We decided to play this on Friday night. I had the QuickStart from before but spent a couple of hours on Friday reading it.
There wasn't a simple intro available so I wrote something:
For Generations, you've been living aboard the Ship City. Tens of thousands of souls packed into this immense behemoth.
Light is provided by the mighty gas-giant Moubarra, largest satellite of the vast star Jumuah.
You belong to the Explorers Guild. One of several (including Navigators, Machinists, Gardeners, ...and the Coriolites). Technically there's also the Pilots, the Wreckers, the Mining Combine and the Prophets. Some might include the Black Toad, the criminal underbelly of the Ship City, as a guild.
Explorers are the newest of the Great Guilds, founded two generations ago by Master Moska to handle the excavations of the Ruins.
Ruins? Yes, the Jumuah system was part of another Civilisation, an advanced culture whose technology can barely be fathomed. We call them the Builders for want of a better name.
So, what of the Blight? We think it's a result of the advanced Builder tech, maybe even something they invented which turned on them and killed them.
And the Birds (Garuda). No idea. They're not living but they respond as if alive. They're a construct of some sort that appears to us like a birdlike emanation. But the reason we have them is that they oppose Blight, and they oppose it well.
And now, you're heading to Moubarra 4. A small moon with great ravines upon its surface. There's been an accident.