[quote=@Fancy Party]It would be somewhere in between. Its common to find their corpses, the shells of their bodies left behind, but to meet a living one is fairly uncommon, but not to the point anyone should be overly excited to meet one. They're more common in some parts of the galaxy than others, particularly they're more commonly found around oceanic planets.[/quote]

Got it! I'm quietly working on populating this potential party with various peoples, may have to throw in some kind of super-excitable marine biologist. 

[quote=@Fancy Party]Time travel accident sounds like fun, what did you have in mind for that? Or should I come up with something?[/quote]

Come up with something new, or build on something I've said, or field suggestions from the rest of the players, or pick up the nearest book, skip to page one hundred and twenty one and take your inspiration from that.

On the time travel front, it's the Holy Grail of Mad Scientists. Accidents are more common than successes. There are people who claim to be from the future, travelling back to the past with dire warnings about various calamities or simply hoping for a chance to beat up their childhood bully (a nod to [@TwelveOf8], and an idea to be thrown into what is tentatively being called The Backstory Arc). There are people claiming to be time-travellers who are in the business of stopping [i]other[/i] time-travellers from causing some future calamity in their attempt to stave off another. Accidents arising from time travel involve being sent back to the wrong time, the wrong place, appearing in the wrong body, spontaneous combustion, destroying entire dimensions, summoning weird creatures from outside time and space that call themselves "[I]Paradox[/i]" and waking up to find your family tree looks more like an ouroboros than something nice, like a pine or an oak or something. Most Mad Scientists involved in this dangerous field opt to send [i]other[/i] people forwards and backwards in time, because even Mad Scientists have some sense of self-preservation and think twice before stepping into a "time machine" made in their basement from parts they'd ordered off SpaceNet.

Even if time travel is successful, few people would believe such a claim. It doesn't help that most who claim to have done so have wild hair, crazy looking eyes, refer to themselves in the third person and generally insist on shouting about the "end of time".