I am nearly done with my first draft of my White Star source book (yay), and figured I’d throw up another table that will be in the book: the Space Station Generator.
Space Station Generator
Need to roll up a space station, simply roll d4, d6, d8, d10, d10(%), d12, a d20. This will give you a working space station in a few moments. Once you have generated the station, you just need to create a name for it.
D4- Population
- Sparse- 100+1d100 inhabitants (2d20+10 guests at any time)
- Decent- 200+1d100 inhabitants (3d20+30 guests at any time)
- Lively- 1,000+1d1000 inhabitants (2d100+100 guests at any time)
- Dense- 3,000+1d1000 inhabitants (5d100+200 guests at any time)
D6- Interesting Feature Near Station
- Planet- 1) inhabited; 2) uninhabited; 3) destroyed
- Asteroid belt
- Remains of ships- space battle from long ago
- Strange space creatures
- Fleet of ships
- Nebula
D8- Station Problems
- Power fluctuations
- Enemy ships in area
- Solar flares
- Computers fail
- Strange rodent creatures over-breeding
- Strange debilitating sickness spreads throughout station
- Part of station destroyed
- Shortage of needed supplies
D10- Underground Interest
- Station is great meeting location for various parties
- Guards are on take- allow storage of illegal contraband
- Hidden laboratory that makes highly addictive drug
- Nobles/aristocrats on station are crime family
- Local bar is highly active fencer and connection
- Slave trades have arrangements to use an occupied cargo bay for deliveries and transactions
- Engineer uses station equipment to fabricate highly valuable faux jewels
- Station used as delivery point for pirated/plundered antiquities
- Weapon smugglers use station to conduct transactions
- Leader of local government uses station to discreetly meet with smugglers
D10 (%)- Interesting Shop
- Museum of ancient antiquities
- Oddity shop
- Bar of exotic drinks, food, and sex
- Holographic entertainment room
- Zoo of creatures from other worlds
- Library with actual books from hundreds of worlds
- Cybernetics chop shop
- Used starship salesman
- Robot production plant
- Chapel to bizarre religion
D12- Type of Station
- Trader outpost
- Science station
- Military outpost
- Junker/salvage outpost
- Mining outpost
- Resort station
- Trader outpost
- Trader outpost
- Junker/salvage outpost
- Resort station
- Starship refueling depot
- Hydroponics farm station
D20- Interesting Leader of Station (if desired)
- Carissa Vargass, Aristocrat pirate
- Xanax Tylop, Alien Brute
- Vincent Razar, Scoundrel
- Group of nobles
- Devin James, retired Mercenary
- Robin Trask, ex-Hover Bike Racer
- Massive brain in jar
- Collective of psychic aliens
- Cosmos, Alien Mystic
- Sheena Bryrh, Assassin
- Gr’yll Brobath, Alien Brute
- Dirty Hobbes, adventurous Pilot
- Ren Drake, Scoundrel
- Victor Nym, Aristocrat
- Baby Girl, Psionic Scoundrel
- Tragg, Mercenary
- K’yll Hu, Pilot
- Jackson Asher, bitter Scout
- Mason Biggs, Bionic Soldier
- Bibbles, pleasure model robot
Great post! I just did a post on stations myself so I guess great minds think alike. When is your book coming out?
First draft is nearly done… Then it’ll get shelved for a few weeks while I edit High Noon and get that ready for layout and procure art. Plus I’m working on Hubris after the Kickstarter was funded- so there’s that. I’m HOPING it’ll be out in a few months:)