My group recently started a game of Scum & Villainy, creating our own setting. We’re new to the game engine, but have taken to it quickly. Anyway, I wrote up a scene from our last game, retconning it a bit to help introduce a new character. It got away from me a bit. 🙂
Our setting is a small interstellar state, the Tycho Confederacy. The only reason it’s independent is that it’s a buffer state between the Empire of Man and the Galactic Theocracy. (Both of which are utter scumbags, but in different ways.) The Confederacy is a small cluster of systems that were all named after different Old Earth astronomers or astrophysicists. It’s more or less a client state of the Empire, but prickly about local control.
Anyway, the current scene is happening on Lowell, a backwater world that had been settled by primitivists. It wouldn’t be of much use to the rest of the Confederacy at all, except 1) It has a lot of Precursor ruins and 2) It has a locked hyperspace gate to nobody knows where, which is under active research. Our crew is trying to prepare a more reliable place to Lay Low when things get hot, and so are negotiating with the local clansmen. (Who on this particular island, are of generic Celtic extraction.)