Savage Spelljammer: Hostile Takeover

The void has always whispered, but lately it screams.

Across the Astral Sea, spider‑silk trade routes have begun appearing overnight—perfect geometric patterns stretching between worlds like predatory webs. At first, they were dismissed as strange planar phenomena. Then ships started vanishing. Then cities.

Now the truth has crawled out of the darkness.

Lloth has grown tired of the limits of the Demonweb Pits. She has found a way to scale her domain—an interstellar expansion strategy powered by a new breed of shock troops: the Void Forged, adapted demonic living constructs (and their shanghaied prisoners) who have been engineered for planetary acquisition. They strike from living spider‑frigates, seize key infrastructure, and “assimilate” populations with ruthless efficiency. Every world is a potential asset. Every civilization is a target for conversion—woe to those who stand in her way.

Your crew receives a distress call from a priestess of a dying world wrapped in infernal silk. The message is short, panicked, and very clear:

“They’re not invading. They’re acquiring.”

Now the question becomes:
Will you stop her Hostile Takeover…
Or become part of Lloth’s growing portfolio?