The Derelict Bright Star is a derelict modified Nebula class ship found adrift in a radom encounter.
Overview[]
The Derelict Bright Star was a civilian ship that was being covertly used by Aegis, the United Colonies' intelligence agency, to reconnoiter Freestar Collective military outposts and ship movements. While the ship was returning to UC space to deliver the intel it had collected, it encountered electromagnetic interference that caused a malfunction in its systems leading to excessive heat generation. The captain decided to ignore the problem and attempt to reach the UC rather than limp to the nearest settlement for repairs, an option that would have required deleting the intel for security reasons. This turned out to be a mistake. Long before the ship arrived at its destination, its crew began to die from the heat. The captain realized his mission was doomed to fail and wiped the intel before he, too, succumbed.
When the Spacefarer discovers and boards the Derelict Bright Star, the interior is compromised by an extreme heat hazard. Once spacesuit protection is depleted, there is a high chance of receiving a burn, and the Spacefarer's health will also constantly and rapidly decrease while they are exposed. The ship's logs can be read on several computers, but the main objective is to race through the overheated ship to acquire the key to the cockpit and raid the loot in the captain's locker before dying. Also, the captain's key opens the storage room next to the airlock, there are several boxes with loot in it. By wearing gear with high heat resistance, exploring the ship's interiors will be much easier.