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interactive glass top. Clusters of monitors of
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7. MAINTENANCE SHAFT
! Electronics panels are ripped out, wires hang out.
Piles of tetra paks and plastic canisters with
colorful logos.
Under a pile is an expensive laptop. Bulky and
broken (smashed-in screen). Infected with a
ransomware virus.
RANSOMWARE ALERT
Infects artificial neural networks, such as
chromes and AIs. Tries to infect as many
systems as possible before blocking them
until a ransom is paid to a hacker called
Kisen. The hacker is a kid living somewhere
on the Iron Ring.
8. EMPTY OBSERVATION ROOM
! Bright. Large windows cover the walls. Dirty red
floor strewn with garbage. Equations are scribbled
on the windows. Room appears to have been used for
rituals.
An AI dog replica is sleeping under some debris.
The hard drive hatch is open (can be hacked).
READING THE MATH: Seems to involve compressing volumes
and something like white noise infecting code. It is
smudged and rewritten over and over again, as if the
writer did not believe the results.
Astrosextant, behind some garbage.
10. COMPUTER ROOM
MAIN DOOR: Someone has been trying to get in. To open,
manually rewire (slow), if the engine is on: hack
(medium) or use code (quick).
! Soundproofed, padded all white room, with
strangely angled corners. Light flickers.
Screens with spectrographs in different colors,
representing sound waves, show the mood of an AI.
When the player characters arrive in the room, AIKO
tells them where the AI’s memory subroutines are
located: in a red and silver CBM80 cartridge (used to
store memories) connected to the computer. AIKO wants
them to take it and leave the ship.
11. COMMANDER BRIDGE
MAIN DOOR: Locked with eye scanner.
! Compact, with a low ceiling. Smells of warm
plastic and electronics. Two seats for pilot and
command, and crew compartments along the sides.
A blinking light warns of an approaching
spacecraft (the marshal).
Data cassettes with passwords for various places
on the ring. Old star charts, leading to the
scavengers’ hidden base on a distant asteroid.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
A spacecraft with two sector marshals arrives as the
player characters reach the computer room (10). They
are looking for AIKO, and will act authoritatively.
They want to see a valid Search and Salvage contract to
allow the player characters on the ship.
“My name is Aiko, I am kidnapped--BZZZZ--Grasshopper--
BZZZ--Please--BZZZ--help”
BACKGROUND
The ruthless scavengers on the Grasshopper recently
raided a research vessel. After killing the crew, they
stole the ship’s named AI, AIKO, and installed it on
their ship. This initiated AIKO’s revenge protocol, and
the AI blew up the Grasshopper’s medical bay while trying
to seize control of the ship. The scavengers tried to
turn off AIKO with no luck. Finally, they turned off the
engine, leaving the ship with only emergency power.
Now, they try to contain AIKO in the computer room. They
do not know that AIKO sent an SOS, picked up by the
player characters, just before the engine was shut down.
THE GRASSHOPPER
The ship is floating dead in space, not replying to any
contact attempts. The engine must be shut down, since
scans reveal no central heat source. Emergency lights
flicker. Debris surrounds the ship, originating from
a hull breach in the medical bay, seemingly caused by
an explosion inside. A dead body in an EVA suit floats
nearby.

DEATH IN SPACE
 ENTRY POINT
ENTRY POINT 1. SMALL CARGO BAY 4.MEDICAL BAY
4 ! Dark. Broken red light panels flicker irregularly.
! Something exploded inside, destroying the hull.
Straps and carabiners along the walls, connected Room is depressurized.
3 to a rubber floor. Small shipping containers in
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5 various colors, stolen or salvaged. A plastic quarantine airlock (depressurized)

2 connects to cryopod room (3)
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10 Shipping containers: one vehicle part, a random (8). Hatch must be rewired to open. Inside tunnel is a
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THE SCAVENGER CREW
Crew of six, brutal and hostile to anyone boarding their
ship. Can sell AIKO (want thousands of holos or a good
barter). Last one alive triggers ship self-destruct
sequence from the commander bridge (11) when all seems
lost (two minute countdown).
GOAL: To contain AIKO in the computer room. In the long
run, to get rich and settle in a nice station somewhere.
THE AI (AIKO)
Observes the whole ship via security cameras. Contacts
the player characters, acting like a person named Aiko,
trapped in the computer room (10).
GOAL: Avenge former crew, then get off the ship.
METHODS OF CONTACT:
2. ENGINE ROOM
! Dim, lit by a handful of candles. High-tech EMP
spears sticking out of a dead engine.
Noise trap: Thin tripwire attached to metallic
garbage by door to cryopod room (3). Alerts
scavengers if triggered. “Get rid of this!”
scrawled on piece of cardboard next to trap, on
cryopod room side (3).
REMOVING THE RODS: Restarts the engine and powers up
the spacecraft. Lights and doors turn on, SOS signal
restarts. AIKO can access the whole spacecraft (mainly
assists player characters). Scavengers know exactly
where the player characters are.
3. CRYOPOD ROOM.
! Four cryopods, broken beyond repair. Broken glass
and dried blood on the floor. Lit by dozens of
candles. The scavengers use the broken pods to
sleep in.
computer panel. AIKO will contact the player characters
through it.
5. CREW QUARTERS
! Partially lit by emergency lights. Drapes of thick
fabric hang from the ceiling and on the walls.
Frosted shower glass is spattered with blood.
Someone died here or cleaned a large wound.
Mathematical symbols are inscribed in the ceiling,
behind the fabric. A scavenger wears a necklace of
eyes from dead crewmembers. It works perfectly in
the retina scanners.
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Four scavengers work in a floor hatch, welding and
cutting, disconnecting wires to the computer room
(10). Wear rough taped-up EVA suits. Two sleeping.
HP 8, DR 12, ATK +2,
Tools and gravity dirks (1d4), revolvers (1d6).

• Messages hidden in scrolling or glitching text on FRAGILE MEDIC BAY DOOR(4): Cracked steel
computer terminals or connected gear. plexiglass, depressurized plastic airlock and the
vacuum of space behind. Don’t hit the door with
• Morse code messages via LED power lights on security any stray bullets without a suit on! Breaking door
cameras. causes decompression, and all nearby doors close.
• If the engine is turned on, AIKO can talk through 1d4 IN THE CRYOPODS
speakers next to the doors in the ship. 1 Scavenger, sleeping. Looks like a friend (ask
players who).
0. AIRLOCK 2 Stuffed with stolen, blood-soaked clothes.
Gravity dirk
6.MAIN CORRIDOR
! Very dark. Wires hanging from ceiling. Metal floor
grating. Piles of garbage.
Walking on the floor grating can be very noisy.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Official S&R bureau recommendations mandate that you always wear
appropriate protection for the task at hand and have your search

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and salvage contract ready when you board other spacecraft.
Door to cargo bay (1) is broken, missing its lock.
Have a nice death in space.
3 Someone slept here. Silvery emergency blanket.
Trap: Boltgun (1d6 damage), triggered by motion Plastic cup with Bloody Linn, a red fluid made from
• Riots • Virus • Vacuum
detector at the cargo bay door. engine grease, moonshine and blood. • Welding • Void • Cold & heat
• Stargazing • Radiation • Underwater
4 1d4 objects from the equipment list.