Five Parsecs: Every Star an Opportunity: World Building

At the moment I am in the middle of rebooting, so to speak, my long term solo campaign of Five Parsecs. 

Part of that reboot has been to use Every Star an Opportunity to create the 3 or so planets that feature in the games. Every Star, is a Nordic Weasel supplement to Five Parsecs from Home and basically gives players the bear bones of planetary information. It is definately a place to start from, but does raise ideas and questions which help to create a world.

I think it is typical of Ivan Sorensen's work in Five Parsecs in that it gives players loads of options through tables and charts to create a flavour of a world. I view it as a strength of its design although as the author states its all up to the player/DM, its all optional, use what you like.

Anyway here are three planets that I used without much thought previously, but which now I can see so much more potential in. I also see these as the beginning of the development of each planet, not the complete item.

Five Parsecs: Planet Information
World Name: Horst-5e
Type	Varied- wide temp & climate
Atmosphere	Beneficial
Population	Heavily
Biosphere	Moderate
Terra Forming	Runaway chain reaction
Social Model	Disinterested Democracy
Problem 1	Political terrorists
Problem 2	Criminal cartels
Exports	Mercenaries- linked with nomad  terrorists
Local Society
Faction 1	Popular movement
Faction 2	Nomads
NPC’s
Individual 1	Political leader
Individual 2	Alien diplomat
Individual 3	Pirate
Individual 4	Cultist

Five Parsecs: Planet Information
World Name: Dubhe-c
Type	Varied- wide temp & climate
Atmosphere	None existent
Population	Single outpost
Biosphere	Uncontrollable
Terra Forming	Natural state
Social Model	Disinterested Democracy
Problem 1	Unstable economy
Problem 2	Loss of export license
Exports	Raw resources
Local Society
Faction 1	Charismatic leader & followers (st1)
Faction 2	Popular movement (st3)
NPC’s
Individual 1	Zealot leader
Individual 2	Crook
Individual 3
Individual 4

Five Parsecs: Planet Information
World Name: Sarin 4
Type	Frozen
Atmosphere	Beneficial
Population	Single large city
Biosphere	Moderate
Terra Forming	Natural state
Social Model	Bureaucratic Democracy
Problem 1	Loss of export resource
Problem 2	Mutant gangs
Exports	Manufactured products
Local Society
Faction 1	Charismatic leader & followers (st3)
Faction 2	Mining (st6)
NPC’s
Individual 1	Bureaucrat –Oskar Unoleg
Individual 2	Merchant
Individual 3	Plade- punk gang
Individual 4

Here are a couple of pictures of how the actual sheets look. With these being physical copies i can add notes to them and then update the digital versions.

The recording sheets I have used here are of my own design and in no way are endorsed by Nordic Weasel Games.