Alien

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The denizens of this world are either aliens or else possess such a strange culture that they might as well be non-humans. Such societies tend to have strange estimates of value by ordinary human standards, often prizing substances of limited interstellar value or requiring bizarre procedures before business can be conducted. Dealing with alien societies is fraught with danger even by far trader standards, as it is easy for a human to trespass taboos that seem so obvious to their local dragoman that there is no thought to warn them beforehand.

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

• Member of a special trading caste
• Bureaucrat that communicates in strange idioms
• Judicial official of an incomprehensible law
• Gone-native human transplant with full authority over human traders

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

Amoral far trader selling the aliens tech dangerous to humans

Alien renegade seeking offworld goods for its plots

Alien trader trying to sell local artifacts forbidden from export

Alien selling goods that are actually very dangerous

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

The locals suddenly become very dangerous due to alien ritual behavior or biological impulses

Aliens suddenly demand a particular good to continue trading

Aliens become enraged over inexplicable slight

Alien rebels start fighting for control of human trade

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

Alien religious artifacts

Exotic alien tech

Alien slave caste

Precious biological extract from dead aliens

Things:
^{What regulations might complicate things}

Humans are restricted to trade zones

Traders are required to give passage to members of a non-starfaring species

Traders must prove themselves honorary members of the species

Offworld trade is always prefaced by harsh ritual

Tags: Alien, Lopop, Politics, Trade