And then the Referee does one of three, er, six things:

1. Everyone climbs into the low berths and waits for the distress call
to travel some multiple of 3.26 light years to the nearest world capable
of mounting a rescue;

2. Everyone rolls up new characters;

3. By incredible good fortune, there's an icy body close by for refueling;

4. By incredible coincidence, there's an alien derelict close by that
looks a lot like... *flip flip flip* /this/ illustration;

5. As #3 and #4, and the strange passenger they took aboard at their
last stop somehow arranged all of this;

<strike>3. "That didn't happen, because I don't feel like ending my
entire campaign because of one bad die roll."</strike>6. The referee
should determine the flow of subsequent events.

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Kelly St. Clair
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