Actually, it does make some interesting Role Playing possibilities, like the rivarly between the crews of INS Spinward Gazelle and INS Corridor Gazelle in the Trojan Reaches as to which crew and ship best embody the "TRUE" spirit of Gazelle. Also, think of this possibility. Imp Captain Juli Yuroshii...

In my personal use, I always precede the ship name with the sector name or shortened identifier for e.g. for gazelle commissioned in the Spinward Marches would INS Spinward Gazelle. The reason for this is due to the size of the Imperium, nobody can have an accurate list of unique ship names that wou...

If anything, it might start an interesting game of "Does or Did George RR Martin play Traveller"

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While not directly Traveller related I saw this on the Syfy News website, and thought this might be something Traveller fans might like.(Have not picked it up myself yet though), Looks lite it Would be a fun read or even perhaps provide a home brew setting for a Traveller universe. https://www.syfy....

Australia Australia - NSW - Sydney - krontekag Australia - NSW - Captains Flat - MancerBear Australia - SA - Adelaide - Imeanunoharm Australia - VIC - Melbourne - Melbourne Accords Australia - QLD - Brisbane - flyamanito Australia - QLD - Townsville - Ronnke Australia - NSW - Queanbeyan - Captains F...

Some example of party roles for above scenario.. Nanny/Governess(citizen)loves the child as if she was her own.. Huscarles Master Sergeant(Grizzled Former imperial marine) loving boyfriend of Nanny Tutor(Academic) Family Personal Pilot(Former hotshot navy pilot)..Sig. Other of Tutor Devoted Family B...

If you say that proscribing(legalized killing of family members) child nobles is a little gruesome for your game..consider this role playing adventure possibility.. Your party is the made up of surviving family retainers/servants,devoted bodyguards and huscarles :cry: , who are determined that the E...

While in general, baring an unusually vindictive justice system, I would say no in an ordinary criminal sense. HOWEVER, the third imperium is feudal, with feuding houses from the Imperial family on down. Feudal house systems have a nasty historical precedent of "don't leave defeated house members(in...

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Actually demanding insurance is pretty much a standard practice of secured lenders. They want the money,even if the property is destroyed. Try getting a home loan,if you tell the bank, that 1. You don't want insurance(they will assume that you mean that you will skip on the loan if the property is d...

Its "Speed 2" <looking around> where's Sandra Bullock????

You know in lot of ways... I always preferred the B5 jumpspace to the traveller one. It was red and gaseous. you jumped in, and then navigation was treacherous, stay on the shipping lane mapped with beacons or risk becoming lost. The jump space had terrain, the suns in normal space tended to be vort...

Another factor on the Vargr fleet. The Imperial navy officers realize that if this bunch turns corsair.. they are going to try to treat their Imperial refuge as their corsair base and its going to be one of the largest in history.. And they are pissed big time and want their payback revenge.. The sm...

I posted about this in comment in traveller facebook page.. but I decided that this a great enough plot idea to post it here From Real History In `1920 at the end of the The Russian Civil War.. Imperial Russian Admiral Wrangel led the defeated White Imperial Black Sea fleet from Crimea carrying his ...

One thing I am happy about StarFinder...Next Month(sept).. the miniatures are scheduled to rollout.. Call me old fashioned but I believe that miniatures of adventurers holding laser pistols, blasters and other scifi rifles etc that go whoosh.... buzz... boom etc and the multi-tentacled bug alien of ...

In case some did'not know this..starfire 2nd and 3rd edition were largely designed by David Weber of the honor verse and safehold novels fame. He wrote a series of starfire novels that are available on amazon that are pretty good space opera..even if you are not Interested in the game aspects of thi...

Why my only personal contact with Loren was a few minutes at a GDW booth in the 80's, and email and traveller mailing list posts and other internet forums etc, I always found Loren to be extremely helpful, pleasant and often extremely funny and witty in some of his posts. He was terribly important i...

The I.T. website, "The Register", runs the occasional Royal Navy story. http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=royal+navy&advanced=1&author=&date=the+dawn+of+time&site=0&results_per_page=20 Hey, bringing back the Swordfish would save the RN a TON of money over the F-35's. And let's be honest, if biplan...

Custer can be termed ambitious and over enthusiastic, especially during the War of Northern Aggression, but he may be more guilty of operating on false assumptions when he stuck his neck into the hornet's nest of Little Bighorn, and a need to prevent the escape of the gathered tribes, of which he s...