forum I have NO CONFLICT. (help please)

Started December 24, 2019 by @kat_i_am

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I need help creating more middle for my plot!
Here's a quick summary of what I have so far. I just need some fleshing out:
The year is like 7204 or smth crazy like that
Main character, Aeron, male, 17
Every 200 years a colony of humans leaves their planet and goes to find two new planets (they split in half)
Aeron is the son of the colony leader, the colleader (what do you think of this nickname?), and, two days after planetleave, the mothership carrying Aeron is hijacked by a ragtag group of pirates (5 in charge, then about 40 minor characters who will remain nameless, so crew of 50). The pirates kidnap Aeron, planning to hold him for ransom. But something separates the two ships and they're separated before the ransom can be paid

I need something to carry me through the middle of the book, but I'm aiming for 75k words.

I have ideas of scenes, but no major conflict other than aeron is kidnapped.

I have major themes, a subplot or two, but no conflict. Please just throw conflict ideas at me.

Maybe the ship the kidnappers take him on breaks down and gets stranded in space, or caught in lightspeed?

Ooh, stranded is very good

I'm also thinking Captain keeps threatening to kill her (I changed aeron to a girl because I can and that also makes it wlw which I would want to read more than mlm so whoo), but she's like nah, you won't kill me, you wanna ransom me
And half the crew is like can we keep her actually she's fun so they're trying to convince her to be a pirate too

Oooh yes wlw sci-fi is vastly underrepresented!