>     >
>     > Of course, knowing PCs,  the abnormal load is their target of
>     interest:
>     > 1 the load itself is the target
>     > 2 something hidden on the load is the target
>     > 3 someone transporting the load (or on the accompanying small craft)
>     > 4 the something or someone isn't as vulnerable as it might seem and
>     > the PCs (and / or others) are expected to try something, but
>     there's
>     > opposition
>     > 5 their info is wrong and the target of interest isn't actually of
>     > interest
>     > 6 the target of interest isn't what the PCs were expecting and is
>     > *much more* interesting. For entirely different reasons.
>
>
>     Collision,
>
>     Congrats on the birthday.
>
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>     As for your "abnormal load in highport vicinity" question, you could
>     also chuck in:
>
>     additional traffic restrictions;
>
>     traffic control freaking out due to some of their kit playing up;
>
>     a large (for whatever setting you're using - eg Interstellar Wars
>     would
>     be 10 kdton+) (para)military vessel whose exclusion zone the abnormal
>     load _has_ to traverse;
>
>     a diplomatic vessel whose captain is determined to lift, come what
>     may,
>     and of _course_ its course takes it close to the abnormal load;
>
>
>
> Oooh, nice.  I'll need a larger table.
>
>
As an alternative, have the PCs on _defense_ as starport personnel ?

Not as front-line load-movers, but one or two steps removed (so guess
who gets to deal with the _fallout_?), or as a red team (or tiger team)
brought in to look at the status quo sufficiently cockeyed to try to
head off such a caper?

Alex