top 10 plot generators

[spank]

The PCs are hired to transport a 10 dTon box.
The PCs encouter a battle damaged Far Trader
2 Megacorperations are at war
An Alien artifact is discovered
A man passes the PCs a briefcase
A suspicious man buys a passage
All of world travel is suspended
The PCs must escort a VIP
The PCs a caught in a firefight
The PCs are mistaken for someone else

 

[Golan2072]

The PCs are offered a Merc Ticket
The PCs' ship misjumps
Someone tries to hijack the PCs' ship
A local civil war errupts
The PCs crash-land on an uncharted world
All communications cease from a remote facility
The PCs are caught in a bar-brawl
An offworld power invades!
A bank repo man comes after the PCs' ship
A crater now exists where a busy starport should have been...
The PCs encounter an old escape pos with a lone crewmemeber in low-sleep

 

[Plankowner]

The PCs pick up a distress signal from a nearby ship.

The PCs witness a kidnapping.

The PCs are caught in a riot/protest.

The PCs meet a patron in a bar who offers them "the deal of a lifetime".

The PCs wake up after a night on the town in chains with no memory of how they got there or where exactly they are.

The PCs ship experiences an electrical/mechanical breakdown while in deep space/hyperspace.

The cargo the PCs are carrying is "not exactly" what the manifest says it is.

A running gunbattle outside the PCs ship ends when one of the parties enters their ship and begs for help/protection from the "bad guys".

The PCs are the only witnesses to a crime.

The PCs wake up in a sickbay/hospital with no memories at all.