Stars Without Number Game Session One - Phaseworld & Trey Causey's Strange Stars Campaign

Tonight I had to pull a campaign out of moth balls on the fly and I don't think the game session went bad at all! 

 Tonight's game wasn't the usual gang of players but instead we had a few older players who came into  tonight's spur of the moment Stars Without Number game. Which meant that I literally had an hour to come up with a quick campaign off the cuff. Fortunately, earlier this evening I had been reading Rifts rpg Phaseworld. And a copy of Trey Causey's Strange Stars.  Phaseworld  is an incredible transdimensional city that is also a space port located at the edge of three galaxies. The premise is simple the PC's are there to buy a spacecraft for themselves & get a contract hauling cargo into the Vokun Empire . 

Immediately things star going South as the PC's make it through the interdimensional gate. The PC's are cleared for one of the smaller market levels and run smack into a large party of   s’ta zoku The PC's got swept up in with this party and before they knew it they found themselves in an telepathic mind meld. And then someone dropped the 'cosmic acid' and this where things got weird. 
The party awoke to have purchased a telepathic clone of 1960's era Jean Grey on ice in cryo instead of a starship from the Slavers.  There's no take backs or returns when it comes to the Slavers. Fortunately before the Repo soldiers were called in a rather impetious Vokun warlord named Kotgo purchased the clone with a rider for a used Harbinger ship called the Lakota. 

The players didn't even want to know what happened to the prior crew of the Lakota. As they had to spend a few credits to get one of thier number cured of a rather nasty flesh eating STD caught from one of the  s’ta zoku. Don't ask. 

The party wanted to make some quick cash & there was an auction going on in shop right below where the Lakota was docked. The auction was for an A.I. intelligence that had merged with a human mind or soul naturally that was housed in a cybernetic body. The party won the auction but the Zizta auctioneer warned the PC's not to free the cybernetic organism as it has a malevolent cunning. The players were less then thrilled when they learned that they bid on Maximillan.  The party traded him for 20,000 credits to a group of 'the Programmers of Lom'. A race who studies A.I. entities for thier religion. 

The PC's wanted to check out the Lakota more and what they found aboard was a working Drive Box. The Drive box has upgraded the systems and answers to the name 'jenn'i'fer'. The A.I. artifact system is incredibly valuable. So why would Vokun warlord named Kotgo have sold such a valuable starship with this technology?! 

Well what's really going on here is the fact that my last Stars Without Numbers Strange Stars/Phaseworld game back in 2020 went nowhere. The players fell apart after one of them suddenly got married and had a child on the way. The Lakota went back to the last party's patron. Kotgo is taking a gamble on the new party. This was all from my Strange Stars campaign notes.