The Dark Avenger
Mongoose
As many here will know, Reft Sector was most likely my last OTU Traveller book. Those who care probably already know the reasons.
But anyway, I have been pretty busy since that book. Among the highlights are getting appointed as Director of Coaching to a large all-styles martial arts organisation and hearing that my latest martial arts book has sold out its entire print run (which wasn't small; this was Barnes & Noble) in three months.
I'm also doing some work for Terra/Sol Games, who use the Traveller license to publish their own setting. Ironic that; we (Avenger Enterprises) were the only non-Mongoose company allowed to do OTU and we no longer want to. Again, the reasons are well known.
But I actually posted this to answer questions that a couple of pepole have mailed me about:
1. I am not in a position to discuss the content of my previous work, either on a forum or direct. There are reasons for any given piece of data being the way it is, and those reasons can often be boiled down to: 'we were required to use exisiting Traveller canon, even where it was out of date, physcially impossible or otherwise less than ideal'. I'm afraid that I simply do not have time to answer mails wanting to know why a particular canon fix was or was not implemented, espeically when the answer would require a lengthy explanation of the politics surrounding Traveller canon.
2. I do not know who made up the story that I somehow fell out with Mongoose, but it is not true. I eventually decided that it was no longer possible for me to work within the Official Travller Universe, mainly as a result of the politics I just mentioned. I am still entirely willing to work with Mongoose, and will probably do so in the future. I especially want to see a relaunched Armageddon 2089.
3. The Traveller Wiki business is actually quite simple. Someone had posted large sections of my work on the Traveller Wiki, adding a note at the bottom that this had been done 'with the permission of the author'. In fact I never gave such permission and in some cases was not empowered to do so. According to the Wiki license, work posted there is automatically placed in the public domain. Considering that QLI failed to pay me for some of my work, releasing it into the public domain would rob me of any chance to make something on it, which was not acceptable. Plus, in some cases there would be legal impediments to me granting permission for such. By the Traveller Wiki's own rules these pieces should not have been posted.
In short, those pieces should never have been posted. When I noticed what was happening I made an objection on the site and told Marc Miller. Everything that happened after that was set in motion by him. I would not have handled it like that, but I had no control after I initally mentioned it to Marc.
But anyway, I have been pretty busy since that book. Among the highlights are getting appointed as Director of Coaching to a large all-styles martial arts organisation and hearing that my latest martial arts book has sold out its entire print run (which wasn't small; this was Barnes & Noble) in three months.
I'm also doing some work for Terra/Sol Games, who use the Traveller license to publish their own setting. Ironic that; we (Avenger Enterprises) were the only non-Mongoose company allowed to do OTU and we no longer want to. Again, the reasons are well known.
But I actually posted this to answer questions that a couple of pepole have mailed me about:
1. I am not in a position to discuss the content of my previous work, either on a forum or direct. There are reasons for any given piece of data being the way it is, and those reasons can often be boiled down to: 'we were required to use exisiting Traveller canon, even where it was out of date, physcially impossible or otherwise less than ideal'. I'm afraid that I simply do not have time to answer mails wanting to know why a particular canon fix was or was not implemented, espeically when the answer would require a lengthy explanation of the politics surrounding Traveller canon.
2. I do not know who made up the story that I somehow fell out with Mongoose, but it is not true. I eventually decided that it was no longer possible for me to work within the Official Travller Universe, mainly as a result of the politics I just mentioned. I am still entirely willing to work with Mongoose, and will probably do so in the future. I especially want to see a relaunched Armageddon 2089.
3. The Traveller Wiki business is actually quite simple. Someone had posted large sections of my work on the Traveller Wiki, adding a note at the bottom that this had been done 'with the permission of the author'. In fact I never gave such permission and in some cases was not empowered to do so. According to the Wiki license, work posted there is automatically placed in the public domain. Considering that QLI failed to pay me for some of my work, releasing it into the public domain would rob me of any chance to make something on it, which was not acceptable. Plus, in some cases there would be legal impediments to me granting permission for such. By the Traveller Wiki's own rules these pieces should not have been posted.
In short, those pieces should never have been posted. When I noticed what was happening I made an objection on the site and told Marc Miller. Everything that happened after that was set in motion by him. I would not have handled it like that, but I had no control after I initally mentioned it to Marc.
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