Talk:Mainserai (world)
Grand Theft: Station[edit]
The rediscovery of Mainserai in 1109 is left as a blatant adventure hook for any referee wishing to use this setting. Among the ways the travellers may succeed where about 50 years of half-hearted surveys have not: looking for patterns in the interstellar dust that might signal which way the station went, gravitational analysis (0.01 G is a weak signal, but something that can be surveyed for), or find one of the mining drones (which, being in constant contact with traffic control - if tightbeamed to save on signal power, and thus not interceptable - know where Mainserai went). 1109 is suggested as something a few years after a typical campaign start of 1105 (since this quest can be something to build up to), and it need not be the exact year the adventure takes place: it can be anywhere from the year the Federation sends out a request that is ultimately answered by the travellers, to the year the final administrative paperwork is processed and the long-since-accomplished deed is officially recorded.
As such, it is requested that details of the rediscovery expedition be left ambiguous enough for future groups to play it out.