Tyranny

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The local government is brutal and indifferent to the will of the people. Laws may or may not exist, but the only one that matters is the whim of the rulers on any given day. Their minions swagger through the streets while the common folk live in terror of their appetites. The only people who stay wealthy are friends and servants of the ruling class.

Leaders:
^{Who might be encountered while conducting business}

• Gray-souled bureaucrat seeking an edge
• Overfed scion of the ruling class
• Personal shopper for the tyrant
• Military officer seeking special orders

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

Debauched autocrat

Sneering bully-boy

Soulless government official

Occupying army officer

Rebel who blames offworlders for the tyrant's power

Brutal secret police chief with suspicions of offworlders

Zealous party propaganda chief seeking offworlder support

Suicidal saboteur out to destroy far trade

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

Conspiring rebel

Oppressed merchant

Desperate peasant

Inspiring religious leader

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

The tyrant rules with vastly superior technology

The tyrant is a figurehead for a cabal of powerful men and women

The people are resigned to their suffering

The tyrant is hostile to “meddlesome outworlders”

Maltech gengineering has left the locals incapable of rebellion

The tyrant seems necessary to resist some grim threat

The tyrant has genuine popular support

Members of the former regime have formed a rebel underground

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

Plundered wealth

Beautiful toys of the elite

Regalia of rulership

Wealth taken from enemies of the state

Slave-produced goods

Advanced surveillance tech

Store of exceptionally vicious weaponry

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

Impoverished village

Protest rally massacre

Decadent palace

Religious hospital for the indigent

Things:
^{What regulations might complicate things}

Official "minders" must remain with offworlders at all times

Commoners are forbidden from speaking with offworlders

Costly gifts of luxury goods are necessary to even begin trading

Far traders known to deal with the regime are subject to legal repercussions on neighboring worlds

Tags: Politics, Trade