Sole Supplier

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Some extremely important resource is exported from this world and this world alone. It’s unlikely that the substance is critical for building spike drives unless this world is also the first to begin interstellar flight, but it may be critical to other high-tech processes or devices. The locals make a large amount of money off this trade and control of it is of critical importance to the planet’s rulers, and potentially to outside powers.

Enemies:
^{Who might be encountered who opposes the group}

• Resource oligarch
• Ruthless smuggler
• Resource-controlling warlord
• Foreign agent seeking to subvert local government

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

Doughty resource miner

Researcher trying to synthesize the stuff

Small-scale resource producer

Harried starport trade overseer

Complications:
^{How might the situation on the world be more complicated}

The substance is slow poison to process

The substance is created by hostile alien natives

The substance is very easy to smuggle in usable amounts

Only the natives have the genes or tech to extract it effectively

Things:
^{What items might be found on the world}

Cache of processed resource

Trade permit to buy a load of it

A shipment of nigh-undetectably fake substance

Places:
^{What locations might be found on the world}

Bustling resource extraction site

Opulent palace built with resource money

Lazy town square where everyone lives on resource payments

Tags: Lopop,Trade