Cinematic Starship Scenes

Blasting off into space requires a starship, and traveling space can be both dangerous and full of exciting encounters. Cinematic starship scenes thrust the PCs right into the action, setting up chases, bombastic skirmishes, dramatic dogfights, boarding an enemy ship, and more. Cinematic starship scenes occur in encounter mode and require the PCs to work together onboard a starship by taking on different roles. Starship scenes often involve combat between two or more starships, but they might present a unique challenge like a high-speed chase against enemy starships through an asteroid field, or a scientific mission to scan a planet before a black hole consumes it. Cinematic starship scenes often incorporate magic, such as a friendly race with spectra in the Drift. Cinematic starship scenes are similar to a complex hazard but are presented as a new type of stat block that also includes details for the PCs' starship, threats (including enemy starships, dangerous creatures, hazardous terrain, gravity wells, and more), and victory conditions for the encounter.