On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Ros Knox & Michael Barry
> <Al Capone accent>
> "Give 'em concrete boots and send 'em to sleep with the fishes..."

Well played, sir, very well played.
And that's the kind of thing it wouldn't be that hard to pull off:
show up with a truck that has "Starport Maintenance" on the side, and
most people would ignore you.

From past experience with players, if I were going to mess with their ship like this, I would try to arrange to get the players to set themselves up for such an event, with only indirect prompting (if any) on my part. The goal is to illustrate to the players how hard it would be for a small crew of characters to protect themselves against this, This hopefully avoids the sort of after-the-fact hard feelings that can spring from such thoughts as, "There's no way we'd have left ourselves open for that."

The first time my college group tried Twilight:2000, a couple of the players complained about the slow speed of overland travel, particularly in a game featuring modern vehicles. My response was that the background assumed an on-going war, so overland speed reflected cautious travel while remaining alert for ambush, rather than barreling down a road/trail at full speed. The players collective response was something like, "Joe's got a high base percentage to spot ambushes, so we're going faster."

After running headlong into their first ambush a few real-time minutes later - particularly after it proved that the attackers (who got away untouched) had been firing upon them from the basement vent windows of the abandoned houses whose upper floors the players had wasted hundreds of rounds blasting - they decided to slow back down to book speed.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester