Hey Guys.

So a week ago I've decided to run the ICE STATION ZULU module from the d20 radio website. It was a halloween idea that most of the group wanted :-)

However, things got a bit out of hand at the very end of it : [ SPOILER BELOW FOR ICE STATION ZULU ]

My group finished the module, cleaned the station of loot and was en route back to the employer with the virus. However, they took imperial POW's from the station and decided to leave them at the first planet that they could. That's where things got out of hand.

Two members of the group ( medical droid and sith wannabe ) decided it would be OK to infect one of the imperial soldiers and then leave all of them at some remote planet( behind the backs of the rest of the group ). The groups medical droid rolled some hard test with setbacks given the lack of proper facilities and succeeded with infecting the soldier. Long story short the morally good side of the group found out and they had a solid argument about the future of the group.

I've decided to stop the sure as hell escalation and halted the adventure for a out of character discussion. During that time the droid's PC agreed that his actions were ...rather spontaneous and hardly justified. They kinda made up and agreed to be more transparent about certain actions etc.

BUT the virus has been released. I didn't describe yet what planet it was or what consequences transpired as that was when we decided to have a OOC chat.

Any ideas how to follow this up? Both with my characters who seem to ship towards a major group conflict : one sith wannabe, one jedi wannabe, one psychopathic droid and a rather neutral bounty hunter.

Also what to do with that virus situation. Another Rakghoul pandemic ?

Art

Make it a populated planet, but not too large.

Say, maby a colony-ish planet with a main city the size of whatever that city is called in Rebels.

And then let the players hear of the empire basically bombarding the entire planet to dust from orbit due to a Virus outbreak released by the Rebels (according to the news anyway).
And then put an inquisitor or something on their tail, since that's not exactly the kind of stuff you can do and get away with.

Yes I think the obvious route is to place a small little colony of very likable people on the planet. Then the PCs here about a plague at the colony via GalacticNews. Sets up a future adventure of the PCs rescuing the colony, ending the virus, etc with a very moral lesson to be learned.

That's some really good hints lads. I still need to somehow tackle the conflict in the group. But I really like what Oddballe8 suggested.