On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 3:48 AM Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson
at port.ac.uk (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> How about 'in orbit' not around a world or a system that's used but an empty one that, theoretically no one knows about?  Out in the Oort cloud?  This also helps with your need for a system that's NOT (apparently) used or useful but to which the PCs might have to go.  The logic (?) being that real estate in systems with any traffic where they might otherwise be 'buried' is often being discovered, explored, expanded into and so on.

The PC's mis-jump into a system with no planets.
They realize the only chance they've got is comets or the Oort cloud to refuel.
On the way there, they discover wreckage of a ship that attempted
comet-skimming... and failed catastrophically.
They pick up a very faint distress beacon at that point.