I am new to GMing and have found myself in a position where the person I typically bounce ideas off of is a player in my Eclipse Phase campaign, so I come to you, internet, hoping that you will both poke holes in my plans and inspire me. So far (and the PCs don't know all of this): During their first session I sent my two, non-Firewall, PCs to check out a salvage ship that had been investigating a large piece of space-junk (a suspected abandoned habitat or ship) in the main belt. The Tick (the salvage ship) had actually stumbled on a seemingly-inactive TITAN station of some sort and upon attempting to tap into the station (they're not a terribly smart salvage crew) became infected with a new variation of the X virus. This new variation makes humans want to be near and infect other humans. This effect can be subtle when the goal is being accomplished and less subtle when the infected feel isolated. By the time the PCs got there the crew was exhibiting less subtle behavioral issues. The infected crew was overjoyed to the point of euphoria to have new people on board and at times tried to puncture the vacuum sealing of the PCs in order to infect them. After sealing themselves away from the crew and retrieving a small white sphere (this was part of the mission laid out by a business associate of one of the PCs) by putting it in a quarantine-box the PCs escaped back to Extropia. On the way back a PC sent a unshielded message back to the flight-control center that high level quarantine procedures should be enacted against The Tick. After they arrived back on Extropia and were thoroughly decontaminated they received an anonymous encrypted message telling them to bring the white sphere to a part of the habitat undergoing construction and that the fate of all of transhumanity depended on their compliance. What I'm planning now: I plan to recruit them into Firewall. Assuming that they don't come on-board for philosophical reasons I have personal hooks lined up for each of them. I am running Firewall with a cell structure and trying to walk a thin line where my PCs can investigate really important things without Firewall nuking Extropia. VIto Research and Utility Systems (VIRUS), a wanna-be hypercorp received the message to flight control as well (they actively monitor such things) and immediately deployed a drone to collect a tissue sample from an infected crew-member. When Firewall gets a burn crew (can't remember the proper name for these) to destroy the Tick and the TITAN station they find that Captain Jackson (who is the only one of the crew in a synth-morph), the captain of The Tick mysteriously blasted a final communication of unknown contents into open space with no known receiver endopoint, vented The Tick killing all crew, cut out their cortical stacks, improvised a crude un-steerable personal-propulsion system, and took off from the Tick for a Pandora gate (essentially jumping into open space). Long-term plans: -The TITAN station was a relay point for force-uploaded egos. -The sphere was a prototype for an ego-storing device. -The virus was designed for the spheres so that when enough of them are together (a critical mass being reached) they would all egocast into a single network of satellites orbiting an exoplanet. This is the climax of a TITAN experiment that involved aggregating human egos for an unknown purpose. The current effects of the virus were unforeseen as it was never tested on embodied humans. -The resulting aggregate being is insane and has found a way back onto Earth and has a goal of restoring Earth and rebooting the human race (destroying what's left of the current, defective humanity). ------------------------------------------ I would greatly appreciate any feedback I can get.