d100 Space Outpost Encounters

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This is for small colonies and outposts on inhospitable locations like space, asteroids and moonlets with 1k to 10k populations. The inner world stations and bigger cities are often more controlled but you could use this for infrastructure districts and sub-levels. They are more for down and dirty stations with malcontent vs the pleasure palaces of Venus. Maybe good for star ports also.

You could roll lower dice for less dangerous and weird range.

d10 Quick Types
1 Workers - usually working or on the way to the next job

2 Experts - skilled VIP professionals

3 Travellers - people from far away on their way somewhere else

4 Explorers - search space or land for knowledge or profit

5 Colonists - local settlers or on the way to the new colony

6 Authorities - bureaucrats, security and millitary forces

7 Eccentrics - unusual characters you meet

8 Crime - common grifters to syndicate agents and pirates

9 Non-human - robots, androids, AI

10 High-Risk - dangerous trouble sources

d100 Space Outpost Encounters
01 Transit tube, bulkhead door or airlock needs repair crew to work area on hold 

02 Alert of some kind to vacate the area while crew run around in space suits and tools

03 Cleaner with worker drones sweeps the area

04 Technician opening wall sealed console for a system check

05 Worker with trolley and robot cleaning food processors and moving trash

06 Crew sealed off the area to locate the problem

07 Workers to or from shift in a workshop in overalls with tools

08 Saftey system inspection team at work 

09 Somone collapses and requires first aid, wearing work overalls

10 Driving transport cart with goods or d6 passengers
11 Several medical staff on the way to or from the sick bay shift

12 Computer technician chatting to an AI or playing a VR headset game

13 Engineers with plans assessing future developments and reconstructions  

14 Flight crew of the ship to or from the station (possibly drivers of local transport)

15 Teacher with children on a field trip

16 Flight crew on the way in a hurry for a quick emergency launch

17 Several scholars to or from university or conference

18 Senior scientists and several assistants

19 Programer with a d3 robots or androids 

20 Holographic journalist team with a camera crew, often a vehichle or drones

21 Cargo ship crew in ship overalls

22 Tourists from the inner worlds with a guide

23 Belter asteroid miner crew

24 Commodity traders in business suits

25 Agriculture workers in coveralls work in life support

26 Independent social media broadcaster on a shoestring budget with cam drone

27 Outpost staff showing visiting VIPs from another outpost around

28 Artist on a travel permit looking for inspiration and decorating contracts

29 Geriatrics with care androids on a slow ship tour 

30 Scruffy paranoid loner wants to keep on move
31 Surface exploration crew off duty after gruelling time outside

32 Prostecter ship crew out for a wild party and maybe a fight

33 Terraforming engineer on way to a conference or local biodome

34 Scientists and engineers of local project

35 Surface work crew weary and grumpy

36 Deep survey probe crew back after several years

37 Loner looking for evidence of government suppressing alien knowledge

38 Astronomers studying local planetology and map-making project

39 Visitors from a small independent outpost of one ideological extremity

40 Ship crew recruiting for a trip to the outer system for months

41 Family of colonists moving to outer worlds to breed wildly

42 Political refugees moving as far from inner world as possible, think they are watched

43 Recruiters from small colony outpost looking for crew, promise we are not a cult

44 Missionaries, usually exiles from inner worlds and now recruiting for their station 

45 Spruker calling for volunteer colonists for a new opportunity

46 Colonial inspection team investigating outpost standards within parameters

47 Refugees from failed colony or outpost looking to recover and find new homes

48 Clone family of colonists on way to colony where they will be treated better 

49 Penal contract labour crew brought here to be released and get a new job

50 Cult recruiting for their colony in need of competent crew
51 Habitat managers with bureaucrats having a meeting

52 Habitat manager chatting to AI on the way somewhere in a hurry

53 Inspection team examining bulkheads and staff protocols

54 Station steward showing visiting bureaucrats to a conference

55 Security team on the look out for terrorists and crime

56 Security peacekeepers patrolling area chatting with locals

57 Security agent undercover in disguise (roll again) watching strangers

58 Investigator looking for clues and possible witnesses

59 Space troopers off duty or here for a crisis 

60 Inner system Marshal team with AI investigating the contraband operation
61 Cultists preach they can give you superhuman powers

62 Someone having a breakdown (drugs or trauma?), the medical team arrive shortly 

63 Popular celebrity influencers, idols, performers or artists giving a speech to fans

64 Family with an image of lost loved one begging strangers for information

65 VIP with entourage sure they deserve the right of way, "Don't you know who i am?"

66 Musicians busking for credit or food

67 Older workers begging for work and a place to sleep

68 Colourful youths in strange fashion hanging out

69 Documentary film crew filming

70 Drug addict wandering around looking scruffy, has seen better days
71 Friendly grifter has a great fake scam such as colony really a criminal mine site

72 Juve gang like to scare people in unsurveilled area until security move them on

73 Gang fixer listening to loan requests and informants

74 Gang thugs escort a gang VIP

75 Gang thugs intimidate someone

76 Gang informant hanging out watching someone

77 Drug dealer with some customers in dark corner

78 Hustler offering unusual goods can hook you up with 

79 Gang fixer and thugs arguing with some local

80 Criminal on the run, desperate to join a crew and get away from authorities
81 Drone sweeping area looking for something

82 Drones doing maintenance supervised by a robot

83 Robot offering public information, snacks and welcomes

84 Drone harassing people with customised holographic advertising

85 Robot in dark corner tries to get your attention

86 AI mouthpiece carried by robots chatting with some human VIPs

87 AI system takes an interest in surveilling and investigating strangers wandering the station

88 Android workers in uniforms are off to work somewhere horrible

89 Recreational androids offer visitors a good time

90 Robot looking for a human companion
91 Minor flu or something more serious causing station lockdown

92 Vermin somehow loose possibly escaped the recreation biodome

93 Modified human stands out to most people from an isolated colony

94 Uplifted animal people with a human manager 

95 Madman or drug-addled victim with a weapon or bomb flips out and security immediately mobilised

96 Robot or android having a breakdown, some AI will try to calm it till security arrive

97 Terrorist or cultist attempts public murder or to plant a bomb for fame

98 Sabotuer in fake uniform accessing station consoles or service panels, something not quite right

99 Film crew interviewing travellers looking for a story (look at player party)

100 Assasin tries to kill a VIP or party, d4 1=desperate drug addict 2=syndicate thug 3=contract killer 4=Replicant agent of some secret faction