I'd have to agree with the 'different tech' problem, but that in itself suggests the need for a smaller ship sent to carry out a 'forensic recon' study. Identifying which particular style of Ancient tech is present at, say, the Blackwater dig on Inthe before committing a full-scale, expensively-equi...

Traitors can be summararily executed in wartime. When out in the Cursed Earth Judges seem to be sanctioned to do this as well. Off hand I can only think of a single occassion in the strips when Dredd executes a citizen in the Meg after arrest in peace time and that was for Mass Murder. Note 'Citize...

People who resort to the 'meat locker' mode of space travel are either a) desperate to get the *%$@ out of the star system or b) flat broke. They have little or no choice when it comes to the survival check - and if they don't survive the defrosting sequence, they can't lodge a complaint with the ca...

"No official setting"... I still have the majority of the GDW and Games Workshop-licensed books I bought back in the 80s, and the 3rd Imperium is a pervasive element of almost all of them. I'm not just talking about the 'Library Data' books, either. :( So, no official setting? That's a possible aven...

Han Solo won't get to shoot Greedo first in the cantina. Why? First, being in a cantina would send the wrong message about drinking. :shock: Second, seeing an ugly bug-man creature getting vaporised would upset the anti-gun lobby. And let's not forget that people will never, ever get seriously hurt ...

Does the Solomani aliens book discuss this? Haven't read it yet. Seems to me they are just as likely to regard Psionics as yet more evidence of the superior capabilities of the human species, and also to be symapthetic to the Zhodani as fellow enemies of the Imperium. Maybe they would... but it's a...

The Imperium does indeed have a 'Psi Corps' that isn't acknowledged, referred to in official documents, or even spoken about. The Operative in the movie Serenity is a similar case: "You've got maximum security clearance... but there's no name listed?" "Of course. I have no name, because -- like this...

Given the way a lot of my early Traveller adventures went, I'd have to vote for the "Dirty Pair", especially the Adam Warren manga stories. Kei and Yuri usually complete their assignments, but the city/space station/arcology/planet they were sent to is left a total ruin...

I have to agree - he did such a good portrayal of 'stiff and awkward', I thought that he just wasn't much good as an actor. I really missed the point there with Sinclair. He was labouring under crippling survivor's guilt, he'd been viewed with varying levels of suspicion - even paranoia - by EarthFo...

Washouts also get to carry out glamourous tasks such as driving 'meat' wagons full of corpses from Sector Houses to Resyk, or manning a screen at a sector's traffic-control office... No doubt a burnt-out Judge or Tek gets stuck with overseeing these miserable specimens. :twisted: They'd also be susc...

I've had the Robots rulebook for a while now, planning to use it for Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog adventures I have planned... but... I simply can't figure out how to use the construction process. If I had an example of designing a robot to follow, then I'd have no problem. Does the 'weight' of a g...

I instantly thought of "Ministry of Space" when I saw this!

Looking forward to more details -- hopefully soon.

This makes me think of the 'pseudo-AI' systems employed by the human-built starships of Julian May's Galactic Mileau stories. A misanthropic starship commander operated alone with massive automation of his transport ship; the various functions - sensors, communications, etc - gave him verbal reports...

Maybe just an 'edge' highlight of gold and Mithril Silver mixed, along the top-most parts of the eagle?

(I know, the things are meant to be high-tech body armour, not actual gold...)

And in tried and trusted Judge Dredd tradition, a whole lot of bullets get fired at anything that moves -- and a few things that don't!

This reminds me of the Star Wars campaign I ran many years ago, using the West End Games system. At least one of their printed adventures had Han Solo swooping in at the last instant to save the players from being turned into burnt bantha-dung. Now maybe the idea was to please people who wanted to s...

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Your ship has been given clearance to land at terminal 5. Cargo, spares and any particularly slow-moving crew members will be lost for months.

"My luggage has been lost 'in the system' for... how long? Since the start of the Fourth Frontier War!"

Maybe the patron already knows that they haven't been honest with them. One psion, disguised as a 'personal aide', can dig out that little fact. How old is the superweapon? Does it still work, or does it need repairs? Perhaps it needs a special material (dilithium crystals, fusion modules, cheese) t...

Just ask yourself: how common are J-6 cargo ships? Given the ship mortgage rules and the constraints of jump-drive fuel requirements, you are not going to have a ship that comes within shouting distance of breaking even each month. Imperiallines (in the old Traveller Adventure ) runs J-6 transports,...

The truth about the Abyss rift? It's -- :shock: It's whatever you want it to be. Some sort of creepy Bermuda Triangle which isn't -- can't be -- explained by the Imperium's finest scientists. Not that any reputable researcher is going to commit career suicide by actually believing wild stories from ...