Traveller is a classic science fiction system first released in 1976. In its original release it was a general purpose SF system, but a setting was soon developed called The Third Imperium, based on classic space opera tropes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with a slight noir tint. Though it can support a wide range of game types, the classic campaign involves a group of retired veterans tooling around in a spaceship, taking whatever jobs they can find in a desperate bid to stay in business, a la Firefly or Cowboy Bebop.
Do you play mainly in The Third Imperium setting, or use your own homebrew? Or maybe you use other universes, such as firefly? Discuss!
Dominic Morris
I like the Third Imperium. It's a lightly flavored skeleton you can hang your own stuff on, sprinkled with all the classic SF lit tropes I love. It also hits the sweet spot for me where it has enough detail to help me when I'm stuck, but not so much that I have to memorize a bunch of stuff. Most worlds you get a UPP and maybe a short blurb if you're lucky, and I get to fill in the rest.
Jose Martin
I forgot to mention - we're supposed to do this whole mission without anyone actually knowing we were there. That's what places most of the plans we've come up with firmly in the "only if we can't think of anything else" pile. The rest are in that pile because of other problems (such as the fact that it's our noble's extremely tricked out ship that we'll be doing this in, and letting pirates even KNOW about the existence of it is a sure-fire way to get every jumpcusser in the Marches on our tails).
Joseph Hughes
I have a creeping feeling Your GM wants you to fail miserably.
Well, maybe you could somehow produce a gigantic EMP signal to disable all the sats at once, or... Hell, that's hard. Like, impossibly hard...
Alexander Foster
If you have a few MCr laying around, trick out a small asteroid with a few Fixed Mounts with 3 missile racks each and Fire Control/2 or 3. Send it in a day or two ahead of you and have it smash the crap out of a large portion of the sensor net. You show up while the net is down, do the rescue and hop out before anyone is the wiser. Be sure to scrub the asteroid's computer of data files before you leave and maybe overload the reactor and no-one will have any evidence you were there.
Bentley Evans
Does the interdicted planet have any incoming traffic that you could steal/stow away upon?
Is it that no one can know that *you* were there, or is it that no one can can know *anyone* was there?
Dominic Myers
What's the story behind Slough Feg's Traveller? I guess it's about a Vargr or something, judging by the cover. Is the story and feel of the album reflective of the vibe of Traveller itself? I am somewhat new to Traveller and I am interested in GMing it, so I listened to that album and thought it pretty cool.
Josiah Gonzalez
Why did Mongoose choose Vargr and Aslan for the two races to include in the new corebook? Out of all the cool aliens they have to pick from, they choose two furbait options?
