On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:34 PM, <xxxxxx@mail.de> wrote:

But substitute starship crew for submarine crew, Zhodani or Vargr for Russian, add a bunch of Vargr NPCs instead of Russians, locate it in an asteroid belt to reproduce the navigation difficulties, and you have an instant Traveller salvage adventure with a couple of twists.

Or have the ship be a sunken starship (spy ship?), the "Evil Firm" the Imperium, the "investor" Imperial Navy Intelligence. The PCs are freelancers sent in to *quietly* recover the MacGuffin but they have to scrounge up a local mid-tech submersible and local crew for same to maintain their cover.

Richard Aiken

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