Xenophobes

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The natives are intensely averse to dealings with outworlders. Whether through cultural revulsion, fear of tech contamination, or a genuine immunodeficiency, the locals shun foreigners from offworld and refuse to have anything to do with them beyond the bare necessities of contact. Trade may or may not exist on this world, but if it does, it is almost certainly conducted by a caste of untouchables and outcasts.

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

• Profoundly disgusted bureaucrat
• Furtive corporate executive fearing discovery
• Official who thinks the PCs have no moral reservations about any work
• Desperate local willing to deal with the devil for some vital thing

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

Revulsed local ruler

Native convinced some wrong was done to him

Cynical demagogue

Purity-minded local demagogue

Investigator for "alien influences"

Politician seeking to tie his rivals to offworlders

Local who wants to bury his former contracts permanently

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

Curious native

Exiled former ruler

Local desperately seeking outworlder help

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

The natives are symptomless carriers of a contagious and dangerous disease

The natives are exceptionally vulnerable to offworld diseases

The natives require elaborate purification rituals after speaking to an offworlder or touching them

The local ruler has forbidden any mercantile dealings with outworlders

The locals have been misled by manipulative rulers

The locals blame offworlders for a great disaster

The natives have a deeply alien moral framework

Only the ruling class is xenophobic

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

Jealously-guarded precious relic

Local product under export ban

Esoteric local technology

Store of goods too obviously alien to release to the market

Local specialty kept from outsiders

Cache of goods hidden by a lynched trader

Local treasure of incalculable value to natives

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

Sealed treaty port

Public ritual not open to outsiders

Outcaste slum home

Things:
^{What regulations might complicate things}

Offworlders are executed on discovery if the mob doesn't get them first

Locals will buy only goods that can be disguised as local wares

The locals view certain wares as being too good for offworlders

All trade must take place under the pretext of tribute and submission.

Tags: Lopop,Trade