What Would You Want to See in a New Major Race?

A new major race should contradict some of the established lore, opening up space for ambiguity. Traveller is at its best when it leaves space for individual gaming groups to interpret contradictions in ways that suit their needs.
 
A new major race should contradict some of the established lore, opening up space for ambiguity. Traveller is at its best when it leaves space for individual gaming groups to interpret contradictions in ways that suit their needs.
That's the point of Traveller - the joy of discovery, not just warfare and the trade game. Let your Travellers make the discoveries in their travels - an alien ship with a space folding drive, a new Major Race with a unique take on technology nobody's encountered before, a new sophont race untouched by the emotional baggage of Ancients and Imperium and hatred for the Zhodani.
 
I agree, there is a whole galaxy to explore.
The PCs just need to be facilitated with the means to explore it.
 
Weirdly, many of the published Traveller campaigns for Mongoose Traveller are... exploration or discovery. Deepnight Revelation. The Rim Expeditions. Even the "Ancients trilogy" is, so far, about discovery and mystery. Granted, it sounds like it is heading towards some kind of war. "Whispers from the Abyss" sounds like a "discover new things" campaign, not a trade or war campaign. Prometheus is neither trade nor war, but I suppose it isn't really exploration or discovery either.

Skandersvik is a trade campaign, admittedly.

I guess if you squint, Pirates of Drinax counts as "trade and war", but I doubt that is what most folks think of when you say that.

Next year, we are getting a war thing. But we are also getting Singularity, which is a paradigm changing campaign from what it sounds like. And Pioneer, which is seems likely to involve exploration and stuff.

I don't understand this view that Traveller is narrow and constraining. Even the Charted Space setting isn't constrained. You can do all kinds of exploration and discovery in the setting. And if you want to go full warp speed, you can easily use different tech assumptions like Mindjammer does. No one playing Traveller is limited to the Charted Space setting.
 
Yeah, not sure what is going on with them. I don't think they've put anything out for the line in the last 4 or 5 years, have they?
 
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