A Community Apart

Flight of the Nostos: A Community Apart
As the Nostos nears planetfall, the demand for supplies and equipment increases. On a generational ship in space, the balance of consuming and recycling must be maintained. New innovative designs for some common equipment cause a surge in manufacture. The order queue is growing and the raw materials required to meet the demand have dwindled and are dangerously low. Investigating the lack of materials leads to a new discovery: An entire community of people are living off the grid on the Nostos! Building lives for themselves by salvaging scrap and refuse from the recyclers. Who are these people? How many are there? Where did all the raw materials go. If they do not answer these questions soon, production on the Nostos will grind to a halt.