Alien RPG: Firestart

Game Date: 10/12/2025
Location: Home Game
Campaign: Firestart, One Shot

System: Alien RPG (Free League Publishing)
DM: Matt

Main Characters:
Ruby Finch - Officer
Violet Finch - Pilot
Connor Greene - Marine
Derrick Cole - Roughneck

The Module: 
This is a module that I wrote, which can be downloaded here. It's loosely based on an old Commodore 64 game called Project Firestart. I've run it twice before, once with one player (in person) and once with two players (using Roll20). The first time it only took about an hour, and the second it took closer to six hours, so today's session could go either way.

The players control members "Finch Salvage," a small company that acquires the salvage rights to derelict spacecraft and sells off their finds. In this module, their services are hired to investigate a science vessel that's gone silent. Their mission involves retrieving the ship's data, searching for survivors, and setting she ship to self-destruct so its science projects won't be found by competitors.

The session went well. We had three players and four PCs, so only one had to double up. But by the end of the session, everyone was running two characters.

The party collected the data, then scanned for life forms. They rescued two survivors, Doctor Kyla Skye and Doctor Nathan Karat. They also rescued a lab ferret named Rudy. Over the course of the mission, they killed one xenomorph as well as an android.

All crew survived, though Derrick almost died twice. A lot of panic rolls were made, but none of them had any particularly bad outcomes. The session ran for a little over two hours, and a good time was had by all.