Star Frontiers

Star Frontiers is the classic Sci-Fi RPG from TSR, Inc.!

Bad Robot!

Submitted by Dave Brohman

The party were hired by the Pan-Galactic Corp to help in taking out a group of pirates on a distant low-tech world (essentially D&D level tech with no magic). Their ship was downed by a PC dropping a grenade in the control room during a pirate raid. The only survivors were the party, 3 PG troopers, the Corp Exec (who was meant to supervise the raid from orbit) and the 4 meter tall assault 'bot which was brought along to even the odds, since the pirates had gained a similar 'bot in a raid a few months earlier.

Rather than being able to choose their LZ and organize and effective raid, the group found itself forced to trek some two weeks from where their escape craft hit to the pirate base.

The first night the party sets camp and Ms. Weston, the Corp Exec, sets the 'bot on guard duty with the rather poorly chosen command "Apart from us, nothing gets into this campsite alive, you got that?"

The groups was awakened in the middle of the night by a powerful explosion. Fearing attack by the pirates, they leap to their feet, grabbing weapons,and ready for battle. What they find instead is the 'bot towering over a smoking crater and covered in fragments of scorched racoon.

"Let me clarify my earlier orders..." Ms. Weston began as everyone else settled back in to sleep...