IC: The Far Orbit Project (Star Wars)
My first encounter with the D6 system was unique. The GM had a whole bunch of stuff set up for us to play scavengers on Tatooine -- he had maps of derelict ships, price-lists for everything we could possibly salvage, and made up his own rules for tracking things like thirst and hunger. He kept us hungry; there was never quite enough left over at the end of the day for us to start accumulating wealth, barring the occasional improved blaster or engine part we could use.
We mostly scavved around junked starships and freighters. Competed with the local Jawas for droids and parts. Skirmished with Sand People over our chunk of territory. Had the occasional run-in with Imperial Stormtroopers trying to 'clean up' the area. If things were really lean, we'd have to resort to banditry to get by. We weren't quite "scum and villainy", but it was a fine line.
Then we hit a small motherlode. A crashed civilian escape pod, blasted to smithereens, with a fully intact survival kit and the shattered remains of a couple old droids. A fully intact vocabulator from a protocol droid (worth a bunch), some salvageable tools from an astromech droid, along with a partially-intact memory core from it. Might have juicy data like ship schematics or encryption protocols.
Our resident tech-head managed to recover fragments of data from the memory core, and found what looked like schematics for an Imperial space station -- just one that looked about fifty times bigger than necessary. With something that looked an awful lot like a really big turbolaser. Like, a focusing lens the size of Mos Eisley.
We thought plans like this might fetch a nice sum from the Rebellion. And, while we were at it, why not get the Empire involved and let them have a bidding war? Play both sides against each other for maximum profit, maybe score enough to get off this sand-pit. 'Course, that decision led to one side trying to recruit us, and the other sending assassins our way.
Here's what happened behind the scenes.
Remember in the first movie (ANH), when the droids have just taken off in the escape pod, and some no-name Imperial gunner spots them? His superior tells him to hold his fire as the pod has no life-forms. Well, in this guy's game, the gunner didn't wait -- he shot the pod, totally destroying it.
Which means the droids never got picked up by Jawas. Or sold to moisture-farmers. The Princess's message was never found, so ol' Ben Kenobi never got involved. So a certain smuggler never got his lucrative offer that led him to join the Rebellion. A princess was never rescued. Basically, the entire plot hinged on that one event, so in his game he derailed it and let us pick up the pieces.