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Most people look up at the stars and think "it's nice there's the Imperium out there, keeping us safe from things like the Zhos, the Vargr or the Centaurs, or the Aslan," and then they go back to whatever they were doing and never leave their home world. Travellers, they see space and the stars...

And where is the background material for the Galaxiad Setting for T5? I don't recall seeing it in the T5 rulebook (it is mentioned a few times there, but I don't see the passages you're quoting from).

That's pretty bizarre. That's pretty bizarre. Did he ever put it in print somewhere? I have seen it said that the numbers used on the Annic Nova were ancient Vilani, so that pointed to this sort of thing, but I hadn't ever heard the rest of this.

It's in the Great Rift set - the Deep Space Exploration Handbook, pg. 45 (old version) or pg. 46 of The Great Rift Book 2 (new). Zarelinung-class Interstellar Vessel, a TL15 1,500 ton research vessel. "Only a handful were ever built." "The heart of the design is a collector-based jump system...

That would probably work as long as you have a farm at every stop you're going to make and the time to replace the collector takes less than the week it would take to just charge it. Maybe you could come up with some kind of "exotic particle storage battery" instead of replacing the entire...

I know of a total of two published ship designs that use them in 2nd edition. One is a high-tech Darrian deep-space exploration ship and the other is the totally unique Annic Nova. Omitting them would not be canon-breaking unless your players have the Annic Nova as their ship.

Collectors become available at TL14. They can be used only to power the jump drive. They do not require any hydrogen fuel. Their primary drawbacks are that a ship using a collector must be not expending thrust or in an atmosphere for a week in order to fully charge. They replace the need to...

The hydrogen bubble method is apparently only one possible method for the jump drive to work, since the Annic Nova and other ships with collectors don't use it. Xboats do use the bubble, since they carry full loads of jump fuel. The original Starship Operator's Manual from DGP said that the...

If you want your players to be in the middle of the war resolving it then no, we don't have enough information yet. But if you're just using the war as a backdrop to whatever your players are doing then you can use the current materials just fine, or do one-shots with some of the published...

There is an official d20 version of Traveller, of course...

Believer from the Companion is the best Rebel career.

That's why I read that particular paragraph as really saying, "the best adventures happen when the players are bold and trying to execute daring schemes rather than just making money through trade."

Actually only a very small sample of the worlds of the Imperium's worlds have ever been described in Traveller. The roughly 400 worlds of the Spinward Marches, which have been the most detailed over the years, are less than 4% of the 11,000 Imperial worlds. And the Spinward Marches is a...

Cincinnatus.

Well, again, it depends. The more extreme government types on the upper end of the scale could be very pleasant places to live indeed if the leaders involved are good people who genuinely care about their populace.