

mounted to the exterior of the pod were not

breached in the raid, though, and can still hold

useful items. If it suits the game, the PCs could luckinto anything from ammunition to non-perishable

food – the storage pod was a catchall for everything

for which 7-Osiris’s crew could not find a better

place.

Habitation Pods As bad as the hab pods look outside, the insideis worse. Blood and blaster marks mar the

walls and floors, and pictures, prints and

screens have been torn off the walls. Photos of

crewmembers, visitors and the station clog thehallways, floating in clouds that give way when

you brush them aside. Many are also pulled flat against cracked view ports, drawn there by

the pod’s sudden decompression.

The worst part is the bodies. It looks like the

attackers killed most of the crew and visitorshere, and then pushed their floating bodies into

the galley. Corpses, chairs, frozen food scraps,

bits of debris and grotesque frozen “twigs” of

blood float throughout the galley, making itdifficult to see across the room.

Gravity: None (applies to all hab pod areas).

Life Support: No (applies to all hab pod areas).

Also called “hab pods,” the habitation pods housed

everyone who lived and worked on 7-Osiris, as

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repairs. There are three hab pods: one for the crew

and one for visitors, which are connected to one

another, and a third that houses the Vicar’s, off on

its own on the extreme edge of the repair grid.

The two connected hab pods shared a life supportand gravity generation system, while the Vicar’s

had its own separate system. Neither system is

functional, and here you have several options: you

can have them be damaged beyond repair,

destroyed by the raiders in their initial assault; you

can decide that they have simply run out of juice,

either because they need fuel or because some

routine maintenance task was undone for too long;

or you can opt to have them be damaged, but not

too badly – allowing the PCs to fix them, if they

have the proper skills.

Each hab pod is described individually in thefollowing section.

Crew QuartersThe floating body of a man in an officer’s

uniform – possibly the Station Commander –

blocks the doorway to the crew quarters. Theedges of the doorway itself are scarred with

blaster marks, bullet holes and what look like

axe cuts – evidence that the raiders spent some

time getting into the crew quarters.

Brushing aside the man’s frozen body, you see

why: tables, chairs and lockers have been

pushed together to form a barricade across themiddle of the room, and the air is thick with

shell casings. Another body floats behind the

barricade, a spent pistol clutched in its hand.

The crew pod’s layout is very straightforward: a

central corridor runs from one end of this egg-

shaped structure to the other, with cramped crew

cabins to either side; the command crew’s cabinsare at the far end of the hallway, and bathroom

facilities are at the near end. The cabins originally

held folding bunks, tables and chairs, as well as

lockers and personal effects.

During the attack, however, the crew sealed

themselves inside this area – the last bastion of

defense against the raiders, who by that point had

overwhelmed the rest of the station – and used

everything they could find in the nearby rooms to

build a barricade.

Adjacent to the command crew’s quarters is a now-

empty arms locker, which was stripped by the crewfor use against the raiders. There are still a few

spent weapons here – three handguns and a

shotgun, none of them space-capable, along with

the bodies of several crewmembers. Diligent

searching will also turn up a handful of rounds for

both types of weapon – frangible plastic bullets

designed not to penetrate the hull.

Visitors’ Quarters As in the common area, the air here is full ofmementos of the station’s years of service. A

massive video screen dominates the lounge,

and a large crack runs down its center. Pastthe galley – with its grisly cluster of floating

bodies – it looks as though a fire broke out.

The carpeting in the corridor is melted and scorched, and the walls and doors to the

visitors’ rooms are blackened and covered in

wispy smoke-marks. There are no bodies in the

sleeping area – perhaps the raiders kidnappedthe people here, or they might be in the galley

with the others.

The common areas shared by the two hab pods are

all technically aboard this one: the lounge, which

joins the two pods (and which once housed a video

screen where visitors could view status updates on

their ships), and the galley, which used to serve its

limited menu around the clock for crew and guests

alike. The galley is choked with corpses now, and

the private section of this pod – where the guest

cabins are – was badly damaged by a fire that broke

out during the attack.

There are ten small cabins here, each of which used

to sleep four visitors, as well as ample (and

currently non-functional) bathrooms and shower

facilities.

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The Vicar’sThe main docking tube leading to the third hab

pod – the Vicar’s – has been torn away, andthe pod’s airlock is hanging open. Broken

glass and blobs of various liquids – both

alcohol and blood – float through the room,along with chairs, stools and gambling

paraphernalia. Several corpses – none wearing

spacesuits – have lodged against one of the

mezzanine railings, probably drawn therewhen the pod decompressed. There are signs

that the patrons put up some resistance, like a

few scorch marks on the walls and the shattered bar, but there are nowhere near

enough bodies – assuming the raiders attacked

when the Vicar’s was full, of course.

One of the two largest structures on the station (the

other being the storage pod), the Vicar’s was home

to 7-Osiris’s combination club, casino and house of

ill repute. The main level housed the bar and

gambling area, while the mezzanine boasted a

restaurant and the top level was the club’s brothel.

Docking facilities were offered outside, on the edge

of the repair grid, and the Vicar’s was a popular

destination even for those who were not in need of

repairs.

The Vicar’s is relatively undamaged, as the raiders breached the airlock and killed everyone aboard

during decompression. They also smashed the glass bar, filling much of the main level with a floating

cloud of broken glass – plus chairs, dice, cards and

other detritus from the gambling area.

Interactions

Adventure Seeds

The Beacon

Experienced space raiders know that someone

always finds their handiwork, and the ones who

attacked 7-Osiris are no different – so they planted

a beacon. The beacon sits at the heart of the repair

grid, and runs on its own near-limitless power

supply (it draws very little power in its idle state).

The beacon only does two things: it listens for radio

traffic in the immediate area, and when it hears it,

sends out a single, powerful coded radio burst –

which the raiders will pick up sooner or later,

depending on how far away they got. Once the beacon has pulsed, it short-circuits and goes dead,

making it very hard to locate even if those aboard

7-Osiris detected the pulse.

Salvage

The PCs are not the first ones here – that honor

went to the Solitary Confinement and her crew of

down-on-their-luck salvage operators. They have

been aboard 7-Osiris for the past week, working

their way from one end of the station to the other

and stripping it of everything of value. Do they

notice the PCs’ ship? Do the PCs notice theirs?

And what happens when the two parties meet for

the first time?

Thar She Blows

The reactor that supplied power to the Vicar’s was

damaged in the attack, and it shut down shortly

thereafter – but not all the way. Instead, it has been

very slowly building up a dangerous level of

energy, while remaining disconnected from the

station’s life support and other systems. A skilled

engineer could detect this from nearby, as could theright set of instruments – but if it is not detected, it

could explode at any time. If it is detected, what do

the PCs do with it? Do they try to fix it and restore

power to the station – but risk setting it off? Or do

they abandon 7-Osiris altogether?

Bringing 7-Osiris to LifeWithout any signs of life – blinking running lights,

a glow from behind the view ports, shadows

moving through the docking tunnels – 7-Osiris

seems much larger, and much more isolated, than itdid before becoming a derelict. It is a big place –

each face of the rough cube formed by the repair

grid is as long as five American football fields –

and the fact that it is empty and devoid of life only

makes it seem larger.

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Inside, however, the opposite is true. No space

seems smaller than one that is icy cold – the chill

can be felt even through a spacesuit – dark except

where it is illuminated by a personal light, and full

of corpses and the detritus of its former inhabitants.The hab pods might have been cozy and

comfortable when they were occupied, but that only

makes them seem less so now that the station is a

derelict.

And do not forget the claustrophobia of being

trapped in a spacesuit in this kind of environment –

outside of one’s helmet, the world is completely

silent. (Most sci-fi films notwithstanding, there is

no sound in space.) Everything a person can hear,

like one’s own breathing or the crackly voices of

teammates over the comm, becomes amplified.

For the faint of heart, every hab pod is a new horror – there are bodies everywhere, frozen solid in the

icy vacuum of space, along with frozen globules of

blood. And those corpses are floating, with a bit of

momentum of their own – just enough to cause

them to brush up against a person while he or she is

surveying an area, or swing around a doorway just

as someone steps into it.

CreditsWriter: Martin Ralya Border Art: Danillo MorettiProject Manager: Vicki Potter Interior Art: Gillian Pierce

Layout: Marcella Ganow Concept by Martin Ralya

Editor: Vicki Potter Fonts: ©2006 Jupiterimages.com

© 2006 Tabletop Adventures, LLC

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