Recent content by GypsyComet

Stealthy brings to mind the Zhodani Covert Shuttle, from the Paranoia Press book on the Zhodani spy service, SORAG, but the source doesn't match your memories.

Every variant of Type S ever published or even just posted somewhere likely exists, whether in large numbers or small, somewhere in Charted Space. Even Procurement Order "Sulieman" includes a LOT of variation at the local level, not to mention Senator, Seeker, Gibson, Glimmer, and others...

Traveller has always liked its in-universe delivery for information, if only because that itself adds to the setting. Some statements within that data have more objective weight than others, however. Notably, some have gained or lost perceived objectivity over time, such as the early statement...

Consider it an "in-universe" source, and inherently unreliable. Problem solved. Also consider the internal date. Droyne didn't start Chirper Uplift operations until the Rebellion era, IIRC, so Imperial scientists of 1105 would see the two ignoring each other if they ever crossed paths. Also...

Per CT, Grandfather emerged from a Droyne species who already differentiated by caste. He probably fiddled with that process, so both approaches can be valid to some extent. Also, the Mongoose "Secret of the Ancients" tells us some important things about Grandfather and his Sons. The first...

Outsider is a social skill, so *always* up for individual task interpretation. Run across a Human behavior that makes no sense to you? Outsider. Try to enter a nightclub after watching others do so? Outsider. Remember what the denominations of this "money" someone gave you are? Outsider...

One concern I had with the original in hind sight was that it had "the 90s Problem" that GDW otherwise avoided: the setting described in the core book was essentially lost by further development. It was most on display in WW's World of Darkness, in which the social structures and general...

Sword Worlders are more of a cultural group. Their separation from the Solomani is only a couple thousand years along, if that, with no geneering or millennia-long environmental adaption. Compare that to the Darrians, Suerrat, Geonee, Vilani, etc (300,000 years), or the Nexxies and Jonkeereen...

The answer is going to be regional, since Minor races don't wander too much as a "rule".

Al Morai is also the aforementioned line from Spinward Marches Campaign.

The CT Book "Spinward Marches Campaign" includes an example "sector-wide" line, though it is really a half-sector line since it stays in Imperial territory. A "Line" suggests multiple ships on fixed routes, but no two subsectors are going to have the same requirements or be able to support the...

"Coz-MOP-Oh-light"

"Fanon" That description certainly fits their treatment of the Other career in Dungeoneer 16 in 1980.

Flyers and Sailors were given advanced generation in issues of Pegasus, IIRC.

I couldn't point you at a specific post, but I think Matthew has said saddle-stapled.