6) Space station orbiting a black hole
7) Luxury yacht lying on the bottom of the ocean
8) Mining ship slowly falling down onto the broken planet it mined
9) Ship-arc, still plummeting through the void but hopelessly off-course
10) A military shipyard in the asteroir belt, where there isn't supposed to be one

rolled 9 = 9

I'm going to cheat a bit.

Erm... i was kinda hoping that collective will help me get the table at least to 20... but anyway

Next question as follows: when spacefaring explorers align their speed to that of a legendary ship-arc, that aeons ago set out to find a new home for the hundred of thousands of people aboard, what do they detect from the distance?

1) Holes in the hull, obviously made by asteroid impacts
2) Broken parts of the hull orbiting the ship
3) Several figures in space suits, that are affixed by chains to the hull; scanners cannot detect any lifesigns inside
4) parts of the ship's hull are reflective; that is certainly not how it was designed; scans reveal changed composure of the material
5) Several asteroids are flying in formation with the ship; for some reason they are all connected together

6) Several new, piramid-like structures have been added to the hull of the ship; some of them are clearly unfinished
7) In th wake of the ship follows the rainbow luminescence; scans doesn't help to make any sens of it - at least, on this distance
8) Electric discharges are seen on the hull of the ship
9) For some reason, measuring the distance is proving to the difficult; instrumentation returns varying and conflicting data about position of the ship (conflicining - as in, different position in differet specteres etc)
10) parts of the ship's structure are missing; as if someone carefully dismantled the ship and put it together without them

>>13714842
It seriously took you 22 minutes to write that?
I can't tell if you're trying to run a quest or trying to get people to make content for you. Either way, you'll get more attention with pictures. Preferably spaceships.

>>13714862
>trying to get people to make content for you
this
yes i am
>you'll get more attention with pictures. Preferably spaceships.
Don't have good ones (

11) holes in the hull, obviously made by impact detonations
12) parts of hull are, for some reason, budged
13) Hull is covered in giant sized arcane symbols/incantations; spectrum analisys shows they are made with organic components
14) There are visibly signs of battel on hull, that were hastly repaired from the view of things
15) Viewscreens of the ship are absolutely black; they do not radiate on any frequency., as far as the scanners can tell

Here, have a image. I can post more if wanted

>>13715026
Please do

16) around the ship, like an escort, fly in orderly fashion hundreds of caskets, each, as the scans reveal, outfitted with still working magnetic vectoring unit, that are correcting the formation
17) there is a gieant figurehead, apparently constructed from material removed from other parts of the ship
18) ship's hull is pierced in several place by boarding torpedoes; some of them are still there
19) ship is transmitting a lullaby on all or some waves
20) for no apparent reason ship shooks violently, and changes its course and rotation; it repeats with regular intervals, when observed for a long time

Oh, how I do love space derelict horrors. Let me expand the first ten:

11) a piece of a gigantic space station, which also betray its alien origins
12) an asteroid; but scans show that it's been hollowed out and used as a base or outpost
13) a gigantic mazelike labyrinth beneath a planet's surface
14) a mass of organic material surrounding an unidentified hull floating in a nebula
15) an abandoned colony in a remote ice/desert/jungle planet
16) a massive planet-killing kamikaze ship in the ancient debris fields
17) a mass of anomalous space debris clumped together
18) a chunk of planet crust transformed into an arkship slowly drifting across space
19) a debris field containing several small ships of unknown design
20) an abandoned naval ship in space (think of titanic, but somehow it's found in the asteroid belt)

21) from all angles all surfaces of ships are lit evenly; there are no shadows at all
22) scans reveal a substantial percentage of hull's surface is covered with organic material
23) gravity readings provide inconsistent data about mass of the ship - as if it is changing, increasing and decreasing without accompanying changes of speed/momentum, which is clearly impossible
24) there are lots of window frames or viewports on the ship, but no window glass; not even a shard - all of them lead directly into the open space
24) there are giant scratch marks on the hull
25) ship is detectable only in visible spectrum; as far as non-visual scanners are concerned, there is no ship

>>13715173
>20) an abandoned naval ship in space (think of titanic, but somehow it's found in the asteroid belt)
Kind of like in that Dr' Who Christmas special?

>>13715235
Well I don't watch Dr. Who.
But it would make for an awesome spacehorror story.

Sorry for the late reply. Parents invaded my cave and had to pay some attention to them

26) First structural scans indicate that the ship is split along the middle, chopped into two parts, but the cut did not cause the parts to drift away from each other
27) The ship transmits binary numbers. It is just counting upwards, but the current number is so huge that it's transmitting for 20 hours already.
28) It appears to be a large ship from the outside, but it's just the hull - empty inside. It does not seem to be built this way.

26) ship can only be approached at a single angle; speeding up or losing speed doesn't cause the ship to run forward or fall backwards; no matter how many attempts to circle around it are made, seen part of the ship doesn't changes; all probes sent to circle it are lost after launch
27) scanning can't seem to resolve details of ship's surface; if data are to be believed, ship is a perfectly flat surfece limited by its outline
28) there are several layers of paintjob on the ship, all partiallylost; different heraldycs are depicted on different layers
29) ship's shields are up, but they switch off and then go up again in regular intervals
30) ship's hull is in pristine condition; as if it left the port a couple of hours ago instead of a couple of millenias (centuries)

26) about half of the ship has been deconstructed, those parts used to make artifacts of unknown design haphazardly connected at the prow
27) lost contact with entire orbital dock's crew, working on private assignment spaceship

Poor planet bound...

How about listing what horrors lie inside?
1) Genetic experiment gone wrong
2) Physics experiment gone wrong
3) Malfunctioning ship AI
4) Ghosts, and lots of them
5) Alien corpses

Actually use this as a wallpaper

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Thanks a lot

Space Station 13 near the end of a "bad" round can be rather creepy. Blood and hull breaches everywhere, no EVA suits left, not even any spare breath masks and oxygen tanks to find. Surprisingly few corpses, and there will be more bombs and syndicates with revolvers, god forbid you find some alien weeds amid the darkness.

>>13715402
6) ship's design gone horribly, horribly wrong

>>13715414
No problem. It's better then the alternative, which is playing card games.. Which I don't particular like.

>>13715433
moar like this?

>>13715402
Well... IMHO that's a little too wide, but why not list it as well?

6) rampant mutations caused by exposure to whatever was in places ship wandered too
7) mutiny
8) dictatorship regime, with increasingly crazed individuals at the helm
9) rise of suicidal cult following the ship's encounter with THAT -WHAT-SHALL-NOT-BE-NAMED
10) experimentls with space-time continuum with unexpected results

>>13715443
Hmm.. Don't think I got a lot of "Space monsters having a snack" images.. I'll try and keep a look for it, but in all honesty.. You need a random stroke of luck. Atlest if I'm the only one who keeps on posting images.

12) outside attack, be it pirates, ninjas, military enemies, xenos or Cthulhu
13) abandonment, either by order or by necessity
14) in fact, the ship holds/is treasure, and was hidden in the vastness of space deliberately
15) ship is deliberate illusion/trap set up by bastards not unlike Q

With the exception of me and OP, who else is hanging around here?

Ok, going away now. Hope thread is still up when i return.

Here are some other questions:
What kind of things can be found in:
bridge?
corridors?
living quarters?
sick bay?
assembly hall?

I always find images of derelict ship on planets rather sad.

>>13715661
Love these older ones off the front of books

>>13715679
Oh, I got a bunch of'em. I'll start dumping them.

>Spaceship thread
>Some EvE Online screenshots
Sheesh, at least take something else than a generic ship+planet on the background in that case. Though topic-wise EvE doesn't really have too much debris-filled space horror anyway.

I'm just glad to know that there are some people around here.

>>13715539
I am. I archieved the more important first bit.

>>13715696
Well.. Sue me.. I'm just dumping away. Don't got too many EvE screenshots anyway.

>>13715685
thank you

>>13715747
No problem

Not a space ship, but still a ship...

The previous image I posted reminds me of Freelancer weapon platforms.

>>13715798
Haha oh wow....

>>13715896
Okay, one guy wanted these images dumped. I take no responsibility from the content, blame the requester!

>>13715696
Hey, I still have nightmares about some of the deadspace complexes (rogue drones everywhere! shit they're fast! oh shit they webbed me!)

Also, space surfing on an explosion has to be on of the more awesome things that needs to be done

>>13715837
>>13715844
Loved those two books

>>13715911
Despite having the images, are those cover on books? If so, what books?

Also, going to dump a bit slower. Eating dinner.

>>13714617
>10) A military shipyard in the asteroir belt, where there isn't supposed to be one
10b) The asteroid belt isn't supposed to be there either.

Also, running out of images, so I will probably switch back to the regular dump.

Jup, ran out.

>>13715917
Robots of Dawn
Robot and Empire
Asmiovs on the chunkier side, like allot of book covers the actual image on the front doesn't really have anything much to do with the content of the books, I presume the publishers just nabbed sci-fi images for the book cover that had a robot of some sort.

>>13715969
Ah, thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

OP, you are a god amongst men. This kind of stuff is exactly what I need to fuck with my players.

>>13715173
might as well add a few
21. Ship crashed on planet
22. Ship permanently attached to another ship so that engines can work together
23. Two ships, which were apparently in the middle of some sort of boarding action.
24. A collision between two ships.
25. Multiple ships merged together into an orbital station.
26. Ship merged with an asteroid- half or more sticking out.
27. Ship landed on a planet
28. An underwater spaceship
29. A ship from the future
30. The ship you are currently on

>>13715972
Both are worth a read even without having read the other books in the series.

>>13715999
Well, it's been a while since I read any sci fi books. 40k not counting. That would be Eon by Greg Bear, which I loved.

31. The vessels systems appear to be all operating at peak efficiency, though the crew is missing.
32. Scanners determine that the interior of the ship has somehow scrambled, entire decks are warped beyond recognition, though this may be interference.
33. Life scans detect one single, massive life form that spans the entire ship.
34. the prow of the ship has split open, seemingly on it's own to form a grim visage of a jagged toothed mouth.
35. Scanners detect messages written on the hull, nonsense like "Stay Away!" "Haunted!" "SOS!" "HELP!"
36. According to scanners, the vessel has split into three sections, though visual observation shows this to be otherwise.
37. Mass scanners show the ship to be 1/10th it's size, though it can be clearly seen to be a full sized vessel.
38. according to scanners, the entire vessel has been hollowed out, and inside is a thriving zero-G biosphere.
39. The vessel is in prime condition, though the crew is missing. Strange burn marks in the shape of people are burned into the corridors of the ship
40. The vessel is in prime condition, though the crew is missing. logs from the command repeatedly mention something about "hiding the thingy"

41. The vessels surface seems to scatter any radiation that strikes it, giving it a strange rainbow like color
42. The vessel has been blasted to a hulk, impact holes and laser scarring are on a scale unlike you have ever seen.
43. A full quarter of the vessel appears to have been neatly sliced from the ship, as if someone cut it with an impossibly large and sharp knife.
44. They have come.
45. sections of the ship seem to push out or sink into the vessel in perfect square sections.
46. The entire ship appears to have been re-purposed as a city in space, countless life forms are detected inside.
47. Unstable fusion reactions can be detected in the interior of the vessel, far larger then normal. Optic scanners detect a message on the hull.. "SUCKER!"
48. The ship appears to have it's center ripped open, revealing a glittering and gleaming portal to an unknown realm.
49. Massive claw marks scar the vessel, several holes on the hull suggest teeth marks.
50. Frozen in space is the view of the ship mid-combat. Explosions glow frozen in time, weapon systems flashing mid-fire... time appears to have stopped..

>>13716063
Oh, I love that image.

This is probably more Final Fantasy-punk then a spaceship..

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>>13716063
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Although, i must note, it is better when items are themathically grouped more strongly. In context of generator-creating, our task is to make an "orthogonal" sets that can be combined in variety of ways.
In other words, "Strange burn marks in the shape of people are burned into the corridors of the ship" shouldn't be in section describing how the ship appears from outside to eye and scanners.

Keep them coming; i'm going to compile it into more neat form and maybe repost later

>Image limit reached
So I'm bugging out. Anon didn't feel like posting without pretty images, will I've dumped nearly 150 of'em now.

OP: I hope you are happy with them.

Signing out.

>>13716219
Words cannot describe my gratitude

>>13716063
>They have come.
Lovin' it.

Ok, how about we choose the next topic... by dice or something?

1. Crypting finding/clues inside the ship (ex.: burn marks)
2. Alien/mutated lifeforms responsible/encountered
3. AI quircks
4. Physics quircks
5. Ghost encounters
6. Journal entries - or wall-written messages

51) scanners detect suspicious signatures within an old, well-known shipwreck. pirates? rogue drones?
52) you receive a broadcasted call for help fighting a nanobot outbreak in a space junkyard equivalent

>>13716452

I think I'm rolling. If not, I'd pick 2, that's awesome.

Mein gott, I literally just came onto /tg/ to ask for advice on a ghost spaceship encounter.
OP, you're a hero.

>>13716659
Sure thing, 2 it is.
Alien/mutated lifeforms responsible/encountered
Those are better done 1 by one, it think. Let's start.

1. Mushroom-like lifeform that gains more sentience as its mycelium grows and spreads by spores. It can cause extreme addiction to itself (via re-configuring itself to meet target organism's needs) bordering on religios worship and eventually turn ones it has influence on in drones, that take care of it and feed it, until become the food themselves.
Also, its micelium can control bodies as a parasyte nervous system. Fortunately, its sentience is limited when not connected to main micelium network.

>>13716786
2. Manocks, a bat-like space vermin, which lives and flies in space my beans unknown andeats hulls od the ship.
That's original content and absolutely unrelated to Star Wars

Mind control 'shrooms. Nice.

I'm bad at this, but here goes:

3. How about an alien that looks, smells, and sounds terrifying, but isn't physically there? Disregard standard cliches about it being a personalized fear, everyone sees the same floating shark made out of rotting meat, and they're all fucking scared of it, but it can't be shot, punched, or whatever, and it runs through them freely.

>>13716934
So, hologram-projecting species? why not...
4. omnivorous slugs, that can literally live on random rocks and a heat from sun. Usually slow, and not really dangerous; commonly used as waste disposals - their bodies with accumulated processed matter are somewhat easier to use.
When unchecked for a long time and/or subjected to certain radiations, grow to a much bigger size and sometimes change their eating habits and defensive capabilities.

>>13717000
5. Species living in metal as energy/quasy matter forms. The bigger metal is, the more comfortable they get, and more of them can fit in. Can manipulate metal's crystal matrix making it flow and move in process; feed by absorbing energy from outside; store part of it and dispose of the rest (too much can cause them to dissipate) in form of characteristic radiation

>>13717145
6. Warmongering and pirate species, that are only and always seen in shells of power armor, that vary in size and design; when strongly damaged, they usually self-destruct.
Their hunting habits involve dropping on the head of their prey from nowhere, appearing where they weren't a second ageo, as if phasing in. For some reason they, despite having very advanced weapons, usually restrict themselves to ones that are comparable to whatever the crew of boarded ship is using. It is hipothethised, that they aren't in fact a specie, but are conglomerate of individuals tied by cultural bounds.

>>13717145
7. Absolutely improbably and legendary species, that are never believed to exist by scientific community. They glide with their wings on solar winds, gather inter-stellar gas and, using their gravity-manipulating powers, compress it to produce thermonuclear fusion to power themselves, they crack asteroids open for materials to build their titanic bodies from...
Rarely ship which manages to catch their attention survives, but even if it does, and sail on with the marks of giant claws and teeth, usually parasytic organisms living on those almost-literal dragons finish the survivors of the crew off

8: It looks like the ship's terrarium has gone berserk. Sentient flora has taken root in the ship, a massive tree growing over the main reactor with twisted roots siphoning energy and heat. The floors of the corridors have turned mossy and soft, eating through the metal and growing thin, razor-sharp blades of grass. Carnivorous plants lurk in nooks and crannies, hissing blindly as they snap their jaws at anything that passes by. All the while massive flowers take bloom in the high grass, their tendrils and roots trying to ensnare any wayward humans and turn them into a fresh source of fertilizer.

archive this damned thread before it vanishes into the ether!!!

50. Sensors detect that the crew are dead at their stations, but the systems of the ship are operating as if they were still manned.
51. A communications signal is broadcasting, but appears to be static, until you do more detailed analysis...
52. The vessel has suffered heavily in the thousands of years it has been left derelect. Rust coats the walls of it's atmosphere-less halls... wait..
53. The vessel hangs in space in rubble, next to it is the corpse of something that may once have been living.
54. blistered along it's hull are hive like structures... the sensors detect life signs exiting the blisters in ever increasing numbers..

>>13717580
9. Species that, on the first look look like rocks, and on the second look like pretty awesome rocks. Possibly synthetic originally, they operate by subjugating another specie to do its bidding (often in form of religion or cult), the bidding bbeing to eventually create a physical form or several of its peers.
That get jumpstarted into living/sentience by absorbing psyche of said subjugated species or something.
In practice, the stones project an aura of admiration, dignity, respect and holyness; and almost any scan will reveal that their structure and properties are unique and interesting. More sensitive people may experience dreams and visions.
(think of Black Obelisk, Kaaba stone or friggin marker)

>>13717831
Never worry, i am saving all the content.
Who is bad enough dude to conjure a 10th specie?

10. A virus that infects the bodies of carbon and cell based life forms, attacking the nervous system and establishing a mutated "brain" which takes control of the body, while leaving the host either horribly aware of their fate, or brain dead as their bodies do their new viral master's bidding.

>>13717926
Nice. Reminds me of a short story by Ray Bradbury

Thanks a great deal for all participants. Keep the good work and let's do it again someday.
Like... next sunday or something

Was fun, man.

>>13717926
here's a pretty awesome, semi related story I just heard.
http://escapepod.org/2011/01/20/ep276-on-a-blade-of-grass/

>>13718082
Wow, that reminds me a LOT of an Asimov story I've heard...

Someone put this into a single text document.

>>13718364
hey, it's scifi, they call it "creative adaptation", not stealing, in this genre. Asimov would be among the first in line to admit he "borrowed" other people's ideas to tell his stories. But yes, it's pretty similar I suppose.

>>13719046
Hey, I didn't say anything. Why you so mad?
And you're damn right it's similar! A parasite that makes people venture to the stars to find new hosts.

>>13719307
heh, just hard to convey emotion on the net. I thought your observation was a fair one but I wanted to point out that scifi authors in general are pretty ok with that sort of thing.

Spaceship porn is best porn