What Properties Would You Like To See Mongoose Acquire?

[FreeTrav]

Currently, Mongoose has five setting lines for their Traveller product line:

The OTU (represented by The Third Imperium sourcebooks)
Babylon 5 (sadly, no further expansion)
Judge Dredd
Strontium Dog
Hammer's Slammers

There are other settings that, in debate here and elsewhere, have been pronounced by the community as good potential settings for Traveller.

Which of them would you recommend that Mongoose attempt to acquire and bring out a line for?

 

[Golan2072]

I voted for Babylon 5 - too good to let it fade away into oblivion.

Other cool options I'd vote for include Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. Both are very cool sci-fi settings that will probably make very interesting gaming environments and fit the Traveller rules rather well.

 

[Eak]

Personally I would prefer to see Elizabeth's Moon's "Familias Regnant' rather than "Vatta's War" as a Trav setting however give then choices listed Weber's "Honor Harrington" is clearly superior.

 

[Stainless]

The Stainless Steel Rat

The Dorsai

 

[Klaus Kipling]

Mass Effect
Vorkosigan
ditto on Slippery Jim DiGriz
Rogue Trooper
Blake's 7
The Culture
Hamilton's Confederation or Commonwealth
Dan Dare
ABC Warriors
Nikolai Dante

 

[Jame Rowe]

Republic of Cinnabar series. THIS ABOVE ALL ELSE.
Escape Velocity series of video games.
Asimov's Foundation series.
Traveller Fantasy/Low Tech Traveller variant.

There's a few others, no doubt, but I can't think of them offhand.

 

[rust]

Polesotechnic League / Terran Empire (Poul Anderson)
Foundation (Asimov)
Known Space / Ringworld (Larry Niven)

 

[Valarian]

Blake's 7

I'd second this, especially as there's supposed to be a "reimagined" version coming out - like BSG.

 

[EDG]

None of the ones listed interest me at all.

If they're doing more 2000AD stuff then Rogue Trooper and Nemesis the Warlock ("Be Pure, Be Vigilant, BEHAVE") would be rather cool.

Firefly would be nice, but that's already been done.

Jack McDevitt's SF setting (which includes Chindi, Cauldron, and other books) would probably work well with Traveller.

(Klaus - I think SJG have finally released their Vorkosigan book, and it took YEARS for that to come out)

 

[alex_greene]

Larry Niven's Known Space

Heinlein's Future History

The Foundation Trilogy

Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth

Dune

the Stainless Steel Rat

James H Schmitz' Hub / Telzey / Trigger Argee series

Douglas Hill's Galactic Warlord series

James Hogan's Inherit The Stars setting

With the recent acquisition of a certain game publisher, perhaps you could look into securing the license for Doctor Who / Torchwood, too.

 

[EDG]

With the recent acquisition of a certain game publisher, perhaps you could look into securing the license for Doctor Who / Torchwood, too.

That's already being done by Cubicle 7 isn't it?

 

[Jame Rowe]

Jack McDevitt's SF setting (which includes Chindi, Cauldron, and other books) would probably work well with Traveller.

I second this, with one clause: do his Talent for War/Polaris setting first (it's good except for the ending of the final book; I'm not so fond of the way he ends his books).

 

[Ishmael]

Maschinen Krieger
Co-Dominium stories
Appleseed

 

[EDG]

Though this reminds me, what's happening with 2320AD (or whatever date it'll be set in). I thought Mongoose had acquired that?

 

[Vile]

None of those on the list - I find the settings of military SF like Weber et al rather shallow, suitable for a wargame maybe, but not a role-playing game.

Film / TV settings I'd like to see (but have no hope of):
- Firefly (not Serenity)
- Farscape
- Blakes 7
- Alien/Aliens (what other two?)

The written word:
- Rogue Trooper
- The VCs
- Culture

 

[Dave Chase]

Appleseed
Ghost in the Shell
Star Slammers
Dorasi


and many other good SciFi things from graphic novels too numerous to mention.

Dave Chase

 

[Stofsk]

I put my vote in favour of Mass Effect.

 

[ShadowDragon8685]

I'd like to see them get Schlock Mercenary, and put the really high TLs (20+) through a workout.

 

[saundby]

Fantasy: How about a Conan core book for Traveller?
Jerry Pournelle's future history:CoDominium, 1st & 2nd Empires of Man + Moties
Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series. Think of the ship books!

 

[Gentleman John]

Really, I'd say none of the above. Maybe it's something with me, but none of those choices appeal.

On a more positive note, I'd prefer Mongoose to develop something interesting based on Transhumanist fiction, but original rather than a licensed property. However, if you really want me to suggest a license, I'd like Dan Dare, thank you very much.