#DutyFreeMedicine
In our first session we created characters, a ship, and factions.
We will be following the stories of “Doc”, a frontier medic, and Octavio, a Duty Free Import/Exporter. Doc grew up on a colonial planet beholden to General Terragenics, a high tech industrial supply corporation that leases habitation modules and terraforming equipment to nascent colonies. She practiced bush medicine with one of the few trained surgeons on her home planet. Octavio clawed his way out of poverty humping freight for the SCC, a conglomerate of cargo carriers known for paying as little at they can. Octavio made money on the side, carrying a little extra cargo port-of-call to port-of-call
Doc and Octavio acquired, or are operating as if they had acquired, an SCC Beluga Custom. It’s decked out in the standard SCC livery, “space rust” white. Octavio runs a “Duty Free” shop out of the cargo hold, keeping his wares in the more obscure corners of the Custom. Doc sees patients in her med bay. The details of how a medic and a “duty free import/exporter” came into this arrangement are unclear, but it’s been hinted that there are certain advantages to medicine with illicit connections.
General Terragenics main competition are founders, an ancient agricultural cult. founders are highly secretive and protective of plant, animal, and synth-o-grow varieties. They refuse to let anyone else transport or handle their ungerminated stock.
The Intergalactic Republic of Planets is purportedly responsible for regulating commerce and enforcing IG law. It has never granted voting membership to a colony formed after 2468.