Sparks from the Past - Traveller RPG Live Play

Back aboard the TSS Profondeur, the crew must prove their worth to Transstar by hunting suspected terrorists in the Crushed Trench. A perilous descent and a near-fatal pressure emergency lead them to a hidden community of clones, where familiar faces reveal unsettling truths about the price of a second life. As they uncover dwindling resources and a conspiracy to exploit stolen memories, the Trave...

In Session 6 of Sparks of the Past, the crew starts with a prize that barely deserves the word: the newly raised shipboat, the Volante, dragged up from more than a century underwater and now technically breathable, mostly functional, and absolutely disgusting. After selling salvage to make it orbit-worthy, they catalogue its many quirks: damaged thrusters, unreliable startup power, a hacked ghost...

Alan Mercer is alive, sort of. The crew learns that the man they were accused of murdering has returned through a pre-grown clone, and Mercer offers them access to his old evidence if they can get him safely off Jardin. With political violence spreading on the surface, the group turns to a forty-year-old wreck on the ocean floor, salvaging a smuggler ship packed with secrets, contraband, and some...

That fits the session well: the crew joins the Profunder, descends into Jardin’s deep ocean, explores the abandoned Hadal research site, finds survivors, and ends up at Undersea Base Aelion.

With the identity veils hours from failing, the crew has to choose between bad options: trust a criminal patron, reach out to SolSec, find new disguises, or disappear into corporate territory. They cash in their favor with Lucin to get Mercier’s evidence into Inspector Valois’s hands, only for Mercier’s locked pad to suddenly start broadcasting its location. With police closing in and their window...

In this episode of Sparks of the Past, the crew wakes up in hiding after being framed for Minister Mercier’s assassination. With their disguises running out, Saichi needing a charge, and the authorities tightening control of the investigation, the group splits up across Nouvelle Sainte-Jeanne to gather supplies, scout the Hall des Futurs Choisis, and find new allies in the city’s underworld. Their...

Episode 1: Bureaucratic Registration What should have been a routine government appointment becomes a nightmare. On the Solomani world of Jardin, a group of veterans, officials, and an autonomous AI answer a summons to the Hall of Chosen Futures for what appears to be little more than bureaucratic paperwork. As they wait among government workers and fellow citizens, chance reunions and small talk...