[Skarg]

I think it can pretty easily be played with up to about 5 or 6 players, if you divide up the crew, who are already organized into groups of 4. The robot and mascot count as a group.

When I've been running it for newbies lately, I've played the Green Things, and had them alternate picking from those groups of 4. They did fine remembering who was playing whom, without writing anything down.

Their main goal is to cooperate and free the Znutar from aliens. Their secondary goal is to have the most survivors.

I ran two 3-player games this way with 2 newbies with no problems.