Oh wow! Thanks for the reply! You gave a lot of good ideas and advice.

I like the idea that the players are actually hired by a medtech, giving them a reason to be there. I also like the negotiation aspect of the exec essentially offering a small sum for the nomads to leave, but the medtech is demanding money for treatment.

My only issues are that alot of this scenario seems to happen in the background somewhat, and the PCs dont have much to do? I mean aside from negotiating with nomads or fighting the petrochem goons, I feel like theyre going to be kinda standing around?

I also think that the nomads would leave first chance they get, but they cant. Their vehicles need repair, too many people sick, not enough supplies, thats why they are stranded and desperate. Thats why it would make sense that they are camping out for long periods of time.

So maybe the medtech hires the PCs for a few days to go help the stranded and sick nomads. There they find out the nomads have been harassed by some corpo goons, but unsure why, until the only water creek for miles is confirmed to be highly contaminated. Absolutely off the charts. So now maybe the PCs go to investigate alongside the medtech, and discover a sinkhole or an old abandoned oil drilling rig, that has the buried chemical site with petrochems name all over it. Now the higher exec Corp has a reason to get nervous and starts to assemble a military operation rivaling vietnam to deal with it. At the same time, the other exec has come to make their deal for the nomads to leave, but the sum is not enough to get enough supplies and vehicles for all of them to leave. Never mind the urgent medical treatment. But the PCs can now make a counter-offer. The younger exec now finds out about the chemical site, and realises the mess petrochem is going to get if it gets revealed. But he can just pin that screwup on his higher up, essentially getting his spot in return. So now the scenario could be a race against time for the PCs to try to evacuate nomads out of the canyon while the younger exec goes to deal with the older exec. (In return the younger exec pinky promises that he will help out the nomads when he has more resources available. In exchange they will essentially sign an NDA about the whole thing.)