The mighty Imperium has selected a dozen distinguished officers to man a high tech science space lab in orbit around classified RED planet. It's an assignment of a life time and very TOP SECRET.
Your misfit brother had finally found something to make his mark. He promised a "special announcement" so you came home for holiday. He didn't. Set in the Spinward Marches.
An Entire planet has gone dark. No communication, no travel off plant. An old antique of a space lab headed for the scrap heap has sent out the only distress call. You are sent to investigate.
Out of luck and stuck on a planet deep in the backwaters, each player must make the best of a bad situation in this open-ended Classic Traveller scenario.