Notice to Trader Captains in the Marches

[MongooseMatt]

This is the Zhdits-class destroyer escort of the Zhodani Navy. If you see one of these moving in to guard your merchant convoy, inform the closest Imperial Naval base immediately.

The Fifth Frontier War starts in 7 days.

 

[ottarrus]

Hot diggity

 

[Sigtrygg]

How are you meant to inform the nearest IN base? Disobey its instructions and you will be re-educated at best, turned into a ball of plasma, or worse have your mind sucked out through a straw...

 

[Geir]

(I was going to do that one for Sky Raiders... guess I won't need to).
If it's like the FASA one, it has beam lasers and no armour, but it's M-6, so your best bet is to lob missiles to distract it and scream Mayday! real loud.
Really loving the artwork.

 

[23Weasels]

Way back in the college days I used always include this ship in the classic Traveller game I ran, because it's gorgeous. I'm happy to see an update to it. And I love how the tail fin seems to have a razor sharp leading edge.

 

[Evil Aardvark]

As soon as I saw it, I got a flashback to the Starbird that I got for Christmas around 1979.

 

[phavoc]

As soon as I saw it, I got a flashback to the Starbird that I got for Christmas around 1979.

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I got one for Xmas, too! The little fighters detached and the button behind the bridge made the pew-pew sounds. It was a great toy!

 

[Evil Aardvark]

I got one for Xmas, too! The little fighters detached and the button behind the bridge made the pew-pew sounds. It was a great toy!

There was more! The front detached and you could put the engines from the back on it. But the pièce de résistance was the engine-noise had some sort of tilt-control, so when you tipped it up the engine noise got higher-pitched and lower when you tipped it down.

A magical toy.

 

[phavoc]

Oh! I had forgotten about that part. Yes, it was very magical for kids dying for sci-fi.

 

[Condottiere]

 

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