Premise
The movie Alien, more or less. The PCs are crewmembers of the Nostromo, a mining ship, returning with a haul of ore. PCs will probably die, in which case they will take over another character.
Active Characters:
Ellen Ripley - Warrant Officer (aka middle-manager). Love cats and power lifters.
Ian Ash - Science Officer. Transferred to the Nostromo at Thedas. British.
Dennis Parker - Chief Engineer. Wants more money so he can buy his own ship.
Reserve Characters:
Arthur Dallas - Captain. The Man™. Had a thing with Ripley in the past.
Thomas Kane - Executive Officer. "Great" at everything, and will let you know.
Samuel Brett - Engineer. Man of few words, but many hawaiian shirts. BFFs with Parker.
Joan Lambert - Navigator. Fresh out of the academy.
Summary
Space!
The Nostromo's systems whirred to life, and the crew were woken from their hypersleep. As they got dressed, Parker asked the ship's AI, Mother, for a status report, but it was stuck processing something. Parker and Brett headed to the kitchen to grab some coffee, while Dallas headed up to the bridge to see what was going on, followed by the rest of the crew. The computers were hung up, and Lambert got to work trying to figure out what was going on.
Shortly, she piped up that Mother had picked up a signal and dropped them out of hyperspace early; they weren't even halfway to Earth! Dallas punched in his ID and found out that, according to company directive, they had to investigate any "mysterious signals" in case they were distress beacons. Until they did, the cryo-pods were locked out. Triangulating the source of the signal was going to take Lambert a while, so Ripley went to her terminal and started running diagnostics.
30 minutes later, Lambert had finished her scan and announced that the signal was coming from a planet they were pulling up to, but she had no idea what kind of signal it was. Ripley found that there was some minor damage to the umbilicus connecting the ship to the cargo, as well as the landing gear, and ordered Brett and Parker over intercom to take a look. They suited up and went to take a look; Parker went to the umbilicus, while Brett dealt with the landing gear.
