Liquidation. An Alien Capture Mission for Mothership.

Into the Lab

Pharmaceutical startup Dionyx has recently become insolvent after failing to fulfill a contract with stimpak manufacturer PMESD. Potamo Major is hiring a freelance team to infiltrate the recently abandoned Dionyx Lab Complex and acquire a xenobiological asset before it is repossessed by debt collectors.

Search the lab, find the alien, bring it in alive.

What's Inside

• 20 locations in the Dionyx Lab Complex, split into four sectors that are routed together by a shuttle system.
• Codename: Maenad-C13, the aquatic and ravenous xenobiological asset your crew is sent to capture.
• Mellow No. 108, the proprietary stimpak created from the intoxicant venom of Maenad-C13 and currently flooding the complex.
• A crew of Sardine Heads from the Flying Fish Syndicate, staked out and protecting their claim to Mellow No. 108. Potential enemies if the crew takes the wrong steps.
• Loan loadouts specialized for the job. Supplied by Potamo Major at the start of the mission.
• The secrets of what happened to the Dionyx Lab Complex and multiple connections to other Mothership zines published by Spicy Tuna.
• 16 page mission running in 3-8 hours.

Get the In-World Item Pack including two 2x4" plastic personnel cards. The first for Potamo Major, one of the largest outsourcing mercenary camps in the Tunaverse and the employer for the mission. The second for the Flying Fish Syndicate, a weapons and stimpak selling inter-station gang that provides the rival party for the mission. 

Plus get a 3x3" Medusa Patch worn by one of the Flying Fish Syndicate crewmembers and all Stretch Goals!

PLEASE NOTE: ALL STRETCH GOALS WILL BE ADDED TO THE IN-WORLD PACK, and BACKERS WHO DO NOT PURCHASE THE IN-WORLD PACK WILL NOT RECEIVE STRETCH GOALS.

Stretch Goals

Tunaverse

Make it a campaign with our interconnected zines and hardcovers. Liquidation, like every other Mothership module we publish, is written as a stand alone adventure while including prominent and subtle threads to at least one other book in a catalog. 

Liquidation specifically runs as a one or two shot mission by itself, but easily connects into a campaign with The Hands That Feed and Outsourced. Both of those hardcovers tie directly into Carved Like a Covenant and Broadcasting Violence, and Outsourced is also heavily intertwined with Constant Downpour. The idea is to keep the campaign as modular as you need so you can react to player choices while keeping the world they play in feel alive and breathing with far reaching corporations, organizations, and figures that wring throughout populated space.

We've made pledge levels easy to catch up on our backlog to your liking.

Carved Like a Covenant: A race to extract the Holy Summit Tablets, a powerful xenotech artifact, while surviving a lethal rival party from the Steel Order and an even deadlier horror hunting amongst the ruins. 16 pages, plays in 3-8 hours.

Broadcasting Violence!: An investigative pressure cooker turned slasher survival horror mission with a healthy dose of blood splatter and a pinch of absurdity. 16 pages, plays in 3-8 hours.

The Hands That Feed: The heart of the Tunaverse, The Hands That Feed packs 5 missions, a 4 station large sandbox, and 8 wriggling megacorporations in a 176-page modular campaign hardcover.

Outsourced: The Luko Fin Corp Deception is a modular survival thriller campaign packed with intrigue, discovery, and a healthy combination of corporate and space horrors. 104 pages includes a solo-friendly bunker escape mission, and two death planet toolkits that generate missions with three unique space horrors.

Constant Downpour Remastered: Constant Downpour Remastered is a survival hex-crawl where players traverse through a near-hopeless environment that slowly whittles away their sanity. 104 page campaign attempting to survive the deadly Venus 3. Inspired by Ray Bradbury's The Long Rain.

Team

D G Chapman [Writing] D G Chapman is the celebrated writer of The Haunting on Ypsilon 14 and Piece by Piece, and a contributing writer of Another Bug Hunt. D G has writing credits with Tuesday Knight Games, World Champ Game Co, among others and alongside his own publishings. His writings can be found on his blog, The Graverobber’s Guide.

Chris Airiau [Editing] Chris has published and written for over 20 Mothership RPG publications, and worked on more than 10 other Panic Engine projects, such as Cloud Empress, Milk Bar, and his own 5 Million Worlds RPG. He also hosts Ansible Uplink, a sci-fi module review podcast. Editing credits include: Devil's Due, Johnson Squared, Straight Arrows, and more.

Marco Serrano [Design, Illustration] Marco operates Spicy Tuna RPG and has the pleasure of managing this project. Marco's latest writings and design work include The Hands That Feed, Blackthorn, Breathe Easy among others. You can stay up to date with his and Spicy Tuna's releases at theguac.substack.com.

The same team that brought you Breathe Easy and Carved Like a Covenant!

Fulfilment

PLEASE NOTE: SHIPPING WILL BE COLLECTED AT A LATER DATE THROUGH BACKERKIT, and it is not included in your pledge.

PLEASE NOTE: VAT and customs are not covered in our shipping collections.

PLEASE NOTE: The list of countries we cannot ship to is below.

Spicy Tuna RPG works with Space Penguin Ink for all of our physical fulfillment and a trusted staple for shipping TTRPGs. We expect similar smoothness for this campaign as we've had in the past. Digital files will be shared via DrivethruRPG and Backerkit.

Files are near ready for print. They need a final layout pass and two art pieces. But we are funding the print run with the Kickstarter and must wait for the funds to clear. We have built in 45 days of extra time into our fulfillment schedule to best avoid being late on delivery due to potential delay of deliverables, disruptions to contributor lives, and or a holdup on fulfilment.

Physical rewards are estimated to be delivered in December 2026. PDF rewards will go out in October 2026.

Due to shipping limitations and challenges, we cannot ship to the following countries: 
All countries in the European Union, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Republic of Guinea (Conakry), Guinea- Bissau, Haiti, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine (Crimea/Sebastopol) and Zimbabwe.

SHIPPING ESTIMATES

First price represents all orders without hardcovers. The second includes hardcovers.

• US:  $10  |  $12
• UK:  $33  |  $35
• EU: Unavailable
• CANADA/MEXICO:  $28  |  $30
• ROW: ~$34-$44