My wife ran a Serenity game some years back, which is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the Firefly universe. During one of our early jobs we had to deal with space slavers. Somehow this took a hard turn for the absurd into a running gag about an imaginary group of slavers that had created a company called Press Gangs, Inc. This joke and a bit of idle Photoshopping led to a whole line of marketing materials.
I don't know where all the original pictures came from. Many of them were gleaned from a site called All Things Beautiful.
The one that started it all.
One of the player characters who called Lilac her home planet implied in her backstory that her newborn daughter may have been kidnapped instead of dying in childbirth, so this one was delibarately close to home.
The story behind this last one is this was a photograph of something a previous renter had apparently painted on the wall of the assistant GM's apartment bathroom. He was a bit perplexed by this monstrosity in his bathroom, but the macro didn't make it better.
We came to speculate on how these illicit entrepreneurs would expand into other lines of business. This would of course start with hiring independent contractors:
It would expand into things that are a bit like turning a workforce into slaves:
And it would, of course, end in our delightful little business being acquired for an eye-popping amount of money by an even larger company:
Regina was a radioactive wasteland full of horrible mutants, but its PR department worked around the clock to attract new colonists to replace the ones who proved unsuited to Regina's, um, particular climate:
The player characters had an early run-in with the religious zealots of the planet Svarga. The captain was almost devoured by some Sultan's pet lions:
In a late-game plot, the player characters learned that Blue Sun was manufacturing Reaver-like super soldiers and then using nanotechnology to make them the unstoppable killing machines known in the Firefly series as Blue Hands. These things scared the hell out of us:
