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As you may all know, A17 implements a quest system. So far, there are only 3 quests (Caravan request, Raider Outpost and Item Cache). I guess the devs also added a few new events. These things gives the game more dept and makes for good storytelling. I'd like to open this thread for everyone who can suggest a quest or event which is will be realistic enough to implement for future alphas.

How?
Inspired by this (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=9755.0) thread, it would be nice to give an overview for each proposed quest/event. A good way to tackle this is to get inspiration form existing RPG's and movies/books. It's also a way to implement a bit more positive events in the game. The format would be:

• Title of the quest/event
  Type of event: (quest, local map event or world event)
  Ease of implementation: (how easy it is to implement the event to the game: easy, moderate or hard)
  Summary:
  Reward/consequences:

I'm looking forward to hear your submissions!

Reserved

• Wedding of an allied faction
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  An allied and nearby settlement is having a wedding feast for one of their important pawns. You received an invitation to attend it. You can complete the quest by sending over any numbers of pawns.
  Reward/consequences:
  - Faction goodwill with the host
  - Little Faction goodwill with other attending factions
  - Food (leftovers from the feast)
  - [Optional] Other gifts being send over with droppods
  
  
  


• Group of injured travelers
  Type of event: Event
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  A group of injured travelers has entered your map. You have no idea what happened to them. If you treat them and they successfully leave your local map, their faction will be happy with you.
  Reward/consequences:
  - Faction goodwill
  - [Optional] Reward being send over with droppods
  
  
  
• Hitman
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate
  Summary:
  A faction radios you that they need you to wack a certain pawn. This pawn the pawn is taking refuge on a tile not far from your base. They refuse to tell you what he did wrong.
  You can send over a squad to kill him (and possible henchman). When you arrive to the tile, a local map is generated with a wooden cabin and 1 or more pawns. There is a x% chance that a new message will pop up, where the victim will explain what went wrong and pleading not to kill him.
  Reward/consequences:
  When you kill the pawn(s)
  - Faction goodwill
  - Reward being send over with droppods
  OR when you spare them
  - Faction badwill
  - Chance of the pawn joining you.
  
  
  
• Clash on the road
  Type of event: Caravan encounter
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  During a caravan, there is a really small chance that you encounter an allied faction having a stand-off with an enemy faction. The pawns are nicely lined up opposed to each other, taking cover behind objects and shooting at each other with low quality guns. The player can either chose to get involved or move on (by moving his pawns to the border of the map).
  Reward/consequences:
  IF the player intervenes
  - Faction goodwill with the surviving group
  - Loot
  - The risk of getting injuries
  IF the player doesn't intervene
  - Faction badwill with the allied faction
  
  
  
• Unfortunate fellow
  Type of event: Caravan encounter / Quest
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  During a caravan, you encounter a deceased pawn. He was carrying a note, which leads to a treasure
  chest nearby. It will be marked on the world map. The player can make a small detour to retrieve it.
  Reward/consequences:
  - Loot
  - Food to compensate the detour
  
  
  
• Unfortunate delivery guy
  Type of event: Caravan encounter / Quest
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  During a caravan, you encounter a deceased pawn. He was carrying a valuable item and a note saying it has to be delivered to a nearby settlement. Take it and keep it or take it to the settlement for a reward
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you keep it
  - The item (duh)
  - The settlement will never know you took it.  :-X
  IF you take to the settlement
  - Faction goodwill
  - Reward being send over with droppods
  - Food for the caravan to compensate the detour
  
  

• Request for backup
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate?
  Summary: A friendly faction contacts you and asks for backup in an upcoming military strike against one of their enemies (could be an enemy faction, a friendly one, or even a previously unknown faction). The event has a timed window (ie. within the next xx days), and happens at a given world site that you'd have to "caravan" to.  The map would be small to medium in size, randomly generated.
  Reward/consequences: Helping increases goodwill with the faction, maybe lowers trading costs too.  Not helping has the opposite effect.

• Hidden Camp
  Type of event: Caravan encounter
  Ease of implementation: Easy to Moderate
  Summary: While caravaning across the world map, you have a small chance to stumble upon a hidden camp site.  If the faction is neutral or friendly, you can trade for some really great gear/art/etc - expensive, but worthwhile.  If the faction is hostile, they ambush you as you pass by.  I suggest that these "hidden camps" be generated at world creation.
  Reward/consequences: Lots of LOOT - as long as you don't die ;)

• Tempting Offer
  Type of event: Local
  Ease of implementation: Easy (I hope?)
  Summary:
  A trader arrives without any merchandise on him. He offers a "sweet" deal with you. You can get X amount of a valuable resource (Plasteel/Gold/Equipment/Food) for a "low" price of X. Odd thing is that you don't receive it immediately. The trader promises that it will arrive in about a week.
  Reward/consequences: 
  Options - You take the deal, you don't, or you shoot the guy.
  Outcomes - 1. The shipment arrives, 2. A different batch of resources arrives (Steel instead of plasteel), or 3. nothing arrives at all and you get a message about how the colonist that interacted with the trader felt scammed, suffering a minor mood debuff. "I've been bamboozled!" -10
  Bonus:
  The faction the guy is from will determine the outcome. Outlanders are more likely to come back but can make mistakes. Pirates will usually just scam you. And tribals... tribals, due to language barriers may misinterpret your words or use weird names for items. Here's an entertaining example: A tribal wishes to trade a shipment of "Boom Booms". Players may think, "Neat, artillery shells". Then about a week later, they send a bunch of boomrats and boomalopes to your base.
  

• Part 1. Unwanted Visitors
  Type of event: Local
  Ease of implementation: Easy
  Summary:
  First part of a major quest. A group of heavily armed raiders confront you early into the game. They outnumber you 1 - 10. The raiders offer you a deal: You get to live another day if you give them X amount of food/medicine/captured people/valuable resources at the end of every season.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you take it:
  - Triggers the second part of the quest.
  - They tell you what they expect to be given next season and the approximate amount and then promptly leave you be.
  IF you don't take it:
  - They ask whether or not you're sure in a very threatening tone.
  IF you refuse further:
  - They become instantly hostile and act like a normal raid.
  - You're likely to lose this fight, but should you win. You must capture and interrogate one of them. Only then will you skip to Part 3.
  

• Part 2. Taxes
  Type of event: Long-term event
  Ease of implementation: Easy (Maybe?)
  Summary:
  At the end of each season, a smaller group of raiders arrive with muffalos to take the goods you offered and notify you of what they expect to see next time. With each season, the demand will get higher and higher until confrontation occurs.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you continue to give them resources:
  - After a while, one of two events will occur. A. One of your pawns will get sick of it and ask you to fight back. B. A weaker pirate group that are rivals of the raiders will come and offer help.
  - You'll start to lack certain resources and be more vulnerable to danger.
  IF you fail to give them resources:
  - Their demand for next season becomes much higher.
  - Fail a second time and each the raiders will take whatever valuables you got.
  - Fail a third time they'll critically injure the colonist talking to them. They'll leave you for a while then come back in a very huge siege.
  IF you attack them:
  - They'll leave you for a while then come back in a very huge siege.
  - The "Fight Back" quest triggers.
  

• Part 3-A. Fight Back
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate (Maybe?)
  Summary:
  Should you agree with the colonist or fight off the collectors. They'll tell you their plans to defeat the raider group.
  
  
  
  
  • [Required] Capture one of the raiders and interrogate them to know where their base is.
  • [Optional] You'll need to go convince a minimum of 3 allied camps for help. You can also go to pirate camps that are rivals of the group and ask them for help though they may refuse.
  • [Optional] Have at least "X" amount of food for the journey.
  • [Optional] Have at least 2 pack animals.
  
  Once you have their location, you can call your allies to gather to your base in preparation and then go together to attack their base. Be warned that the base will be a lot tougher than your typical pirate base.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you win the assault on the raider base:
  - The raiders will no longer bother you.
  - You get to pick up really high quality loot. Be fast though as the other factions will go take their share as well.
  - A party will be held when you get back home. Some of your allies will come along to celebrate with you.
  - Your current colonists will receive a permanent +15 mood bonus. Although further recruited colonists won't have the bonus.
  - Relations with the participating factions will highly increase. Even the pirate faction.
  - The quest ends.
  
  IF you lose the assault on the raider base or don't attack their base after capturing one of them:
  - They'll no longer demand things from you.
  - After a few days, they will assault your base with a raiding party that's a lot tougher than the usual pirate raid.
  IF you successfully defend yourself:
  - Groups of them will appear in the world map and target your caravans when they get near.
  - They'll continue to send raids until you defeat their main base.
  

• Part 3-B. The Enemy of my Enemy
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate (Maybe.)
  Summary:
  A pirate group has been observing your colony and your newfound landlords. They hate these guys as much as you do and offered to help you take them down. But they their group lacks the necessary firepower to do so. They propose to raid some nearby camps to get supplies.
  
  
  
  
  • [Required] Help them loot 3 designated bases.
  • [Required] Capture one of the raiders and interrogate them to know where their base is.
  • [Optional] Have at least "X" amount of food for the journey.
  • [Optional] Have at least 2 pack animals.
  
  Same as before: Once you have their location, you can call your allies to gather to your base in preparation and then go together to attack their base. Unlike "Fight Back" though, your pirate allies will be a lot stronger and will be packing rocket launchers.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you accept their deal:
  - The quest starts.
  - The pirate group will become your temporary allies and can be called upon for help with raiding.
  IF you refuse their deal:
  - They leave and "Fight Back" will trigger sometime later.
  IF you win the assault on the raider base:
  - The raiders no longer bother you.
  - Loot!
  - Your pirate allies will beat to death or execute any incapacitated raider.
  - The pirate group will become your permanent allies and can be called upon for help with both defense and raiding. You can trade with them too.
  - Your current colonists will receive a permanent +15 mood bonus. Although further recruited colonists won't have the bonus.
  - A party will be held when you get back home. Some of your allies will come along to celebrate with you.
  - The quest ends.
  
  IF you lose the assault on the raider base or don't attack their base after capturing one of them:
  - Same with "Fight Back"
  - Your pirate allies will be wiped out from the map.
  IF you successfully defend yourself:
  - Same with "Fight Back"
  
  

Whew, that's a lot of words and typing. I'll be back to suggest more later. Something something glitterworld expedition teams

Quote from: milon on May 11, 2017, 07:26:03 PM
Hidden Camp

I really like this idea. It's all mysterious... Why didn't it show up on your world map before? What are they doing here, so far from their from their base? [Plays mysterious music in the background] Anyway, you don't care if it also benefits you.

Quote from: A Friend on May 12, 2017, 01:15:17 AM
Tempting Offer

Yes, reminds me of one of an event in FTL: Faster than light you get where you can purchase an unknown weapon from a pirate. 30% chance they ripped you off and you get nothing, 30% it's not worth it, 30% it's a sweet deal.

Quote from: A Friend on May 12, 2017, 01:15:17 AM
Part 1. Unwanted Visitors ...

Yes! I would love to see an event which takes place over a longer period of time. This one heavily influences the first 10-20 hours of your game, since it limits growth a lot and makes it feel so different story wise.

• King Louie
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate/hard (needs King Louie sprite)
  Summary:
  An allied faction tells you that a group of primates has been bothering their settlement for a long time. It is being lead by one massive primate, which seems to be more intelligent than the average primate. The faction asks you to eradicate them.
  
  Your colony sets out a caravan to the given coordinates to find stone ruins infested with neutral monkeys. When your group enters the room at the end, they encounter the massive primate. A new message pops up which reads: "Need human help. Teach to build fire and we give treasure."
  
  Now you have the option to either build a few torches in the room (knowing they will use it against your allies), back off or kill them all.
  
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you decide to build the torches:
  - A lot of silver, gold and berries will appear out of nowhere in one of the rooms in the ruins
  - You'll suffer a lot of badwill with the faction
  IF you decide to attack the primates
  - A smaller reward is send to your colony
  - Goodwill
  IF you do nothing
  - Nothing happens

• Dilapidated Chemical Plant is on Fire!

Type of event: Caravan encounter
Ease of implementation: Hard?
Summary: Your caravan encounters an old chemical plant that is on fire you can either Attempt to fight the fire or Ignore it.
Reward/consequences: If you ignore it a toxic fallout event is imminent. If you chose to fight it and are successful prevent the toxic fallout event form happening for x amount of time and possibly find Meds/Drugs or supplies to make Meds/Drugs however fighting the fire is not with out risk as chemical plants that are on fire can be a tad bit on the explodey side also not to mention the risk of being exposed form said chemicals.

• Abandoned Weapons Factory

Type of Event: Quest
Ease of Implementation: Moderate
Summary: After deconstructing a ship chunk there is a 5% chance of triggering this event. If triggered this message would pop up:
"This ship chunk seems to have recorded the location of a uninhabited weapons factory nearby"
it could then be marked on the map permanently or dismissed
Rewards/Consequences:
Cheap basic guns and little steel and components.
20% Chance of triggering "Abandoned Weapons Factory(B)"

• Abandoned Weapons Factory(B)

Type of Event: Quest
Ease of Implementation: Easy-Moderate
Summary: After entering the building this would trigger
"It's a trap! raiders are dropping in on top of us!"
Rewards/Consequences: Attacked by 2-5 raiders

(note: These would be mostly for early game)

• Nearby Mechanoids
  Type of event: Local
  Ease of implementation: Easy (?)
  Summary:
  A horde of mechanoid war machines is passing by your colony. They don't notice you yet. Turn off all the electrical equipment you have before they spot you.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you don't turn off your appliances in time:
  - You get a red envelope warning you that they've become hostile.
  - They act like a normal raid and attack you.
  Also:
  - If they spot any human pawn, they will attack them and then continue leaving afterwards.
  

• Relics of the Lost
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate to Hard (?)
  Summary:
  You discovered a camp of Glitterworld Researchers (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=16347.msg178121#msg178121). Assuming they trust you, you ask them what they need. Lacking manpower and knowledge about the land, they give you the task of collecting 4 ancient relics scattered around the region.
  
  - One is being worn like a trophy by a pirate boss inside his fortress.
  - One is being worshiped as a godly figure in a large tribal village.
  - One is buried beneath an ancient catacomb infested with bugs and booby traps.
  - One is in a rusty space ship being guarded by a swarm of mechanoids.
  
  You're free to choose which one you'd tackle first.
  Reward/consequences:
  With each relic delivered, you are given a special item:
  - A docile Mechanoid armed with a charge blaster.
  - Three experimental personal shields which allows the wearer to shoot through.
  - Glitter-Tech turret schematics (Think charge rifle turret.)
  - Medical Casket schematics (Cryptos which heals and cures the ailments of the pawns after a period of time.)
  After completing the quest:
  - The camp is grateful for your efforts and would be in your debt. You can call them for help with defenses and they'll arrive fully geared with power armors, charge rifles and a couple of mechanoids.
  - They'll provide you with spare power armors and charge rifles if you ask them. You can ask again at the start of every season.
  

• Tainted Water!

Type of event: Caravan event
Ease of implementation: Easy
Summary: One or more of your pawns have consumed tainted water!
Reward/consequences: Dysentery

• Cry for help

Event type: Quest
Ease of implementation: medium
Summary: A colony reeling from an attack, illness, natural disaster, or other event makes a cry for help, asking for medical aid, food, and other supplies.
Reward/Consequences: Providing aid provides a small - large faction bonus, and possibly a reward in supplies months later, once the colony recovers. Reward, both in relationship, and supplies later are proportional to supplies granted, and is usually a somewhat net profit, assuming you can make the trip. Accepting the quest and not following through will effect relationship with the faction negatively.

• A viral mindset

Type of event: Quest
Ease of implementation: hard
Summary: A call through the comms system is made by a cyborg seeking help : hurt by a virus which is driving him insane through his cybernetic implants, controlled by mechanoids. He asks you to find and enter the hidden bunker where he is, with a qualified researcher (can be anyone, but higher level is a higher success rate) to try and cure the virus. Bunker has dangerous animals and mechanoids in it, and you must fight your way to the cyborg pawn, who has put himself in a cryo pod.
Reward/Consequences: Bunker has lots of useful materials inside, mechanoid corpses, and other loot to pick and choose, within the limits of what you can carry. Also, assuming you keep the researcher alive and well till you find the cyborg, you can cure the virus, and he becomes a colonist out of gratitude for saving his life. If the researcher dies, OR if you get a bad dice roll, the cyborg (equipped with full bionics, pain stopper, ect) goes crazy and tries to kill you, preferably in a cramped room, with a melee weapon. Essentially a very high risk, very high reward mission, with a high chance of the caravan wiping out, but with lots of high tier loot if successful.

• Radio Broadcast

    Type of event: Caravan quest
    Ease of implementation: Easy-Moderate
    Summary:
    While traveling one of your colonists discovers a radio broadcast with a prerecorded message.
    Dwellers of a war shelter nearby are attacked by insectoids and they are trapped with little supplies left. They request help and assistance.
    Reward/consequences:
    If you won`t get to the shelter in time (your caraven has from 3 to 6 days) you would only find a base in a mountain with corpses, insectoids and some weapons, drugs, medicine and materials.
    If you arrive to the shelter in time there are Two possible Rewards/consequences:
    A you help dwellers kill all insectoids and they reward you with weapons, drugs, medicine and materials. Because they don`t have a home now, some pawns that survive could join your colony.
    B you failed to help dwellers, all of them are dead. You could still get some valuable loot.
    There is also a third outcome of this quest: you reach shelter only to find deceased corpses of dwellers and a gigantic number of insectoids. You could still try to loot some weapons, drugs, medicine and materials.

From author: I am so excited that I found this discussion, expect more quests from me soon ;)

• Celebrating Death

    Type of event: Colony quest
    Ease of implementation: Easy-Moderate
    Summary:
    Your allied faction is celebrating death of enemy faction`s leader. They sent an invite to come to any base of their faction to celebrate.
    Reward/consequences:
    You could ignore the invitation or send any number of pawns to any base of celebrating faction(celebration ends in 3-5 days). Ignoring does nothing. Sending does the following :
    - Faction goodwill
    - Bad goodwill of faction which`s leader died
    - [Optional] You could gift some valuable presents to the colony for extra goodwill
    - [Rare] One of your pawns that was celebrating got drunk and arrested. You could wait for a few days or pay to let him free.
    - [Very Rare] Colony was attacked in the middle of the celebration by mercenaries from faction which`s leader died. It generates a little map with hostile mercenaries and a small part of town. You could try to escape or fight.

From author: sorry for copying your wedding idea Play2Jens, but I was thinking` that more celebration quests would make Rimworld feel more alive. I will try to post as frequent as possible ;)

• Last Stand
  Type of event: Quest
  Ease of implementation: Moderate (?)
  Summary:
  It starts with a text box informing you of a small compound nearby, where corpses litter the map. The remaining survivors inform you that they're being continuously attacked by a large (Pirate/Tribal/Mechanoid) force and have suffered heavy casualties. They'd leave if they could but they have no way to transport the wounded. They beg you to help them. But you've gotta act fast as you hear the enemies coming closer and closer.
  
  You've got 3 options:
  
  
  
  • You help treat and evacuate the wounded to an allied settlement (or your own if you're feeling like recruiting) while the defenders buy you time.
  • You help with the defense against 3 waves of large enemy groups coming from multiple directions. Increasing in numbers each wave.
  • You do nothing at all and leave them to their fate.
  • Rob them of their supplies while they're busy fighting.
  Reward/consequences:
  IF you successfully help evacuate:
  - Bringing them to an allied settlement will boost your relations with them.
  - Bringing them to your own camp will give you a slight boost in relations with the factions. As a bonus, once fully healed, some of them may ask to join you.
  IF you successfully repel off the attackers:
  - The settlement would become your ally from now on.
  - You are rewarded with all the valuables they have left. (Silver, Gold, etc.)
  - Some of the surviving defenders will ask to join your colony.
  - Loot from the enemy corpses.
  IF you do nothing:
  - Any pawns present in the caravan will suffer guilt -8, lasting for a week. Except psychopaths.
  - The settlement would be wiped out of the map after a couple of hours.
  IF you rob them:
  - If the defenders survive the waves, they will become hostile to you.
  - Any pawns present in the caravan will suffer guilt -15, lasting for a week. Except psychopaths.
  - Loot.
  Extra:
  - Trying to evacuate the wounded without treating them first would cause them to bleed out sometime along your travels.
  - You can scavenge the corpses around and then leave them to fend for themselves.
  

• Where did everybody go...?
  Type of event: Quest or caravan event
  Ease of implementation: Moderate
  Summary:
  An allied faction tells you that they are worried about one of their new colonies, since they aren't able to communicate with them anymore. They ask you to check it out. A new settlement icon with a question mark is added to your world map.
  
  When entering this settlement, the following thing will happen:
  A) There are no pawns present. When you enter their barracks, you'll see dead pawns lying in their beds. A message will pop up, saying that you suspect the pawns died of a mysterious desease.
  B) A few pirates have decided to take them hostage. Get ready to fight!
  C) Everything seems to be alright, but their comms console got destroyed. You can help them build a new one.
  D) Dead bodies everywhere, we were too late...
  
  Reward/consequences:
  A) There will be a small chance that one of your pawns gets infected by the plague. You can loot what's left of the settlement and gain a little of faction goodwill.
  B) If you're able to defeat the pirates, gain faction goodwill and a reward.
  C) Gain faction goodwill and a reward. The new settlement stays on your world map.
  D) Loot what's left of the village, gain a little faction goodwill by reporting on their status.
  

A Dedicated Temple
Type of event: Quest
Ease of implementation: Hard(When Everything will be Implemented)
Summary:
    What Triggers it?:                       Talking to a Tribal Prisioner or having Tribal Guests. The chance would be low.
    What Happens when it Triggers?: A Message appears Telling you about a Temple dedicated to a unknow Deity which could possible hold a LOT
                                                    of Treasure including:Gold,Plasteel,Steel(,Legendary Grand Statues) and maybe otherthings. It will mark a
                                                    spot on the map near a Tribe and when a Caravan arives there will be a very Fertile map,
                                                    with(Obviously)a Temple on it. This Temple can be inhabited by:
                                                     -a Tribe
                                                     -Insectoids or
                                                     -Mechanoids
                                                    Depending on the Thread present a Message will apear informing you about the possible gains from Looting.
                                                    but also the Dangers and risks that will await you when you try to do so.
                                                    When you face a Tribe and you attake them you will have a badwill and they become Hostile               
                                                    towards you, on the other hand if the Temple was Occuipied by Insectoid or Mechanoids and you kill all of         
                                                    them a Message from the Tribe will apear thanking you for the help at regaining the Temple but also asking
                                                    you to not take anything with you and Leave the Temple. If you don´t take any of the Items and Leave within
                                                    about 5 Days you will get a high reputation bonus and the Faction (if they still were) will no longer be Hostile
                                                    towards you, but if you take any of the Items or stay Longer then 5 days you will instantly lose all of your
                                                    goodwill and they will raid the Temple every few days as long as you don´t destroy the Village nearby or
                                                    leave the Temple.

Btw: It would be best if the Player had the Option to found a new Colony on the Temple map it could then also create other Events like Pilgrims comming
to your Colony to Worship there Deitys (as Long as you didn´t change the "Holy Room" or something like that)

Those ideas as a mod would be pretty awesome...

Space Junk
Type: Quest
What is it: A mid-game dungeon event thingy
It starts when all of a sudden you get a 'eclipse'. Standard right? However, when inspecting the popup, moon is replaced by space junk, how odd mmmmm...
It will last a few days, before you get another popup, but the non cancel-able, like the chased one. It reads:
"A representative of -friendly nearby town here- appears. They say the space junk's not going away anytime soon. You all can wait it out, or storm a ancient orbital defense facility. Rumors say it was infested by some dark force..."
2 options will appear, as well as a third if you have orbital artifacts.
-Wait it out, and for a year have an eclipse.
-Storm the place, face insects, and use components to repair systems
-(secret) use orbital strike to instantly clear it.

• Crashed Ship

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Type of Event: Quest
Ease of Implementation: Easy - Moderate
Summary:
You detected a space ship crashing on a tile not too far from your base. You don't know what you may find there, or if someone else will also be trying to loot it...
Rewards / Consequences

• There will always be a lot of ship chunks in the area
• There may be exotic loot such as an AI core, advanced components, glitterworld tech and so on

BUT

• There may be a psychic / poison ship guarding it which will get triggered upon approach
• There may be a whole bunch of mechanoids guarding the ship or pirates trying to loot it