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by [[Bill Logan]]

[[File:OutpostRefinery.png|thumb|400px|right]]

The first map in the Locations article is a remote refinery
on a distant world. It can be used as-is, or
can be modified to be used as a cross-section of a
small town or unusual outpost. It consists of a few
main technical buildings and a several support buildings
and warehouses. Use it multiple times, having
the player’s characters approach from a different
angle.

Each hex on the Outpost Refinery map spans a distance
of 5 meters.

The Outpost Refinery might be found on a moon
where atmospheric conditions aren’t sufficient for a
colony, yet whose mineral resources are so prevalent
that they cannot be ignored.

This could be a dumping ground for broken technology.
In a Frontier where programs are hard wired
into circuitboards, troubleshooting often includes
swapping modular subroutine cards while searching
for a fault. When a facility gains a large number of
broken components, they might sell the parts for
scrap. The parts are then sent to a facility similar in
appearance to the Outpost Refinery map, where robotic
technicians spend all their time repairing parts
with parts from other... um... parts.

Or it could be an abandoned mining outpost on a
world where the residents suddenly disappeared –
and the characters are hired to figure out why. Perhaps
they dug deep and unearthed some horrific
creature or race of creatures that have devoured the
entire colony. Or perhaps they unleashed a vile
plague, a cancer, into the air that they have all
fallen victim to. Maybe it even evades the sensors
of the group’s environmentalist, and the characters
have been infected too, and have only a day to figure
out a cure before they too fall victim to its
deadly effects.

Or finally, this may be a military outpost (perhaps
even the very one located on the rock world of Histran
(Scree Fron, see Star Systems, this issue). The
roadways are where you might see personnel carriers
and equipment transports ferrying manpower
and technology from barrack to base and back. The
buildings might include munitions storage, technology
centers, research and development labs, and
strategy briefing rooms, not to mention all the bureaucratic
offices that such a military outpost seems
to generate.

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