My group have returned to the AP after a long break. Thanks to Covid I actually found the time to prep this properly.
The PCs are:
Skofber a Skittermander Solarian who enjoys stellar rushing opponents with his mote shield.
Arutha, the male half-Orc pilot technomamcer and captain of the Electric Barbarella
Maneleus a male Lashunta Envoy with an unhealthy interest in xenobiology.
And Big Scale, a Kalo mystic with a shady past.
Originally there also was an android but the player dropped out and his place was taken by Skofber.
Before the re-start the original group had already dealt with the arrival and jungle fights, then did a side quest session in the mines when the android dropped out which was challenging enough for them to make it to lvl2 before starting to free Madelon's Landing.
Skofber actually is a resident of the colony but because my players had so little investment in the colony to start with I had to get creative. Arutha's backstory saw him escape from Apostae as a youngster and become the adopted son of a Han Solo type human called Darwen. I figured Darwen and Cedona got married and retired to the colony. Skofber is a friend of Darwen's. They were all on Nakondis when the Azlanti probe fell and subsequently discovered the Royal Venture with Cedona, something I originally planned to do as a prequel game as our Skittermander player had never dabbled in Starfinder. Sadly that game session never happened, so I had to get creative, wrote up what would have happened as a short story and used other bits as cut scenes to open game sessions with, which is working quite well.
