Random encounter (d80)

1

Asteroid field

Lage field of mixed density asteroids

2

Black hole

A black hole, stay way, or try to stay

3

Black Ship

Psykers beware.

4

Rogue Trader

A rogue trader ship appears.

5

Imperial Warship

Raider

6

Imperial Warship

Raider

7

Imperial Warship

Frigate

8

Imperial Warship

Light cruiser

9

Imperial Warship

 Heavy Cruiser

10

Inquisition

Inquisition frigate

11

Cruise ship

Luxury cruise ship with escort

12

Passenger Ship

Low standard, cramped passenger ship for the masses

13

Medium-Class Passenger Ship

A passenger ship with humane accommodations

14

Repair Ship

A repair ship with dry docks

15

Rebel Ship

Light raider ship belonging to human rebels

16

Rebel Ship

Frigate belonging to human rebels

17

Space Marines

A small raider filled with chapter-associated Space Marines on its way to deliver the Emperor's wrath

18

Space Marines

A light cruiser filled with chapter-associated Space Marines on its way to deliver the Emperor's wrath

19

Abandoned Ship

Due to unknown reasons, the crew has abandoned the ship, which now floats silently through space

20

Adeptus Mechanicus Ship

A Secutor light cruiser from the Adeptus Mechanicus hails the ship.

21

Half-a-Planet

A planet, ruggedly cut in half, spins around its own broken axis

22

Mechanical Iron Moon

Miles and miles of cranes, ports, and towers form the halo of this huge spherical factory in space.

23

Possessed Ship

A drifting mid-sized cargo ship filled with the unholy ghosts of its former crew.

24

Fire Ship

A burning ship in full blaze is locked onto your ship and is coming in at full speed

25

Burning Gas Cloud

A huge quadrant of burning gas, disrupting equipment onboard

26

Space Daemon

A huge floating space daemon crosses the ship's path.

27

Mutating Radiation Cloud

An alluring cloud with mutating effects on those with poor resistance

28

Corrupting Radiation Particles

A cloud of corrupting particles. Sensitive individuals become more susceptible to Chaos influence

29

Hijacked Prison Ship

Original guard crew murdered, now pretending to be regular crew

30

Imperial Diplomatic Ship

A diplomatic ship carrying high-ranking Imperial officials with a light escort

31

Drifting Compartment

A drifting random ship compartment. A sealed part of a ship drifting, such as a dock, loading bay, engine compartment, or similar.

32

Dead Floating City

A powerless city floats in space, its inhabitants missing or dead

33

Electromagnetic Storm

A massive blistering storm of electrical discharges. It disrupts equipment from a distance and causes electronics to go haywire in close proximity

34

Draining Field

A dark area that drains power from ships

35

Energy-Draining

An invisible field that drains biological lifeforms of energy the closer they get

36

Factory Asteroid

A manufacturing facility located on an asteroid

37

Research Station

A suspicious-looking research station with no open radio channel

38

Prison Colony

A small moon-based prison colony where the inhabitants mine minerals and gas under miserable circumstances

39

Prison Transport

A high-risk-level prison transport with technical problems

40

Bombship

A drifting ship with hailing communications that is, in fact, a bomb. The culprits are observing from a safe distance, ready to trigger the explosion

41

Small Merchant Ship

A smaller merchant ship crosses your path, filled with smaller, higher-value goods

42

Large Merchant Ship

A frigate or light-cruiser-sized merchant ship crosses your path, filled with large quantities of low-value goods

43

Trade Station

 A rugged trade station offering second-hand spare parts and diluted fuel.

44

Reconnaissance Ship

An Imperial reconnaissance ship searching for a high-value target.

45

Cartographer Ship

Space needs to be explored, apparently sometimes by hand.

46

Frozen Blood

A massive field of crystallized, frozen human blood

47

Plague Station

A disease-riddled station filled with sick and dying people.

48

Hysteria

An incoming transmission from a transport ship proclaiming their need for witnesses to their sacrifice for the Emperor by mass-ventilating themselves into space.

49

Imperial Armada

Crossing paths with a full-blown Imperial armada on a crusade. The admiral is not a stranger to spontaneous recruitment unless convinced otherwise.

50

Ice Debris

A large field of mixed-sized chunks of ice.

51

Tyranid "Ship"

A large octopus-like creature with long tentacles carrying a swarm of Tyranids through space.

52

Floating Bodies

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of twisted and frozen human bodies drift in a massive cluster through space.

53

Silence

 A cloud, hidden from sensors, causes all sounds to disappear. Not even the faintest noise can be heard aboard the ship

54

Magnetic Stones

A swarm of magnetic stones rushes toward the ship, attempting to lodge themselves onto the metal hull.

55

Explosive Gas

Stretched-out fields of highly explosive space gases approach the ship.

56

Explosive Gas

Stretched-out fields of highly explosive space gases approach the ship.

57

Old Minefield

An old, unmapped minefield. Big, dark containers with pressure points lie in silent wait.

58

Mineral Field

A vast field of crystallized minerals, with floating chunks of mixed sizes

59

Chaos Energy

A reaching cloud of strobing Chaos energy. It infects emotions and thoughts of those onboard, affecting anyone struck by it

60

Cruise Ship

A luxurious cruise ship carrying only the wealthiest and most gluttonous of the aristocracy, guarded by a small escort.

61

Space Parasites

Metal-eating parasites cling to the hull and feast on the metal.

62

Colliding Planets

The ship witnesses the cinematic event of two planets colliding. They were probably uninhabited.

63

Mail Ship

An Imperial raider-sized ship carrying mail and scrolls hails the ship.

64

Bounty Ships

A small fleet of rugged bounty hunters hails the ship.

65

Fuel Station

A lonely fuel station on a small rock, providing reasonable volumes of the standard types of fuel.

66

Pleasure Station

A space station dedicated to gambling, brothels, drugs, and all kinds of sin imaginable.

67

Radiation Zone

A vast area of increasing high radioactivity.

68

Beacon

A lonely, sorrowful beacon in the void is signaling the direction.

69

Debris Field

A large field of what was once the site of a great battle, now a hazard for anyone entering.

70

Space-Whale

A semi-intelligent creature of absurd proportions calmly "swims" through the vastness of space.

71

Space Battle

The ship becomes a surprised witness to an epic space battle between unknown fleets.

72

Satellite

An unknown satellite, off course, is drifting through space.

73

Ship Graveyard

The place where ships come to die. Endless stretches of stripped ship carcasses staring back

74

Space Hulk

 A massive, ancient spacecraft imbued with wrecked ships and debris accumulated over time.

75

Stranded

Stranded - A mid-sized ship sits stranded on a meteor, with flickering lights and garbled radio signals

76

Infested Ship

A mid-sized troop transport ship, clearly Tyranid-infested. The hull is spotted with carapace-covered creatures, and tentacles reach out from holes in the ship

77

Seductive Calling

Alluring voices call from the dark space, "Open the hatch."

78

Warp Portal

A pulsating rift in space with eye-gouging horrors glimpsed behind the light. Something begins to protrude from the opening

79

Warp Portal

A pulsating rift in space with eye-gouging horrors glimpsed behind the light. Something huge slithers back into the rift

80

Refugees

A small fleet of mixed ships containing fleeing civilians.