Making a fun sci-fi setting

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Originally Posted by Anthony

In SF, that medium sized town is 10-100x larger (with correspondingly larger resources) and requesting help from higher up may only be a matter of days. You can do things to constrain available assistance, but that tends to make it seem like you aren't doing anything all that important.

OP's setting is already accommodating that, slow courier ships - so the PCs might just be the only help available for months or years. Frontier worlds so PCs might also be the 'highest tech' around, or if not, they're likely on par with the "big guns" that can be called in from large cities/towns.


The OP's setting feels like an expansive Firefly setting, but with more worlds spaced farther apart.