I was thinking about leading my players to a gala hosted by the prominent navigator families of the segmentum. There would be displays of macro wealth, strange sanctioned navigator mutations, and exotic artifacts from all around the imperium. The goal would be to have a more social oriented game this time (they've spent the last couple games in high combat situations), gain plot hooks for some endeavours and make some allies for the expansion of their dynasty.

Anyone have some ideas I could use?

Some quick random ideas:

* The PCs are approached by a navigator house that wants them to bring back a lost navigator from the Koronus Expanse. (Kidnapped by a rival house? Ran away to escape an arranged marriage? Caught by a warp-vortex and unable to escape from the middle of nowhere? Abandoned on a feral world and now ruling the locals as a mighty shaman-king?)

* The PCs are approached by a navigator house that wants them to get hold of an artifact (or even starship component) from the Koronus Expanse. (Maybe the ownership of the artifact isn't as clear-cut as the PCs are first led to believe? Maybe merely possessing the item is heresy? Maybe the item itself is not what it appears? )

* A navigator house has sabotaged a rival leader's cybernetic shutter implant. At some opportune (or inopportune, depending on your point of view) moment during the party his Eye will open, and chaos will ensue as nearby guests are exposed to the Lidless Stare. It could be an assassination attempt on some third party. Or an attempt to get the rival discredited, or even killed. Can the PCs figure out what happened? (Maybe the explorator can pick up a revealing fragment of binary from the implant's data-buffers? Maybe the seneschal noticed members of one particular house acting strangely before the incident?)

* The PCs are approached by a man representing young navigators from several different houses. They want to break away and start their own house, with the help of the PC rogue trader. The potential reward is great, but so is the risk. (Why are they doing this? Power? Freedom? Something more insidious? How will the established houses react?)