The build up portion that we have at the moment isn't entirely random and there is actually a job planned for our time on Persephone. I've been planning it with Aiden. I'm basically just waiting until we have the crew sorted out, but there are other things happening in the game as well and you've got the town to explore if you want to. To some extent I plan and to some extent I play things by ear.<br/><br/>I tend to view this as the getting to know each other phase, so I think it has a major place in the story, not just the recruitment of the crew. If you want to keep Santiago out of the story until they're back on the station we can do that, but I don't know how long that will be. I'm guessing more than 3 weeks of roleplay time for certain. The way I run games, they tend to be focused on characterisation and exploration and not just on the job, so just to give you a head's up to my approach. I've run Firefly and other games before, but I'm also a GM who once had a single night in-game take place over a 2 year period because that much happened. I don't see that as being the case here.<br/><br/>With regard to the other thread, at the moment I am the only GM. With the thread idea that you have, would you want to GM?<br/>