Oh WOW that is so cool! I'm glad it worked out! If you'd like, I'd love to hear how it went!
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The fugitive pilot and weaponmaster scoundrel started on Nova Station, just having escaped their former mafia boss employers/owners.
They immediately parked in the wrong spot, as a power armoured pirate came up to intimidate/challenge/build his own rep. Power armour all opened up to show his oiled pecs, because I felt like giving it a certain spin. Lord Humungus plus Mandalorian. :P
They looked around for work, got a job smuggling harpoon guns to Lyra, for their monster problem. Not illegal per se, but smuggled to avoid fees and such.
Ran into a ship in trouble on the way, weird space anomaly. They figured out he was a pirate smuggling water from Lyra to Tranquility, and bopped him on the head and tied him up.
Immediately made friends with the corrupt politician recieving the harpoon guns, and I asked "weren't you trying to go legit?..." :D
They got back to Tranquility, and Cassidy showed up because the PCs employer wasn't paying up to her, and the PCs tried to talk her down.
A 6- led to the earlier power armour pirate coming back with buddies to demand respect, things happened, Cassidy was a little paranoid, a shootout happened, ship weapons were used in-station. The usual. :P
The pilot is interested in the Triple Crown of course, and they both want cash to start over legitimately.
I tried working the sector stuff into the other oracle results, hence why the pirate-in-trouble was smuggling water, and I kept bringing up how ships keep disappearing en route between the planets. Basically I used the sector as a starting situation, the players got entangled in the events, and off we went.
A lot of threads left to pull, but we used Starforged for a 2-shot while we were getting our previous game sorted out after a couple of players left, so if we keep going who knows.