Space Academy Cadets
Players are cadets at a sci fi space academy, learning investigative skills, combat skills, starship crew positions, and whatever else they need to do their jobs. This is, in effect, an extended sequence of character creation ending in the characters prepared to adventure across the galaxy.
The question is: Who is training the characters? Who will they be work for? What are they being trained for?
Options:
1. Space Patrol. They work for the state, protecting the rights of innocent civilians from criminals, pirates, organized crime, and whatever else might pop up.
2. The Survey Corps. They explore the limits of known space, new worlds and civilization, filing reports, and the like.
3. Galactic Intelligence Service. You work for the elite espionage corps, infiltrating subversive organizations, both foreign and domestic, protecting the State and furthering its interests.
4. Corporate Troubleshooters. You've been trained by a multistellar corporation and will be employed solving problems for them, at their facilities across the galaxy.
5. A mercenary conglomerate. You'll be part of a large merc outfit, hiring out to whoever needs work done. Maybe frontier worlds need a few deputies until the new sheriff arrives, or a corporation needs some unruly miners scared off.
So, there you have it. Five options. If you're interested, respond with which options you find most appealing, in rough order of preference.
Other details: The game will be run in GURPS, with newbies welcome - the academy basically IS your character creation, with the courses you take deciding the bulk of your skills beyond what you managed to pick up before being sent there as an adolescent.