I still don't understand the problem.

Canon tells us Mora was settled by LSP in 60 and not that much else.

We also know that Mora remains the sector capital and still a hugely important world a millennium later.

Ergo there must have been a jolly good reason it was settled in the first place.

The GURPS Sword Worlds book has a good campaign outline for an exploration and colonisation project which could be easily drawn on for an easier milieu. And the spirit of Traveller when faced with something that looks implausible is to make something up. Why settle Mora? Maybe it had a vital and rar...

If you look at the SF material that inspired Traveller colonisation tended to be driven by private enterprise - traders forging new trade routes, idealists and heretics refugees seeking new worlds to settle etc. and Only when something worth absorbing has been established do empire's move in. So Mor...

If you look at the SF material that inspired Traveller colonisation tended to be driven by private enterprise - traders forging new trade routes, idealists and heretics refugees seeking new worlds to settle etc. and Only when something worth absorbing has been established do empire's move in. So Mor...

He doesn't really need to be an Admiral - the Trojan Reach is a small ship setting where a small flotilla of close escorts can be a significant force. So quite a junior officer if he managed to lead a mutiny on a single Gazelle class close escort and ended up on Theev would soon be significant playe...

Personality.

May or may not be a true AI but the higher TL the computer the more apparent personality it has.

And even an entirely passive and reactive higher TL computer can still feel like it has a personality of its own.

Lucy in Killjoys for example.

Definitely. If I wanted to represent current medical training I'd go for a 4 year degree in Life Sciences with a minor in Medic that represents a pre-med degree and then a 4 year Med School term that gives Medic-3. However Medical really should be a cascade skill with First Aid, Surgery, General Med...

Seconded on all the 101 books.

Seconded on all the 101 books.

A Traveller with level two to three in a skill is a skilled professional in that field. A Traveller with level four or five is probably both well-respected and well-known in his field. They're interning; somewhere before the end of the series they graduate to three . Except US medical interns have ...

A Traveller with level two to three in a skill is a skilled professional in that field. A Traveller with level four or five is probably both well-respected and well-known in his field. They're interning; somewhere before the end of the series they graduate to three . Except US medical interns have ...

Impossible unless you don't know that you are spies.

Which will presumably require some sort of memory implantation and erasure.

Perfect fictional inspiration would be Dr Maturin in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander books (and the film of that name) He is technically a ship's surgeon but also a botanist, zoologist etc who when he is not sawing bones after naval battles catalogues the flora and fauna of every new island t...

https://www.vnews.am/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Scrubs.jpg Medical - two . In S01 they are interns who have completed at least 3 years of a pre-med degree and 4 years at medical school. This is surely worth at least Medical-3 in Traveller terms? (I see the Medic background in the Companion indeed h...

Consider buying Theories of Everything which is a basically an eccentric group of scientists bumming around on a lab ship mini campaign. And remember a PC can have multiple careers - a spell in college studying xenobiology, a couple of terms in the Scouts survey branch and then a couple of terms as ...

Yeah, I'll pass on agent book. While T5 is official (and I'm a kickstarter backer), it's a dust collector as far as I'm concerned. The Empress Wave is something that I've never bothered with or done much with. And one would have to figure out if it's going to be part of the Traveller universe or no...

Wasn't one of the Azhanti High Lightning cruisers (60,000 dtons IIRC?) handed over to the Scouts?

Correction: IISS had 4 Lightning class cruisers transferred to them.

While I would love lots of fully detailed alien books it is worth remembering that all the classic traveller alien books could be fitted into one 200-300 page book with a lot of space left over for minor races. And I would much rather see one Alien compendium book with enough detail to create charac...

I too am very sorry for you and family's loss.

I too am very sorry for you and family's loss.