
50 Reasons Why a Space Facility Was Abandoned
On Quisicosas since 28 March 2025
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28 March 2025 (on Substack)
What it is about
This tool can be easily applied to create any abandoned or ruined deep space location whether it’s a space station, factory enclave, town, research facility, jail, military base, monastery, or collective. This roleplaying tool gives you dozens of different ways to add a new dimension to your quiet and lonely corner of space.
This list is intended for the Deep Space genre of games (like Traveller, Mothership, Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, Space Opera, Rifts, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, Cyberpunk, etc.) where life and technology is not necessarily uniform or simple. NOTE: Abandoned assumes that the location in question is 95% to 100% (94+1d6%) empty of residents. It may be home now to something else.
This Roll Percentile list has fifty possible results in this format:
Roll result: Explanation and details on the reason why a space facility was abandoned.
Example 51: Small Town Syndrome (This facility/colony has seen progressive population loss to other larger / better facilities.)
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